Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

'rh.l had tl"impcd probably forty miles that day. down from their hId-
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 ....- camp ~.u. a.- ''. lrym of Tn" ;sndacapc wta,d bss lilled w;th i4.z, fitting ghosts. bounding like deeE. with great sprinsy strides, which one could but envy.
 I However, as soon as the Lula flFci was crossed things were entirely dii- ! fnrent. The situation can perhaps De 5 hest described in the language of the ] corrcspondent from whom the Graph ] ic has just quoted He says:
 l From this nervelcss, forsaken ko. rcan land rode down upon the sandy ] islands of the Yaul. For weeks these l islands had been the dread between the-lincs of two fighting armies The 1 air above had been bent by screaming proiectiles. The echoes of the hnal hattie had scarcely died away. The trains oi Japanese wounded and JaP- anese dead were trailing by
 | On the eonical hill. a quarter Of a mile away. the Russian dead were De ing burioa ill their trenches and III the shell holes made by the Japanese. And here, in the thick ot Il all, a man was blowing. Green things were arowine-young onions-and the man who was wedding them paos- ed from his labor long enough to sell me a handful Nearby as the smoke blackoned ruin of the farmhouse If- ed by the Russians when they retreat ea from the river bed. Two men wore removing the debris, cleaning the confusion. preparatory to rebuild iry. They were clad in blue. Pigtalls bnno down their backs. was in China!
 rodc to the shore. into the village of kuel-ian- Ching. There were no lcupaina men smoking long pipes ana chattering. The day before the Rus s,,n, h,d been there. bloody battle 1 had been fought. and today the Jap arese were there-but what was that in talk about? Everybody was busy. Men were offering eggs and, chlckehs and fruit for sale upon the street. anu braad as I live. bread in small round loayes or buns. rode qe into the country. Everywhere tollins popu- lation was in evidence. The houses and walls were strong and supStah tial Stone and brick replaced the mud walls of the Korean d"elhnss. Twilight fell and deepened. ana sliil the plows went up and down the fields, the sewers following later. lrains ,e vhcelbarraws. heavily loaded, soneaked by. and Pekin carts, dra~h by from four to six cows, horses' mules, ponies or jackasses--co"s s even with their newborn calves to' erine along on puny legs outside the traces. Everybody worked. Every thin. worked saw man mendins the road. was in China.
 1 The foregoing sheds very perfect linht on the Korean; it also gives us a better and more complete concep- ,ion of the Chinese. To quote from our correspondent again: The ko- rean is the perfect type of inedlclency of the utter worthlessness The Chinese is the perfect type of lndu- ,ry For sheer work no worker in the world can compare with him..
 The protest issued therefore by the King of Korea against absorption by Japan after the conclusion o1 the Russian.Japanese war received nc heed from the nations of the world. The truth is, the civilized nations were heartily glad of it. For cen turies Korea harbored the blackes' sunerstitions of the Orient. For eigners were never welcome ana Il hes not been many years ago since a sailor who was cast away on tne Korean coast was put to death be cause he was a foreigner. The Tier mil Kincdom" never welcomed TOT eisners and did not accept the invita-
 r;o, of the other governments o the world to become progressive. ko req shut out strangers and the people of Korea were content to train then opera houre army into the enec'i'' manipulation of the war gong ant hideous dragons which were Warrah,