STIje Sums, Ncru Bloomftdir, Jcu
Was nothing more tender between you ?"
"Oh you mistake altogether wo
were very huppy. That was all, and I
was sorry when the journey was over."
" And so was 1," interposed the pris
oner. " Yes, that is his voice. If you make
hiin say, Oft in the stilly night,' my
lord," said the girl, " you would under
stand." "Shall I ask him to sing it?" said
Mr. C.
" lleally," said the Lord Advocate,
" this is quite unusual and irregular."
lie was rather nettled with the evidence.
" No," said Mr. C, " it is a case of
identity. Identity of voice may be as
important as that of feature. Do you
wish to be confirmed iu your opinion by
hearing his voice ?"
" 1 have no doubt about hiui.. But he
says it very sweetly."
'Prisoner," said the judge, "you have
heard what has passed. Can . you say
any of the verses?"
Thus adjured, Power recited the sec
ond verse of that sweetest of all Moore's
melodies, with great taste and expression.
The witness listened with delight, and at
the end exclaimed, "I was suro of it.
Nobody said ' all but vie departed' but
himself."'
He had said so and the evidence was
irresistible.
The waiter at the Western Club, the
clerk at the coach office, and the guard
of the mail, all spoke of his having been
iu Glasgow on Monday until four o'clock
and having left it . by the coach that even
ing. He arrived in Edinburg, as the
Crown witnesses had said, at nine that
night. The chain was complete, and all
idea of concei t was excluded by the fact
that none of the witnesses knew when
they came into court the reason of their
being summoned. The case looked like
one of mistaken identity; but the re
markable thing was that the accused had
never denied that he was the student in
question, and seemed from the first to be
familiar with all around him.
The crown had no choico but to aban
don the prosecution, and the prisoner was
acquitted; but the mystery which the
trial had thrown over the whole affair
created an unpleasant impression, and he
left Edinburg the next day.
Very shortly afterwards a fact trans
pired which rendered it at least doubtful
whether the crime had been committed
at all. Two medical students, who were
friends of Johnstone, resided at the top
of the same staircase. Doth of these
students had left Edinburg rather sud
donly, immediately after this eveut, und
It was not known where they had gone.
But it transpired that they had been in
the habit of making experiments ou them
selves not an unusual thing at that
time; and it came to be believed that
Power's counsel at the time of the trial
had information that Johnstono came by
his death iu that way, and that the others
in their terror had lain down his body at
Power's door.
The nine days' wonder soon subsided,
and gave place to new topics ; nnd it was
many years afterwards that 1 heard the
true version of this singular talo.
It seems there were two brothers, twins,
of the name of Power, who were left or
phans, and almost without relatives or
connections, when they wore mere chil
dren. They were so wonderfully alike
that thoso who knew tlicua best could
rarely distinguish them, and the old ma
ternal grandfather who reared them took
care that they should be educated sepa
rately. Reginald, the eldest assumed the
naino of Reynolds, as he sucoeeded to a
small property through his mother. Tho
brothers, after the death of their grand
father, being alone in the world, had the
most devoted, even romautic, affection
for each other, although at the timo of
this story they had not met for several
years.
Reginald had received a writership to
India, and when the events I have spoken
of occurred was on his way to pay his
brother, a farewell visit. Johnston, nnd
Power had met that afternoon, and Pow
er had knocked him down, and was hor
rified an hour afterwards to find John
stono lying dead at his door. In his
alarm he immediately started off by the
ooach, which left for Glasgow at six
o'clock, to meet his brother and., consult
what was to be done. Tho eoachtoppod
at a 6tage post whera it met tho other,
and there the brothers resolved on tho
romautio course of changing their identi
ty Power going to London as Reynolds,
nnd Reynolds going to Edinburg as Pow-.
er. The rest ia easily conceived ; but
Reynolds remained Power to the end of
his life, and would never hear of resum
ing either his name or hi estate. IIe
went out R8 a medical man to Australia,
rose to great eminence, and only died a
year or two ago, leaving an enormous for
tune, lie left a widow, and her maiden
name was Bridget Malone 1
A Hog Story.
COMMODORE SCUDDER, of the
United States Navy, had a double
nosed pointer' dog of which he bragged a
good deal, and for which he would have
refused a larger sum than was ever offer
ed for a dog since tho creation of the
world. But he is dead now not Com
modore Scudder, but tho dog. Like the
famous hound Gelcrt, he died a martyr to
his high sense of honor. Tho Commo
dore told me the story :
" I went out hunting partridges one
day," he said, " and took the dog along
We hadn't much luck at first, but after
awhile Duster that was the dog's name
stood-and pointed at a convey of tho
finest birds 1 ever saw in all my born
days. They were squatting down in the
low grass, a dozen yards off, in plain
sight, and 1 determined to fire at them as
they lay. 1 lifted my gun, took deliber
ate aim, and would have killed a dozen at
least; but before I could pull tho trigger
a courier dashed up with a dispatch
which he said required immediate atten
tion1 " I reserved my fira and read the dis
patch. It was an ordur from the Navy
Department to proceed, without a mo
ments dulay,. to Philadelphia, to take
command of a squadron which was about
t'o sail to the Mcdilerauinn. I was so
much excited, you understand, that I
laid down my gun right on the spot, and
went off, leaving Buster there pointing at
those birds like they were North Stars
and he was a mariner's compass, so to
speak. I forgot all about him ; bat he
was a faithful dog, Buster was and, like
Casibianca, he wouldn't have left even a
burning ship without my orders.
" Well, I wont to the Mcditeranean,and
cruised around for three years, having a
first rate time. When I returned, at the
end of the cruise, it occurred to me, as I
stepped ashore in Philadelphia, to go out
and see how things were at the place
where I went gunning. John- and I went
and the first thing I came across was
my gun, lying there with the barrel cov
ered with rust and broken clean off
tho rotten stock. But what was my sur
prise, upon going a few paces further to
find the skeleton of that heroic, double
nosed pointer, standing up just whero I
had left the dog three years before ! He
had never budged an inch, Mr. Quill, uot
a single-solitary inch, that double-nosed
pointer hadn't ; but he had stood there
and pointed at those birds, until ho had
perished in his tracks ! Well sir, after
shedding a tear over my departed friend,
I went a few yards ahead, and, there were
the fkcli t'iim of those purtriilijes ! I regard
this as the most extraordinary circum
stance that ever came under my observa
tion ; but if any man presumes to doubt
my word. I'll shoot him on the spot 1
will, by George 1"
A little darkey was recently found
sitting on the stoop of a fashionable house
crying pityful. " What's de matter wid
you?" asked a colored woman. ' Do mat
ters 'nuff double trouble all ober de
house. Fadder am drunk muddcr am
gone wid cloze siss broke de lookin
glass wid de broomstick do baby hub
got. her eyes full of cyan pepper, and Pete
Wood put the mustard on, the hair for
goose grease. I put salt in my tea for
do white sugar wa't mudder has when
Professor Hannibal comes to see her;
an dat made me sea-sick. Be dog licked
Pete's face, and got his mouf full ob mus
tard and lies under do bed a howlin. De
kitten got her hed in de milk pot and 1
cut her hed off to save de pitchur, and
don I had to brcake do pitchur to get do
head out, and do way I'll get licked when
mydder conies hum, for scttin' de bed
afiro, will bo asin."
BEAUTY.
Beautiful faces they that wear
The light of pleasant spirit there,..
It matters little if dark or fair.
Beautiful hands are they that do
The work of the noble, good and true, .
Busy for thorn the long day through.
Beautiful feet are they that go ,
Swiftly to lighten another's woe,.
Through summer's heat orwintcr'ssnow.
Beautiful children, if rich or poor,.
Who walk tho pathways sweet and pure,
That lead to the mansions strong and sure.
DOT Bridget having carefully studied
tho picture of the " Huguenot Lovers"
for sonio time, broke the silence by the
question : " Ia it choking of her, he is?"
CATCHING A BURGLAR.
I WENT to Convent Garden one night
last season. We were let out at
twelve, and I set off to my lodgings. I
knocked : there was no answer. I knock
ed again : a window was thrown up and
my landlady's head appeared.
" Who are you ?" she screamed.
"Let's in please; it's me 1" I answered.
"Then Mr. Me, if you don't come
home afore ten, you may stay out till
njomin." I never wait up for toy lodgers
my door is closed at ten I" and then
the window closed with a bang.
" No go 1" thinks I. " I have nonioney,
I'll go to a railway station, and wait iu
the waiting-room till morning;" which
resolution proceeded to carry out by
walking briskly for the Bank.
1 turned into Moorgate street and was
just thinking whether I should go to the
London, Brighton, and South Coast or
tho Londou Bridge station. 1 stopped to
think. There was a confectioner's shop
just. in front of me. Oh, that it were
open 1 I had three pence left.
Just at this moment a tall, broad
shouldered man came up to me,and viewed
me from top to toe. I looked at him. lie
was dressed iu dark clothes ; a pea
jacket, and a clap-trap cloth hat, with a
peak, lying level on. the forehead, gave
me a fueling of nwo. The thought forced
itself upon me that he was a garroter.
Ho spoke first. ' You.'re Mr. Sam ?" and
he laid his finger on his nose.
"You've guessed it." said I, "think
ing it best to agree with him, although
my name was Tom.
"Then come along!" and away we
went.
" Did Butler give ye e'er a pistol ?" he
asked.
" No," said I, beginuing to tremble.
" He said he wanted them himself."
" Just like him. He told me I would
find you standing in Moorgato street
between twelve and owe, opposite the con
fectioner's, with your right hand in ysmr
pocket."
" I'm in for it!" thinks I, " but must
go through with it. But whatever wiil
it ccuio to at all, at all?"
lie led me through a labyrinth of
street, walking rather fast, till he mer
ged upon the City Road. Then he made
straight for the Angel, and from thence
took a. cab for Elect street! What object
he hail in doing this I caunot say. He
did not offer to explain ! iu fact, not a
word passed between us till we got out at
the top of Ludgate Hill.
From thonce we went into aback street
and out of that to another, no matter
which, and suddenly stopping opposite
a shop, he exclaimed " There's our
crib ?"
" Is it ?" says I.
Whereupon ho produced from his
pocket a rule. The shop was evidently
a tailor's, as it had bars standins: out like
tho rungs of a Jacob's ladder, from each
side of tho door, to exhibit stock upon.
My friend stepped on the first of these,
which waa three feet from the ground,
and speedily measured the height of a
large glass fanlight over the- door: then
stepping down again, he measured the
breadth of the door, and as tho fanlight
was square, he muttered to me, by way
of giving me its dimensions " Threo and
a hull by two high!" and chuckled quietly.
Then he crossed the road, and I fol
lowed, ho explaining that we must wait
till the policeman passed. He hove iu
sight about ten minutes afterwards, while
he walked past him. Then we waited
till he returned. This time wo did not
pass him, but watched him froth a comer
at a distance.
" Twenty minutes and a half between
going and coming," exclaimed my com
panion. "And a handy beat; for ho
comes up the corner there" pointing to
one a little beyond the shop " and goes
down this street next ours."
The impression began to steal over mo
that I was committing, or helping to com
mit a felony, and that if caught 1 might
get into trouble I thought of running
for it; but tho remark my companion
made at that moment, to tho effect that it
would bo a short ruu if I deserted him
(for he seemed to see 1 didn't like the
job), deterred me. I dared not explain
that be had made a mistake, for I felt
sure that ho must have mistaken me for
some ally of his own. " but I must go
through with it," thinks I, " He will
leave mo outaido to watch, and: I'll hook
it theu.1" So I wut on.
He orossed the street again the moment:
the policeman was past interfering with
us, and producing a piece of stout black
cloth, ho applied the rule thereto, I hold
ing it against tho shutters while ho set
out " three and a half by two" thereon.
This done, he cut it within two inches of
the measurement all round ; and then
producing a treacle pot from his pocket,
he smothered one side of tho cloth with
treacle, and desiring mo to hold it, he
mounted the shop door, so tospeak,again,
and I gave him the cloth, which he im
mediately clapped on to the skylight, the
treacle making it adherd firmly to tho
glass. Then looking at his watch, he
cried, " By gosh ! He'll be here this
minuto!" and away we walked. A
glance behind us, as we turned the next
corner. Not yet in sight 1 We stopped
and waited, but the policeman came uot.
My friend muttered an oath, adding, " I
will go. Come along ; but keep your
weather-eye open I" And off we went.
" Perhaps he is watching us !" I sug
gested. But the idea was discarded as
not in the nature of a poliueman like
that one we saw."
We arrived at the shop. He mounted
again, and drove a string through a hole
in the cloth. He then ran a diamond
round the edge of the glass. A gentle
pat, and it gave way. Now I saw the use
of the cloth and string. He could hold
th glass by the string : and he slowly let
it down into the shop, nnd, producing a
long-shaped pad, he laid it along the
bottom of the fanlight to cover the glass
edge, and threw one leg into the; opening,
aud got astride of it.
" Follow me," he muttered, a.nd duck
ed his head under the door-head. But
before he could draw in the other leg, I
mounted the ladder, and seizing it, gave
hwii a pull that kept him from going in,
at the same timo yelling, " Poliee ! Mur
der I Thieves ! at tho top of my voice.
And lo and behold ! the policeman ap
peared at the corner that moment. A
horrible oath from withiu, a pistol bullet
whistling past niy head, and I ran for
death and life. 1 did not stop till I found
myself iu Broadstrcct.
In the next day's papers I saw tho ac
count of the capture of a burglar by one
policeman., who had watched two bur
glars from the corner, aud saw one enter
the house, and the other leap up the
wall like a cat, grab at a disappearing leg,
yell " Police !" and run.
The one that was caught got seven
years' penal servitude; and the police
are searching vigilantly, though as yet
unsuccessfully, for the other, who it ap
pears, is a desperate character." They
never caught him.
For Early Risers Only.
Punch ever so long ago said that
Early to bed and early to rise
Is the way to bo stupid anil have red eyes.
A later writer observes that "He who
would thrive must rise at five;" so says
the proverb, though there is more rhyme
than reasou in it ; for if
Ho who would thrivo must rise at five,
it must follow naturally,
lie who'd thrivo more must rise at four ;
and will ensure a consequence that,
lie who'd still more thriving bo
Must leavo his bed at turn of threo
And ho who this latter would out-do,
AVill rouse him at the stroke of two.
And by the way of climax to it all, it
should be held good that,
Ho who'd never bo outdone,
Must ever riso as soon as one.
But the best illustration would bo,.
lie who'd flourish best of all
bhould never go to bed at all.
Curious Discovery of Treasure.
On Friday, the 17th ult., as a com
pany of Italian miners wero sluicing in
Wet Gulsh, near Whisky Slide, Calever
as, Cal., they washed out of the bank a
tin box containing $1572 in " individu
al" gold coin. There was a fifty dollar
"slug" among tho rest. The lucky find
ers of tho treasure were at work iu tho
old Hamilton ranch, close to the site
where a Frenchman called "Jerry" kept
a store in early days. As long ago as
1852 "Jerry" was murdered in his store,
and it was supposed at tho time that his
assassins secured tlic money ho was known
to possess and mado good their escape
Since the discovery of the treasure by
the Italians ; however, the most reasona
ble conjecture is that be buried tho mon
ey, and that those who imbrued their
hands in his blood obtained nothing but
guilty consciences to compensate them
for their crime. , The box that contained
tho money was nearly eaten up with rust,
but tho coin has been undisturbed since
deposited in. tho bosoui of mother earth
for safe kcoping.
Sr Girls sometimes put their lips out)
poutiugly because they aro angry, and
sometimes becauso they are disposed to
meet you half way.
SUNDAY HEADING.
Eatcs of the Apostles.
Matthew is supposed to have suffered
martrydom, or was Blain in the city o.
Ethiopia.
Mark was dragged through the street:!
in Alexandria, iu Egypt, ti.l he expiri
ed.
Luke was hanged to an olive tree in
Greece,
John was put in a boiling cauldron at
Rome, but escaped death. He died a
natural death at Ephesus, Asia.
James, the great, was beheaded at
Jerusalem.
J amcs, the less, was thrown from a
pinnacle, and beaten to death.
Philip was beheaded.
Bartholomew was skinned alive.
Andrew was crucified and pounded
while dying.
Thomas was run through with a lance.
Simon was crucified.
Matthias was stoucd.
Barnabas was stoned to death.
liul was beheaded by the tyrant
Nero, at Rome.
Industry In Doing Good.
A wise man will never rust out. As
long as he breaths the breath of life he
will be doing something for himself, his
country or posterity. Washington, Frank
lin, Howard, Young, Newtuti, all were at
work almost to the last hour of their ex
istence. It is a foolish thing to belicvo
that we must lie down aud die simply
because wo are old. The man of energy
is not old, it is only ho who suffers his
energies to waste away and permits the
springs of his life to become motionless
on whose hands the hours drag heavily,
and to whom all things wear the vestment,
of gloom. There are scores of gray
heads living to-day that we would prefer
in any important enterprise to thoso
young gentlemen who tear aud tremble
when shadows approach, aud turn away
at the first harsh word or discouraging
frown.
ST When tho evening comes, when
you have done with tho duties of the day
the body wearied and the mind jaded ;
wheu the world is shut out by the shad
ows of night, wheu you come to look
back and review the day, when you see'
how many imperfections still cluster
around you how many sins stare you iu
the face, how little you have done for
yourself, or for others, or for God the day
past, then is the hour for prayer. It will
be sweet to feel that you have One who
will forgive you, if you are penitent aud
ask in the name of Jesus Christ; ono
who will accept your evening sacrifice
and give you strength for the morrow,
and gird you with rigbteouuess. This
hour, if rightly improved, will be )iko
the cheering countenance of a most be
loved friend. Take care that nothing
comes between you and this hour devoted
to God.
Turn their Faces Heavenward
Among the old Romans there prevail
ed the touching custom of holding the
face of every new born infant towards the
heavens, signifying, by thus presenting
its forehead to the stars, that it was to
look above the world into celestial glories.
It was a vague superstition, but Christi
anity dispels tho fable and gives us a
clear realization of that pagan yearning
iu the solicitude which all its disciples
cherish for the spiritual welfare of the
young. The great design of the Sabbath
school organization is to turn the faces
of tho littlo children heavenward, aud
prepare their spirits for immortal glory.
A Preventive of Church .Bickerings.
The human mind is very much like a
mill. As long as the hopper 'is full, all
goes ou well and profitably ; but when
the hopper gets empty, tho upper aad
neither mill stones are very apt to go. to
grinding each other. It is so with church
members, while their hands nre full thcro
is unity nnd concord, but when they find
nothing else to do there is danger of their
coming in collision with one another and
falling to devouring and biting each other.
Let the members of every church see to
it that their hoppers are always full, and
thus avoid the danger.
God's Jlethod of Helping
God did not take up tho three Hebrews
out jjf tho furnace of fire, hut he camo
down and walked with them iu it. Ho
did1 not remove Daniel from tho dcu of
lions ; he sent) his angel to close tho
mouths of the beasts, lie did uot, in
answer to the prayer of Paul, remove tho
thorn in the flesh, but he gavo hiin a
sufficiency of grace to sustain him.