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1st. Saturday. Fine. Hot.
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Song Do home. Today the Song Do High School opened its Fall term.
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2nd. Sunday. Partly cloudy. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Worshipped at the Chapel.
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Heard that Tokyo and Yokohama are visited by earthquake and fire destroying thousands of buildings and of lives. No accurate information but some great calamity seems to have fallen on the Capital of Japan. Much relieved to have a telegram from Candler to the effect that he had to stop off at 大阪 on account of the interruption of R.R. communication between that city and Tokyo, owing to an earthquake.
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3rd. Monday. Fine. Steamy.
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Office until 10 a.m. Left Song Do for Seoul 10:50 a.m. train with 璋善.
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Tokyo and Yokohama almost entirely destroyed according to reports more or less incoherent on account of the interrupted communications. 150,000 people reported dead by fire, tidal waves, starvation and heat.
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The great earthquake occurred about 11:50 a.m. Sept. 1st. in less than 24 hours the great cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were in ashes. The Great War demonstrated the destructiveness of science; this great earthquake shows the powerlessness of science. Both too plainly remind us the unstability of human greatness.
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4th. Tuesday. Fine. Hot.
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Returned to Song Do per 12:15 morning train.
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5th. Wednesday. Beautiful. Hot in the daytime.
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Song Do home. Had diarrhea last night. Little better today.
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6th. Thursday. Cloudy. Hot, day time.
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Song Do home. Diarrhea last night again.
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7th. Friday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Left Song Do 10:50 a.m. train for Seoul. Quite a shower between 5 and 6 a.m.
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Papers report that 250,000 houses were destroyed in Tokyo alone. 36,000 people killed, 130,000 injured.
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It is remarkable that the destruction of Tokyo in 大正十二年 by earthquake was predicted by the Omoto Kyo sect (大本敎) founders some years ago. The prophecy was widely read but no one paid any attention to it. Dr. Wainright told Bishop Boaz not to return to Tokyo on the 1st or 2nd of September as those are unlucky dates on which mishaps of one kind or another occur every year.
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8th. Saturday. Fine. Hot.
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Left Seoul 1:20 p.m. with 恩姬 for Song Do. Arriving home about 3 p.m. found my precious Lambuth ill. Too much feeding.
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Called on Mr. 山縣悌三郞 to find out news about his brother 山縣五十雄. "No news so far" was the answer. Mr. Yamagata said the Great Calamity has already cost Japan twice as much as the war expenses of Russo-Japanese struggle and that this should be taken as a warning from God not to be proud.
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9th. Sunday. Fine. Cool a.m. Hot day.
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Song Do home. Received a letter from Candler from Kobe, dated 6th inst. He took the 3rd class passage with the Hawaiian Koreans, but found the steerage full of Chinese laborers. God grant he will have a good and safe voyage to the States. May he be kept in health while in the States and return, in a few years, a stronger man in body, in mind, in character.
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10th. Monday. Rain. Cool.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. Rain from 9 a.m. all the morning. Rain all day and night.
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It seems some thoughtless fool Koreans and some Japanese Socialists were base enough to commit some outrages on property and person while Tokyo and Yokohama were in flames. Mr. 山縣 said that some Koreans tried looting, raping and even incendiarism. If true and some Koreans who style themselves Socialists are mean and beastly enough to do anything that is vile―these fool Koreans have done more harm to the fair name of Korea than we may imagine. They are worse than mad dogs and deserve no better treatment.
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11th. Tuesday. Rain a.m. Cool.
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Song Do home. Office as usual.
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Latest report. The victims of the earthquakes in Tokyo. Dead 45,000. Houses destroyed 310,000. Sufferers 1,350,000. Foreigners dead 500.
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Relief funds are pouring in from every country―China forgetting anti-Japanese feeling―Russia rising above her Bolshevism.
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When paper was passed round soliciting contributions from the teachers of this School, most of the Korean teachers put down 50 sen while the Japanese teachers subscribed ￥500 The Korean teachers say they have no 義務 or obligations to pay much! What 義務 or obligations have the Americans, Russians and Chinese to send big sums of relief to Japan?
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12th. Wednesday. Rain. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. Misty rain most of the day. Received a card from Candler informing me that he had left Kobe on the 7th per S.S. President Pierce and that he and the Hawaiian students were well.
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13th. Thursday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Office as usual.
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The earthquake was no doubt a great calamity to Japan. It is no less so to the Koreans. Money from Korea flows into Tokyo in a steady stream in form of loans from the by banks and of relief fund. The money market is getting tighter and tighter in Korea. The authorities by forcing down the price of rice the Koreans are deprived of the only means of getting money. Taxes in various forms will be doubled and tripled. In Japan hundreds of millions will be disbursed in the work of restoration. Well, that can never do the dead any good, the living will be benefitted by the circulation of money. But the Koreans will not have any chance to touch a cent of the money to be spent in the restoration. Thus the Koreans suffer only whether Japan gains or loses.
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14th. Friday. Fine. Steamy hot.
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Left Song Do 6:45 a.m. train for Seoul with 明姬.
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15th. Saturday. Fine. Hot.
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Seoul home. Attended 重役會 at 彰文社 from 10 a.m. till after 3 p.m. 兪星濬's resignation up for discussion. Whoever may resign or try to evade the responsibilities of the company, neither 兪星濬 nor Pak Sung Bong has the right to do so. Didn't they insist that the company would succeed? When I told them time and again that we Korean Christians are not yet ready for such an enterprise because 1st we can't get the capital; 2nd because we have no man to manage it; 3rd because we will soon have quarrels in the company. They Messrs. 兪, 朴, 李 stoutly declared that money, man and peace were all obtainable―because God is with the plan(!) . They persuaded or rather forced me and others to put money into it―and then because there are difficulties―because every word of my prophecy has been fulfilled―these men 兪 and 朴 try to get out of it! Shame on them. Mr. 李商在 is the only decent man in the crowd, though he has no business to fool with this kind of business.
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文姬's birthday(陰曆) today celebrated. She, 恩姬 and 明姬 left Seoul 1:30 p.m. train for Song Do.
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I left Seoul 10:20 P.m. train for Song Do.
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16th. Sunday. Fine. Cool.
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17th. Monday. Fine. Hot.
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Left Song Do 1:30 p.m. train for Seoul with 恩姬.
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A boy was born to Allen this morning about 2:30. God bless this little fellow. God grant he will grow up a strong good man who will prove to be a great blessing to his home to his church and to his country! I think I may name him 英求 Victor―as on this day is the anniversary of the―great naval victory of the Japanese, over the Chinese as is indicated by the foot note on this diary sheet.
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18th. Tuesday. Fine. Hot.
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Left Seoul 4:50 p.m. train for Song Do, arriving home about 9 some.
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The story that Koreans committee outrages in Tokyo and Yokohama during the great earthquake has fortunately turned out to be a canard. To the contrary a rumor goes round to the effect that two or three thousand Koreans have been lynched by infuriated Japanese. I don't know which to believe. 張龍燮's sister 張貞心, in her letter dated 2nd September and insubsequent letters told her folks that a band of lynchers had visited her boarding house trying to kill her; that she owed her life to the kindness of the boarding house keeper who put her Japanese costume and that her fellow boarders had shown her a great deal of kindness etc.
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19th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. Rain from 10 a.m. all the rest of the day and the night.
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日善, the first son of cousin 致旿 studied medicine in the Kyoto Imperial University. He graduated last Spring. It's time he should earn an independent living. Instead of so doing he wrote me some days ago begging me to give him ￥380.00 to buy winter clothes etc. A young man just graduated from the Severance Med. School or from the Gov. Med. School in Seoul can get a position that pays any where from ¥80.00 to ¥150 a month. 日善 with a diploma from the Imperial University still unable or unwilling to secure a livelihood―whose fault is it?
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20th. Thursday. Cloud and sun. Cool.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. Rain all last night up to 6 a.m.
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21st. Friday. Bright. Cool.
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Left Song Do 6:45 a.m. train for Seoul.
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22nd. Saturday. Bright. Cool.
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Busy from morning until 3 p.m. in fixing up the documents to be sent to the Police concerning the 苦學生갈톱會合宿所期年會.
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23rd. Sunday. Cloudy. Very cool.
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Song Do home. 白副尉 tells me that Candler has incurred a debt of ¥3,217(00/100) during the last two years; that 孫金聲, 朴龍□, 李塋珪 and 王朝赫 were the evil companions who made Candler foot the bills for their disorderly life; and that I have to pay the debt at once or else the interest will run up. Well, I am disgusted and disappointed. Whoever thought Candler would do that kind of fool things? Any hope for the future of Korea when its young men, rich or poor, are all so untrustworthy?
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24th. Monday. Beautiful. Hot mid-day.
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Left Song Do 1:30 p. m. train with wife and children for Seoul. Arrived home a little past 5 p.m.
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25th. Tuesday. Beautiful. Hot.
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Left Seoul 7:15 a.m. train for 溫陽溫泉 with 璋善. From 10:15 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. we had to wait for the connection from 天安 to 溫陽. Arriving at 溫陽 about 1 p.m. we went to visit father's grave. Returned to 溫陽 about 2:30 had a refreshing bath. Left 溫陽 6:35 p.m. for 天安 where we took the 7:20 p.m. train for Seoul. Arrived home about 10:30.
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26th. Wednesday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Left Seoul 12:15 p.m. train for Song Do with 璋善. Arrived home about 3:30 p.m.
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From every quarter I hear that 孫金聲 is one of the meanest and cleverest rascals in Song Do. He was entrusted with the care of the Northward Schools by Mr. Wasson, thought very highly of him. I knew he was a rascal and everybody said so but I didn't know he had such an evil influence over Candler.
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27th. Thursday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Song Do home. Many a Korean complains that all the avenues of wealth having been taken of the Japanese, there remains nothing for the Koreans to make any money. This is no doubt true in the field of great profitable enterprises. But it is equally true that there are still rooms for profitable activities for the Koreans in farming, in industry and in trade. Proof: if there were no room for making money in Korea except by the Japanese, how can and do the Chinese make money as farmers, artisans, merchants and even coolies? The painful fact is that the Korean will not do little things because there is little profit, while he can't do big things because he has neither capital nor experience. Thus between he won't and he can't everything that has gain in it is passing into the hands of the Japanese and the Chinese. Black indeed is the future of the Korean people□unless they awake to the danger before it be too late.
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28th. Friday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Left Song Do with 璋善 1:50 p. m. train for Seoul.
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29th. Saturday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Seoul home. Under the iron rule of Terauchi―which showed some degree of sincerity for the good of the Koreans―beggars made themselves scarce in Seoul. But since the so called reformed regime of Baron Saito was staged in Korea, beggars have had fine time not only in Seoul but also in other towns. Number of perfectly able bodied men and often of boys come and sit outside our gate and demand food day after day and we dare not offend them. Of course these beggars dare not bother the Japanese therefore the police let them alone―for the police, as well as the whole mechanism of Government in Korea, isn't it here to protect the Japanese interest and let the Koreans go to the devil as fast as possible? Personally Baron Saito is one of nicest gentlemen I have known or seen anywhere. But that has nothing to do with the national policy of Japan in Korea. Confucius himself couldn't change the policy if he were made the Governor General.
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30th. Sunday. Pretty. Cool.
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Seoul home. Worshipped at 宗橋 Church.
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