Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1915 — CAN CARRY ENORMOUS LOAD [ARTICLE]

CAN CARRY ENORMOUS LOAD

Korean Coolier “Packs” Five Hundred Pounds, sind Thinks Little of the Burden. The Korean of the poorer class is born to a life of pack-horse servitude. He is a beast of burden and little else. From the moment he can stand steadily upon his legs and bend his back to a poise of iron-like rigidity, the burden is rolled upon him. He is only a little leather-skinned man, more often under five feet in height than over-it,’ and rather insignificant in build, but when it comes to those muscles up and down his back, he’s a wonder. Once the load is in place, which he stoops camel-like to receive, he can carry 500 pounds upon his back and trot with it With a rack made of forked sticks, known as a “jiggy.” having a basketlike receptacle, he can carry a perfectly paralyzing load of stones or of other building material. The “jiggy” is supported by means of straps over the carrier’s shoulders and others secured about the hips. It is both cart and wheelbarrow. The Korean coolie takes to no other kind of vehicle. What was good enough for his forefathers 300 years ago is good enough for him.