Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-07

ditti, who forage about in every tropical for est in unnumbered legion. But at the crltl' cal moment, like Goliath from the Philis- tines, the soldier termite advances to the fight. With few sweeps of it's scythe- like jaws it clears the ground, and while the at- lacking party is carrying of it's dead the builders, unconscious of the fray, quietly continue their work. To every hundred workers in white ant colony, which num- beTs many thousands of individuals, there are perhaps two of these fighting men. The division of labor here is very wonderful, and the fact that besides these two specialized form there are in every nest two other kinds of the same insect, the kings and queens, shows the remarkable height to which civili- Zstion in these communities has attained.
 These mounds are built into 0 meshwork of tunnels, galleries and chambers where the social interests of the community are attend ed to. The most spacious of these chambers, usually far underground, is very properly al- located to the head of the society, the queen. The queen-termite is a very rare interest, and as there seldom more than one, or at mott two to 8 colony, and as the royal apart ments are hidden far into the earth, few pers sons have ever Eeen queen, and indeed most, if they did happen to come across it, from it's very singular appearance would re- fuse to believe that it had any connection with white ants. Her one duty in life is to lay eggs, and it must be confessed she dis charges her function with complete success,
 
 to many thousands.
 SEASIDE PHOTOGRAPHS.
 Amateurs With Cameras Find Highly B Interesting Subjects on the Beach
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 New York Letter to the St. Louis Republfc.l
 Not only do the photographers focus the sights at Coney Island, where the people are not apt to dodge the lens, but they have made themselves terrors to the more retiring dwelIers at Manhattan and Long beaches. From behind clumps of trees, from hotel windows and from the seats of vehicles they have been taking photographs with reckless impertinence. until no young maiden or dan- dy feels at all certain whether her or his de- pertinent out-of doors is made the subject of 8 picture not Some of the amateurs with these cameras are young men who do not know enough to keep their triumphs to themselves or to their circles of close friends, and the consequence is that their quick asa wink pictures had been handed around quite freely, to the disturbance of many young persons who never suspected, when they were stealing kisses on the beach or walking rm-around-wsist in what looked like lonely places, that their actions and their faces were reflected in permanent form on the negative of 8 sly youth up tree in a wagon, or hidden under the board walk On the other hand, some of the views are interesting and agreeable enough, by reason of the prettiness of the girls portraits and the stylishness of their dresses.
 The advantage these photographers take of persons they have a fancy for photographing is at times heartless and cruel. The other night in the ballroom of gay hotel, close to the beach, one of these youths had roll of proof photographs with him and was show ing them to his friends, with comments like this: ffYou see that stately miss over there with the stout mother by her side? You would not think she would eat cherries with out spoon, would you? Yet look at this picture taken of her yesterday morning in the grove near the elephant, when she thought she and her beau were all alone See that little dimpled puss oyer thereG Frigid, isn't shea Nobody would dare to kiss her, would theyf But somebody did dare all the same, and here's picture of how it was done, down on the beach yesterday, under an umbrella. Who is that coming in? Why that's the little Miss Perkins, daughter of the big candlemaker in Newark. She told me, when squeezed her hand yesterday, that if ever did such thing again she would break friends with me; that she never al 1 lowed any gentleman any liberties whatever. Here is picture I took of her two hours ! later at the further end of the board-walk beyond the pavilion It looks like Siamese ! twin brother and sister, they are so thor- oughly encircled with each others arms. am going to show her this picture and ask | her if she would be very angry if her com panion in the picture should squeeze her hand as did,"
 The worst of making these photographs SO common is that the men who sse them are apt to speak of them vaguely to friends of the persons photographed, and thus start whispered stories that do very great damage to persons who cannot defend themselves, and who have really not been guilty of any thing more than overconfdence in being, as they think, out of sight. I saw a picture thus being made of girl in bathing suit, who had come out of the surf to have a romp with a couple of pet dogs. She was as frisky as they were, and seemingly as heed less of appearances, although her costume was essentially the same as that of hundreds of other bathers, and she was certainly jus ti6ed by superior beauty in disclosing her self completely on the sand as we'll as only partially in the water Now, while photo- graph resulting from that shet of the camera may represent the young woman as gambol- ling too unrestrainedly in public, another piece of portraiture on the spot would have shown the solid and sedate parents seated comfortably under an umbrella and over looking with protective complacency the sportiveness of the daughter.