Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-02-16
EDUCATION OF THE JAP0.
Government and Naval Ohicials En-
titled to Much Credit in
the Work.

! In no field of activity has japan
done 50 much as IN that of education.
Thanks to the private and temple
schools which have been in existence
Tor centuries, as we'll as to the higher
state seminaries, popular education has
always been at high level. says the
Seattle PostIntelligencer.
1t Is greatly to the credit Of the jap
anese physicians that ever since the
middle of the 18th century they have
applied themselves to the study Of the
Dutch language, thus opening a chan
mel which has enabled the science of
Europe to effect an entry among. them.
AS early as 1857 Toxic saw the crea-
ton of sort Of institute for foreign
science in which instruction was given
at first In Dutch. then in English
French, German and even Russian Ian
guaees. The chief achievement Of this
seminary was the compil Station OF an
English-Japanese dictionary, while
in 1858 the first European
school Of medicine was also established
there. A quarter Of century ago ia
pan depended almost entirely upon
foreign countries for its supply of pro
fessora md teachers; now the recruits
are wholly drawn from native schol-
ars. It scarcely requires to be shown
hat this new system of public educa
ton proved in a comparatively short
time an effective means Of transform
ing Japan in the progressive sense in
tended by the government, so that the
ministry of education may be said to
have done most to weld the nation into
4 harmonious whole. It may fairly be
Inferred that this wise and full devel-
opment Of Japan educationally is to be
credited larg " with the clever work
nov being performed by the Japanese
naval commanders and government Of
fciale, the similarly clever work Of
Japans army and navy in the Chino
Japanese war of 1894-95 and in the
march of the allied forces upon Peking.
When You Get Shaved.
Very few men realize the manual
labor entailed in the operation OF
shaving, aside from the constant care
and skill that must be exercised said
the handsome barber, as he paused to
strop his razor II didn't realize it
myself until the other d;N. The man
was shaving was stranger to me
and he seemed a trife nervous. When
got through VIII him he said to
me: DO you know how many strokes
of the razor you used in shaving me-"
looked up at the clock. 1t had taken
me nearly 20 minutes. I give it up
said I never thought about it, Well
said he, as he buttOned his collar, You
used Just 459 strokes with the razor.
That's pretty fair for me, because I'm
nervous. | have frequently been up to
nearly 900. You see, l suffer from in
somnia, and the only way l can get to
sleep at lights is to lie in bed and
count. In that way l have got into the
habit of counting the razor strokes
while getting shaved, and l want to
tell you that 459 is a pretty good
record for me- Say, do you believe
that t?"-Philadelphia Record.
Too Advanced.
Father-You are very backward in
your arithmetic. When I was your age
was doing cube root.
Boy-What's that?
what? You don't even know what
it is? Dear me, that's terrfble Here,
give me your pencil. Now, we'll take
say, /, 2, 8, A. and f1nd the cube root.
First you divide-no; you-let me see
-um-yes-nO novel;, never mind
after all, perhaps you're too young to
understand it"-Stray Stories.