The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-18
LaAD OF MORNING CALM
Incidence tbs Most Respectable
Of Habits In Korea.
80 00NN0gE.T 0E LUZUEIEs

WHY the Emperor works All Nigh,
and Is Not Disturbed ~ sunrise
Cunrd Aoans-RetuFn Of pro-Eus-
Sims TO iiis Palace after Marquis
Ito's Departure-siayery IN korea
ana WHY t.e People Have Not
Risen.
Wlntry damps charged with agues
and rheumatism gave way the other
day to the most exquisite Of soft spring
mornings. writes lie New York Posts
correspondent from chemulpo Korea.
The new season came as i sudden ira
diatlon, golden almy the light Of
Asia. Nothing green On tie mountain
sides except the little sparse Pinus
sinensis against that gray and ecru soil
which is ike the wool on a huddled
dock Of unshorn sheep; nothing green
In the bottom lands except the SHIN.
mering Of rivers As $50 came to Che
muIpo from Seoul on tie early train
the bed OF Seoul river was level shin
ing yellow sand. desert as far as the
abrupt jagged, far away mountains
with just d cruupled ribbon Of greer
water negiigentiy lying across. 1t and
spots Of ivory white here aud there iii.
dicating cotton ROBBED Koreans Aly
memory Of Koreans viii DC Of 4 people
forever sedately stfolling In snowy
belled long coats and bashi bazoub
trousers, tending nowhere in particu
lar but III all directions. and gathering
at railway stations to see the train
come in as thickly as Catskill summer
people DO at posfolices while mails are
being sorted. Leisure IS tile common
est 81 Injuries; Incidence the most re-
spectacle Of habits. on a day and a
ride ike that we have had we reach
at last an understanding of the reason
for naming korea the country Of the
morning calm
Nothing south Of Pingyang dlsturbs
the morning calm save the endless
landings or Japanese immigrants, the
passaee of spawned, under nourished
cavalry ana the $50 O'Clock change Of
guard to accompaniment Of drums and
weird bugles at the imperial palace.
You would think that the emperor
would object to the racket the guard
makes. He does not because be has
not set retired to sleep.
why does he do all his work at
nightsa | inquired Of one Of bis off
GERS. The answer was; Plots and con
spiracies ana alI dark doings proceed
best at night. What more natural,
then, that the emperor, remembering
the past, should call his ministers about
him ana keep the palaee occupied at
night instead Of IN the day. n
A simple enough safety device, pure
" Korean 1t reminds one OF the mo-
tive for giving up the bicycle. This
machine was invented IN China in the
time Of Meneius aud had one crank
for going forth and one for coming
back, which operated very well tin one
day woman took a bicycle from a
shop where the coming back part was
being repaired. Not knowing that re-
pairs had not been completed, the log
ical thing happened she rode on and
on and never was able to turn home
ward again Another Illustration Of
Korean mental processes relates to the
ironclad Korea invented the first in
the world. used It. discarded IT, AS to
why no care was taken to improve it
and maintain the sea supremacy Ko-
rean answers: why should we? The
war was over You don't carry about
q fan an winter, do you. because you
Will need it next summer
Two features Of class organization
have reached the absurd phase in Ko-
rea One is aristocracy and the other
trade unionlsm. II was thought that
the expressions Of the one might be re-
sisted by the other. such has not been
the case Labor is probably nowhere
so low, 50 servile, So mental, So cheap,
today as here Chinese Is expensive
labor compared to Korean. Unions are
utterly ineffective. Professor Grifith's
book saying the contrary being de-
clared By wei informed Americans as
out OF date and touch. Once powerful
unions existed among mechanics, por
tiers. hat weavers, coffin makers and
masons. Each class achieved what
American and British unions now aim
at monopoly Sometimes they OBJ
tanned Il by purchase or by bribery or
by prescription. paid tax to the gov
eminent, and then endeavored to and
did gain for their chiefs almost des.