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THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
COOKIES AND
.CHAMPAGNE.
frank 0. Carpenter, With the Ameri
can Minister, Enters the Ooreaa
Palacei
They See Visions of Unspeakable
Splendor and Partake of toe
Royal Hospitality.
HIS MAJESTY OF COREA IS HEMMED
ABOUT WITH INCREDIBLE POMP
AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
THE QUEEN PEEP8 AND QIQLES.
One of the most interesting men in
the world to day is the King of
Corea. The war between Japan and
China was fought over him, and
the future of Asia is involved in the
struggle. The King is the absolute
ruler over 12,000,000 people. The
land of Corea belongs practically to
him, and the development of its im
mense natural resource in gold and
coal, which is sure to occur after the
war is over, may make him one of
the richest Kings in the world.
The King's palaces cover nearly
1,000 acres. They lie at the foot of
a ragged gray mountain, and a thick
wall of stone as high a two story house
runs around them. This wall is en
tered by a half dozen great gates, at
which, day and night, soldiers are
stationed to see that only the proper
people go in. Each gate has its own
rank, and there are special entrances
for servants and low nobles- The
great central gale is reserved for the
highest. It has three doors, and the
middle one of them is kept for royalty
alone, and only Kings and Princes
are supposed to go through it. I s:e
that the papers state that General
Clarence Greathouse, the King's
foreign adviser, is the only Amer lean
who ever entered the palace city
through this door. This is not true.
The same honor was accorded last
May to Minister Sill, H. N. Allen,
and also to me.
This is how it happened: The
Corean officials. who nut nn irrpat aire
, ..,
have been trying to lessen the rank of
ioreigners in me eyes ot tne people.
They have made a' back entrance to
the palace tor them, and they propos
ed to inaugurate this by thus letting
in our new Minister, Mr. Sill, who
had arrived in Corea during my stay.
Minister Sill, however, refused to ac
cept the proposition. He said he
represented the President of the
United States, and our President was
as.big as any King on the globe. If
there was a gate for Kings he thought
he ought to go through it, and he sent
word to the department that he would
come at the time appointed to this
big gate, and if he was not admitted
he would return to his legation. This
message made the faces of the King's
officials turn from the color of Jersey
cream to skimmed milk. They saw
that there would be trouble, and they
referred the matter to the King. Now,
his Majesty has more brains than all
of his Ministers. He is packed full
of common sense, and he at once be
came very angry. He not only said
thajxthe Minister should go through
tijChief gate, but he sent his own
ctttitf and servants in order that he
mcl ride their in state. I don't
kndt that he remembered me from
my-past interview, but he was told I
wanted to meet him, and he said he
would give me a special audience af
ter that of the Minister was over.
I wish I could show you how we
marched through the city on our way
to the King. Our procession of sol
diers and servants was at least 100
feet long and we rode in chairs borne
by big hatted coolies. The Kind's
chair shone like gold in its brass trim
mings, and it had mahogany panels.
My chair was covered with navy blue
silk, and Dr. Allen rode in a gorgeous
sedan of green. We had a couple of
Corean nobles to go with us as inter,
preters, and these were gorgeously
dressed. The Minister, Dr. Allen and
myself had on plug hats, boiled shirts
and swallow tail coats. The servants
who came from the palace were diess
ed in white gowns, belted in at the
waist, with sashes of green. The sol
diers wore blue coats and plum color '
pants, and out of the back of their
black fur hats were tassels of the
brightest vermilion, each of which
was as big us a fly brush. Oh, it was
gay I
In this way we . went down the
Pennsylvania avenue of Seoul. Our
kesos ran in front and howled out to
the common people to get out of the
way for the great men who came.
Men and women were crowded up to
the walls. Bullock carts were driven
down the side streets with a rush.
The people who smoked took their
pipes out of their mouths and held
them behind them. Women with
green coats over their heads scamper
ed into their homes, and the eyes of
all were so. stretched out at the sight
that they lost their almond shape and
became circu'ar in wonder. It was
so 'till we reached the gate of the
palace. Here our soldiers put down
the chairs, and, accompanied by our
pompous Corean interpreters, we
walked toward the gate. Midway en
the platform we were met by one of .
the high officials of the King, clad in !
a gorgeous green gown, with a stork ,
of white silk embroidered on a back
gtound of gold a foot square upon his
breast. He had a similar square of
embroidery upon hi9 back, and as I
looked at him it struck me that with
a good revolver a man could kill both
of these embioidered birds at the
same time. He had about his waist
a hoop of what seemed to be shell or
horn, studded with precious stones,
and he was accompanied by servants
who held up his arms and sort of lift
ed him along the way. This was not
because he could not walk, but it bet
ter showed his rank and style. He
bowed low. We bowed, and after a
short interval of diplomatic taffy giv
ing he led the way up to the central
gate of the palace and motioned the
Minister to walk through the main
entrance. He then went through
one of the side gates, and our inter
preters followed him. Dr. Allen and
myself were walking with the Minis
ter. Said the doctor, "He seems
to intend that I shall go through the
main gate, too." ' Well, doctor,"
said I, "I think I will stick to the
party, and though I have no official
rank, I'll see how it feels to walk the
path that has only been trodden by
Kings." I had not forgotten that I
was an American prince. And so we
three representatives of the royalty of
the United States marched through
this temple like entrance. The act
in itself yeems little in America, but
it was a great thing in Corea, and
everywhere I went after that it was
mentioned in connection with my in
troduction to other Corcans.
In our march through the city of
the King this gorgeous Prime Minis
ter stalked along in front of us. leading
us through the center arch of which
we passed. Then we went on through
other courts walled with palaces past
servants clad in brown and red, and
by officials wearing all sorts of hats
and gowns. There were soldiers
everywhere, and Gatling guns stood
near some of the entrances. We pas
sed through street after street, walled
with the buildings in which live this
King and his servants, until we came
to a great gate, the side door of which
alone was open. The central door
was closed. The Secretary of the
Home Office stepped through the
side gate and expected us to follow.
We had gotten used, however, to the
arch of honor, and we stopped and
waited for the main gate to be open
ed The Secretary thereupan chang
ed his mind. He came back and was
practically lifted by his servants to
the top of a hill where there was a
new gate, and he led us through this.
This brought us into the vestibule
built for the foreigners. It was a
magnificent corridor, so long that you
could not see the end as you stood at
the top and looked down it. It was
lighted at the top and also on both
sides by beautiful lattices of white
paper. The woodwork was papered
with this wonderful Corean paper,
which Is as smooth as ivory and as
strong as leather. The floor was
covered with netting as fine as the
web of a Panama hat, and so thick
our feet sunk as softly into it as they
would have done had it been Brussels
carpet. This corridor had many land
ings. We descended from one to
another by easy steps, and after a walk
of perhaps a quarter of a mile we
came out of it into an open hall
which looked out upon the gardens of
the King, and gave a view of the new
palace in the distance.
This room was furnished in foreign
style, and the highest officials of the
King and a number of great nobles of
the court were gathered within it.
H,ach noble had his servant wid him.
Tall, broad shouldered men, cad in
brown gowns and gorgeous hats, stood
about as guards.
These are known as the brown-
coated kesos. They are the body
guard of the King, and, like the famed
soldiers of Peter tne Great, have
been picked out for their height and
strength. Nearly every one of them
is over six feet, and their long gowns
make them iook like giaus. In ad
dition to these, there were servants in
red caps, servants in caps ot purple
and servants with gorgeous head dress
ings of blue. The officials were clad
in their court dresses, and the head of
each showed a topknot shining
through its fine Corean cap of horse
hair, which, with its great wings flap
ping out at the sides, forms the
official head dress. These wings are
oval in shape, and they htand out like
ears, denoting that their owners are
ever listening for the commands of
the King. The gowns of these
officials were of the finest silk, made
very full. They fell from their necks
to their feet and nearly covered the
great official cloth boots, which made
each man look as though he had the
gout and was nursing his feet for the
occasion. 1 he gowns were of dark
green, embroidered with gold on the
Dreast ana Dack, and contained white
storks or tigers, according as the man
belonged to the civil or military rank.
fyjicn man tiad a stiff, hoop like belt
about hiai, which was fastened in
some waFto his dress, and surrounded
his body just below the armpits.
These hoops were so large that they
stood six inches out from the dress.
They are emblems of rank, and you
can tell the position of the man by
the character of the gold, jewels or
precious stones with which theae
hoops are decorated. Some of thern
are made of a great number of small
squares fastened together by joints,
and not a few ofthene squares were
of the purest gold. Others were of
silver, and others were of. green jade,
amber and other precious stones.
Each of these officials wore a ribbon
of woven horse hair about four inches
wide about his head.and this ribbon
was fastened on by a little round but
ton aoout the size ot the Dack ot a
collar button, which rested just behind
the ear. These buttons also denote
rank. Some were of gold, pome am
ber and others of other precious
material.
These men were all dignified. We
were introduced all around by the
Cabinet Minister who conducted us
into the room, and we sat down to a
long table upon which were plates
filled with as:orted cookies about the
size of macaroons. At each man's
seat there were champagne glasses,
and the servants opened a half dozen
or so of cold bottles while we chatted
and waited. The American Minister
had his presentation first. He spent
about half an hour with his Majesty,
and then one of the English speaking
officials came into this room and told
me that the Kinjr was ready to see
me. Taking off my hat and my eye
glasses, I walked with this man
through long passageways, walled
with stone by red capped, red gowned
servants, and past soldiers iu gorgeous
uniforms, to the gate of a large court
yard. As we neared this my inter
preter, who Was a high official noble,
bent his head over, and his tace look
ed like that of a man in pain at a
funeral. As we entered the court he
bent half, double, and as I looked
across it, I saw there was a large
open hall facing us. This hall had
a massive roof of heavy tiles, and at
the front of it there were a number of
big round pillars painted red. There
were three entrances to it, reached by
granite steps guarded by stone dogs,
and the floor was, I judge, about six
feet from the ground. Within the
hall, in front of a Corean screen stood
the King, with two eunuchs on each
side of him holding up his arms.
And about him were a number of
officials, who bent over half double
and dared not look at him for rever
ence. All of these officials had these
gorgeous storks or tigers on their
breasts, and they looked at me out of
the tails of their eyes as I came up.
My interpreter got down on his knees
as he got to the steps. He crawled
along the floor to the front of the
King and bumped his head upon the
carpet. He then bent himself over
half double and remained in this posi
tion during the whole of the interview,
whispering in tones of awe his ma
jesty's sentences to me and my ques
tions to him.
The King was dressed in a gown
of crimson silk, cut high at the neck,
and embroidered with gold medallions
as big around as a tea plate. There
was one of these medallions on ech
of his shoulders, and one covered
each side of the gown at about whe e
the fifth rib is supposed to be located.
This gown reached to his feet. It
was gorgeous beyond description, and
it harmonized with his cream-colored
complexion. The sleeves of the gown
were very full, and out of them a
pair of delicate, shapely hands ctfme
from time to time and clasped each
other nervously. On one of his fin
gers I noted a magnificent diamond
ring, and it seemed to me as though
the great solitaire must cut his fingers
as he clasped and unclasped his
hands, now folding them together and
now pulling one finger after the other,
as though he would crack the joints.
About his waist he had a belly-band
embroidered with jewels, and his feet
were clod in heavy official boots. His
head was covered with a navy blue
cap of horse hair net as high as a silk
hat. This came well down upon his
forehead. It had no brim, and there
were no wings at the back, as on the
caps of the officials. He shook his
own hands at me in Chinese fashion
as I came up. I bowed, and I look
ed him straight in the eye as we talk
ed together. I was not more than
five feet away from him, and there
was a little table between us. Above
us shone the incandescent globes of
the Edison electric light, and there
was an European carpet on the floor.
The audience was largely given up
to the passing of compliments, and it
lasted, I judge, about twenty min
utes. During it I had a good oppor
tunity to study the King and I photo
graphed, as it were, his form and
features upon my brain. He is about
five feet six inches in height. He is
rather well built, but not heavy. He
has beautiful, bright, black almond
eyes, a complexion the color of rich
Jersey cream, and teeth as white as
the tusks of an African elephant. His
face is full, and it shines with in
telligence. Hennas a thin mustache
and a few hairs of black whiskers.
He smiled frequently, and now and
then he laughed melodiously. He
seemed to have a stone of about the
size of a boy's lucky stone in his
mouth while he talked, and this from
time to. time got between his teth
while he listened. When he spoke
it sunk back i.ito his mouth, taking
the place of an old maid's plumper,
or the tobacco quid of our Congress
men. I don't know why he uses this
stone, and I am not altogether sure
it was a stone. It seemed too hard for
wax, and medical chewing gum has
not yet been introduced in Corea.
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CalfSkin 4010.50
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Shelled corn per bus .73
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Chon " 1.2 1
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od 10
Turkeys " 11
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