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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

The solar motor is intended for use
IN arid sections to assist in irrigation,
where on account of inaccessibility the
water from mountain and other streams
may not be used for chat purpose.
In the so-called desert regions of the
United States, there are as fine valleys
as may be found anywhere on earth,
only awaiting the vivifying touch of
water to make them bud and blossom.
The water may be had for the expense
of pumping it to the surface, because
most of these valleys have an extern
sive underhow at no great depth.
The solar motor is valuable to those
sections for the reason that it is opera
ted at practically no expense after that
Of the cost OF its erection. With little
or no railway service it is next to i'm
possible to secure coal for pumping
water in many of the arid lands, and
even with railway service, the cost of
coal and the cost OF transportation
would make it so expensive that irri-
cation with " alter pumped by a steam
engine for which the steam was genera
ted by boiler under which coal was
burned, would be altogether out of the
question.
with the solar motor it is different.
BY Harvesting the power of the suns
rays, the water may be pumped, and at
no expense. The solar motor solves the
problem. The solar motor may be used
only on bright sunshiny days, but
surnlus power may be stored or trans
mirted electrically for use when cloudy
DAYS prevail or at night for lighting or
other purposes. However, in arid coun-
tries a cloudy day is hardly ever known,
and there would consequently be moth
ing to interrupt the continuous opera
ton of the motor.
After experimenting for many years
and after constructing numberless mod
els. DR.. Brown believes he has at last
produced a solar engine which will fill
ali the requirements and exigencies of
any emergency.
If sll of the heat of the sun which
falls on one square mile Of the earth's
surface was utilized In the generation
,7S steam it is estimated that there
would be developed 100000 horse
power, and the heat utilized from a
very few square miles would furnish
power enough to supply the industrial
world
Many investigators in all ages have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

seemed rag time made. Certainly no
one ever considered a rag time selec-
ton from serious standpoint, and no
one, surely, can be surprised that that
form of alleged music is now on the
wane.
In touring the country year after
year with my organization, 1 have
been repeatedly urged to play the
music that appealed to the masses as
my advisors are pleased to term it.
While have always made a particular
point of embodying in my programs
liberal mixture of popular music of
the better sort the hearing OF which
not only pleased the unmuS5cal listener
but made him or her better for the
hearing, 1 have always steadfastly re-
fused to devote my efforts to the rem
dition of such music that cannot pos
sibly do any one good, and have been
firm in the belief that the people of
America like good music, and that rag
time, while it may have a following,
has no permanent supporters. The res
cent successes which have greeted dig
nified musical productions in this
country, the increase in interest in
good music and the popular demand
for compositions of the better sort, is
convincing, in my opinion, that there
is a deep rooted sentiment in this
country for music that is music, and
that cheap and trifiing music of the
trashy sort has had its day.
That time is also past when persons
who lent patronage to suspicious music
productions were looked upon as society
faddists and We're accused of going
to the opera for the style rather than
the music. People who patronize music
productions in this day go to hear the
music, not for the purpose of allowing
their neighbors to look at their dresses
or bonnets, or to chatter during the
rendition of the important works, but
for the purpose of giving what is best
in them chance for Improvement and
to satisfy the longing which is in all OF
US for that which comes nearer heaven
than anything else on this earth.
Innes' Tour Success.
The tour of the Innes band this sea-
son has been the most important in the
history of that organization in that the
band participated in two of the greatest
music festivals in the history OF the
Pacific coast states. We furnished the
instrumental music for the big May
festival in San Francisco and if there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

own accord that EG0-O-
SEE is the best cereal food
to be had, from a stand
point of health. A lady
told me this morning, as
she bought half a dozen
packages, that her chill
dren never had been so
we'll as since she began to
use EGG-O-SEE. She said
it made them bright and
active and that they were
getting along unusually
we'll at school.
"The fact that the
demand is rapidly in
creasing and new custom
ers are being added con-
vinCes me that EGG-O-
SEE will be with us after
many of the other cereal
foods are things of the
past"
Startzman & Brown
Grocer Company
1905 Topeka Ave-, Topeka, Kas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

preciate the great compositions of the
master composers is the VerieSt rot. 1t
would be as consistent to argue that one
must be able to write poetry in order
to appreciate it.
While the people of Europe may be,
as a people, further advanced in music
culture than the people of this country,
I am confident that there is a great fu-
ture in America for the better work of
musicians. The people have awakened
to a realization of what good music
means and the time is soon at hand
when the music tastes of the majority
will be for the higher specimens of
music art; when the boys on the street
will be whistling airs from Faust and
Carmen instead of melodies from the
"Bedelia" factory, and when the COM
mon people can go to grand concerts
and grand operas without being accus-
ed of trying to put on airs
The appreciation for good music is
in the human system. 1t is up to the
promoters of art in music to avoid the
tempting snares of rag time and pro-
coed with the good work teaching the
masses that what they want is good
music, not rot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

1t meant pass and swing. nothing
more.
Another negro in Bellvidere. mus
ically inclined, originated a dance and
called it the "Pas-ma-la." He com
posed some music for it and within a
few weeks anyone in the negro dis
trict of Kansas City who couldn't
dance the "Pas-ma-la," wasn't eligible
for coon town society. The fame of
"Pas-ma-la" spread and it had soon
gone beyond the borders of. Kansas
City and was being taken up in every
part of the country. The author of the
new dance was Ernest Hogan, who af-
forwards gained a measure of fame
for other songs he composed, but
when asked what his initial effort
meant, he said it was rag time" Ern-
est Hogan is the father of rag time"
for "Pas-ma-la' was the first effort of
this kind that ever attracted univer-
sal attention Following this came #.
A. Mills Georgia Camp Meeting"
Now On the Wane.
daresay that 10000 songs and in
strumentaI numbers popularity known
as rag time, have been composed and
put on the market since Hogan intro
duced the fad to Kansas City's colored
elite. The country, for a while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
RAG TINE ORIGIN.
Frederick N. Innes, Great Band
Leader, Tells the Secret.
Ernest Hogan, Kansas CityNegro
Song Writer Started 1t.
ALL IN THE PAS-MA-LA.
Southern Darby Calling Figures
Furnished Inspiration.
Mr.. lines Says Rag Time Is
Surely Declining.
People Now Demand Better Glass
of Music.
ALL IN THEPAS-MA-LA.

(Written for the State Journal by
Frederick Neil Innes.)
Several years ago there was a negro
dance in that section of Kansas City
known as Bellvidere Hollow, and as a
special inducement for the colored
folk to attend, it was announced that
an important negro from the sunny
districts of New Orleans would be on
hand to call the dance. This negro
made a most pronounced impression
from the start, but when he began to
call the tigures5for the intricate move
ments of the old fashioned quadrille,
he created sensation and in the YER
nacular of the theatrical profession the
New Orleans darby made a hit A
single expression of this negro filed
the dancers with wonderment in fact,
it caused such a sensation as to form
the principal topic of public gossip in
Bellvidere for many weeks after. The
Negroes expression was pas ma-la."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

particularly fond of ore story.
THE story in qvestion," Mr. De
Angels says, related to an unfortun-
ate commercial traveller who had
known Field in Chicago and who
called on him the moment that he ar
rived in Denver. The two men chat
ted a while. and then the. drummer
remarked: Can't you print little
something about my being in town,
Mr.. Field? 1t would help my business
and please my wife, who is now with
her mother in Omaha
at happened that Field was bitterly
opposed to this kind of publicity-hunt-
ing. So he smiled as he acquiesced,
and ransacked his mind for some way
of teaching the travelling man les
son.
"He succeeded
THE Tribune of the next morning
contained a note 20 this effect: Mr..
John Jones, the well-known repre-
sentative of the firm of Smith & CO.,
his niece, Miss Tottie Coughdrops.'
1.-The paper hadn't been on the street
an hour when the subject of the para
graph bounded into the editorial room
claimed to Field, You've ruined me!
haven't any niece named Coughdrops
and my wife knows I haven't! Sup
pose she sees that itemp
I guess she will replied the poet,
smiling. I mailed her a marked copy
of the paper about ten minutes ago.. :"
Chauncey oIcott tells this good
story:
"A Tammany politician has a wife
who is a model of all the domestic
virtues Among her other accomplish
ments is a talent for making home
made bread. One evening she had
finished setting the batch of dough
to rise in the kitchen and was rest
| ing herself in the parlor, when the
silence was disturbed by her .six-year-
old son, who came running upstairs,
crying Mamma, mammal There's a
mouse jumped into your bread pant
THE good woman was much pertur-
bed and franticaIly asked, Did you
take him out p
Nom; I threw de cat in, an she's
diggin' after him to beat de bandi'"
| Lew Fields has young relstive who
is very clever in his line and who a.
few days ago received telegram ask
ing him if he would play a weeks
engagement in a certain city in Me-
Il want $500 for the week."
promptly wired Mr.. Fields young rela-
| tive
c, Twelve hours later this answer came
back:
stop kidding. 1 can get the gov-
ernor of Nebraska to play a week for
$780,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

prominence and that the solar engine
will be a great factor in retaining the
arid lands which may be made gar
den spots under the proper plans for
irrigation.
The large reflector of the engine de-
signed by DR.. Brown may be reversed
and lowered in time of storm, so that
1t Will present less resistance to the
wind. 1t is pivotally mounted and at
the left end of the base frame is a
tower formed with two guide rails, on
which a slide block is adapted to
travel.
The block is raised or lowered to
the desired position by means of a
rope attached thereto which passes
over a sheave wheel at the top of the
tower, and is wound up on a drum at
the base.
The block. supports one end of a
tubular shaft which at the opposite
end is supported in a swivel bearing
carried on bracket fastened to the
The reflector is mounted on this
shaft by means of a pair of segmental
racks secured to the reflector and
adapted to mesh with suitable gear
ing carried in blocks on the shaft. The
shaft passes through and supports a
spherical boiler at the focus of the
reflector.
The boiler being stationary is con-
nected to the engine like any other sta
tionsry engine and steam generated il
tIAS OO1lGA IL OOI0OCCSO ny d pipe pass
ing through the tubular shaft to the
engine shown at the extreme right il
the picture.
The tubular shaft carries a sprocke
wheel which has chain connection will
gearing operated by a clock mechan.
ism on the base frame. The clock train
is driven by weight suspended from
pulley at the top of the tower, anc
at intervals of two minutes it releases
the reflector, which thereupon rotate:
the reflector through a small angle by
a second weight similarly hung
By this means the reflector is made
to always bear the proper relation t
the sun so as to focus the suns rays
on the boiler.
The vertical movement or inclina tor
of the reflector is attained by operat
ing the gearing which meshes with the
segmental racks on the reflector.
Everybody reads the State Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

These figures are stirring up health
officials all over the country.
However, here are some additional
census facts that throw new light on
the increase:
In 1850 the census reported deaths
from Kidney Disease, but none from
Bright's Disease.
In 1890 of the 37,549 deaths that
year from Kidney Disease, over half,
viz, 22.330, were recognized as
Brights Disease.
In 1900 of the 63,612 deaths, 5s,74s
Cover nine-tenths) were known to be
Brights Disease.
These figures disclose that the dis
tressing increase in Bright's Disease is
not so much due to the sudden de-
velopment of the disease as to the fact
that what we have in the past called
Kidney Disease is in about nine-tenths
of all cases Bright's Disease, and the
deaths are now so reported.
When to suspect Bright's Disease
weakness or loss of weight, puffy
ankles, hands or eyelids; Kidney
trouble after the third month; urine
may show sediment; failing vision !;
drowsiness; one or more of these.
I offer those having Bright's Dis
ease a 36-page report on many test
cases put on Fulton's Renal Com
pound for Brights Disease. 1t shows
81 per cent. of recoveries in this hith-
erto fatal disease The pamphlet is
free. Chas. w. Kohl, druggist, agent,
1872 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
Harry Howard, Min1etic Comedian,
Who Will eB the Headiiner at
Vinewood Next Weew-
rHEATER MANAGERS MOURN.
Declare Present Season in London Is
Worst on Record.

A London dispatch says: Theatrical
managers say the present season is the
worst on record. Last year they hoped
the turning point of seasons had arrived,
but they have been previously disap-
pointed. They attribute it to motoring,
golf, and bridge. There have been a
few successes, the foremost of which
is Cartons Mr.. Hopkinson:" next comes
Sutro's 1.-The Walls of Jericho now
having the longest run of any piece in
London, except ''Veronique;'' then
Leah Kleschna," ''The Director 1.-The
Freedom of Suzanne and Tree in
Business Is Business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
- - aAA - aHaA
DR.. E. p. Brown Invents Solar
Motor.
Believes That He Has Solved the
Problem. &,
USE In ARID REGIONS.
It May Solve the Problem of
Irrigation.
Arranged So That Storms May
Be Avoided.

"A Kansas man has invented a device
which may prove to be a big factor in
helping the United States government
IN the work of retaining western des-
ert and arid lands. The device is an i'm
proved solar motor. 1t has been de-
signed and recently patented by DR.. e.
P. Brown, of Cottonwood Falls, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

Hundreds of letters like this
coming from reliable grocers GER
fainIy mean something. They
ought to be sufficient to convince
any one that EGG-O-SER is well
worth a trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
The voice of
the people

ave say truly that the people have declared
themselves in favor of EGG-O-SEE 1t gives universal
satisfaction, because all who use it back more
t'FurthermOre, customers tell of their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM OTTAWA.
Via Santa F7e RaiIroad-Round Trip
Fare $2.1O.

Spend the Fourth there at beautiful
Forest park and the ChautauQua. re-
turn on special train leaving Ottawa
at 10:15 p. M, arriving in Topeka at
HAS p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

Santa Fe Low Rate to Colorado.
Denver and return $500 via Pueblo
and Colorado Springs, June Seth. July
1894.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
AMONG THE STORY TELLERs.
Jokes and Anecdotes of the Players
Told Off the Stage.

Maclyn Arbuckle of County Chair
man. fame was explaining socialism
and the theory of equality in all things
to one of his country neighbors on
Long Island.
you see, it's this way said the
actor. eff a man has two houses and
his friend needs one, he should give
it up. Do you believe in that2''
"Yaas, that's fair enough" said the
rural one, ruminatingly.s
and" continued Mr.. Arbuckle, eff
he has 5000 he should Immediately
give his neighbor half of it,
"'That socialism is putty good thing
if thet's what it teaches" agreed the
farmer.
"You see,'' said Arbuckle, ait makes
all of us equal Now, for instance,
if 1 needed a hog and you had two
Hold on, hold on" interrupted the
tiller of the soil excitedly, that amt
fair: you know darn well that got
two hogs"
Jefferson De Angels, the clever
comedian, was intimately acquainted
with the late Eugene Field when that
genius eked out a livelihood on the
Denver Tribune. Field enjoyed great
reputation as a practical joker, accord
ing to the comedian. and was not in
the least averse to lending his own
testimony to this notoriety. He was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

Blank cartridges of all kinds at
Coughlin Hardware Company's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

is any doubt about the plain people de-
string the better things in music, the
doubter should look up the record of
attendance at the San Francisco May
festival and ever after hold his tongue.
The San Francisco festival was promo
ted by the board of education and 100
teachers lent their assistance Fifteen
programmes, every programme made up
of the rarest and best of classic Selec-
tions from the works of the worlds
master musicians, were offered and
were heard by a total attendance of
over 10000 people. Ragtime was ignored
at the San Francisco festival and While
I felt that the enterprise would have
good effect on the music-loving inhabit-
ants of the city, I was amazed at the
report I received from one of the big
geSt music dealers in the city who wrote
me that following the festival his
every classic selection which we had
given there The May festival which we
gave in Los Angeles was as eminently
successful as the one in San Francisco
and the policy, of good music, not
trash, was strictly adhered to.
When my band inaugurated it's season
at the Lewis and Clark exposition in
Portland, the mana gers of that enter
prise, while not confeSsing to be must
clans, asked me to incorporate so-calied
popular music in my programme. They
feared that the work L had outlined
would prove too heavy for the UNTIL
tored westerners and urged that 1 keep
within close range of popular melody.
For the opening night of the exposition
l had arranged a programme that con-
tanned only one so-called popular num-
Der 1t was too late to change the pro-
pramme, SO gave the fair patrons the
compositions of the masters. We played
in a natural auditorium which had a
seating capacity of about 10000 and
every bit of available space seemed ia
ken when the concert began With the
thought of the warning note of the
MANAGEMENT buZZing through my mind,
[ exSected to see half the people leave
before the concert was finished. I don't
believe that ten people left thereir seats.
Others commented upon this incident as
an extraordinary happening, but j have
faith in the love of the people for the
good, and while others were surprised
was not.
People Wanted the Classics.
AS a test of public opinion I arranged
| three special events for the Portland
| season. The first was a fsParsifaP
night. devoted solely to selections from
| Wagner's great religious play; the Sec
| ond was "Lohengrin' night, with
scenes from the famous opera as tbs
sole offering, and the third specia
| event was a 'Wagnerian" night, il
which 1 played divers selections from
| all the operas composed by the German
master. over 5000 people were turned
| away on the occasion of the +ParsifaI
concert, and nearly as many were un-
able to get seats or staining room al
! the other two conce5ts. Wagneriar
| music is certainly the severest test OF
I public taste as regards the classics anG
/ the exposition managers. thanks to oul
I experiment, have suffered complete
reversal of opinion. This argument thai
| the people don't want good music is
! drivel They do want IT, The argument
that the majority of people can't ap-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
NEW LIGHT ON
BRIGHT'S DISEASE

The census shows that the annual
deaths from Bright's Disease have in
creased appalIingly, as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01

Everybody reads the State Journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-09
DEFINITIONS OF
A STOOL PIGEON
LIGHTFOOT DENIES THAT JACK
LOW WAS ONE AFTER CONSULT
ING DICTIONARY.

J. O. Lightfoot was still the witness
in the Parker ranch case this morning
and was under crOss-eXamination by w.
A. Kinney. The questioning attorney
demanded numerous explanations of
the attitude taken by Lightfoot, Ma
goon and others, in connection with the
ranch controversy, and much of the
questioning and answering was on legal
points.
Kinney at one time asked if j. S. Low
was a stool pigeon" when he visited
the ranch. Lightfoot fared up and re-
fused to answer the question and final
ly declared that he didn't know what a
stool pigeon was. A dictionary was pro-
cured and it appeared from the book
that a stool pigeon was a pigeon tied to
stool. Low was certainly not that,
and Lightfoot declared that he also
failed to qualify under the further def
dnition of a stool pigeon as a man used
as a decoy.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-09

High Sheriff Henry is said to be
still candidate for county sheriff, and
it is in his interest that the Advertiser
has been trying so hard to make it ap-
pear that there is wide-open gambling
in Honolulu. In other words, the last
county campaign has been revived, and
Henry is being groomed for another
try This is the explanation given Of
the sudden outburst of the morning
newspaper against County Sheriff A.
M. Brown.
"Che ia has been going on here for
over 25 years" said an official in
the Capitol building this morning. ut
has never ceased, and it appears on
every months police court calendar
right along"
This is well known to those who
hre informed about police work in
Honolulu Che ia did not cease under
Henry and it is going on now.
The present rumpus over it is said to
be a part of a long campaign to be
made against Sheriff Brown, by those
who still bitterly resent the defeat he
gave them in the last election. The
Advertiser during the campaign bit
terly assailed him and predicted that
he would be overwhelmingly beaten.
He was elected by an extraordinary
majority considering the split made in
his own party and now his newspaper
enemy is "after him"
The plan, according to local political