Show liIl S The pigeon nt at W Lady Ladysmith smith and an Durban Durbin tor or carrying war Wa massages has been such a a success tha special for or the tho will il b be recommended by the tim war office A good del desi of this of the pigeon service Is due to tim tho ski nn and OMi ot of Colonel ln ot of the Boyal Engineers who hn has spent year ears earsIn In pigeon culture for Just this sort Eort ot a aan an n and Ito he has demonstrated the fitness ot of the birds for tor war pur purposes poses Colonel ho WIS was alt tt at the Cape before out systematically trin trained his hi for tor carryIng messages met across the rough mountainous land and his various 1 pIgeon Were ene ot of this the greatest value In the hOI ot of the exact condItion ol at the arm army NI Nearly every civilized now hu has connected with both bolh their war and ane navy departments l France ronco has entered Into pigeon inure extensively than any other oilier l Buro ur llon power and It Is 19 roughly estimated that hero are two and It thousand pigeons In that country trimmed for tor war emergences emergencies The maIn pigeon lof loft or traIning station II is nt at Chalon where thousand birds are kept oi all the time Every post and fortress has smaller lofts loh ald anti three n a week regular caton cation II is kept up between thoe these places b by Ilan ot of the pigeons pigeon ThIs pigeon host In constant In times ot of IJ Peace Ce would bo be of service II In times of oC war var The lc State protects the carriers and anyone any one caught shoot hoot hootIng lug Ing I a of any kin kind In France lorance Is heavily Inel The he pigeon hn has been established In rance sinco 1870 1810 S Time The German war war department owns ton thousand hut but the they hlo have Q a ot of reserves which the they ron ella cul Into orle service ui In times or of var The owners ot of private Ions have hao t to T register their carrier pigeons and the War knows exactly how bow howman man many of Uw lie binds It can obtain at a moments notice moments rhe fhe Au als also relies largely upon private owners pigeons for tor service In ot of war I ver bIrd bIrdin In the country haa to be registered tint and not OU one can bl be sold or nt out or of the country countr without Since 1816 t a f w thousand pigeons have been In regular at I the arid frontier poh pests Rusala huts hUB n a military pigeon system which Ie Ic maintained b the tho In the tho conis of t engineers Is known about Imer system ex cx that lofts Ions are arc scattered through throughout out ut time the including bleak bl ak Siberia The rho Intense cold of at the lie winter months month In the the latter lilace Interferes with the ot of the tho pigeon lost lostin in partly neutralizes the sol good effect o It Illys pigeon post Wil was oslo b I In 1872 and and ond similar s systems t ml n a to few years 11 lat latTher Ther There nr are one thousand homing sig on on the lie books of at the h navy mud and several times this number on tho tie ot of the arm 11 lii th lie palt past ton ears eO the tho Unie United States onn and navy have hae been n in the tho and we Posts its sit nt different points through out ut the countr country Their services hv have brn icea u useful ehlI chiefly In tie the navy and ox ex are being mAde t ni 11 n t In Ii hy this hit m moans 1 be th shore and nd the ships There Thoro ThoroIs ThereS Is S t no system ot of registering homing pig Uns In Ims Private lot lotte and ond In nn an oer the government In n need d of snore more pl would have hao to d depend upon the tho ot of time the owners for tor iK Its supply That there thero would 1 se plenty ot of volunteers no one doubts 1 it |