Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — A Little Too Hasty. [ARTICLE]

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 scarfpin. 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 ■aid, “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 an, 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”