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mantle than that of any Of the rest. Trav-
ellers come back from her realm are tel
ling about 1t in London.
In Corea, the Land Of the Morning Calm.
the seating of Empress Emily Brown. who
sang there in the choir of the mission chapel,
in the high place beside the Emperor.
Son Of the Morning, with an equal share in
the dynasty of that place, is the eighth
wonder Of the world. This is the story Of
the conversion of Emily Brown into the
Empress Om-the Dawn of the Morning:
Her father was the first Protestant mis-
sionary to enter the Corean capital, she with
him. Emily was fifteen and pretty and
her fathers Jealous helper in the mission
field. She led the singing in the mission
chapel at Seoul, and thus her beauty came
to be reported to the King.
Kings do not always have their own
way, even in Corea; and Miss Emily Brown,
the missionary's daughter. refused the fiat
tering offer OF his Majesty vi Hevi to enter
his household. But the King was importu-
nate even insistent; and he "had a way with
him" He promised to marry the beauty
he coveted and she left the mission chapel,
entered the palace and became the second
wife Of vi Hevi.
tIllp ycdip IiiC III oC WHO Nln6
disappeared In way they have in Corea,
the marriage was acknowledged publicly
and, vi Hevi having been translated In the
meantime from King into an Emperor,
Emily Brown was crowned as his consort.
Her son, If he lives and If his country
retains the dynasty and it's sovereignty,
will one day be Emperor of Corea, in
which case for the first time the son of
x.-;l1 he al
ruler Of an empire,
Probably never was an American girl
the central figure in 30 picturesque cere-
mony as was this crowning of the Lady
Emily Brown, once leader of a mission choir,
as the Empress ON. Three great Powers
were represented there, and two Of them
we're the United States and England. The
third was Japan. After the coronation
the new Empress rode by her husbands
side through the streets of the capital.
No de tail that would add to the pictur-
esqueness of the procession was lost By
imperial decree the houses in the capital
we're closed and the people of Seoul knet
at their doors, a new broom in each hand,
marking their subjection to the Emperor
vi Hevi and the Empress ON.
Through the kneeling throng passed
their Majesties' sacred persons in closed
sedan chairs. Above them waved banner
with a flying dragon fourteen feet long,
and red parasol, indicating to the people
that the ruler shared his throne and power
with his bride.
The ceremony marked the fortieth ami
versary of the rulers accession, but the
Lady Emily had to wait upon tragic events
before she reaped these surprising honors.
Had the vanished first wife of the Emperor
been there she might have warned Emily
Brown that the high seat of power is peril
GUS and the fall therefrom is long.
She, the first wife, was omnipotent in
the kingdom in her day. Every corner
of the palace every street in the capital,
was watched by her spies.
One day she vanished. and Corea was
ordered into mourning for her for twelve
months. Corea-"the shuttlecock among
the nations was having trouble with
Japan, and 1t was said that the Empress
was over-favorably disposed to Russia.
That was twenty years ago. 1t wasn't
long before the supposedly dead Empress
reappeared at court. 1t turned out that
she had been smuggled out of the palace,
disguised as a soldiers wife. and another
lady had been killed in her place.
Back from the dead, she reigned for thir-
teen years beside her husband. Then came
q new upsetting.
Tai Wen Kun, father of the Emperor,
the man with bowels of iron and heart
of stone," stage-managed an assassination
which carried Of the Queen and drove
the King to flight. Whenit was over the King
went back to Seoul, was quietly married
to Emily Brown, and then they waited for
the favorable opportunity to announce the
event.
Lord Curzon, Viceroy Of India, is author
ty for the statement that no monarch
in the world influences his country's affairs
less than does the Emperor Of Corea. But
the missionarys daughter who has become