Show WHITS alil TS OF A poor and the fighting men palt I 1 the white ant is alini it has many 48 gild can never ilio cure food until it comes abife 1 d f t cults it akes the along bilth it I 1 have seen w h ite I 1 on the top of b 1 gh tree and yot it ass II 11 they took up ame of the ground ith them to the tree top jua as the hemp snow up building it into the low tunnel buts in which they live W th ewhite onto collect earth only in this ca not from the surface but from some depth underneath the ground and plaster it into tunneled ways on run along the ground but more ofton mount in eddlem to the top 4 trees dering along every branal I 1 n ua twig anti her 0 o and there debauc c I 1 ing into large cover ed chambers wb ich occupy half the girth of the trunk millions of treed in some are thus fan lly I 1 last cred over with tubes galli eries an chambers and many pounds must be brought tip for the of ovain a single tree peering over the growing wall one discovers one two or more termites jofs somei aliat liat larger build lot ager and especially These important looking individuals saunter about the rampart in the moat leisurely way but yet with a certain air of as if perhaps one was the master of works and abe kotlier the architect they are ted there as sentries and there they stand or promenade about at the mouth of every tunnel like sister anaw see irever is coming sometimes somebody does come in the shape of another ant thereal ant this time not the defend leos neur but some valiant and belted knight from the warlike war like single or in troops this chi costs of mail charges down the tree trunk its anter ibm waving defiance to the flemy and its cruel lea thirsting for termite blood the worker white ant is a dwor defenseless creature and blind and armad would fall an immediate prey to these well drilled who borago about in every forest in unnumbered but at the critical moment like goliath from the philistines Phili tines the soldier to amite advances to the foght with s of its it clears the ground and the attacking party is carry ill 1 I faits dead the builders bail ders unconscious of tae fray quietly continue their work to every hundred workers in a white ant colony which umbers many thousands there are perhaps two of these fight ing men the division of labor here is very wonderful fu I 1 and the fact that besides chest two 1140 foras fliers are in ebery nest two other kinds of the same insect the kings aud lueetta que etta show the rv remark mark able height to which civilization in these has attained these mounds are built into a meshwork of tunnels galleries and ohp interests of are the most spacious champe ra usually far is ve properly io the bead r queen the qeeen is 11 7 try cartr insect and as there are seldom more thin one or at maist two to A colony and as the rojal are ilden far la the eari bew persi hite over seen a queen an if they did happen to across it from I 1 ts vary appear ance would refuse w believe wat it bad y connection W afe tints e r one duty in life isto lay egge and it must be confess ed shw discharges her function with success for in a jay her homsany 0 f ten amounts I 1 tb mant t |