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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-26
BIG STEAMER SAID
TO HAVE Been LOST
Crew of Freighter Massachus
etts Picked Up.
AFTER VESSEL WENT TO BOTTOM
Ship Was Wrecked In West indies
and Crew Suffered Many Harshlps
Before Being Rescued. >.

New Orleans, Oct. 25-A rumor was
in circulation here today that the crew
of the big freighter Massachusetts, of
the West India line had been picked
up at sea after their vessel had been
wrecked. Agents of the line say they
have heard nothing of the reported
disaster.
The Massachusetts, sailed from Car.
diff on Oct. l. Her agents say sh
has probably been making slow trip
owing to heavy weather on the Allan.
tic, and that she will probably be re
ported today or tomorrow. The steam
er Huntsman arriving from Liverpool
yesterday reported that she had en-
countered heavy gales and tempestu-
Gus seas in making the crossing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-26
VIII Soon Sail for Orient.

San Francisco, Dot. 25.-Prince AziE
Hassan, nephew Of the sultan OF Tur-
key and q cousin by marriage Of the
khedive OF Egypt, has arrived here.
He has been making tour of the coun-
try and Is about to sail from here to
the orient
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26
KOREA, THE MISSIONARIES BEST FIELD
More Converts Gained in the Land of the Morning
Calm in Twenty Years Than in Twice the
Time in China
BY ARCHER BUTLER HUBERT,
Formerly Editor of The Korean Independent.

For customs and views of life that
are odd, no land eXcels Korea. If you
hand Korean a photograph bottom
side up, he will not turn it over. He
will say that he can see it all just
,as we'll wrong side UP as right side up.
If you go to Korean shop and try to
make a purchase, you must not expect
to save money by buying quantity, A
certain object may be worth fifty cents,
but a dozen of them would probably
cost you seven or eight dollars Korean
thieves are as peculiar as the mer-
chants. They will not dare to go be-
yond a. fence they can't see through,
even If it is only made of paper or
mating. But you can build a wall
horse high, bull strong and hog
tight" and u Korean thief will so over
1t in a second if he can see through it.
1t is interesting that among people
who look at things in such peculiar
ways the missionary has been heart
lily welcomed-so much SO, in fact,
that Korea is commonly looked upon
as the missionary's best field.
The Principal Missions.
The principal missionary societies in
Korea are those of the Presbyterian
Methodist Episcopal and Roman Cath
Ollie churches, and the greater part Of
their work has been done since 1854.
In twenty years they have accomplish
ed more comparatively, than have the
missionaries of all China in double the
time.
The Roman Catholics count 10000
converts. Their great cathedral in Sc
oul is the most conspicuous building in
Korea. The Protestant societies muster
about $4,000 converts, mostly made by
the Presbyterian and Methodist mis-
sionaries. There are nearly 200 Presby
terrain churches in Korea, with about
$4,000 communicates, and from the
presses of the Trilingual Press in Sc
oul operated by the Methodists since
1889, five million pages of tracts and
statements have been issued.
The Methodist Society also owns Pal
Chat College at Seoul established in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

1886 The attendance is about 200
boys. A manual training school was
established by the society in Seoul in
1899, largely by means of the liberal
ity Of Gen. Yum, Korean Minister of
Education; and it has a female school
also in Seoul now occupying new
building and having an attendance of
about fifty girls. The society supports
five hospitals in Korea, i'm which 10000
cases are treated annually.
The Presbyterian Mission has had
large success in evangelizing work,
and also in hospitals and schools. Six
hospitals have treated over 10000 cases
annually A boys training school in
Seoul. with branches in the country,
has an attendance of about seventy
five. school for girls, established in
1899. has a yearly attendance of about
fifty
The British sOciety's Work.
The British Society for the Propa-
cation of the Gospel has in opera
ton four hospitals, which treat 90
900 cases each year. In 1897 and 1898
this society founded schools for boys
and for girls. The society has pub
llshed a weekly paper since 1891.
which has a circulation of 5000 copies.
Schools for the blind and orphaned
have been founded by various denomi-
nations. In fact, since 1884 the mission
schools have been the little red school
houses" of Korea.
The first convert to Christianity in
Korea was a Korean who returned to
his native land from Pekin in 1777.
Many of this mans converts were put
to death for renouncing the worship
of ancestral tablets Some were be-
headed, some exled. But the con-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

At this moment the first American
missionary to Korea arrived in Seoul
DIR. Horace N. Allen, now American
minister to Korea. He came in 1884
and was nominally physician to the
American legation. In the emeute of
1884, he achieved renown for saving
the life of a Korean prince and was
soon made Kings physician. hos
pital was founded under his direction,
and in 1885 Rev. DR.. II. G.. Underwood
went to Korea He was shortly fol-
lowed by Drs. Heron, Scranton and APP
penzeller, all Americans. These men
represented the Presbyterian and
Methodist Episcopal denominations.
Ping-Ynng. City of Missions.
The city of Ping Yang. the scene
of the great battle in the Japan China
War, and which is a strategic point
of great importance In the present
conflict, has been the banner city of
Korean missions. II presents a rec
ord scarcely to be equalled in the
whole history of missionary enterprise.
In 1898 three American mission
aries went to Ping Yang, which was
then without "a convert in a popula-
ton of 10000 people. In less than
nine years it was not uncommon to
fave an attendance at the weekly
prayer meetings. even on a stormy
night, of LOCO.
around Ping Yang is illustrated by
the incident of the man who heard
a missionary preach and went home
saying he wanted his wife to hear the
news. She was a cripple and could
not walk, and they lived thirteen
miles away Her husband brought
her that distance on his back that
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

the agricultural, my pap being a
farmer. Guess 1 'moseyed around there
all day, got dead petered out, and
then didn't see all. Got twenty acres
in it's insides. Stranger, this here fair
is too big, and I've just wasted two
whole days trying to see it. reckon
I'll hit the trail back for Idaho to-
night
The Right Way to Go at 1t.
Go about it the right way, though.
and the visitor will not be overpowered
by the higness of the show, which is
in evidence on all hands. Behold the
trolley line, seven miles in length,
that it was necessary to build around
the grounds in order to make the va
rious buildings and exhibits at all dc-
cessible without walking all the day.
Gaze on the Idaho silver nugget,
weight eight tons; and consider the
much heralded Pike, whose press cen
sor confidently proclaims is three
times as large as the celebrated Mid
way of Chicago, and quotes a string
of imposing figures comparing the
length. breadth, number and cost of
productions, how much the Chicago
attractions made and how many more
millions the Pike promoters hope to
reap in profits. Become an exposition
specialist, and you will see the best OF
the fair, which you can not do IN TOTO
even though you spent month or
six weeks on the ground.
The First Thing to Do.
This is the first thing you want to do
on entering the gates of the falr-g1Ve
heed to the earnest invitation extended
TO YOU by it's representative to Chamber
to a seat in the omnibus automobile
after you have paid the requisite sum
of rs cents. This automobile taxes you
around and through the central portion
OF the grounds. The guide points out
and shouts the names of the various
main buildings, the principal statuary
and other features. such as the Sunken
Gardens. the plaZas and the lagoons.
This ride takes up half an hour, anu
when Won have been whisked pack 10
the starting place you have gained
working idea of the component parts
of what has been APPLY styled Inc
Picture" of the exposition.
Now for a general idea OF the ehtire
fair-and this can be obtained only by
a ride on the Intramural, the double
track electric railway that encircles the
grounds. There are some seventeen
stations on the lines, and as the car
approaches a station the conductor
sings out In this fashion: station No.
15-Goyernment Building, missouri
B,lilding. Liberal Arts and Mining and
Metallurgy:" or station No. Phil
ippine Exhibit" Give heed to what
the man in blue says, and, with lit
tie assistance from the map in your
guide book, you will have no difficulty
in picking out, as a rule, the buildings
and exhibits accredited to the stations.
Walking thither, however, may be
different matter. Essay it, and yon
may find that the station is some half
mile removed from your destination;
vet this is the shortest and quickest
way for you to reach there. And While
you are walking when you expected to
be landed right at the door remember
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

verts increased, despite the rigor of
persecution. Christians were beaten
till the flesh hung in strips from their
bodies One old man was tied thrown
upon the frozen ground, and water
poured over him which froze as it fell.
He died under a round cake of ice, re-
fuclng to recant. In ten years there
were 1000 Christians in the land.
The First Missionary.
The first foreigner to go as a mis-
sionary to Korea was a Portuguese,
Jean dos Remedies. He came over
land from Pekin, and. being refused
admission, remained there ten days
and returned disheartened to Pekin.
A Chinaman was the first missionary
to get into Korea. He was beheaded
at Seoul within six years. This was
in 1884
In 1885 the first French missionaries
came They were men as brave as
La Sale or Marquette. They ran the
guards at Wi-ju, and entered the city
through the great drains. They were,
in turn, put to death Sept. 81, 1889.
On the day of their execution they
were led to the execution ground,
pinioned and stripped of their upper
garments A stick was passed be-
tween their elbows and back, an arrow
was run through the feshy part of
each ear their faces were wet with
water and powdered with chalk. A
dozen soldiers then began a sham bat
tie over them, delivering their blows
upon the bodies of their kneeling vic
Tins instead of upon one another, while
the crowd shouted with delight as the
game went on. Wearying at length
with this sport, the executioners struck
the victims heads from their bodies
Thus persisted the first European mis-
sionarieS TO the Hermit Nation.
The First Protestant.
The first Protestant missionary to
Korea was a Chinese soldier who had
been converted in China by DR.. Douth
wait, we'll known at Vanderbilt Uni
versity. The soldier went with his
regiment to Korea in 1888 He was
arrested by the Korean authorities,
but after Imprisonment was returned
to China
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

duce it to go home: But, mother, 1
can see my new brother every day,
and 1 can't these beautiful buildings -
Stop on Festival Hill.
Remain on Festival Hill enjoying
what is everywhere hailed as the lead
ing feature of the far-the architec-
ture-until twilight. Then descend,
make for the Plaza of ST. Louis, and
once there, take an electric launch or
a gondola for a view of the build
ings from the lagoon, which gracefully
winds its way for a mile and a half
past the eight buildings forming the
picture giving you an excellent view
of them as we'll as of the superb work
topping Festival Hall Hill.
Perhaps, while your gondolier is
sending your boat noiselessly through
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26
Another .PocIset-M Money Field.

A boy in the suburbs has discovered
a new field for earning pocket money
this season. He found, when now
ing the lawn around the house. that
the lawn mower got out of adjustment
very quickly. He also found that by
training his eye, it was possible to re-
adjust It in a few minutes. while it
was practically impossible for a per-
son without a trained eye to do it at
ALL
At once he made it his business to
call on all the neighbors and offer to
adjust their mowers whenever they
needed it.
The result is that he has been earn
ing from 81 to 81 a week ever since
the lawn moving" season began.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

attractions along its length of one and
half miles, some taking twenty min
utes to see, others close on to an hour,
it were better not to try to sandwich
in the lighter side of the exposition
during odd moments. To see the
leading shows alone requires day.
You can easily ascertain what are the
leaders by watching where the crowds
go in and come out.
Take the word of one who found out
through experience and much suffer-
ing, and specialize. Say to yourself
after this fashion
This is the biggest exposition ever.
1t spreads clear to the end of newhere,
and I've just two weeks in which to
see 1t. The first day I've spent in
getting the lay of the land, and there
will be two Sundays during my stay.
when the exposition is closed. Add one
day consumed in reaching and return
ing from the fair, and l have eight
days of sightseeing left
Now, / surely want to see the Pike
--one day. Then there are the Filipi-
nos, that everybody is talking about,
and their exhibits covering forty acres
another day. The third day for the
chronological exhibit, probably my only
chance to see living types of nearly all
the strange peoples I've read about
to find out what Uncle Sam is up and
doing; the fifth, to get acquainted
with my state building and in gen.
eral way to make sure that the other
sisters of the statehood have not done
any better by the exposition; and the
sixth. for the buildings of the foreign
countries in which l am particularly
interested, say Japan, France and
Germany, since 1 can't hope to do all
twenty-five.
The Final Round.
Two days left, with the outside
exhibits, the minor affairs, such as the
Model City, the United States Life
Saving exhibit and the Poultry Farm,
and the exhibits in the thirteen main
buildings still TO be seen.
We'll, I can't afford to miss the
Fine Arts exhibit" (Or 1t may be
that of Mines and Metallurgy or Ma
clinery.) "One day left, and it is
hopeless to cover in that time even a
fraction of what has not been glanced
at even cursorily. So l will spend the
last day as l did the first. l will reYel
in the two great distinguishing fea-
lures of the fair, and carry away with
me the memories of the magical archi-
tectural dream by day and the Won
drously glowing electrical vision by
night
Do the exposition in some such
manner as this and you will return
from it in a happy frame of mind. Try
to do it any other way, and you
will be as detected and oisgruntled
long before the time set for your de-
psrture as was the man from Idaho.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

most to see. These, generally speak,
ing, are the exhibits in the main build
ing, the amusements and attractions
of the Pike. the plateau of states, the
government buildings and exhibits, the
foreign exhibits, the Philippine exhibit,
the greatest living chronological exhibit
ever gathered from the four quarters
of the globe, and the outside exhibits,
embracing tree planting. forestry, the
game of various states, primitive cop
per mining, gold mining, etc.
You may think, after scanning this
list, that you can do it all in the course
of your ten days or two weeks stay.
You can't. Please to remember that
the exhibits in the Agricultural build
ing alone cover twenty acres, that the
aisles are some four miles in length,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

mat this is one of the results of st.
Louis ambition to fill up twice the
space occupied by the Chicago Fair.
After the Trolley Ride.
When you have concluded the troll
ley ride it is incumbent Upon YOU to
make for the hill on which stands
FESTIVAL Hall and tine Terrace and
Colonnade of States, and there spend
the AFTERNOON of the first day taking
an the architectural splendors on the
MIL itself and of the great buildings
and their magical setting, that radiate
thence along three great avenues al
most UP to the main entrance of the
Ialr half a mile away Gaze on the
stretch of rounded roof and long Cor
ihthlan colonnades, on domes and
towers, imposing monuments and
statuary and columns and behold the
green of the trees and grass and the
Soollhs effect of the water, in complete
harmony with the cream white ia
cades, and you will feel like the child
whose mother was endeavoring to in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

she might hear the news"
Then there is the representative
case of an old Korean woman who
bought a Bible. tits good news"
she said. II am an old ignorant wom-
ants useless for me to try to
learn. But it's good news, and will
tell my sons. It's long time since
we've heard good news"
That wpmans words go long
way toward explaining the mission
ary's success in Korea. The land for
centuries has been the storm center
of Asia, and for centuries bad news
has been its only news.
Bravery of Missionaries.
The bravery of the American mis-
sonaries is proverbial among the
Koreans, and even the Emperor has
sought them to guard his person in
times of disturbance. On Thanks
giving night, 1896, he sat quivering
between the American missionaries
as the cries of a mob. seeking TO at
tack the palace and secure certain
cabinet officers, rang in the streets Oh
Seoul.
At unknown times and in unknown
places they have shown the qulet
bravery for which American soldiers
are famed. During the scourges OF
cholera, when hundreds were dying
on every hand they have proven that
they are made of the same mettle as
Minister Allen when, in 1884, he rtsked
his head to save the princes life.
mo soldier in the front line of bat
tie" a correspondent of a New York
paper wrote home during cholera
epidemic. lever performed duty more
conscientiously or more courageous
~"
The giant missionary, Mckenzie.
was a man whom Koreans loved
greatly They called him Kim Mok-
sa. When the Tong-haks-Korean
brigands and plunderers whom the
whole nation fear-came to murder
and pillage, everybody but Kim Moksa
ran. When they saw him stand trim,
the people brought their goods TO
him to keep. He put a red flag over
his house and refused to move an inch
even when the Chinese and Japanese
armies clashed almost above his roof.
When the Tong-haks came he went out
bare-handed and chased them away as
though they were insects.
Christian Converts in Korea.
Some of the bravest men in Korea
are the Christian converts, and in
many instances they have protected
American interests. On one occa-
sion certain Korean Christian was
maltrtated because of his faith. and
compelled to flee from his home town,
PAX Chun. Priding themselves on
making an example of a convert, the
town authorities issued a mandate
calling for the extinction of all Chris
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26
THE ONLY WAY TO
DO THE FAIR
Inc vast Snow at St Louis Cannot Be Done as Easv as
Those at Chicago and Buffalo.
BY GUY t. vIsKNIsKKI

Don't delude yourself into thinking
that you can do the fair as you did the
one at Chicago. If you try it, you will
surely find, as did the man from Ida
no, that you have bitten off more than
you can chew and spent your two va
cation weeks for naught.
He was an utterly cast-down West
erner as he sat on bench under the
shade of the trees lining the Plaza of
st. Louis. Finally be p1ucked up life
lection.
Stranger, you may be thinking I'm
pretty glum for a sightseer," he said
and a man who is on his vacation
but | Just guess I've not a right f.
be. Here came to this blowout en-
peeting to take It in like the one 1 did
at Chicago" Gle called it Sheka'-
gee0 Say started going up and
down the buildings to see the things
and the first building I got into was
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

and wait for the burst of light, whose
like has never before been seen--out-
stripping the Buffalo illumination at
least two to one. Here, too, is the
proper place to view the wonderful
Cascades in operation, which by night
is infinitely more impressive than by
day.
You have now seen the second great
feature of the fair-the electrical
and with it let the day end.
The first day for generalization; the
rest of your stay for specialization, else
you can never hope to get the worth
of your money spent on the trip.
The first thing to do is to separate
the fair into its various component
parts and decide on what you care
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

the water, and everything about you
imposing arches, gigantic obelisks, SUI
perb pediments and beautiful porticos
lis lbathed in the soft glow of dusk,
all suddenly 10000 electric lights will
flash out all over the scene. from the
tip of the dome of Festival Hall to the
'outermost edges of the great picture.
In that event, you will be extremely
fortunate; you can easily imagine that
YOU are some ethereal being floating
in space, iridescently lighted up by
tens of thousands of twinking little
stars.
But if your boat trip has come to an
end with the electrical display yet tc
come, seat yourself on the Plaza OF
st. Louis. facing toward Festival Hall
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26
THE MISSING MESSENGER.

Where does the salmon go when ne
Departs into the boundless sea?
That Is an ancient mystery.
And whittier do the pins all go?
There Is no person who doth know;
II Is an ancient mystery.
But. ali! far deeper than all these
Is this To what fair land OF ease,
lnserutable and far away,
DO all the messenger boys stray?
This riddle who can solve for me?
i IL an ancient mystery
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

How an Expert Teaches Them to
Swim.
THE worst thing to do with timid
boys" said an expert swimmer last
week, lis to throw or even force them
into the water. The way to do with
them is to let them wade in as far as
they dare, which generally is not very
far, and then to engage in some game
just beyond them. 1t must not be
a rough game, but something that will
interest them so much that they will
unconsciously work farther and farther
out while participating in it.. Once
they have gotten into water deep
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-26

and that it takes a good walker, see
ing only the road ahead of him, an
hour to put four miles behind him. The
Agricultural building cannot be done
properly in less than a day, and it is
only one of the thirteen main exhibit
buildings.
How to See "the Pike"
There there is the Pike Do you
want to do the Pike-noisy alluring.
reckoning? Since there are forty-eight