Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1910 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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A Little Too Hasty. In the scramble that followed a premature discharge of dynamite in a building-lot, says a writer in the New. York Sun, a stout man lost a scarf-pin. After he began to search for it he noticed another man poking round in the • dust and debris. He immediately grew suspicious, and at last spoke. “I do not wish to give offense,” he said, “but I must ask you to refrain from assisting me in this search. I appreciate your willingness to help, but as a means of self-protection I long ago made it a rule never to allow strangers to assist me in a search for a lost article.” “Oh, very well,” said the stranger. “You have no objection to my looking oh, I suppose?” He sat down on the curbstone and watched the stout man sift dust and overturn stones. After twenty minutes of painful stooping the stout man found a scarf-pin. “But it is not my pin,” he said, dejectedly.*. “No, it’s mine,” said the other man. “I heard it strike somewhere hereabouts. That was what I set out to look for, but when I saw how anxious you were for the job I let you go ahead. Your own scarf-pin, if you want to know, is sticking to the flap of your left coat pocket"

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