{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 <f
captivity. The femon seemed to laugh
him from its wicked, Sery eves ag
ft edad toward Lim, while bo seco |
mated to the spor. Gat thering his
nerves by sie supreme effort, le
the reptile and emitted
a yell that outs have caused a Cony |
anche to torn Held with envy, while
the BY In huge recklens
Innges that weve extremely trylog on
the seams of bis garments
A glance beck showed the snale
to be gainine, and realizing he cond
net Keep up the Billing pace Stevenson
took to a young sapling aod aliinnid
up. oaly ta be followed b¥ the snake. |
a club and decidgl to dle game. The
sunkereared at him and the battle wis
aa Ab Bret Be conid not BE the elngive
and wiry demon. He doally cot aa
walng smite on the animals aud
and the fSolit was ene while hel
dropped fron: exhaustion. Those wlio!
saw the snake are at a loss ty classtly
One mative writes to a friend to
thia city that it war a pipefoot hisck-
snake with Barna apd ears and that ir
had thirteen drfiogs on Hs tail with |
bark.
3 Laie
~TRetrait News Trim
A BEMARKARLE SRoT.
ina of the best og
able shata io
with Rgan™
oe oi de 3 5
£0 wir
Sraan Way
the thlvk of |
Er made |
the man who fred the
slang boy amd a mene
muy. He was debag
{i sr oguard at the tne,
It waz late at night when the soldkrs |
were roused by the gukek, elear ernek |
of a Kraz-Jorgensen on the outskirts |
of the camp © No particular attention
Wis paid ro the matter at first, as only |
ones shot was fired. But, with a couple
aed
=n eX oart te ge Fox
$9, ny my
duty ag a
| of officer. we went out to where the|
But, strong as he was, he effort 1)
Cher In the Inngle,
search party went out and found Berd
vx whole eowinl of
tuday -Lippineatt's.
: horse
i RAs
to frighten Wim Into & stop than any- |
thing alse. Of course, the fallow
never halted. | He was probably too!
badly frightens to stop at that wes |
While we were talking to the guard)
we heard a fearfol nolee at least halt |
a mile from the goard's station, andl we
{ made & break for the place to sea what
the matfer was We heard sive)
people sereanikig as If in great gon.
Dow: the road we went at fall speed, |
and in a short while wa came Upon &
little cabin which stood on the road |
side. The noise was in this cabin, and
I never heard such groaning and walls |
ing in my iifa,. Wa found thren men :
rent |
sgony. and we ashed them what was |
in the house. They were in |
the matter. ‘We have heen shot! they
sald, and sure enough they had Deen |
shot. Ome was shot in the right nrin,
another in the back, and the third In
the hip. They had all bean woulided
by the same bullet. The man who was |
wounded In the arm was Iying on his |
right side, the bell passed through his |
arm. Next to him ote of his woun- |
gune we | fizht with these days. "ee New
Orleans Times-Dewmocrat,
THE END OF A TIGRERS
Mrs. Doubett, the young Ametdican
wife of an English army offiecr op ser |
vive in India, had a thrilling advititure |
while hunting big game with her hus
hand in the Chanda jungle The story
letters to 4 friend In this country:
Wird was brought to camp that a
tigress dad killed a cow and made an
attempt ob a man's life We want to
the scene at once amd took up our
places, and the bout had just begun
when | Beard roar aller roar,
I thought the tigress was going to
Timrning (Mrs: Dounett’s hosband) and |
was rejoicing, for the poor old bey lng |
bad no luck, wile mine Las beds the
lucky gun of the manp.
Swmidenty, with no warning, olt she
jurzped about ten yards from muy, and
sie did Jook a pleture of fury na ube
stood] lashing ber tall and snarling. It
was too sasy 3 shot to be really easy:
also, having a huge creature all Hut
breathing in my face seemed th mes
mwerize we, in 3 way, and I felt myself
trembling all over and anable to move
my eyes from ber hawd, green ones
Bot I fired, and she mado & grad
spring Into & clump of bambdoos nnd
She never wtsered
was lost to slight
8 somul
When (he coast seemed clear 1 blew
my whistle; the others came up, and
wa found fresh drops of blood. The }
gramies anid Damboos were suumred
with blood about a foot Crees the
| ground, which showed I had Bit ber}
low In the stomach.
Well, we formed a line and ineh by
tach advanced into the jungle with aj
man always shead.
Wi were Jost thinking she must be
fosd-we had gone about one hindered
and Af%y yardle-when a man io 9 treo
yelled out, “Zira glassy!” which nuving
“She is charging”
Ia an Instant everyone was tryiog
to sve hlmself, It looked like x ship
wreck, with desperate people cliuging
I climbed a small dime!
boo which played sevssw with fe bef
Timmins could}
to branches.
Dwoen earth and shy.
dot gain a cimballe tree, 80 he got baw
Mad one and was ready to shoot for
hin Life
Tlie tigress
past and out by our
dd pot Burt asyows,
right tank nnd
was dark we made for camp aul lett
The mext day a
dead about three hundoed Fh of. 1
kad wounded her morniily with my
tirst shot—~Chicago De Her
Cream to Barn.
Two Httle girls were engaged nan}
anizoated diseussfon gs to the mmitw off
their respectire homes.
“Well, anyway,” sall ove Hettle maids
#0 in & tisgmphant tooe, “og tay
i have mors bedrooms than we have hat
We Gave more rem than roa do. Wa
have enough for our cereal every sin
le morning”
“Pood aid the other. “that’s noth.
ing. We own a Jersey cow, and we gel
erga twice every
The Chicken — the Horse,
Fort Branch, Ind, bas produced a
strange owe of afiection betwern and
usals of different species. Tt is the casa
fof spring cilcken and an old gray
The oMeken lost Hg mothe
Some time azo and tow
ea 10p of the horse's Lead,
tween the animal's ears
3% to
jrhicken aed the two are sw oh seen
together when the horse is pot a VERY.
work ~-New York Coz serial adven
Criser,
Big
¥
SIRT CAMs
The year's business of Amerieun |
will amount to $2H4000,000,
Fave a guar and charged |
When all wan}
{ quiet again we crawled out, but as it
monts nlrb]
Th Bat : Rages >
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
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