The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1904. | | essfully pursued, | finan- | char- ie not a e the first field for hard work of suc- | ond law The by the yo troublesome g from a member that n life which vou | you carry | regard to | fr | those PIf. Now ir b ained teact ke a short | eut s in regird to marrying was, “Don’t,” but he mear ess you have | 10, Bo w music, unless music * exerts over a fascination which makes everything look | pale s very lik you might find | some a be er business rd But portion of those who teach musi tion been cau the pro- have of fit for anything led to this vocation s they to be | before salaries got so sometimes used calied to preach low, relative Financially considered the profession just a of teaching music has few very large priges. Unlike the profession of medi- cine, which in a city like Chicago af- fc perhape twenty prizes worth above $50000 a year (several of them being for surgery. where rates are high bhecause responsibilities are also great) the profession of music does not afford & single prize of so much as $10,000 to acher,, and not more than one such amount to a teacher and player com- hined. There are several, however, of $8000 and several more of $5000 a year. Half this sum however, a rather handsome professional income to prac- Aitioners of good repute and valued ex- perience. In the smaller cities the lead- ing teachers of music are able to earn somewhere ut 32000 a year, and any well-qualified young man of good business tact m expect to build tor | himgelf such a bus n any city of iness 000 peovle or 0. The average prizes, | of course, are very much smaller ledy music teacher in a seminary rarely has a larger salary than about $760 or 8500 and a home. The same | woman w g independently for a| series of years would build herself a larger business which would be all her | own in place of being subject to the chances of re-engagement from year to year. It is unfortunate that very few teach- ere of music are thoroughly qualified | for their work. In this respect the| musical profession is far below the | other so-called “learned” (“instructed”) | professiops. The trouble is that the| whole subje of musical education | needs to be reconstructed from the | suppos and, above ail and most fa- | tal for se in busine they have | { never so much as heard of the prin- ciples of musical pedagogy. They do tifica schools, but at least we may say somethin The first and main thing in music teaching, toward which .| every lesson has to work, is music. Now s of two somethings, | tions pas | again into speech; just so in music the | strength and of tonal forms, succession, tonal beau- ties and tonal moods. It is a question of hearing them sympathetically and clearly. of playing them in the same ing and strength. You can raise a c¥op “ of tones and a growth of tone power | only by planting seed of like character. | No music, no music-think. { Thus it happens that young teachers who draw a diploma or certificate as an incident of vear's tuition find a | themselves less ed than they | | instru T | way and of feeling them in their mean- | of what it is they in the pupils be- The not =h nd simply to have an idea to accompl ‘make them play.” at and the how of the playing, the two essential things, are as yet be- vond them. The schoal ought to have It is iike turning out - never given attention ica or the symptoms of | discase. It is not the part of this discussion | to supplement the omissions of the cer- persons have but one is first something act- imding and to be heard. Even we hear much beyond what Every chord or melody tone as it actually sounds, and is rding to what we Imagine to s place in key. That is, we ex- it to lead to something else, and | this expectation takes on a truly m (as the result of hered- and ing) we call it musical g. Then by insensible shades this us of expectation appertaining to actual hearing of tone combina- es over into something else. Our mood changes with the music. As Walt Whitman says, the music is what kens within us when we are re- minded by the instruments.” The mu- sic in fact is both—that which sounds, and that which awakens by reason of the sounding. From this point of view music is an- other of those marvels we find so num- erous in modern science. Just as when the thousand miles of iron wire thrills throughout its whole length by a cur- rent of electricity o delicate that it can be taken upon the tongue without harm: and the sheet-iron diaphragm of the telephone transmits the vibration | waves a similar | musical fc ity 9 to the diaphragm at the other end takes up wire, while those vibrations and recreates - them | tone combinations of Beethoven, | responsibility should awakened, it may be by nervous irri-| tations or ecstacies, when taken prop- | erly into our century later ears, have { the power to awaken in us again the | mood and the spirit of Beethoven in| the moment of composing. And in this ! enjoyment of the music there are al-| ways two equal factors—the pleasure in the sounds and the successions of | sounds, and the change of state in the hearer as a result of sound-waves which have gone straight inward to thp[ soul of the man and there effected changes and inspirations of mood. It is a legitimate pleasure, for music is the great and universal art form of our times. It contains a body of strength and beauty surpassing that of painting—surpassing even that of lit-! erature. The real motive in those! forms of composition we dignify by the term literature is elevation of soul and spirit, and music accomplishes these’ things more easily and directly, and also in vastly more manifold manners. | Hence the foundation of music teach- | ing is to lay a foundation for musical | hearing (ear training), for musical feel-! | ing (sympathetically hearing) and for, intelligence (to recognize beauty of design). To these three we add, as a part of the same, the musical hand, the automatic | hand to reproduce upon the keyboard | every shade of the musical thought. ! Then we have musical education, and | if the hand is good enough and the spirit high enough, and the ear strong enough, we may have an artist. There are certain business aspects of the profession which need to be con- sidered. The first of these is the| proper standard of qualification,” which ought to be relatively the same for a voung man as when to college educa- tion he adds the technical school. This | means first-class teaching, good talent | and hard study, at the end of which | the young man should be a good player, musical ground up—none of our schools, or the | 3 fine musician, a man of musical tast foreign either, for that matter, cover-|ang of cultivated personality. | ing the ground at all adequately. Of For carrying on the profession satis- | course if one proposes to teach “music” | factorily a young man should have a | one should know music, and this means | gtudio and give all his lessons there; | that one should be able to hear music | it need not be downtown, but prefer- in a musical manner, just as one who | ably in a residence district. What one | knows the French language thoroughly hears Frenck, i. e., takes the ideas into his mind as they pass, as the autocrat | used to say, “without stopping to taste them.” Wow all our schools take the 1nusical ear for granted and do nothing | to educate it, whereas the musical ear | is an expert ear, an ear educated to grasp tone-—combinations and succes- | sione in a musical manner. This is the | first mistake. Then all of the so- cailed “theory” of music is acquired in e purely abstract way, the pupil in harmony after a year of study not be- | jng abie to teil by ear a tonic from a dominant, a major from a minor chord, or & nominative case from a verb. The most serious break our so-called mus- jcal educators make is in not educating the students in what we might call the “Jiterature” of music—meaning there- Ly the general body of musical master- works, as the expression of composers’ personalities, certain characteristic wusical ddeals, typical beauties and contrasts of style. No school anywhere, <jn @Burope or here, has classes or courses in tone-poetry systematized in any rational way--in fact. no such classes of any kind. The pupils take for lessons & piece by Haydn, a piece by Mogart, a piece by Beethoven and = piece by Chaminade or Liebling, and have no-idea that there is any essen- tial difference in the musical idea illus- trated. This is a fine thing, perhaps, for Kimbail Hall and Paris, but it 1s & trific bard on Vienna and Salzsburg. quite & flourishing circle of the present time who think is more successfully taught | for the first few years upon toneless instruments. Per- ! The art of music consists llg i Joses by the distance of some possible | patrons is made up by the nearness of a sufficiently large public. This en-| ables him to give school children les- sons after school. ————— 1 A French Heroine. The French Grace Darling—othar- wise Rose Here, fisherwoman—becomes not less heroic as later and fuller ac- counts of her exploits at Ushant reveal the extent and daring of her bravery. She was gathering shellfish on the rocks near the Pyramide de Runion, when out of the fog she heard despair- ing cries, and, looking seaward, per- ceived a boat containing fourteen men which was drifting wildly at the mercy of the stromg currents 2mong a mass of dangeraMe reefs. The occupants of the boat, afraid to throw themselves into the sea on ac- count of the swift tide, plied their oars with the courage of despair and ut- ed at the top of their voices for t- ance. 1 Rose ran down to the foot of the cliffs, and, without losing a moment, plunged into the bailing surf, dressed as she was, and swam to the boat. Climbing on board she reassured the sailors as best she could, and, then tak- ing her place at the rudder, steered the boat with marvelous adroitness past dangerous reefs to Pen-ar-Rock, .u..l tant about two hours by rowing from the Pyramide de Runion. THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Praprietor . ... ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT. Manage: EDNESDAY....... .APRIL 27, 1904 THE CARMEN’'S VOTE. HE street carmen have nearly unanimously re- jected the offers made by the company and the pub- lic await the next act in the drama. It is to be re- gretted that propositions voted on were bunched so that propositions essentially dissimilar in their nature had to stand or fall together. As the rate of compensation per hour was impinged upon the issue of responsibility of the corporation for the acts of its employes and both had to be decided together, it is impossible to do more than guess which was the more instrumental in the re- sult, In such a business as railroading a corporation is held to such strict responsibility for any damage that may oc- cur to others in the prosecution of its business, and such damage depends so entirely upon its control and disci- pline of its employes, that it is difficult to see how it can utterly abdicate the right to employ and discharge them, inasmuch as its possession of that right is its sole means of protecting itself and the public. If it abdicate this right in favor of the union, then, in law and logic, follow control, and the should respond in damages for such injuries as the courts now compel the corporation to repair. It is unthinkable that the law will separate responsi- bility from control. No court will attempt to do so. In the event pf a suit for damages against the United Rail- roads for the act of an employe the corporation will not be permitted to plead that it had no control of its em- ploye, having entered into an agreement that it should neither employ nor discharge him. The court would hold at once that such agreement is ultra vires and can- not be pleaded in avoidance of damages. The doctrine that the corporation is the principal and the employe is its agent and that the principal is respon- sible for the act of the agent is as deeply embedded in the law as any doctrine known to that science. Corpora- tions will not be permitted to evade it by giving up control of the employment and discharge of their agents. This is the point that is important to the public, which is quick to penetrate to the logic and justice of any propo- sition which affects its welfare. The law provides a remedy for every wrong. To'be a remedy it must be efficient. If a man sustain an in- jury in person or property the law must right him. For an injury inflicted by the United Railroads, by the act of an employe, the law will not entertain an action against the carmen’s union on the ground that it and not the corporation has control of the employes, because the car- men’s union is not a corporation, it has no legal exist- ence in the sense in which the corporation has whose property it will control if it control the employes. A verdict against it would be no remedy to the person in- jured. To pursue redress in that direction would be a vain thing and the law compels no man to do a vain thing in pursnit of redress. It will be seen then that this issue goes farther and deeper than any question of hours and wages. It is a fundamental issue. If the United Railroads abdicate con- trol the law must be rewritten before it can also abdi- cate responsibility. On the other hand, if the union take control it takes it without responsibility until the law is rewritten. As a proposition of law and reason it seems clear that control and responsibility are indissolubly united. To carry it further and into other activities where labor is largely employed the same principle of responsibility goes wherever there is risk and hazard. If one employe be injured by the act of a fellow workman, by his omis- sion in the ordinary processes of their vocation, the one injured does not seek redress of his fellow agent. He goes to their commbn principal, their employer. That principal is not allowed to plead that he has abdicated the right to employ and discharge and therefore to con- trol his agents. He is held to rigid responsibility. These principles rest upon such a sound foundation of reason and are so necessary for the security of rights that it seems strange that an&\vllcre in the United States they should require restatement. The proposition to di- vorce responsibility from control has no basis in reason, and is so distinctly revolutionary that it would seem only to require statement to be immediately rejected by men reared under and accustomed to the orderly operation of our system of law. Official reports indicate that in 1902 the mineral pro- ducts of the United States aggregated in value more than one billion dollars. It is always gratifying to know that the general American public are getting rich. While it may not mean community property, it always nvolves community of interest. . REPORT OF THE MOSELY_COMMISSION. HROUGH the courtesy of Mr. Alfred Mosely The T Call is in receipt of a copy of the report made by the commission bearing his name, which re- cently returned to England to acquaint British educa- tors upon the methods of common school and college education in force in this country. During the last three months of the past year the Mosely Commission, consisting of Mr. Mosely himself, the originator and financial supporter of the project, and twenty odd repre- sentatives of educational institutions in England, made a searching study into the fundamentals of our school system with a view to bringing benefit to the institu- tion of the new education act in Great Britain. Cer- tainly the minute investigation into the operation of every grade and order of school that is contained in this thorough report of the Mosely Commission should fulfill the purpose for which the philanthropist conceived the project. Far less technical than the rest of the report and valuable as a simple expression of his own conception of American educational methods is Mr.- Mosely's pref- ace to the extended reports of the several members of the commission. “My observations lead me to believe,” says Mosely, “that the average American boy when he leaves school is infinitely better fitted for his vocation and struggle in life than the English boy, and in conse- quence there are in the United States a smaller pro- portion of ‘failures’ and fewer who slide down hill and eventually join the pauper, criminal or ‘submerged tenth’ class. The aim of education in America is to make every boy fit for some definite calling in life.” That is the strongest impression of the value of American education that Mosely bore away with him. The contrast between the practical, formative schooling which the American boy receives and the antiquated drill in the classics and poesy which is the heritage of | the young Britisher leads the writer to assert that, for Rose Here is so poor that the British | the English, “the regime of the past, however success- Consul at Brest has started a subscrip- tion for her. But she is obviously rich in something more valuable than ful it may have been, is obsolete.” ~ Another surprise in our educational methods awaited | to make painful proclamati f their abunda ! Mosely, While we taught the regulation o}d » make painful proclamation of their ‘nc g union: Koo A PN T ReTS r's” with the same steadfastness as any Eton or Har- row master, the promoter of the Mosely Commission had not long to investigate before he discovered that w“e another “r” enters into our curriculum and that is rea- soning power. Improving upon the teaching of our English cousins, the American educator trains his charges,into the spontaneous manifestation of the initia- tive, both in thought and action. That is why it is possible that American trained engineers are at present in complete control of the operations of the Rand mines —a fact which first aroused Mosely’s curiosity concern- ing the methods of instructiont in force throughout our common schools and led- him" into making the recent investigations. No more blind to our failings and shortcomings than are we ourselves, the writer thinks that the great thing lacking in our educational system is a scale of remune- ration commensurate with the labor that is performed by our teachers. This and the corollary necessarily fol- lowing —the scarcity of male teachers, Mosely considers as the only flaws in a scheme for the training of youth that is far in advance of any Old World system. _— Our health authorities are urging the immediate pub- lic necessity of antiseptic contrivances on telephone transmitters, While the suggestion may protect us from death-dealing germs, “central” will see to it that we continue to suffer from serious nervous diseases be- cause of our need of this modern convenience. COSSACK IGNORANCE. MUCH complaint has been made in Russia about Eastern Asia. They do not stop to consider that Russia was the aggressor in unfriendly acts and did all she could to provoke American feeling against her. This began in the repeated and defiant violations of her prom- ise to us to evacuate Manchuria. Her stay there is the cause of the present war, in which American commercial interests are likely to suffer. After the war began Rus- sia slandered our navy by widely publishing that the officers of the Vicksburg refused or neglected to come to the rescue of the crew of the Variag when she was sink- ling. Captain Marshall of the Vicksburg reports that he sert his two cutters and a whaleboat to rescue the Rus- sians and that two Russian officers of the Variag were saved and given quarters aboard his ship. In St. Peters- burg it may seem a light thing to charge inhumanity under such circumstances, but in this country it is taken to be rank ingratitude, 2nd is resented by our navy and our people. ? A late report further illustrates the Cossack determina- tion to create an excuse for the maltreatment of such Ameiicans as may be caught in the war zone. In the Cos- sack centers of Manchuria the story is told and believed that our warships aided the Japanese in the bombardment of Port Arthur. The sodden Cossacks could not invent such a story, even in the frenzy of too much vodka. It must order to incite them to outrages upon such Americans as might be within reach. Any man with sense enough to pull a trigger would know that such a story was false. But those ignorant creatures believe it, and if we had interests enough within their reach they would no doubt strike them such a blow as would be a cause of war be- tween the two countries. The Russian officers who must be responsible either for the origin of the falsehood or of failing to make such 2 denial of it as would cause its propagation to cease must be held directly responsible for it. While this policy of provocation is pursued by Russia Americans are not unmindful of the correct attitude of Japan in diplomatic and international matters. 1f she were the oldest member of the international fam- ily instead of being among the youngest she could not more scrupulously keep faith and observe her international obligations. There is no boasting, no swash- buckling, no misrepresentation or complaint about the attitude of other countries, no snarling and snap- ping, but a steady devotion to the hard duty the patriotic islanders have set for themselves. The contrast impresses Americans as it does the thinking people of the other Western nations. Russia has done nothing but whimper over her reverses and tattle about her neighbors and is likely to end in having no sym- pathy anywhere. THE MORMON DEFENSE. HE Smoot inquiry has lagged for lack of witnesses. TNumcrous apostles and bishops had business and religious calls outside the jurisdiction of the United States for whom Senatorial subpenas were out, and the investigation mill in consequence is without grist. The matter is not ended, however, and the inquiry will be continued in the hope that these inspired persons will get a revelation that they are needed in Washington. It is undoubtedly the opinion in Mormon circles in Utah that so far the church has the best of it. The hearty welcome given to President Smith in the recent conference put at rest all question of the approval of his testimony by his people. The old gentleman was looked upon as having been ‘led ont to martyrdom for the faith, but who pulled up the stake at which he was to have been burned and with it brained his tormentors. When he went on to Washington there was great un- easiness, which subsided when by reference to his mem- orandums he was able to fix the census of his wives and children, thereafter getting back safely to Zion. But others of the hierarchy who were summoned as wit- nesses conclude that the president has told enough and so they go elsewhere where subpenas cannot follow. The Deseret News, the church organ, deals naively with the subject in excusing these absentees, saying: “John W. Taylor and M. F. Cowley have each declined to go voluntarily to Washington in response to minis- terial interference, as they view it, with political affairs in the case of Senator Smoot, and with their personal af- fairs as the proceedings disclose ts other witnesses. They do not propose to have their family relations pro- claimed throughout the land, through their own act, un- less under compulsion.” - This means that enough proclamation of relations of that kind has been made in the testimony of President Smith, and others who are in the same fix don’t intend to say “me too” under oath if they can help it. Mormons complain that instead of looking into the election and qualifications of Senator Smoot the Senate has put the church on trial. But they seem to forget that Smoot in his answer put the church in issue. As we said at the time, this would necessarily compel revela- tions proving the continuance of practices by the bishops “and other clergy which violate the law and the pledge by which Utah got into the Union. If they are compelled family 2 § Americans being unfriendly to the Russians in | have been told by their officers, who knew better, in | Yankee Ingenuity. Beating the Mexican customs service along the border is as popular with the representatives of northern manu- | facturing concerns as “boosting the in- ternal revenue” in Tombstone saloons is with the Arizona cowboys. Recently | & commereial traveler for a big Boston | shoe factory gathered in a large order | for his wares in the City of Mexico jand hurried home to fill them. Three months later a consignment of shoes marked “Jose Smith, City of Mexico,” fell into the hands of the Mexican offi- cials at Nogales, and after passing through thes formality of confiscation they were publicly auctioned off. There was a large crowd on hand to bid for the shoes, but an examina- tion of the consignment revealed the fact that they were not mates, but all “rights.” In consequence the bidding was light and the entire lot was finally knocked down at a ridiculously low figure to a stranger in the town. About three weeks later the Mexican officials in the customs office seized at Juarez another eonsignment of shoes, and in due time they were put up for auction. Intending bidders, however, were star- tled by the discovery that all the shoes, about 4000 in number, were fts.” Naturally the sale was a failure from a financial standpoint, and the goods went to an unknown bidder, who | bought them in for a handful of Mexi- | can dollars. Eventually these two consignments found their way into the City of Mexico and to the shelves of some of the leading retail shops; but before they | had reached their destination they had | been carefully assorted into pairs and | reboxed by the shrewd Yankee drum- mer, whese ingenuity had been respon- | sible for their novel method of transit !lhrough the customs channels into the | southern republic’s capital. 1 { What She Would Do. One of the most fun loving members of the Native Daughters of the Golden ‘West is Miss Johanna Myer, the out- side sentinel of Golden State Parlor | of this city. In that office she has charge of the anteroom and must re- main outside of the meeting room while | the others are within discussing the | business of the parlor. Some time ago one of the grand presidents cf the order | officially visited the parlor and in her official capacity questioned each officer "m ascertain how well she understood the duties of her station. After Miss | Myer had answered the questions asked she wanted to know if it was in order to ask the grand president a question. “Certainly,” was the reply; “that is what I am here for—to answer any question in relation to the work of the parlor.” i “Well, then,” continued Miss Myer, “if you were in my place, that cf out- ! side sentinel, sitting In the anteroom {all by your lonely, and there was a rap at the door and you discovered | that the alarm was given by a gentle- | man, what would you do?” “Why,” said the dignified grand president, “in that case I would as- certain if he wanted to see any mem- | ber of the parlor, and would, if such were the case, politely request him to | wait until 1 could summon the mem- ber.” “That is not what I would do,” said Miss Myer. “What would you do?” visiting official. “Worthy grand president,” slowly said the outside sentinel, “I would look through the wicket, and if the man was a good looking one I would make sure that the inner door was locked, then admit him into the anteroom and have a nice chat with him until it was time to close the parlor.” The Night Gang. De night gang wuk on de railroad track— Heah dem hammehs ringin'! De tin lamps flahe en de wicks buhn black, En de derrick chains am swingin’. De leadeh he staht det chantin’ song, En he know each man will pass it 'long. Mah neighboh he pass et 'long to me; “Ho-he! Ho-Hi! Ho-he!" asked the ‘When de white man rams dem rivets in Each bone ache in de socket; But Sam he wuk wid a happy grin En a brown flask in his pocket. Now de section boss he mak his trip, En while he's away Ah take ma nip. +— —_—% is by no means scientifically impossible. —London Daily Mail. } Turn of the Wheel. That men are the playthings of fate the poets say. Sometimes fate plays strange games. One hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte was the enemy of Russia, as of all Europe; to-day Prince Louis Napoleon, who has been appoint- ed to command the Russian cavalry in the Far East, is a lieutenant general in the Czar’s army, and probably at the present time the most dangerous aspirant to the throne of France. He is dangerous because he does not In- trigue for that throne and make him- self ridiculous, but simply sticks to his military duties and builds up a fine reputation as a soldier. If he distin- guishes himself in this war he may be- come a source of considerable worry to the French Government. Prince Louis has had no experience of warfare, but has handled large bod- jes of cavalry with great skill and success in maneuvers. General Miles. United States army, watched him when he visited Russia, and praised him highly. The American veteran was present at a review of Russian troops by the Czar and President Felix Faure. Prince Louis galloped at the head of his cavalry division and saluted the head of the French republic, whom he naturally regards as the usurper of his own place. President Faure gravely returned the salute, and afterward they met and became great friends. One Stella. A $4 gold coin, probably the only one of its kind in existence, is on ex- hibition at the Germania National Bank in Milwaukee. It belongs to Dr. Charles J. Lange and is valued by the bank officials at $200, although this is only approximate. The piece of gold is of the same diameter as a $5 gold piece, but thinner. On its face is the well-known “Liberty head,” without the cap, however. Around this are thirteen stars interspersed with the let- ters “6 G 3 S 7 C 7 Grams.” The exact meaning of these letters none of the bank officials has ascertained. On the reverse of the coin is a five-point- ed star, into which is cut the inserip- tion, “One stella—400 cents.”” Around it are the words “E Pluribus Unum. Deo Est Gloria,” and around these, forming the rim of this side of the coin, are the words, “United States of America. Four Dol” About fifteen years ago this coin was sent to Wash- ington by the Merchants’ Exchange Bank of Milwaukee, according to the Sentinel of that city, but the only in- formation obtained was that the coin is genuine. ]t is believed that the coin was minted as a design, but that the design was rejected because of its similarity to the $5 gold piece. Royal Road to Golf. A story regarding King Edward's first game of golf is told in The Court Circular and News. His Majesty (then Prince of Wales) was attending classes at Bdinburgh University when, escorted by Sir James G. Baird, he visited the links at Musselburgh. “Tom” Brown, a famous caddie of the older school, carried the royal clubs, and on one of the greens his Majesty gave the ball a push, instead of a legitimate stroke. This was too much for the caddie, and Brown reproved his royal employer in the free language of his school. Sir J. G. Baird there- upon informed the caddie that he : must be more guarded in his language, to which “Tom,” to the King's in- tense amusement, at once retorted, “His Royal Highness maun learn, for if he had done that in a match he would h lost the hole.” En den Ah'm busy es Ah kin be: “Ho-he! Ho-Hi! Ho-he!" De night gang wuk till de red sun rise En den drop pick en hammeh; En de flat-cah roll across de ties En all abohd we clammeh. Den stop at de grog-house on de way En spen’ six bits ob mah hahd wuk’s pay. En de day gang fley}l{)lc: up de key: “Ho-he' Ho-Hi! Ho-he!” —Puck. ‘A Humane Shell. “War is hell,” said Sherman. We may all agree, but it is so interesting that it will be as immortal as Dante’s Inferno. A Hungarian benefactor of the species, we learn on good authority, has invented a means for making it truly humane—without its guilt, and with only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger, as Mr. Jorrocks observed of hunting. This amiable genius, whose experi- ence of war dates back to the Austrian campaigns against France in 1859 and against Prussia in 1866, has hit, he de- clares, on a solution of the problem of making military omelettes without breaking eggs. : He has invented a new kind of shell, which on bursting liberates a gas war- ranted to incapacitate all who breathe it without producing any permanently serious effects. A single shell of this kind bursting between the decks of a warship would convert it into Palace of the Sleeping Beauty; only when the crew recovered they would find themselves laid up in a hostile port. A regiment thus put out of action would be none the worse in a few days, but they would need to give parole not ::d. fight again, or wars would never ! Tnis sounds like a fairy tale, but it| | ‘Answers to Queries. CARTOONS—Y. C., City. If you have drawn cartoons that possess any merit offer them to some daily paper or peri- odical. 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