HOW ANTS CARRY ON WAR 



" When wild war's deadly blast was blawn, 



An' gentle peace returning, 

 Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, 

 An' mony a widow mourning." 



But we may be sure it was but a fleeting emotion, 

 and that on the part of the commune there was neither 

 for her nor for any other returning braves a civic 

 demonstration of "Welcome home from war." They 

 glided simply and naturally, as though from a night's 

 rest, into the regular routine of communal duty, and 

 there was no more to-do about it. Every active member 

 of society stood ready to take the same risk, do the same 

 service, make the same sacrifice. What occasion was 

 there for special hero-mongering ? 



Verily; and when human commonwealths have reach- 

 ed the same level of patriotism and civil devotion, citizens 

 may fairly take a like attitude. But until then grati- 

 tude for and due recognition of true heroism in army and 



navy must be held as a civic virtue, and the poet's, 

 admonition be in place: 



"The brave, poor soldier ne'er despise, 



Nor count him for a stranger; 

 Remember, he's his country's stay 

 In day and hour of danger." 



What was the cause of these conflicts between insects 

 that apparently ought to have been close friends? In 

 at least one case noted the quarrel clearly arose over a 

 find of rations. The centre of the warring mass was 

 some fatty matter which had been thrown on and around 

 the seams of a brick pavement through which a large 

 formicary had cut its gates. From the battle-field a col- 

 umn of Tetramoriums three or four lines deep stretched 



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