Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1877 — Burning a Hornet’s Nest. [ARTICLE]

Burning a Hornet’s Nest.

Evert country hoy has burnt one, and every city ooy ftould like to burn one. ‘A hornet's nest >ls quite a pretty piece of architecture to look at, if one does,not get tbo familiar with it. It is Snfooth, and of a subdued gray color; on Aha .’outside, and it is hotter than cayenne pepper, and livelier* than' a dbuflty horsetrot, inside. , ... - . .• The boy who has found pne, snugly tucked up'under the'lfeebf a grodp of bushes, rpns. apd . tells , ,the other boys about it, and the search for bircn bark and pitch now begins. \ ! '> Matches are purloined j frqm'fhe, jpare chamber, for mother will hot - allow her boy to playi with matcjiqs • and. Ive dare pot get them where she will be likely to see Him.' i ./ »dl 1 . • The hoys, tie their combustibles .the end of a pole, set them on fire, and the boldest juvenile applies the mdehdiary The other bdys Stknd' fey iWtk* wellopened mouths, rand caps set back on their foreheads, abiding the result.^ Suddenly out from that iroupd • gray mass rush about a thousand infuriated hornets, and with roars of 'angry defiance they pitch upon those hoys •• la there anything like it ? You would think not by the howls and shrieks which 'rite as the youngsters go flying awajin. search of shelter, mother and sympathy. Andior a week afterward swelled noses and Ups, and sqre heads spd Stiff fingers abound among these boys, bat not one of them could be found to own that he was sorry he meddled with the hornets. They will all admit that they got stung a little, bat at the samp time they will tall you it was such fun! Boys are not the only people Who bum hornets’ nests. We are all of us doing a little in the same line of 1 business. Whenever we assail an old creed, or dogma, ,or .venture to contradict an accepted opinion; We are b wf e f,‘«nr.;s« » *«... Mrs. 8.l children art the bestbeHavfid we have evaiv§#m»we hftf hatter tot! out for tween a man and his wife, we soon fitml we Are burairnga Very livHy hbmet’s uSt. , The w<*ld,i»Jtt4«f teirgete- TM*» are tire purse-proud hornets, who sting all the children' of^9oVCrt^’f , ' and the *higft-fired hornets, who think bluebloodeefwttifd to salvation; and the hornets of Use press, Who sting everyone who oanhot bdhe their praise; and the hornet* in high places, and in low places, Whi stiMrb&lscuously and centiriually, •mj iu i Jal igwsStWi daily meddling with the affairs of others, criticising their conduct, judging (hem by o«r own standard, censuring and Condemning what we cannot undqptand, aspi stirring up strife in the community. -burning hornets’ neats, and then lamenting over the stings-— Jfato Thom, in. N. Y. WoeUg. —Some Cincinnati proprietors of retail dry-goods stores have the lady clerks searched before they leave for thedar-