COWS TRAINED
FOR THE TEST
•tee vs at the War W’s Fair Are Ex
pected to Show That They Are
Superior to All Other Breeds.
The herd of Jersey cows assembled
the World’s Fair at St. Louis to rep
resent the Jersey breed in the universal
J&iry test has been inspected and has
Oeen pronounced in perfect condition
and ready to start upon their six
months’ grind on a day’s notice.
W. E. Spann of the Burr Oak Jersey
/&rm, Dallas. Tex., was the inspector,
.rad he was thorough in his work. He
passed a week ou the Exposition
grounds, and much of the time was
mt in and around the Jersey cattle
bam, anu the condition of each indi
lidual of the herd of forty cows was
definitely ascertained.
Never was more intelligent and care
ful treatment lavished on animals. No
Athlete was ever better trained for a
contest requiring the development or
ijpeed, skill and endurance than lias
Steen this herd of Jerseys. When it is
known that this herd is to compete
s ilh selected herds of Holsteins, Short
horns, Brown Swiss and Devons, and
the herd making the best score for the
production of butter, milk and cheese
ii to establish the standing of the
various breeds, the importance of the
cows being in perfect condition may
bo understood.
For a solid year the Jerseys have
been In constant -training. Twenty
ive cows will participate in the con
test. Cows were selected from the
best herds in the United States.
Dr. J. J. Richardson, president of
’Sie American Jersey Cattle Club, tin
ier whose auspices this entry is made,
soured Europe and visited the famed
Ssle of Jersey, where the breed origi
nated. He was seeking the best cows,
■Sot returned satisfied that Europe
show no cows that were better
&an those bred in America.
Though only twenty-five cows will
participate in the test, forty cows were
selected. They were assembled at
Jfcrseyville, 111., a year ago. This is
sear St. Louis, and the cattle have be
come acclimated. Last December they
were removed to St. Louis. The cows
are the property of individual members
jrf the club and are loaned for the term
if the test C. T. Graves, a breeder
it Maitland, Mo., was selected as the
superintendent to have charge of the
settle, and he has been highly com
plimented by Dr. Richardson and In
jpector Spann for the wonderfully fine
condition in which he has placed the
ierd.
A series of model dairy barns have
been built for the breeds competing in
fks test. The barns are octagonal in
iterm, and are so arranged that the
ws are in the center and a wide
promenade permits visitors to pass
around and view the cows as they
stand in their stalls.
The milking and feeding are to be
3one in plain view of the public, and
representatives of the various herds
will at ail times have access to all the
Saras to see that no sharp practices
ire indulged in.
The test not only consists in show
jag the amount of butter, milk and
jheese produced, but the cost of pro
motion is taken into consideration,
jfivery ounce of food given each cow
weighed and carefully recorded. Whet
"fee cows are milked, the milk is con
veyed to a model creamery in the Ag
building, where it is tested
acid made into batter and cheese and
where all records are carefully kept.
The Jersey cattle participated in a
jfanilar test at Chicago during the Co
lombian Exposition and carried off
3kst honors.
Superintendent Graves is sanguine
?er the result of the present test. He
ys that the Jerseys have always
itemonstrated their superiority over all
other breeds when placed in competi
tion, and this time they will show to
Setter advantage than ever. Not only
the Jersey milk richer in butter fat
4an the milk of any odier breed, says
Mr. Graves, but it can be produced at
a less cost. The Jersey cows are the
smallest of the standard breeds, and
ke asserts that they consume less feed.
They assimilate their food, and it is
xmverted into milk and butter and Is
aot used in building up and sustaining
t large carcass.
“We are going to make all other
breeds take to the woods after this
best,” said Mr. Graves. ‘‘A few days
Ago I was testing some of our Jersey
aailk, and my hands were all sticky
and greasy from the enormous amount
o t butter fat the milk contained. Mr.
Ton Hey lie, who is In charge of the
Solsteins, sent over a quantity of his
sailk for me to test. Of course, from a
commercial standpoint, there was no
comparison between the milk, but it
was a pleasure to test his milk, for
when I got through there was no
jrease on my hands. After this I
will have a bucket of Holstein milk
•around handy to wash my hands In
After tiesting our own rich Jersey milk.”
The test begins May 16 and contin
rs 120 days.
Unique California Map.
A unique exhibit at the World’s Fail
was prepared by the agricultural de
jsartment of the University of Califor
aia. It is a large map, so colored as to
show the character of the various soils
rf the state. It gives a clear idea of the
situation and the extent of the arable
Mid untillable sections. In the locali
ses that cannot be cultivated are
tbown the Sierras, the lava beds and
desert The map indicates the lo
cation of the cultivable portions of the
mountains and Mohave plateau and
shows the nature of the foothills and
* Ifeya of that wonderful state.
1 YOUTHFUL GENIUS.
Boy a Prodigy
In Study.
BPELLED WELL AT AGE OF THEEE.
NorUert Wiener, Son of a Harvard
Professor, Is Master of Higher
Mathematics, tlie Sciences and Sev
eral Dead Languages—At Eighteen
Months He Knew His Alphabet and
at Five Years He Was Heading
Eatin.
Although 1h is only nine years old,
Norbert Wiener, son of Professor Leo
Wiener, instructor of Slavic at Har
vard college, is master of higher math
ematics, of the sciences and of several
dead languages, says a special dis
patch from Cambridge, Mass., to the
New York Herald. With little prepa
ration he could enter Harvard, but bis
father will not permit him to do so
until he is fifteen years old. In the
meantime he will continue a course of
study Professor Wiener has mapped
out for him, and it is predicted by sev
eral of the Harvard faculty who have
watched his wonderful progress that at
fifteen he will be one of the education
al marvels of the century.
Young Wiener does not look like the
student that he is. He likes play as
well as any boy of his age, and his
chums are robust looking little fellows.
‘‘lt is a pleasure to study,” said Nor
bert ‘‘and I find much amusement in
making tests in chemistry in the little
laboratory which papa lias fitted up
for me. I spend an hour in the labora
tory every day, and then I read some
Latin, German or French author.
Bury’s ‘History of Greece’ I also find
Interesting.
“My eyes trouble me at times, and
for that reason I have been obliged
to give up reading extensively for
more than three months. My mamma
reads to me about an hour each day ex
cept Saturdays, that being a vacation
day to me as well as to the other boya
and girls in Cambridge. I have been
outdoors all day playing marbles, run
ning about with my playmates.
“The only thing that I read today
was the morning paper story about the
war between Russia and Japan. I am
for the Russians because my papa was
born and educated in Russia and that
is his country. He and I talk about the
battles every day and night, and I hope
that Russia will win.”
Professor Wiener does not consider
his boy any brighter than the ordinary
lad of his age and tries to impress this
fact upon him. The little fellow has
had advantages to learn which do not
come to every boy, his father has told
him, and he is often warned not to
make a dispiay of his knowledge that
would make his playmates feel uncom
fortable.
“I detest allowing the boy to im
agine that there is anything out of the
ordinary in his makeup,” said Profess
or Wiener, “and throughout his life I
have taught him to consider himself in
ferior rather than superior to any of
the children of his own age.
“The boy has been remarkable in
many things. When he was only eight
een months old he knew his alphabet,
and when he was three years old he
could write and spell very well. It was
during his third year that I discovered
that he really had a desire to learn,
and when he was five years old he was
studying Latin. When he was eight he
could reason out problems in differen
tial calculus, perform tests in chemis
try and read intelligently Latin, French
and German, besides having a fair idea
of Slavic.
“When he was five years old I took
him to a public school, but found that
he was not fitted for any class there.
He was either too advanced for some
class or not enough advanced for an
other. After considerable tutoring on
my part I have him educated now so
he will be fitted for high school in
another year, although he is studying
matter now that is considered advance
work for Harvard. He Is too young—
too much of a child—to go to college. „
“Within a few weeks I will send him
out to a farm, where he will romp and
play with other children until fall. His
eyes are so weak that it is necessary
for him to wear glasses, and I do not
Intend to allow him to overwork or
strain his eyes on any account. He has
somewhat of a matured expression,
but he is mature only in reasoning.
Personally I see nothing out of the or
dinary in him, any more than that he
is studious, has a very retentive mem
ory and has acquired a taste for pick
ing up such work as I am interested
in.”
Norbert has a little brother and sis
ter, but they take little interest in
study. They love to romp and play
with him, and they are proud of him,
but mud pies and marbles appeal more
to them than chemistry tests and math
ematics.
Shooting Geese by Electric Light.
Shooting geese by electric light has
been a popular form of amusement at
Paris lately, says the Kansas City
Journal. About a month ago several
were killed with the aid of this kind
of light. The other night a big flock
flying north was attracted and bewil
dered by the electric lights and began
flying back and forth over the town.
Before the geese finally got started on
their Journey again two men had killed
one apiece, and another had killed two.
Infant Socialists In Belgium.
The scholars of a little village near
La Louviere, in Belgium, have refused
to learn the Belgian national anthem,
the “Brabanconne,” says the London
Express, announcing to the schoolmas
ter that they were all socialists.
JAPAN’S IIAVAL HERO
Whole Land Rings With Praise
of Captain liirose.
HIS POEMS RECITED EVERYWHERE
Details of Hie Life of llie Gallant
Commander Wlio Was Killed In
the Second Attempt to Block Up
Port Arthur—Loved u Russian Girl,
but Would Not Wed Defeated
Three Russian Giants at Wrestling:.
Edwin Emerson, Jr., a staff corre
spondent of the New York World at
Tokyo, Japan, sends to his paper the
following sketch of Japan’s naval he
ro of the present war:
All Japan rings today with the fame
of Takeo Hirose, the first great naval
hero of Japanese-Russian war. The
mikado has conferred posthumous hon
ors on him and his name; a life pension
has been granted to his family. The
poets of Japan are singing his praises
in stirring ballads. His own poems,
breathing purest patriotism, are being
recited everywhere.
Pictures of Hirose adorn all the book
Btalls; highly colored prints immortal
izing his exploits are hawked about by
gogai men and venders on the streets.
The Navy Club of Japan started a
movement to erect a bronze statue to
Hirose in Hebiya park at Tokyo, and
within a week after the hero’s death
enough money w-as subscribed to in
sure the erection of the statue. Mukai
Katsuyagi, the great sculptor of the
Japanese nation, has promised to com
plete the statue within two months,
and has refused to accept money for
his labor of love.
For it was Takeo Hirose who was
killed in Admiral Togo’s second at
tempt to block up Port Arthur on March
27; who was leader of the forlorn hope,
who set out to sink themselves and
their ships in the harbor’s mouth; who
was ‘literally blown to pieces by a pro
jectile from a Russian quick firing gun
while seeking to save the life of his
friend and companion and subordinate,
Petty Officer Sugino.
It was Hirose who led the first at
tack at Port Arthur on the night of
March 23, and for his remarkable gal
lantry then the mikado promoted and
doubly decorated him, honors which
reached him only a day before his la
mented death.
Hirose, in his poetic temperament as
well as in his dauntless spirit, truly
represented the old warrior class of
Japan, the samurai. He was a scion
of the family of Kiku Chi, one of the
ancient fighting clan of Japan. Boro
at Oitaken, near Takeda, in the first
year of the Meiji era (1868), he grew
up in the country and received his
early training in a country school.
Entering the naval academy at the
age of nineteen, he distinguished him
self in nowise except by his passionate
fondness for swordsmanship, as taught
with the cutlass by an English fencing
master, and by his prowess as
wrestler.
Hirose first proved his bravery in th*.
war with China. Then he first met
Sugino, a common sailor, who dived
overboard after a live torpedo, which
had been thrown into the water, that
he might disconnect the fuse and so
render it harmless to the other Japa
nese torpedo boats. After the war
with China Lieutenant Hirose, who
spoke Russian and French well, was
sent as naval attache to the Japanese
legation at St. Petersburg. He came
into prominent there through a
wager.
At a banquet a Russian officer de
clared that Japanese, so small of stat
ure, could not, as individuals, hold
their own in any war. Hirose smilingly
defied any three Russians to overcome
him at wrestling. Roars of laughter
greeted the challenge, for Hirose’s
prowess was little suspected in the
Japanese art of self defense, Jiu jitsu.
At last, for the fun of it, the Russian
officer sent for three large and sturdy
soldiers. One after another the little
Japanese threw the giants.
The story spread quickly through the
military and naval clubs. It reached
the czar’s ears. When Hirose next at
tended a court function the czar asked
him to give a private exhibition of jiu
jitsu by wrestling with a man famous
for his skill and strength. Again the
small Japanese proved himself the bet
ter man.
Hirose remained in St Petersburg
three years. The daughter of a Rus
sian naval officer who is now a rear
admiral fell in love with the gallant
young Japanese. Her father, who
greatly admired let it be con
veyed to him that he would not be un
welcome as the young girl’s suitor.
Hirose struggled with his affection for
three days. Then he wrote to his
sweetheart’s father, pointed to the in
evitable war between Russia and Ja
pan, and said:
“When my country calls me to duty
I shall have to turn to account all the
valuable professional hints received
from your kind lips and so help to do
mortal hurt to your country’s ships.
Thus ill must patriotic duty make me
repay all your kindness. With this in
my mind and in my heart, how can I
presume to sue for your daughter’s
hand, knowing that after the outbreak
of the most likely of wars the stern
hand of fate might destroy the happi
ness of your daughter in the most ruth
less of ways should I have been so
happy to have won her hand?”
Thereafter Hirose became distinctly
a woman hater. He even insisted that
promising young naval officers should
not marry. His strongest claim to the
common people’s love and admiration
lay in his ability as a wrestler.
The “tips” annually paid in Switzer
land are reckoned at SBOO,OOO.
DOMESTIC NEGLECT.
Tragedy of Little Things That
Are Left Undone.
The judge raid spectators in a Kan
sas City courtroom laughed when a
husband testified that his wife gave
him only “mechanical kisses.”
Then the lawyers devoted many min
utes to the question, “What is a me
chanical kiss?” They decided that it
was a salutation given only through a
sense of duty, and then they laughed
some more.
They didn’t go far enough. They
might have called it a tragedy.
With most women affection lasts. It
burns as strcugly in old age as in gold
en youth. A iaress means a world of
joy to them.
Some men forget. They grow care
less. Carelessness is often a species of
selfishness. Once if- wap a privilege to
press a lover’s kiss on the lips of a
wife at the door when leaving in the
morning, again as a warm greeting
that always marked the homecoming
at night.
And one morning the man forgot the
caress and lost himself in business.
And a shadow fell on a romance, and
the woman wept. She tried to be brave
and sensible. She tried to laugh at the
silly fear that he didn’t care for her.
She assured herself a hundred times
that it was such a little thing and that
it was natural for him to forget and
that it was unreasonable for her to ex
pect the joy of the honeymoon through
life. She wiped away her tears and re
solved to hide her grief and be kind,
loving, patient.
And the man never knew. Perhaps
some day he went into court and com
plained that he had been the recipient
of “mechanical kisses.” Domestic neg
lect isn't always confined to l£S:k of
food and clothing. Cruelty doesn’t al
ways take the form of physical i buse.
When men learn to think, when they
remember that the little attentions of
ten mark the difference between joy
and sorrow in a woman’s life, there
will -be more real happiness in the
world.—-Milwaukee Journal.
An Arithmetical Wonder.
If twelve persons were to agree to
Jine together every day, but never sit
exactly in the same order around the
table, It would take them 13,000,000
years at the rate of one dinner a day,
and they would have to eat more than
#79,000,000 dinners before they could
get through all the possible arrange
ments in which they could place them
selves. A has only 1 change; A, B, 2;
A, B, C, 6; four letters, 24; five, 120;
six, 720; seven, 5,040; eight, 40,320;
nine, 362,800; ten, 3,628,800; eleven,
89,916,800; twelve, 479,001,600.
Kbib MJ SUCCESS.
Mr. Edwa~c* Bok, Editor of the Ladies’ Homo
Jeurnai, Tills Young Aien How
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The present century is replete with
examples of young men, who, alone and
unaided, have risen to
§the very highest pin
nacle of success in their
chosen calling. #Here
\ we have the striking
£ example of the presi
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over thirty years ago, penniless and
friendless, and who, during the first two
years, earned only |6oo, working beside
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