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Show are that he will recover. Victim of a Fiendish Joke. Three young farmers of Berne Township. Town-ship. Lancaster county, Pa., sallied out on a recent afternoon to rob a bees' nest of its honev. The nest was an enormous one, built alongside a fence post in the corner of a field Before tackling it the three young men sat down near by in the shade to devise a plan of operations One of tho three, George Sehmehl, who lives with farmer Samuel C. Dick, boasted the possession pos-session of the power of charming bees. While the parley was going on fechmehl fell asleep, owing to the oppressive heat Suddenly the thought struck his comrades Jack Risser and Joe Dunkelberger that it would be good sport to disturb the at one! and let the bees awake SSl. provided tbey could do so d-pite his charmine power. Ihey shooK trie fence "humped the nest vigorously "ita mS a thousand angry tae. cam. out, and plastered themselves with one accord ac-cord all over tli face, neck and arms of thesleepingman. He awoke crazed with Sn,Tndran madly here and there unUl rTcame to a creek down in the hollow, mtTwhict! he plunged headforemost for "when be reached Farmer Dick's house Ms eyeT were closed and his face terribly Sen, presenting the worst caricature rtVtaJUa face Farmer Dick bad ever sin. For two days it was thought that ehi would die, but bow tb etas |