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1st. Monday. Cloudy―East wind a.m.
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Took children to 彰義門 外 for picnic. Rain from 1:30 p.m.
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4th. Thursday. Rained all day long.
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Mailed letter to Miss Balle H. Bannett, thanking her for having found a home for Helen to board which goes to Vanderbilt in Nashville.
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Wife very ill in the p.m.
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5th. Friday. Rained on and off in the morning.
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Candler and 白雲◎ left this morning for 任實 on a trip of inspection of the country estates.
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6th. Saturday. Steamy.
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Left Seoul with 文姬, 恩姬 and 明姬 for Song Do by 4:45 a.m. train. Wife better today. Showers.
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Arrived Song Do home about 8:30 p.m.
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Absolutely no sleep last night.
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Stayed at home trying to rest up.
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The Japanese authorities in Song Do seem to have adopted a laissez-faire policy something like this: Let the Koreans go to hell. We don't care what they do or what they become just so they pay taxes and howl no "mansies." Illustrations. (1) Ten or so years ago "voluntary contributions were levied from the people to build the 高麗 bridge. The work was so badly done that stone of the stone railings soon fell into the stream and have remained there in the sand for last three years. The bridge is going to pieces but not a finger is raised to mend it. (2) The roads which the inhabitants of the Northern section of the city used to keep in repair are in wretched condition but no official notice is taken of it. (3) The manure heaps which the gardeners piled right on the side of the road as you go from the city to the mission compound, disappeared some years ago when the Japanese showed some interest in the hygienic condition of the city. But now the offensive heaps have re-appeared to the disgust of all―except the miserable farmers, who care more for their cabbage than for the comfort of others. (4) Morphine is actually are connived at. (5) Healthy and strong young fellows go about as beggars but the police pay no attention to them.
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8th. Monday. Steamy, sunny p.m.
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Left Song Do with 明姬 for Seoul home per 1:40 p.m. train.
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The Disarmament Conference which is to be held in Washington at the invitation of President Harding is the topic of the day in Japan and Korea. Czar Nicholas Ⅱ of Russia was the first who invited all the powers of the world to a Peace Conference, Russia was the first nation which went to war(Russo-Japanese War) after the Peace Conference at Hague. I am a sort uneasy and very skeptical when a great power asks others to peace conferences.
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The Koreans are naturally very much excited over the coming Conference. They expect that Japan will be somehow or other compelled to disgorge Korea by the conference! Nonsense!
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12th. Friday. Very hot.
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Very hot―perhaps the hottest day we have had this summer.
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13th. Saturday. Very hot.
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With wife and children left Seoul for Song Do home per 9:50 a.m. train. Arrived home nearly 12:30. All well. Thanks be unto God.
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Song Do home. Terribly hot.
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Song Do home. Exceedingly hot.
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Song Do home. Awful hot.
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Song Do home. East wind modifies the heat but hard on farmers.
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Song Do home. East wind still.
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Song Do home. 義巡집 or uncle Yi's sub-wife dropped in this morning. She talked with us only about 1/2 an hour but that was enough for her to stir up the volcanic fires of hatred in the heart of wife by telling us the fool things which my foolish aunt had said about my wife. Uiju-jip is a clever woman but thoroughly dangerous neighbor. Her two sons have so far proved to be heartless and thoughtless profligates. My aunt the legal wife of uncle Yi has been living a parasitic life in our home―she is a foolish and absolutely good for nothing woman.
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Song Do home. Very hot. Called on Bish. Lambuth at Dr. Cram's. Among other things about his recent trip to Harbin, Nicholski, the Bishop said: "The Chinese are moving into Manchuria and Siberia slowly but surely like glaciers. In the Russian towns he visited the farmers and builders are the Chinese. The Russian or the Japanese can not begin to compete with the Chinese as a farmer or a trader or an artisan. The Koreans, next to the Chinese are the workers. They seem to proper―when and where they are let alone."
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Attended the welcome meeting held by the Song Do Christians in honor of Bishop Lambuth at 紫霞洞ㆍ明姬 sick of chicken pox(?) .
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Song Do home. Steamy and terribly hot. About 4 p.m. a passing shower paid us a brief visit. But falling on the super heated ground the rain drops seemed to be vaporized no sooner than they struck the earth thus increasing the heat. Wife again sick―may be the intermittent fever. Eat―sleep―sick―medicine―well―eat―sleep―sick etc. etc. with everlasting sulphurous temper and tongue making herself miserable and others more so.
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Candler returned home about 7:30 p.m. from his trip to the South. Thank God he is home well.
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Song Do home. Steamy and fearfully hot. Dr. and Dr. 許□ Koo tell me that it is almost impossible to work together with Dr. Reid. He is so arrogant and obstinate. Dr. 許, who hasn't been given a single day of vacation during the last four years asked Dr. R. to let him have a few days off. Dr. R. told him that he(Dr. Huh) being a Korean in Korea, needed no vacation! On that principle an American ought to have no vacation in America! Dr. Koo said: Judging from the actions of Dr. Reid I often think he has no faith in the religion he professes. Yes, Dr. R. with all his pride and prejudice, is a "sanctification" man. One doesn't need the holy spirit to be so arrogant as to repel every Korean who comes near him. A good shower late p.m.
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Song Do home. A gentle and brief shower after dark.
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With 劉高原 left Song Do by 11:50 a.m. train for Seoul.
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Arrived home nearly 3:30 p.m. Very hot.
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Heat much less today than it was a few days ago.
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Left Seoul per 9:50 a.m. train for Song Do with mother.
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Song Do home. Bright and clear. Decidedly cool morning and evening.
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Song Do home. Cloudy and cool―a regular autumn day. Entertained Pastors 鄭在□, 崔壽永 and 康助遠 to supper. Rain began about 5 p.m. Spoke at the Northward Church.
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Song Do home. Rain all day long.
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Song Do home. Rain all last night and all day today.
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Song Do home. Cloudy. Wife sick.
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