Show red ants are faithful on the stone steps of a bouse on the hill are two wooden pillars a toot and a halt apart among the sup ports of the porch recently big black ants have been so abundant and aggressive about one of these posts in which they made their home that all its cracks and crevices were put tied up and it was deluged with an ant killing fluid four days ago a tiny snake like line was noticed between the two pillars it crooked and curved and looked as it something had crawled through a light coating of dust leaving its trail there on close examination it proved to be a line of life it was made up of countless minute red ants rushing madly some in one direction and as many in the other some turning to the right and others to the left but all of them all the time holding close to the circuitous route from one post to the other and making the snake line or worm line on the stone step during all these four days those little bugs have been uninterruptedly busy whenever they were looked at night or day once the stream was swept off with a broom but in a few minutes the gap was closed and every thing looked just as it had before apparently these creatures are carry ing out of the disinfected pillar the dismembered remains 0 the blach ants and depositing them in the all lar that has not been subjected to treatment these small ants are so minute tha they are scarcely perceptible except in the mass and they can readily in under the base of the pillars where the black ones could not go none of the red ones have been seen thereabouts until this remarkable groces sion began its unceasing to and fro march are they slaves of the blace ones and if so who gave them theli orders to clean house nothing in terr them they even refuse to be tempted with sugar or scared by wa ter when a little pool was put in the path they failed it up with their bodies and the next marched on hartford courant |