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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Rumania Buries One King and Enthrones Another Scone in Vienna, cubital oi Austria, where Communists sturteu a riotous revolt, fighting bloody battles with the . troops and police, burning tiie palace of justice and looting other official buildings, West African Insects Travel Much Like an Array Eat Elephants. Purdue, Ind. Ants are looked upon mostly as household nuisances, but in West Africa they can become a question of life and .death. Such is the gist of a letter received recently by T. It. Johnson of the Purdue university news bureau from Ilomer Pease, a graduate of the Purdue school of agriculture, class of 1020, who is a junior planter at Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa; Pease is a native of Seelyville, near Terre Haute, and was prominent in campus activities while in Purdue. Mail takes a month to reach Indiana from Monrovia, am the incident which Pease relates occurred in June. The letter follows: "The drivers, the particular species of the ants which created havoc last night, came in about 1 a. in. They got In my bed and woke me up with ttieir biting, and they can bite. The bed was nearly covered. I jumped out and pulled on my mosquito boots and by that time there were so many on the bed I couldnt see the sheets. I tried to find an ant-fre- e room, but there wasn't any ! I ran to the kitchen the kitchen is a separate building and told my boy to get my bath robe, but one look at the ants and he wouldnt stir. Those natives have had I previous experience with drivers. threatened to fire him but he was adamant, so 1 spent the rest of the evening it was raining in the damp, with a fire blazing in the kitchen. Ants Kill Rats. 4 a. m. '1 heard rats squealAbout in thatch roof and a little the ing later I heard something hit the ground. I went out to investigate with a flashrats light and counted five covered with ants and more falling every minute. By daylight there were Just a few stragglers left on the floor. The boy. got my clothes and I picked the ants out of them. I put my boy. to work and came in for breakfast about 8 a. in. By that time the drivers were leaving. Tiie drivers or warriors of the outfit (what do you call a group of ants colonies, gangs or what?) had rounded up the workers from off the floor and furniture and had established a line or trench from the roof, down a post to the floor, across the floor about two feet from where I was sitting, and on out the door. I went out to see how the rats fared and all that was left was a few bones. When I came back at noon there wasnt a sign of an ant. I just feel like I Imagine folks feel after a tornado or hurricane that has created havoc with everything but left their house standing. To you people who dont know In Indiana drivers, this whole thing may sound like a wild dream, but it is the truth. Old and experienced men say that tiie driver ant is one of the most feared animals in Africa. They eat .anything from dead monkeys to live In killing elephants they elephants. crawl up in the trunk and drive the beast crazy and he beats himself to death. There is the story of a man who got so drunk that on his way home he fell and presumably couldnt get up; the next morning they found his bones and the drivers leaving. I havent any technical knowledge of ants, especially drivers, but I have watched them a great deal. There seems to be a definite form of organization; much like an array. The workers are small, about Inch, while the drivers are large, with ferocious snippers. In moving, the drivers form compact lanes in which the workers move lightning fast, sometimes in single layers and sometimes in four or more deep, but ail in one .way. Other times I have noticed that they spread out over an area 15 to 25 feet wide. If you break a line the drivers rush around like mad, hunting the disturbance, while others drive the workers back in line and get them moving. But that Isnt all of the ant We have lots more. My bungalow seems to be on an ant hill, for there are al- one-quart- Honeymoon Left Out, BrideTJeserts Groom William Alexander, Boston. possessor of a Scotch brogue, recited to Judge McCoole of the Suffolk Probate court the incidents of his married life of eight hours. lie sought and obtained a divorce on the ground of deHe said that he marsertion. ried his wife, Catherine, now living in' Lowell, in that city in January, 1921. After the ceremony they went to the home he had prepared in Boston. Asthe hour of ten oclock approached" he suggested to her, Its time to go to bed. She S did not agree to this,-he said. X but he ca'rried out his own- in- - 2 X clination and retired. During 5 2' the night he awoke to find her 2 tt still absent and' going to the 5 X kitchen found her sitting by the stove. He went back to bed and $ on awakening the next morning 5 heard her telephone to her broth- er to come and get her. This the brother did. 5 When asked for an explana- - $ tion .'of this somewhat unusual 2 conduct on the part of a bride, X Mr. Alexander offered, It was 2 because I did not take her away . on a honeymoon. 2 - 6 AID UNCLE SAM IN ECONOMY PLANS - Save the Government Several Million Dollars Yearly by Thrift and Efficiency. Almve is shown tiie funeral cortege of the late King Below is the scene of the parliament wtien Bucharest. grandfather. Ferdinand of Rumania passing through the streets of the little' Michael was proclaimed king to succeed bis Some American Editors Who Are Touring Europe ant-pro- water. red ants that- build the under side of the leaves of small bushes are not to be These little their nests on disturbed because they are liquid fire and nothing .else. The tmason ants are the large oues that build large pyramid mud houses. Some of these houses are six or seven feet high and built out of the choicest clay. Each hill constitutes a colony and has one queen, which like a queen bee does nothing but lay eggs. It is six Inches iong and a great delicacy for the boys. Besides all of tliese-an-ts we have one ant which at one stage in the life cycle sprouts wings and flies about for one night not Just a few but millions of them." Man Eats but Fraction of Total Food Supply Yonkers, N. Y. Burning 8,900,000,-000,00- 0 tons of coal, 8,900 times as much as the world produces in a year, will release about as much energy as contained in the sunlight captured annually through the production of plant foods. Of this huge total, the s human race uses less than of 1 per cent, according to an estimate by Dr. John M. Arthur of the Boyce Institute for riant Research here. Every day each one of the 1,750,000-0- 00 human beings on the earth consumes about 2,000 calories of food. Even meat comes Indirectly from plants. The human race Is therefore dependent on photosynthesis, the process by which the plant uses sunlight to form food. The total consumption of food during a year by man amounts to about 1,200,000.000.000,000 calories. All of the other animal life, vertebrate or invertebrate, large or microscopic, on the globe is estimated to consume about six times this amount. Here are some of the American editors who nre ranking a tour of Europe under the auspices of the Carnegie foundation. They were photographed outside the house of commons in London, mid the gentleman la the tall white hat is Sir Harry Brittain, M. I. two-tenth- half-grow- WOODPECKERS ways hundreds of little black ones In everything. Various Kinds of Ants. Then we have ants that live I trees, ants that live In bushes, nnts that build big mud bouses and some that build small insulator houses, like the Insulators on a high tension line. The little black ones are not dangerous, just obnoxious and pestiferous, They eat my sugar, get on the table and into everything the soup, Jam, the water and everything that hasnt a fool and lid. You can get used to a lot of little things, but 1 cant get used to ants in my drinking ing agreement with tiie telephone company, the treasury collected a portion of the receipts front coir, slots while federal phones could not he used for calls. personal Tiie Loyal Order of Washington. Many departments economized by Uncle Sam's economy per.-onWoodpeckers cuts. In .many instances high fraternity has saved tiie government salaried employees who tesigned were several million dollars in tiie last year replaced by employees at much lower by thrift and efficiency. salaries. Under tiie guiding eye of the budget Running the government costs and efficiency bureaus, federal emannually and because of tills huge outlay no economies, no ployees have saved supplies, utilized equipment to the utmost, and labored mailer Imw small, could be overlooked, with as little lost motion as possible. liuhht r bunds were u.;ed over and Sale of surplus government supplies'' over, until Postmaster General New brought in hundreds of thousands of exclaimed he could, get seme of his dollars, it was stated at tiie treasury. around a bass drum. Much of these materials had been rotThe Agricultural' department even used its pay envelopes over again. ting or rusting away from nonuse. TI.en tiie government gained quite Einph yees when paid returned the ena profit through telephone coin boxes velopes. ilm.i saving the container and in d p. ttrm-nta- l buildings. By a work- - also tiie labor of typing the uarne of ROUSES THE CLERICS Hairdressing Takes All Day in Madagascar Bobs Tananaarive, Madagascar. and shingles are making among the women 'of the Betsilea tribe, famous for their elaborate coiffures. Having .their crowning glory arranged is their principal vocation. The operation usually begins at 6 a. m and If the operator is skillful may be completed at 6 p. m. . But time is of little value here, and tiie dusky hair dressers are contented with, a fee varying from four to ten cents, according to the nature of the work. Prof. Shirley J. Case of the University of Chicago who has Just published a life of Jesus which has created quite a stir in religious and literary circles. Some of his assertions, especially that Jesus never thought himself the son of God, have been strongly attacked by orthodox Christian ministers. little-headwa- the receiver on each envelope once IN PACIFIC FLIGHT Schuster and Weiss, German aviators, who planned a flight from Berlin to New York In their Junker plane. The machine lias fqel capacity r for a flight.'. . --Jap- anese Girls in Strike Parade - more. At the Commerce department paper clips were used until they were worn thin. chain' envelopes were used for communications, interdepartmental pencils sharpened to their erasers and paper written on both sides " for economy. The Suvyf and War departments used their communication facilities to send commercial messages and also practically ail tiie government's business, collecting funds for the treasury and at tiie same time saving other agencies', money on governmental transmitting communications. The Woodpeckers, were inaugurated by General Lord, director of tiie budget, to peck, away" continuously at unnecessary expenses. Dog Wears Shoesi Toronto. A dog wearing leather slioes accompanies Marcus Barone ut Rome, who purposes to- hike 75.000 miles in ten years. He has been walk ing iu Canada about a pionth. Girl workers of tin; Dai Nippon Spinning company, one of (he largest textile mills in Japan, parading daring a strike which has proved one of tiie most serious industrial disputes Japan !ms known. Mrs. Will Erwin of Texas, coaipun ion of tier husband. Captain Erwin, in ;s (light from California to Hawaii. Site is an accomplished flyer and radio I operator. |