The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, June 12, 1908, Image 5
' l.vt Justice Ho Done.
Near Greer, in Spart inburg Coun
ty a negro named Fowler shot and in
stantly killed a young white man of
.unsavory reputation by the name of
Boyce Stone, who was attempting to
o tirage Fowler's wife Fowler nani
that lie hastened to his home in re
sponse to his wife's calls for aid and
found three white men assailing her.
Stone knocked him down, but he re
covered himself, sei/.cd his gun and
killed the would-be-ravisher. The
other men, Hammett and Duncan,
ran away. They were later chased
by ofheers and arrested. Immedia
tely after the shooting Fowler sur
rendered himself to the sheriff.
Stone, who was a vicious young
desperado, seemed to have met a
deserved death at thc hands of a ne
gro who was justified in protecting
his home. Strange to relate Magis
trate Wood, who acte? as coroner,
permitted the two men arrested as
accessories to criminal assault to ap
pear in the role of principal wit
nesses, and that as the result of
their testimony their intended vic
tim is held as an accomplice to the
killing, by her husband, of the ring
leader in thc assault!
Fortunately such travesty on jus
tice was not allowed to stand. The
people of Greer were indignant
when they heard that Fowler's wife
and a number of other witnesses
had not been examined and because
thc testimony of Hammett and
Duncan af the hearing was at com
plete variance with statements they
made in the hearing of a number of
responsible citizens prior to their ar
rest. Because of these facts, which
Convinced them that there had been
a miscarriage of justice, a number
Of prominent citizens headed by
Mayor Burgiss, made representa
tion to Deputy Sheriff Beckneil suf
ficiently strong to cause another
hearing before the coroner.
At this hearing tho verdict was
practically the same as the first one,
but the charge of being an accom
plice against Fowler's wife was dis
missed. Tiie evidence was sufli
ciently strung against Hammett and
Duncan to inst if v their being held
and killed another man out in the
West. From what we can hear
Fowler did thc proper thing in rid
ding the carib of such a monster.
When killed He was attempting to
commit a most hienou .> crime and
we are glad to know that thc good
wh to people of Greer are deter
mined to see that Fowler gets just
ice.
Kxpcctiiig Detent.
A staff correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun writing from Washing
ton says "the consensus of opinion
at the capitol, if it could be accur
ately ascertained, would disclose a
belief on the part of thc Republi
cans that their party is confronted
with a prospect of defeatin the next
election both as to the Presidency
and as to the control of the House
of Representatives. -"Moreover, some
of them are reconciled to defeat in
anticipation, believing that through
it alone can the country escape the
consequences of Mr. Roosevelt's
usurpation of power and their own
weakness to resist him. To some ex
tent their nonresistance is due to
their belief that defeat is bound to
follow at the polls and their desire
to escape thc responsibility for this
defeat being placed upon them
through their having made a breech
in the part> urgimzatioii by open re
sistance of the executive." It. will
be seen from the above that the Re
publicans don't think Bryan is such
an easy candidate to beat as some
of our Southern papers would have
us believe.
Acw York Fights Bryan,
flt begins to look as if Mr. Bry
an, in case he were nominated at
Denver, would not have a single
newspaper of consequence in New
York city support ing his candidacy,"
says thc Springfield Republican.
"The Hearst papers will have their
own sideshow this year. The World
luis worked itself into such a fury
of opposition to tho nomination that
support in the campaign is evidently
out of the question. The Times and
Brooklyn Hagle would pass a years
dividends rattier than to have any
thing to do with the unspeakable
one. The Sun is clearly preparing
to support Mr. Taft on the ground
that he would prove conservative in
the presidency. Wall street and The
Sun will not be far apart, in this
matier. Mr. Bryan, therefore, hs
likely to enjoy less newspaper favor
in .the big citjf than in 1896 ven,
w..
time or i.
for in that year the Hearst papers
fought single-handed for his cause.
The effect of such a total absence of
journalistic support in New York
city can only be surmised. In tho
Empire State, New Jersey and Con
necticut, the roi id opposition of tho
cuy press that is most read might
be very disastrous to Mr. Bryan,
but in the Middle West and tranu
Mississippi region it is possible that
the spectacle would do him more
good than harm. The West, tic
fore it votes, will ask, perhaps, how
Wall street feels, and if it should
appear that Mr. Taft was thc only
candidate that the New York press
tolerated, the outcome might not be
easy to predict. Those who most
earnestly desire Mr. Bryan's defeat
would be better pleased by far if
one or two of the New York papers,
for the sake of thc moral effect up
on the entire country, would sup
port him." All the so-called Demo
cratic napers in New York, are
trust ridden, and their opposition to
the people's candidate should bring
the balance of the country to his
support. Bryan's tremendous hold
on the people is the result of the
war made on him by napers in all
the cities of the country owned and
controlled by men who are the ben
eficiaries of the special privileges
granted them by tho Republican
party to fleece the people out of
their hard earned dollars. Some of
these papers that are published in
the South claim to be Democratic
because the Republican party is not
strong enough in their localities to
support them, but they are really
Republican in ail but name. Happi
ly such papers have no influence, as
the people have found them out.
Heyan lina (?real Lead.
The Charleston Post has been do
ing some figuring on the Democrat
ic nomination for President, and
finds that "of 168 delegates elected
last week to the Democratic nation
al convention, 15*1 were instructed
for Bryan and two are favorable to
his nomination. Twelve uninstruct
delegates were elected, who are be
lieved to be favorable to -lodge
frrav. Johnson, of Minnesota, cot
Democratic convention of that.State
upon its delegates to Denver.
"Wednesday the Democrats of
New Hamshire held their convention
and elected delegates without in
structions. The four men chooser!
to represent the State at large, how
ever, are all for Brvan, so they will
swell the Nebraskan's score. New
Hampshire has been counted against
Bryan hertofore, in the impartial
casimates of the Denver convention
line-up. so Bryan's capture of four
of the votes of the Slate in the na
tional convention is a marked gain,
which, while scarcely needed toni
sure his nomination, is still interest
ing as indicating the trend of party
sentiment.
"The count ??ow shows dS7 dele
gales elected and instructed for Bry
an and forty uninstructed but practi
cally assured to him. That is a to?
tal Of 527 already in hand, a total
exceeding the majority of the con
vention's membership by exactly tho
total number of votes in sight for
Johnson, of Minnesota. There are
to be elected delegates who will
probably be for Bryan; and if these
materialize he will have 717 votes
certain on the first ballot, 75 more
than the two thirds needed to nomi
nate. That is without counting the
New York delegation, which, accord
ing to well informed political obser
vers, will cist its solid streut, h of TS
votes for the Nebraskan. The nom
ination of Bryan has been a practi
cal certainty for mai . .veeks and it
will soon be written upon the record
in actual figures."
FRANCK has imposed an income
tax on government securities, and
as more taxation will oe neceossary
here to meet Republican extrava
gance and loss of revenues by retir
son of vicious policies, we may have
to eventually, like France, tax in
comes on government bonds.
, Au. the talk about. Hie negroes
voting the Democratic ticket on ac
count of the Brownsville affair is
nonsense. The darkey leaders are
just smart enough to know that un
less they register a kick there will
be "nothing doing," and t he price
for workers will be cut to an un
profitable basis.
HVKN the four delegates elected
last week to Denver from Florida
turns out to be for Bryan. Looks'
like the (?real Commoner will cap
ture all the "doubtful" States.
/
Another iAv> Set Adrift.
As soon ns one campaign lie on
Bryan is run down and choked off
another is started. Sometime ago
it was asserted that Bryan called on
Senator Tillman while he was in
Worthington and boggod tho Senator
ni ri indra vv hts objection to inc in- !
struction of Hie delegates from this j
SHuo. This was such a clumsy and
barefaced lie that only one or two
pupers attempted to use it against
Mr. Bryan, but they soon abandon
ed it us they soon found that no one
believed it. Then another yarn was
started that Mr. Bryan had quit the
Presbyterian ('burch and joined tho
Methodist. Church, of which Mrs.
Bryan is a member. This lie will
have to run its course like dozens of
others started about Mr. Bryan as
he can't afford to notice the little
campaign lies that are set drift hy
those who are working in thc in
terest of tho Republican party and
tho Trusts.
The latest lie started by the
agents of the Kop ubi ?can party and
the Trusts on Mr. Bryan is that if
be is nominated he will not run be
cause ho is so infatuated with tho
idea of his money value as a plat
form lecturer, due to his political
prominence, that before he will risk
losing this opportunity of making
money by a possible defeat at the
polls, he will withdraw from tlio
race.
This lie which is tho most absurd
yet started on Mr. Bryah, is credit
to one Koohlsuat, who was at one
time a Republican editor of Chicago.
Ile says "Mr. Bryan must appreci
ate that his value as a lecturer and
writer will be gone if he is nominat
ed and defeated for the third time.
On thc other hand il* he sacrifices
his political prospects by urging the
nomination of another man, he will
bo bailed as a great, patriot, and his
worth asa lecturer and publisher
will go upward with a groat bound.
He will be a bigger drawing card
than ever on the lecture stage."
This is about what Koohlsaat
would do if he was in Mr. Bryan's
place and had his brains to make
a successful lecturer. It is irnpossi
.?" ???.?liKorn
Tho I'Vdernl reunion I.ISI.
The Virginian Pilot says: "Forty
I throe years have passed since the
fall of tho Confederacy. Yet there
j are still more than a million names
on the federal pension list, or 400,
, OOO mor(; than were enrolled from
1 first to last in the armies of the
i South. Tho appropriation for sup
! port of those pensioners aggregates
1 for tho coming year $100,000,000, or
I nearly six times greater than they
Were 30 years ago. Tin; bounty has
been extended to collateral objects
from time to time, until now the
bulk of it goes to persons other than
tho veterans. In a New England
village of today a survivor of the
Civil war who is unmarried is
sought after by the young girls of
the vicinity as though he were a
youthful Adonis; for when he tot
ters to the grave already yawning
before him the widow will fall heir
to his annuity and can then seek a
union with her real sweetheart.
We are told that in that section a
superannuated soldier stands no
more chance of escaping tho clutch
ot one of those rapacious Hobos
than a Junebug would of escape
when thrown into a coop of turkeys.
No one objects to supporting the
men who actually fought the bat
tles of the Union; hut it is pretty
j hard to be taxed for the benefit of
an army of substitutes, bummers
and lately made wives and widows
and fictiotious descendants."
A Johnson Bureau sends out the
following: "The Chicago Tribune
is authority for tho statement, that
William Jennings Bryan could afford
to pay $150.000 or moro for the
Democratic nomination to the Pres
idency, oven if he knew positively
that ho would b;> defeated." The
Chicago Tribune is a Republican pa
per, which ?re the kind usually
quoted by tho Johnson Bureaus
against Mr. Bryan.
Tnt: Johnson Bureau sends out
the following: "The whole Scandi
navian vote, which is Republican,
will help Governor Johnson if he is
nominated, is the opinion of ll. C.
Stebl lins, a Minneapolis (lour man
ufacturer, who is a Republican."
Why don't the Johnson bureaus
quote a Democrat occasionally.
Accoitmi* ; to Mr. Tatt, the ad
visability of revising the tariff should
bo thoroughly considered. Evident
ly, he has not yet considered it at
all.
?
\V;\lo Itoptlblics FllilUI'ON.
Tho appeal of Liberia for aid to
tho United States confirma the edi
torial thai appeared in The State a
few days ago on the decay of the
B:ack Republics. The State says
th ? ''ev?s of rh,* thinking men of
Inc wore! ilav*- o?-t.-n MI Libella lor
a long lime as .ne most perfect ex
periment of a negro republic uno as
a test of the negro to rule himself
under the must favorable conditions,
and the result is proof that the
race is and will always be, the infant
in the races of men on earth." 'ino
views expressed by The Stale in Hie
article we copy below is held by
many of the best friends the negroes
had at the North. Take ('barios Fran
cis Adamo as an example. He has
become convinced that the negro is
incapable of self-government and
that seperaled from the white man
he has no future, He has reached
this conclusion after studying the
negro for nearl> fifty years. Here
is what The State says:
The fate of the black republics
is <-ne of the most striking, and at
the same time one of the most de-;
pressing, facts in modern history.
There wane no negro nations in
ancient, times, at least none that
could properly be so called; and it
is only in very recent times that the
experiment of a genuinely black na
tion has been assayed. There are
now but (hire of theSe independent
black republics- Liberia, Haiti, and
San Domingo. The causual classifi
cation of Abyssinia among negro
nationalities is. of course, due lo
carelessness or ignorance. The true
Abyssiniens are of the Hamitic
lyne, a people very much more ad
vanced and very much more richly
endowed than the negro. Leaving
out of consideration the petty and
mongrel principalities and so called
States of Darkest Africa, the only
real negro governments of the world
are the three we have mentioned
Liberia, which we founded; Santo
Domingo, which we control; and
Haiti, which we govern. All are
manifestly doomed to early extinc
tion.
"'Liberia seems confronted by at
least two dangers, either of which
throw round the turbid black do
minion the widening boundaries of
the imperial roublie. The other is,
of course, the inherent decay of ali
black governments. The race in its
unmixed strains, has yet shown no
trace of political ability. Whatever
capacity it has had here and there
in political affairs has come through
an infusion of Caucasien blood. Li
beria, therefore, is about as good as
done for. lt has utterly failed to
provide a rallying point for negro
progress and civilization, a nucleus
of the future negro power. Fven
now its submergences into Darkest
Africa-commingling its own blood
with that of the parent stock
would, if anything, add a little
darker pigmentation to the darkes
region of the world.
"As to the other black republics,
who?; case may be treated al
most as if they constituted but a
single petty domain, its they make
up but a single island, the peril that
lowers over them is partly political,
partly commercial, partly of the
warp and woof of that modern fev
er of the nations-imperialism,
They also are beset by the danger of
decay from within, and would soon
perish of that malady, were it not
that a surer and swifter fate awaits
them. The first visions that. France
and America had of a canal through
the Isthmus of Panama marked the
doom of both these black republics
as it very likely marked the doom of
of other petty dominions and loosely
moored islands of the seas in which
are "(he still-vexed Rermoothes,"
though no longer remote or unes
pied or undesired. When the Pan
am canal became a necessity in the
l art ber development ot commerce
along lines that would continue to
favor this country, tia? doom of
these little black Splotches on the
man became as certain and as un
changeable as a decree of the Modes
and Persians."
DAVID H. Hill is going abroad and
will be absent during the Presiden
tial campaign. H is a pity rio did
not go abroad in 1896 instead of
helping lo carry New York against
the Democracy. All such men as
Hill ought lo come out openly for
the Republicans.
Tnt; Republican "let us alone"
platform won't do. We want tar
ill' and currency reform; we want
some real trust busting; we want
the railroads properly curbed. The
party that lets things alone should
bc put. out of business.
As the capacity of Republican
Congressmen diminishes their trick
iness increases.
A TKXAS woman committed sui
cide because her husband did not
kiss her good-bye.
TRANSMIT SIflllT AIM'AUATTTS.
Tciuiitoph-te Will Bring Dlsiii ni
Points lo View.
In '.redulous minds will probably be
exercised over a:: announcement o!
the invention of un Instrument,
''vu. .-. (ho tebtuterdioto, which :>
tpimruill) designe:! MI bring all ro<
molo pari . o? ?.? earth into closer
touch by rendering il ?nt an I anti per
haps now Invlv i/o objects to v'.ow
'n-" HOI nmc ;nh i, h electrical
nhl. D ls aid. tv mid enable a Now
vor' ci to! ?phoning Ida wlfo Iii Chi
cago, to i duri, 'lum.' to stu ?-..i her
expressions during the con versal inn
!t Wdith! i 'D<"'r> San francisco nrlsu
?ght or Denver convention sumo
day NH vi jblo from Die I'M.-, ti'-on
i.ull lin;.; ns a Kt iii Avenue stage.
prose, f, however, tho tolarno
phot(? will serve only as an attach
ment to tho .elephone, and UH Inven
tor. Mr. Sidney Rothschild, of No.
4 7 7 Klghtl. Avenue, New York, states
that tn this connection it will glvo
complete satIsfaotton.
Alter two years of arduous work,
mending hours every night at work
on his Invention. Mr. Rothschild, who
1? loti twenty six years old. proved
his .uvohlion ? theoretical success.
Do sent lt to Washington, whoro it
wns tipproved and patented, ?UKI ho
ls now working With models, to .loni
onstruto the practicability of tho de
V'l f\
VVhlh Dr, Art ur Korti, of Mun
ien succeeded hy tho transmission
nf i photographic record, in convey
!:).; :i distant likeness lo view, lt
was not ??II ho t mia neons process like
thai oi ! hr Ip'.antophoto.
11 . Rothschild claims that his tel
.phone method Of transmission is
rino h simpler than Hie negative post
;n : nwt h.wj employed by Dr. Koro.
: ts founded upon tho well known
truth i hal when ?denium ls struck
bj fight tis electoral resistance
changes In relation to tho amount Of
ll c li I \v li j. li shines II pon 11
The Instruments employed in Die
sending ami recoii t ol the electrical
Influence ii;.(. of wonderfully .-implo
work ni a ash I p.
The transmitting consists of a
selenium coaled cell, upon which any
innige inaS be focussed h> a camera
oi.-. through a transverse slot in a
travelling steel belt. Tho belt
mo es perpendicularly across the
fare of the cell, which is mado up of
alt?rnale copnor and mica plates. In
sulated from each other out con?
heeled aloin.' thu etle.es ni one side
hy a selenium conting. The inten
sity id tho Ugh! reflected upon tho
cell .viii vary ?is the slot, travelling
across the cell rx noses tho coating
l'uni tho main cell (hal .ry point
m i he surface ol' thc main cell ls
(.overol ' he controlling cell inns
fan orin - every point iii light into
in gleetrten j impulse ttud semis it
v wiro to a distant receiving sin
on.
\i ino receiving hulton is n bell,
?V>til per pen. lie. 'ar sh.ts, rotating so
ha? a pulley willi horizontal slots
.. sing it causes points ol liglu to
ippi ar as one slot meets another. Tin?
Igh* comes from n vacuum lube Wlth
thc bolt, am. lt Vnrtos th accord
vi.' the Intensity of tiio electrical
irreiit from tho sending station
?otu receiving and sending apparatus
.\ i ry nell I'OliOUSly bi regulated mo
ors.
Th? light which appears at. the
'oi: varied al oneil point to tho
.-. " (legree with Hie light at the
'.rn ns mi liing btation, throws the fig
.re seen at the transmitting
.allon through a lens apon
ground glass scrcou. A? tho
henomonon bf conlinuatlon ol' vis
o:- (<e< ill's in thc moving picture, the
..ti.ving liglires oh the screen, which
ippenr as lighted b> a single Hash,
present <-ver? inovemeni o? tho ob
. .ci ilise?j'iied.
Mr Itolchscllild was born In New
i rix ard was a gradual i ol ils pub
ic ., noni.- lie earl.v undertook th?
-indy i . electricity, building motors.
Ki (di Hg's Day DIV.
Liter arv enthusiasts aro somewhat
i lo ly to foi'get thal authors aro not
tl ways like their Works t lea nt i
o ippo. rance ai,.i in i ti I con noc
i?n an lt musing story is told nf a
young lady iv lib had for years boen
an ardent admirer of tho 'Munghi
.took*," and "'Plain 'talk from tim
111 iv,. ?
'F*,r long she had been eager te J-o.i
iv* 'dot In the llesh. and ono (lay, io
iel- great joy, sin- was introduced,
lit when she nut Mr. Killing face
o f; e. (ho young lady's oountoiiun ti
loll somewhat, tor sh" realized that
tie was noli aller all, the exact coun
terpart Of the Apollo shu had plc?
: i red I) i m.
Are von R ildya I'd Kipling?" sh?
.ted, staring al tito author in dis
ni uy.
Mr. Kipling naturally felt Home
rt1 h " I embarrassed, and murmured
'Vos,'' meekly.
?'..it I thought,"* explained the
ia ly, Who could not cover her disap
pointment, ' I thought I thought
ou sri (pille different ! "
"I n i oh. I am. madam!" Mr.
.'??piing hastened to assure her in
COU fidel) i Ul I tone:;. "I am indeed!
Only, von see, this is my day off!" .
Answers,
Hailey Cured Deri-Deri.
SOUK; lime aim, tho rico Supply be
ing -boil, prisoners in ,1a pa nose Jails
were led largely on harley. The re
sult was tho Immediate cessation ot
new bei 1-berl cases.
THIA SOLWE1? BUSINESS.
A Modem Anny Should bo Or . -o)y
ed So As To Attract (Jood Men.
In .tho old d:iy.s of chivalry i ho
soldier ?lld not re?oive direct pay n
ti??' exact'souse that ho docs to*da>
(..il .m lus SOI . > .- H-Wi.nl: W i
(ute, and ii?M-i), s?.rily so. lo preserve
In hun propoi MI bord ?nntio?j Hie
keep ?ind his Weapons wore furnish,
OJ lum hy his "ovoi lot 1." and with
i. ui.. rood : nd lalnient, and oertrun
p.iviiegos |)ertah ?nu io his art. now
liiovu and included in tho modem
toi tn "loot."
Thc ruto ?uife passed down tho asos
that .i lighting man must needs light
for Homet h lng ut ?re substantial thuu
priuciph . iu,?I more satisfying than
patriotism, so iii.ii oven In tho Rev
olutlon, ?lu- obscuro pages o? history.
ls found tins momentous question ol
pay, and right troubling HS it was at
that time.
in tho War of 1812, a hotter regu
lation had como into offed and the
allowances for rations and clothing
and pay wore Baner and moro satir-:
fylng, as indeed was true in th?
later war with Mexico, and in thu
great Rebellion of I SOO. Tho sid?
won which had the money behind !t;
tho armies which were foil and cloth?
od and paid, were maintained at
effective strength daring the terri
ble later days' struggles, while Hu.
loss fortunate opponents lound theil
lighting strength dwindling away,
true perhaps, owing to physical ex
haustion, but nevertheless equally
tine, indeed, owing to an uncertain
supply ol' the essential elements lor
Soldiors; and not tho least ol' these
was pay,
Parallel with this question ariser,
tho fact that a soldo r's profession lu
a trade in exactly the same sense that
carpentry, masonry oi- mechau'CB
are a source ol livelihood, and to
maintain an eft' yt!Ve. disciplined ar
my, tho renumeration must bo com
petitive with tho prue paid in civilian
life. So in the War of tho Rebellion,
lifter the supply ot volunteer eniist
11 '-lils bad Peen practically exhaust
ed, ihe authorities did not appeal
to tho partiotism of tho nation, 'Mit
lo the pockets, in the shape of f?
bounty, and this c< rtalnly uni meet
the situation tor tin- lime being.
Th" days ol' going to church with
a lille over the shoulder have been
for gol ton, the menace ol* tue Indino
ol the West bas passed, thor?! is uni
versal security practically iroiu one
end of the country lo ino oilier, and
tho soldier's weapon, once so UOCess
ar) for sqjf-preservnilon, ts used in
ly as a diversion in tho few rematu
a principie aim me uiuui ui ina ?su
perior. ?So that thu lirst question
asked by a prospectivo recruit is tho
momentous question of. pay. and ms
ll rsl mental ?ellon is a comparison
botween tho soldier pay ami that ol
his former occupation. The attrac
tive re,-n Ring posters do not stale
much about the actual advantages oV
i? soldier's lite from a patriotic po'nt
ol view; they dwell upon tho pay
and the allowances, and 3o mo what of
course upon the cbaugo of life In
volved.
So tho great fallacy that -ach and
every American is a soldier by 1 ri -
st I net and race If a rille us hut pluc
ed in his band, is pathetically appar
ent to-day. This was indeed true to
a certain extent when tho edge or
tho forest might harbor the savage
Indian, but that has long pa sod, ami
Die performances of our citizen sol
diery, such as at Bladensburg :mdi
at Queenstown, and later tn the earl
ier day? of tho Civil War, does not
reflect any great amount of credit
0U America.
A modern army to-day must bc
organized upon a business basts if it
must compete for mon with tho in
dustrial world; tho soldier must re
ceive adequate pay and allowances
to bo contented, disciplined and ell
cfont, so that the present scale ot
pay, existing since 1870, both tor
officers and enlisted men, ls totally
inadequate io warrant malting Iii?
army a career for the best men ot
tiie nation, and Ihe American Anny
sholl ld he ol' the best tho country can
furnish. Prom Army ami Navy I,ile.
Almost ll ii man Intelligence.
Something new and interesting
about ants was recently learned by a
florist. For a week or so ho nad
been bothered hy ants that got into
boxes ol' seeds, which rested on a
shelf.
To rot rid of the ants ho put Into
execution an old plan, which was to
place a unaly bone closo by, which
the ants soon covered, deserting the
boxes ol' seeds.
As soon as the hone voca nie thick
ly inhabited by tho little eroepp?-g
the florist tossed it into a tub ol
waler. The ants having boen wash
ed oil', thc hone was again put in
u><o as a trap.
The florist bethought himself that
lu- would save trouble hy placing tho
bono In the center of a sheet of fly.
paper, believing that thc ants would
get caught on tho sticky tly-pap.T
while trying to reach the food, (tut
tho Hortet was surprised to timi timi
tb? mts, upon discovering tho nature
of the paper trap, formed a working
force and built a path on the papei
clear to the bono.
Tho material for tho work wa?
sand, secured from a little pile mur
by. For houri? tho ants worked
and whoo tho path was completed
thoy made their way over Rr. dry sar?
f<ico In couples, as In a mareto, to th*
bone.- -Nature.