Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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Otie is forced to flee with her the ants Very Carefully convey workers, these go off to them- them to other plants. Each ant has a certain work selves and start a new colony. to do. The soldier ants protect Ants live in colonies or com- the home and drive all insects munities and they also arrange away. The workers care for themselves into sections, each the young and keeps the house having a certain work to per- in order. form. Their home is an under- Both the bee and ant com- ground building divided into munities are S3 steinatically ar- several different rooms. One ranged, for each member has a room is used as a store house certain task to perform. for the fo d, another as a nur- Animals have many charact- sery for the young and another eristics of people. Those living as a farm for the plant lice or in colonies divide their work as the ants cattle. These lice live several people would do, and on certain plants from which like society leaders the queen they obtain a sweet-fluid called bees contend among themselves honey-dew. When the ants for leadership. touch these lice they give up Thus we see if a community this liquid which is the ants prospers whether it be a com- chief food. They take great care munity of people or of animals of the lice and if the plants die each one must have his special which the lice are feeding on task to perform. AN ANTIQUE EPISTLE By Ted Merritt An old epistle has recently old Pompeii, a marble column, been found in an obscure and as it fell, crushing his body. unexplored recess of an ancient Poor Glaucus! He so tenderly building in Rome. It was evi- implored me not to think him dently writteu soon after the guilty! I am positive that he eruption of Mount Vesuvius in is not. 79 A. D. and consequently has Without any other proof than an age of over eighteen bun- fiom the characters of the two, dred years. Translated, it runs I should judge against Arbaces as follows: and in favor of Glaucus. My “Capus Lucius to his beloved noble friend was frank; Arbaces Marcus—greeting and health! was subtle. While the Athen- If thou be well, it is well; I am ian was amiable, the Egyptian also well. I have just received, was abominable. From my first to my great joy, a long letter meeting with the former, I felt from Glaucus, telling me that at perfect ease in his presence. he and lone are safely landed in The other held me in awe when- Athens where they are soon to ever 1 chanced to encounter be married. He also states that him. he saw Arbaces breathe his But circumstances are suffi- last among the ruins of dear cient to convict the Magician. I

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tance apart and in rows, but farther back they form a dense wood. Running' through this field is an old rail fence, which is to keep the sheep off the neighbors’ field. Then we see the ground which is covered with a light fall of snow, but we can tell there is very little for the roots of trees and small stones are left bare. There is a flock of sheep in the pasture and they act as if they had just come from their master’s barns where they had been fed. Part of them are ahead of the others and seem to have found some grass which was not covered by the snow. The rest of them are walking very slowly as if they were in no hurry. The trees in the foreground form shadows on the ground which resemble small streams running from a larger one. ANIMAL COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL LIFE By Naomi Romine Man is generally called the social animal, but he is not the onlv one for honey-bees, bumble bees and ants also lead a social life. The bees at first made their homes in hollow trees, but-after being domesticated they live in hives made for them by their Owuers. In a colony there are three kind of bees each performing a certain work. The queen, who is the mother of the whole community, lives from five to ten years and lays about a million eggs each year. There are also about one hundred drones or male bees and many hundred workers. The workers live for only a short time but they do a great amount of work in that time. They care for the young, procure food and make the honey. The workers make the comb from wax, a fluid secreted from glands on the under surface of their abdomens. They gather pollen from the flowers and store it in pollen baskets on their hind legs. Nector is also gathered and taken into the honey stomach. There is a great deal of water in the honey and to evaporate this the bees stand in front of the hive and fan it with their wings this produces a current of air which evaporates the water. There are many cells in a hive each one being the home ot a bee. The queen lays an egg in each empty cell and they hatch in about three days. They first appear as larvae and are fed on honey and bee-jelly until they go into the pupa stage which lasts about thirteen days during which time the pupa lives without food. When it again transforms it is an adult bee. The larvae which are expected to.be-come queens are fed a special prepared food making them develope better than the others. For by previous experiments it has been found tint the larvae which are fed on the prepared bee-jelly develope into queen bees, while those fed on common food develope into workers or drones. When a new queen is hatched the old queen tries to kill her and they fight until

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can think of no possible motive vhicb the Greek might have had in committing the murder. From the conversations that I have had with A’paecides, I am confident that he admired Glaucus and that they were extremely well-disposed toward one another. On the other hand, I well remember that for a short time before the priest's death, he avoided speaking of the Egyptian, although he had had a great reverence for him before. The young man’s becoming a Nazarene may have caused an estrangement betweeu the twc. But the strongest evidence is always found in the will of the Gods. Praises be unto them! Oh! Marcus, that thou couldst have experienced the emotions which I felt upon beholding the lion, crouching before his intend ed victim as if he were completely subdued by the calm and dignified countenance of his prey! But-still greater was my astonishment when the beast, rushing across the arena, en deavored to leap up the parapet-And, since it has happened, although i did not notice it at the time, 1 recollect that the brute was just in front of that part pf the amphitheater in which Arbaces was seated. It was most certainly devised by the God! And since learning that Glaucus was saved in that horrible disaster and that his accuser met him destruction, I feel all the more assured that the Gods were not to be beaten out f Uieir lawful prey. I shall finish now and when I Y»sit Rome again before many days, I shall tell thee more. Farewell.” The plan of this theme was suggested by reading Edward Bulwer-Lyfton’s “The Last Days of Pompeii,” as will be seen, of course, by all who have read that masterpiece and remember its characters and its plot. A HIGH SCHOOL COURSE By Fked Romine With a view of inducing more scholars to enter the high school of Atwood during the following term of ’08 9, I quote the following observations which have been made by a Freshman. Some people have such narrow conception of what it means to spend four years in a high school that you hear them say, “I am not going to send my children to high school; it costs too much and I don't believe in it anyway. They don’t teach anything but Latin and a whole lot of other nonsense that will never benefit anybody.” When you hear a person say something about like this, you may write it down in your memorandum book that he does not know what he is talking about. For the joy, the inspiration, and the elation which a person receives when lie has learned this same Latin and other nonsense, as some people call it, more than pays for the time and money spent, not counting the real benefit which is derived from an education. A few dollais and a few years spent in