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DR. SCHERER ON JAPAN. An Interesting Lecture In Columbia -Causes Of War and Japan's Future. Dr. J. A. B. Scherer, president of Newberry college, delivered a lec ture on Japan, in Columbia. Friday. The Columbia papers give the fol lowing account of the address: The lecture of Dr. J. A. B. Scherer, given under the auspices of the New Century club at the College for Vo men last night, was listened to by a large audience. Superintendent Dreher of the city schools, who was a classmate of Dr. Scherer during their college days, in troduced him with a few pleasant and appropriate remarks. Dr. Scherer spent the early years of his ministry as a missionary and teacher in Japan and while there stud ied the people, problems and condi tions of not only Japan but the en tire east so thoroughly and so care fully that his subsequent writings have been widely read. Being master ,of his subject, he speaks with a fluen cy and readiness that adds to the enjoyment of his address. He held the closest attention of his audience during the entire time and during one particular period of eloquence the in terest of his audience was so intense ,that it is no exaggeration to describe it as almost breathless. The speaker asked that his audi ence accompany him on a journey through Japan and see the people in their homes, at their pursuits and at their worship. The lights in the chapel were dark ened, and by means of ,tereopticon views he carried them through many of the principal cities, from the scenes of snow in the north to the bearty of the blossoming south. There were rice nelds. suggesting something of the natives' remarkable system of ir rigation, and the tea fields showing the peasants at the work of tea pick ing. Their farming, he said was both intensive and extensive. There vere many views showin.: the idols, homes, gardens and characteristic types of people and views All were describe -i-a mcAt instructive and entertaining talk as each view was shown on the canvas. After the lights were again turned on Dr. Scherer spoke on the "causes and significance of the eastern war." HeI traced the advancement of Rus 'an intrusion southward from Sibria into Chinese territory from its begin ning 200 years ago and showed how each step had led up to the present war. Russia, he said, realized at the beginning that to get a foothold in the east and to have an outlet there. it would be necessary for her to find a southern port and all that "she had done had been with this purpose in view. Japan's statesmen had been astute enough to see the meaning of these movements on the part of Rus sia and to foresee their results. The war between China and Japan in 1894 resulted from the effort of the statesmen of Japan to prevent the building of the Trans-Siberian rail way throughout Chinese territory to Vladivos-ok, which had become Rus sia's outlet to the east, and, he said, Japan never showed her greatness more plainly than wvhen she relin quished. upona the humiliating demand of Russia. France and Germany. the territory in Manchuria which she had acquired by her victory over China. Dr. Scherer further said that Japan is the key to the situation in the east and that ony through her mediations would the other nations of the world be able to reaah awakening China in the future. Sound Advice to Job-Hunters. Philadelphia Bulletin. Senator Scott of West Virginia who, like other members of the na tional law-making body, is continu ally pestered with applications for office, is credited wvith the following statement: "Mv advice to all young men in West Virginia is. scatter to the winds all ideas of securing employ ment under th1e government, but get out in the ibusy world, where you can touch elbow to elbow with bust ling humanmty. Don"t coop your self up in a musty government office at a bare living salary and permit 11 your energies to remain dormant. "When the government employes ye to go. out into the world again ey. hwa but slight business exper icnce outside of the dull routine of lofice. and have nabits which unfil them for vocatons requiring energy I and close application." Possibly the senator's enphatic remarks may have been largely in spired by the vexation and dinicultv I he has himself experienced in at tempting to get jobs at Washington for his constituents. But whether t this is the case or not, his counsel ( is eminently sound, and it applies to I young men in all other states, ai well as in his own. The short hours which mark r many federal clerkships may seem a attractive to the indolent or the phy- 1 sically feeble. But men with red t blood in their veins and the ambi- r tion to achieve real success can 1 usually find something much better to do than securing an official ap- I pointment where promotion. at best, is apt to be excessively slow, and where the routine work tends by its t monotonv to dull the mind and relax r the energies. t An eccentric ShropshirL, England, r sexton, who has just died at an ad- , vanced age, had been for over 6r c years connected with Wellington parish church as grave-digger and sexton. The man had never ridden in a train or any other kind of ve hicle. t The World's Savings. Topeka Journal. t The total deposits in all the sav ings banks of the world, according t to latest official information received by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statis tics, amounted to over SIO,500,000,- s ooo. contributed by 82,64o,ooo de- 2 Positors. As the figures used in ar- a riving at the grand totals over about one-half of the population of the world, viz., over 770,000,000, it a appears that the United States, with I less than 9 1-2 per cent. of the total t population considered contributes b over 29 per cent. of the total savings deposits recorded. Of the total ni:mo- of depositors, or rather de posit accounts, the share of the Uni ted States is somewhat less than 9 h per cent. while the average deposit per account is more than four times and the average savings per inhabi tant more than three and one-half v times the corresponding averages for t the rest of the world. In Europe, and even in Canada. the functions of the government in this field are larger than in this e this country, wvhere the state restricts f, itself merely to formulating the gen eral legislation pertaining to the sub ject. sanctioning special charters for 1 the creation of saving banks, and r controlling through special officers v the proper workings of said banks. The European governments in many g cases have shown greater interest in this mode of popular saving, either by guaranteeing the safety of depos its Or by instituting government in stitutions, chiefly postal savings C banks, for the receiving and. manag ing of saving deposits. In some s countries, such as Russia, Bulgaria b and Roumania, the lack of private in- j itiative and the preponderating in- 3 fluence of the state in the entire I, economic life of the nation have b caused the development of pubFc r savings banks to an alomst exc lu- t sive extent: in other countries, such d as Germany, Switzerland and France, c the local public bodies, such as the s communes or cantons, from the very 1 outset invited ang fostered the de- C positors of small savings by estab- 1, lishing municipal savings institu- c tions. The United States cannot afford toib permit revolutions every now and then in Pandma, such as take place p in many South American countries. p The interest of the United States in p the canal and transportation across c the isthmus require peace and good v government in the Panama republic. f That will have to be made known toi the people of that country, if not a already realized. A forward stept has been taken in that direction by President Amador in getting rid of General H{uertas as commander of I the Panama army. This diimnutive officer, commanding a few men, un dertook to suit his ideas of how things should be conducted. But , there were too many United Statest war vessels and marines in that vi cinity to permi.t General Huertas to i seed, andA he reigned command )f the army, though he still draws )ay. He should be dismissed, as ie has shown himself ambitious and insafe. There is no need for a 4tanding army in Panama. A good slice force is sufficient. No nation vill attack Panama while it is un ler the protection of the United ;tates. There will be no field in hat countrv for revolutionarv lead rs. as thev will soon realize if they aunch out further in that direc Revolutions in South and Central 4 kmerica are things in "the coiurse of atural events" and the Panamans nd Colombians can no more be pre 'ented from raising revolutions than he South Carolina farmers can be 4 revented from raising cotton. The iest the United States can hope to o is to keep enough marines on and to prevent serious trouble. The California state board of rade has voted to request the Sec etary of the agriculture of the Uni ed States to appoint a special com issioner to ascertain and report re arding all agricultural products that an be raised in the state. It Ought To Be. ,harlotte Observer. It is a pleasure and a comfort to ee in dispatches from Washington hat there is no reason to believe the resident feels that he is -nder any pecial obligations to Addicks in )elaware, and that the corrupt boss s not likely to become the adminis ration adviser and mouth-piece for hat state. We can well hope that his is true. E. S. Willard will come to this ountry in January with the late Wil on Barrett's play, "Lucky Durham." ppearing in the title role. He will Iso have several frra mbers of the Bar Any way, when a girl pays a lot for hat she gets some trimming on it. uying a stiff, hard, unadorned hing even at only three dollars must e awfully dull work. Miss Oldgirl is a fearful manhater. How do you know? Vhy, at church she won't even use a Ymn-book. Three pickpockets of national fame ere arrested in Chicago while at ending a performance of "Raffles." in which Kyrle Bellew is starring. Why do some people always look mbharrassed wher the mooni is re -rred to? A few men are willing to acknow edge that they try to be good. The 1ajority are proud of being a little ickeder than they really are. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, Court of Common Pleas. David H. Wheeler, Plaintiff, vs. :arrie D. Shockley et al, Defedants. By order of the court herein I will el before the court house at New erry, South Carolina, on Saleday in )ecember, within the legal hours of ale, to the highest bidder, the fol winlg lot or parcel of land lying and eing in or near the village of Hele a. county and state aforesaid, con aining Seventy-Three One-Hun redths (73-1oo) or an acre, bounded n the south by College street which eparates it from a lot of Mrs. Seig r, on the west by lot formerly of arrie D. Shockley, on the north by > formerly of Brancie 0. Holman, n the east by lot formerly of E. J. olman. 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