Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-12-10
An Insect That Is Loaded.

Considerable CONSERVATION was Gre
ated in church in Hudson, Wis, one
Sunday recently. by the discovery that
q nest of wasps had taken up their
abode in the sacred edilice. Services
had commenced. the Choir had sung
the beautiful hymn I'VE Shall Meet
Beyond the RIVER" the minister had
invoked the Divine bless ne on all
present, and even those who were alb
sent, (gone ishng), and the minister
was about to give out another hymn,
when the Hon. Horace Taylor, late u.
s. consul at Marsaillcs, who res gned
just previous TO the appearance OF the
cholera in that port, suddenly felt q
pang in the vicinity of the small of his
back, and thought he had been stab.
bed Hon. David Fulton, II wicked
democrat, who has always opposed the
Hon. Mr.. Taylor in his political aspera-
tions, occupied the pew directly behind
the gentleman who felt the sting. Mr..
Taylor was convinced that Mr.. Fulton
had brought his politics into the sacred
ediiice and was bound to make it warm
for him even there, and he turned sud
denly on that man with look that
would have froze him If Mr.. Fulton
had not been a warm-baired man.
Fulton wondered why Taylor was
looking 1t him in that tone of voice
In church. but believed that politics
was at the bottom of it; SO he ignored
the look aud found the hymn that the
minister had given out.
Before the choir had scored mp for
the first verse, Mr.. Taylor felt another
stab in the back OF the neck. AS the
congregation rose. he turned To Mr..
Fulton and said that VIII lie he was pre-.
pared FOR anything that might occur
in IA political way, he felt thar he
ough. to be safe from the shafts of
malice on the part of political oppo.
nent in church. He would stand any
thing except beng stabbed in the pack
when engaged in his devotions. Mr..
Fulton whispered to Mr.. Taylor, and
said that while he had always consid-
cred Taylor an offensive partisan, lie
had never expected to be nsulted in
that manner while devOting little
time in studying the word.
At this point. Judge Humghrcy,
who occupied n seat directly in front
of Mr.. TAYLOR. felt an eXcruciatng
pam uBph tlih. uuu buiui u >
head, he saw that wasp had entered
claim there and was sink ng shaft.
With his hymn book. he crushed The
wasp, just as the Hen. Mark Fulton
felt that lie had been struck with u
hand spike on the top OF hi, bald head.
Placing his hand on his head, he also
found wasp.
BY this time, dozens in the congre-
CATION had found that the r pews were
Inhabited by the little insects, and
there was Il smashing of wasps with
hymn books. fans, hats, etc Many oil
the congregation retired. The MIN
ister. noticing the commotiou. and
seeing that the soprano in The choir
had stopped singing and was shaking
her dress in AN agitated manner,
thought that trouble was brewing, and
as the hymn was concluded. he asked
the usher to find out what the commo
ton was about. 1t was found to be
necessary for the congregation to re-
tire until the church was fumigatcd.
when the services were proceeded
with.
After the meeting was out, Mr.
David Fulton called Mr.. Tavlor to ;lc-
count for words spoken in the heat OF
debate. Judge Humphrey apolog zed
to the minister for any conduct that
might have been unseemlv in the house
of worship, the soprano apologizcd to
the balance OF the choir for hav ne
stopped singing in an important place.
the minister torgave eve Who ~. and
instructed the ushers. hereafter To 30
through the church and exam nc III
the pews for wasps, and what At one
time seemed u serious disturbance
turned out TO be an accident that all
could laugh at.
The wasp is an insect that cannot
be too closely watched. = Peck's San.