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BY A KANSAS-MAN
Dr. E. P. Brown Invents a 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 factpr in
helping the United States government
In the work of reclaiming western des
ert and arid lands. The device is an im
proved solar motor. It has been de
signed and recently patented by Dr. E.
P. Brown, of Cottonwood Falls, Kan.
Dr. E. P. Brown's
The solar motor is intended for use
In arid sections to assist in irrigation,
Where on account of inaccessibility the
svater from mountain and other streams
rnay not be used for that 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.
JThe water may be had for the expense
of pumping it to the surface, because
most of these valleys have an exten
sive underflow 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 im
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
gation with v, ater pumped by a steam
ciigine for which the steam was genera
ted by a boiler under which coal was
burned, would be altogether out of the
qu??tion.
With the solar motor it is different
By harnessing the power of the sun's
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
surplus power may be stored or trans
mitted 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 noth-
ing to interrupt the continuous opera
tion 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 rill
all the requirements and exigencies of
any emergency.
If si! of the heat of the sun which
falls on one square mile of the earth's
surface was utilized In the generation
of steam it is estimated that there
would be developed 13,000,000 horse
power, and the heat utilized from a
ery few square miles would furnish
power enough to supply the industrial
world.
Many investigators in all ages have
turned their attention to the problem
of solar engineering and the overcom
ing of the great difficulties in realizing
a small portion of this immense
amount of sunpower literally going to
waste.
"Fuel is but the stored up heat of
the sun," says Dr. Brown. "Under the
action of the solar heat the carbonic
acid gas in the air is absorbed by the
plant, the- carbon becomes fixed con
tributing to the growth of the plant,
while the oxygen goes back into the
air. Consequently no sun, no vegeta
tion, no Vegetation, no coal. Coal is
fossil carbon and on burning, gives up
the solar heat stored up in it, and .that
celebrated engineer, Stephenson, on
seeing a locomotive move, said it is
not the coal which drives the engine,
but the sun's heat stored up in the
coal thousands of ages ago.
"Locomotives are the horses of the
sun and indirectly all engines are sun
engines. It is therefore no paradox
to regard the sun as the whole source
of fuel in the past as it must be in the
future. For this reason, great engi
neers of the past and present such as
Euclid, Archimedes, Buffon, Herschel,
Mouchot, Ericsson and others have in
vestigated the question of how to
utilize a small part of the sun's heat
in mechanical effort.
"The late Captain John Ericsson of
Monitor fame, made quite a number
of experiments and exhibited a solar
engine in New Yofk in 1884. Two of
the most successful modern solar en
gines were devised by the Frenchman,
Mouchot, and Captain Ericsson, and al-
Sola Motor in Use and Put Down to
though they did excellent work as far I
as it went, tney were crude aftairs,
with many tJef ects and had no 'mean's
whereby-they might be made to auto
matically keep in the focus of the sun
in its apparent diurnal or daily motion,
and for these defects these engines
could never prove of any practical
value.
"In 1901 a solar engine was devised
and constructed in southern California,
and it did good work for a time. This
engine was quite a large affair, the re
flector being somewhat over 30 feet in
diameter and made in the shape of a
truncated cone, the reflecting surface
being composed of a great number of
pieces of glass mirror plate, placed
together on the inside surface and con
centrating the sun's heat on a tube
shaped boiler located within the cen
tral focal line. The amount of heat
concentrated in the focus of this re
flector was said to be enormous and
it was claimed that copper, a very re
fractory metal, could be melted in a
short time, and a wooden pole thrust
up into it was ignited instantly, all of
which is highly probable.
"With a reflector constructed, of tin
plate I have many times melted lead,
and anyone may readily believe the
old story of Archimedes setting fire to
the enemy's ships, by concentrating
the sun's heat upon them with im
mense sun glasses.
"The reflector in the California ma
chine was mounted similarly to an
equatorial telescope, that is with its
axis parallel to the earth's axis and
after being adjusted so as to focus the
sun's rays on the boiler, the motion
of the said reflector could be main
tained coincident to the apparent daily
motion of the sun by an electric motor
and clockwork mechanism. It. was
claimed that this motor produced
about ten-horsepower of useful effect
ordinarily, but was capable of develop
ing fifteen-horsepower under the most
favorable circumstances.
"The reflecting surfaces of modern
experimental solar engines have been
constructed of slass .mirror plate, but
as it is well known that the sun has
a very deleterious effect upon the
amalgam in glass mirrors, it must be
apparent that failure must sooner or
later attend their use.
"All solar engines of any merit as
heretofore constructed have had the
rigidity fixed in the focal line or point
of the reflectors, consequently the boil
ers have the same motion as the re
flectors relative to the sun and the said
boilers have a position at night,
diametrically opposite to the position
they had at morning. For that rea
son the water level in the boiler can
not be determined accuratelyi'and any
one familiar with the operation of
steam boilers, knows that it is a very
dangerous proposition to carry steam
under high pressure in any boiler,
without being able to .determine the
water level. So colar engines having
the boilers shifting with the reflectors
cannot, ever prove successful and must
eventually meet with disaster.
"Another requirement which a solar
engine must meet is the facility with
which it may be protected in time of
storm. A large reflector projecting up
into the air is a shining mark in the
times of high wind and must be safely
protected. Solar engines to be suc
cessful must meet these requirements,
and more, they must be of simple con
struction and action so that any ordin
ary engineer may operate them. The
reflecting surfaces must be made of
some reflecting metal unaffected by
solar light and heat and must have
protection against storms. The boil
ers must be fixed stationary to be
safe."
Dr. Brown believes that he has per
fected a solar engine which embraces
all of the requirements enumerated.
He believes that it will come into great
Avoid Storms.
prominence and that the solar engine
will be a great factor in reclaiming 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
it will present . less resistance to the
wind. It 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.
ine block supports one end of a
tubular shaft which at the opposite
end is supported in a swivel bearing
carried on a bracket fastened to the
base of the frame.
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
spnerical Doner at the focus of the
reflector.
The boiler being stationary is con
nected to the engine like any other sta
tionary engine and steam generated in
the boiler is conducted by a pipe pass
ing through the tubular shaft to the
engine shown at the extreme right in
the mcture.
The tubular shaft carries a sprocket
wheel which has chain connection with
gearing operated by a clock mechan
ism on the base frame. The clock train
is driven by a weight suspended from
a pulley at the top of the tower, and
at intervals of two minutes it releases
the reflector, which thereupon rotates
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 to
the sun so as to focus the sun's rays
on the boiler.
The vertical movement or inclination
of the reflector is attained by operat
ing the gearing which meshes with the
segmental racks on me renector.
Everybody reads the State Journal.
RAG TlEORIGINi
Frederick N. Innes, Great Band
Leader, Tells the Secret.
Ernest Hogan, Kansas City Negro
Song Writer Started It.
All in the pas-ma-la.
Southern Darky Calling Figures
Furnished Inspiration.
Mr. Innes Says Rag Time Is
Surely Declining.
People Now Demand Better Class
of Music.
(Written for the State Journal
Frederick Neil Innes.)
by
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 figures-.for the intricate move
ments of the old fashioned quadrille,
he created a sensation and in the ver
nacular of the theatrical profession the
New Orleans darky made a "hit." A
single expression of this negro filled
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
negro's expression was "pas-ma-la."
Frederick Xeil Innes, tiie Great Band
.'lime Mas
It 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 or the
new dance was Ernest Hogan, who af
terwards 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 F.
A. Mills' "Georgia Camp Meeting."
, Now On the AVane. . ' ", ,
I daresay that 10,000 songs and-in
strumental numbers popularly- 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
NEW LIGHT ON
BRIGIIT'S DISEASE
The census shows that the annual
deaths from Bright's Disease have in
creased appallingly, as follows:
1870 1,722 deaths
1880 5,386 deaths
1890 22,330 deaths
1900 ". . 58,748 deaths
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 1860 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
Bright's Disease.
In 1900 of the 63,612 deaths, 58,748
(over nine-tenths) were known to be
BrightJs Disease.
These figures disclose that the dis
tressing increase in Bright's Disease is
not so much due o the sudden ce
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 eyelidB; Kidney
trouble after the third month; urine
mayshow sediment; failing vision;
drowsiness; one or more of these.
I offer those having Bright's Dis
ease a 3 6-page report on many test
cases put on Fulton's Renal Com
pound for Bright!?' Disease. It shows
87 per cent, of recoveries in this hith
erto fatal disease. The pamphlet is
free. Chas. W. Kohl, druggist, agent,
732 Kansas avenue.
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l iiM-.iliiiliJwn .1- bit ii iiiMaa...
seemed ray time made. Certainly no
orle ever considered a rag time Selec
tion from a 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, I have
been repeatedly urged to play the
music that appealed to the masses as
my advisors are pleased to term it.
While I have always made a particular
point of embodying in my programs a
liberal mixture of popular music of
the better sort, the hearing of which
not only pleased the unmusical listener
but made him or her better for the
hearing, I have always steadfastly re
fused to devote my efforts to the ren
dition of such music that cannot pos
sibly do any one good, and I 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 re5
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 trifling music of the
trashy sort has had its day. - - '
That time is also past when persons
who lent patronage to auspicious music
productions were looked upon as society
faddists and were 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 a 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.
. limes Tour a 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
Leader Who Says the Day of Rag
tiane.
is any doubt about the plain people de
siring 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 1,100
teachers lent their assistance. Fifteen
programmes, every programme made up
of the rarest and best of classic selec
tions, from the works of the world's
master musicians, were offered and
were heard by a total attendance of
over 70.000 people. Ragtime was ignored
at the San Francisco festival and while
I felt that the enterprise would have a
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
shelves had been literally stripped of
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. poncy or gooa music, noi
trash, was strictly adhered to.
When my band inaugurated its season
at the Lewis and Clark exposition in
Portland, the managers of that enter
oriee. while not confessing to be musi
cians, asked me to incorporate so-called
popular music in my programme. They
feared that the work .1 had outlined
would prove too "heavy" for the untu
tored westerners and urged that I keep
within close range of popular melody
For the opening night of the exposition
I had arranged a programme mat con
tained only one so-called popular num
ber. It was too late to change the pro
pramme, so I gave the fair patrons the
compositions of the masters, we piayea
in a natural auditorium which had a
seating capacity of about 10.000 and
every bit of available space seemed ta
ken when the concert began. With the
thought of the warning note of the
management buzzing through my mind,
I ex-kscted 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 I have
faith in the love of the people for the
good, and" while others were surprised,
I 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 "Parsifal"
night, devoted solely to selections from
Wagner's great religious play; the sec
ond was a "Lohengrin" night, with
scenes from the famous opera as the
sole offering, and the third special
event was a "Wagnerian" night, in
which I played divers selections from
all the operas composed by the German
master. Over 3,000 people were turned
away on the occasion of the "Parsifal"'
concert, and nearly as many '"were un
able to get seats or stamping room at
the other two concerts. Wagnerian
music is certainly the severest test of
public taste as regards the classics and
the exposition managers," thanks to our
experiment, have suffered a complete
reversal of opinion. This argument that
the people don't want good music is
drivel. They do want it. The argument
that -the majority of people can't ap-
a
hl lie
the
We can say truly that the people have declared
themselves in favor of EGd-O-SEE. , It gives universal
satisfaction, because all who use it come back for more.
"Furthermore, our customers tell us of their
own accord that EGG-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 chil
dren never had been so
well as since she began to
use EGG-O-SEE. She said
it made them bright and
active and that they were
getting along unusually
well 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,
1006 Topeka Ave., Topeka, Kas.
Hundreds of letters like this
amlng from reliable grocers cer
tainly mean something. They
ought to be sufficient to convince
any one that EGQ-O-SEEls well
worth a trial.
predate the great compositions of the
master composers is the veriest rot. It
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. It is up to the
promoters of art in music to -avoid the
tempting snares of- "rag-time" and pro
ceed with the good work teaching the
masses that what they want is good
music, not rot.
Harry Howard, . Mimetic Comedian,
Who WUI eB the Ileadliner at
Vinewood Next Weeiv.
THEATER 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 grieviously disap
pointed.. They attribute it to motoring,
golf, and bridge. There have been a
few successes, the foremost of which
is Carton's "Mr. Hopkinson; next comes
Sutro's "The Walls of Jericho," now
having the longest run of any piece in
London, except "Veronique;" then
"Leah Kleschna," "The Director," "The
Freedom of Suzanne," and Tree in
"Business Is Business."
AMONG THE STORY TELLERS.
Jokes and Anecdotes of the Players
Told Off the Stage.
Maclyn Arbuckle of "County Chair
man" fame was explainiris 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. "If a man has two houses and
his friend needs one, he should give
It up. Do you belieye in that?"
"Yaas, that's fair enough," said the
rural one, ruminatingly.-
"And," continued Mr. Arbuckle, "if
he has $200 he should immediately
give his neighbor half of it."
"That socialism Is a putty good thing
if thet's what it teaches," agreed the
farmer.
"You see," said Arbuckle, "it makes
all of us equal. Now, for instance,
if I needed a hog and you had two
hogs "
"Hold on, hold on," Interrupted the
tiller of the soil excitedly, "that ain't
fair; you know darn well that I got
two ho2S."
Jefferson De Angelis, the clever
comedian, was Intimately acquainted
with the late Eueene. Field when that
genius eked out a livelihood on the
Denver Tribune. Field enjoyed a 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
voice
OX:
pie
A Self Digesting
Cereal Food
Delicious Beyond
Comparison to the
. Taste
It digests itself as soon as it
comes in contact with the fluids of
the stomach, without the aid of that
organ, and thus gives the stomach a
perfect rest and permits it to regain
its heakh and strength.
It is made in the largest, cleanest
food factory in the world, which
runs night and day, twelve months
in the year, to supply the great de-j
mand. On account of the enormous
output, EGG-O-SEE can be sold
for the small sum of !0 cents a!
package. It will certf jmly pay you
well to give it a trial. At all grocers.
particularly fond of ore story.
"The story in qrjstion," Mr. De
Angelis says, "related to an unfortun
ate commercial traveler who had
known Field in Chicago and who
called on him the moment that he ar-
ted a while, and then the. drummer
remarked: 'Can't you print a little
something about my being in town.
Mr. Field? It would help my business
and please my wife, who is now with
her mother in Omaha.'
"It happened that Field was bitterly
opposed to this kind of publicity-hunting.
So he smiled as he acquiesced,
and ransacked his mind for some way
of teaching the traveling man a les
son. "He succeeded."1
'.'The Tribune of "the next morning"
John Jones, the well-known repre-
sentative of the firm of Smith & Co.,
is spending a jew aays in town w il n
his niece, Miss Tottie Coughdrops.'
"The paper hadn't been on the street
an hour when the subject of the para
graph bounded into the editorial room
wj. till; iiiuuuc. v i w u .uvjiu. lit- ex
claimed to Field, 'You've ruined me!
I haven't any niece named Coughdrops
and my wife knows I haven t! Sup-
ipose she sees that Item !'
J " T guess she will,' replied the poet.
BJIlilliig. X Illcllieil J 1 1 a. IU(X1 vujjjr
of the paper about ten minutes ago. ;
rhannppv Olcott tells thin ' e-nnd
storv:
A Tammany politician nas a wire
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, mamma! There's a
mouse jumped, into your Dreaa pan:
"The good woman was much pertur
bed and frantically asked, 'Did yoa
take him out?'
" "No'm: I threw de cat in. an' she'a
diggin' after him to beat de band!' ' -Lew
Fields has a young relative who
is 'very clever in his line arid who a
few days ago received a telegram ask
ing him if he would play a week's
engagement in a certain city In Ne
braska.
"I -want $300 for ' the week,"
promptly wired Mr. Field's young rela-
tive.- I
Twelve hours later this answer came
back: '
"Stop kidding. I can get the gov
ernor of Nebraska to play a week for
$300." . :.
VERY LOW RATES.
Santa
F Offers Inducements
Travel, East and West.
for
Asbury Park, New Jersey, and re
turn. $33.90, on account of the annual
meeting National Educational associa
tion, open to the public. Tickets on -.
sale June 2 8 to July 1 Inclusive. This
is a good rate for New York as Asbury
Park is only one hour and a half's
ride from New York - and stop-over
may be had there returning until Au
gust 31. Very low excursion rates are
in effect from New York, side trips to
Boston and other points may be made
at extremely low rates.
Baltimore and return, $31.25, ac
count Christian Endeavor convention.
Tickets on sale July 1, 2, 3. Can be
extended to leave" Baltimore as late as
Denver and return, $15.00, Epworth
League convention. Tickets on sale
June 30 to July 4 inclusive. Final
limit returning July 12. Rate of
$17.50 to Denver, Pueblo and Colorado
Springs on sale daily, final limit re
turning October 31.
For full information address T. L.
King, C. P. and T. A., Topeka.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM OTTAWA.
Via Santa Fe Railroad Round
Fare $2.10.
Trip
Spend the Fourth there at beautiful
Forest papk and the Chautauqua, re
turn on special train leaving Ottawa
at 10:15 p. m., arriving in Topeka at
11:45 p. m.
Santa Fe Low Rate to Colorado. "
Denver and return $15.00 via Pueblo
and Colorado Springs, June 3Cth, July
1-2-3-4.
Blank cartridges of all kinds
Coughlin Hardware Company's.
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