The Newark Journal.
O. F. CRAIQ, I .ditor.
NEWARK- - * ARKANSAS^
THE SOLDIER ANTS.
No Living Thing Can Withstand Ad
vance of Their Armies.
The lion is the kingof beasts, but
all of his nutgnifleent stlength
and ferocity avail him noth
ing when he faces a mere a at. Hut
this ant is not the usual kind
which peacefully goes about its
domestic duties day by day. It is
the terrible driver, or soldier ant,
said to be the most invincible
creature in the world.
M. Col lard, a French mission
ary in t he I’arotse valley of Seat h
Central Africa, says < Jolden Fen
ny, thus writes of these terrors
t here:
“One sees 1 hem busy in innumer
able battalions, ranked and disci
plined, winding along like a
broad, black ribbon of watered
silk. Whence come they? When*
are t hey going? Not hing can stop
them, nor can any object change
their route. If it is an iuanimalt
object they turn aside and pass on.
if it is living they assail it ven
omously, crowding one on top of
the other to tin* attack, while the ;
main army passes on businesslike !
and silent. Is the obstacle a
trench or a stream of water?:
Then they form themselves at its
edge in a compact mass. Is this a
deliberative assembly? Prob
ably, for soon the mass stirs and
moves on. crosses the trench or :
stream and continues on its hues
sant and mysterious march. A
multitude of these soldiers are
sacrificed for the common good,
and these legions, which know not
what if is to lie beatim. passover
(lie corpses of these victims to
their destinat ion."’
Against these* tiny enemies no
man or bam] of men. no lion or
tiger, nor even a herd of ele
phants, can do anything 1ml hur
{ richly gel out of (he way. Among
the liarotse naliyes' a favorite
form of capita^ ]nndslniient is to
■oat tLiA^vv-vTm with grease and
throw him before the advancing
army of soldier ants. The quick
ness with which the poor wietch
is dispatched is marvelous when
it is considered that each ant can
do nothing more than merely teat
out si small part i<lo of llesh and
carry it off. Net in a surprising! v
short time tin* writhing victim
will have been changed into a skel
eton.
DISEASE OF ATHLETICS.
Too Much Attention Often Paid tc
Otherwise Useful £p"rt.
At this season we hear most
about the excessive interest that
attaches to college athletics.
Happily, says tin* Providence
•Journal, only two months are giv
en up to football; otherwise,
upon the t est imony of experienced
professors, it would he doubtful
whether the student body could
be reduced 1o a state of applien
tion to study much before the
Christinas holidays. If the first
weeks of 1 he academic year are
the most important, the distrac
tions of football excitement are
especially iil timed.
J he advantages of a sound mind
in tt sound body are too univer
sally recognized to need elabora
tion; the merits of football as an
exhilarating sport for summer
afternoons are also generally ad
mitted in spite of the dangers of
the game. Most of us feel a nat
ural pity for the student who is
not able or inclined to participate
in such spirited exercise. Hut it
is true, on the other hand, that too
much is made of the game, partic
ularly at the large inst it utions. so
much, in fact, that the students’
attention can be directed to study
only with the greatest difficulty.
French Forests.
France, though supposed to be
the most highly cultivated coun
try, has 21,000,000 acres of forest
and 17,500,000 acres of waste laud.
Passing of the Wage System
By HON. CARROLL D. U'RIGHT,
President of Clark University and United States Commissioner of Labor.
1. nder the wage system as ( itlincd by the iate
Francis \\ alker, sai.l the speaker, the wage worker
receives in advance from capital the measure of his
labor, th:s measure being recouped bv the returns for
the product, the wage worker thus being paid for his
services before the employer receives any return for
his co-operation with the labor.
I nder co-operation pure and simple the wage
earner, who is the co-operator, must wait until the
product is secured, marketed and paid for. This,
perhaps, is the real underlying reason why co-operation
in its simple form, and when applied to production,
lias not succeeded. The employer, therefore collects from the con
sumer the money to recoup his advancements on the cost of production.
I he two parties to production are being placed on a more thorough
business basis than of old. Each is beginning to understand the other,
and as this understanding crystallizes into positive knowledge and each
is ready to meet the other on a fair and equal basis, the wage question
will be relieved of some of its irritating complications. The employer
must consider his employe as an investor as well as stockholder, for the
workingman invests all he has. and that is his labor of to-dav. He has,
therefore, a perfect right to know why he cannot market that labor to
the best possible advantage.
PHILOSOPHY OF A TRAINER.
Negro Who Ran His Horse to Death
While He Slept.
< 'ha lies Lil t le field, according io
the Illustrated Sporting; News,
tells t lie following reminiscence of
his early da vs as a jockey, when
racing had a strong hold in the
south, some time before the war:
It was down near Alexandria.
La., a lazy old negro known as
“Lnele Kph," who had won a
spurious reputation as a trainerof
thoroughbreds, because he had
been lucky enough to train two or
three good horses, was preparing
a horse for a run1 at mile heats.
Kph was above all things an opti
mistic philosopher. Nothing that
could happen would lie profess to
wish otherwise, and Mr. Little
field's store aptly illustrates this
peculiar trait.
Lnele Kph stretched himself it:
the shade of a big live oak that
was growing in the infield, not far
from the judges'stand, and in
structed his lit tie ebonv exercise
boy lo gallop the hors*- t wo miles.
The morning was a hot one and
Kph w as sleepy; so sleepy was he.
in fact, t hat lie w as just a t t itle ir
ritated when the boy pulled the
horse to a standstill in front of
him and asked for instructions.
“Ise done galloped him 1 wo
miles, sail; slia II 1 go round agin V"
fncle Kph looked up. and. mis
in,” himself upon his elbow. look* d
.sternly and reprovingly hi 1 lie 1m
and said: "Now you look he i.
you lazy, no account, little*. Mad.
nigger, you just gallop dal hors ■
around dal track agin, and agin,
and agin, an" you keep him goin'
till I tells you to stop, d'ye lieah?”
With the immediate responsibil
ity off his mind for the time being,
facie Kph quicklx dozed off. and
he slept soundly for two solid
hours, and in the meantime Sam
and the unfortunate horse were
having a hot time. It ended ns only
such a training incident could.
W ilh the bridle and saddle on
his arm little San kicked at the
old trainer's ribs vigorously, with
t his sugges t ion: “< 'nine on. fm le
Kph. let "s go hum.”
fncle Kph yawned, rubbed his
fyes, and then sat upright, blinking
in owl like fashion at the hot sun
that had been liereely beating
upon him for t he last hour. Then,
looking about him. he turned to
Sam with tin* question: "W liar's
dat boss?”
“He done drapped dead over at
the half-mile pole.”
“W hat's dat you say, nigger,
(trapped dead?”
“N es. he dropped mos' ten min
utes back.”
“W a I. I reckon it 's jest as good
he did. If lie can't stand work he
can't stand racin', an' it's jest as
good lie's dun fur. lie won't cost
no mo’ oats nur no mo' trainin'
bills.”
Can’t Get Off That Easy.
A man can't get out of buying
his wife a new bonnet by referring
to her hair as her crowning glory.
FARM WORK BY “SIGNS.”
Quaint Customs Find Favor Among
the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Tin* fanners of the township of
Fayette, adjoining Waterloo, are
largely of Pennsylvania Ihiteh or
igin. says the Rochester f‘ost-K\
press. Tliey are a hardy and
I hr if t \ race, a ml for general in tell i
geneeeonipare favorably with I heir
neighbors of Anglo-Saxon stock.
They are. however, full of the
quaint superstitions and rural
folk lore of their forefat hers, and
many interesting anecdotes are
told by Fayette people illustrat
ing the length to which the good
Ihitch yeomanry go in their devo
tion to the "signs'' in the conduct
of their farms and the routine of
their lives.
hi all earthly matters tin* al
manac seems to lie i heir Bible, and
tin1 moon and the constellations
are as really venerated, though in
a different way. as tliey were by
their yellow haired ancestors
along t lie shores of i he Nort h sea.
Not only in the tilling of their
land, but in all tin2 minute con
cerns of their daily lives the
•■signs" must lie right before any
thing is done, or —“woe betide.”
it a cheese is to be out it must be
• lone in the imtease of tin* moon,
or l>v the samt- token, it will fade
away with incredible rapidity be
f o re t lie daily demands of tin- fam
ily. who will yet derive a miracu
lously scanty nutriment there
from; whereas if. in obedience
to the sage counsel of the elders
of the house, it is done as t lie moon
waxes, it will be like the widow’s
measure of meal and erase of oil.
If fence posts are to be set spade
must not be put to the •'round t ill
the posit ion of t lie sun in the zodi
ac he determined from the hook
of fate. 1 ho a Imanac. Otherwise it
is onh a matter of t ime when not
the frost below, but the stars
above will heave them from their
places. The swim- must not be
slaughtered with disregard to the
stellar divinities or the pork will
dwindle in t he barrel as if an army
corps were feeding thereon.
In the sowing, tilling and har
vesting of their crops, of course,
the same fidelity to the old folk
not ions of 1 heir fat hers is shown ;
but in this they are not peculiar,
lor here their ideas aire shared by
the unscientific of every class and
race. In a Waterloo business
place recently, where these signs
wen* under animated discussion
for an hour, only one man raised
the voice of skepticism against
these fancies, and all but two of
those expressed positive faith in
one or more of t he signs of Fayette
1 hitch folk lore.
Stops at Boasting.
A man who hosts of boinjt ablo
to accomplish more in one day
than any other man can in a week
never lias occasion to do it.
Calls for a Smart Man.
11 takes a smart man to write an
I unimportant letter.
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