Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1896, Page 15

_THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 15 was in a great feather bed, {fi the unfin- | aside to her husband. “It shall be my care | carried the k back i in the ished loft in the log house, The wind blew | to instruct her.” ae 4 satin-wood nee Then She tae out of in her face, a great star shone in her eyes. the window, and there were her Great-aunt (Copyright, 1896, by Bacheller,Jobnson & Bacheller.) PART I. Letitia lived in the same house where her grandmother and her great-grandmother had lived and died. Her own parents died when she was very young, and she had come to live there with her Great-aunt Peggy. Great-aunt Peggy was her grand- father’s sister, and was a very old woman. However, she was very active and bright, and good company for Letitia. That was fortunate, because there were no little girls of Letitia's age nearer than a mile. The one maid servant whom Aunt Peggy kept was older than she, and had chronic rheu- matism in the right foot and the left shoulder blade, which affected her temper. Letitia’s Great-aunt Peggy used to play grace hoops with her, and dominoes and checkers, and even dolls. Sometimes it was hard for Letitia to realize that she Was not another little girl Her Aunt Peggy was very kird to her and fond of her, and took care of her as well as her own mother could have done. Letitia had all the care and comforts and pleasant society that she really needed, but she was not a very con- tented little girl. She was naturally rather idle, and her Aunt Peggy, who was a wise old woman, and believed thoroughly in the proverb about Satan and idle hands, would keep her always busy at something. If she was not playing, she had to sew or study or dust, or read a stent in a story book. Letitia had very nice story books, but she was not particularly fond of read- ing. She liked best of anything to sit quite idle and plan what she would do some other time, and think what she would like to have if she could have her wish—and which she did not examine, and, sure enough, a little black key on a green ribbon. Letitla had not a doubt that it was the key of the little green door. She trembled all over, she panted for breath, she was s0 frightened; but she did not hesitate. She teok the key and ran back to the cheese room. She did not stop to shut the satin- wood box or the bureau drawer. She was so cold, and her hands shook so that she kad 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. It seemed to her, too, that she heard strange, alarming sounds on the other side. Finally, with 2 great effort of her will, she unlatch- ed the little green door and flung it open end ran out. Then she gave a scream of.surprise and terror, and stood still, staring. She did not stir or breathe. She was not in the open fields which had always been behind the house. She was in the midst of a gloomy forest of trees so tall that she could just see the wintry sky through their tops. She was bemmed in, too, by a wide, heaping under- growth of bushes and brambles, all stift with snow. There was something dreadful and ghastly about the forest, which had the breathless oder of a 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 nistory book, and she also saw dark fcrms skulking about behind the trees, as she had read. Then Letitia, wild with fright, turned to run back into the house throvgh the little green door, but there was no iittle green door, and, more than that, there was no house. Nothing was to be seen but the forest and a bridle path leading through it. Letitia gasped. She could not believe her eyes. She plunged out into the path and dcwn it a little way, but there was no house. She thought at first she was cut of doors, then she heard kind but commanding voice repeating: “Open your mouth,” and stared up wildly into her great-great-great- grandmother's face, then around the strange little garret, lighted with a wisp of rag in a pewter dish of tallow, and the stars shining through the crack in the logs. Not a bit of furniture was there in the room, besides the bed and an oak chest. Some queer-looking garments hung about on pegs and swung in the draughts of the wind. It must have been snowing out- side, for little piles of snow were scatter- ed here and there about the room. “Where—am—I?” Letitia asked, feebly, but no soorer had she opened her mouth than her _great-great-great-grandmother, Goodwife Hopkins, who had been watch- ing her chance, popped in the great pewter spoon full of some horribly black and b‘t- ter medicine. Letitia nearly choked. “Swallow It,” said Goodwife Hopkins. “You swooned away, and it is good physic. It will soon make you well.” Goodwife Hopkins had a kind and mother- ly way, but a way from which there was no appeal. Letitia swallowed the bitter dose. “Now, go to sleep,” ordered Goodwife Hopkins. Letitia went to sleep. There might have been something quieting to the nerves in the good physic. She was awakened a little later by her great-great-grandmother, and her two Sreat-great-aunts coming to bed. They were to sleep with her. There were only two beds in Capt. John Hopkins’ house. Letitia had never slept four in a bed be- fore. There was not much room. She had to turn herself about crosswise, and then her toes stuck out into the icy air, unless ske kept them well covered up. But soon she fell asleep rgain. About imfdnisht she was awakened by wild cries in the woods outside, and lay a minute numb with fright befor? she re- membered where she was. Then she nudg- ed her great-sreat-grandmother Letitia,who lay next her. “What's that?” she whispered, fearfully. ‘Oh, it's nothing but a catamount. Go to sleep again,” said her great-great-grand- mother, sleep’ He- great-greit-aunt Phyllis, the youngest of them ali, laughed on the other side. “She's afraid of a catameunt,” said she. Letitia coutd not go to steep for a long while, for the wild cries continued, and she thought severa! times that the catamount was scratching up the walls of the house, When she did fall asleep it was not for for the fierce yells she had heard when she had first openrl the green docr ounded in in her ears. This time sne did not ned to vuke her PART Wit. Letitia, having completed her task, was given her breakfast. It was only a portion of cornmeal porridge in 4 pewter plate. She had never had such a strange breakfast in her life, and she did not like cornmeal. She sat with it untasted before her. “Why don’t you eat?” asked her great- great-great-grandmother, sevcrely. “I_don't—like—it,” faltered Letitia. If possible, they were: all more shocked by that than they had been by her ignor- ance, = “She doesn’t like the g60d porridge,” the Lttle great-aunts sald to cach other. “Eat the porridge,” ‘commanded Capt. John Hopkins, sternly, when he had gotten over his surprise. = Letitia ate the porridge,severy grain of it. After breakfast the serious work of the day began. Letitia had never known any- thing like it. She felt like a baby who had just come into a new world. She was ig- norant of everything that these strange rel- atives knew. It made no difference that she knew some things which they did not, some advanced things. She could, for in- stance, crochet, if she could not knit. She could repeat the multiplication table, if she did not know the doctrine of predestination; she had also all the states of the Union by heart. But advanced knowledge is of no more value in the past than past knowledge in the future. She could not crochet, be- cause there were no crochet needles; there were no states of the Unton, and it seemed doubtful if there was a multiplication table, there was so little to multiply. So Letitia had to set herself to acquiring the wisdo.> of her ancestors, She learned to card, ana hatchet, and spin, and weave. She learned to dye cloth, and ‘make coarse Letitia Gave a Sob of Joy. Peggy and the old maid servant, just com- ing home from church. Letitia that afternoon confessed what she had done to her aunt, who lHstened “You were disobedient,” said she, when “But I think your dis- its own punishment, and I hope now you will be more content. “Oh, Aunt Peggy,” scbbed Letitia, I've got is so beautiful, love to study and crochet she had finished. “Well, it was a hard lesson to learn, and I Noped io spare you from it, but perhaps it was for the best,” said her Great-aunt there a whole winter,” said Le- ‘but when I got back you were just coming home from church." “It 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, whi tcok out of it folded in white paper, n she brought ted with a green 1 it,"’ said she. untied the green ribbon and un- folded the paper, and there was the little silver snuff box which had been the treas ure of her great-great-grandmother, She raised the lid, and there was also the little glass bottle. titia Hopkins. —_—_— DIVORCED FROM A DEAD MAN. THINK TWICE Before You Put Something Your Stomach You Know Nothing About. The stomach is the most important and the most abused organ in the body. - It a person catches a little cold on the lunzs he immediately seeks treatar Leys show sycnptoms of weakness he if hix overworked stomach to St until sleepless alarmed at ence. 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Selenteteneestetentetesetesteatesteteneteeteateeatesteateetestectetecatectestetesdocesdeteiieeddeietdeiedieteddeedbestestedtnddetndgetnde that her Aunt Peggy would not ailow. The dreadful yelis sounded nearer, She | Steat-ereat-granamother, who sat straight Letitia was not ed with her dolls | Icoked wildly at the undergrowth beside the | bed at the first sound. and little treasures. She wanted new ones. | path, wondering if she could hide under that?” Le‘itia whispere 1. She wanted fine clothes like one little girl, | that, when suddenly she heard a gunshot m repiied the other. “Injuns and plenty of candy like another. When | end the tramp of a horse's feet. She sprang (the groai-great-aunts were Letitia went to school in pleasant weather | aside just as a great horse, with a woman | ‘ey all listened, cely breat she always came home more dissatistied. | and two little girls on his hack, came plung- | Ye!!8 came again, but ter; th She wanted her room newly furnished, anti | ing down the bridle path and past her. Then | @d fainter stil. Then they we thought the furniture in the whole house | tere was another gunshot, and a man, with | Mere. Letitia’s — great-great-gre very shabby. She disliked to rise so early | a wide cape flying back like black wings, | S¢ttled back in bed again. in the morning. She did not like to take a| came rushing down the path. Letitla gave Peculiar Pension Case of Mrs. Mar- garet Marler. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. garments, even for her great-great-great-} Mrs. Margaret A. Marler of Bonne Terre, grandfather, Capt. John Hopkins. She knit- | Mo., has received notice of final action on ted yarn stockings, she scoured brass and | per application for restoration to the pen- pewter, and, more than all, she learned all 5 . ra 5] sion en the catechism, Letitia had never before | Sn rolls, after a suspension of nea known what Work was. From long before | twenty years. By the favorable action dawn until long after dark, she to:led; she | the pension department she comes ito “Eat the porridge,” commanded Capt. John Hopkins. HUNVADI JANOS, The World’s Best Natural Aperient Water. f Ik every day, and besides everything | a little ery, and he heard her. Was not allowed to spend one idle moment. | possession of $20) and $12 a month during 9 bs to make her discontented, there was | -"Who ave wears Reet” yreathlessly. She had no chance to steal out and seareh | her widowhood. This case, which has been | 2D ears uccess in little green oes wnich she must never | Then, without waiting for an answer. he for the little green door, even had she not 2 as ° epen and pass through. ught her up and bore her along wit i where Letitia lived was, of | “Don't speak!” he panted in her ear. ‘he y old one. It had a top roof, | Indians are upon us, but we're almost gray shingles in the | hom half hiding the great Then all at once a log house appeared he- and a well-sweep in the yard. It) side the path and some one was holding the large house, and there were | door ajar, and a white face peering out. n attached to it, but | The door was flung open wide as they came puth side. At the | up, the man rushed in, set Letitia down, ds stretched away | shut the door with a crash, and shot some been so afraid of wild beasts and Indians, | Pending for about three years, possesses ~She never went out of the house except on | Some peculiar feature y bbath day, Then, in fair or foul] In 1861 John A. Marler enlisted in com- We ther, they all went to meeting, ten miles | pany D, thirty-first ourl infantry, and Grough the dense forest. Capt. John Hop- | yas sent to the front at Vicksburg. Here kins strode ahead, his gun over his shoul- | he fell sick and died, leaving a widow and ler. Goodwife Hopkins rode the gray horse, | three small children in extreme poverty. and the girls rode by turns, ‘two at a time, | ‘rhe young wiluw's struggle to maintain clinging to the pillipn at her back. Letitia | hessel? and children was c hard one until s to wear her own This hous Highest Reputation ail Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature of the firm was quite ‘ds and were all on the house the fi retty e Was awarded a pension of $8 per month for acres, and there were no outbuildings, | heayy bolts at the top and bottom. with the velvet collar, even to she was awar p f 4 be 66 d Ss 1 h 99 The little green door was at the very back | Letitia was so dazel that she scarcely meeting. “It would créate 4 scandal in the | Colidrem “Thin simn, cappinmented Iw whan Andreas AXIeNnner, of the house, toward the fields, in a room | knew what happened for the next few min- i children, ‘This sum, supp! t sanctual Letit said Goodwife Hopkins. So | she was able to earn, enabled her and her as called | utes. She saw there were lways in the queer little opening out of the kitchen. It pale-faced wo- went : Of Seteeeteteteeetetntntetnletetetnenete intent OE: the cheese room, because Letitia’s grand-| man and three girls, one about her own coarse and scanty Kown, which seemed to | ‘Mildten to live in comparative comfort. On the Label. mother, who made cheeses, used to keep | age, two a little younger. She saw, to her her more like a bag than anything & Noe ee enor ee a Wenlee them there. She fancied she could smell | great amazement, the horse tied In the cor- for outside wraps she had. of ait thing Gitey hiss shel nameor Aareom AD Walkee cheese, though none had been kept there | Fer. She saw that the door was of mighty homespun blanket pinned’ over her head. | S7ditg and reinquished her neasion Fos for years, and it was used now only for a| thickness, and, moreover, hasped with iron Her great-great-granimother and her | yeyy Upon a Gacute acd a hate the famine ————— a lu room. She always sniffed hard for | and studded with great iron nails, so that great-gr ade and a half the family > e all fitted out in sim- | Strugeled wy rents 1a eee = he : she eyed the little green | Some rattling blows that ral E tt : ; : struggled with poverty. At . N FROM THE WEST. AT THE AQUARIUM. small green door, scarcely higher than her | set In loopholes in the wall, and the man, |. cloak. sna & fine red'/in the army, and about four years ago he | Greater Dangers im the City Than heat A green Caren COU Lot hace | woman arid the eiel OF Nar Sak one tice | “Whats. thatt? ane wHiepérea, xear- died, leaving the w:dow broken tn ‘health ee Ones | passed through without stooping almost | them, with great reports, which made the fall and’ utterly destitute. Knowing that Wal- ictan aie lalate iescconae | double. It was very narrow, too, and no | house quake, while the younger girls raced ker had been in tie government service, | From the Buffalo Express. | i t, how r, A Little Surprixe for a Man Not Fa- miliar With Bullfrog Characterisation fs York Sun. There was never any fire in the meejing hotse, and the usted all ¢ with a short rece at noon—during w : ratio or a pensii B| «56 y, ” . araahted a ee = 4 one who was not slender’ could have | fom one to the other with powder and bul- said she, “they've | they went into a neighboring house, sat | Se filed an application for a pension as | “So yon were a pioneer in the early Gays | A nearsighted stranger who saw a Iull- squeezed through it. In this door there | lets. Still, she was not sure she saw right, around the fire, warmed their haif-frozen | dence necessary to establ'sh herclaliy she | Of the west?” frog standing on its hind legs nnd renting was a little black keyhole, with no key in| it was all so strange. She stood back in a But Leitia was weeping with fright. feet, and ate cold corn cakes and pan ais ouered another wife, whom he had ce- “I was,” answered the graybeard. its fore feet against the gla front of it, but it was always locked. Letitia knew | Corner, out of the way 2 : and waited, trem-| “I can’t go to sieep,” she sobbel. “I'm | cakes for luncheon, ‘There’ were no pews afraid they'll come aga’ that her Aunt Peggy kept the key in some serted some time previous to his marriage | ‘And you lived out among the hostile | one of the tenks in the aquarium stopped in the meeting house; nothing but hard very safe place, but she would never show “Very likely they replied the other | benches without Backs. If Letitia fidgeted | {2 hem and who had died but a couple of | Indians om aptalica eae cin DyeceTee ag hi or unlock the door. Letitla, coully. “They come most every | or fell asleep, {he tithing nran rapped her. | *‘yfortinied at this dscovery, and realisin “Yes.” that woul] measure about a foot extended, best for you, my dear,” she al- night.” Letitia would never bave been allows that she had nothing on which to base her | “Lived with a rifle in your hands and in} and it stood there as motionless n . When Letitia teased her; and The little great-great-aunt Phyllis again | stay away from meeting had she be: Viae AWalker's © aie abendoaen claim as Walker's widow except for the slight but be d ctation of being the mark for la begsed only to know why laughed. to do so, but she never did. She w. fe abandoned | hourly. expectatt od it. a ith kt for the: a a Paes y's bullet?” movement that respira marted to he could not go, out of the dcor, she made “She can't to to sleep because =he | to stay alone in the house because of ai se Ao ue thinking. a Hope a ioe ee a fee aaa ia arpa eaeersen se me reply: not best for you, my J" she tittere dians. = help. hinking tt ‘= | “It was something = ansive thr ote = Hush." Juld her older sieter; “ehe'll get | | Quite often there was a rumor of hostile | sce drawn a pension az John 3. Marie's | “Do you know, I often think a life ke | , The stranger was not an expert in froze, when Aunt Peggy was not aceugtomed to them in time.” Indians in the neighborhood, and t ; fs 55 : Pay a . = ge widow, and never having*been legally mar- | that must be terrible. I should think the | gop Le tia would tease the old m: But pu: tia slept no more till 4| there were attacks. Letitia learned to load it looked as though st x #0) ried to any on she w: ary train on the nerves would kill a man | standing there for a mont id wa le green door, but o'clock. “Then she had Just fallen into a | the guns and hand the powder and bullets. | He witoe cat ane de each eine eS hort time—holding your hfe in your | to stand there in joc waas eant both cross ang eo sweet doze when she was pulled out of jon Srey pane ead sere Sr cece as the pension from the date of its suspension to | hs 1 the time, always conscious that a | next Fourth of and he was int tion. She even seemec ; . bs 3 4 ; | the present. moment's relaxation of vigilance may mean |ed. He drew nearer to examine it was no little green door jome. come”” said the sreat-great- | and she became fond of. them, especially of | "A Hine’ unon this idea, she at once flea | momen hat brim souched ihe front oF the there; but that was nonsense, because Le- great grandmother, Goodwite dionking, “we }.the sreat-great-granimother ot her’ owl 7 cnotication, aecointaklen Bethe cee | nent X aewk Ge GNI The snk he Sunk Bie Wal ce oe nt titla knew there was. Her curiosity grew ean have no lazy damsels here.” and the little great-aunts, but they Y iDprg if Se 2. +. = sary evidence, for restoration to her rights | beard. “When I came back from ‘the w as the widow of John J. Marler. I was sixty years old and did not have a Here, however, new difficulties were en- | gray hair. I got off the railroad tr er and greater; she took every chance could get to steal into the cheese room and shake the door softly, but it was al- get r to the glass He saw the broad, flat top of th frog's head just aluve the surface Letitia found that her bedfellows were ad se up and dressed and down stairs. She heard | Goodwi a queer buzzing sound from below, as she | work. fom any girlish sports toget Hopkins kept them too bus: Once in a while, as a great treat, ways locked. She even tried to look stooll on her bare feet on the iey floor and | they were allowed to play bean porridge countered ne. D AIGE OF hoe Sr ek a the ines ees [emaces sence Fiche beige yugh the keyhole, but she could see zed about her, dizzy with slee iol for fifteen m/‘nute: They were not al- naitine ee = See ae bd Beye 8 a | the fro’. : = ¥ Hs One thing puzzled her more than fasten and dress yourself,” said Good- | lowed to talk after they went to bed, and PS OEE a. : iuined to ebtaia a de- | and yelling right on my he usgeg | ~ ros ees running around so and that was that the little pita Siopkings) (Here Gre seme of Letitinis | (here, was also little opportunity forietrlish |e oeea auarriage wilh: Walker, ae a plese |e ee es Cae chee doce | wondered before, whether the en door was on the inside of the hou garments I have laid out for you, Those | confidences. dent to establening her piece: BESS SHE z - ° tage ace of which you wore here I have put away in| However, there came a day at last when See te, ce ee bee had | h ‘ oe widow of the only man to whom she had| being run over hy a troll chest. They are too and do not | Capt. Hopkins end his wife were called | W! s : mG! i peing ; ee eee eee eee ee eee aE Rey tere bey Chik wants Cete Cantce iever been legally married. This she su:-|so narrcw an escape from Ind seen. There was no sign of a door in it. With that, Goodwife Hcpkins descended | Miles distant, and the four girls were left ceeded in doing. é “I went into a salcon clo te id ieee But the cheese roor certainly the last to the room below, and Letitia dre in charge of the house. At 7 o'clock at = drink ar ace aay ee nue) See room In the hous ttle green door | pling, and at last the fierce yells outside | Self. It did not take her long. Th vas | night the two youngest went to bed, and standing 1 rot on the outside. When Leti into the field behind the hou S nothing but the blank wall to be sn’t beld on by a 1 the toes on whigh rested ist that they numbered to the legs, bottom, he had just’ 4 The Door Was Flung Open. four each. Descend rested on the ies eae 5 5 f : hem threw a | ered had five toes, while the vas in the re: ‘ s y stra mae hot much to put on beside a coarse wool | Letitia and her great-great-grandmother | From Harper's Round Table, kot into a scrap and one of t is : t When Letiix soled her ieee ac eney | dled away, and the firing stopped. Fetticoat and a straight little wool gown, | remained up to wait for the return of thelr |" parents are thires which boys have to Reavy eer mug. Didn't hit the ee t intte See ee ae é nly & naiho af ae i ings and suc 2 elders, as they had been instructed. Then 2 i ys low, but it came within a sixteenth of an | tank se cut was like to explahy tat abe cubs, ROY the same ane PART II. Spe rhad Haven cash ok GouTAET. Coe rons Lit Mae Chae Ge HUNG Geek eer area | lock atfer therm (Most giriagiatve have pa-|inch of my right temple. a bullfrog fireworks, with bullfrozs flying ot on Pe oreo “They have fled,” satd the woman, with a| Injuns in these,” thought Letitia, miser-| mother showed Letitia her treasure. She | rents. Parents consist of Pas and Mas.| “I started to walk tp town and the first | and tuz all ‘directions at once, for Letitia studied the hitle gree’ dese more | thankful sigh. ably. When she got cownstairs she dis- | had only one, and was not often allowed to | Pas talk a great deal about what they are | crossing I came to a policeman grabbed me pengrs bee “ged gi Apraen ied Frisia a lesson books, but she | “"Yes,"" said the man, “we are delivered | covered what the buzzing noise was. Her | look at it, lest It wean her heart away from | going to do, but mostly It's Mae thee wmane, | PY, the shoulder and jerked me across 50 ; and anybody not an expert in great-great-grandmother was spinning. | More serious things. It was kept in a se-] 0007 ig Her great-great-aunt Candace was knitting | cret drawer of the great chest for safety, | ee wees and little Phyllis was scourimg the hearth. | 4nd was nothing but a little silver snuff- Sometimes it's different, though. Once quick it made my head swim. I looked to who had seen this bullfrog in its see what was the matter, for there were | New attitude over on the other side of th no car tracks on that street, and I saw that | tank, motionless as an image, would have got an. the solution of the | once more out of the hands of the enemy ry, uptil one Senday morning in Jan- “We must not unbar the door or the shut- and she had It was a very cold day ters: yet” sala the woman, anxtousig. “11S spect ate s vont ae : ia caped bell mn Gown by uzht that it had been standing pes e af z s . an, ly. “I | Goodwife Hopkins was preparing brea box with a picture on the top. It contained | there was a boy came home from college on | I had just escapy yeing run Go y ajo i Cr Peg y Say jhome from church: | win get supper by candle-ligh fast. a little flat glass bottle, about an inch and | vacation. His parents lived on a farm. |hackman who was hurrying to catcn a since last autumn, and was going ty stand na they weie. were solue: hat betta, cht Then Letitia realized what she had not Go te the other wheel,” said she to Le- | @ half long. There was work to be done early in the | train. t ere til next fall, at teas ee Ss ale done befcre, that all the daylight w: hy titia, “and spin until the porridge is done. “The box belonged to my grandfather | morning. This boy didn't get up. His sis- Up street a little further somebody yell- ————_ 22 —= Ce dayhght was shut | We can have no {dle hands here.’ and the bottle to his mother. I have them | ter goes to the stairway and calls: “Willie, ‘Look out!’ at me, and when I jumped Would Not Eat the Fing. out of the house; that they had for light » ot En © Ping. Letitla looked helpl-ssly at a spinning | because 1 am the eldest, but I must not set | ‘tis a beautiful morning. Rise and list to] a big icicle fell off a roof and struck Just | pi. the mecton Garcite only one tallow candle and a low hearth fire. | wheel in the corner, then at the great- | my heart on them unduly,” said Letitia’s| the lurk.” The boy didn’t say anything. | where I had been standing. eo ; It was very cold then. Letitia began to | great-great-grandmother. great-great-grandmother. Then his Ma calls: “William, it is time to y hotel and was heading for| An Englishman 'n Washington at dinner “I don't know how!" she faltere. Then all the great-grandmo aunts cried out with astoni “She doesn’t know how Letitia tried to count how many greats | get up. Your ikfast is growing cold.” en scmehedy grabbel me and | declined to ea and the | belonged to the ancestors who had first) The boy kept right on not saying anything. | asked me if I wanted to be killel. They | and color of the American flag. ‘This he aid QWued these treasures, but it made her | Then his Pa puts his head in the stairway, | were hoisting a safe into a second-story | teoause he held it to be bad form to: ” they | dizzy. She had never told the story of the | and says he: “Coming, sir!’ said | window over waere I'd been tryinz to go, h ian S said to one another. little green door to any of them. She had and I hadn't more than got out of the way | the national emblem. The incident was = Letitia felt dreadfully ashame. been afraid to, knowing how shocked they before the rope Broke and it dropr nificant as showing the distin You must have been strangely brovght | Would be at her disobedience. New, how- “I went to bed and about midnight T an the ever, when the treasure was replaced, was called up by a bell ringing over my | patriotism ar own, was moved to confidence, and told her head and found the place was on tire and | their hats when the great-great-grandmother the whole story. I had to slide down a rope to escapes. Re- | and rise when the na “That is very strange,” said her gre: ing a sound sleeper, they'd had hard work | in theaters and imosic i great-granimother, when she had finished. to wake me ani I had 1 touched the | in trade or out of “We have a little green door, too; only ground when the roof fell i his country for adve ours is on the outside of the house, in the “When I looked in the north wall. There's a spruce tree growing saw the first streaks of gr shiver with cold as well as fear. Suddenly the woman turned to her with motherly kindness and curiosity. “Who is this little damsel whom you res- cued, husband?” said she. he must speak for herself,” replied her husbaad, smiling. “I thought at first she was Neighbor Adam's Phoebe, but I see she is not.” “What is your name, child?" asked the woman, while the three little girls looked wonderingly at the newcomer. “Letitia Hopkins," replied Letitia, in a small, scared volce. tan ice frozen in the shape io spin Englishmen ft 1g iS carried past Lanthem is played Ns. No true “triton, yuld use the flag of ng purposes ext day I that had ever a little and pleaded, and way. you m t down quietl charg- Peggy. “and you must rm your to repeat to me when I get home. After Aunt Peggy and the old their great cloaks and bonnets and fur tip- had gone out of the yard and down |. Letitia sat quiet for fifteen min- hunting in the Bible for four then suddenly she thought of little green docr, and wondered, as she had done so many times before, if it could possibly be cpencd. She laid down her Bi- e aryl stole out through the kitchen to ese room and tried the door. It was ustal, “Oh, dear!” sighed ady to cry. It seemed ttle green door was the of all her trials; that she 1 rather open that and see what was nd than have all the nice things she 1 had to do without. she thought of a little satin- ¥ with a picture on the lid which Aunt Pergy kept in her top bureau drawer. Letttia had often seen this box, but had neyer been allowed to open tt YY von ler if the key cAn be in that box? said she. She did not wait a nute. She was so naughty that she dared not wait, for fear she should remember that she ought to be food. She ran out of the clieese room, fircugh the kitchen and the sitting room, to her aunt's bed room, and cpened the bu. xeau drawer, and then the satin-wood box. t contained some bits of old lace, an old rogch, a yellow letter, some other things, The others started. “Letitia Hopkins, did you say?” said the woman, deubtfully. “Yes, ma'am.” ‘They all stared at her, then at one an- other. “It is very strange," said the woman, finally, with a puzzled, half-alarmed look. ‘Letitia Hopkins is my name.” ‘And it is mine, too,” said the eldest girl. Letitia gave a great jump. There was something very strange about this. Le- titla Hopkins was her family name. Her grandmother, her father’s mother, had been Letitia Hopkins, and she had always heard that the name could be traced back in the same order for generations, as the Hopkinses had intermarried. She looked up, trembling, at the man who saved her from the Indians, Will you please tell me your name, 2” she said. John Hopkins,” sald the man, smil- ing kindly at her. — John Hopkins,” corrected his wife. Letitia gasped. That settled it. Capt. John Hopkins was her great-great-great- grandfather. Great-aunt Peggy had often told ker about him. He had been a notable man in his day, among the first settlers, and many a story concerning him had some down to his descendants. A queer little miniature of him, in a little gilt frame, hung in the best parlor, and Le- titia had often looked at it. She had thought from the first that there was some- thing familiar ehout the man's face, and now she recognized the Mkeness to the miniature. It seemed awful and impossible, but the little green door had led into the past and Letitia Hopkins had visited her great. sreat-great-grandfather and grandmother, her great-great-grandmother, and her two great-great-aunts. < Letitia looked tp tn the faces, all star- ing ywondeeingly at her, and all of them had that familiar look, though she had no miuiature of the others. Suddenly she knew that it was a likeness of her own face which she recognized, and it was as if sho saw herself in a five-fold looking Fi She felt as if her head was turning ‘cund and round, and presently her feet began to follow the motion of her head, then strong arms caught her, or she would have fallen. 2 : When Letitia came to herself again, she si “I don't know how,” she faltered. Goodwife Hopkins. ‘Well, take 2king and mend the toe. There will be just about time enough for that before breakfast.” “I don't know how to knit,” stammered Letitia. ‘Then there was another cry of astonish- ment. Goodwife Hopkins cast about in her mind for another task for this ignorant guest. “Explain the doctrine of predestination,” she said, suddenly. Letitia jumped and stared at her -with seared eyes. “Don't you know what predestination * demanded Gooiwife Hopkins, ‘No, ma’am!”’ half sobbed Letitia. Her great-great-grandmother and her great-great-aunts made shocked exclama- tions. And her great-gr2at-gr: ‘grandmother looked at her with horror. “You have been brought up as one of the heathen,” said jhe. Then she produced a smull book, end etitia was bidden to seat herself upon a stool and learn the doctrine of predestina- tion before breakfast. The kitchen was lighted only by one tal- low candle and the firelight, for it was still far from dawn. Letitia drew her little stool clese to the hearth, and bent anxious- ly over the fire-lit page. She committed to emory easily, and repested the text like frightened parrot when she was called upon. “The child has good parts, though she is woefully ignorant,” Goodwife Hopkins said is’ up close against it, but it is there. Our pa- rents have forbidden us to open it, too, but we never disobeyed.” She said the last word with something of an air of superior virtue. Letitia felt ter- ribly ashamed. “Is there any key to your little green door?” she asked, meekly. For answer, her great-great-grandmother cpened the secret drawer of the chest again, and pulled out a key, with a green ribbon in it, the very counterpart of the one in the satin-wood box. Letitia looked at it wistfully. “I should never think of'disobcying my parents, and open thelittle green door, remarked her great-gréat-grandmother, as she put back the key in the drawer. “I should think something dreadful would happen to me. I have heard whispered that the door opened. into the future. It would be dreadful to be all alone in the future without one’s kfnfolks.”” “There may not be any Indians or cata- mounts there,” ventured Letitia. “There might be something a great deal worse,” returned her: great-great-grand- mother, severely. After grat there wassilcyge between the two, and possibly a little coldness. Letitia sat gazing forlornly into the fire, thinking that it would be much more com- fortable to be alive in the future than in the past, and her great-great-grandmother sat stiffy on her oppasite stool, knitting with virtuous industry, 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. It might be her only chance for robody knew how long. She pulled off her shoes, tiptoed in her thick, yarn-stocking feet up to the loft, got her own clothes out of the chest and’ put them on instead of her homespun garb. The little sreat-aunts cid not stir. Then she tiptoed down, sot the key out of the secret drawer, gave a loy- ing farewell look at her great-sreat-grand- mother, and was out of the house. It was broad moonlight outside. She ran around to the north wall of the house, pressed in under the low branches of the spruce tree, and there was a little green door. Letitia gave a sob of joy and thank- fulness. She fitted the key in the lock, turned it, opened the door, an@ there she was, back in the cheese room. She shut the door hard, locked it and showed themse! are dangers in on the plains.” a bad fall. “4. If you pas you say ge of your whi double donke “9. To attempt to hold up a 275-pound woman learning to ride is the sign of a soft spot.” Hotel Help Trains. From the Florida Citizen. ‘The second reguiar hotel help train of th season from this York over the Plant system at S$ yesterday morning with aboard. The train was made up of twelve passenger coaches, throughout. The hotel employes were most- ly from the hotels along the although a few were from the west coast. Employes of the fctels :n this ci have closed for the season also } that train. A number of tourisis touk ad- yantage of the low rate. hotel help trains of this seasoa wi! about a week, leaving here o Piont system and the Florida Central end Peninsular railroad. World's Feir! 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