Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-16


gets good licking instead OF supper.
and il allowed TO escape. OF course
he makes all the speed he can to
find his dear old master and his
cherished kennel ut home. Once
there he is rewarded with lump
Of sugar and caresses. The dog has a
number Of experiences of this kind, be-
ginning with the stick and ending with
the sugar Then he knows by heart that
as soon as he gets away from his home
it is expected that he will make the
quickest and shortest tracks bomeward.
Then he is loaded for the first time with
light burden, and if he gots through
all right in time he carries his regular
pack. After awhile not one dog, but a
whole band of them, move off together,
but there is something more thou this.
Only tho common dogs are the beasts
OF burden, for there are animals among
them endowed with superior intelll-
gence. The cleverest Of these graduates
acts as the leader. He has 30 tobacco
or lace 10 carry. He Is the captain. He
noses out the way. If there is danger he
steers the other dogs clear of it--shows
them the road-anG takes them through
by-tnck ont of the lino OF the trouble.
But set thief 10 catch a thief, and So
the French QOuGpicr has been taught
his lesson. and rs q" imitation Is the SIN
cerest hattery," he, too, has his trained
politico-economic dog, whose business
II is to find out and thwart the lodges
and doublings of the smugglers' dogs.
Lieutenant Jupin does not tell liz eX-
actly which of the two Kinds Of dogs are
the cleverer. Certainly we are not going
to express publicly our sympathies or
advance the idea that over protection
induces in both men and dogs q certain
loss of selfrespect, habbiness Of mental
fibre, but from what we have heard the
commercial Belgian dog far exceeds in
clcverness TIE French governmental dog
nine times ont Of ten. NJ. Jupin tells us
that at and around Cbarleyille there is
brigade of ] ,033 custom-house officers,
who have for auxillaries over S0j dogs,
and that the capture Of the free-trade
dog amounts 10 about one in the hun
dred. Evidently the French dog has not
his heart in the business.
The particular duties VI. Jupin would
entail on the dog are various. In al
cases it is his vigilance which is to be
called upon. A sentinel has his dog.
and the animal warns the man of the
approach Of friend or 81 enemy. 10 Il
rccO'mOisaHce dogs run on in advance
and signal the presence of an enemy,
no matter where concealed. If dogs are
used in an advance there is the impossI-
bihty Of laundering into an smbuscade.
In thanking supports on ii march dogs
would he equally serycesble. In the
rear no sudden attack could be made If
dogs were taught to follow the column.
When in camp at night dog or a num-
Der OF them would give notice of an
enemy's approach. This all follows the
natural instincts Of the animal, and he
requires but little instruction.
Where education and training come in
is IN making dogs the method OF com
munication between various posts. A
picket could have a dog attached to it,
the dog wearing a collar. A few words
written on q bit OF paper and slipped
into the collar could be carried 10y the
dog to all advance post or TO the main
body or to headquarters. M. Jupin tells
how II is done, the dog following the
direction given him by motion OF the
soldiers hand or Of any soldiers who hap
pen TO see him. As dog can travel fast
and pass through, over, and under OBJ
stacles which would stop man, a mes
sage could in many cases reach head
quarters faster than by a mounted
courier. A dog can be made to swim
rivers which man on horseback would
find troublesome. VI. Jupin calls this
dog, specially trained, "te chein-estd-
tefte," and q courier dog follows per
fectly the French words.
There is one service NJ. Jupin be-
lieves a dog capable OF performing which
seems TO Us TO be rather more difficult to
accomplish. He proposes that tho dog
be used during action as carrier OF
ammunition. A French soldier when on
the line Of battle is supposed to be able
to get as maximum supply not less
than l75 cartridges, The - rounds
the man carries have to be supple
mented 10y 81 more. The ammunl-
ton wagons are supposed to fur
the wagons and the firing line sol
dlers bring the men additional cartridges
If they are wanted. This service space
is Just as dangerous as the front, and
carving on their duties many men must
be Killed Would the dogs supply the
places of the regular ammunition distri-
butors? VI. Jupin's dogs, then, are 20
be trained like the smugglers' dogs, and
are to carry their loads of cartridges be-
tween the points of supply and demand,
and be gives us the picture of an exceed
ingly Wide-swake dog who has strapped
on both sides OF him a case containing
cartridges
After the battle there can be no doubt
that the dog, if employed to ind out the
wounded, would be the means OF saving
many life. Oh the untold misery of
the poor wounded man who at nightfall
drags himself behind q tree or hedge
and cannot move. At the military ma
nmuvre at Luben the Prussians tried
what dogs might do # used to find out
make believe wounded men. After
the sham battle certain men were told
oil who were to hide themselves in out
of-the-way places and play dead. The
dogs fonud them all out, and more than
that. the sagaoious brutes ian to litter
bearers and the ambulance corps and
brought them at once to the places where
the men had dropped.
Some Of the methods Of training are
amusing, but they all enter into the cate
CORY of senous dog lessons. If France
has DO friendly feeling towards Prussia
she takes dummy, dresses it like
German, and the dog is taught TO attack
it. He has this impressed on his canine
mind-that the dummy mates him and
has a stick concealed somewhere. If
necessary the French property can
change the dress of the dummy and
make him al Italian.
What breed OF dog is the best for mill
tsry purposes is not yet quite decided
upon. Excellent results have been do
rlved FROM settlers, but settlers which
have never been hunted. The shepherd
l.. 4lo mott ,uteiiigeDf nf all animals