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| Her mistress first missed the money when sbhe went to her roomâ€"just after dinnerâ€"and in a quiet way enquired of her if any one had been in the room during her absence, but she did not inâ€" timate that she mistrusted her until after Rachel Ross, the chambermaid, had been questioned, . This girlis story. was that sometime in thé forel?)b’n, while ‘passing throughâ€"her mistresses‘ door, she~detected & slight noiss, and, peeping g.h{ough the keyhole, had seen the lady‘s maid rumaging through her trank. She had always thought Rachel honâ€" est, though she had never taken kindâ€" ly to her principally, she thought, beâ€" cause the girl had always shown a disâ€" like to her. ‘The porson she pointed out to me as Rachel Ross was a boldâ€"faced, impudentâ€"looking specimen, scarcely up to the average of her clase in intelligence, and it required but the Katherine said she denied the charge indignantly, and raised no objections when they proposed examining her trunk. Judge of her surprise, then, when $25 of the missing money was found in the tray near the top, as if it had been hastily stowed away. I then informed the court that I was ready to undertake the defence, and asked for a few minutes‘ cessation in the examination of witnesses that I might have an opportunity of speaking to my client. Retiring to a private room, in as few words as possible she repeated the story of the theft. __"I see you are interested in the case in progress, and as I have been inform:â€" ed that you are a firstâ€"class lawyer I wish that you would do me the favor to undertake the young lady‘s deâ€" fence." "Has she no counsel ?" I inquired. "None worth speaking of," was the answer, "and she is innocentâ€"as innoâ€" cent as the angels in heaven. Save her, and all I posses shall be yours." "Is she your sister ?" I asked. "No. sir," he replied butâ€"butâ€"I am interested in her and she must be saved at any cost." I am interested in the prisoner simâ€" ply because I thought she was innocent, but not knowing the history of the case I feared I could not do her justice, and this I confided to the youth who, 1 was now fully persuaded, was her loverâ€"perhaps her affianced husband. He continued to urge me to take the case, as the counsel employed was wholly unfit to manage it. I am not sure that I should have granted his petition even then had not I at that moment caught the prisoner‘s eye, and in that glance read a whole volume of humble entreaty. That look decided me at once, and informing the young man that I was at his service, he conâ€" ducted me at once to the girl, who very gladly consented to give me the whole charge of the case. The $100 was in bank notes and had been taken from Mrs. Morgan‘s trunk which occupied a littie closet off her sleeping room and to which no one had access except this maidâ€"Katharâ€" ine Hunter. While Mrs. Morgan was giving testiâ€" mony Ifelt some one clutch my arm tightly, and glancing round quickly encountered the tearful eyes of a young man fixed pleadingly upon me. He was a fiueâ€"looking youth, with much intelliâ€" gence in his face, and in a hoarse whisâ€" per he said : The complaint set forth ia a positive way that the prisoner had stolen $100 from her mistress, the wealthy Mrs. Morgan, and although the poor girl protested her innocence in the wildest terms, the cireumstances were all against her, and her chance"to escape conviction seemed very slight indeed. . She was exceedingly pretty, and looked like one who had been tenderly reared. There was something very abtractive about herâ€"something so pure and innocent that it at once conâ€" vinced me that she was not guilty of the crime catalogued against her She looked troubled, and her eyes were red from weeping. but when the case was called the multitude was turned searchâ€" ingly upon her and frightened her so as to make ber for a time forget that she was actually on trial. After satisfying myself with their contents, so far as the interests of my client demanded, I returned them, and as I had nothing spezia! to do during the afternoon I went into the court for the purpose of getting a little insight into the methods of a Mississippt triâ€" bunai. The first case on the docket was one of theft, and the prisoner against whom this charge bad been filed was a young girlâ€"not seventeenâ€"named Katherine Hunter. It was' in the month of March, 1841, that I was called to Jackson, Mis., baving been retained in the interest of a young man who had been accused of robbing the mail. I arrived early in the morning, and at once sought my client and had a long coufrrence with him. The rifled mail bag had been reâ€" covered, and the letters from which money had been extracted were given me, by the prosecuting attorney for exâ€" amination. T am an old man now, baving passed my seventyâ€"fifth milestone, yet I reâ€" member as if it were but yesterday every detail of a caseâ€"one of my first criminal cases, which I conducted more than fifty years ago. THE RIFLED LETTER. "Do you. take receipts from your servants when you pay them 1‘ I enâ€" quired, turning to Mrs. Morgan. _ _ _ "I don‘t doubt it in the: least," Iâ€"reâ€" plied, "but as particular proof is the thing the court demands. â€"I would bee under obligation if you would procur "Indeed I could not. I never had that much money at one time in my life, and I would not have been thefool enough to throw it away in that fashâ€" ion, even if I had," she answered flipâ€" pantly. "Besides, the money found in the girl‘s truok was identified by Mrs, Morgan, a fact you might have rememâ€" bered if you had paid attention to her tertimony." Without being in the least crushed by what she evidently considered her sharpness, I said quistly : _ 24e _‘"Always." sheâ€" responded; the girl has told you the truth about the payâ€" ments." s She hevitated, and the defiant look passed from her Lold face, but finally she repiied : I live in Lawrence on the Mississippi." . > 8 "Will you tell me if your home is in this state 1 "It is, air." "Please name: the town in which you reside 1" I continued. "Then you have not laid by any conâ€" siderable sum since you have been working for your present mistress ?" I insisted. "No, sir," she retorted sharply. "And you bad no money when you came here ?" I insisted. "No, sir," disdainfally. "If you had really wished to injure the prisoner you could not have raised ed $25 of your own to put in her trunk then ?" I questioned. "I don‘t know, I am sure. How should I spending it along as it was necessary thinking it was nobody‘s business, since I earned it myself she replied, defiant ly, glancing around the court room to see if her sarcasm was appreciated. "Not quite a year, sir," she answerâ€" ed promptly. "How much does she pay you 1" "A dollar and seventy five cents a week." "Have you been using your money as you earned it since you have been in her employ ?" "Certainly, sir, what I needed of it." "How much do you suppose !" I urgâ€" ed Rachel Ross was then recalled and I asked her why the had not informed her mistress of her discovery before she had been compelled to do so, and ber answer was that she did not like to expose the poor girl, who seemed to be friendless. "How long have you been with Mrs, Morgan ?" I asked, disgusted with the pretensions to friendship. "No. sir; I think not. I am sure she has not," returned Mrs. Morgan decidedly. "Have you known the prisoner havyâ€" ing used more money than was ber cusâ€" tom since the money was stolen?" I questioned, watching her closely. "She might for I have frequently gone to the trunk in her presence for money to pay her wages," she replied somewbat reluctartly. "Do you think sho could have had any knowledge concerning the money in the trunk ?" I asked. "Certainly not, sir ; the door was never locked between it and my chamâ€" ber," was the answer. "What I meant was that no one except my maid had any right there." When she sat down flushed with conâ€" ceited triumph, I asked to have Mrs. Morgan recalled, and when she had again taken the stand, I enquired if it were impossible for this chambermaid to enter the trunkâ€"room. Rache} Ross was then put upon the stand, and in a bold way told how in passing Mrs. Morgan‘s room she had heard a suppressed noise which aroused her suspicions, and how in stooping down to look through the key hole she had discovered the maid, Katherine, in the trunkâ€"room beyond, tossing through the little bair trunk which stood. back from the door, in direct range with the keyhole through which she was stealthâ€" ily peeping. Finally, she discovered the package of imoney in the girl‘s kands, which was immediately thrust into her posket a proceeding that so horrified her that she ran away without waiting to conâ€" front the culprit, as she should have done. I asked her a few questions regardâ€" ing the prisover‘s former character, and was assured that up to the former date of the theft she had never givâ€" en her the least occasion to mistrust Mrs. Morgan then resumed her testiâ€" mony, which did not differ materially from the statement given me by my client. She identified the bills, two tens and a five, found in the prisoner‘s trunk, and swore positively that no one else had access to the closet where the trunk was kept. Jer. look of intense hatred which I saw in her little gray eyes when she turned them on the prisoner to convince me that the rogue was before me as someâ€" thing in the letters I had examined in in the morning came back to me with peculiar force I went tojthe prosecuting attorney and requested the loan of the rifled letters again. Selecting the one I wanted, I returned the others and burried back to my seat in the courtâ€" room. The most remarkable of all the re markable gatherings at the World‘s Fair, is the Congress of Religions, which has been sitting for the past few days. This conference of the eminent representatives of all the schools of reâ€" ligion taught in the world is an eviâ€" dence of the increasing toleration of the present day. Even a few years ago such a meeting would have been impossible. The influence of such a gatkering cannot fail to make «inroads on the bigotry and prejudice and to open the minds of upholders of all creeds to the underlying and universal light of truth. ‘The eminent men who attend this Congress of Religions will probably realize more fully than ever before that in every religion there is some good. Rev. R.G. Boville, pastor of the James street Baptist. church, Hamilton, speaking on Sunday night, acknowledged â€" that his. views were broadened by the congress.‘ He agreed with Cardinal Gibboneâ€" in thinking that if the human race was ever to be reunited it would be on the basis, no# of religion, but of charity. Hethought the ultimate religion would comprise the best of all the religions known to men.. . The whole human, race would never be reconciled to any of the existâ€" ing religions. To Mr. Boville the con: gress emphasized the: immeasurable superiority of Ohristianity. over every other religion. The highest â€"developâ€" ment in the evolution of the race was the Christian type of manhood and womanhood. In the same city on the same day Mrs. Margaret Shepherd had C The applause of the courtâ€"room showâ€" ed in what channel the sympathies of people ran, and while Rachel Ross was marched away to answer to the charge of theft, Katharine Hunter walked on the arm of her lover triumphantlyifrom the court room. Dear Sister Ruth : I enclose $75, which I want you to keep for me til I cum home ; don‘t say one word about it to no one, as I don‘t want folks to know I‘ve got so much money; now don‘t mention it to a livin‘ sole. I‘m gettin‘ along all right and enjoyin‘ myâ€" self, only T don‘t like that gud for notâ€" hin‘ Kate Hunter that is here, but nevâ€" er you mind, she‘ll have to go one of these days or I miss my gess. Your sis‘ ter till deth. «You will observe that one hand wrote the letter and signed the receipts. It is quite evident that the balance of the $100â€"the $25 found in the prisonâ€" er‘s trunk was put there with a design to incrimate her. "Without another word I leave my client‘s case in yourhands, assured that you will do her justice." _ The jury bad heard the Witness testify that she had no money, and after satisfying themâ€" selves that she had written the letter they could do nothing but bring a verâ€" dict of "not guilty." "©You did, and you know it," I thun dered for I was beginning to get excit ed, too. â€" She made me no answer, and turning to the court, I said : "May it please your honor and gentleman of the jury, I came here to defend a man charged with robbing the mail, and in the cours6"of my preliminary examina tion I had access to the letter that had been rifled. Racnxzt Ross. Passing the letter and receipts obâ€" tained from Mrs. Morgan to the judge, T said : "With your permission I will read it to you. ho s ¢ The court nodded assent and I read aloud : "When T entered upon this case and heard the name of the witness pronounâ€" ced I went out and got this letter which I now hold, for I _ remembered of having seen one bearing the signaâ€" ture of Rachel Ross. This letter was taken from the mail pouch and containâ€" ed $75, and by examining the postmark you will see that it was mailed from this place on the day of the robbery." The lady went out somewhat reluctâ€" antly I fanci d but in a few minutes returned with four receipts which she had taken from the witness, The signaâ€" ture of each was the same, written in an odd, irregular hand that would be hard to counterfeit. The witness turned white to the lips and trembled so violently that T was sure she was going to faint, but she did not, and after a brief interval, to give the jury time to witness her emotions, I repeated the question. ing madame." "Now, Rachel Ross," I exc‘aimed in a quick, startling tone at the same time looking her sternly in the eye, "be kind enough to inform the court where you got that $75 which you sent your sister at Lawrence." ©Iâ€"neverâ€"sent any," she gasped, holding to the railing to prevent fillâ€" some bearing Miss Ross‘s signature Waterloo County Chronicle. We are determined to reduce the stock if selling cheap will do it. "MAGNETIC\ CORSETS" are the best, price $1.25. We carry a large variety. of Corsets of different makes: Feaâ€" therbone, Coraline, Yatisi, Watch Spring, B.& C.; B..B: and; C. & C., all the best the trade can produce; prices;. 25¢, 50¢, 75c $1â€"and $1.25. __ Be careful that you get to Smyth Bros, Cheap Cash Store make no mistake. 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It has long been known that these waters at a depth of more than 100 fathoms centain so much sulphuretted hydrogen as to be unfitted for the support of fishes. _A recent observer has traced the noxious gas to a microbe which is found in the ooze at the bottom. It is able to deâ€" compose mineral sulphates and hns reâ€" ceived the name of bacillus hydrosulfurâ€" icus ponticus, "Take that back," said the insulted man, _ "No, sir," replied the other. "I rever took water in my life," _ "You can‘t te!l me that," returned the first speaker. "I know better. I used to supply you with it." a large audience who sympathized with her statement that this congress of reâ€" ligions was a "hollow mockery." So it is evident that it wll take a good many of us some generations yet to reach the sâ€"andard of toleration set by the World‘s Fair Parliament of Reli¢â€" ons SMYTH BROS. GREAT SALE. Endorsed by leading food and cooking experts. 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