The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-01

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finger nails long, and his silk coat free OF
a. another. He could look with equanimity
upon the laborious occupations OF his father,
whose business It was to watch the En-
peror and TO write down all his Majesty's
acts, however trivial
Further along there Is an account OF the
d~octoring that was applied on one occasion
TO sung-yo's father. who had fallen Ill after
the manner OF the slaves Of hard work. A
sorceress wa summoned. She came In
state, beating a large drum and accompanied
by assistants with cymbals and torches.
She was the best soroeress In North Corea,
and crowds assembled to witness her min
istrations. The distinguished patient, who
had been lying on q silk covered mattress
within doors, was by command OF the
soroeress rolled In a mat and brought out
into the yard. He was pretty sick and
seemed to be without interest In what they
were doing with him. When he had been
deposited on the ground the skilled fighters
against disease formed themselves in a
circle about him. The sorceress beat her
great drum. The cymbals FLASHED. There
were lamentations and dancing. When the
night was well advanced one Of the by
standers was summoned to hold the demon
stick. Plainly he was nearly dead with
fear as be laid tremulous hold OF this fearful
implement. The sorceress explained that
the demon stick would presently become
agitated In his hand. This would be a sign
hat the demon had come out of the sick
man and was In the stick. From the stick
the demon would leap into a tree. Then
all that would be necessary would be to
persuade the demon 10 come out OF the
tree and 20 into a bottle. When he was
In the bottle would be oorked. and there
was your demon imprisoned and powerless.
Il all proceeded TO happen precisely as the
sorceress said 1t would. h stick shook,
the demon was freed and bottled and stop
pered and at the end of q month, during
which he was sicker than ever, Sung-yo's
father began triumphantly to get well.
The story goes IN to tell how Sung-yo
went away on q journey and Of adventures
that followed. In much Of his experience
he had for companion and faithful friend
TonR-siki, q Corean patriot and philosopher
of humorous turn. As he %journeyed he
was caught in a food In the great Tong
River and carried out to sea He describes
a foreigner that he met on his travels
perhaps one OF those missionaries OF i'm
posing sine and strength that go out into
the remoteness Of earth from our own
restless country. . Aman dressed in black
he says, gigantic In stature, was sur
rounded by the excited, jabbering crowd.
A tiger shown on the street could not have
excited such curiosity. I stood stiA and
waited for them TO como up, and like the
rest OF the crowd I was soon absorbed in
gazing at tho strange apparition. He came
on with now and then a glance at the mob
at his heels. From his shoulders up he
lowered above every n else. He had
light brown hair and blue eyes that we're
set deep beneath overhanging brows, and
his akin was whittier than that Of a woman.
A black beard covered his face and hung
down on his chest in a great mass. His
forehead was high and nose prominent.
He glanced at me with no unkndly light
in his eyes and rs he turned to look out
over the city wall l was emboldened like
many others to feel Of his clothes to find
out their 30 xture, and to feel Of his Shoes
perhaps the Governor Of an American
State had made his shoes. -As large as he
was his feet seemed monstrous. Fortu-
natelv he understood little OF our language,
for the remark made by the crowd were
not at all fattering.' Which is how diff
serent from our reception Of giants from
the Orient! Chang and Jumbo when they
| came were welcomed with enthusiastic
acclamations.
Sung-yo, when he vas shipwrecked in
the great Tong River food, came upon
the Hermita &c Of Eternal Youth "a queer