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4 : jranrsTricflir i - ? 1 ' A- iv'i; " I?. r.4 . V o :.- v--'-ipv-- I-' '.v'.:'.--; ; ' V ; L.tiijd mxrasjuip osacitvim, Btjypifov yaBaii- 1 . 1 . . , ! f ' f" I v 1 ' ' ' ' ' r - j 1 . J i . .'i : I I' ' " ( ' ' ; ' - : . . , . - .1 '. ; : .: ' . i m. i . : fe ..." ''...' i l'- " ' ' ' " " . " : rem mBmm jm&m m I." ! " f1 ' ' I uuuiAnAfAV' 111 .... i si, ' isi I!C G. MOW BfODERTT" nDTTCATION IS KEVOLUTIONIZING THIS III31- MIT KIKGDOjk. 1 1 J: . M,- i I, 1 ' N ' -.rvy-.,, Tlio LltUo CHwn .IMnoti! and Prince 1 Ito the Two llopc of Um Country A literary Awakexxlnsewspperfi The DlcUonary and Uia Hiblo Mis sion Work Done by Bodtilt. ,. j Carpenter.) 1 : J f ' - 8eouI. Korea. Th two freaf hopes of the Koreans are Prince Ito 4ndi the little crown prince. Ito the tsrand old man of, Japan. He l kj confiden tial advisor of the mikado and jhe had much to do with training ithef Crown Prince of Japan. The i little! crown prince I refer to Is the Crown? Prince of Korea. He is the brother of the present emperor,: and he ioVv beintE educated In Tokyo after? Prince Ito' directions. In him and Priftce Ito i lie the possibility of K.orva'H main tainlns; its natural existence f n1 not being; swallowed up In apan. There Is a strong Japanese Spartyi which would like to see this country under a military srovernment appointed from Toklo. They want Korea for the Japanese, and believe In exploiting It for all Its worth. ' Prince a ltd. back ed by the mil-ado, is anxious that the . Koreans should have a fair show and he has done all that he could to brinj? that aboui. ; He- does not believe that the Koreans should govern fjhmaelves but he wanis them to hvo a Share of th nf.ia anA tn . maintain; their Indl 1inall'v rm a nation lint: ft fth . direc tion - of apaa., Jn doings thi : he -4s opposed io the , money-jrrabbrs. and land-arabbes. iThe loWer classes of thn Ja.na.nA-M x coming dvers here In crowds and they would swallow, the countrv and ODress thai people If thflr own official 'did enot forevent. Prince Ito has so- far been? the chief t-afetv valve and he Is training UP the little crown' prince in order. that he may be the governor of the Koreans In the future. , Tlw Onvvn Prtnoe of .Korea. IS have t had little chance to . study the present emperor. tlirouthi my au dience with him and talks with the oflicials who know him , b8t He- ) a weaklinr in the i hands of: the Japat nese. llfsls comooememls. Sbutr-his mind is bo little that alWoodtn man if he could be automatically 4;worked would have: as much .foiCe.iand he . would, moreover. ' be cheaper ato keep, The emperor Is the son of .the retired emtieror bv the late autfert. f His fath er is brihf;jolecttt . - , CvlFnAl u .... number have MYotir ScHotdrsHip Bgin , ScHopi Write - :-. 1 CARPENTER o more backbone than a jelly-fish. He lis incapable of ruling efficiently or honestly, and his . long administration has been one cruelty and crime. The. little crown prince Is the son of this retired emperor. .He Is the half- brother of the man on the throne, his "mother being the notorious LadyOm. a favorite consort, but not the wife, of bis majesty. After the empress was assassinated this Lady Om, who had been brought into the palace as one of her attendants, became the favorite in retired emperor's , harem. She has ousted all the other ladles of her class, and she holds the old emperor In the hollow of her hand. Her power was strengthened Upon the birth of the lit- g I crown -prince about twelve years o, and she is still at the head of the retired emperor's establishment. The crown prince has been going to school for: the past five or six years, and , he is being educated along western Un.es He Is learning Japanese, and 1 of his stud leu are carried on in that nguage. Ills chief work Is being one at the Nobles School in Toklo. but he has also private tutors, and he will have a good an education as any frince of Japan. , It Is whispered here hat upon his graduation he will take vttA nf tho JinmiPtA nrlnni tn wife. and that when he comes back to Kn- , at the age of twenty or so. there will be another shuffle of the imperial cards, and this boy will be put In the present emperor s ' place. Buch a change . would undoubtedly benefit here will then have an emperor wno tan Speak Japanese as well an Korean, hand who will be abreast of the new tscivlllzation. He would have the good I of his people" at heart, and will be able to act for them, and at, the same time be an efficient lleutenent for the mi kado. I - A Bright Young j Prince, V Prince Ito tells me that the crown (prince has extraordinary ability, and he predicts that he will make a good monarch. The little fellow Is lust the opposite of his half-brother. Who is hmv on the throne. The latter had hardly been outside his own; apart inents until he was over thirty years tit age. end to-day: his only exercises Ml naiiviiig awui 1110 (aiavv kivuumd 'with now -and then"" short - horneback ride in them. He looks pale and enc- mlc and his flesh seems to be putty. This crown prince could hold his own klth t little Charlie Taft or Quentin LRoosevelL He is fond of athletlca and likes to shoot, fish and play ball At the same time he stands high, In 1 - - . ' .) j , -!- fil SCHOOL in taken advantage fo? special summer rates Our course is the best i classes, and Is, not averse to study. The Korean papers are full of what he Is doing In Japan, and the people of the palaces have been delighted with some olograph pictures which have Just come showing the little prince on the hunt. - The papers de scribe the palace which the Japanese have-given him. They state that his little highness sleeps in a European bed In a room kept warm by an elec tric stove. His palace Is furnished throughout In foreign style, and he has riding horses and all sorts of gym nastic appliances, from punching bags to parallel bars. His palace Is guarded by eighteen foot soldiers and ten court policemen, and when he goes I out he has an escort. His Instructors are selected from high-class Japanese professors. The. mikado himself Is Interestd In him. and altogether the Japanese are trying to make of him a man as well as a monarch. Korea's New Sc-lmoK When the boy becomes Emperor of Korea he wilt have a new nation to govern. The people are Just begin ning to appreciate our civilisation. Their almond eyes are opening to the needs of modern education, and schools are .being started In all the cities. Those of the missions, which have been. In existence for years, arc overcrowded, and the new ones of the Japanese government have, more thnn they can do. There are several thous and boys and as many girls now In at tendance at the - nubile schools of Seoul.' ' They alt wear uniforms, and night and morning the streets are fill ed with boys wearing caps and gowns. and barefaced and bareheaded girls with books In their hands. Each boy has a little brass badge on his cap which marks the school to which he belongs. All the boys- have their hair cut short, instead of wearing it long braids down their backs, as was tho old Korean customand the girls wear no veils, which Is quite con trary toHhe ideas of the older Ko reans. . ' The government School buildings are much like: those of Japan. They are equipped with furniture like ours, and, each has it gymnasium. There is a Japanese academy' where young rhen are: taught Korean In order that they may act as advisors to the native of ficial, j , Our ' mission schools are scattered overt Korea. There ( are, all told, four hundred and fifty primary graded schools, i which' are supported by the Koreans themselves,' and eleven inter mediate schools and' academies. The primary1 schools. had ten thousand pu pils last year, and at-that time there were nine high schools-for you ns wo men with five hundred students. There are also Industrial schools and schools for the .blihovv' i V - The V. M, CC A. : If doing a great educational work here In S-oul, and one Of the finest of the. new buildluas. which U now going up, Is a Korean college being built by Korean moner and backed by Koreans. The natives realise thkt the- Japanese are how brighter than their are. and they feel that their success comes from the new education. In the past the Chinese classics- were the only sftandards of scholarship, -Today our modern stud lea I have taken tho Pla of classics. and all Korea Is studying the1 multi plication tabled : ' -v: W : ! MlutJon. St hools -vs. tlio Government. V Just how there Is some excitement among the missionaries on account of ftn Imperial edict which provides that an prtrat schools shall be under gov ernment direction. The authorities re qylre full information as to the names and character of the teachers.and also as to the recelDts and -expendlturea All pooks have to be passed upon by the educational department, and the teaching. west P93tU9 covrnnieut p If you expect toprepweypwsel o now is the time Our school is THEtdce Mt Special Summer rate will expire July, of this opportunity of entering at Now (less When It Suits You Scholarship MEMMR:Jm0im we secure positions for graduates Business - s directs. This seems rather severe, and it causes unfavorable comment. A literary Awakening. The Koreans - have always j been a literary people. Much , of the old learning of Japan came from them, and they still hold scholarship in the highest respect. Indeed, the common word here for Mr. Is "Schoolman." The Koreans call each other i School man Pak, Schoolman Ye or School man Kim, Instead of Mr. Pak, Mr. Ye or Mr. Kim. In the past the better classes of the people have been' well up In Chinese.-and have seen picnic parties of young ' Korean gentlemen engaged tn writing Chinese poetry un der the trees. They would take a text and try who could make the best rhymes. Such young men are. now studying modern, languages and sci ences. They have laid aside Con- ruclus and Menclus and are 'reading the New Testament., which has been translated by the missionaries, and also a -number of other books which are being turned into Korean. A life of Garfield whs recently published, and also the "Story of Madam Ro land." A popular book is Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, which was trans lated by the late Mrs. dale and "a young Korean named Yank-KI-Taik. who recently had some trouble with the Japanese government. ' This Pil grim's Progress has had a large sale, and It l going Into a new edition. 1 understand that several Korean novels have been Issued, the two. most pop ular now current"-being "Spirit Voices" and "Dead Trea flowers" The Korean Dictionary. One of the greatest works performed by Americans In Korea was the mak ing of the Korean -American diction ary. This was done by c.Dr. J. S. Gale, a Presbyterian mlssionery. He began It In 1S92, after . four years' residence in the country, and complet- CARTERS r -w , - a. t Jims vim mi a n I tRek flsaaschsasd nAldrt all tb trfrabfo Ind dent to a btlioas stats of tos ritem. sscb as DliKlm-M, Ntes, DrQ-rilaefV Diatreas after. ssUnc, Pals in um Side. A. Vbils Cmu- most taaurkaMs asccoas baa btea ihowa la corteg Beadac yet Carter's Uttls Liver pnl are qnalljt -sluAblsis Corati pmtion. cnriDf- and i. VtsUug this annoyuif com pUlnt, hit they tJaa correct all dlsnrdera of the lotoarh, auwtuatetlM Ur sad ?aJata the bowels. vea if tbeyeu Irhe t1ey woo Id be alatoat prtcclew to those who Buffer from thia dUtmwlnt: cotnplaist; butfortJ- aateiy their g-mdacss norm not end b-re. ihr.a4UOK. who ones try them will find these UnJep4Jeali able la as mf wave tast they wiii not be wll llngtedo wiuoBttkesa. Sat after aUalckaead 3 1 '--."!-" i the esse of ae n-we tkit hre la irhers T we sum our great Dout. oor puis cats iivoui ethers do DAt. - - ' " ' Carter's Little Um Pfito are wy email sad ' try easy to take. One or two pill a -oake a doss. They are atrictly vegeuble and do not gripe oa P"rtS sst ky tksti c&u action please aUwbe uini crssi u try f:a. , ; the discount) -tr.. de - It within five years. Prior . to ' that there was no jneans of Inter-com-tnunlcatlon between the foreigners and I he natives except through tho Chinese a nguage. The work - of making the dictionary was enormous. The . defl nltions were In Korean. Chinese - and English, and every character, had to be Just co, for the variation of a stroke or a point might perhaps turn the word. f'Lord" Into "Devil'.4 The original ed ition of the dictionary has long since been sold out and a new one j is now being prepared. Dr. Gale tells me that this necessitated by the thousands of new words which have come Into the language, caused by tho changes In civilization and life of the people. Scientific words, such telephones, tele gragh, dynamite and radium, have- had to be added. All of these have now their Korean characters and they must be defined. The new edition; or the dictionary Is , being printed In Yoko hama, and the proofs are sent : hero to Dr. Gale for correction. -1-ha v seen some of them. Four readers go over every sheet and the greatest care Is taken that each character Is right. This ' Is done by Chinese arid Korean scholars. After , this Dr. Gale sends the proofs to the girls of the Presby terian mission school. They have sharper eyes' and quicker brains than the old scholars and they find mis Ikes which the latter, have overlook ed. At first Dr. Gale offered .to pay 1" cent for every correction. After a number of sheets had come back he figured up the account and. sent In the money. The girls returned it the same day with a letter saying: : V'We 'girls , think, wo are getting enough from our teachers, and we do not want any.pay, , Translating the JUbteJ Suppose the next Sunday, morning every pastor In. the United States should arise In his pulpit and say-that a new book of the Bible had Just been discovered and that it would be given uj the people that week. What a sen sation it would create and how-, all would be alive to learn of the mes sage! . - 9 Thhsils the condition today In Ko rea Until very lately ' the people have had nothing ..tut the New Testament in their own language The 160,000 Christians here hsvo been confined to that book, and It Is only within a few" years that they have had the Prov.and Psalms. - Today the Old Testament is - being ' translated by Dr. Gale and Dr. Iteynouis with one or two assist ants. It comes book by book.; each new volume making a sensation far greater than the first selling of -the new novels, in our country. Genesis. Issalah and the Psalms have already been printed, and Exodus, Numbers, Job and I and If Samuel wilt soon be m th- hands of the people. Dr. Gaj says that the translation of the whole Bible f will probably be "finished thla autumn, and that it will -be! In " the hands of the Koreans soon after. The work Is being published by the Brit ish arid American Bible societies; arid it will, be sold all over the country both by agents and by the book sellers who are to be found In the larger P'aces. . - Korean Newspapers. JA few years ago the 'only paper published in Korea war t little court : circular which gave (he com mands of the king. It waa printed with a brush and Its circulation num buredHbot a f ew , hundred. vToday there - art Japanese panerp in all thl large 'centers.' arid In Seoul there are four dailies printed in Korean. The capital also has three Japanese dallies, snd an English . newspaper, the Seoul Press owned and edited by Jar. SSom fo a tverjr able Japanese ' journalists Tha press is looked upoaaa one of the organs of the government. . and at I prwut H hr tb only fprtiii nwspp- I Sthi A tare great saving er publishe4: In Korea; 4:Kof long ago ther was an English edition- of the naily'Kews, an anti-government organ but I this ;has,. been, discontinued tfor financial ;rsons,.-j iifi, . Tner Korean Daily" News,7 printed - In Korean. I- the organ ' of the anti-Japanese party-1 4 It is a bright-paper and well edited. It. has the. ablest of . KO- rean writers arid vltB-circulation ; is large. c Uke all -newspapers, it Is sub Jecf1 to the government censorshlB-; and may be suspended, -without notice, at the willrof the officials. -..vFor? this reason' Its- writers ha vo to; be careful as to their, expressions, and f many of Its most severe articles ; are those which have to be read? between Ithe lines. s This morning, ; f or Instance I see several 1 edltohials under, the head of .Nature Notes. t Here, is one freely translated ; :v"-. Lf'vL. ; "I hear the ckoo sayiPap-Qookr Pap-Gookl ::-PaprG6oklV : This is really the song of a Song bird here, but the Chinese character which expresses If means; also "Restive king dom.' ' -r . i'-. :' ';-'-r The next lines follows: : ; 'And what doe- this volca mean but the souls of the dead patriots who are-thus' speaking to us through ttwii'-blrdat9 .mi'-'-i''"''..;' .---Tho second vrso reads : "On t!e summer air I hear the sound of Kun dal? Kun di! Kuhrdal!? This character means armsv and the I line below adds: What is- this but; the souls of our dead finding, ut terance." v :: 1 he last verse follows; ; "'In the air I also hear sounds of robbery, murder and oppression, and what la all this but the ghosts of the thieves and robbers of the dead find ing, exphessfbp.T ' - ' , These articles are beautifully writ ten and , the Koreans - are , delighted withtthem, uv-vw-sv t 'Another Korean . dally , Is "the JTalr Han-8hlmpo oih the - Korean .-Jews. Thla. 4s. pn4.oMh,corgafit prhftt gov ernment, and Its circulation is largely tin -1 . Send Jfame and Addreai Today-x'oTji ; Can Have Ii Fretvand Da Strong Hhvv,ev. a,-t and ;Vl4tmmai f. xv;p: S-i l have in my possession a prescrip tion for nervous debility, lack of vlgort weascnQ mannooat ' ismusj nwuwr nd lam back, brought on byxcesses, unnatural drains or thtf- folllea t youth, that has cured sO-many worn and nervous men right in their; own homes without any additional .'fcajn or- medicine that I , think every man who wlahea to regain hU manly power and 4- tvtriilty, x quickly and quietly, bould have a copy. So, I hava de termined to send a copy of the pre fcrlpUon. free of charga; in a. plain, rdinary sealed envelope, to any. man who win write m'or it,w :r : Thla peracrlptiOQ. comes from a vhy alcian. who haa -made a special study of men; and l am convinced it H the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor-failure aver put together. - v, ' j 1 ihlnk J owe It .10 tny tsllow laaa to aend them a copy, la, confidence, so that any- man, anywhere,- who la weak and disc cm raged with repeat-dfatlures may stop drugging himself with harm ful patent madlcmes. secure what, 1 betievf li the i.quickejt-acttngr Testorj. itivas.- upbuilding. SPOT-TOUCHING remedy aver devised, and so, .cure hlmaelf at home -quietly andquickly Just drop me a line tike this: Dr. A. li. Itoblrson; 4IT Luck BWg Detroit. Ulch. and r will send you ;copy of thla rplendld receipt. In a pllln. cr Ctefcry ittled envelope- tttclSJZ2 it r i 1 1 I J . a ; i - ' . ' ' i i ( I i - , -. f-v. 1' " 1,. . - A. -- 1 k : ' . ..i cdnfined ? ta the ofSch! : A V ' 1 1 ? daily : Is entitled: the . Ir-'; r.rial , C. . , It started out as an antl-rf verr r " t - ; Journal, but is: now controlled tyt. j-s" Japanese.' iA fourth,: called. tha- V . plre,; Is . purely Korean i and la- 1 .if Independent. .The-Empire has a It--circulation " and creanv re id- Lthe common pwple. .v is.'.: j.. . -'7 hi' The Japanese 'papers arei. ef cours In favor , of the government, . but c U ; v most go to the censors before they t r . Issued. Notwithstanding-this, . ci:j " . Itlonable paragraphs son-tetline-j cr in. ?- iff' sue n cases tae poiiwo z& . around to collect and destroy t:.? r -r1 era, and If the" offense is a iTivcua oa". the Journal -may .'b-;miS'e:;4$-S. fm ' . t v ;c.';vi.; ..iCoreanf-.Saryer, ; j... . ' w -i . t amvsurprised jat lthe; .r.rmter. c?" ; Kdreawsunreyor-i:.! .reelr " T 1 at SeouL'JBbth In the wide t ruts cf -f 3 cities and In the tountry.ycllow-f ed young' men clad in hi-iilblacU i. .ti and long-white' gown may be f . n :. setting up compasses; and ; c"rri:- :; ; enains rrom. piace to pace. , Accot Ing- to the new.laws,: alt tha.Ianda .f.::. empire have to be surveyed and plcti,. mada'for records TThia Job Is ose t: .t ! the Korean can do" without losing t ii- . dignity, and as result the young r r -. : . are studying mathematics and rr -ticlng 'hi- order td mak ayrvc. 1 their. - profession. 'The v' ttorea ;w sell? surveying-Instruments ' In CJ. 4 Go-Kal'aret crowded with custon: Jt Isy surprising: where, the .tr.tn t V thelr money vto.buy ;h :.tn.rtnir;er,.; . , ; r. 1 ijiae)-jBnahists' la,1 SeodU ; ' ' " 'Sianf;'t0tl:s?tlon.-f i ? ' Bible and thofworjc-o hi m! - -i . aries. the religious Japanese are t :t idler T nauve-Christie ia c I have av mission, beror-am a-E v -- khists have built 'a. large temple vr .. ; thehadow of the headcniartera cf t a ' resident general. 7 They hava ; a - r. . Y : siori; Situated ; on ona . pf tho xsi&Ut ". streeU -of-r the Japanese section. . and . are , doinr what -they can to revive Buddhism -among -the Koreans. 'TVA , Is -stranger' inasmuch as; Budw!.f : caHa to 'Japan from" Korea. Toi'y , the.Koreans desplsO1 their prieu- ' They v call; upon :thehT let -times cf -trouble, ' but otherwise tre-it th. with'; contempt , ThcW'a'Ure c -sea ' of lanrua- t5sed-'-ar:tohfr ttv i reaps. -.-Of e-; Is- ifor: j"J r;- arf for equals, an j ra third: for-'-eerv,.., f and beggars. -The r pr les f - a n ' way 1 -addressed lln:trVs lowest linj ; . ' i" that even brMliren.. :Urt.l tht Ji ..", nese-s came, priests wete' foil ' -n - wjr. law to enr he-cEIUI. 'tr 4 tr.l 1 3,: been the easc'fer five-hur.Jfrd y--si Tha ; Buddhlrt prlesthc od : to J- y is re- cruited largfljrfrom.thr lowast enw and from thoneof that class r. o r v dccrnothlns'-else. TUo - m-ters. trh t largely take tt.rSek'Ot orphan afcr Jumv'atherleaa tnUiren beir'- :, over 7 to , the vmon. for duc i' - ? - ; priests. X glve-t ;i3 'On lha utriority t of the Rev. Mr.- uruen,s reil -kr :r . . Presbyterian miJisIonary J !. in Southern TCbrea. r Sad he: . J "l: have ; aperit . much tima j In-' t a ipordisteries and : have ge'xed .r"- prlesU hoW they came her. . Ori t- ma that when he wa small hi f-i:,t . dIM.? .and as his' mother ' wU...;1 t? ma frv rn tr? she made hlW a ' T T j t. hAnotheV said ha was the your.: - A cf eight children; and that as nia r r -were too poor to support. , ut.i ( largo famny they.had givt.v l.i 'er ; ; to the TSJ3uddhists;v Theses'- Uor . sn priests 4 H Ignorant . They- - s!; va -r , their . hfeada 'and - to; aboit ;witn - S-; , - , ging -bowls ; 4n -their l tads.' 1 y are full- of auperstltlon - and; t va Eractically ito hold on tha . ' t ; - -irga. v Tho missionary work , 1 ; entirely- by the Jasnese i--' i whoiare1 ef i. far- rercnt-e , . and who are copyi.- our r.v... v.. modern . church work. , - , r ; - 'ft 1 P 1- -XI i. it . 1 a ( t " . I ? - " I' w-w-s--e--sSjssi m ii ' .. mm' ii n
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