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TWENTY YEARS AFTER.
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Takes Vp the Question of Music and Shows
Where Time and Harmony Are
Important Factors.
Copyright, 1905, by Central News and Press Exchange.
JZSsmsmcf llY.r.K was a wise guy once
$) said that music has charms
Is to soothe the savage beast. Ot
i course he may be right. At the
same time I notice that every
time a brass band passes down
Fourteenth street playin' "Swamp
'em, swamp 'em, get the wampum." Char
ley Murphy scuds out for two highballs,
an' the district leaders is ordered to econ
omize on street sweepers. It's a cinch
that next day there's a panic down at
City Hall, an' if the toon's played jjood
an' forty, the whole organization's shook
up for a week. There ain't a soothin'
note. You see it takes a different sort of
note to soothe the wigwam bunch. But
notwithstandin' the disturbances caused
here an' there by various toons, there's
no denyin' that music Is a blessin' to the
people. The point is to have the proper
music at the proper time. If some suy
plants himself under George W. Perkins'
window at two o'clock in-, the mornin',
and starts in playin' a cornet solor on
"I don't like no cheap man." yon can ex
pect no burst of enthusiasm out of Cieor
pie. You get him down at the opri an'
tnere ain't anybody that'll have a better
time. Music's like evervthin' else it's
sot in be handled with discretion. So has
campaign contributions.
The two main things in music is time
nn' harmony. If you don't have the
time an' the harmony rit;ht, music's on
the junk. There is some people hold3
that harmony's more important than
time, an' apain there Is others that holds
the visa versa. Harmony is what vou
tnieht call the scientific blendin' of notes
For instance: if Timothy r. Sullivan
has fifty rives in his jeens. an' the fran
chise negotiator comes along- an' lavs
J wo thousand more down on the table
1 im pulls out his fifty, an' somehow thev
ct, scientifically blended together. You
can t tell where they met or how they
was mixed up. An' instead of bent" two
separate bunches of notes they're all one.
J hat s harmony. When the matter
comes up for a vote there ain't a dis
cord nowhere. Things is blended grand,
an the people is blended out of a fran
chise It's the same in music. When
aii of the instruments Is pla.vin' there
mustn't be no jarrin' sound. Kverythin'
must sound sweet to the ear. Can vou
imannne, any sweeter music than to hear
a supreme court judge singin' out eighteen-months
n a sort of crescendo trem
olo to one of this insurance crowd while
trie rest of m was in the cells below
listenm to the band play "Won't You
fctep Ip to the Bar, Me Bovs?" An'
11111 ' where time comes in as bein' an
important matter. Take Flick Canflold's
case for instance, where they fined him
a thousand bucks for keepin' a gambiin"
house. There wasn't nothin' to it. That
wasn t more than five per cent, of little
Reggie's donation. A little time would
have been a different matter, even if it
had been oniy three months.
The hardest thinsr about the music
frame is the fact that the boys that delivers-
the froods don't gret the coin for
It. That is, some of 'em don't. The
things is not equally divided. It's the
pame in the legislatures. It don't cut no
figure for you to be an assemblyman.
What you've. Sot to work out is to scet
on the proper committee. Did von ever
hear that piece they call Kroitser's Son
ata? It was doped out by a buv named
Tk-ethoven. He was a bird, too, only
he bad hair instead of feathers. He
could have stuffed a mattress, whereas
a bird couldn't do more than fill a board
Jn house pillow. But take him. Here
he starts In to write Kroitser's Sonata,
aa it takes him six. months. He turns
out a fine toon. There ain't nobody can
deny it. An' what does he get? Why.
they hand him over enough dough to get
a hair cut, an' when he gets through with
the tips lies got enough left to buy a
half a gallon of red ink an' a table de
hote dinner. An' they're selling the
piece yet. Abe Holtzman butts in an'
writes Smoky Mokes in six minutes an
makes six thousand dollars ln one week.
It ain't fair. Of course Smoky Mokes
may be a better piece than Kroitzer's
Sonata, but there ain't that much differ
ence. If a fellow like Puss with his
band comes alon an' plays 'em both
you can't tell one from the other. Then
take this guy Devorak. They call him
Fevorjack because his name ain't spelled
that way. He writes a piece. The mu
sical bunch alludes to it as a suite for
quintette. Ip in Harlem they call it five
rooms an' bath. But that don't matter.
The publishers sells the English rights
for tln.tXK), an' Jack gets two hundred.
Pousa, beln' on to his game, unloads the
High School Cadets, an' he makes
enough coin out of the royalties to buy
an apartment house so he can let it out
to the McCurdy family in case the bunch
is dispossessed. Now. of course a great
many of these things is doo to a lack of
business sense, but they're discouragin',
just the same. You can't expect a mu-
( A
Tliere is people that likes to show how
imtcli tlioy can put on. an otlirrs
how much they can take off with
out bein' arrested. ;
sician to have any sense. The boys that
has the sense is the people that handles
them. Why, there ain't a musician that
I know of that even has sense enough
to have his hair insured, an' what would
In
Things is blended grand, an' the people is blended out of n franchise.
any of 'em be if they was to lose heir
frizzes? Why, they'd be dead ones. Half
tho people that goes to these concerts
goes to see the gymnastics of the star
pertormer. If he don't do a handspring
while he's hittin' up a cantata in high
O he's figured out as lackin' in artistic
temperament, an' put down as a dub. Of
course lots of 'em don't know this. They
really think the people go to hear 'em
play. But they don't.
Another thing I want to tell you about
this music game. The people ain't such
dubs as you take 'em for. This business
about 'em not appreciatin' high art is all
rot. The people is wise. The fact is
that they're on to the dead ones, an'
you can't throw no bull con into 'em
about a wonderful piece simply because
it's been wrote by some chap that's been
twangin' a harp for a hundred years. No
chance. Look at this opri bluff. Half
of the opris ain't woi th sittin' out. There
ain't one person in fifty that knows what
the guy is singln' about. An' there
ain't one in a hundred that cares. Here
an' there you hear a fine toon like I
dreampt I dwelt in Marble Halls, but
Whose broad stars an da ra, turn
da ra ra ra ra.
for the most part the rest of it's tommy
rc:. While they're handin' it out you're
wishin' you could dream you were back
in a good class hash house where the
orchestra's playin' Sweet Annie O'Grady,
an' not wake up. Of course the people
goes to the opri because they're a lot of
jays, an they're scared to death to own
up that they think it's all to the bad.
Then there is people that likes to show
how much dress they can put on an'
others that likes to show how much
dress they can take off an' not be ar
rested. There is various reasons why
people goes to the opri. One of 'em is
music. But the people that pays forty
bucks for a stall has other notions.
The great beauty about music is that
it's got functions. There ain't nothin'
like bavin' a function. Music soothes
you to sleep an' excites you to war.
When the flags Is wavin' an' the bugle
sounds to charge a guy feels a keen de
light in crackin' another guy's skull if
the drums an' fifes is rippin' out Way
Down South in Dixie. An' is there any
thin' more inspirin' in quiet times of
peace than to hear a great gatherin' of
loyal Americans rise In a body an'
shoulder to shoulder sing at the Star
Spangled Banner? Why, I fancy I can
hear 'em now:
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early
light.
Dura da-ra, dum da-ra, dum da-ra lights
last gleamin'.
Whose broad stars an' da-ra, turrt da-ra
ra ra ra
Cm da-ra, dum da-ra, dum da-ra ra ly
streamln'.
Ain't it frrand when they break into
the chorus? Tou can bet your life it la.
&rj I 11"-
W'hilo they're handin' it out you're wishin' you could dream you were back
in a good class hash house where the orchestra is playlu' Sweet Annie
O'Grady.
There ain't a piece writ like it nowhere
in the world. There is fine national airs
turned out, I'll admit. The Watch on
the Rhine sets the Germans to cheerln',
the Frenchman goes dippy whenever the
words of the Marsales is heard, but the
beauty of the Star Spangled Banner is
that nobody knows the words, an' they
cheer just the same. Of course the for
eigners knows 'em, so there's no need of
the Americans botherin' about it. What's
more, they don't. But everybody sings
the toon, an' everybody respects it.
Why. whenever there's a war on the
people actually stands up when it's
played.
WIIL TALK OF JAPAN".
Dr.Eijiro Takasugi to Iiecture Before
Y. M. C. A. Today.
Dr. Kijiro Takasugl, S. T. B.. Ph. D..
Japanese samurai, professor of English.
Imperial college, Sapporo, Japan, post
graduate Boston university, graduate De
pauw university, will speak to the To
peka Y. M. C. A. at the First Baptist
church this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
He is one of Japan's most noted edu
cators, lie has done as much, tor the
cause of civilization In the little island
in the Far East as any single person
along his line. The Y. M. C. A. is one of
the things that the doctor believes in
above many things. Its influence and
effects in the Japanese-Russian war was
very important and far-reaching. About
this particular point Dr. Takasugl will
make the principal part or nis talk.
Stereoptieon views will be used to il
Iustrate the lecture. Some especially fine
views of the big war have been secured
for this occasion.
Dr. Takasugl is a big man in Japan.
The son of Marshal Oyama was especial
ly entrusted to the tutelage of this emi
nent scolar. Thirty of the army officers
who won renown at the front, sat under
his instruction. The doctor is the son of
a noble family and has entree into the
inner circles ot ins country. Hon 8
Chinda. vice-president of foreign affairs.
was a college mate and a most intimate
friend.
He 13 a member of the Japanese samu
rai, the title of the aristocratic military
family of Japan. While its actual exist
ence passed away with the revolution of
lSfiS, yet memoersmp m it stm gives a
man Immense social prestige.
A. D. T. WANTS NEW FRANCHISE.
Old One Will Expire on the Firth ol
February.
Lutes can get your photos out for
Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue.
The American District Telegraph com
pany will ask the city council for a new
franchise soon. The present franchisa
expires February 5, 1906, and the com.
pany asks that the same franchise be re
newed for a period of twenty years.
The old franchise was granted a twen
ty year term.
"I don't believe that there will be any
opposition to granting the franchise as it
now stands for another period of twen
ty years," said City Attorney F. G. Dren
ning. "There is nothing particularly im
portant at stake and the present fran
chise covers about everything that' the
city would ask them to accede to in the
extension of an additional twenty years."
The franchise obligates the company to
put their wires underground at any tima
that the city may dictate, the city engi
neer supervising the same. The city ia
also held harmless against all damages
which may result from the construction,
or operation of the lines of the company,
ju uuuiLiuxi it is uob exclusive.
SHIMEIi WOULD HAVE A Vt'.UX,
His Plan to Prevent Destruction o
Shunganunga Bridge.
A retaining wall 500 feet lone on the
north bank of the Shunganunga, west ol
the new bridge over Kansas avenue, ia
what Councilman Shimer of the Fift'a
ward is asking the city to construct. Tha
request was made to Mayor Davis Sat
urday. The mayor is inclined to think
that the retaining wall will be too costly
and that one not so long will have to suf
fice. Riprapping is what City Engineer
McCabe advises. At present the dirt
from the fill, which is being constructed!
for the approach of ths bridge, is sliding
down and into the creek.
The oid bridge has been removed by ths
street department, though tha piers ara
still standing. Until the approaches tej
the new bridge are completed, traffic will
have to be diverted towards the Van Bu-
ren street bridge.
DEAN QUITS THIS WEES.
Will Turn Ilia Office Over to IL J.
Bone Tuesday or Wednesday.
J. S. Dean, United States attorney, will
not turn his office over until probably
next Tuesday or Wednesday to Harry J.
Bone, the new appointee, although tho
regular legal time is up on Sunday. This
is due to the fact tiat the Kaw river in
junctions suits, hearing of which before
a special master was continued until
next Monday from October, are to be
resumed on the first day of next week.
"We will probably finish about Wed
nesday," said Mr. Dean this afternoon.
"Mr. Bone will come In then, I suppose."
The Elder Dumas.
"A stranger once visited a merchant
of Marseilles with a letter of introduc
tion from Alexander Dumas. It was a
glowing letter. The merchant welcomed
the stranger warmly, and entertained
him with great hospitality for threg
weeks. , ;
"Then in the night the guest disap
peared, taking with hirh his host's best
horse, and a quantity of silver plate.
"The merchant, on his next visit to
Paris, sought out Dumaa.
" 'A pretty guest you sent me, ha
said, bitterly. 'The fellow decamped
with my best horse and plate worth
5,000 francs.'
" 'What!' cried Dumaa, horror-stricken.
'Did he steal from you, too?' "
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Lutes can get your photos out fo
Xmas. 511 Kansas avenua.