Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-30
CONSIDER THE ANT.
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! The domestic economy of ants is
more intelligent elaborate and won
derful than that of bees And in in
dustry bees are not superior to ants.
The division of labor is carried much
farther in the hill than in the hive,
and the society is much more COM
pick.
AT any hour In "a fair day, during
half the year, one may see an ant on
the walk. hauling dead insect. or
section of worm, or fragment of a
dead rodent. to its nest 1t is at once
forager and scavenger. Usually, its
burden is larger than it's own body,
1t pulls. pushes jerks, yanks and
keeps everlastingly at it, and looks
and acts like small steam tug towing
craft much larger than itself. AS
we walk on the pavement on a warm
day, every one kills many an insect
or worm, and II 1t We're not for the
scavenger ants the odor would not be
only offensive but malarious The
ants take up this offal into their live
bodies, incorporate it with their living
tissues and make the effete stuff inn
mune. raising 1t, as they say in math-
ematics, to higher power. If 1t
were not for these innumerable armies
of ants we should be beset with
corpses, and because these exists and
necessarily work in behalf Of the pub
lie human health we rarely see dead
bird, mouse, rat or other rodent lying
in sight in field or highway or woods.
Ants assail dead bodies and eat them
or carry them under ground where the
bray, ty,co
crunch these admirable little crea-
lures under YOU. feet-mind where
you step and preserve the lives of
these humble allies of the board of
public health. An ant-hill may be
nuisance on your lawn but with all the
annoyance and bother they make us,
they earn their keep and life and pur-
suit of happiness million times over,
day by day.
.:.4.s.
THE CUMMINss- PERKINS FIGHT.
Peoria Herald Transcript
BY far the most interesting political
fight that is taking place just now is
in Iowa, which will elect a governor
this year and in which Editor George
ID. Perkins of the Sioux City Journal
is trying to defeat the aspirations Of
Governor Cummins for a third term.
Iowa is strange state, politically. 1t
is perhaps the plrest state in the I'M
ion. 1t is so pure politically that the
people over there have to fight for
principles. They are making as much
fuss over the Iowa idea and the rail-
roads in Iowa as Illinois would make
over a fight between two rival ma
chimes. each one backed by crowd
of frantic supporters fighting for theil
political lives. The echoes Of the Iowa
fight which stray out of the state are
not fraud" reform" thief" Doodle"
machine" and the like. They are
revision" "stan,ipat,' rate bill' and
the like. Strange things to fight over
so vigorously, but that is the Iowa way.
They actually think over there that
a man should go into politics for
principle and that the welfare of his
party and his state is greater than the
welfare of his machine.
And so Perkins and Cummins are
fighting it out On principle and the
character of neither will have even
gray spot on it when the war is over.
1t looks now as if Cummins could not
be defeated, in which case "the Iowa
idea" which is tariff revision, would
receive a lasting vindication. But,
however it comes out, it will have been
so clean fight as political fights go
that the rest of the country may well
and go TO Iowa to sit at the
feet Of it's statesmen and learn, some
sections for the first time, just why
politics is, are OF should be.