Connecticut western news., 1907-10-24
BOWSER HAS SCHEME
Finds Man Who Has Invented
 Way to Reduce Coal Bills.
MAKES A TEST IN FURNACE.
Formula Fails to Bring About the De- sired Result, and Experiment Ends In a Fisht-Mrs. B. Tries to Console Disheartened Husband.

sired Result, and Experiment Ends
 In Fight-Mrs. B. Tries to Console
 Disheartened Husband.
 Copyright, 1907. by Homer Sprague.1
 At 2 o'clock the other afternoon a strange man called at the Bowser and when answered in the negative said that he had an appointment with him for that hour and would wait While he sat down on the front steps Mrs. Bowser cudgeled her brains as to what he might want He was long, lean, lank and solemn looking man. He seemed a man who had been dis appointed In the world and had lost all hope She couldn't think he was man who had COW or a balloon to sell.
 The mystery had lasted only quar- ter of an hour, when MT. Bowser came home. He was walking fast and had a business air about him. After saying a few words to the man on the steps he entered the house, and of course Mrs. Bowser asked him what was go- ing to happen.
 "The man out on the steps Is Mr. Rasher," he replied. "I have been talk ing with him all the forenoon. He is the man who invented the catch any thing trap. It will catch anything from a bug to an elephant, and the man who beat him out of his patent has made million dollars out of it.'
 ''Is that why he looks so down in the mouth?' asked Mrs. Bowser.
 He Was an Inventor.
 "That and other things He is the inventor of the double ended nursing bottle for twins. He brought out the machine to throw cats off the fence. He invented pacteboard soles for shoes, and all In all he has brought out dozen good things. He has trusted men, and they have robbed him of the fruits of his labor." te
 "And has he now invented an India rubber barrel or something else he wants you to take up with him?"
 Don't try to be sarcastic at this ear ly stage of the game. Mir. Rasher drop ped into the office this morning to see me on business. From the first tns stant he set eyes on me he felt that he could trust me. As he told me later,f have q frank and innocent counte- nance that lis an index of my soul. After we had talked for an hour he told me that he was the inventor of a patent fuel that is going to make mil lions of dollars for some one."
 "But there are half a dozen men making the same claim," protested Mrs. Bowser. land as far as we know nothing great has come of it." !,
 Never you mind about the half dox- en men and their claims. Their names are not Rasher. This man knows what he is about When he says that he has fuel that is going to revolution ize the world and drive 10000 coal dealers to suicide you can get ready for something to happen. What he wants is money enough to get this patent. He wants me to advance the amount and will give me half his rights. I am not to advance cent un- til after I have satisfied myself that the fuel Is all right. Have you any fault to find with that arrangement"
 "Why. no but I hope you will be thoroughly satisfied before you go into such thing" fF,
 Considered Him Honest.
 Certainly I shall. Mrs. Bowser, ' am no ten-year-old boy. I think the man Is honest and sincere. but I shall still have an eye on him. If he's shamming he'll find man as smart as he is" M#
 But how are you going to find out about the fuel?' .s
 we are going to burn some in the furnace. It's pretty hot weather. but guess we can stand 1t for an hour or SO I shall insist on the severest tests.''
 Mrs. Bowser thought there might be something in it and raised no further objections. She had read that others were experimenting and why not MT. fowser? While he was getting into m old suit of clothes Mir. Rasher dis appeared for a few minutes. Then a horse and wagon drove up with three or four bags full of something that were carried down cellar. Then there was a mixture. As near as MT. Bow, ser could determine. for Mir. Rasher wasn't giving things away yet, the hr9s contained ashes. sand and lime. When they had been mixed together powder was sprinkled over the heap and 1t was dampened with water Three or four old boxes were knocked to pieces and fire started in the fur mace, and when there was a goot blaze going the inventor said:
 We will now shovel the mixture fl and you will see something wonder | fI1I ,'