Show I 1 white aits of africa 1 3 I 1 pill mall damte tile white ant Sa blind it ila many enemies and can never aror ure food 1 I 1 until it comes above ground how solve tho difficulty intakes tit seen working on the to of ser C a high tree awl yet it was un ground they I 1 k up some of t tile ground ith t item to top 11 1 t as the boap snow UP I 1 K va it into chii low tunnel huts in which they live so the whito ants F collect earth only ili ahli amt not from the surface but bruni wine depth 61 III ader neath file ground and lanxter Z I 1 t into tunneled ways occasion sion 11 ily hoe run along the ground but wore r often mount in endless tion to the tops of trees meandering along every branch and twig here slid t here debouching debou ching into largo cor Ired charn bers which occupy hill the girth of the trunk millions of trees ity some distri ta are thus fantastically plas biver with tubes and I 1 chambers of earth ana many pounds 1 weight of subsoil must be brought up forthe mining of even a single tree 1 peering over afie growing wall one soon discovers one two ar ter miles of a komov list larger sider ably longer and of the mandibles important looking saunter about the rampart in the most leisurely way but yet I 1 with a cortili air of business bu as it 1 I 1 I 1 1 perhaps one was the bastek of wa 1 and the other the th y I 1 are posted there as sentries and t e they stand or abou I 1 tile mouth of every tunnel like ann to see if anybody is coming sometimes somebody does com a shape of another r oa 1 I 1 time not the n europ hemn but some valiant and I 1 knight from the warlike single lit I 1 tle fearless in its chito of down the tree trun ante rince I and its cruel mandibles thirsting for I 1 I 1 1111 a worker white ant Is a poor do fenceless creature and blind and un armed would fill an immediate ray to these well drilled wh 0 forage about in every tropical forest in unnumbered legion cal moment like goliah from tile philistines tile soldier termite rd v auces to the fight with a few sweeps of its scythe like laws it flears I 1 the grotins gro tind and while tile attacking arty is carrying off its dead the ciders unconscious of the alaray I 1 quietly P their work to every I 1 workers in a white ant colony I 1 which numbers many thousand V individuals there are perhaps two of these men tile division of it labor here Is very ond erfal and the t fact t I 1 tat besides these two specialized there are in avery riest two IV other kinds of the same insect tile kings slid queens shows the remark I 1 hight tar which civili jitian in communities unities has attained these mounds are babilt into a 1 work of tunnels galleries and chain hers here the social interests of the community are attended to the 0 acost spacious of these chambers fir underground Is very properly allocated to the head of the I 1 society the queen the queen termite 1 is a very rare insect and as there are seldom more than one or at moot two to a colony and as the royal apartments are hidden far in the 4 earth few persons have ever seen a queen and indeed most if they did ei happen to coma across it from itil V ve ry s appearance would rein so t 0 believe that it bad any con I 1 lection with white ants ifer bole duty in life is to Is 9 11 d it must I 1 be confessed site dr ell r 1611 ater bunc I 1 tion with complete success tuc cess for in a single day her progeny often amounts to many thousands |