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Show Ants Set Good Example. "Crossing tho ro.id In tho park," writes a visitor to Panama, "I observed ob-served a curious thing Oreen lenves, thousands of them, each tho size of a small oak or maple leaf, were moving In tegular mnrehlng order along the road, a continuous line, as far as the eye could lench. It pioved to bo an nrmy of nuts, each one cnnylng a leaf on Its back, which completely hid Its llttlo bodv. On closer view I saw a patnllel line of ants returning unload ! ed, or empt j -hacked, to tho place of supply up u rather long, steep hill, i In crossing the roadwaj the driver of our cairlm-c stupidly ran over both lines. A few ants fell out, never to ' go back, hut the brokon ranks Instant- Ij filled and tho procession moved on ! unceasingly as before. During the busy season these soldier ants march cay and night, laying In their suppl I of food. If some of the dirty and lazy-1 looking Pananian I saw in the city would be foiced to follow U.v example of the soldier nnts things might be different on the isthmus " |