Yesterday your correspondent was having tifin quite alone when a couzh annonnerd the arrival of a call admitted with his greeting of "Peace," and pence was ex! "l te him, He proved ty be an od acquaintances of years zone by, bat he had been to Shanzhai, Tlonekong, and other questionable places inthe meantime, and had drifted out of my remembrance. His Hight Characters Ind gone back on h'm, he said, and now he asin dire distress. His wife was erezy ud his brother, on whom lo depended, dead. He' srishol that he was cond himself. "Said he: Phe way that Inck is Astributed in this gol-forsaken lind beats all, Here I am, destitute, trying to be an honest man, but Til "give it up. T've decide? to give up being good now and for e other line."
evermore. I'm going in on the "Whit do you propose to da?" was the inquiry "To do," said he, "T've bought a machine from a for making nickels, and it's Imem torn, His Majo that kind of thing, and '50 I'm lookin, for A comer on a foreign compound te run 'Then he grow enfidentia', and drawl close said': It's the only paying busi that's left in this benighted con igh-dess ventry are going in i Cha-sun. the 'Fat Prince,' former Minister of the Household, has seven of these machines wer and. night, and Min Ky: of them. with his Masjosty an sotho policedonot dare tomake nete, One hundred pounds of white metal costs 350,000 cash ex one hundred dollars, and when minted unit makes four hundred dollars' worth of That isa long lit per cent a month," said my caller, This explained to me why shopkeepers eye every con so closely and pitch out so many as sajun" money). In the olden days Core: cash Mronz ona string, and no afford ty sin in the matter of privately; now on the introduction of the nickel a most delightful field to be exploited open to the idle gentry. "Iv's the only thing left for a man of my standing," and the caller departed.
Essex Tarnp.
Seoul, 22th October.
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