The record-union., 1898-03-28
Welnst0ck. LubLn GO. 4OO4L2 StTeef Sacranenf0.

| house when he met a neighbor who
| happened to be member of the late
Arcade Oil, Salt, Iron, Coal and Gas
! Company. The neighbor was about to
| stop and talk with Mr. Kast when he
saw the can and thought he recognized
it. He turned whittier than a white
washed fence, as Citizen Kast senten-
| tiSusly remarked afterward and ran
| down the street like mad. Mr.. Kast
! looked after him in amazement, and
then went on. Right in the heart of the
/ village he met another citizen
This citizen was none other than
the President of the late comprehen-
sive mining company, and when he was
passing the ecomplacent Citizen Kast
| his eyes feel on the can that Kast was
proudly bearing homeward With a
yell that made the custodian of the can
! jump, this citizen turned and tore
| away like a racehorse. While the
amazed Mr.. Kast was still gazing down
i the street where the feeting citizen s
coat-tails We're disappearing around
the corner, still another Arcade citizen
came along. This one seemed to have
| had cool head on his shoulders al
! IhOueoil lI1 iCNOS5 lilLCd III lIe CeiIl MI .
Kast was smuggling under his arm the
buried and forgotten can of nitro -glyc-
crime.
Kast,' said he, seems to me that if
/ were you | would take that can Of
nitro -glycerine back to where | got it
from. 1t won't be of any use 10 you
and Arcade is too nice a place to be
dug up and tumbled about promiscu-
ously.'
The sudden change in expression on
Kasts face and the nervous movement
he made We're too much for the cool
| headed citizen to stand up against, and
away he fled at the top of his speed
He was sure Kast was about to hurl
the deadly can to the sidewalk, and he
thought ouly Of escaping the dire re-
suit. But Citizen Kast did not hurl
it. He placed it on the sidewalk as
gently as if it had been sick baby,
and then took to his heels and never
stopped until he was safe within his
own house.
- had a ding notion to lock the
door. too said Mr.. Kast, but / didn't
The news of the resurrection of the
can of nitro-glycerine and it's threaten
ing presence within the yiIa:sA n;4sr't
long in spreading about Arcade. Every
body played shy of that part of town.
People who lived in the street where
the can was on involuntary post did
not venture out. of their houses except
stealthily by the back WAY. and when
arrived at Arcade the can was ap-
parently the only occupant of that par
tlcular thoroughfare. The members of
the late Arcade Oil, Salt Coal. Iron
and Gas Company had got together
promptly after the coming of the
can to the town and Clipped in
to make pot of $50. which they
ofered to an one who would take
the can away and safely dispose of it,
but no one had come forward to win
the pot.
Well. | saw at once that there was
no use of my trying to do any business
IN the place while matters were so un-
settled. and | was waiting for the next
train out of town when Ahei I.endle-
ton of three miles I'D the creek an
peared on the scene According to an
excited citizen who brought the news
of Abel to the hotel, it seems that Abel
mad driven in from his farm nut his
team under shed and then started
down the street where the can of nitro
glycerlne was holding the town at bay.
He got within fifty feet of the can. He
discovered it. stopped a second or two
and then made for it on run. A
u"eiler IN one OF the houses near by
saw MN and yelled at him out of the