The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-06
From Korea.

"Ihe newspapers would not be
fearful Japan would run out of
men if they could see the hosts Of
able bodied Japanese men here in
Taiku, Korea nor could / per-
ceive any dearth of them in Japan
as | passed through. Already they
have begun to over run this coun.
try. Within sight Of our windows
q Japanese house has arisen with
in three weeks and trees have been.
set out to startsa:silk.worm indus
try. It is perfectly marvellous the
way their settlement is springing
up"
A month later she tells her faith
er of q brief vacation visit to Flu
san and says of the result cit
has made me even more contented
here. I have rested and feel ready
for another try at this awful Ian.
guage."
April Is she writes 81 have
written my second quarterly exam
ination. The. spelling is some
thing dreadful. The Koreans: do
not know how to spell and often
the words are pronounced far diff
ferent from the spelling. The
weather is most beautiful, the gar
dens a%ourishing with peas, beans,
radishes, lettuce and asparagus
and the fruit trees are all a bloom"
April 80: Thursday we visited a
Buddhist temple among the noun
tains where there is an excellent
spring. The walk of three miles
gave us some fine mountain climb
ing and we were fearfully tired the
next day but it did US all good.
Tomorrow the through trains begin
to run between Fusan and Seoul,
a night train and u day train with
dining a and sleepers attached.
Eight more locomotives recently
arrived by ship aud ten times us
many more are enroute for this ~.
gion and Mauchuria, we are relia-
bly, informed. Our railroad here
is regular guage while only narrow
guage roads are in Japan" OF
the missionary work proper she
says "Today was communion day
and five women and girls Were
baptized; also several men aud
several girls of the class | taught
entered the catechumenate class
preparing for baptism. How much
good it does one to see results! \
y Mr.. Sidebothum of Fusall has
been with us two weeks helping
with the training class for missior-
AIRY helpers. The best of these ko-
reHns kDo" so very little. They
have to he taught arithmetic aud
geography, even the geography Of
their own country. My language
teacher attended the class most of
the time. y * We have very re-.
Gently had the pleasure Of visits
from others of the Fusan mission
airy force, among them one Aus
tralian lady, and one Sabbath we
had with us one of the Southern
M. 3. missionaries, q man of ten
years experience in the work though
his first years were in China.
He pronounces the Koreans a stol-
i'd people but having often a keen
sense of humor."
A fortnight later she tells of the
visit of one the missionaries and
his wife to q distant village to con-
duct there also a class for Bible
instruction "They had a safe
journey though going they stopped
at an inn where the day before tbir-
ty-fve robbers of a band d~evastat-
ing the country had also taken a
meal. The return was made by
another route and all the way by
chair as in the old days. The class
proved a success. Twenty three
women were enrolled for study
forenoons, but afternoons we're Civ
Ell up to the Korean women sight
seers. On Sunday they had a
court yard meeting, with three
hundred women present. MIR. Ad.