BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-11-08

list as ours ever included such variety
Of nationaIities, j should like to hear 0lit !.
! "A, visit to Gensan and Fr,an can ouly !,
add to your respect for The Japanese. One
afternoon you are in the land olthrift
and hope, and the next morning you have
crossed The Korean Strait, and are In the
| lard Of sloth and hopelesspess. I know Of
no journey Of equal length which pre-.
sents such Q sharp contrast of human ef
fciency and inefficiency. The hills which
rise above the harbors of eastern Korea
are Of like formation TO those If the west.
ern coast OF Japan. The difference is that
between q scaffolding and the finished and
furnished house. In Japan, where, with
Infinite labor, the farmers have built up
floors for their rice-felds on steep ascens,
artificial forests are grotoing and everyA
4 square yard Of soil seems to serve some
purpose as surely as every scrap from the
table does IN the an6ladge ofa French honse.i
keeper. The. slopes around Gensan are
B bare Of cnltiyatiopi only the. plains offer
a. easy enough field for o lazy people. The
occasional trees which spring up Of their
4. own accord are cut for, frewood, before
4 T. ey reach q respectable size, and riee
are planted in their place. 1t is only hu.
J man that the little islanders, with the
Il greed Of expanding peoples, look az covet.
n ously upon the yneighboring peninsula al
A1the Oklahoma farmer does upon the Indian
z Hands, where q no ,furrow has yet been turn,
q ed. They have Q, better, excuse, for. their
= trsSs ~. aSSa ANA i'm SsS,s ' NJ sis' NJ. III
8 ,narcbants marc n GaSsan sS STS tsSssn @ - !, ~ ~
Il n 50 Ia ths - IN az -,
Il ina,ts r,rbose ,oa. - sn. wv
With The sise Of the countpvi % OSr s."Inaa as,nl
;: Of 1lo TONS; hyoo oOht' Ams,;.s $685., ..,,
IT Jananese niece goods and snns..,,sd "u :,
T. ticieaI and If cary;ss ON 70 Wl.S,ecsso. z.
back to .Ianan tha bacus u basns wS;cb -
Koraa i cooliaa hr;ng Tsi \, ia;s - =,
st ontlyinu conntrv i I 'fi'S1'Tsfss 10 s0sn
a "a Whiis q iittls ;onrnav ia bassa
oIlthe very sight of a GANG of Gh;rsso ~ 'sooI;s III
Iil at work sdireeta voure ~
Dressed commerce. and COM tort.. snd' an .tsn
;, Lance II their euer0y we're fr;ohtiv sJ;ro.,
ed and Awakened in Ko,sa 'recn;rss 10 a. ,sn.
a stretch 81 the imag;nation pol;t;ScslI
=. land econor1icaiiv tha Korosn .aar,s 81 tb
1trotting Va ,th y. ~ 2 - -
oaI vices Of the Chinese ana to iact al thsi s
virtues. 0l The greatest Of these yides /
" idleness. 1t is Japanese fishermen! ,un,ba,
ing more than 10000, who take tho 4 wesltl
le legt Of, the waters, on the Korean coast
i SIstpckY little Japanese boatmen,7 with athei
!. closely clipped heads bared to the sun, win
?, convey passengers and their ba9gse
d ashore; Japanese clerks and steyedores
n / Who direct the shipping and the discharq
n lof cargoes. II TAe Japanese have their ow,
!, schools and post Offices. A. walk Ithrouel
= the S streets,i 9a which are,ib clean d All
70 well-ordered, % showed shop after s(sho1
N with the merchant in kimcna, smilinel'
!, on the outlook for customers. In sheri
d In both Gensan and Fu,an. the -Japanss
i have quarter BY themselves. the same =
ID Europeans have in the treaty psrt, Z
r China. Their habits Of Cleanliness max
y this necessity. with an army and
. Constitution on the German platform. 7 q
~ pscted to find autocratic methods on th
10 part of the imperial troops .obichg ara ats
a toned here to protect japanese interests
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