The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1901-09-20
BILL APPS LETTER
Sad Experience of Young Ladies
Attacked By Yellow Jackets.
he TALKS OF Ills BOYH00D DAYS
Mrs. Arp Reminds Him Of Repairs and
General Work Needed, and
He HumbIy obeys Orders.

MY VIE SAID She ndQ a premOultIOu
that we would have an early fall and
II had better prepare for 1t right away
She reminded me that there were some
broken glass on the roof Of the flower
pit and the sash needed repainting
and the shelves renewing and l might
whitewash the brick wall, and so forth
and so fifth. and so on. Well. l have
done all that and was humbly waiting
for the next order, when she told me
that Sam, the darky, wasent coming to
run the lawn mower over the grass In
the front yard and maybe l could do
1t and save IS cents. Well, l have
done that, but nobody paid ne the
IT5 cents, and next thing / knew
she sent one of the grandchil-
dren to me for 70 cents to pay her debt
to the aid society. These women have
got nearly as many clubs and socie-
ties as the men, but they stay at
home of nights and that is better than
the men do. There are the Masons
and Odd Fellows. and Nights
Of Pythias and Nights Of Da-
mon and the Royal Arcanum and
the Elks and the Nights Of Jericho
and Nights of Labor and they are all
nights. or midnights, and the women
have to stay home and nurse the chill
dren. II | was a marrying woman !
would strike out the word obey and
put In a promise for the man that he
wouldn't join anything that took him
away from home at night. It's bad
enough fer young folks to tramp
around at night hunting for the moon.
They are crazy about the moon. and
that's why crazy folks are called luna
tics-for luna means the moon. and
the ticks are not far OF on a moonlight
walk in the woods. Last Tuesday
night there were six couples Of our
lunatics who went up the river road
In search Of the moon, They wanted
to see It rise from out the water and
they had to get out to the big. fat
rock In the river to see il, and they
had to slide down the bank to reach
the rock, and the young men cooned
1t down first to clear the way. and the
yaller jackets were waiting for them
and by the time the girls were on the
slide the little devils began the attack
and they took 'em on the slide in the
flank and in the rear, in the face and
shirtwaist and arms and legs, and took
the young men. too. and such scream
ing and scrambling was never heard
or seen In that part Of the country.
The young men did not desert their
partners. but showed them up the
slide again with great alacrity. The
whole party was bunged up amazingly.
Eyes and ears and noses and hands
and legs began to swell. and they new
er got to zee the moon at all. The
girls cried with anguish and the boys
moaned and groaned. and there was
no ammonia, no soda. no doctor and
no house within a mile. They could
Just see enough to find the horses, and
by the time they got back home some
were blind In one eye and some in
both, and you couldent tell a hand
from q foot, nor q nose from a turnip
beet. nor the ankle from the calf-calf
Of the leg, l mean. Well, they got |
home about midnight and that five |
mile ride was the longest and most |
miserable Of their lives. The young
men have not yet reported for duty,
nor have the girls dared to look into q
mirror. for fear Of breaking it. 1t is
a wonder that those girls with such |
thin apparel were not stung to death.
but suppose that the stufing and |
padding about the breastworks saved |
them.
We old school boys know something |
about yellow jackets. II Is bad enough /
TO tackle a nest in the daytime In open |
ground where you can run and fight.
but to slide down into one near the
water on a dark night must be awful |
in the extreme. The last time I came
In conflict with the spiteful things l |
located the nest and went to the house
and got the wire fly catcher and set 1t
over the hole. 1t worked beautifully
and was fast filling up when an outsid-
er took me "ker-bim" on the back Of
The neck and departed those coasts
With alacrity. By and by the boys
came and built little fire not far
AWAY and set the fly catcher over the
smoke and killed the whole concern.
But you must look out for the outsid-
scouts and sharpshooters.
Bees can't sting but one time, but a
Jacket can keep up as long as the poi
son lasts. The sting Of bee is bad.
hat OF jacket is Bladder and a wasp
S the baddest Of all. except a hornet
'r. perhaps. the DEVILS packsaddle on
fodder blade. They do say in Texas
hat tarantula Is worse than all the
est put together and frequently
proves fatal. They say, too, that any
ting Is cure for the rheumatism.
,ur never rouna q man mat naa tried
t. Some poisons affect one person