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sian Influence

remarks as lacking in knowledge,
good Judgment, common sense and
the other qualities editorials always
lack; but such hitting as this across
seas, with the reply coming SO long
after his editorial was written that
the editor had himself learned that
he had erred, did not help us out.
But if the Independent lacked a real
rival, we certainlyehad an interesting
assortment of visitors. Our little
room permitted us to have only one
visitors chair; but the procession was
rather steady throughout our working
hours, which were from nine to two
The most interesting to me were
Korean noblemen in their magnih-
Gently elaborate silk cloaks, who came
quietly and talked in the native Ian
guage to 1A Jaisohu on the burning
questions of the day. No matter
what the occasion or what the ques-
ton, they were ever remarkably cool
and composed, as if fortified stolidly
against failure Of the Independence
dream, but confident of ultimate vic
tory.
The foreign Ministers in Seoul and
the Consuls were frequent visitors,
dropping in to discuss Reuter- So mes
sages, or to learn from DR.. J4isohu
the latest vagary of the Korean cabinet
and seek an Interpretation thereof.
The American Minister, DR.. Allen,
was a frequent and pleasant caller
And there were the missionaries
Our little office meant much to them,
especially to those buried far out in
the mountains, to whom our sheet was
a tri-weekly godsend. Many Of them
were fresh from American colleges
and sang their college songs and Cos
pei hymns alternately on their long,
rough rides through Korea. Now and
then we published news letters from
certain of the larger Korean ports,
such as Chemulpo, Gensan and Fusan.
These we're written for us by mission
aries at those points.
American missionary enterprise in
Korea has saved to the world a great
deal of material. that would other
wise have been lost, by the publica-
ton Of The Korean Repository by
the Methodist Trilingual Press, a
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Turks burn his countrymen at the
stake. He distinctly remembers the
Russians driving the Sultan's soldiers
out of his town in 1877, and how he
tore the fez from his head and went
bareheaded until he could get a Rus
sian fur cap. He came to America
when he was fifteen, went through
Harvard and entered into newspaper
work
Then there is an Indian who, until
he was seventeen, never saw white
man except along the barrel of a gun
He was captured from a band Of
Sioux raiders and afterwards became
a student at Carlisle While he is not
on the regular staff Of a newspaper, he
lives by free-lance work, and has writ
ten book.
In San Francisco a big daily has a
Chinese reporter who turns out quite
as much copy as the star reporter
His speciality is Chinatown news.
Through him the paper leads all the
others in Chinatown scoops"
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voice, and nightly the entire male
population of years of discretion gath
cred at the subscribers home, and
standing among them all, he read the
news of the day.
that belittered little Office by the pal
ace gate, but a picture of a whole
town listening to the reading of their
one paper, in which we pleaded for a
free Korea and fought the Russian
Advance hand to hand, would Be
priced as no other Korean picture |
could name.
Our English edition was, at best, a
small affair, some twenty inches long
and fifteen wide, with four pages, con
tanning three columns each Our most
important mission, ostensibly, was to
get and print Reuters cablegrams
containing the news of the world at
large. DIR. Jaisohu made it possible
to secure these by obtaining from
the various Legations and certain i'm
portant local officials subscriptions
to circular sent out each day from
the Independent Office containing all
the Reuter- news received that day.
The Reuter- messages came early i'll
the day, and these were instantly put
into type. A galley proof was struck
off and a boy" took this proof around
to each Legation and individual sub
scriber As consequence, though
each Legation had, of course, its own
intelligence from its home govern
ment, at such times as at the outbreak
of the Spanish-American war the In
dependent Office took on the appear
ance of a big city daily's office on the
night of a Presidential election.
Next in importance to our handling
Reuters messages was the Independ-
ent's publication of the Government
Gazette, announcing the DEGREES, dis
missals and appointments of the En-
peror and his household and Cabinet
Though we published our paper three
times a week, it was sometimes diff
cult TO keep up with the tlippity-for
style Of Korean politics. AS one oi
our editorials stated, much to the
amusement of the foreigners in Ko.
rea, cabinet changes were of as repl1.
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was clearly seen some weeks before
when DIR. Jaisohu sent me to interview
the newly installed Russian Minister
in Seoul. Russias game in Korea
was over by the middle of March, and
the Russo-Korean agreement was ter
minated. For reasons known only al
St. Petersburg, the Minister to Korea
was recalled and new emissary was
sent to take his place Dr. Jaisohu
Immediately detailed me to the Rus
sian Legation.
Give him regular New York in
terview," he said ASK him what the
change means for Korea, and what his
policy will be. If he won't answer
you, we can say that he won't, and
that will have its meaning. If he
questions you, tell him this is an Amer
ican paper and tell him its circulation
is ten times as big as it is"
had 10 difficulty in reaching my
man, but strangely enough, did en-
counter some difficulty in securing an
exact statement as to Russia's entire
plan with reference to Korea.
Our plans do not change" said the
Minister, with the blandest smile
My pOlCy VIII UC Ludt CI my pItue-
cessor."
In the meantime, he asked fully
about the paper. Rather far away
for an American paper, is it not?" he
added.
When the interview was over ] fell
sure the days of the independent
were numbered When Dr. Jaisohr
asked me if had interviewed the Min.
lister, | replied, Il don't know, but I'm
sure the Minister has interviewed me-
Foremost among the things we
lacked in our venture was a good
strong rival paper. There was nc
Pewee for our Peeje. Think of it
running newspaper without any one
to denominate your editorials driv-
elling nonsense. True, there were a
number Of native papers in Seoul
but few, if any, foreigners read them
and SO this did not help matters. Ot
course, the English papers at Kobe
Yokohama Shanghai and Hong Kon2
noticed the Independent, and in {
feeble way denounced some Of oui
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Occidental Journalism in
the Comic Opera Orient
By ARCHER B. HUBERT

compartments were shipped from
America to Korea, and the Korean
independent was born, April 7,
1896. 1t was the organ Of the Inde-
pendence Club and stood for new and
free Korea. Dr. Jaisohu was father
of the plant and editor-in-chief of the
paper. At later day, in 1897, he Sc
cured the services of all assistant or
local editor, who came from America
to take up the work.
| shall never forget that little office
of the Independent and the jolly days
spent within its Slight walls. A news
paper office must be the same reckless
sort of place under whatever cline
it may be erected; but that Office,
measuring only about six by ten feet,
was at once the most commonplace
and most wonderful room | ever en-
tered.
1t was located near the palace gate
on the principal street of Seoul, in the
foreign quarter. Behind the Office
was the composing and printing room,
where Korean type settlers worked
away to the strange rhythm Of their
unutterably sad songs Koreans
cannot work except to music. A
gang Of coolies digging in the streets
always selects leader who carries a
continual refrain while the entire gang
now and again join in the chorus. |
was amused to find it to be the same
with the Koreans when they learned
to set type. Deaths,s marriages, wars
and rumors of wars, jokes and adver-
tisements-all were set up to sing
song chants. Such, then, was the mu-
sic that forever rang in our ears. No
matter what the task or who the visi-
tor, all was strangely set to the tune
of the typesetters in that other room.
Our paper was printed tri-weekly
in two editions, one in English and
one i'll native Korean or onman This
native language is agglutinative and
very flexible. Our English edition of
the Independent circulated among
the foreigners in Korea and in the
chief ports of the Far East, and we
issued some twelve hundred copies.
The native editions ran often up to
three thousand, and these copies were
eagerly read throughout the penin-
sula. In a number of instances we
found that towns far off in the noun
tains had subscribed in the name Of
some resident who had a powerful
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.O MOST people an American
newspaper in Korea seems
l. as incongruous as an iceberg

as lncongruOuS as an iceberg
in Panama Bay. No one
looking for a field for newspaper pro-
motion would think of locating a
plant, however small, in a little, un-
civilized land which contained only a
few score Occidentals And so, at
the start, it is plain that this odd story
of the rise and the decline of the Ko-
rean Independent is chapter Of po-
litical, and not of commercial, history.
The independence Club of Korea
has played an important part in the
awakening of that land since the
JapanChina war. By mass meetings
and through the press this club of
genuine patriots has stirred the con-
science of an almost constituencies
people profoundly at times. Mistakes
have, no doubt, been made; false po-
sitions may have been assumed, and
false men may have been trusted. But
as an organization, the independence
Club Of Seoul has had a marked in
fuence in modern Korean life. One
of the material benefits of the club is
the monument erected without the
walls Of Seoul to commemorate the
day when Japan freed Korea from the
sovereignty of China, in 1906.
One of the leading spirits of the
Independence Club was DR.. Philip
Jaisohu, naturalized American.
Graduating from an American col
lege, DR.. Jaisohu took his medical
course and became an expert in bac-
teriology of more than local reputa-
ton. His career in America was in
terrupted by a call from his native
Korea which he could not resist-he
returned to become Adviser to the
Korean Cabinet The position was
one of power and Importance.
In his interest in the work of the
newly formed Independence Club, it
occurred TO him that medium of in
formation between the club and the
people, such as a newspaper, was all
imperative necessity. With his usual
enthusiasm DR.. Jaisohu put his plans
in working order and soon small
press with the necessary type and ac-
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Copyright, 1904, BY a. 3. Hulbert.)
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A Country Of Linguists.

Almost every native of Iceland, even
the peasants and fishermen. can speak
at least one foreign language besides
his local Danish dialect Some years
ago it became fad to study Ian
guages, and now person speaking
only one tongue is looked down upon
as extremely ignorant.
English leads, then come German
and French Papers in these three
languages are read extensively in Ice
land, and may be found in all the vii
elage reading rooms.
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like saplings in storm That is safe.
But when it comes to sitting on a
board and seeing people walking on a
street two hundred feet below, and
there's nothing to hold on to with
your feet but solid stone, | get nerv-
Gus.
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That's the Question.

If man calls you a liar-or some
thing pleasant like that-the correct
retort is to knock him down. But
was he right?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
ANNAPOLIS NOTES.
Dinner Parties by Prominent Leaders
Death of Old Resident.

OCdLu VI Olu h6S1QeQC.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 25-President
Spencer c. Jones of the senate and Delegate
j. Charles Linthicum. chairman of the Bal
t:more city delegation, gave dinners last
night at Carvel Hall. Among the invited
guests present were Isdor Rayner, United
States senator-elect from Maryland, and
Mayor Robert McLane of Baltimore. Gov
ernor Warf1eld was present for a short time
at both dinner parties. s-
Rev Arthur Shaaf Johns. rector of Christ
sermon last night at ST ,Anne's Church. He
was entertained by the rector of st. Annes
the Rev Joseph P. McComas
Midshipman Robert Allen Jackson of the
second class has been, called to his home at
Petersburg, Va, by the sprecarious Illness
of his mother .-sf 49,,
Mr.. Meredith Dawes died yesterday, aged
seventy-five years He is survived by five
children-Mrs. Charles c. Feldineyer, wife
of the treasurer of ST. Johns College; Mrs
Charles H. Russell and, Nessrs. John, Elijah
and Samuel Dawes.
the members of, the Glenwood Farmers
Club at the executive mansion after the
meeting that day. The club numbers six
teen members.
The Naval Academy fencing team, COM
prisng Midshipmen Nelson. Knox, Dich-
man and Atkinson. will leave Annapolis
March 81 for New York. to take part in the
intercollegiate fencing tournament which
occurs on April 1 and 2.
Assistant Surgeon C. T. Ely, Z. S. N, ar
rived yesterday.
Prof F. Weeling of the Academy depart
ment of English and law uas called to
Erie, Pa. last night by the sudden death OF
ks sister
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
Arguing on the Word "Amity."

The House committee on Indian affairs
yesterday listened to argument in favor
of the Burke and Stevens bills eliminate ting
the word "amity" from the laws relating
to Indian depredations. There are 1000
claims against the government where
claimants have been injured in their prop
erty rights by Indians, but whose claims
have been disallowed by the courts on
the grounds that the Indians charged with
the offenses were at peace with the United
States. By striking out the word "amity''
fl ON this law these claims could be al
lowed The friends of the measure state
tfat the total amount the government
would have to pay in this event would not
exceed SjOo0,EO. Opponents of the bill
estimate this amount at so. 900, 900 to s15,-
O90,oG0. The Department of Justice has
been called upon by the committee to give
information on the subject
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
Railway to Hudson's Bay.

Writing to the Department of Commerce
and Labor from London Canada, United
States Consul Culver says that the Mani
toba grain growers convention, held at
Winnipeg recently, passed a resolution
recommending the immediate construction
of a railway to Hudson bay as highway
of commerce to and from the Canadian
northwest. Mr.. Culver says it was consid-
cred probable at one time that a large
share of the trade between England and
China and japan would be diverted to this
route and the Canadian Pacific railroad.
But even should this contemplated line or
the northwest be established this idea will
have to be abandoned in the event of the
construction of the Panama canal This
line of transportation would olen UP great
possibilities for the grazing and grain
growing territories of the northwest terri
tories and our northwestern states. The
land drained by the rivers and lakes which
find their outlet on the west shore OF the
Hudson bay, including the Red river of the
north and its tributaries. exceeds 2O00)0.-
COO acres, either grain-producing or grazing
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
Poor Girls Get Home.

A dispatch from New York says: After
friendly litigation extending over a term of
eighteen years. the court of appeals has
declared valid a bequest of 100000 made
By the will of Jose Sevelia. a wealthy
Peruvian. who died in this city in 1886, for
the establishment and maintenance of a
home for poor young girls. In the eighteen
years which have elapsed since Mr. Sevilla' S
death the original bequest has grown con-
s:derably by accumulation.
According to the terms Of the will the
SJC0.OCO was to be held by board of man
ayers until 1t accumulated sufficient in
terest to defray the expenses of the cree
ton of a building large enough to accom-
modate from 80 to 100 young girls The
principal was then to be held in perpetual
trust. the income to be used in paving
the running expenses of the institution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
WOULD END THE WAR IN TOKYO.
General Kuropatkin Proposes an Inva-
sion Of Japan.

sion OF Japan.
A cablegram from Paris last night says:
A telegram from Moscow contains state
ment by a friend of Gen. Kuropatkin. which
is declared to be a faithful expression OF
the generals own views. After pointing
out that the Russian feet is, for the mo-
ment, useless, except when the Japanese
are before Port Arthur, Kuropatkin's friend
says:
This inferiority will not last forever.
and the time will come when our feet will
be a powerful assistance expect the end
will be reached in August, before our new
squadron puts to sea from Cronstadt. The
navy yard forces are working day and
night, regardless of expense. and the num-
Der OF workmen has been trebled.
1.-THE fleet will be accompanied by coal
ships and together with the squadron of
Admiral Wierinksat, at present in the Red
sea- will give us in the Pacific supple
mentary contingent of eight battle ships.
seven cruisers and thirty-two torpedo boats.
Sufficient to Raise Blockade.
This force will be sufficient to raise the
blockade of Port Arthur, and the balance
of naval power on the Pacific will be re-
versed. To every Japanese ship we will be
able 10 oppose ship and half
1--WE then shall claim of our sailors inn
portant and decisive work. At that same
moment we hope, with the help of the
Almighty, to have driven the japanese out
of the continent and to the sea. We shall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
Recent EARTHQUAKES Recorded

The superintendent of the coast and geo
detic survey. Mr.. o. II. Tittmann, reports
that effects of the recent earthquakes, one
of which occurred In the state of Wash
ington and vicinity on the night of March
10. and the other in New England in the
early morning of March 81. were recorded
by the delicate instruments of the mag
netic observatory at Cheltenham Md
Three faint but distinct seismic disturb
ances were photographically recorded on
March IS at 1858 and II 03 pm. eastern
time. the first being the most pronounced
On March II the effect was recorded at
l :0S am, eastern time. These effects were
obtained on instruments designed especially
for the recording changes in the earth's
magnetism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
CUMBERLAND NOTES.
Maryland Day Celebrated in Schools
Strikers Score-New Ball Park.


Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, March %, 1904.
Maryland day is being celebrated In the
public schools of Maryland today. 1t is the
2T0th anniversary of the landing of the
Maryland pilgrims at Clements Island
The program of exercises was framed by
the state board of education The Ark and
the Dove were the VESSELS that brought to
this shore the founders of Maryland. The
pilgrims included the three Calverts, TWEEN
ty of their friends and 200 labOring men.
Word was received here yesterday of the
death at Sandy Hook of Emanuel Hartung.
who some time ago enlisted as a United
States soldier
The strikers at the Cumberland glass
works scored victory in inducing two i'm
ported glassblowers, who have been at
work, to quit and leave for their homes.
fhlS leaves only one man at work at the
plant, and makes one-half shop out Of
thirty-shop plant. The men who were in
duced to stop work were sent to their
homes in Baltimore and New York. respec-
lively. The strikers are allowed to work
at any other avocation and still receive
their strike allowance. There is much
speculation on the part of the strikers as to
what position Mr.. L. A. Fletcher. the new
superintendent, will take. Mr.. Fletcher.
who returned here from Pittsburg a few
days ago. was formerly superintendent of
the local plant
The Cumberland Base Ball Association
was granted certificate OF Incorporation.
The capital stock is So 600 W ork has COM
menced on the new park for the opening
game with Frostburg, May J0
Potomac Lodge. No. l, Amaigamated AS
ISOLATION of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
will meet here Saturday, afternoon to vote
on the proposed reduction of the scale
agreed upon by the national officers OF the
union and the tin manufacturers.
Arthur Frantz, aged seventeen. son of Jo-
seph H. Frantz, was unconscious twenty
hours from a blow on the back of the head
by a piece of TIMBER while at work for the
Preston Lumber and Coke Company, at
Crellin. He will likely recover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
Golf at Virginia Beach.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


VIRGINIA BEACH, va.at March "a. 1904.
Yesterday the golf links presented more
of spring and summer appearance than
any previous day this season. With the
temperature lowering around the 6O-degree
mark and the sun shiningowith all its force,
there was quite an aggregation of people on
the grounds and marked increase OF in
terest in the plays. A'o
very pretty and unique entertainment
was arranged Tuesday night by the guests
of the Princess Anne. 1t passed off in a
very successful manner, financially as well
as ssrtisticaily, the beneficiary being an old
eolored character whose home was recently
burned Tableaux In Japanese costumes
were feature of no little attraction, and
the artistic singing Of Mrs. DR.. J. Boar
man, of Baltimore created very favorable
comment and much applause
The washington arrivals who registered
yesterday Tor the Easter season are Mrs
Pettus, Mrs. Evans, Miss Pettus and Miss
Foulke
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Four Permanent Camps.

Senator Proctor's bill to establish fouI
permanent military camp grounds has been
reported favorably from the Senate COM
nittee on military affairs. The bill desig-
mates sites and makes appropriations as
follows: In the vicinity of Fort Sam Hous-
ton. Tex, $4,000; Camp Douglass, Wis,
S40o.000: Conewago Valley, Pa. $500 600
and in San Luis, Obispo county. Cal, $780,
900. The bill appropriates 100000 for the
enlargement of the Chattanooga and Chick
amauaga National Park.
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Effect of Unusually Heavy Ice.

In report to the Department OF Com
nerce and Labor, United States Consul
General Holloway. at Halifax. N s.. says
that It is stated that the unusually heavy
ice blockade around the Newfoundland
coast and in the Gulf of st. Lawrence will
have a disastrous effect on the sealing In.
dustry Of that locality this spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25

The American line steamer New York.
which grounded March 20 Off Cape La
Hague, near Cherbourg, and afterward col
hded In Southampton waters with the Brit
ish troopship Assayo. was so badly dam
aged by grounding that she must be taken
to Belfast for repairs. which. 1t is said
Will take several months. The Germanic
replaces her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
To Improve the Presidio.

The Senate committee on military affairs
has authorized favorable report OH bill
to appropriate $4,000 for the Improvement
of the Preside, San Francisco, Cal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-25
Return of Secretary Wilson.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has re-
turned from the south His he aith is much
IMPROVED.