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An en­ tire French regiment was cut off froni their comrades, completely surrounded for foujp. days, and with no method of communicating worq of their plight to the general In command. That fourth night one of the men scouting in No Man's Land stumbled over a dead comrade on whose back was strapped, a basket carrying two little jplgeons that during the four-day battle had been safeguarded by the body of their caretaker. Ten­ derly the scout brought the basket and > birds back to tiie colonel on the hill. Early the next morning messages were written, affixed to the legs of the birds, which, exhausted and dust- solled, bht imbued with Indomitable splrft and pluck, were liberated--wafted into the air by the prayers and Wishes of the regiment, bearing with them the only remaining hope for these thousands , •f men and the happiness of other thousands In their families at home. Shortly afterward both birds fluttered wearily Into their loft back at headquarters; and in a sortie ordered by the gen­ eral the enemy was driven back and the regiment Mved.' „ ; One of the officers of that regiment Is now In Washington, and he has promised himself that Bow the war Is over he will have a loft of the "best birds he can get, and the best care and at-, tention that is possible will be but a slight part of his measure of appreciation ftp4 gratitude to the little feathered, messengers to whom he and llis comrades owe their lives. > These little birds have been used In almost , e*ery conceivable -way to get word back to the Wnerves or to headquarters when all other -means of communication failed. Carrier pigeons are not only used by the In* fan try and the navy, but are used frequently by the air service. At the Dunkirk hydroplane sta­ tion they have an enviable recofd. There has not been a single accident to a plane, nor the loss of a plane in combat, where word of the occurrence was not brought back by the pigeons which are* A J/LY&I, THrsfgpg&r rr/va/'AAaMMjMrj MMg )Mrc///MF SQRAjyzjjAi&rjyzQAf 77/£fy?a/fr so nervous that they could not stand still--they were like the hair-spring of a watch, constantly pireening and ducking and on the move. In very early times homing pigeons were In vogue In Egypt, Greece and among the Romans. Racing pigeons has been a royal and national sport in Belgium, Prance, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and Eng­ land for hundreds of years. It was Introduced into this country In the seventies and has enjoyed a fair and steady growth until now there are three national homing pigeon associations with a •membership of more than 2,000 breeders. Much time Is spent In teaching the pigeon all of the tricks which count when the bird is actually racing in competition with other pigeons. It is taught to enter the loft immediately upon its re­ turn, for a bird that does not enter so that the message it carries can be taken from It Is of very little value as a messenger. Nothing is more exasperating to the fancier or racer than to have the pigeon return and cool Its anatomy and view tiie scenery for a half hour before entering the loft. It is nearly sufficient cause to make the trainer of pigeons lose his faith in pigeon naturej besides It gives the neighbors a chance to make remarks about the fullgroivn men playing with k part of the equipment of the planes. Instances- - birdies. Once the bird Is Inside the loft It can- of the value of the messengers .could be multi-^j not emerge, since .each loft is equipped with a piled without number, but It Is more interestingtrap through which the bird can enter at any time to recount how these birds are bred, reared ,and?$ but cannot go out unless, the ti*ap is set for exit, housed under war conditions. * fW - The pigeon's ability to do all of these wonderful"' tasks lies In Its faculty of orientation, that is, its power to know as soon as it is released in what direction its home loft Is and to fly directly to it. T3ie perfection to which orientation is developed:,, in the highly bred and trained homer was recently demonstrated at a pigeon fly conducted by the pigeon section of the signal corps, when 8,100 homing pigeons were released in Washington for a fly to New York city, 224 miles. To a single bird, these pigeons ran out of their coops and arose in the air with the speed of an express train, and after taking a half circle to get their Rearing were off for New York. Every,one of Yhe pigeons was reported to have arrived prompt­ ly and the first arrival made the trip in 5 hours and 40 minutes. Surely It did not stop to read many sign posts on the way. Just how the homing pigeon developed this power of orientation is a moot question, but it is certain that it has been cultivated through cen­ turies until now it is almost uncanny. What guides the pigeon back to the loft where It fir t ••took to the air" is a quality called by many 'names, and you will find that each person know$ that he has the answer to the riddle. Some call It Innate love of home; others attribute It to fac­ ulty, atmospheric conditions, sight, or memory. Personally, I cannot call It anything more or less than Instinct, highly developed. We find It In lesser degree in horses, dogs and cats, and In other birds it seems to be developed a little less markedly, but with sufficient accuracy so that they migrate annually thousands of miles without the aid of any other compass than their instinct. When we remember the potent power of selec­ tion and think of the years and generations of careful breeding and selection which the homing pigeon has undergone it is not so wonderful that < they have developed the homing instinct to a high degree. I have seen their cousins, the fan-tailed pigeons, bred to such a degree of fineness that they weighed only a few ounces apiece and werp -on Alono The ordinary barn variety of pigeon or those bred for the production of squabs for market ant), the racing homing pigeon should not be con- fused. They are as distinct and have as manj| ; points of difference as have the big draft horse l and the high-string, nervous racing horse. The ordinary pigeon has very little homing ability, whereas the homing pigeon is kept and bred ex* clupively for that faculty. They are also bred for kpeed, and every muscle which Is used in flight 'to developed almost at the expense of the other muscles of its body. In races the actual speed recorded Is almost beyond belief. Speeds of 1,850 to 1,900 yards per minute, or 90 miles per hour, have been made for short distances, and it is not extraortlinary for a bird to cover in excess of .500 miles in a single day. The record for 1,000 mile* a ta 1 day, 11 hours, 24 minutes and 11 seconds, and was made by a bird named Bullet, and tl»e longest successful race was 1,689 miles from Denver, Colo., to Springfield, Mass. (time 22 days, 3 hours, 22 minutes), although Instances are recorded where birds sent from New York to the Pacific coast as breeders, have, on liberation or escape, returned from California, over the mountains and plains to their old homes tn New York. At various times in this country the army and navy have decided to use use carrier pigeons In " their work, but with Indifferent success until the recent war. The old repo rts are rather amusing when considered in the light of present-day knowl­ edge of what can be done with the birds when handled properly. Pigeons were used in the navy more than 20 years ago. but failed through lack ' of proper care. At the time of the Mexican boi> ' der trouble pigeons were again tried, but with * little success for the same reason and through lack, of time for acclimatization. Homing pigeons were first put on a business­ like basis in the army in March, 1917, in the eastern department. * In November of that year the pigeon section of the land division of, the sig­ nal corps was organized, and since then rapid progress has been made in this country and I can carry-on better 14 I know ^abroad. Hundreds of lofts have been built and equipped in this country, and In the early, days many pigeons were ship­ ped overseas. Men have been selected and trained In the science of pigeon breeding, rearing and fly­ ing. Many of these have already found service overseas in the care of lofts and the birds of our armies. It has been nec­ essary to train a large number of people in this work, as it was practi­ cally new to each person who took It up. The training of officers and men In the use and care of the birds at the front and In the forwarding of messages all took time. Unfortunately the pig­ eons could only fiy and could not talk, necessitat­ ing the writing of the messages. Some wag has proposed to Improve the- pigeon by crossing It with a parrot, thus elim­ inating the necessity of writing the message^. However, the plgebn might have .something to say about the matter. One of the most difficult parts of the work of introducing pigeons into the army service was to Instill into the minds of the officers and men the fact that the pigeons are reliable. That they are reliable is proved by the experience overseas, where the birds are retained in forward positions while any other method, whether telephone, tele­ graph, Induction buzzers, wireless, wigwag or run­ ner is available, and only when everything else fails, and only the birds remain, then through barrage, gas, and every other of the diabolical Inventions of war, more than 97 per cent of the messages Intrusted to our pigeons are safely and speedily delivered by them to headquarters. . These messengers are carried to Yhe front In especially constructed Wicker baskets which can •be carried handily by the soldier Intrusted with their care. Back of the lines the pigeons are kept In either of two kinds of lofts or home, station­ ary or movable, but the essential feature of each is the same. Every effort is made to mpke each Wrd comfortable, Happy and attached" to Its home, This is done most effectively by the method of feeding, as the approach to the bird's affection Is through its stomach, the same as with genus homo. Each loft is equipped with a trap through which the birds are taught to enter and leave , without fear. Each time the bird enters the trap an alarm Is automatically rung, notifying the attendant of the return of the bird, that the mes­ sage may be immediately obtained and forwarded to headquarters. Before the late war if you had told a pigeon fancier that you could move his pigeon loft as far as 50 miles and that the pigeons would return to It swiftly and accurately he would probably have laughed at you and said something about your being a novice In the pigeon racing and breeding game. The movable loft Is one of the advances In pigeon lore that the war has brought out Tills is a very important development, as It Is highly desirable that the^ofts always be near to military headquarters and available for instant removal with headquarters as conditions may re­ quire. These movable lofts are very well con structed and are interesting homes for these itin­ erant messengers. They are outfitted with nesting boxes, observation traps, storage space for feed, #ater, apd accommodations for one or two at­ tendants who are constantly on duty. In fact, they remind one of the circus wagons that travel With the,smaller circuses about the countiy." "Another innovation developed was the "owl eat' 'Whess." There were pigeons at the front that developed the faculty for seeing at niglit and these were called verlrable human night owls. In fact, they came home much more steadily and accurately than some of their civilian brethren, who were wont to be habitual riders of the "owl express.** The sport of racing and breeding pigeons Is due! .^ receive an Impetus as a civilian sport now that I the war is ended, and the progress made under war conditions should not be allowed to lap«»e. Thousands of soldiers will have become familiar with the birds and will have a warm regard for them. There will be many who will share the feeling of the officer who was mentioned in the first part of this article as having been saved by the pigeons tn the battle .of Bethuncourt and Dead Man's hill. •*- *^ > > - .--Lives there a chortm' tfi1! with soul so dead who never to herself hath said, as she boiled the eggs and coffee over the hall room gas Jet": "Well, It's my turn next for one of those millionaire husbands, with a liv­ eried chauffeur and champagne sup­ pers and everything." • And what boots It to repeat*that .this was the roseate dream of Miss Lucille O'Dea, ballet dancer, who, when our story of the nonplused de­ tective and the Arabian knight opens was on the Pantages time at Grand Rapids, Mich., carefully chaperoned as always by her mamma, Mrs. O'Dea. ! The Arabian knight with the magic purse was none other than Chief War­ rant Officer James Aloyslus Donohoe of the United States navy, and he is charged with having embezzled $25,000 pay roll funds. But--for two perfect weeks Lucille achieved heir dream. A Tempestuous Wooer. As R. E. Easterly, son of the third richest cotton planter in Louisiana, by gad, suh, Mr. Donohoe splurged Into the O'Dea ken at Grand Rapids. And what between wine dinners and motor trips, Mr. Easterly proved a most tem­ pestuous, ardent wooer. They came to Chicago, where they registered at the La Salle hotel, Lucille and Mamma O'Dea having a suite in which were no gas jets, but electric chandeliers, Louis XIV furniture, Ming vases and Persian rugs, and all that. And, of course, there was, the $200 tai­ lor-made suit, the $500 fur and the $200 spending money. House Detective J. Abrams of-the La Salle was making his rounds on the sixth floor the other evening when he suddenly encountered in the front parlor what at first he thought was a new statuary group of Cupid and Psyche. <. _ Their Hps clung in a kiss. Mr. Abrams, a detective of chivalrous im­ pulses, waited a considerable Interval and looked closer. "No," he soliloquised, 'this guy Isn't Cupid. Cuitid never wore no pin- Of>en-Minded?4 The average American is open-minded, | American business' ls con- Quoted by true Americans o£ vision, open-minded men whof fceHeve in their country and strive!* lb meet their country's needs ̂ The men in the packing industry are ̂ exception to the rule. - The businesar 'of Swift & Company has grown as the nar tion has progressed. Its affairs" have been conducted honorably, efficiently, and economically, re-ft ducing the margin between the cost of live stock and the selling ̂ Sice of dressed meat, until todays e profit is only a fraction of a| pent a pound--too small to have •• Itny noticeable effect on prices. The packing industry is a big;1 vital industry--one of the most important in the country* Do • you understand it? * * « V 4*1 ' ' > ̂Swift 8c Company present ̂ | facts in the advertisements that; appear in this paper. Theyarei " addressed to every open-minded";] ' person in the country. ftp. aSl The booklet of preceding chapteta in tUa stoty of the packing industry, will be mafiad on request to Swift & Company Union Stock Yards - - Chicago, Illinois Swtft & Company: u.s. A, - '• ̂•• ^' r,4 Ui* A W 'Is J. » „V ' - char* Served Three Years. Mistress--Have you a good icter, Jane? New Servant--Yes, mum; I was :hree years In my last place, mum! Mistress--That speaks volumes for foil, Jane. Where was It? New Servant--In the reformatory, mum!--London Tit-Bits. Lips Clung in s Kiss. * checked coat and vest and pants and Psyche wasn't dressed this warm." Another Interval passed Into eter­ nity. A'fire engine 'clanged below* - A bellboy passed paging Mr. Some­ body from Somewhere. A telephone bell jangled raucously. A chow dog yipped. Mr. Abrams could hear the fire en­ gine returning. , * „ ; •Time!" called tb*. Abraniq. . They broke. "* ' , Too Latel "Where's a minister?" queried Mr. Easterly, for It was he. "We want to get married rigljt away." "You can't get married now. It's too late." And then Abrams subjected him to close questioning. His suitcase was found to contain $7,000 in greenbacks The federal authorities were notified and Donohoe confessed his identity Lucille Is going back on the midwest time. And thus ends the story of how Mr. Donohoe was betrayed by a kiss. OBJECTED TO JUDICIAL KISS ||| gite went downtown for the peace celebration --« slender young woman, whose husband had jye** kffied in one of the regiments sent to •;i WrsiHse. Some one, who knew her, expressed ? ? surprise aft her being w llllng to take part In thjs > celebration. \ v^, "When BHiy went away he was quite a soV £ dtev" she told her friend. "He not only wore s mffsns, but he 'had taken up what he termed mllltaiy speech. The last thing he toJd me was: jo"** j want you to go on yifh ^ mflf on your face. you'll do that.' / * "So I promised him I would, and be reminded me In every letter of my promise. "Carry-on with a Smile,' he ended every letter--even the last one. So I'm still carrying-on, even If he doesnt come back. Mf promise still holds."---Indian­ apolis News. wads BOX ca«£; -t parts are loaded directly onto a truck with an overhead crane, run up a 25 per cent grade onto the loading platform alongside the box cars and then into the box car. The loading position of thid truck is directly at the bottom of the 25 per cent grade and the truck must climb this grade from a standing start. As high as two tons have been handled In a single load in this fashion. One of the serious problems that has con frosted this man­ ufacturer is the handling of flasks and storage ma­ terial on filled ground; to overcome this Is a port- A prominent iron and steel manufacturer in the able board track with flat planks as rails was East Is using the Industrial truck for loading box made and no difficulty encountered in running at ttwaasUer prodoct at m &***• JW «*»d •«* this <rmck-a distance of m fe^ Chicago Couple Married by Judge Who Is Content to Take His Customary Fee. Chicago.--Robert Adair Campbell stood before a judge here with his bride-to-be. Miss May Blanche Barnet. "We want to be married," he said, "but we do not want the judicial kiss which Is customary at such times." The judge smiled and tied the knot, contenting himself with the usual tee, which Campbell paid and fled. 5* % v;j ?; X .. ^ . >' ,V:b' $500 Month Is Pittance. Chicago.--Mrs. Etta B. Hell, who is suing her husband for separate maintenance, has asked the court to Increase her monthly allowance at $500, saying she cannot live on the pit­ tance--that is, It Is hardly enough to "keep the wolves from the door." Pigeon Potpie, $1. Jplttsfield, Mass.--A plpeon cradled through the window of the home of Edward Oagon. "Ed" caught the bird and the material for a potpie qust hUn SAiy $1 for the put Of glass. * _ Important to Mothers siamine carefully every bottle Of CASTOKIA, that famous old remedy for Infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 80 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Csstoria Rara Avis. Knlcker--Is Jones original? Bocker--Very; when he accepts a job he doesn't let on that It Is js great sacrifice. ' UPSET STOMACH RAPE'S DIAPEP8IN AT ONCE ENDS » ~*9UflNCSS, GASES, ACIDITY. INDIGESTION. . Get the Facts, Doctor; * v'- Doctor Stratter says that "old maids are a result of man's undesirability.1* Has he never heard of the excess of women in the population In most old communities, or is this a squint to­ ward polygamy?" Tut, tut doctorj count up the old bachelors first.--* * is New York Evening Sun. ^ ; A postal card to Garfield Tea Oft* Brooklyn, N. Y., asking for a samplt " will repay you.--Adv. Their Use. "Look how the rain is "pouring dowa '.J'4 in sheets." "That's all right; it's cOV* ering the bed of the street.' In the Beauty "I want some wrinkles,* "What about?" "How to get rid of them.' V In Most Caaea. „ "How do you pronounce 'hauteur*T*> "Hot air, in some cases." .•iSJ Undigested food I Lumps of pain belching gas, acids and sourness. When your stomach is all upset, & In Stant relief--No waiting t The moment you eat a tablet of Pape's Dlapepsin all the Indigestion pain, dyspepsia misery, the sourness, gases and stomach acidity ends. Pape's Diapepsin tablets cost little at any drug store but there is no surer or quicker stomach relief known, Adr. A Good Haul. "DM Miss Port catch any that fishing party?" Sure! She caught % bean.' Few are successful la llvtac their photographs. to Yourassss EyesSK idBevedbyMn i«t Bye Cotalort. Your DmgriM of by an3 etc For Seeksias Eye ~ Keep Yourself Tit You can't afford to be laid up with sore, aching kidneys in these days el high prices. Some occupations kidney troubles; almost any makes weak kidneys worse. If voa fatl tired all the time, and suffer with * back, sharp pains, dizzy •pelb, aches and disordered kidney action, Doan's Kidnev- Pills. It may KTI UK attack of roeuuiatism, Bright's disease. Doan's ttiauiftjfids back to health, An Illinois C«M fPhcrttas A. Knisht, retired Insurance agent, 624 N. Ninth St.. Bast St. Louis, 111., says: "I had pain across the email of my back an< the least exertion jnii me in misery. At one time I had to keep pil­ lows under the small of« my back at night. Tha kidney secretion* were scanty and I vii trreat pain. I Doan's Kidn*y and as a result. I ilk* a different person.' Get Dee»*e •» Aear S«Wk * l«e DOAN'S way POUBbMUUMt CO. MJrrALOw 1L% \ A* j & * HftlBtwWiM • MTEOTSSSHSSSS art soothe your irritate* ttew* ter taiSfit Mf* ' 5 * dfeu Jo,u, {-t ,.V ? St-