Show I I AUT l It W IK CO ItA HOW 1 TOE ll l lT II GD O I WELL W LQ BK Ml MH I IF fil I Wf my Y tU JAPANESE i 1 v v I Copyright 1908 1806 by Cl O Cut Car UTO I 1 D C Oct Od 10 0 i WASHINGTON VI Pie second article BrUcIe of ot the tin 0 fill treaty E I IH KO T to Japan It H stipulates stipulate that Huala omit keep HH handy hand off oct and that the tho Mikado will do us ae h he pleases without lot or hindrance The kill king of ot lor Korea II U lY RI ready under the thumb of ot the Japanese and this thle treaty moans means tho the of ot the hel kingdom nears means or oras Ii as wo call It civilization I 01 The fhe modern movement has hns already h The Japanese have boon been build HUB railroads during the war They hey have hav completed the line from Fusan j the port at the tha lower end of the lime penin peninsula sula Dula Just tho the strait from Japan to Seoul poul and have extended this line on an north to the tho Yalu at With Within in n a short time u a bridge will be he put BOro the Yalu and the Urn line extended on to Mukden to connect with I lilt the now Japanese railroad which havlic hay hav w lic hoen n transferred to them by the Hu Ru clans Ians When the line IB me built hullt there will be a continuous roll toad road truck track from St Petersburg leter to 10 iu iuan ran 1411 an and one can ORn go by land from Paris to Fusan and with only H Ii hours voyage on to Japan WU CHEAT AT TRUNK fRU K LINE UNIX The Iha railroad from Ionian to th the Y Ya VA Yalu VAlli lu will 11 b be the great grent trunk lino of Korea It Jt t will tun t the be st cities and will I II open OI fD u up Ill Ia whole of ot the western weIn and Fi parts part of or the Inland I under understand stand Aland that the Japanese have bought large tract tracts of ot land and here and lind there then along It and that they will establish t There are lire already thousands lit of if Japanese In III and Seoul and from no now 0 on the ship chips hll will TIll b be full toll of ot That fht railroad will still altogether l lip be f ai tut WO 1410 00 miles long The Seoul end and 1 In III of or the lIld American nan ire e It 1 fe largely large equipped with American tails rally And tho the bridge work ork IK is American It U tine Jinn American locomotives and other othe American rolling stork stool Tin line lino from Seoul to 10 the won WAil started as ae a II private but the tho government tonic charge lit of It during the tho w Will r and completed It In III Inn n m slovenly woy The re result Is II that the thc rails are too ton light for a trunk line and 1111 the bridges are arc wooden ell The track will 11 hl have hai to t It lie and It will take some come time to put It In c corn working order 4 1 1 FIRST Jt The rue railroad In l Korea was M built by IY Americans American It nine from trout tho the port pmt of ot on the wet went coat coast 26 6 miles t Inland to tu Seoul the tho capital The Uhe con conception 1 for tor till ante wo Hoe 10 secured In III the lot Int lotter nt ter tel part rt of ot the nineties by 1 It H and thu tho road sung 1114 built by Col Colbran Colbran bran and American mated nig and American rolling lolling stock ware wert s r used flied As s cam an aY the was wu com coin completed plated i It WAS auld to the Japanese and It I It now u part of the S Seoul s em t ten understand that at u Il road t will willbo bo ho built hullt from Seoul to on the tho opposite side ut oI the but whether this will be he done by the Seoul Soul Lilian Iruan company I j do O not know Imo I 1 have travels considerably In Korea and know something of It its old means of or tram When I 1 lIt villi visited tell the tho country 16 year lifO ago Ih there re was no flO way nay 1 of at getting from l to Seoul except b by x s IJ or b by arid It would au III have taken two or of three weeks week to have made the thu trip It U CR can no now be he inn made i In lose leu thus than a 11 day I then land landell 01 ell at l anI and soiled nailed round to Che It took 1 a whole whale day to go o f nun to Seoul I a n dill distance lance of ot 20 G miles and It Il IS my nn remembrance I that the tho rout coat co t wits I had hal my wife with me mo and OIHI we were coaled cm i led over the mountain In with eight men mento mento I oTher chair to Inch eMir or In all The trip tip can lIn now be outdo matlo ut lit low lo cost In I u a little littlemore w more muro than an hour and that In roam com comfortable cars carH My Iy next trip to Cl was a Just before the Japanese war ar when Ihen the peninsula wee was torn tort by rebellion I Ithen Ithen Ithon then thon went Hint to Seoul up tip the Han Ilan river inn In InI Ina I a n little Japanese steam te m launch and was curried carried from tram the river to the city olty In a chair Leaving Seoul I 1 made m my way over the mountains of Korea to the Tart port ort of ot Genon on the east const coast alms Illon along railroad 11 about bout tho the name lain route that I a railroad will have to take Inke In crowing the time Aula Th The distance 1 U II ITS mile and It coat ot me mil between one and lo toO hundred ca cash h or In American n money looney afoul about one are imitate hundred et t dollar I had tot to t a Ii PArk pack train relit carry a kid guide juhle guiden le leR n R cook and food tood and bedding heMin It took i bout about bout a week to tc go from one place lale to the other With the u w railroad the trip will with be made In lit lew leeM than a II day duy duyA A 1 NEW MONEY MOMMY I IOne One of the first t hints the tha Japanese 0 r rA A Y 6 A Y i Ili lr Y ne p q 4 h f t Y t h 1 1 1 i hV y t 1 1 1 f f rd y y t Flub y t tY tf I t Y t 1 f X X I i 0 1 y X y y 1 s sir X X f J r rt t I 1 1 t q W o NATIVE KOREAN FREIGHTER Who Sho AMU III l lie Ill t Huner ur Jed ded by hy es U Will do will be lo lit the money and banking of ol Korea Koua Th financial system y of Japan will 1 11 bO ba 1 adopted A government bank bunk will probably ab ably be he at Seoul loul and ml lh the cw t eucy placed on Oil a n gold Iod banta At AI present ent the Korean money Is le of lit all There are Ile silver diver dollars nickel copper come coins and copper cash Many IBm of the were m made lle by the Ko Io Korean rean roon government but others other havo haro been manufactured l by private parties onder tin un dir der from the so eo that one cannot tell 11 where the coins cohu come came tram front Counterfeiting Ing I li common and there thero are altogether a about bout 86 20 tit dlf ferent varieties of ot nIckel In circulation lion tion each to be worth two and ome halt emit and most mOlt of ot them had bad AH As a u resift the people are me afraid of at come and the Ihl time JIM has been heln when It would take one hundred nick nickel el elti els to equal the tha value of at mi an American dollar The rime silver elver coin coins are lire the lap Jap anase yen th the or 01 halt half you yen ell mind the ten and 1111 20 Olien sen en pl pieces piece etl Copper cash In Is null still in use ue In out of the way 11 places It H takes one or two thousand of ot these thele to equal n a dollar of ot our money mOM the values value rising rilin end and tall fall falling I In ing During my rUI stay In III the country i all accounts for lima mall II things had hall to b be pO paid III In the these e cash When I went out shopping I took a servant with me to curry my tug mone money and on my mf trips through the Intel interior lor we WO had a porter who was Wall loaded down stuff Indeed fro W 50 worth of ot each cash 1 U II a burden fur for u a mule mul Each rash cash has haM a U ahole ahole hole In It In order that It mo may be strung with Its 1111 fellows upon strings for ease in counting and carrying MONEY AND um There Is le now considerable J Japanese paper money In circulation In Korea leoren The notes notee of or the chief Japanese banks are worth par lIar and about paper piper ye yen n are uro len over the country They me are generally en prall used by the foreign or era 1111 and are the chief currency for large IUle Iran Ions Hanking In ht Korea I Is le practically eon con confined on hued fined to the Japanese The Ginko or 01 Pint First Hank Dank of Japan 11 has lias an eta In Seoul and ami branches at lit all the treaty porto and so n 0 hll hoe hns the tho Nippon or the Bank of Japan The Jhc Ih First hank Bank hits has hll had haj Its Ite branches on the pen peninsula peninsula for more than 10 yea years I remember her bar there ther was wim 1111 one at nt when I reached there after m my trip serous across the h mountains tram from Seoul In 1994 1384 1 t was WOl out of money and asked them to cash casha a 1 draft on my letter of or credit relt They The re refused re refused fused The result was that 1 had to wait wRit until I r reached Vladivostok lok 31 II l herta berta the Japanese Steamship Com Company pany kindly trusting me for tor my pus pms sage tram from to tn that port NI AND A D S Tim The postal and telegraph system of ot Kora Kor a will probably be un under er th the man management mant ag of or the Japanese el Indeed I believe It 1 Is practically so 10 now DillIng Dur Dill During ing mg the war al the lilt telegraph system has hat hasl l been eu rapidly pushed and there 81 ate are now lUll mm mate mOle than 2000 miles of line There 0 are ae cables Fusan to Japan Joplin andall and all tit the open ports and nn mutes mo sue In with Ith Seoul The different Korean lints connect with the tilts cot a systems fo so that one run can send lend es to JoI Ko Ku Koloa I loa front from an any part of ot th the world Humid TI Tele Telegrams grams grouts are received rEl In III Chinese or m Korean They are sent by h the Morse code There Ihre lire are re now telephones from tram t to anti a Il telephone system will wll Probably be he extended to till nil th the lutgo cities Jl I SE A Thu ho Japanese expect to Improve the shipping facilities The he shores of ot the are RIe dangerous there holn being many litany sunken ock lork rocks It I h la planned to build a ft tying of ot about the thu COk coast t and thin this work will probably b bi be begun at lit once Duce As All It I m la no now th the Jap Japanese I Chose anese do most of ot the carrying trade The has han frequent ere between Korea Korell and Japan and th the Nippon has hili u Ii regular Iel s ei vice 11 between China Chinn hum and Japan and amid Korea There holu Is U an no American In Korea I who owns a It tIne line little vessel veel which rails calls tram from rom Kobe Kohe and In III Japan to the tho various arlous ports of Korea His ship tile flies Hies the American II Hag flag It I ii called 1 the Ohio and Is III noted for far lI Its ezcell excellent ant 1 ns The Ihl Ameri Amerl American can Hold nold Mining company has hua also i ome smite small annul ships at nl which nails Halls under uner the American flag The rhe hunt Hum line runs rune German steamers between and Shans Shang hal No Now that the war star I Is over ocr Japanese Junks Junk ma may be put on the Yalu river this thle stream l is III about miles lon long and It can be navigated h by native craft n nI as asfar astar tRI tar us as although now stop ut nt I JAl JAPAN WILL TIm Japan JAtun has baa t already the sulk bulk of at the Korean t trade Ill d and under tinder the new re to glow site she will immure have more lore Ihl than ever Koreas foreign commence to about a n year ell It rt Is III stead mead steadIly Int II lly Ily Inor Ines Increasing rt ing nod will sill probably doublet and mind triple within a n decade or so 10 Much of or tho the goods that wo sro i sent send to tn Korea Jolea goes through Japanese hands and classed e J at as II Japanese We WI send to great teal deal of cotton gouda 1 and nl we sup supply supply lip III ply Ino host t of ot the roam coal oil The rhe Standard Oil company has hns storage at It and I and It chips ships two or throe three million gallons of ot oil all to theta them every year cur ur Out Our chief competitors competitor In ht this thin line are the Ihl Hu hlIS but hut their theIL oil congeals In n the time winter and although the they undersell u us we do 10 the most hus bui Iness Our cottons are popular In Ko Ku Korn Kuran rn ran They hey hl nl are aie stronger lr r and und heavier then the goods nindo by hY I the time II or 01 nod although snore more ro costly an ere In general demand nun man woman a und and child of ot Korea wear weata cotton cot ton tOil The fhe men hn have long Ions gowns and the amount of ot clothes clothe per lieI capita Is s greater rUIf perhaps than that lint of lit any other country y A AMERICANS S I IN KOUBA We ought to have 1 n a monopoly of ot most utmost things 11 In III the tho hermit kingdom Ameri merl Americans Americans cans have tuna dune more mora for It than tint Limit people of ut any Ott other I nation It IC tyas ng our out naval al vessels o lIol w hit hll h lint unlocked Its lis doors to tho the world and l our OUI l I lee tf gave It the tho th first taste tanu of western I and of ot tho the Christian roll religion I ion lon Our traders wore among the time Importers and our OUI ca capitalists lisIs built the t no now own moat noat of the K got M unlace mines and ill are developing thou them The fhe electric Iii 1111 of ot Seoul b lonii t to Americana nIl alit Itt its electric light company In is an American Institution It U Is the tha same am with th Ih the Seoul waterworks and also with Ih the national bank the charter of which was WUI given to 10 nn an American There are now note tl Americans In Korea Of 11 tin the lOrt live In III Seoul 66 are artl working In tho limo got gold f 1 nt at tusan 34 live In Plug 1111 yan and 10 IA are aro associated with lime tho railroads Five Fhe Am Americans Americana aro are In the cornea of the tile Korean government and th tit confidential foreign n advisor Cr of ot the kine on all the part of the Japanese la is also alpo an Anglican n The man who sIto ho hue has done cionI morn more than any other for tor we western tern civilization In lit Korea store more to 10 render the life of ut foreigners foreigner sate nta Ih there re and aud more to advance the Int interests ret of the tho United Culled States I Is Dr Home N Men Allen our former minister to 10 S Seoul Stoul who whit ha har haI has hasI I r regret to st say recently given pUen up his hili work thero therl and returned to time the t crates WE OWN THE TIIE GOLD MINKS g The best belt of the gold mutes minI of ot l Korea lr uro muro owned I by Americans The Tha conc conceit concen slop lon for then them vas waa as gotten gottell by Mr lI 11 It Morse same Home yenta mus ago ugo and trans ferret by him him to Mr It Leigh Slum for rOI manly of or who 1 ho a R com company pony pany for tor their development file com coin company pany Ian I is flow Tiow known nn as time tho Oriental Consolidated Mining company std and It has bos been ben one of ot the i l gold grout properties of time the world Its concession embraces n just JuH shout about half malt an its large ad lit th the state Itule of fit Island Inland In hi hithe Inthe the 1118 mountain of ot northwestern enter n Korea Koren 1 KorenGold oran Gold Is IH H scattered throughout thin this din dill 1111 and nud there them IH lit now 1101 e more bore than JC tC worth of 01 ore ole e In lit sight The rite torn coot I IH is taking about annually out nut of ot IU ltd It mutes producing thin tide train from something like hike tons of ot ore Olf It lots haw the time hu busiest III In Korea I that which ich In Is rm moat t up In III all nil Its win Kings It U uses title eN the tW best beet of modern lern f and IH III s now Ing InK lIe lle with stumps It H employs em ear ploys altogether about 70 iO white men mell and several thousand The KOI can miners a Ill tut i wild sold III t to la be entirely smith ely toi y They Tiry work worl fur nr 20 or 30 c tents cents lIt u a da day and are easily managed In tills vicinity lima h and tier Ger mums have vo mining concessions |