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Show Crow liar Nuip1anl Carrier I lnt.. Germany, which brought out tho dog is a bearer of help to tho wounded on tho bittlcfleld, Is thinking now of supplanting sup-planting tho carrier pigeon with tho crow. Ono argument In favor of this substitution Is that while peoplo might kill carrier pigeons for food, tho crow would be exempt from that danuer m "rating crow" Is n term of cont' nipt with civilised peoples. On the other hand. If people will not eat crow, crow will cnt carrion, nnd It Is feared that theso crafty birds might linger too long over the succulent feasts of tho battlefield to make them valuable n.: carriers of dispatches. However, n society so-ciety has been formed In Germany to exploit tho crow In thla now field Members of this society believe that the crow enn bs tamed and trained, nnd awhtlo ago the Kaiser solemnly reviewed n crow In a "march past." which In foreign armies Is equivalent to our "review." Tho emperor walked around the crow, and then tho crow marched past ths emperor, Vtho expressed ex-pressed himself as delighted with tho appournnco of his nowest and strangest rocrult. Hut ns to experimenting with ths crow as a bearer of dispatches that really hasn't been done yet |