The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-23
AN ANT COLONY.

a dome over main entrance points
ont tho location OF an underground city
close by our garden wall.
a race of pismios dwell there. They
bult without asking permission. Did
not oven ask the price OF land.
What a wonderful dome. Michael An
gclo made himself famous by tho dome
of st. Petersburg. Had he hui,ded as
large In proportion TO HIS Size he should
have spread 1t over all Rome.
| Who taught tho ants to build domos?
Angelo took tho human head for a
model Who patterned the dcmc for tho
| ant hn7
without saw or hammer, without ax
or chisol they challenge man to construct
an equally marvellous product.
Man turrets, towers. domes aud stccplcs
| his building to make IT distinctive. he
builds useless spires and directs them to-
ward heaven. Not so with our friend
of the ant hill. Their domo Is watch
tower. ON II svntrics arc stationed by DAY
and by night 10 guard and give warning
| of danger From it's summit the great
| gate way opens leading down into tho
! city.
Leading through long winding streets
curious galleries, ono over the other,
crooked stairways, large living rooms,
| halls and nurseries galore.
| II Ii planned so dif,eren, from the cities
| OF man, that he would surely be lost WITH
I out n pilot TO guide him.
| An ants bump ol location must bc Wen
| developed.
1hcy watch the iewcnod rain drops or
catch tho warm sunbeam and correct
| record make. When completed "A ohrrier
| is sent In to post this weather bulletin
| IN the midst of tho city, All atmoAherio
| changes are QUICKLY made known TO thc
| inmates within.
/ am quite unable to say how many
| reside in this underground city Many
ant hills are said to number from ivv,W To-
d000O0. Have You ever heard of a city Win
| no strangers among themY THIS Is true
| IN THIS underground city ana what ~
more wonderful stiil. there Is never a
| word of discord nor the least SNOW OF VI
WIN among them,
In the elites OF mnu we often know not
| our next neighbour even though hut INN
| walls divide us.
Ants talk 10 each other by touching the
long fccirra called nntcnnac, that grow
| from either side Of the head, lholh II
not understood, they opcn their maudihrs
| or Jaws and thus grasping one nnoth ~
| speak mouth 10 mouth.
1t Is thought that each camp has a
| pass Sign aud by the signal enn ten VINO
| belongs to the camp. BE thnt as IT may
| AT homo or abroad they never mistake,
| hut always know thor own people.
| each night nj sundown the doors are
| all boltod and barred to guard against
| marAudcrs. Won have read OF walled
| cities and have possibly seen one. l'lu
| the children of men learn TINS pan OF
| protection from our fricnd Of tho ant hiili
In the morning, az soon as the SUM
| beam strikes the dome of our underground
| city It's doors are thrown open aud the
| workers rush OUT TO gather IN food. NOT
| to store NY for winter rs many nave
| taught us. hut thry gather Ia food tn
| feed to the living, to the children, the
| mothers and nurses that make UP the hullt
of tho amt hin, TITS daily bread That they
| Ants lie dormant in winter. and sleep
| a long sleep through lis cold icy blasts,
When Mother Earth IN the springtlme
softly rings her underground cymoar,
| aud wakes one by one her children from
| sluuhtr. wglSos the root and routlot ana
tells them uie time Is now ripe to gather
| M The rich juicrs she has sct nowng
around thcm, aud hasten them on on
| through the branches through the tinicat
| twWs' "a unwrap the buds and the NOS
SONS our ants, too, hear the signal.
| They know what II means ruoy uu-
| lofrtnnd TINS ilrgt call of the new dawn
nf season aud straightcn their legs,
which have grown quite rheumatic with
| lNihE Nhwu, wave untrnnnc, turn over.
| thcu. with Il brave effort, stand on thon
| feet ray good morning brush tho mould
| from their Ralm,n'h aud make ready to
! "rN IN" nNt can from Dame Nature.
i'hfS ghdo along. There Va much lifo
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