Show SHOWS HIS PREFERENCE We have bare had bad long account accounts from rom Japanese sources tit bf the be strong favorit- favorit favoritism iam ism shown by the Corean Corean king lot be for mikado In the war ag the Chinese It the fot e Ufa tad d States were In harmony with big bla government his bla potions would be an aD denial of these theae be Japa Japanese e a- a so ao Q gaunt for under u er no imp oo dera loD ht with a subject or rep rep- D lv of the n ado bat but is i on an the bel best beat of terms with the natives of the be flowery kingdom The minister was waa recalled on OD the opening of the war and aid immediately left Washington engaging passage on OD ODthe the steamship China While en route across the continent be took and aDd his bis voyage was waa postponed till the departure of ot the Belgio this week The manager of the hotel where he be engaged rooms called In Inan inan Inan an American physician but the minister would not have hare his hia services Then a Japanese doctor was wai called but the Core Corwan Corean an would not permit him to enter his biB ro room m The sick alok man mans man's secretary was waa dispatched to China China- Chinatown Chinatown town tawn and brought from that quarter a manipulator of ot medicine who was waa ac- ac accepted ac ao accepted and the minister greased grassed toward recovery until be he could again agID exhibit his hia vanity in public by drivIng driving through the park in an open carriage with liveried servants and evidently enjoy the admiring glances glance which bl his hie style an and grandeur drew from the crowd When the passenger list Hat was wae being made up the official representative tive of ot the hermit bermit kingdom discovered that Prince Komatsu cousin of the emperor of Japan who came through Salt Lake a few days daya ago and was waa known as aa Count Mishima was waa intend intend- Ing intending intend to go by that vessel The prospect ot of thirty days daya or so ao on a steamship with the mikado mikado mikado-Is Cousin wa was waa not Dot palatable to the minister ao so he decided to defer his bla departure another week that is II 1 It if a Japanese cook does doea not Dot have an engagement with the Peru the vessel vowel now selected in which event the whimsical and undiplomatic ic minister may stay itay tay a w while hUe longer in this thia country It may be JUI just as aswell well for tor him though since the Ming dynasty which heretofore has haa non noD trolled trolled non the Corean king and balat- balat bas af- af afflicted the country with its Ita corrupt and aDd vicious rule h bas been driven roID power DOwer Taking this thie fact into consider consider- consideration the attitude of ot the Korean Corean min min- later ister minister min toward the Japan Japanese la Is con con- confirmatory of rat rather er then than an antagonistic t to the reports from Japan and nd when the minister does doea go he be la is much more likely to remain I in 14 China than han proceed to Seoul where It D might not Dot be aa as easy 7 for him to pick plok his hia hi company aa as it is ie here |