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MAY GIVE UP DRUM FRENCH MINISTER OF OUTSPOKEN. WAR IS Thinks Time of Soldiers Can Be More Profitably Employed Than In Beat ing .Stretched Sheepskin, But v Public May Differ. For a generation the French mln isttty of war has intermittently threat ened the drum the pride, the symbol of glory, the solace and the epitome of the French army. Threatened Hve3 live long and the drum Is not dead yet. The latest threat Ib omlnouB, be cause it Ib Indirect. The minister of war explains that the law of 1905 re ducing the conscript's term of serv ice to two years makes It more than ever necessary that the whole term should bo given to military training proper, and consequently young drum mers will not be placed in the hands of the drum majors till a year after they have joined the army, and then their practice must be conducted out side the hours of ordinary drill and training. The minister of war ap parently bolieves that the drum will remain In only a few regiments where enthusiasts make It a point of regi mental honor and tradition. And he desires tills result quite honestly, be cause he does not think that even the veneration of the French people for the drum, which has throbbed through and above all the turmoil of their history, justifies Its retention at the cost of making thousands of men simply drummers instead of soldiers. Gibbon in his account of the cap ture of Constantinople remarks that the mechanical operation of sounds in quickening the circulation of the blood and the spirits has more effect on the human machine than all the eloquence of reason and of honor. The side-drum Is not an instrument of music, but a marker of rhythm. But the kettle-drum Is a subtle thing which has been niore and more stud ied and employed since Beethoven vlr N tually promoted It to be a solo Instru ment, and Berlioz wrote In its "praise with enthusiasm. One of the inim itable sights of a military procession in London Is the traditional flourish of a Life Guards' drummer as he plays the kettle-drums at the head of the regiment. The very action of the horse makes it seem that he, too, un derstands the dignity and the potent use of the instruments he hears. But here we speak not of kettle-drums, but of the plain, banging foot-soldier's drum, which has been associated with his triumphs and agonies through generations. It is easy for an official to say that bugle-calls are much easier to dis tinguish than drum-calls; that learn ing to play the drum properly is an unconscionable waste of time; and that the French army drums are a Moloch which require the sacrifice of 25,000 good fighting men. Two divi sions of Infantry it is a tremendous official argument. On the other hand, there are tho exhilarating drum-taps which as they come down tho street make the citizen forget argument and remember only that the skin of the French drum passed everywhere over the plains 'Of Europe; that It was parched in Spain and shrunk in the rains of Pomerania, and was covered with snow In Russia; that It was the furious encourager of gallantry and the muffled mourner for the dead; that it was the table for sparse meals in bivouacs and the place of judgment at drum-head courts. The intellectual may say with Bordereau that the drum blisters his ears, or the cynic with Gen. Galllfet that drumB at all events do not make so much noise as retired generals. But will the French people, and the French fantasslnB, part with their venerated symbol, with "The story of two hundred : ears Writ on the parchment of a drum?" Where Much Lace Is Made. 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