The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-29
A TERRIBLE SESSION.
Major Rufus Val Rugle was member of a recent session of the Arkansaw legis-

Malor Rufus Val Rugle was member ofa recent session of the Arkansaw legis- ture. One morning, while walking around in the orchard, adjoining the premises where he boarded, the gentle man found hornets nest under a tree where il had fallen.
 |" Nothing finer for pen wipe than a hornets nest," unused Mir. Val Kugle. 1 have often heard my father speak of how they were used in North Carolina"
 He took the nest with him to the state house and placed 1t on his desk. Soon after the roll was called, the house went into executive session, and the sergeant at-arms was instructed to clear the house of all outsiders and lock the doors. The officer, as his time for taking drink had arrived, locked the doors from the out side.
 After while the air began 10 grow warm in consequence of rcd hot stoves and heated debate, and matters of such in.eres; were being discussed that Major Val Rngle d!a not hear the buzz of inter neeine disturbance going on in the insect iferous reeep.icie. Arising to answer a sweeping assertion made by the oppcsi- ton, the maJor knocked the hornets nes, fem the desk, waved his arm in or atorieal tragedy. shook his clenehed hand !, all antagonistic ideas and .ranped on the hornet nest.
 " Mir. Speaker, am-whoop, Lool, out, whoe-c-e
 Other 3etabers though; tha, he had gone era1g and rushed forward. 4 nor net 1t o9 Representative Katson's nose an maze tha; gentleman dance, while a leader of .ac sw arm, evidently held in high esteem by the entire nest. took sight ..i the speaker and dipped h.m on his bald head The earnes. law maker squalled and lodged behind the desk, jus, as another horne, burnt 2 hole on the back of his neck By this time the air was full of the fiery bugs. and genera rush for the doors was made Locked. The seargent-a,-arms WAS yelled for. but that important factor was slipping a cocktail in neigh boring saloon. Some of the brave7 mem bcrs seized their hats and began 10 iiFht the hornets, which resistance only siirau- lated the enemy to greater effort The chaplain. highly respected gentleman. inplefed tke members ;a be cam, ana had bess:n j discourse on the resentful nature of ,he insee.. whea home, thag had been wounded a., vas unable to i!y. tra~led up tte good man , uouscr les anl stood on his hind legs. The min is,eF. in sudden and unpre,aeditated lerks oi 1is-1ag agony. began 10 remove his trousers. ealling on the Lord and other sources of ptoviden,ial interference as he did so. The speaker, with face like pumpkin, raised up and exclaimed:
 Keep on your briiehes, brother. for fl you don't it'll fare i'll with you
 Too la,e, for the chaplain was already unencumbered with 2an'aloons. Hornets are wise as we'll as severe, and when they saw the partly disrobed man, they icf the majority and wen, over to his side. IL IS cruel to dwell on the misery of ,his man. Ii Is almost sacrilegious 70 tell how an ordained preacher raced around a Legislative hall jumping over desks ard asking Abraham and Paul if they ever saw the like ard i, would be alros, in- human to note the deN,eri,y with which he rolled oyer and over. We have pursued men into secret miseries and made their agony public, bu, we shall no farther attempt to remind an hon. orable, grave man, of something ,he memory of which mus: be painful to him.
 When the ergean,-a;-eocktails return ed and opened the dosrs, there was an of the spirit. Several days northern man, looking q. the body of lawmakers, remarked:
 Wors, body of buns I ever saw. Every one has head on him. No wonder the people call for prohibition
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