{the assistant had Sotaally mistakes 1 him! He ziansed hurriedly at the 6 | velopes of the letters They ware ad- dressed to Shelby Fowler, the name by which the seeistant had just endled him, a | The mystery was plain now. Awl fur {the present he could fairly accept kis good Tuck and truss to later fortane to on Justify Himself. Transformed in Lis pew garb, be jeft - nis dgings to present himself once | , | mors to Lis possible employer. way led past one of the Jargest J was vet too early His gambling saloons. to find the dry goods trader Gisene 6 pagwd: perhaps the consciousness of a more decent, civilized gard omialdened | Bim to mingle more frecly with stran- gers and le entered the saloon, He was scarcely abreast of one of the i taro tables when a man leaped up with an, oath and discharged a revolver full iin his face. The shot missed Before his nnknown assailant could fire again the astonished Flint bad closed with him and instinctively clutched weapon. A brief but violent struggie ensoed. Flint felt his strength falling | him, when snddenly a look of astonish. ment cxme into the furious eyes of bis ore: | adversary, and the man's grasp me relaxed. The half. freed pis echanioally | tol. thrown upward by this movement, p-| was accidentally discharged point blank into his temple and he fell dead No one In the crowd bad stirred or In- s| terfered. “You've done for French Pete this time, Mr. Fowler,” said & voice at his elbow. He turned gaspingly and recog- + | nized his strange besmefactor, Fiyun. 5 | “1 eal] you all to witness, gentlemen.” continned the gambler, tuming dicta: T torily to the crowd, “that this man was jer-| lifted Flint's il | and then pointed to the dead wan, who ¢. | still grasped the weapon. “Conie™ i@ | canght the arm of Flint and dragged first attacked and was gparmed.” He limp ard empty Bands, He d! him into the street. | 811 menn? tack ma?” “Put.” stammered (he horrified Flint, #2 he was barne along, “what does 12 What made that man at “1 reckon ft wan 8 ease of shooting on sight, Mr. Fowler; bot be missed 5t bid not waitieg to see it you were It wasn't the square thing. {and you're all right wiih the crowd now, whatever he may have had agin >} you *But.” protested the unhappy Filnt 1 never laid eyes on the man befor, and my name len't Fowler” Flynn halted, end dragged bis in a doorway. "Who the devil wre you?' be asked roughly. Briefly. passionately, almost hyeter: 1 teally, Flint told him his scant story. An odd expreesion came over the gamblers face, "look hers” Le sald abrupily, have passed the word to the crowd : yonder that you are a dead broke wing { called Fowler, 1 allawed thet you niight have had some row with ths Sydney duck, Anstralian Pete n the ‘mines. That satisfied them If I go ack now and say it's a lle that your name ain't Fowler, and you never knew who Pete wax theyll fest pws Ton over to the police to deal with you, and 1} wash thelr bands of it altogether. You sactoner assistant was also d and half-clad ADDuar. excited the attention of one n bystanders, who was ex. £8 few words with the as- [6 was, however, recalled to moment later, when the port. was knocked down at #15, erably startled when the as. it Placed it a Ha fot with a gy property, Fowler, aad ou look as If you wanted § e's some mistake,” stam 4 Flint. “1 didn’t Bia” , but Tom Flynn did for you. e, 1 spotted you from the first, told Flynn 1 reckoned you were if those chaps who came back p mines dead broke. And he up bought your things for you~like a man. That's Flynn's style, if persisted Flint, “this never was | property. My name isn't Fowler | ver left anything here” assistant looked at himy with a half-credulous, half-scornful ve it your own way,” be sail 1 oughter tell ye, old man, that’ » warehouse clerk, and I remem. Fim here for that purpose. at thar valise is bought and id for by somebody elss and given you, it's nothing more to me. Take r leave it.” be ridiculomsness of quarreling er the mere form of his good fortune b struck Flint, and, as his abrapt efactor had as abruptly disap 1, he hurried off with his prize. ching his cheap lodging house he its contents. As he sur 2d, . contained a full suit of cloth. it the better sort and sultabile to urban needs, There were a few ar- f jewelry, which be put reiig- de. There were some letters med to he of a parely bust. eter. Theta Wore a few da- hands! may prove to the police who you are. arid Bow that dad clerk mistook you, but it will give you trouble. And who [8 there here Who knows wis you really are?’ “Xo one™ “Then take my advice and be Fowler, al stick to it! Be Fowler until Fowler turns up and thanks Fou for IU for you've saved Fowlers life ss Puts would never have funked and Jost 4s grit over Fowler ax he 64d with ps and you've a right to Lis pane He stopped and the sane odd tuner stitions Jouk came Iota Ble dark eves Pont you see what thot sll means? Well, 11} tell Joe You're gost streak of luek uw man had You've pot the cards in your own They spell Fowler! Pi i's Fowler first, last and ail the tine Good-night and gooil luck, Mr. The next morning's foarnal sod an account of the fastifible Sling the noturious desperado and ex-convict, Australisn Pete, by a courageous young miner mmned Fawler “An act of firmness and darise™ sid the Plopeer, "which will go far to conn. teraet jhe terrurisin produced by those iawless rufians” 1u Lis new suit of clothes = this paper in Bis hand, Flint s¢ in the Dig: ever 1d with aht the {Gry poods proprietor—the latter vas satisfied and convineed. That mornlug - Harry Fiat began Lis onreér as sales man ard as “Shelby Fowler” From that day Ehelliy Fowler's oa ity. Within the year be became & part ner. The same miraculous fortute ful {lowed other ventures liter. He was nill owner, mine vwndr bank director ~g tulliongire! He was posalar, the reputation of his brief achievement over the desperados kept Bln secure from the attacks of envy and rivalry. He never was confrouted by the real Fowler, There was no danger of ex posure by othere~the ue custodian of hig secret, Tom Flynn, died fo Nevada the year following. He had quite for gotten hls vouthful past, and even the more recent lucky porlmspteau; re membered nothing, perhaps, but the pretty face of the daguerreotype that bad fascinated him. There seoed to “he no reason why he should not live and de ax Shelby Fowler His busivess a year later took Lim to Europe, He wis + ‘Nleritig a train at ape of the great railway stations of $111 this Jady, the | Fos tor. io reer was ote of uninterrupted prosper. . London, when the porter. whe hal just] deposited his parimautesn in a come “Beg pardon, str, dnt 1 Nanded yot the wring portmantens. That long This is youre” Fiint ziapoed at the portmantenn or not his although it bare the alitial Hit back to the porter, fell on the young lady's face the face of the dajoormtype. “1 bez pardon” are those your inftis Khe hesitated: pirthaps 1 was the sh mipinesd of the gquestan, bot be saw whe was confessed, “No. A friends” Ble dsappuaced Int another con beautiful girl who dropped i He Sibed the guard at the next station ard discovered that sls was golag to New York, On thelr arrival hel was assixt hor. A few wonls disclosed the fact thie she was 8 fy Snir) woman, although residing iv Enjla and at present on her way to ir some friends at Haarogate, was Wast. At the mention of ds he again fanchal at she looked dis turbesd. They met again and again; the infor mality of his Inty Gil Was overs looked by Bs friends ss ba assomed name was already respectadbly and re sporsibly known hevond California He thought no more of his future le was he bad told ber Ble rea] pamwe aml how { be came to assume another's. He 41d #0 alone—searcely a month after thelr first meeting. To bis alarm, she burst into a floes] of tears, and shownd an agitation timt seensed far beyom! any apparent causa When she had partly recovered, she sald, In a frightened vidoe: "You are bearing my brother's same, Bat it was a name that the unliappy Australia that he abandoned i and, as he lay upon hin denthibed, the last aet of his wasted Jife wig to write an mine, too. For the jafamons companion of his ortme. who md first tempted, them to our Virginia home and exposs {him to our nelghtors. Maddenad Ly desperation the miserable boy twice at. might have added that of bloodguilt- inex to Bis other sins bad Be lived, 1 Gal change my name to my mother's wakden one Jef! the sanniry sid have tliat desperado sloold he fulfil his threat.” in 8 Bash of meolicction Fligt re marnbered the siartled Joak that had suse nto his sssallant's eye after they had clinched If was the same man who had too late reglized Gat bis op tazunist was not Fowler, “Thank God! you are forever safe from apy exposare from that man” bo sald gmvely., “and the name nf Fowler has never heen known in San Francissn sate in all rewpect and boner it 8 for you to ike bach--fearlesaly and alone” : Rie J14, Lat not alone. for she nhared It 1th her husband ~Waveriey Maga Tih A Woodland Feho, As beeae the Bie man bhavitig the of the Temagemis Rewerve ta Caosda, the Cork of the New York Conrt of Erewial Seszions was graclondiy oe clined ® Instroet the workers in eam These, gays he New York Trilane, Were TWO young unknown pica wha with 2 cation and a camning oullL were HRewiss secliing backwools “Xn fre. waid the ele 5 assuming a roe ming position of graceful ease “hax. read, 1 see™ @ a smoldering log & x 5 o>» “You gee” continued the olerk, with : i i “the baklng-oavweder, sutains erEam oof tanar ibe ed a certain smoot of 4 gag whlch" ; don't talk shop! interrupted cis Yl hate it out here Oh, you do!” the clerk setanished. "What+business ate you 58 HIRY i Bek _r il Man assisting professor of chem at ¥a * oy the A Use For Prairie Doge. stists may sinus thas dod use for ities, On western plains We dogs have been reganded as more usalesy pests, and pow GPR 4 man who says that they serve such a purpose thant henceforth fastens of Hates offering bounties for then thoy will encourage the propagation of little Dwasts Lowls Orogeentis wen et omen kas, according to thabia Bee, discovered that prairie soars a very great aid to the oad vation of alfalfa. Mr, Grosmentir says that alfalfa, to grow, must be Infected with a certain fabgas and that iw Go agency of infection so good as the despised prairie dog. His disooverios are the Tesumit of four years of experi JETS, tie . Thera The Power of Fadicm, Runposs ofe should boll a erysial yale in bis howd with big fave termed to the East, Suppose that one the electrons were a legden hypilet circling the earth to its starting point, | He would be shot In the fru the westward five titbes before be vould fail 10 the ground, so rapid is the moves meng of the glectiggs. af . sit aok partment. rearpeared at the window] followed hy & young lady in mourn | the seat Sofore hima It sortainly waa “C.F” [Ie was peeharmicaly banding when bls evr § dit was ne LM oaital. "bats he stasnmerad, bot] LLL Charl, of riage but from that moment Harry)’ Flint Brew that be hod po other aap! in Iife than to follow the clow and the remdy on the platform to respectfully § Her name | of the Dost Suddenly the line was i the astonishment of everybody, the fis) i that the clergyman had booked began | 10 drag the boat along. The clergyman | iis a sturdily-bullt, athletic man. Alf weaker ove would have had the In | in love He even dared to think ft] might be returned. but he felt bs bad no right to seek that knowledge until oF had so shamefully disgmesd 8 | he clergymen dived 10 got out of the section of his coat, The garment was {imploring Jetier begging me to change | ter's right arm and shonlder then Deirayed him, had posscagion of | all his papers and letters, many of them | | from me, aDd was threatening to bring | the clergyman escaped by coming to the shark rose also and darted at My, tempted tis life of the scoundrel and on the end of It. Yves] Liers to escape thie revelation 1 ed Bi escape the pe We of | sped box with all Ms Mrength. body. The fish began to founderbelp- | in the water. killed it and had saved Mr MeMilan's life. © Then the clergyman was helped shark, i foot, trained for the mortal combat in which | itde of Gis Hs io the primeval tovesta | territory, paid litle heed, thinking 1 bur a stray \ p ortable a aves Pat it Sewn toome un fora cant” | Cjumted over Ee wpad down olwerved, | 3 Fle aap wnt ty the ground Land gral Best * | erush it. pink sad green stripes along th coar TORN OFF BY A SHARK. ry ma YERBOARD and strogzimg. Gesperately with man: eating shark was the peri) ous position In which the C Rew, John MeMibian, pastor of the Westminster Pres: Atlantic Ciy, found himsell on a recent afternoon, There seems to be no doubt that tha minister would have been mangled to! death by the 8h had not one of hing friends killed it with a spearshaped | As the guests of Charles C. Toll fu! bis launch, the Auna M. the Rev Mr. | MeMiian the Rav. Dr. H. 1. Caldwell, the Rev, 8. W, Sieckel. B, D. Coley, Jr. and Clarosos Powell, started oo a feline foip to a grasey bay a few miles beyond Atlantis Cit Fishermen bave reported for the Jost week or more that they have sighted sharks In this semianarsh land. But most of the reports have been regarded | merely as fish stories, Rev, Mr MceMilan sat In the stern almost dragged out of his hands. To simply torn from his grasp. proved too mineh for him. As he cone tiated to bald on the drag on the nw became the harder. Ie was brought AT ning far} the over the side of the heat. In the exeits. | rea ment. be did not ronlize bow far hn! ; was leaniog. Then he Jost his baianos wh fo a position wher he was and fell into the water At the sound of the splash the Hoe! h slackenad. The shark had turned. Ite) it rose sharp and viclous-looking | a fin above the water. It darted stralght| At the clergyman Then the shark, | turning on it hack. openad its month, way. The shark's teeth had esught completely torn from his body. The teeth also tore the flesh of the minis The shark dove after ity prey, but the surface of the water again Then MoMillan for the second tine. Mr. Tall bad sweanwhile seized 1 long beat-hook that bad a sharp pron He was standing at the boat's side awaiting the reappesr: ance of the shark. When it came mp and started murderously for the clergyman, Mr, Tull drove the proty- It passed tate the aburk’s lessly. Half a miante later it lay still The single blow bad aboard. : Afterward the party landed the It measured more then pine » FIGHT WITH A SNAKE C. E. Stevenson, of Pittsburg. who 1 8% present in the oll fells at Knox ville, bas them 30 fagged whens It tones to a genuine Lair-calsing story, Stevenson weighs about TW) pounds and 1% not gsed to strenuous life, being possessed of some moder and fl be soridentally became sngnzed. Wide wa sidering arannd over the of Stevenson came across al romantic sper, cdl and shady, so i vitlag to bis tired and corpulent Lody sired to rest awhile While he was thus reposicg on the log be felt sometlinz tonel his back, Dt dog. Finally be turned around and saw the largest monster in the snake ne he had ever beleld $n or out have i 3 fond: 3d Pied Ti8 Philosopher New York Weekly. THATS PIPIERENT. . a “Well, I woulds't put it like that, ex point | actly, but the firm has been foolish um SE mssction Wig MeNow York Journal ito | FORBEARANCE ON BOTH SIDES Harrs-"You sol Tom appear to be | the best of frienda™ Dick-"Why shouldnt we he? We gever say what we think of each othe er."~Baston Transcript, TOO BURY. *You scem fo Bave lost interest In the mothers’ moetings.” suggested the woran who aimed to make the world bere quoted fa taken from one of hes | Deter “Oh, no.” replied the young matron wii had been a regular attendant fos some thine. “I haven't lost intercet In them, bat I'm a real and not merely a theoretical mother now, and I haven't time to go "Chicago Evening Post. THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE “I don't cares to marry—at least not yet." sald the fire “Why sot? "Because s8 matters are tow 1 have the attentions of half a dogen men while If I marry 1 would have the attention of only one.” “Hoh!” exclaimed the matron, “you wonkdn't have even that”--Chicage Poat. HE MERELY MADE IT. “My boy doesn't seem to have got along bere very well” said the office boy's father, "Well, to be perfectly frank with you.” replied the employer, “1 must say not “Ah! What's iis trouble ?™ “He hasn't any trouble; it's the rest of us who have had that Chicago Tribe, . “lm sme oumy THE MODERN STANDARD, “X raapiificent work, bis latest story, yon say?’ “Magulficent! Why, {t's the finest story that bas been published this century.” “Indeed! What's the general Jea?™ “Oh, halt morosco, gold or uncut odes, eloth wdition, fnlslied tn four colors, with lomipated pages to every elapter. "Baltimore News, THE SWITCHMAN, Sad previcus little Toumy, The household's pet and pride, “111 hide my papa’s switch, and then He cannot switch my hide” ~New York Sun. ¥ THE GLADBOME GUY. “It plwars exhausts my patience™ reiriaried the Carenic Kicker, “when aml Gad I ane to be waite] ay SL petertesf in iadsome GUN Joetor ean say Sime, Can't Kx 3 oh a1 2 ip bit £4 ££; tia t do you wean?” aontte are exhausted when you, surg! ~Loulsville -