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Show TIIE DESEBET NEWS. ivtvmniyimnn If W-t- s (Y v t A" nil fflp! 4'1lf i "Mf- : - J tmtu 4, Smper'ztf 7&e J&i3r& 4srfyet?&' Story of theUMreatment of the Hermit Kingdom By the Japanese Queer Customs of the Natives of . That Peninsula. Copyright, ouraa. If the patient reoevesa It'd because his constitution Is , sWM enough to withstand th remedy, hut generally he die. Smallpox Is . fre-- , of the land. quent Juetie is not always tempered wtlh mercy In the punishment ef criminal and many punishment at1 still bar' borons, On la th Kange heevy board with a hols ent la th top through which tho head is Inserted Th criminal wear these for days at a time, bring compelled t wain and sleep In them. Decapitation - la common, not only of th erimtnaf himself, hut of some of his family as Sometimes th erimlna -- 1910, TbelaterutUeaalSy ndlcst OREA la likely to ba a atorm cantor calling for action an tba part of tba groat powera of tha kworld. It la a ponlnsula extend ing out a llttla Ooutbeaat from from which It la divided by n tha Telu River. The extreme corner la bounded by Siberia, hence Ruaaia'a daalra to gat Korea to extend her bordara farther west. Tha aaatarn ebore la waihed by tha beautiful aea of Japan. Thera are a few bay along tha coaat except Glneaa, where there la a landlocked harbor where a large fleet might anchor. On the weatern ahore la tha muddy yellow tea. There are ao many Island nearby that Korea la often called tha King of Ten Thouaand lalanda Tha aouthern part of tha laland U separated from Japan by the Strait of Korea not a hundred mile wide. Dominated By Japanese At present the country Is eompletely dominated by the Japanese. Conflicting ktorlee are being received In the United States as to the treatment of the Koreans by their recent conquerors. Some reports wonld Indicate that outrages ara being committed similar to those committed by the Germans on the Belgians, whilst eth-ar- s show that Korea under the new regime will make rapid progresa In tha arte of civilisation. They are of tho tame race as tha Japanese, although their language or dialect le entirely different. For soma raaaon Koraa has been especially favored by our missionaries, ao much ao that they seem to have mixed politics with religion taking aides with tha Koreans to 'such an extant that one of them haa been Imprisoned and while as yet very little action has been taken on the matter It la pretty- certain that the United States will not stand much of this Man-cburl- a. north-aaatar- - kind of treatment toward her elttsena py Japan. Korea has an area of It, 900 square miles and a population of about Ott. Tho majority ara ongaged In agricultural pursuits, but 0 far Japan haa contrived already to own d of . the moat fertile land. They have organised a oompaay. tha capital of which la said to com from tha Japanese treasury to encourage Japanese Immigration to Korea. Tit Immigrant la furnished free transportation and la provided with land and farming Implements when he reach! there. He le expected to- - pay the company in fovr years the amount he haa reeetvsd. Proud History Korea has a proud history dating back to 1111, B. C about tho time the Eldars of larael oame to Samuel and demanded that a king role eve? them. Then a man by the name ef Klja oame with the fragments ef a dafeatad army from China Into Korea. The country at that time was Inhabited by wild trlbee and the great Klja. was soon recognised a their leader and was chosen king. Tba Klja dynasty contlnuad until lit, B. C. Then came the early Christian era and Korea had wars and changes until 111, A. XX. whan, a descendant of the old house of Korea led a rebellion and vuoceeded in establishing his sway over the entire peninsula During thle dynasty books were first printed la Koraa by means of wooden blocks and that money was first coined, tbs metal used being iron.- - The eolnsge took place la III. A. D,. Many times Japan triad to conquer Korea only to be driven back kcrose the strait. Ever since Japans first attempt at Invasion Korea hae hated Japan and IT,-00- 0, one-thir- this hate has been handed from generation to generation until today Korea la like a volcano ready to burst forth at- - any mtnuta In 111 the famous city of Bsoul (familiar to ovary traveler In that land), became Its capital and from that time to the pres, ant It baa bean Korea's greatest atIn 1ITI Korea made her traction. first treaty with Japan and enterdd upon relations with the outside world. Then oame disagreements at horns and rebellion supposed to be fomented hr the Japan a United Kates States succeeded in making a treaty with Korea and General Foote was sent as first minister to the little klhgdom. Then oame dMHmlqr hetwoen Japan and Korea and Anally China was mlxed la the affair. The next move- ment was a declaration of Korea for the Koreans, which caused a gun boat to he sent from the United State te settle matter. In however, another treaty between Korea and th United States waa mad a This waa followed by treaties with many ef the European countriea Tha next trouble waa th war between Japan and China and Korea becama enmeshed In the disturbance, but It waa not until after the War that ah fell a prey te Japans power. The murder of Prince Ito. the first re dent General, through alleged Korean conspiracy only hurried Lb abolition ef an Koreas political powers by Japan and ever since the day Of th formal annexation, August fl, 1110, Korea has suffered all the Ignominy of a defeated nation. Whllp In the Improvement of the country Japan haa made some progress;, good roads have bean built. Irrl. gatlon developed, sanitation improved and tslsgraphlo and postal common! l, Russo-Japane- se cation extended. These Improvements were made by snforoed Korean labor and on confiscated land. The tasTeS were 'raised on the Koreans for this work, which the natives declare Is for Japanese military purpoaee Everything sold In market Is taxed and market day in Korea Is an anclsnt Industrial Institution, always attended by hundreds. Japanese Cruelty Befors Japanese rule appeared the Korean solA thslr produce free ef taxation, but gow a tax must be paid on even the smallest farm product, in fact, th Koreans have nothing whatever to say about their laws and Korea had a fine oivlllaa-Ua centuries age and n great library. but this library together with any number ef art treasures which traced their history have bean destroyed. All newspapers and magasinss even ef a eolentlflo nature have been stamped cut and a newspaper subsidised by the Jap nee Government started In Seoul. Beautiful Country ' Korea Is an extremely mountainous and beautiful country. Its climate ta mild owing to tho Sea of Japan. Tha rainy season cornea early in July and lasts until th last of August. At this tjnes on must put up with a little Inconvenience for everything gets damp and' th clothe on takes off at night are sometime covered with mould In the morning. It Is an Interesting country for th traveler; high up In the mountains are Buddhist temples, where shaven headed priests prey before Idols end chant their devotions In an uncanny fashion. There are temples which were once th Ilf of th nation, but Christianity seems te he getting a hold in that Seoul Seoul is tbs capital and great city., It la sometimes known te foreigner as th "Soul of Korea. It ta nas rounded by a high wall with a numbme of picturesque gates. It is beautifully SterrwAfaxr?:, . Gjrirs'f " land and these heathen temples ire a longer filled with th vast erowds of th olden day. They, however, are none th lees Interesting. Th fertile soli la the lower mountains Is covered with wild flowers Ilk th beautiful asalea, which la seen in many colors. They are well watered and streams and waterfalls dot th Jlnd-soaTh people especially la the country arc for tha most part harmlssa ignorant farmers and th women are greatly in need of a suffrage movement for they have few laws In their favor and their position is very humiliating. Women intreated Divorce are unknown to th woman. although a man of the higher class may obtain on. Concubinage la a recognised institution and Is Indulged in by all classes and among th lower elasse th wife and mistress may llva in tha same house, which often causes much unhappiness in the families Tbs woman, works bard and does 'all sorts " a9 ;7 t&a XI of labor, la fact, Korea la a man s country.' th chief duty of th women being th bearing, and rearing of children. There are few modern farming Implements la the land, and while th men fish th women are often compelled to harvsst the crops In th most primitive way. Eat Anything Th Koreans may b said to sat anything and cooked anyway. Bird of the air, beasts of the field. fish from th sea are cooked Intact n cleaning ef th Inside of the antmsi, bird er fish being required. Dog meat Is regarded as a dainty morsel at some seasona AH kinds of vegetable are eaten as well. Their diet makes them martyr te Indigestion. Th average Korean doctor haa no knowledge ef anatomy, yot ho earriss needles and Irona which h,hsts, In hta mod loin ease and appflee them for different edlclnea are tha most awdlseaaea ful mixtures imaginable, frequently mad from parts of th flesh, blood or claws of magpies or crowa Of situated and ha a population of about' 200.000. Th streets are wi5 ,spK th houses built with gTal, ditch.' which are almost always , Oiled with garbages Strictly speaking there arw fw temple In th city and It lx tbri homes of th native. which mahri Interesting for they r usually ,U, story and where there la a buslaeft conducted th family live In the rear Tha markets Ur conducted at th wonderfully Interesting gats and a tha whit robed merchants move about. People walk ta tha mlddta at the street and chatter In that peeallli dialect of th eonntry. There plenty of soldiers and men just wsJhe lng about smoking as though it was great city just knoeksd off from wprif-American Intents America has soma business Intertill in Korea for tha American gold mtn , priXn-sa- n employs a few whit ma seventeen Japanese, over three bun1 dred Chinamen and four thousand Korean The eon cession te Ute! American company Is sight square, rolls Tha American trad with Kolas embrace kerosene. Sour, railway and mining suppUe clothing, sheeting and cotton yarn. Th Americana are Interested In th street ear. line is Seoul .about th lives thing in Kcav Poor Korea I Japan seem deter mined to swalloOr her up for heap 1 1' " A Little' Talk By Surgeon General Rupert Blue Giv- . ing in Detail Some of the StaggeringAmountsSpent Yearly To Fight Disease Scincejs Winning, Slowly But Surely. ICKNESS Is th most expensive thing in the world. Not only U It destructive of happiness, but It costs money." aald Rupsrt Blu. Surgeon-Generof th Public Health, Service "Tak typhoid fevar for example There are over 100,000 eases of It an-- I nually In tho United State and In I twelve-month- s it kills In tkls country more than 10,000 people g "Reckoning loss qf t expense of medical attend- ance. undertakers bills, etc., this on disease costs us $70,000,000 per an-- 1 num. A century ago typhoid fever was called putrid fever, and the death lrat from It was far greater than now. I adays. Today w know how to deal with It. and even how to prevent It. t Consequently the number of deaths it causes Is steadily diminishing, and the expectation is that bffors very I long It will be to a great extent re-- ! moved from the llat of perils that threaten the safety of mankind. Pure Waste "Disease, like war. Is pnr waste. Its prevention, by which human lives i are saved and the incidental costs avoided. 1 the beet kind ef thrift "During the Spanish War w had 1119.000 men In the Held and In mill-jtar- y camp Among them, in that brief period, there were 20,710 cases of typhoid fever end 1.619 death ifrom that malady. "In th recent gigantic conflict we had mor than 2,000.000 ipen la camp 'and field, and the death rata from typhoid feve was so small as to b . 'almost negligible. This was due not only to sanitary precautions, but also Inocuto now discovery-preven- tive lation. Every recruit was vaccinated against typhoid fever and also against two varieties of a similar disease fever eaused by called , related germ "Here was a eavlng of waste on an Immense scale. And a vast deal of saving of human Ilf and 'health was accomplished by like 'methods adopted In dealing with - 'trench fever and typhus fever (both wage-earnin- f ) I - - J i para-typhoi- d ) carried by th cootie) and tetanus, commonly called lockjaw. Horse Carries Tetanus' "Not untlT" very recently was 'It known that the common carrier of Th tho tetanus germ Is th hors bacillus breeds In tbs Intestines of that animal, whose droppings infeot the soil.. If soil thus Infected gets into a wound, lockjaw,. Is liable to result. But the army surgeons, aware of the danger, administered a preventive eervm derived from th blood ef th horse itself, the animal being Inoculated with repeated doses of the germs untl Its vital fluid was thoroughly loaded with a specific substance which counteracts th lockjaw poison generated by the germs. vaccine, properly "The called a bactertn. is obtained in a wholly different way. Its bartUl are bred tn flasks of gelatins, and then killed with heat While they are thus rendered powerless to kill, they nevertheless. when lnjqded hypodermically. Start the body cells to manufacturing n an that renders a person Immune to typhoid. , Malaria Ooete Million .Yearly. causes ad annual money loss In this country turning far up into th hundreds of millions of dollars. In the Gulf States extsnsiv regions of fsrill and otherwise most desirable land era rendered unproductive antl-typhol- d antl-polso- vo I b f and even uninhabitable by the presence of the malaria-carryin- g mosquito. "But science has taken up th fight ' against this mischeif, and surely though slowly malaria Is" bain g It Ip simply a matter of eliminating th Anophele mosquito, and to this end various methods are using adopted, th . most effective being ditching and draining, whereby the breeding place of th peettferous Insect are don away with. The destruction of the malaria gtrm in the human host by th us of quinine I also of considerable service. "In the long run, th control of malaria will mean the saving of human suffering, and th prevention of enormous economic s low "Ton ara buying, let us say. Thrift A Stamps and War Savings Stamp most admirable investment. But tbsr Is no better investment than health and happiness, and th work moans money-savinIn addition. Yellow Fever "Another species of moequlto as oommon house mosquito of th tropics, the sols carrier of yellow fever -unmad th Canal Zone well-nig- h inhabitable until tba American med-loa- l authoritek, headed by General Gorge, cleaned up that region by depriving th Insect of places In which It could breed. Havana, which until very recent e of yellow-feve- r years was a and from 'which epldemlrs of that frightful malady war distributed to New Orleans and athar seaports an - f w 4k r- , Jr f - ' v anti-malar- g pest-hol- of them destroyed 20 per cent, of th population of Philadelphia In 1701 has been cleaned up In th same way; and, by a Ilka proc, ether similarly Infested ports of tropical America ara being gradually cleansed of th Before very long yellow malady. fever will be a disease comparatively unknown. "0,n 6t th most Important means of preventing th spread of yellow fever and the same remark applies to malsrla consists in preventing mosquitoes from petting at the suffer-r- . Thus they cannot bit him and, deriving Infection from his blood, com - municate It t others by biting them la turn. 4 "During th great epidemic ef XTI! la Philadelphia, big bonflren were eat tblas In th publlo equmres, with the idea Of destroying th miasma that was supposed to ha In th air. Mean, while th moaqultoes that were doing and spreading th mlachelf (fetched, doubtless, by sailing vessels from Havana or some other tropical seaport), were merrily breeding In water-barrel- s sod. other convenient receptacles In th backyards of tbs cltisens. biting the sick, and distributing the plagud broadcast. President George Washington fled with his family to Mount Vernon, , and did not return until November, when the epidemic had slopped, the moequlto-breedln- g season being brought to an end by frost Th two Jarks. Tellow Jsck and Jack Frost, cannot II v together. Tuberculosis '"Tuberculoids In this country, which costs us msny bundrd-o- f millions of dollars annually. Is another prevalent disease that Is gradually being controlled. From year to year Its death-ral- a in lessening. In other words, we are getting th better of that greatest enemy ol mankind. But, the problem of securing a specific remedy, eueh a vaccine. that will render human being proof against .tuberculosis remains yet to be solved. When w have done so, consumption of th lungs and other forms of the tubercular malady wia csss to be prevalent. "In th Napoleonic war only a little mor lhan a century ago eoV dlers put out of action by penetralng abdominal wound. Inflicted with the bayonet or otherwise, were commonly dispatched by their own comrades, as an act of mercy. Today such wounds are often curable, especially If th eufferers are promptly Ukefi' ' In hand. "On of th worst nf th dtsassany rg( wsrs was hospltal of grene.' which became epidemic tn horn pltala, the wounded men literal rotting to death- - As w now know. tW affliction was usually carried froi? patient to patient, and often by tk,ft themeelve wka, military surgeon conveyed on thelf hands th germ J from on sufferer to another,-- , "Relatively little has been heard ef hospital gangrene during the repent conflict, for nseptle end . nntlaeptU methodshav practically abolished 4Vv "Saving again. - Wherever lives saved, or sickness If prevented. there'J Is saving of earning power and of iot' Reduced to term In other way xml mor money. It mesne thrift." old-tim- e ri YOP' ILLUMINATED TACKS CUTDE ' at night r . NS of th clever new Invention that surely somebody ought have thought of year ngo, ta a , sharp-pointetack llkpaA artists thumbtack, but ao treated with some luminous substance that tba tack glimmers quit visibly tu th darkest room.1 Theee radiant tacks will be of N inestimable value to householder mor fumbling for keyholes and a! trie light buttons In th dark. Even- with-- , lng visitors can find th door-baout th least difficulty. If yon wake-u-p in the nlghf and wabt th match they are Just under that lumthr inous tack which you thrust In 'thd wall over th matchbox. Th glimmer., lng tacks may be used to locate swk-- ., ward corners of back stairways, a low door lintel in the cellar and othvrb things In the houie that hav tome- times heretofore caused scraped., ankles, banged shins, bumped beadi-an- d stumbles to say nothing of mat-- ; j , tared profanity. ts flat-head- ll - , t . ' ..-- itl ' |