The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-04-06

brave everything to protect the helpless and the
ignorant
The ward did not know of it's peril. 1t should be
informed.
He visited Schmidt, the butcher, then Kellerman,
the grocer and then Mccormick, who kept the coal
yard and ice house. AT each point he Mortified the
and their assistants by announcing that Aug
ust Scheffe, his beloved friend threatened the COM
munity with disaster. Amid horrfying details and
small crowd, he painted the sudden awfulness in
which they lived and moved.
AS his excitement increased his fervid German
Imagination expanded, and he added lurid illustra-
lions to the story. When man did not immediate
ly become frightened, Shultz to it that
angle produced the appropriate result. He min
utely explained the terrifying effects of "pckvck
acidts" when exploded. He claimed that during the
Franco Prussian entire brigade (French) had
been wiped out by single charge of it, and that
his uncle wilhelm" had received medal of honor
simply for driving the wagon in which "pickvck
acidts' conveyed to the front He declared that
a single ounce of the stuff would utterly destroy a
square yard of Bessemer steel, fifteen inches thick,
and that England troubled because Germany
had invented it.
Therefore he argued, August scheffel who packed
handful of ''pickvick acdts" was menace. If
the police not all Irish, they would have dis
covered the danger long ago; but it had remained
for him, Shultz, to sacrifice his family and business
in order that innocent people might not be MUIR
dered in their sleep
So insistent was he, they began to believe him.
A squad of anxious looking men gathered in Nc
Cormick's coal Office and considered writing let
ter to August Scheffel begging him to leave for
parts unknown oBren, the patrolman on the beat
who had for the Dutch anyway, nor for Schef-
fel in particular because he had refused to yield
tribute, secured few decimated details OF the
story and telephoned the station thtt there
rumor afoat the effect that Schefel Dutch
saloon keeper had Struggled wagon load OF high
explosives into his place, and that he suspected the
Exchange to be headquarters for anarchists.
M EANTlME, though evening had come on, shutz
AvA remained tireless. Slipping home he packed the
family off to cousins house for months visit;
he told his foreman that he must manage the bust
money in the TILL he arrayed himself in his singing
society clothes and prepared to lay the before
the Maennechor.
Every Thursday night that collection OF melod
souls met over Wegner's Garden, and as the So
ciety embraced such influential folk Scheffers
brother-in-law-, who was in the council. his cousin
who brewmaster for Weissner and his land
lord, Shultz hoped that enough pressure could be
brought to bear to save him. August Scheffel, when
again in his old moods, would thank him for this
interest Shultz felt sure-but whether he would or
not the thing necessary to the present was preven-
ton OF slaughter and the restoration OF confidence
He was aware OF the terror in the precinct The
entire population quaked and waited and listened.
When fuse blew out of trolley-car they believed
it all and the living fastened to get some
idea of the dead. In Marx cigar store distant one
block from the threatened quarter, several nervy
outposs watched Scheffels saloon through field
glass.
At ten o'clock nothing had happened. But at ten
O'Clock August Schehel himself, bandage and all
issued from the Exchange, and headed down the
street
Here he comes!" cried the sentnels; and the
section deserted.
In all the city there not a mystiied
than August Schefel He had kept the Ex
change twenty-five years and could remember two
money panics, devastating fire, and epidemic
of typhoid fever; but before Thursday
night. any other night had he experienced such
dullness OF business in goods.
Not had entered the bar the whole even
ing. Not lunch-pronging visitor. Not beef
sold. Not single beer! 1t than dis
heartenng.
August could not understand it, Had the town
become temperance plant in the OF after
noon? A dozen times he had gone the door il
the hope OF discovering possible solution, and the
condition of the street had not quoted his
fears. He mad appealed to Otto for explanation
!, and had snorted dsdainfully when ad
vanced
tenn nipht SnIl-h had chad i