The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-03
an. T. Felix GoURAUD's ORIENTAL
] CnEAHI. OF hIAeICAI sEAUTIFIER

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| progress is the custom Of living upon
a more prosperous relative Ii Is called
asorning.n No odiam attaches to what
we would call sponging When q man
feels overburdened with his own or
i his wife's kindred and has himself pos
! litical influence he says to the govern
ment. Here are some relations Of
| mine who cannot make a living They
must have political office And the
4 office is granted. The word FOR work
in Korean means unfortunate to do
nothing is to be genteei. Yet to gain
a living is not difficult. Scratch the
soil and enough to live on springs up.
Wealth anyway il discouraged, II rel
atlyes do not swarm about to subsist
upon what a man has earned the gov
ernment steps III to relieve him Of his
Accommodations.
Thus one man (ths happened to a
\ friend of the editor of tie Korean Re-
view who was known 10 have come
into possession Of 5000 was one day
waited upon by an officer Of the em-
pire.
Il congratulate you," said he
eWhyg7 inquired the man.
1.-THE emperor has conferred upon YOU
the order Of Something or Other and
/ am here to give you tile insignia and
70 collect the $1,000 which it is Gus
tomary 70 pay"
/ "But / have only $1,000 70 my name.
Besides, don't care FOR the deeora-
ton
what Reject 4 distinction confer
red by tile emperor exclaimed the
messenger
"It was leze majesty The offending
citizen was brought before a court, the
magistrate was paid 5000 to render
Judgment Of $1,000. and the man had
to empty his house of goods and yield
up his bank deposit and 20 penniless
into tile country to live off the soil
There is wooded hill on the en-
perors farm which it costs a head to
cut a tree from. The crime is capital
owing to the tradition that when trees
are all cut there the Korean nation viii
disappear The time Is approaching
it is declared by persons daily in con
tact with the cabinet and the emperor
/ that one of the things Marquis ItC
Z came to request was that Korea should
t grant to Japan the mining, forests ant
+ fisheries concessions Ito lets it be IN
! derstood that his mission was success
full. He threatened one hears tina
5 unless Japan's desires were met Their
/ would Be troops iii Korea to enforc
s them. and the wabble kneed empero
t gave in. He has subscribed also I
i the Tusan railway, and the crow
: princess. who was slashed with a Jap
t anese sword, has contributed TO tn
e japanese Red Cross society, These ar
! politics SO high and SO Interesting tina
D / hesitate to write them tin am sure
/ of my facts. Against what would b
: the supposedly human preiudic
a against the additionally hated natioi
E there is to be weighed the overpower
! ing physical presence Of its people am
( armed forces. Hundreds Of new i'm
! migrants recently arrived at Chemnlpo
: and If the rate keeps up till midsum
) mer Korea's gentle 100000 inhabit
!. ants viii be outnumbered as well a
: oyerawed by their aggressive historical
: enemies
Immense works are being pushed un
der the energetic, strong, peasant band
] from Japan. Hills are being lowere'
: into the valleys to form new rich rio
. fields. and tile railway to Phyongyonl
S is being graded and laid by counties
: men with remarkable yigor, even sol
d diers taking picks and spike hammers
j, the wish being 70 have a road from Iu
! san up the peninsula clear 70 New
+ chwang and the zulu open at once ant
e TO Picking Il little later
japan is prevailing over korei
through sheer self assertion (althougl
4 that Is i quality which Japan as We
{ has no word 10 expressl, and Korea i
: piufully nonresistant AS one Of tn
: observers til Korea puts * ITO TAX
: over this whole government and eeun
Y try would be merely like stealing can
: nv from i blind child"