The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1904, Page 13

T OuTDOOR:-REAST - IN CALIFORNIA * | BLIZZARDS -IN THBE BAsT- ALIFORNIA gave her Eastern visitors a complete surprise party other day, and one that they reciated to lest extent. grown weary of shoveling snow and huddling about try- at the earliest up bag and bag- its fu app keep warm, s opportunity, picked gage d fled from the eastern half of the con just as fast as they pos- sibly could. Beyond the Mississippi there were cold rains, snow flurries and blizzards. The frenzied storm shrieked its Joudest, shook its fiercest and raged so ¢ ¥ that the unfortunates who had been caught by the storm sylphs were tempted to raise their voices and oud with the elements. nce within the Golden Gate the ¥ shed their fur coats & and discovered to well as delight tHat ntirely unequipped for Cali- 2 and her weather. shriek a as Out here the fis ere blooming in riotous con- fusion and the birds were flitting from king day glad with their The sfreets were filled : white walsts and us hats and with chaps elad in f the light and topped off . Every home body de- B iedly warm, but to en blood the heat ief. For a day or s ind a Par were inad d the k ng whose chief is to find a cooling soda a & 2 gentle, refreshing Pa- fact, they even thawed that th entirely were completely drifts and that ph poles had been ed with water. low never en- ragked in the an extent ians it was that they had been y a long year, statis- was not. April y 887, were h 1904, the temperature m whereas the other da t rose to 88 degrees. This #0 Professor McAdie of eather Bureau says, to the exist- a great area of high pressure. greeable weather in the Bast of low pressure thought really was @ few hundred feet in the air. In the stratum of at- mosphere that enveloped California the radiations m land to water were con- fined and it was hot in consequence, so warm, in fact. that throughout the en- e Etate the temperature was about degrees above the normal. the State Medical Soclety was at Paso Robles in the open ng just why the sun was sending forth his hottest rays, an April blizzard, bringing with it two and a half feet of snow and sleet, was doing its best ate Western Minnesota end the largest part of North Dakota. The railroad tracks of the Great North- ern were under a foot of water and the Missouri and Milk rivers were both out of their banks and causing great THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. 2. S0k - anxiety. Wisconsin camé in for her share of snow and wind and to such an alarming extent that basements were promptly vacated and the houses in the lowlands were considered dan- gerous. The people of Chicago were wrapped In furs to their véry eyes and New Yorkers sighed in vain for a little of the warmth that is sv generously supplied them during the summer months. In fact, while the doctors were spending their three days—the 20th, 21st and 22d—driving about the country in automobiles and fairly living of doors, the reports of heavy storms in out the Middie West were pouring in thick and fast. Chicago’'s railroad and street car traffic was impeded and all telegraph and telephone communications inter- rupted. At St. Louis blizzard condl- tions prevailed and six Inches of snow TIMELY -TOPIC) - Ax Striki Spring : (orstrast b a0 3 ’L L5 ot S was measured. Threughout Missouri and Kansas City & light snow was ac companied by a decided fall in tem- perature and as far south as Louis- ville, Kentucky, the crops were, sericus- ly injured by a heavy snowfall and a freezing temperature. While the mer- cury stood at zero throughout the East it seemed intent on cilmbing out of the top of the thermometer in San Fran- cjsco. The fat man’s collar wilted and the slim man was too warm to see any- thing funny about it, but at the same time they thanked their lucky stars that Jack Frost was not taking a nip at them. For once in their lives even the discontented were satisfled and were perfectly willing to agree that, of a truth, California was the land of sun- shine and flowers and not such a bad place after all. KOREAN EMPEROR’S YANK HOUGH Korea is a nation far below the first class, it has so happened that the American rep- resentative there has been, and is now, struggling with problems which would tax any Minister, and those ac- quainted with the Far East read the messages of Horace N. Allen with ut- most Interest at this critical time, Dr. Allen’s career is one of singular interest, for it has been very seldom that a foreign diplomat has been re- cruited from the ranks of & missionary soclety. Minister Allen knows Korea from the coolies who sing at their work in the streets to the Emperor. ¥For ten years now he has stood at the helm of American affairs. The posi- tion has been difficult, because noth- ing In the way of commercial pro- motion has been sacrificed, and yet no political or territorial rights have been asked. More than once the Em- peror of Korea has sought admission the American Legation, but it is despon- not an asylum for political dents, and entrance has heen denied Majesty. Ame: And yet in this time has acquired more commer- vileges in Korea than all other ions combined. Through Minister Allen’s efforts concessions for gold mines, raflways and trolley lines were first givef to Americans, though hav- ing been previously refused to others. ¥rom the viewpoint of Americans in the Orient, Dr. Allen began life right by being born in Ohio—in Dela- ware, in 1868. Nearly all America’s representatives in the Far East halfl from the Buckeye State. But from his appearance it would be right to judge that he had been raised on one of the granite hills of New England, for he is tall and extremely thin in face and figure—a living Image, in many ways, of Uncle Sam. Being graduated with honors from his home college—Ohijo Wesleyan Uni- versity—Mr. Allen passed on first to Columbus and then to the Miami Medi- cal College. Completing his work there the new-fledged physician set his face westward to the Far East, and with his wife—a classmate at Delaware— went to China as a medical missionary in 1883, In 1882 Korea made her first treaty with any Occidental nation, and that, singularly enough, was with the United States. The missionary society with which Dr. Allen was connected was eager to enter the hermit nation, and soon a cablegram of a single word was placed in the young physician's hand in Shanghai; it read: “Korea." The meaning was clear—an attempt -was now to be made to introGuce Christian- ity to the strange “people in white” who lived in that unknown peninsula between Japan and Northern China. It was a delicate and dangerous ap- pointment, but by Dr. Allen's intro- ducing himesef as a physician it was believed that the great work of mis- sionary endeavor could be begun. Dr. and Mrs. Allen went to Korea; and the | By Archer B. l Hulbert, Author of the ‘ i [« p e | “Queen of Quelparte” | * 5 American representative, General Lu- cius H. Foote—sent out in 1883—assist- ed them by giving the doctor a npm- inal status as physician to the Ameri- can Legation. This was in September of the year 1884. Three months later occurred what is known in history &s the emeute of 1884, It lasted three days, beginning at an official dinner, at which six Koreans were murdered; another Korean, Pfince Min Yong Ik, a near relative of the King, was terribly man- gled. The gray, old city of Seoul was filled with terror as the infuriated mobs ranged the streets. The emeute began as an anti-Chinese uprising, but turned into an anti-Japanese riot, and foreigners of all nationalities fled hastily down the z.g-zag pathway, twenty-seven miles long, to Chemui- po, the seaport of the inland capital. But when all were gathered in safety, Dr. and Mrs. Allen were miss- ing. The man's opportunity for signal service had come, and though sur- rounded by treachery and intrigue, the young physician and his wife would not leave the groaning victims of the bloody emeute. When all others had gone, the American doctor and his wite made their home In the American EE ADVISER | A - A Legation and raised an American flag over it. Allén wrote his American friends at’ Chemulpo that they need not expéct him and his wife, for they were not coming. “We couidn’t if we would,” was his laconic way of putting it, “and‘,we wouldn't if we could. I came to do just such work. I can’t leave these wounded people. We ghall live in the legation with the old flag flying, and trust the kind Father to care for us.” So the Allens remained in Seoul, “where buildings were burning and bullets now and then whizzing in the streets.” v The doctor was soon called to the bedside of the mangled Korean Prince, Min Yong Ik. It was a cru- cial moment in his life; indeed, in the history of Americans and American interests in Korea. A dogen Korean doctors stood sullenly back when the young American physician was intro- duced into the sickroom; they had brought their black wax and were just ready to melt it and pour it into the gaping wounds to heal them. If the Amerjean failed, his cause was lost; if he succeeded the revolutionists, who had attempted the Prince’s life, would settle in their own way with the fool- ish man who came to save the very life they had tried to end. without hesitation the young man set t6 work; the Korean doctors looked on, as well as a Chinese general, while the nimble fingers found and tied the streaming arteries and sewed up the slckening wounds. The on- 1 lookers were amazed at the success of the quiet physician. The Chinese gen- eral thought this treatment was bet- ter than hot wax, and he hustled Allen off to treat twenty of his soldiers who were sadly cUt up and bleeding. The Prince lived; the popular approval of the people protected the doctor and his wife and they stayed in the lega- tion as they had announced they would, with the old flag flying, until their American friends returned to Seoul after the danger had passed. After this there was no question of the American doctor's place in Korea; it was assured. Nothing proved this so plainly as the attention the King of Korea now paid Dr. Allen by ap- pointing him the King’s physician. Old as some of the Korean remedies were, they seemed to leave something to be desired. The knife and needle were better than hot wax; quinine was bet- ter for fever than the hanging gf rage on the trees outside the Invalid's house; pepsin was better for indiges- tion than burning a prayer that had been written on paper; the Korean doctor who had a stone which, placed upon a patient’s body, enabled its owner to see into the body and locate the disease, often made sad mistakes. There had been a Korean hogpital for 400 years in Seoul in which 1000 doc- tors were supported at Government ex- pense. In its place, at the King's or- der, an American hospital was erect- ed, called Hay Min So—the “House of Civili2ed Virtue"—and Dr. Allen was put in charge. Within a year half a dozen cperations were performed in the House of Civilized Virtue every morning, and nearly 100 dispensary pa- tients came for treatment every after- noon. This was the first institution of Western civilization ever established in Korea, Dr. Allen’s experience with Koreans and the confidence they had in him led him quickly inte a position of promi- nence. 1ln 1838 the first Korean em- bassy was sent to United States, causing a great on -in Korea and a wave of good-humored wel- come in America to the strange visi- tors. It was a delicate matter to en- gineer, and it ws to Dr. Allen that the Korean King turned to put it through. Under an appointment as “Foreign Secretary,” Dr. Allen took the odd-looking party across the sea and presented them to the President and safely located them -in Washing- ton. The establishment of the embassy was indeed due to Mr. Allen's influence with the King. The United States brought a claim against China for the destruction by ‘Koreans of an Ameri- can ship; the Chinese Government an- swered that it had no authority over Korea, that Korea was an independent power, and America should demand in- demnity of Korea. The United States did so and when the note reached the King he straight- way sent for Dr. Allen and asked him what it all meant. The American at once saw that here was a splendid chance for Korea to show her independence of China, since China herself acknowledged it in her reply; he urged the King to show that his tountry was really independent by sending representatives to the powers and establishing embassies. He pressed the point so earnestly that at last the *King consented, and then straightway selected his Yankee adviser to establish the embassy in Amegrica. After the Korean embassy was es- tablished—the doctor’s appointment ex- piring thereby—Dr. and Mrs.-Allen re- turned to Chemulpc under an appoint- ment from the Presbyterian Board of Missions. In the same fall he was of- fergd and accepted the secretaryship of 'the American legation. In 1893 Dr. Allen represented Korea at the Colum- bian Exposition; in that year also he was requested by President Cleveland to return to Seoul as Charge d'Affaires. In 1897 he was made Resident Minister and Consul General by President Mc- Kinley, and in 1901 was appcinted En- voy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary. ” Through all these years in which Korea has been the storm center of the East, Allen's tall figure and Ilong strides have been familiar on the streets of Seoul. His long experience has fitted him for the work of keep- ing a cool and a clear head at times when everything seems unsteady. He has/been streng on three counts. He has made possible in Korea works of American promotion which FEuropean capitalists sought but could not get; the first mining and railroad concessions in Korea were obtained for Americans after others had been refused|them, because no Korean be- lleved that Americans would make po- Htical capital out of any commercial advantages which might be given them. Again, Mr. Allen has had a sympathy for the missionary interests which has *been exceedingly helpful. Were it not for him it would perhaps be impossible for American missionary socleties to point, as they do, to Korea as the most fruitful field, comparatively speaking, ever opened up in any foreign land. Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown of the Pres- byterian Missionary Society, after a recent tour in Asia, affirmed to Presi- dent Roosevelt that Minister Allen was one of the best American Embassadors in Asia, his inquiry among the mis- sionaries in Korea having strengthened ‘him in this belief. Finally, Mr. Allen has kept America’'s skirts clear of the tangle of iIntrigue which has been weaving in Seoul since the murder of the Korean Queen in 1895. Yet, in doing this, Mr. Allen has not sacrificed American interests at any point. The representative of no nation in Korea has a more united and sympathetic backing from his fellow countrymen than the American repre- sentative has in Seoul to-day. Among the Koreans in their normal state there is no fear for the safety of the head of the American colony or any of its members. The Korean Gawernment handles joughly any one who insults the foreign representatives. F - THE-WORLD— | ROUTINE | Versus THE RUT - - It is a wise provision « at the same time one pr Istence of a higher intelligence ours that sum and winter, seed and harvest, day and night, succeed one another with such unif We would be in a pretty plight not estimate to a second ju sun will to-morrow peep over the east- ern horizon, or if some clear night we should 1 to the heavens and fail to find our d friends the stars twink- ling down at us. It gives dignity and tranquillity to life to be in a universe which moves like ork. There is a human routine correspond- ing to the order of the universe. The former is not quite so stable and un- varying, perhaps, as the latter, but it is a constant marvel to me that the work of the world gets itself done on the whole so regularly, promptly and efficiently. See the array of men and women workers pouring into & great city between and 9 o'clock every morning. With but occasional excep- tions each meets his appointment punc- tually at the machine, the counter or the ledger. And so the total dally out- put of manual and mental energy can be fairly well forecasted from morning to Mo g, and the aggregate of re- sults accomplished by evening is some- thing almost phenomenal. The secret is that every man in this army sticks to his routine. No one has begun to master himself it he cannot do that. Now and then a genlus may accomplish much on the hop, skip and jump method of activity, but if the rank and file of us are ever to do anything worth while in the world it will be because we have learned —perhaps after considerable self-disci- pline—to rise from our slumbers at a certain time, take our hats down from the peg and fare forth to our tasks, to stick at them until the evening. Our routine, instead of being sometRing to rebel against, is one of the crowning blessings of our existence. But there’s a tremendous perfl in it, too. The banker who goes to his office at such an hour daily 1s hardly less exposed to it than the man who hands all day long at a street rajflway junction. The great danger is that the routine will become a rut. If g0, all the enthusiasm and spontaneity of action vanish. The man becomes a machine. We see these human ma- chines on every side. They never take a vacation. They are always harnessed up. They would be dazed if the whistle did not blow in the morning or if on arrival at the office they had some novel tasks assign: them. Some one has aptly said th&t tne only differ- ence between a groove and a grave is a difference of one letter. And every man of us is in danger of sinking a little deeper into the groove until it practically becomes a grave where all our youthful hopes and ambitions will lle forever burfed. The remedies? Well, break away from the routine now and then. Throw it aside entirely for a day or a week. The other day I heard a prominent New York literary man characterize a fellow worker im the sphere of letters in this way: “Jones"—that isn't his name—*“has done a lot of hard and good work, but he is everlastingly at ft. He never seems to have time for friendship.” Then, again, we are to find all the variety we can in our monotonous path. Phillips Brooks had a characteristic little habit of personifying the days of the week so that each represented to some extent a different kind of work. Of Thursday, for exan.ple, he would say: *“Well, Thursday is a kind of be- tween day. It looks backward to Sun- day and forward to z=other Sunday.” Are you sure you are getting all the varfety and - ice you can out of your routine? And perhaps the best way to avoid becoming rutty or groovy is to culti- vate as you labor a sense of the eter- nal significance and worth of the thing you are doing—no matter how commeon or even menial it seems. Possibly that sense of eternity was In the mind of the Master of men when he sald, “T must work the works of him who sent me while it is day.” THE PARSON