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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

its odor- When two ants meet they immed-
ately begin to feel each other over with their
armlike antenna feelers One would imagine
that the two were caressng each other but it
is not so. They finding. out each others
odor. If the odors are not familiar, then a
fight ensues. for there is no neutral ground in
the ant world. If an ant is not a member of
the home group and therefore a relative. it is
an enemy. The ant code is Fight all strangers
on smell. and begin first"
Ants fight with the tenacity of bulldogs
once they have grapped. it is a fight until one
of the combatants is killed or so badly MANNED
that it cannot fight longer Miss Fielde has
seen two fight continuously for eighteen hours
The animosity which ants display toward one
another is probably due to the practice of the
tribes of raiding each others nests and carry
ing off the Larvae and pupe. These the cap
tors rear, so that when they come to maturity
they may work for them slaves.
Miss Fielde. by experiment, has discovered
how the ants detect the different smells The
feelers are divided into joints. Each of these
joints is equipped to detect different odor
This she discovered by process of elimination.
With the most delicate of surgical instruments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

pleased over IT as Christian youngsters ever
were
what stories are you going to tell your chfl-
cren on Christmas" asked a woman connected
with one OF the Settlements the other day Of a
Hebrew mother The worker was thinking of
the stories her New-England mother had told
her long ago. the beautiful stories of the Christ
child.
Tel them stories?" questioned the Hebrew
mother. Why should / tell them stories? / tell
them ii is the greatest day in the year. They
gets something for nothing. Amt that enough
1 wonder yet?"
do you believe in allowing your people to
celebrate Christmas?" a Tribune reporter asked
an Official Of of the big East Side syna-
gogUes.
We encourage the celebration" he declared
mere is no reason why we should not Christ
mas no longer has any religious significance At
least. IL has none in cosmopolitan New-York IT
VIII DO one no harm to open up his purse once a
year and give generously where friendship die
tates- Indeed, il does great deal of good for
In this generation We apt to become too
eTaSping- Any repression of the Christmas
spirit would not help keep our young peopIe
true to the faith of their fathers The induce
ments to become less religious or to slip into an
other faith are strong enough as it is If we
tried to forbid young folks celebrating
N---iSN4iiHAo hSS iilShl OeilanO our reasons. and
that would give the day religious significance in
their eyes,
The last week has been a busy at the varf-
Gus settlements Several of them have had
CHRISTMAS trees on several successive nights in
order TO accommodate the large number of chill
dren connected with the various activities of
the institutions. The presents distributed were
not expensive. but that did not lessen the ap-
probation.
AT the University Settlement there is a guild
Of girls which gives Christmas party every
year This year il took the form of a Christmas
tree for poor children Each girl in the guild
not only made presents but gathered bundles of
clothing and discarded toys from her friends
Then they invited the poorest children they
could find in the Rivington-st. district and dis
tTibuted the gifts among them The girls of
the guild took their reward in the form of a
social dance after couple of score Of young
sters had been sent home extremely happy
Grand-st was the centre OF the Christmas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

munfty. AS the result of collaborating with
Professor George H Parker, of Harvard Uni
versity to determine IL they could hear, she
declares that ants are not sensitive to vibra-
lions received through the air.
Individual ants have different temperaments
according to Miss Fielde- ANTS of
species are as varied in character as human
beings" she said the other day. Some are
irascible others doce; have strong
ternal instincts. while others dislike the OF
young; some like quiet home life. while others
like to go afied and roam about; some learn
more quickly than others the things which I
wish them to do. Ants keep themselves ana
their young scrupulOusly clean 1 have seen
ant when she wanted to be specially we'll
groomed, catch hold OF another ant by the leg
and make it lick her back which she could not
reach herself If the other ant got tired and
tried to get away. she would catch it again and
compel it to remain until the work was done
thoroughly When their young get sOied they
will pick them up, as much as to say, You
naughty boy, and fOrcibly wipe them clean in
the nest, The ants carefully remove all debris
of an unclean character from their nurseries"
II is hard to believe that ants have not
of the emotions of human beings Miss Fielde
has observed Instances of grief at the loss OF
companions which were pathetic, She had two
little spinSter ants that had lived alone together
all their lives. She put ant eggs in their cons
partment for them for. Both were de-
voted to the care of the eggs. They were al
ways together Then she removed one, to ses
what the other would dO-if she would appear
to be lonesome. The one which was left for
sock her of the young, TO which she had
previously been most devoted, and spent the
time searching for her lost companion all
through the nest. The next day her compan-
ion returned and there was evidence of
attention to the young
The other story Is that of widowed queen
She refused to leave the side of the dead king,
remaining by its body Tor six dayA when u
began to dlsinteSrata>
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

are number of gray ants Of the kind that live
under stones In the meadows These are very
gentle, and other species often make slaves OF
them by raiding their nests and stealing their
larVie- They are such industrious workers that
other species like to keep them. They remain
in the nests and turn the eggs and do work for
the captors without n protest. The third species
were chubby snuff colOred ants of smaller size
These have such a strong maternal instinct
that when danger seems to threaten as when
the cover of the nest is raised they grab the
big fellows by the nose and pull them around
as if they eggs which they were trying to
secrete in a safe spot. They are actually able
to pull the big ants along bodily. One of their
great pleasures is riding on these same big fell
lows backs. The fourth species were little
brown ants, smaller than any of the others
In all ant communities there are three kinds
OF ants-the queen, which laws the eggs; the
spinster ants, which for the Larvae and
puPa and the males, which are very much like
the loafers who stand around in country gro
Gerry stores with their hands in their pockets
going home only at meal time to enjoy the food
provided for them by their women folks The
males do nothing, and expect to be fed
by the working spnsters. The queen may live
to be fourteen or fifteen years old, and workers
are known to have lived six years.
In the course of her experiments Miss Fieldo
says she has found that ants are blind to all
rays of light except the ultra violet. or those
known to the photographer actinic rays. AS
soon as glass which transmitted only the
tinic rays was placed the ants they
proceeded to carry all their young from
beneath IT as they feared impendin,
peril Just why they did it Miss Fielde could
not discover, that kind of rays seemed to
have no effect upon the health of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

own native haunt BY means Of it she has been
able to isolate and observe given ant or col
ony of ants continuously for period of three
years. The nest is ingenious little house OF
glass, divided into compartments or rooms AS
the insects love darkness rather than light. but
for ignobIe reasons, the nests are covered
with Opaque paper and kept in a cabinet
The sense of smell seems to be the ants lead
ing sense, as the sense of hearing is that of the
mole, the sense of touch that CT the caterpillar.
and the sense of sight that of the eagle 1t was
through this sense that Miss Fielde worked to
determine the ants ability to remember. The
ant seems to be endowed with an immense vari-
ETY. OF odors. There are enough odors among
them to puzzle ordinary human nose APP
parently each queen has different odor. All
her descendants have the same odor when they
are brought into existence, but as the ants grow
older their odors change, so that ants two years
old have a different odor than that they had at
one year, those three years old still another
odor and so indefinitely until they die Each
nest has its OdOr. the lGrvR and pupR
have their especial odors. and each individual
ant has an odor which distinguishes it from any
other ant When an ant meets neighbor, 1t
does not recognize it by its appearance. but by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
THE MEMORY OF ANTS.
This and Other Human Character
tstics CuefuUy Studied.

me ant Is constant source of wonder AS
IN the case Of Goldsmith's parson. still the won
DER grows that one small head can carry all
II knows The ant seems to have SO many
human attributes it is difficult to imagine them
All compacted in a little sx-legged dumbbeIl
hot over third of an inch long. Although
anus were a source of interest long before the
Unknown old Hebrew advised the sluggard to
go TO the ant, consider her ways and be wise.
new Facts are constantly being discovered about
the industrious and intelligent insect 1t is now
declared that it has the power of recognition,
or the faculty of remembering for extended
period. According to Miss Adele NJ Fielde, of
this city. who has been studying ants scientii-
cally for five years, they can remember for u
period of at least three years Miss Fielde, who
does great deal of work at Woods Hole,
Mass. is the inventor of nest which entirely
deceives the ant and makes it think it is in its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

shopping district on the East Side this year. and
q great deal Of the trading done from push
carts II Is from this fact that many East Sloe
youngsters believe that Santa Claus comes with
q pushcart on Christmas night The little
Hebrew youngsters wandered along the Streets
gazing at the beautiful things displayed on the
carts which from first to last contained about
everything one usually finds in toyland- There
were wonderful dolls to be had for almost noth-
ing compared with the prices usually charged
and the evergreens and holly were much cheaper
than in other parts OF the city. This low scale
Of prices must prevail. for the Hebrew has not
lCr.a been accustomed to Christmas outlay nor
Is h. oVerburdened with means
The stores In Grand-st and the nelghborlng
81 reefs were decorated as were the stores IN
other shopping regions There We're Christmas
cards bearing the same inscriptions as those
distributed by Christian Sunday schools ana
windows full of decorative stuff for Christmas
frees Trade was exceedingly brisk for the TWO
weeks mast and the majority of the traders
were Hebrews This is of itself sufhcleht
proof that the East Side has adopted Christ
mas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
TAINTED BOTH ENDS TO STOP.

A woman wishing to get off a trolley this
morning pulled the stTop to stop the car. Inc
bell rang both ends
What did you ring both ends for?" asked the
conductor.
Il want both ends TO stop" was the whitening
retort-[BoSton Herald
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
TWO ANTS FIGHTING

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29

Rev. w. A. Murray at Ironton. This
commission was composed Of Rev. M.
MEG. Shields, Rev. w. H. Wilson, Rev.
w. r. Minter and Capt. ]. G. Morrison.
.Yorkville Is to have a Confede-
rate monument on it's public square.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
have the matter in charge. Gastonia's
Confederate dead are worthy OF
stately memorial in stone, and why
shouldn't it be placed in the public
square in Gastonia?. .....A Bessemer
City dispatch to the Charlotte Observ-
er says that Mrs. Mary S. Hay, widow OF
Rev. Samuel Hudson Hay. died at the
home Of her son. DR.. w. s. Hay. IN
Bessemer City last Thursday night.
Her husband was pastor Of the Pres
byterian church at Camden. S. c., for
twenty-nine years. Mrs. Hay had six
sons and two daughters living, her hus-
band had been dead sometime. Her
daughter, Mrs. Cant. brought her TO
DR.. Hays several days ago and on
the 18th, Sunday, she was taken with
grip. She was eighty-one years old,
and on this account proved an easy
victim to the disease. Her sons. Rev.
Sam Hay Of Glover, S. c.. and Mr..
Boykin Hay Of Atlanta, went to Besse-
mer to attend the funeral. which was
conducted by Rev. Mr.. Forbes Of the
Presbyterian church. The body was
taken to Boiling Springs for burial.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29

WANTED INFoRMATIoN.-Ben Win
chell, president of the Rock Island
tells story on Casey, track-walker
of the Colorado Southern, a narrow
gauge road.
Casey was employed on a mountain
division Of the Road and it was his
duty to walk ahead Of every express
train on the line to see that no rock
or snow-slide endangered the train.
The Pacific Limited, a train in
which every official Of the road had
the greatest pride because of its ar
rival on time, was passing over the
mountains. AS it made an abrupt
turn the engineer saw a red light
frantically swung on the track
ahead. He jammed on the air-brakes,
throwing the passengers from their
seats, and as the train stopped, the
engineer and conductor, with half a
score Of passengers, rushed toward
the red light.
Whats the matter?" the conduct
or asked, recognizing Casey.
You're late" Casey said. What
kept you?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29
Auluuralls department.
The House Divided,

Most persons have had the expert
ence Of walking with friend out OF
step and trying to shift just at the
moment when the friend also makes
the attempt. This is an instance OF
thwarted harmony much like that
which appears in a story told by
London journal Of an elderly couple.
They were childless and had never
been united by the bond of other
lives linked with their own. So they
were always in a state Of we'll bred
disagreement.
On the subject of meals they disa-
greed thoroughly, and each usually
suggested a dish for the Sunday din
ner which the other did not approve.
One Saturday the man came home
from market with a basket,
You needn't worry about tomor-
rows dinner any more, Maria. I've
got it."
And so have I, George. You were
so undecided"-
Undecided! I told you what I
wanted.
well, I mean you. didn't decide as
dill. So bought "a goose.
"Why, so have 1. told you LII like
a goose"
"Well, now We are agreed for once
anyway"
Yes, and 1 suppose we'll have cold
goose and stewed goose for the next
two weeks"
They relapsed into their usual 81
lence.
Sunday forenoon the wife asked,
do you want little ounce in the
apple sauce with your goose?"
Your goose, you mean?
mo, I don't. 1t seemed so absurd
to have two geese in the house that
/ sent mine to Aunt Jane"
What! I sent mine to Uncle joel"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29
Effects Of. Alcohol.

Alcohol contains no nitrogen. 1t
therefore can never and does never
produce tissue. It's food value depends
exclusively on it's production Of ener-
gy; and the first indisputable fact is
that alcohol can be burnt within the
body. 1t may therefore be a food, and
in fevers it is probably the most val
liable food that can be given to a
patient. for in fever one cannot digest
and alcohol needs no digestion. 1t is,
so to speak, a predigested food and
passes unchanged to the tissues, there
at once to be utilized. What are the
facts in health?
1t has been experimentally proved,
not once but often. not in one country
or continent, but in the physiological
in health only about one and a half
ounces of absolute alcohol can be burnt
within the body each day, this only OBJ
tanning when the substance is taken in
sufficient solution and at numerous in
tervals. Approximately three ounces of
whisky or brandy taken in four hour
ly doses of half an ounce, we'll diluted,
is all that the average man Of nor
mai temperature can utilize.
How does it come about that so
many of us take alcohol to keep out
the cold? Simply because the nerves
of our sense of temperature end in the
,l,; Do cly fo6
warm blood we say we are warm, and
vice versa. Furthermore, we normally
lose heat and keep our temperature at
the proper level by radiation from the
skin. Any drug that dilates the blood
vessels of the skin will therefore tend
to make us feel warmer and be colder.
Infinitely more important than all
these considerations is the action Of
alcohol on the nervous system. have
no business at this moment with the
records of insanity or crime, but it is
worth while to dispel another popular
fallacy as to the influence of alcohol
on the mental processes.
Numberless tests have been carried
out with such processes as adding up
a column of figures, writing an ac-
count of simple occurrence, discrim-
mating between colors and so forth
And the singular result, we'll establish
ed and confirmed. is that alcohol de-
lays the rapidity and impairs the ac-
curacy of these processes while pro-
ducing the most convincing illusion of
ease and rapidity. The calculator has
subjective impression Of facility
which the cold clock entirely fails to
confirm.-London Mail
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29
Ton Words Too Few.

There were little red streaks in her
face and a blaze in her eye as she
came into the telegraph office and
said:
Il want to telegraph to my hus-
band"
Eyes, madam" responded the op-
orator. handing her some blanks.
How much will it be?" she in
quired.
II don't know, madam" replied the
operator, with keen politeness and a
faint smile.
Don't know!" she exclaimed.
What are you here for?"
ITO send and receive messages,
madam"
well, why don't you know how
much telegram will cost?"
Because. madam, I don't know
where it is to be sent"
well, you needn't be so smart u
she snapped. 1T is to go to Chicago"
Then it will cost 40 cents"
She made no further remarks, but
took the blanks and in the course of
time returned with about six pages
Of rather closely written matter.
There" she said, laying four dimes
down with the message, send that. d
But, madam" explained the opera
tor, 1T is 40 cents for ten words"
What" she calculated. You car
only send ten words for 40 cents?'
She looked him square in the face as
she tried to suppress her feelings
Are you a married MANI" she asked
Yes, madam
well, you must be very stupid if
you don't know a woman can't give
her husband a piece of her mind in
ten words" And without waiting to
hear anything more she glided out
of the Office. taking her message with
her.-New York Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29
FLYING MACHINE.
Cannot be Perfected Without New Mo.
tive Power, Saws Edison.

Cannot be Perfected Without NO" MO-
tive Power, Says Edison.
Edison's eyes twinkle. His face
laughs as he talks. His expression Is
as quick as the electric spark, and even
when the theme is serious there is hid
den merriment around his eyes and In
the lines Of his mouth. Edison's work
Is his pleasure, and conversely, his
pleasure Is his work. The day Is too
short for him. The night Is his para
disc. Time, tide, ETC., play no part In
his habits. Nearing so, he Is as young
as most men of 40. His clean-shaven,
clear, almost transparent, complexion
heightens the illusion Of youth, and
his brisk, supple, graceful step be-
speaks that fire Of strong vitality In his
blood. 1 am not a hero worshiper, but
have always found that men Of power
exhale a potential intellectually. l
was not doomed to disappointment on
my recent visit to Mr.. Edison at his
laboratory at Orange, N. J. Upon that
occasion I asked him to talk Of aerial
navigation-to tell me If the problem
was approaching solution.
The click of telegraph instrument
could not have been quicker than his
reply. mo" he said, "the time has not
come for the production Of an airship
of use commercially-capable Of max
ing regular trips from a given place
to a given place. One never will be
built until a new motive power Is pro-
duced."
would the new motive power be
found in some form Of electricity"
81 cannot say" he replied to the
question. mo man can say that. A
new motive power will alone solve the
problem, but how I think it should be
solved I will not say. I cannot discuss
that. have thought Of it great deal.
I have experimental. I have built
light motors, but I have not attempted
to fly. The question is wholly and
simply one Of motive power-a power
that is sufficient to combat the force
of navigation, the lack Of buoyancy,
and sustain itself above the earth.
1.-The airship must be Of simple me-
chanism. No man can build machine
after the structure Of bird that will
fly as a bird flies. The Creator alone
did that. He built the bird wonderful
ly. I have thought of that question
often. I have watched them by the
hour. Their muscles are peculiarly
constructed their bones are hol-
low. They are born flying machines
Their whole body works in harmony.
There is nothing mysterious about 1t,
yet a machine built like a bird. If 1t
were possible, could not stand the
strain of air currents. A bird Is de-
pendent upon the current-foats on
the current. 1t doesn't soar until 1t
is we'll up in the air. 1t flies instinct
ively."-Outing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29

PLENTY OF RAW MATERIAL.-"Grand-
pa" said the children, ''tell us another
story about the time when you were q
young man and travelled with the show"
"Well," said Grandfather Dutton,
''when was with the cirrus forty or fifty
years ago one of my great acts was to get
boy to put an apple on top of his head,
and then I would stand ten PAGES away
and shoot rifle ball through it."
But didn't you sometimes miss the ap
pie and shoot the boy?"
"Not often. But it happened once in
awhile of course"
"Wbat did you do them" they asked
breatblessly.
"Do?" said Grandfather Dulton, shrug-
ging his shoulders. "Why, sometimes l
had to wait two or three minutes before
could find another boy, but not often.
There are always plenty of boys"