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5 Little Creatures ' ) About Our ; C Homes ( y Bj LE ROY WELD XIL-What Experiments With f- i Ant Teach U. ' HB tudy of ante la rasd&at II tag and profitable racreatioa all for tba long rammer month ., How to begin may be learned from what followa,' and. once started yon will need no further directions. In the first place. It will be necessary to'induee a colony of ants to build their nest In a place so situated that yott can readily observe them at any time. Fortunately this Is a very' easy matter, and If you observe carefully the following instructions you will have no trouble: Get two pieces of window glass about 10 by 12 inches and four strips of wood about half an inch wide and an eighth of an Inch thick, two of them being half an inch shorter than the length of the glass, one as long as the width of the glass and the fourth arxtur two inches shorter than the width of the glass. These strips may be obtained by splitting up the bottom of a peachJ basket ' By means of some good glue cement these strips firmly toUia. face of one plate of glass ground the edges and then cement the other plate down upon them 1 This will make a space between the plates of glass about 9 by 11 inches ' and an eighth of an Inch high, inclosed all around except about an inch atone corner. When the glue has thoroughly hard ened,' the space between the plates must be filled with very fine, dark earth, which should be sifted if pos sible. This may prove, a long and tedious process, .and it may be better to leave out the shorter strip along the end until the dirt Is In- It should . then be placed In, however, In order to keen the dirt from drying out. ! This apparatus is to be the artificial nest of the ants. Before Introducing' the colony Into this nest It is necessary to provide some means of confining them. There are various ways of doing this, the best one being to anrround the nest with water by laying it on a piece of inch board, setting the board In a shallow pan and pouring a little water around it Great -care must be taken not to get water Ja the nvwtt ,:-) -i. Now to Introduce the colony get a large tin tan "or a tin pail . with a tight al4 SI tVAVTAl AH SlV0f A "" ISi 111 and look until you find what appears to be a thrifty nest In- the ground. Open your tin -can, dig up the nest, -ants and an, with one dip of the spade, thrust It Into the can and clap oa the cover, - -." j - " v ,,"-7 Carry your prize home, set it on the glass nest Surrounded by water, and cautiously, take ' off the cover;- The ants . will immediately - swarm over, everything as far as the water, and you must take care that none gets drowned during, the excitement , "Very soon, however, they will be- cvuie mure cauiu. uuu ai w tij jjruu- able, that in less than ten minutes some of them will find the opening auuiu me Rruut-uu ucbl auu si vuw uv 11. l. .1 A I -1 1. .1 A. gib excavating it . - ' - - ftuide of one day they will have an elaborate nest dug, witn its main oau and look tunnels, and will be thor oughly established in ItV 4' A You should jww dump the dirt from the can out upon tne nest and, using a broad knife blade, take it up a little at a time, carefully pick out any arv that the ants ' have not already re moved, place tbem near tbevouth of the nest and throw the dirt away. The nest should now be covered with sheet of pasteboard to keep' out the light, " which the' ants dislike." " ' By removing the pasteboard at any time you will be able to watch these little creatures in their new borne. You can learn more about their mode of living by observing them for a few days than could be written In a whole book. The nest should be kept in a warm, light place, preferably before an open window, aud the ants should be fed with a variety of things, such as small grubs,. Insects, bits of meat fruit honey, sugar, etc , The nest should not be shaken or dis turbed In any way, and the paste board should be kept over it when you are not looking at It. Before saying anything about the Benses and powers of these Insects let us examine Jbe structure of their tiny bodies. Much may be learned by sim ply looking at them, especially if they belong, to one of the larger species. A glance will show that the three divisions of the body head, thorax and aMomen are quite distinct and that the abdomen Is fnstened to the thorax ly .?tt 1-v.k 1 Ue a short stem wiih a knt ia it. I'u.lor a small tna? i.'.Cat t':e 1 ;! 1 is w.i to prov! ' '. a ; 'r f ; - ,-i There are also three small, simple eyes in the top of the bead. Close study with a powerful microscope re veals the fact that there are in the tips of the feelers organs that seem to be designed for ears. ' and it is also thought that the sense of smell is lo cated In these feelers, as win be seen presently. .The scientist who baa probably studied the habits of ants more pa tiently and carefully than any other la Sir Jonai tubbocav -The resulti' of his many experiments to determine something of their senses and Intelli gence are truly marvelous. He made extensive testa of their settees of sight, smell and hearing and of their powers of communication ; and . recognising each other, some of which will be briefly described. , It is very evident that 'ants have a more or less definite sense of sight However, It Js probable that they can not see objects distinctly at any great distance, from the' fact that they ap parently take no notice of things going on around tbem, except those in their Immediate vicinity, ' within ' a few Inches. One thing which Lubbock clearly proved is the fact that ants have the power of distinguishing colors and also that bluish and violet colors are not agreeable to them. He did this mainly by laying pieces of colored glass over the nest in broad daylight and watch ing the behavior of the ants under the different colors. ... The sense of smell is also highly de veloped in ants. This is shown by the fact that thev will CO direotiv tn Kiue ytiThoney, sirup, etc., In the dark and will evei crawl through narrow, Indefinite cracks and openings to get into the sugar box, as we all know. Lubbock made some experiments which lead us to believe that the sense of smell is located in the antennae.. He accustomed the ants to walking over a strip of paper to get their food and then bung a camel's hair brush dipped In musk, peppermint or other strong scent directly over this paper. The ants would often stop and turn back on smelling the perfume, indicating that it was disagreeable to them. On slowly advancing a feather dipped In perfume toward an ant that was at rest the ant drew back the antennae. whereas an unscented feather had no effect No such results, however, were ob tained by Lubbock la his experiments on the sense of bearing. In fact, all of his experiments had decidedly neea tive results, and" scientists generally accepted the apparent fact that ants cannot hear. But Lubbock carefully avoided concluding that ants are really deaf, and some experiments made by the author several years later seem to point to the opposite conclusion. j One experiment performed on several nests containing (different species may be described aa moat significant The ants lit a nest -all being perfectly quiet a shrill note was blown on a whistle near the nest .great care being' taken that the ants should not be disturbed in any -other way. Immediately there were confusion and alarm,' the ants running excitedly hither and thither, Carrying their eggs, grubs and cocoons, Which were usually piled at one side of the main hall of the nest, off into the long passages, evidently endeavor ing to hide tbem. This -was the in variable result whenever the expert ment was tried. i Strange to say, these same ants were not apparently much alarmed when any one tapped on tb,e glass nest or even picked it up and handled It Many experiments with single ants resulted In the insect wildly waving Its antenj nse when compelled to listen to shrill sounds, thus Indicating the location of the sense of hearing In these organs. f The author would be much pleased to receive -communications .relating to further experiments along this line, and ' many young people throughout the country might make themselves useful to. the scientific world In just this way.. . Sir ' John Lubbock - made some in tensely Interesting experiments on the power of communication possessed by ants, conclusively proving that these little creatures have something that corresponds to a language by which they exchange thoughts. It may: be a combination of minute sounds or a set of motions with the antennae such as the dumb make with their bands. At any rate, it serves Its purpose welL : Strangest of all. It appears from many experiments the results of which cannot be questioned that these in sects, which look so much alike to us. are actually able to distinguish a friend from strange ants of the same species even when the ant was 're moved from the nest as a grub and left out for montha If the ants from, two nests of the same species are brought together, a battle will ensue as fierce and terrible as any ever fought on human field, for, the Insects are so strong that they will tear each other in pieces before they can 1)0 separated. And now let us remember before we ruthlessly crush one of these little crea tures under our feet that It Is a beiug endowed with rumy of the powers of man; that it thinks, reasons, loves. bones, desJres; tl it it !; ' in com- WOMAN AND FASHION . ..... 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