PRACTICAL, ARBORTCULT URE I4i 
The absence of timber prevents the establishment of adequate manufac- 
tories, which might keep the people employed; hence, idIness is the prevailing 
condition. 
The Koreans are not a bad people at heart; on the contrary, they are 
gentle and kind, and were it not for their idle habits and false notions of reli- 
gion, they would rise as rapidly as have their Japanese neighbors. 
THE BLACKSMITH, KOREA 
The presence of forests enables man to procure materials from which to 
make things. It gives employment to the people. It increases the desire for 
better homes, better methods of life, and is the great incentive to labor. 
While the absence of trees make these things impossible, discouraging any 
attempts at the betterment of human conditions. Thus idleness is begot and 
national decadence follows in the natural course. : 
