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Slipped AWAY From the Officer.
Superintendent William c. Sampson. Of
the Laurel. Va. Industrial School. offers
q reward OF $40 for tho apprehensioa Ct
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COLENlAN'S POENi

Mr.. Charles Washington Coleman was
then introduced by the chairman as the
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ISAAC SYCLE & CO..
1903 {. Broad Street.
A Busy Week.
Hence Many Remnants.

1900 yards Covert Cloth, in tan and
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sC'6 Yards Remnant Summer Stuffs,
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SIS wards Remnants L l-2c. Garner
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IS Remnants Mating at almost any
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The price Of The Times Il two cents per
copy ard ten cents per week. delivered
within the limits of Richmond and MaDches
fer. Sunday paper three cents.
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them. She had been afraid to, know
ing how shocked they would be at her
disobedence. Now, however, when the
treasure was replaced she was moved
to confidence, and told her great-great-
grandmother the whole story.
THAT is very strange" said her great
grcat-grandmother when she had
finished. 1--WE have little green door,
too; only ours is on the outside of the
house, in the north wall. There's
spruce tree growing up close against it,
but it is there. Our parents have for.
hidden us to open 1t, too, but we have
never disobeyed."
She said the last word with some
thing of an air of superior virtue.
Letitia felt terribly ashamed.
as there any key to your little green
door," she asked meekly
For answer, her great-great-grand-
mother opened the secret drawer of the
chest again, and pulled out key, with
a green ribbon in it, the very counter
part of the one in the satin-wood box.
Letitia looked at it wistfully.
81 should never think of disobeying
my parents, and open the little green
door," remarked her great-great grand.
mother, as she put back the key in the
drawer 81 should think something
dreadful would happen to me. / have
heard whispered that the door opened
into the future. 1t would be dreadful
to be all alone in the future without
ones kinfolks."
"There may not be any Indians or
catamounts there" 7entured Letitia.
"There might be something a great
deal worse" returned her great-great-
grandmother, severely.
After that there was silence between
the two, and possibly little coldness.
Letitia sat gazing forlornly into the
| fire, thinking that it would be much
more comfortable to be alive in the flu.
ture than in the past, and her great
grandmother sat stiffly on her op'
posite stool, knitting with virtuous in
dustry, until she began TO nod.
Suddenly Letitia looked up, and she
was fast asleep. Then, in a flash, she
thought of the key and the little green
door. 1t might be her only chance, for
nobody knew how long. She pulled of
her shoes, tiptoed in her thck-yarr
stocking-feet up to the 1T, got hel
own clothes out of the s.,pet and put
them on instead of her bomespun garb
The little great-aunts did not stir
Then she tiptoed down, got the key out
of the secret drawer, gave loving fare
we'll look at her great-great-g grand
mother, and was out of the house.
II was broad moonlight 0 1tejde. She
ran around to the north wall of the
house, PISSED IN under the low
branches of the spruce tree. and there
was the little green door. Letitia gave
sob Of joy and thsnkfulness. Sh'
fitted the key in the lock, turned 1t
opened the door, and there she was
back in the cheese room.
She shut the door hard, locked it an'
carried the Key back to its place in thu
satin-wood box. Then she looked gu
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IN; set I,etitia down, shut the door with

IN; set I,etitia down, shut the door with
a crash, and shot some heavy bolts at
the top and bottom. -.
Letitia was SO dazed that she scarcely,
knew what happened for the next few
minutes. She saw there was O pale
faced woman and three girls, one about
her own age, two q little younger. She
saw, TO her great amazement, the horse
tied in the corner. She saw that the
door was of mighty thickness, and,
moreover, hasped with iron and studded
with great iron nails, so that some rat
ting blows that rained upon it present
ly had no effect. She saw three guns
set in loopholes in the wall, and the
man, woman and the girl of her own age
firing them, with great reports which
made the house quake, while the
younger girls raced from one to the
other with powder and bullets. Still,
she was not sure she saw right, it was
all SO strange. She stood back in q
corner, out of the way, and waited,
trembling. and at last the fierce yells
outside died away, and the firing
stopped.
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A PLEA FOR TIME.
1t Was Effective, and He Did Not Break
the SMELL.

When got off my horse at the front
gate of the mountain cabin, no one was in
sight about the place, but when had pro-
ceeded half way to the house a woman
camc out of the door and awaited my APP
proaoh on the lean to porch.
Good day, madam" 1 said In greet
ing. is this the Widow Bunley's placer
ayes, it is, she snapped in way that
was scarcely warranted by my pleasing
politeness.
"Im sorry to have disturbed you, but
camo to inquire IL Sam West is here.
They told me at the mill below that I
would find him at the Widow Bunleys."
WAL I'm the Widder Burnley" she
said most progressively.
Il am very glad to meet you, madam"
I bowed 'but it is Mr.. West I'm after"
"Whut do you want Nv himF' in tone
which would indicate that Samuel had
been guilty of some offense and the widow
was shielding him from justice.
Il want to sec him about some logs he
brought down tho river this morning"
Sam had been gone month on my bust
ness, and when he came back he had not
reported to me.
swell, " she said "he brung the logs"
~ know it, but must see him."
Cant you see me fer himy"
Hardly, unless he has told you what
he should have told me. ~
She smiled family, and her eyes twin
killed..
He hain't had time to tell me nothin,"
she chuckled, but why / was at loss tG
discover.
"Then must see him. If he is here, ]
said, stepping forward.
She met me before l reached the porch,
"Looky here, mister" she said very
earnestly, you hain't got nothin agin me,
have yuuf'
Certainly not, +" replied in surprise.
"Nor agin SamS"
"Of course not
"That bein the case, you give us
chance. You see" she went on rapidly,
"Sam's been courtin my gal, off'n on, fer
about yer, not seemin to keer much one
way er tother when he could see her every
day, but bein away fer month has kinder
fotch him up TO the troft, an tho minute
he got them logs tied he come up here, an
him an Malviny is settin out on the back
porch now, an Sans lookin MS of he had
landed right in heaven an wuz willin to
stay right thar forever. Malviny's willin,
an som l. an the sun is shinin jist right,
an the honeysuckles is smelin sweet an
purity, an thar's "a pair NV bluebrds pot
term round thor nest in the peach tree, an
Of you'll jst give me an the sunshine, an
the honeysucklos, an the bluebirds an
Malviny about hour moro with Sam
we'll git him landed jist whar he oughter
been long ago. Will you set down an
wait, or will you jist leave it to me to send
him down to the mill ea soon OF l make
up my mind it is safe to part 'omP"
This was "a plea no man could resist,
and, assuring the Widow Burnley that she
could have all the time she wanted for
landing Sam, / retired amid shower of
thanks.-W. j. hampton in Truth.
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well, take this stocking and mend the
toe. There will be just about time
enough for that before breakfast"
IL don't know how to knit" STAN
mered Letitia.
Then there was another cry Of as
constituent. Goodwife Hopkins cast
about in her mind for anot.er task for
this ignorant guest.
Explain the doctrine of predestina-
tion," she said, suddenly.
Lctitia jumped and stared at her with
scared eyes.
Don't you know what prcdestina-
ton is?" demanded Goodwifc Hopkins.
mo, ma'am!" half sobbed Letitia.
Her Observation-Disclosures and
her great-great-aunts made shocked
EXPLANATIONS.
And her ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
mother looked mt her with horror.
"You have been brought up as one of
the heathen," said she. Then SHE pro-
dnccd small book, and Letitia was
hidden to seat herself upon n stool and
learn the doctrine of predcstinntion be-
fore breakfast.
The kitchen was lighted only by one
tnllow candle and the freight, for it
was still far from dawn. Letitia drew
her little stool close TO the hearth, and
bent anxiously over the fire-lit page.
She committed to memory easily. and
repeated the text like frightened par
rot when she was called upon.
"The child has good parts, though she
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is woefully ignorant" Goodwife Hop
kins said aside to her husband "It
shall be my care. TO instruct her."
PART Ill.

PARI Ill.
Letitia, having completed her task,
was given her breakfast. It was only
portion of corn-neal porridge in q
pewter plate. She had never had such
q strange breakfast in her life, and she
did not like corn-meal. She sat with
It untasted before her.
"Why don't you eat2" asked her
Observation-Disclosures, severe
ly.
"I-don't-like - it," faltercd Le-
titia.
If possible, they were all more
shocked by that than they had been by
her ignorance.
"She doesn't like the good porridge,'
the little great-aunts said to each other.
Eat the porridgc," commanded Capt.
John Hopkins, sternly, when he had
gotten over his surprise.
Letitia ate the porridge, every grain
Of it. After breakfast the serious work
of the day began. Letitia had never
known anything like it. She felt like
a baby who had just come into a new
'. orld She was ignorant of everything
,ant these strange relatives knew. II
made no difference that she knew some
tangs which they did not, some adj.
vanccd things. She could, for instance
crochet, if she could not knit. She
could repeat the multiplication table, il
she did not know the doctrine of pre-
destination; she had also all the states
of the union by heart. But advanced
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for breath, she was so frightened. but
she did not hesitate. She took the key
and ran back to the cheese-room. She
did not stop to shut the satinwood
box or the bureau-drawer. She was so
cold, and her hands shook so that she
had some difficulty in fitting the key
into the lock of the little green door;
but at last she succeeded, and turned it
quite easily. Then, for a second, she
hesitated; she was almost afraid to
open the door; she put her hand on the
latch and drew it back. 1t seemed to
her, too, that she heard strange, alarm
ing sounds on the other side. Finally,
with great effort of her will, she un
latched the little green door and flung
1t open and ran out.
Then she gave scream of surprise
did not dare stir or breathe. She was
not in the open fields which had always
been behind the house. She was in tho
midst Of gloomy forest of trees so tall
that she could just see the wintry sky
through their tops. She was hemmed
In, too, by a wide, heapiDg underground
of bushes and brambles, all stiff with
snow. There was something dreadful
and CHASTITY about the forest, which had
the breathless odor of cellar. And
suddenly Letitia heard again those
strange sounds she had heard before
coming out, and she knew that they
were the savage whoops of Indians, just
as she had read about them in her his
tory-book, and she also saw dark forms
sltulking about behind the trees, as sine
had read.
/ Then Letitia, wild with fright, turned
! to run back into the house through the
little green door, but there was no little
green door, and, more than that, there
was no house. Nothing was to be seen
but the forest and bridle-path leading
through it.
Letitia gasped. She could not believe
her eyes. She plunged out into the
path and down 1t little way, but there
was no house. The dreadful wells
sounded nearer. She looked wildly at
the underground beside the path, won
aering if she could hide under that.
when suddenly she heard a gun-shot
and the tramp of horses feet. she
sprang aside just as a great horse, with
woman and two little girls on his
back, came plunging down the Bride
path and past her. Then there was an
other gun-shot, and man, with wide
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of the window, and there were her
Great-aunt Peggy and the old maid
servant just coming home from church.
\ Letitia that afternoon confessed
what abe had done 20 her aunt, who
listened gravely.
"Tou were disobedient," said she,
when she had finished. "Bpt | thinl;
your disobedience brought it's own
punishment, and l hope now you will
ne more content"
"Oh, Aunt Peggy" sobbed Letitia,
Everything I've sot is so beautiful, AMI
/ love to study and crochet and go to
church."
"Well, it YVES hard ;:AAo- to learn,
and l hoped to spare yov .rom it, but
perhaps it was for the S<St," said he,
Great-aunt Peggy.
II was there whole winter" said
Letitia, but when got back you were
Just coming home from church.
ut doesn't take as long to visit the
past as it did to live it," replied her
aunt.
Then she sent Letitia into her room
for the satin-wood box, and, when she
brought it, took out of ii little parcel
neatly folded in white paper, tied with a
green ribbon.
"Open it," said she.
Letitia united the green ribbon end
unfolded the paper, and there was tho
little silver snuff-box which bad been
the treasure of her great-great-grand'
mother, Letitia Hopkins. She raised
the lid, and there was also the little
glass bottle.
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of the house. When she did fall asleep
1t was not for long, for the fierce yels
eht had heard when she had first opened
the green door sounded again in her
ears.
This time she did not need to wake
her grcat-grcnt-gra grandmother, who sat
straight in bed at the first sound.
whats that?" Letitia whispered.
"IIush!" replied the other. "Injins!"
Both the great-great-aunts were
awake, they all listened, scarcely
breathing. The yclls came again, but
fainter; then again, and fainter still
Then they were heard no more. Lett
tia's at-great-grandmothe settled
back in bed again.
go TO sleep now" said she, "they'vc
gone away"
But Letitia was weeping with fright.
II can't 90 to sleep" she sobbed.
''Tm afraid they'll come again.
Every likely they WILL" replied tho
other Letitia, coolly. They come
most every night"
The little great-great-aunt Phyllis
again laughed.
"She can't 90 TO sleep because she
heard Injuns," she Uttered.
"Hush," said her older sister; she'll
get accustomed to them in time"
But poor Letitia slept no more till
four o'clock. Then she had just fallen
into n sweet doze when she was pulled
out of bed.
Come, come" said the great great
grent-grandmother, Goodwife Hopkins,
1--WE can have no lazy damses here"
Jetita found that her hedfellows
were up and dressed and downstairs.
She heard a queer buzzing sound from
below, as she stood on her bare feet on
the icy floor and gazed about her, dizzy
with sleep.
"IIasten and dress yourself" said
Goodwife Hopkins; there are some Of
letitia' garments Ihave laid out for you
Those which you wore here have p,It
away in the chest. They are too gay
4 and do not befit sober, Godfearing
damscl."
With that, Goodwife Hopkin.
descended to the room below, apt
Letitia dressed herself It did not take
her long. There was not much to pu
on beside a coarse wool petticoat and ;
straight little wool gown, rough yarr
stockings, and such shoes as she ha,
never seen. II couldn't run from In
juns in these" thought Letitia, miser
ably. When she got downstairs she dis
covered what the buzzing noise was
Her grcat-grcat-grand was spin
ming. Her great-great-aunt Candac,
was knitting, and little Phyllis wa
securing the hearth. Goodwife Hop
kins was preparing breakfast.
go to the other wheel" said she b
. Letitia, land spin until the porridge i
! done. We can have no idle hand
here"
Letitia looked helplessly Mt spin
. ming wheel in the corner, then at tn,
: OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
:. IL don't know howl" she faltered.
Then all the great-grandmother ant
i, the aunts cried cut with establishment
"She doesn't know how to spin!" the,
said to one another.
), Letitia felt dreadfully ashamed.
"You must have been strangely
brought up" said Goodwife Hopkins
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THEY SWORE OFF.
chen Tobacco Hunger Seized Them, end q
Strange Thing Happened.

I'm fixed for tomorrow, " said depart
ment law clerk, taking out of his pocket
and exhibiting fat roll OF fine out tobacco
to newspaper friend as they were wend-
ing their way on tho avenue toward Capitol
hill last Saturday night. ~ always have
to get loaded at the end Of the week."
"Samo here, said the journalist, pull
ing out largo plug. Don't know what
! should do il couldn't find this In my
pocket on Sunday"
II presume we might do without 1t If
we were hard pushed" suggested the law
clerk. "I'm certain 1 could break OF if
really wished to, and l have used the weed
for 90 years"
1--WE used it longer than that" re-
spondcd the newspaper man. "Of course
we could quit if we made up our minds to.
A little exercise of our will power would
fix It."
Speaking of will power" said the law
clerk as they stopped little later to talk
a moment before separating for tho night
just east of the capitol, suppose we test
it; suppose wo throw away our tobacco
and GO without 1t for year, tho first to
break his resolution to buy new hat for
the other. What do You snyf"
Pencil Pusher hesitatcd for moment
well, I'm with you. Here she goes. J"
And his big plug of tobacco disappeared in
tho bushes on the opposite sdo of the road
way with "ohug"
Here she goes" echoed tho law clerk
and his roll of 1no cut flew in the same
direction. Then they parted.
After late breakfast on Sunday morn
ing the newspaper man undertook 30 read
the papers. Couldn't; uneasy. Then no
tried to write Couldn't; too nervous.
After chewing up q handful of wooden
toothpicks he put on his hat and walked
out.
after all, the best way is to break OF
by degrees" he thought as his steps turned
mechanically toward the capitol grIunds.
Just one little chew would last me all
| day" And he looked longingly over toward
| that clump of bushes.
He noticed that the bushes were being
disturbed as though some animal were
pushing its way through them. Getting
| q little nearer, he saw that what no took
for an animal was man upon his hands
and knees. A few steps farther, and he
recognized him.
1t was the law clerk. Star.
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and stole out through the kitchen TO
the cheese-room and tried the door. II
was locked just as usual ooh, dear!"
sighed Letitia, and was ready to cry.
1t seemed to her that this little green
door was the very worst of all her
trials; that she would rather open that
and see what was beyond than have
all the nice things she wanted and had
to do without.
Suddenly she thought of a little satin
wood box with a picture on the lid
which Aunt Peggy kept in her top bu-
reau drawer. Lctitia had often seen this
box, but had never been allowed to
open it.
81 wonder II the key can be in that
box?' said she.
She did not wait a minute. She was
so naughty that she dared not wait, for
fear she should remember that she
ought to be good. She ran out Of the
cheese-room, through the kitchen and
the sitting-room, to her aunt's bed
room, and opened the bureau-drawer,
and then the satin-wood box. It con-
tanned some bits of old lace, an old
brooch, yellow letter, some other
things which she did not examine, and,
sure enough, a little black key on n
green ribbon. Letitia had not q doubt
that it was the key of the little green
door. She trembled all over, she painted
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Some years ago there lived on high
In solitary state
Ia bachcur-in sooth twas l,
Pursuing thus my fato.
And as in sadness gazed round
And paced that lonely floor,
/ longcd, not for the solid ground,
But Just for one room more.
Twas then, or not long after that,
My wish came more than true.
l moved into a modest fiat
Whore ! supported two
That is to say, until third
Came down through heavens door,
And then my wife and avcrrcd
We'd like just one room more.
Today in deep felicity
Within house we dwell,
With number one and two and three,
And four and five as WELT
We thought twas ample when we came
Yet, as think it DER,
/ find our plant is just the same
We need but one room more.
Perchance, kind stranger, as you read
This ditty that sing,
A tear bedims your eye-you need
With me the sclfsame thing.
Then let us Join our hands and pray
That sometime, when we soar
Up to our mansions far away,
Well have that one room more.
Tom Mason in Truth.
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cape fiy'rg back like black wings, came
rushing down the path. Letitia gave
little cry and he heard her.
"Who are your" he cried, GREATNESS
ly. Then, without waiting for an an
swer, he caught her up and bore her
along with him. Don't speak," he
painted In her ear. 1.-THE Indians are
upon us, but we're almost home!"
Then all at once log house appeared
beside the path and some one was hold
ing the door ajar, and white face was
peering out. The door was flung open
wide as they came up, the man rushed
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she remembered where she was. Then
che nudged her MISREPRESENTATION
er Letitja, who lay next her.
whats tbat2" she whispered, fear
fully. ,..
"Oh, it's nothing but catamount.
Go to sleep again. said Eer gr.at-great-
grandmother, sleepily. Her great-great-
aunt Phyllis, the youngest of them all,
laughed on the other side.
She's afraid of catanount,' said
she.
Letitia could not so to sleep for a
long while, for the wild cries continued,
md she thought several times that the
catamount was scratching up the walls
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He Still Lives.

Crimsonbeak- you know Puokerton
tho oornetist?
Yeast Yes, he lives within gunshot Of
me.
"Well, you must be frightfully bad
shot. "-Yonkers Statesman.
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The Wrong Pair.

"Any money in his olothesH" asked the
first burglar.
Nothing but dime, three pennies and
LOT of ribbon, " replied the second with
disgust
"Rats! You've got his wlfe's bloom
ers "-Chicago Post.
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A Serious Quarrel.

Watts-I hear that Willis has with
drawn from membership in the church
What was tho troublef
Potts-He and the minister got into a
row over whose was the best bicycle. In
dianapolis journal
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THE END.
I'm Agaiuat Them,

Fascinated by the rubiness Of her lips,
he suddenly implanted on them kiss.
They perceptibly paled.
He brushed his mouchoir across his lips
and found thereon dash Of rouge.
"Stuok on a counterfeit bill again!" was
all he said indianapolis journal.
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II Saves Lives Every Dny.

Thousands of cases of Consumption,
Asthma, Coughs, Colds and Group are
cured every day by Shiloh's Cure
For sale by O'Sulllvan. the druggist,
Church Street.