The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-05

{ doubt that many even yet mentally
 cross themselves, if may be permitted
 to so express it, when they venture within the radius of his awful power l The only other kind of conveyance to
 be seen upon the street is the Korean | palanquin, different from any other
 kind of palanquin in the Orient. Like other palanquins, it is carried upon the I shoulders of men, and, like other pal | anqins, it is small; but in this respect | it -palanquins all other palaquins, ] and for the life of me I cannot under stand how a fullgrown human being 1 can comofrtably bestow himself within it's curtained depths I tried one only ] once. I crawled in and sat down on my feet. Oriental fashion, but even then my knees rubbed uncomfortably
 against the front of it. I took my hat off, but still had to bend my neck to
 keep from pumping the top of my head, | and that put my shoulders tight up against the back of 1t. And since the motion of trotting coolies is much like the motion of stiff old dropping horse, tne result to my anatomy can better be imagined than described But the pal anquin is a very aristocratic convey
 ance, and one can endure much for the
 sake of appearance. All of the high officials ride in palanquins, with clT- tains drawn just close enough to half reveal their august excellencies erect
 in stately consciousness of their own
 dignity. They always go attended by a
 retinue of servants, who run through
 the streets as if they were hurrying
 their lordly master to some important business of state, and they give the only
 touch of aliveness to the entire picture.
 Somebody has said that they do this
 for effect, knowing how well a popu-
 lace loves to think of the hard work
 and troubles it goves governors.
 Then one musn't forget the ponies
 and bullocks. l think it was MT. Gale,
 who writes so entertainingly about Ko-
 req, who said that for every Korean
 coolie there was born coolie pony
 But every coolie doesn't own one. He
 should, though just to complete him.
 self, for never did two beings so be-
 long one to the other. The pony
 shaggy, unkempt, sleep, indifferent,
 mild-eyed foolish looking, or vicious,
 snappy, ballSy, lazy and red-eyed, as
 the case may be, and whatever he is,
 he always ambles along with an air
 of pained surprise, and is happy only
 with one of his own kind on two legs
 He is little larger than Shetland pony and is made to carry most absurdly
 heavy loads, which very often hide all
 him except his haggy little head and
 his switching little bushy tail. The Korean pony with his overload is one of the commonest sights on Korean streets, and only second to him is the numbering dull-eyed bullock being led along at the end of a rope attached at ring in his nose. The bullock, like the pony, is a pack animal, and is usually overloaded, so ones sympathy for ani- mals is rather put to a strain during a visit to the little peninsular, unless one has become used, to cruelty in the island empire across the straits.
 But all the city streets do not belong alone to the classes who frequent them only vi n necessity demands or for simple iGle lettering. There are the masses whose lives are lived in the streets, and it is they whose supply much of the attractive Orientalism to the foreigner looking for local color. In Korea only low-class women are to be seen on the streets, and they inhabit them quite as freely as the men, al- though many of them make a pretense of being what they are not by doing 1t under cover of their hideous white and green cloaks drawn about their ugly little faces. I have often wondered if a Korean coolie or farmer ever goes inside real shop, or If they are for bidden by unwrltten law to do so. They seem to sell everything to each other at little booths along the sides of un, frequented by-ways. Or they spread out their wares upon the naked earth and sit all day among them without nov ing or seeming to know that a world Is moving about them, I suppose they must sell thing, but I don't know for sure The Korean of the lower class wears a rice-straw sandal very much | like the kind so common in Japan, and one comes upon street sale | of these in an open space, where they are spread out all over the ground in | such a way that pedstrains have to | thread their way carefully to keep from