The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-06

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great cooperative social organizations.
In a factory the coEs tit into each 9th
err Because of this perfect fitting the
great leather band; lnJ,c round a:.d
the spindlcS fly, the elevators lift and
the walking beams rise and fall, the
hammers strike and the wheat IS
ground and the wood is cut, and the
shoe and the AK and the saw and the
chair and the stove are offered for SAL
by the city merchantmen. H,"n'sc O.!
this same kind Of perfect fitting of ONE
mans cogS into the coCS Of other men
great multitude Of human beings be
comes united creature of life called
an army. Read ye the words Of the
centurion: "For | also am Il man under
authority, having under me soldiers.
aid | say uii,u one, CO. and he goeth
and to another, Come" and he cu!nr;h
and to my servant, DO this and h"
doeth It," Thus, while we find that
men as we'll as wheels may be set TN
der authority, we find that ants are al
50 set under authority.
These ants obey their leaders just as
submssively as the soldiers of the
British army obeyed Lord Roberts In
the Boer war or the American soldiers
Obeyed Lee or Grant during our late
civil strife When the commanding
general Of the ants gives the order
Forward, march," the great hosts Of
ants fall into line. They tramp along
In companies, In regiments, in bri
gades, in great divisions. They have
their officers, their advance guards and
their soldiers to protect the re-: a When
they bivouac for the night IT,. seem
to throw out their picket lines, Il, did
William r. Sherman on his march from:
Atlanta to the sea. The ants of Mica
ragua always march In pllalanXes oi
from four to six yards square. When
these great armies Of invasion or mi
grafton cease their marching and go to
ly and work at the vOcationS of peace
as zealously as did the soldiers Of the
late civil war when they disbandeu
after the famous Washington review
When these ants are living at the home
hive each apd1vidual member Of the ant
community seems to have her appoint
ed place. Some ants are detailed to
work upon the roof; some 90 foraging,
while others take care Of the bitches
some hunt food, while others stay at
home and clean the eggs. Each ant is
a small atom, but each ant Is part Of IL
great army or community, which moves
and works in concert. And because
these ants do work and march in con-
cert they can devastate whole forests.
They can make the lions and the Gle
phantine monsters turn and flee Tor
their lives; they can build towns and
cities; they can be the uncrowned
kings of the fields. Every living crea.
ture stands in fear and dread Of them.
Value of Cooperation.
Every Industrious human life that is
successful always o-operates with
other lives. Every ideal human or
ganization on a large scale must be a
perfect human ant hive Everywhere
human talent should be specialized
to fill In the great human beehive:
When I 20 and closely examine the
wonderful mosaic floors and walls
and ceilings Of the Alhambra Of the
old Spanish Moors l do not find these
individual stones very valuable in
themselves. Many Of them are only
common pebbles that we might spurll
with our feet in the street gutter. But
| when these common pebbles, as in
| dividuals, are cut and polished and
placed side by side in contrast with
other stones they form the beautiful
mosaics Of the Alhambra, which are
| one of the marvels Of this century.
| You as an individual may not amount
| to much, but If cut and polished and
fitted into the right niche for which
you were intended by God you can be-
come part of the perfect walls Of the
| Temple Beautiful. Like the ant. will
you be a worker, living under au,
| thority? Will you be cooperative
| worker? VIII you serve the commu
| nifty in which you live by doing the
work for which you are especially tit
ted by brain and body, as faithfully
and willingly and wisely as the single
ant performs her allotted task in a
great busy home hive:
| The ant teaches man more than les
Sons of activity and wisdom and co
| operation. Some men may be active
and worldly wise and yet have heart
| as dead to all kindness and love as Is 4
stone. The ant is essentially spirit
ual as we'll as temporal teacher. She
| teaches man the laws Of love and mer
cy and gentlcness. She teaches thes'
spiritual lessons more powerfully, be
lieve. than any insect or reptile folnC
| in the studies of the biologists. Some
years ago, to prove whether ants kne"
each other and cared for their own,
naturalist took two bottles and covered
their mouths with muslin. In one O.
these bottles he placed two strange
ants. In the second he placed two
friendly ants. Then the naturalis
placed these two bottles in front Of tn:
entrance Of an ant hive. At cnce TIL
ants swarmed forth by the hundreds
With their mandibles they tried t
break through the muslin covering O
tho stranpe anta and destroy them blu