Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-21

ing. The principal fuel is dried grass
and weeds, and the smoke which
belches out from the foundation of
| these mud and clay houses is simply
sitting The whole city is covered
with a smoke pail in thirty min
utes. The one advantage that the
smoke possesses, however, is its
ability to temporarily suppress the five
| thousand separate and distinct
stenches which emanate from Scouts
/ dreadful thoroughfares."
| The conflict between barbarous ira
! ditions and modern invention, which
has taken place in Korea during the
past few years is illustrated by the
experience of the American civil en-
there: 1--WE built" he writes, the
Korean company good road, import
ed motormen from Japan and cars
from America. For some reason the
tenders and gongs did not arrive with
the shipment and much trouble re-
suited. Interested Koreans insisted
on the road being opened despite the
non-arrival of these necessities, and
i the trouble began, The formal open
! ing of the road was to include a run
| to the imperial tomb, with the Ko-
rean president of the company and a
few invited guests. The citizens were
out in crowds to see the devil wagon
run by wire. Soon after the car
started, child of 10 ran across the
track. His father called to the child
to come back. The child became
frightened and ran directly in front of
the car. The body was dreadfully
mangled and mob soon gathered.
/ The excitement was worse from the
fact that Seoul had been specializing
for weeks on the cause of the drought.
Many think the electric wires cut off
the influence of heaven; others say
there can be no rain until our power
house is removed from the dragon.
When the lifeless body was taken out,
the crowd began to pelt the car with
stones, and all on board fled for their
lives. The car was torn to pieces and
| then burned. The wires were pulled
down regardless of their death-dealing
/ currents, and serious accident was
averted by turning off the current at
the power-house. Another car was
sent out later in the day, only to be
burned. The mob then started for
the power-house, but the distance was
long, and the police managed to pre-,
pare resistance that kept them off
The Japanese motormen refused to
work unless furnished with an armed
guard. This the Koreans will not al
low. Twenty ringleaders of the
rioters who destroyed the electric cars
were executed in public"
! Colonel Ccckerill threw a strong
/ light on his opinion of Korea's impor-
lance when, after a visit there. he
advised that our legation be abolish
ed. 1--WE have" he says, "the complete
machinery CT legation, and we as
sumo more or less responsibility along
with the same, when, as a matter of
fact, we have no more need for a
diplomatic representative in Seoul
/ than we have for one in the chief
borough of Patagonia. We have abso-
lutely no business in Korea save that
OF evangelizaticn. Our missionaries
all enjoy the presence of a United
States minister, no doubt, but their
interests are Of such a character that
a consul down in Chemulpo could east
/ ly look after them. Our maintenance
Of a legation in Seoul necesgitates, in
the matter Of comfy, the keeping Of
Korean minister and a staff Of well
paid idleTs in Washington city, and
Korea is too poor to be subjected to
such extravaganza. It is fair to say
that not since the beginning of our
diplomatic relations with Korea has
there been time when man on a
salary of $500 year could not have
attended to all the real business that
the land Of the Morning Calm has had
within the confines Of our republic.