The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-02

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1s s greatest s4useLers ia Korea are r.
sssss and tie Chinese minister Yuan
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- ssa.eeze, which be manipulated 81
me say on the shipments 81 RE- frors
.eesSA gasi before tie present trouble and
s.e hoAs q the soc44l aud governmental
structure o. this country and syf China
eeeins 20 ne 70 be h0nevcoruosd with CIR
faFiion and bribery.
xosET on BLOOD.
4hsrs Is nowhere IN the SorEd that tha
'iigniy dollar 10 wortn more 20 a nlsn
saan u Is IN Korea. He can often save bis
sAia ey plating the palm Of his enemy With
SILVER, and persons sentenced TO nogxing
ean ransom their punishment With money.
lheY have. IN fact, fxsd rate for this in
Korea. Ten blows % the bamboo viii be
omitted on the payment Of about s..
twenty blows for $40. and go on upward.
there are few men who would not give at
ahey nave rather than have their
thfgns reduced 10 Jelly. and the
bamboo - great persuadeT. At the
same time. officials are sometimes nun she'd
iof their cruelty, and those sho cause the
$500 % persons 81 torture, receive i9)
bioNs and are dismissed from the public
service. am told that the present dynasty
has much less terrible punishmsnts than
we're common Ia the past, and that within
the last 20 years knee crushing and
branding have been abolished. and there is
no cutting OIL Of the noses and feet Of men,
as vas done in the middle ages.
STEAMED TO pEArH.
stu, the punishments are bad enough.
They are far worse than anything that Is
known outside Of China. and the wives
aud families Of rebels and criminals. even
to the third and fourth generation, are in
Guided ia the sentences Of their husbands
and fathers. Here Is a curious method,
which. arm told. prevails in Seoul of exc
cutting the fathers Of rebels 1t isa almost
necessary to understand the structure Of
Korean house 10 appreciate il. The rooms
are heated you know, by fires which are
built under the house and the flame. OF
which run through fiues. covering every
part OF the floors Of the rooms These
Ioors are Of brick or mortar, and they are
covered With a thick. white paper vel
oiled. With good fire. they turn the
rooms into ovens. and small room soon
becomes furnace AZ big IRE is built uu-
der IT, among the lowest classes ia Korea
are the butchers. and IL Is ia a butchers
house outside the west gate OF the city
that the fathers of rsDels are sometimes
poisoned. The poison is mixed with rice
water, which hiss been left over night in
order that It's taste may 10 bitter. The
officer Of the law takes the man 10 this
house. lie wears wooden clogs. and thus
keeps his feet from the red hot Hoor, upon
which no puts the man, and where he
forces him 20 drink the poisoned water. In
the back of this room there is a great jar OF
Korean pottery, which holds almost as
much as a hogshead. This is filled with
water. After the official has given the
poison, he breaks this ar aud the water
nows out upon the door. Ii the man does
not die of the poison the steam and heat
soon finish ham. and the body Is parboilsd
before it il taken out Ii is carried
through one of the dishonorable gates and
cast out OF the city. lie must be left there
for n certain time. aud then If it's relatives
do not take IL away, the birds grow fat
over its cooked meat
WHAT FoREiGSERs NAY KxPKCr.
These punishments viii give you some
idea Of the horrors which are bound 10 at
tend any protraeted war in this part of the
world. The Japanese will carry on their
struggle on Western methods. bat the Ko-
reans and the Chinese will do as they have
done in the past, and woe DO 10 the pris-
oners who fall into their hands. During
the var between the Chinese aud English
about generation ago the foreign prison
ers were carried about in iron cages, aud /
met an English consul at Canton a few
years since who had his whiskers pulled
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shown as curiosity 20 the people in an
iron pen, the roof of which was so low that
he could neither sit nor stand within IT,
This man said at the time that China
should give up life for every hair he lost
from his beard. and his position. / am told,
MAS such that he was aole 10 carry out his
threat The father Of the present king,
who is now at the head OF the government,
murdered the French missionaries and the
Korean Christians IN the most harhaFous
of ways The heads Of some Of them were
cut of, and their topsnots being tied to-
gether. they were hung high on poles, like
80 many onions. The bodies of the dead
were brought 10 Seoul in straw bags, and
we're cast on the ground outside the south
east gate. Such things arc hardly posi-
bic today The Koreans are afraid OF the
foreigners, aud the officials have too much
sense 10 allow the people TO massacre
them Still. this vas only a few years
ago and when war comes Ia st the door,
common sense dies out Al the window-
rHE American coLosY IN KoREA'
And this brings me 10 the American
colony IN Korea Some of the best men
that the United states has ever produced
are now iaboring there. DR.. III. y. Allen,
the secretary OF the American legation,
will 30 down into history as one OF the
greatest OF our diplomats. lie has done
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nsctad with the United States legation.
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