Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13

people seem different somewhat, an;
taller. On turning the corner of Korea
we come to Fusan, a place open to all
trade; it is very accessible, and possibly
the most satisfactory place at which to
stay, in Korea; at the head of the har.
Dor is the Korean walled city, a poor
place, and only significant as contain
ing the royal granaries Of rice. The
scenery here, especially the view
through the door Of the Japanese tenn
pie, is good. AS we go north it comes
to US in varied ways that the west OF
the Korean peninsula is cut off from
the east by a ridge of mountains. Along
the coast we find Song Chin, Ping-yang
Mokpo, all coming on as trading ports,
until we reach Gensan (Wonsan) with
its Japanese settlement; the soil here is
good, the cattle fairly so, and there is a
road to Chemulpo; it would be bold
cyclist or motorist who would face it,
The people inland are unsophisticateG
and inOffensive.
Here more than elsewhere the Jap is
the cock of the walk, the Korean being
in comparison, tall, leggy, and "hope-
less" with the mild repose of deca-
dence, suggesting, in comparison, the
Cochin-China and the Bantam. At
Gensan, a Japanese inside the COM
pound rudely went for a big Korean
trumpeter who dared to move, from Gu
riosity, while was sketching him
Here is, however-or was-a Korean Of
fetal residence decorated with some
taste, where with some others was en-
tertained to luncheon, cooked by Chi
nese ex-man-o'-war cook, and including
plum-pudding, with copious libations
for those who desired, principally of
sweet vermuth. The star comique of the
district performed on the tight-rope, and
mimicked many kinds of men, hunters
and priests included, with much skill;
geisha sang, poems were composed
all these delights were in honor of the
kings birthday.
Korea strikes one as being an exceed
lngly dirty and road-neglected country;
still the leisured classes-and all would
be so-in their long paste scanned gar
ments, look clean and cool, and as they
take of their shoes on going within
doors their homes are, so far as my linn
tied experience went, fairly clean with.
In. AS regards music may add that one
geisha, with brow of samisen, and
her voice, described the seasons, that
Of winter with the wall, hail, and rain
upon the roof, being evident and pa
shetic.
No one seems to say Poor Korea
ret it is a poor, distressful country, and
deserves, for what it is worth, some
sympathy. And now we slide into the
Russian littoral. Over the large bay lies
Vladivostok. its latitude being that Of
the Gap (Straits of Tsugaru), between
Japan proper and Isle of Yeyo; Hako.
late, with its storm-stones on the roof
being on the south of the latter. Vladi
vostok has a long and narrow harbor-
/ reason for it being described as tn,
Golden Horn is stated to be that golt
les in the hills; but the more poetica
and usually accepted one is that it EN-
bodies the idea of the long-covetet
Golden Horn of Constentinople. On,
may state that many of the places
headlands, bays, harbors, have four o.
more names-the native, Korean, Chi
nese, Japanese, French, English. ant
Russian. Vladivostok was of old
to us, Port May. Much of 1T
beauty has gone with the trees OF