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Show Unhappy Fate of Dreaming Korea. "The Land of Morning Calm," the name applied by the Chinese to Korea, has lost its significance in these strenuous times. Time was when this "Hermit "Her-mit Kingdom" was entirely locked up within itself "the world forgetting, by the world forgot." But events in the Far East have moved with a bewildering bewilder-ing rapidity during the last decade, and Korea is now neither a land of calm nor an anchorite among the nations. The unhappy country has become the plaything of its powerful neighbors, and is likely in the future to be what Flanders was to Europe an international internation-al fighting ground, the cockpit of Asia. The ancestor worshipers of this land of ease and laziness dreamed their idle hours away and cultivated culti-vated their long, polished finger-nails until their land was overrun by ambitious foreigners. Americans Ameri-cans put in electric railways in sleepy Seoul, opened mines and developed other Industries. The indomitable indomi-table Japanese run the railways, posts, telegraphs, mints and banks, leaving the Korean Government to the duties it thinks most important the expenditure expen-diture of large sums on the royal shrines and other manifestations of the great duty of ancestor-worship. Now by force of circumstances Korea has become be-come the fighting ground of a mighty conflict between be-tween Japs and Muscovites and its unhappy fate unhappy for its ease-loving population can be easily surmised. |