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By the North Sea.

Miles, and miles, and miles of desolation
Leagues, on leagues, on leagues with
out changei
Sign or token of some eldest nation.
Here would make the strange land
not 50 strange.
Time-forgotten, yea since times creation,
Seem these borders where the sea-
birds range.
Slowly, gladly. full of peace and wonder
Grows his heart who journeys here
alone.
Earth and all Its thoughts of earth sink
under
Deep as deep in water sinks stone.
Hardly knows it if the rollers thunder,
Hardly whence the lonely wind is
blown.
Tall the plumage of the rush-fower
tosses,
Sharp and soft in many curve and
line
Clean and glow the sea colored marsh
MOSES,
Salt and splendid from the circling
brine.
Streak on streak of glimmering seashine
crosses
All the land sea-saturate as with wine
Far, and far between, in divers orders,
Clear gray steeples cleave the low gray
sky;
Fast and firm as time unshaken warders
Hearts made sure by faith, by hope
made high.
These alone in all the wild ea-borders
Fear no blasts of days and nights that
die.
All the land is as one mans face is,
Pale and troubled still with change Of
cares.
Doubt and death pervade her clouded
spaces;
Strength and length of life and peace
are theirs;
Theirs alone amid these weary places,
Seeing not how the wild word frets
and fares.
Firm and fast where all is cloud that
changes.
Cloud-clogged sunlight, cloud by sum
light thinned.
Stern and sweet, above the sand hill
ranges
Watch the towers and tombs of men
that sinned
Once, now calm as earth whose only
change is
Wind, and light, and wind, and cloud
and wind.
-SWinburne's Studies in Song.
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Stu

WE find the following In the Mans
Fl I'D Shield and Banner of recent
date:
"We have in our midst gentleman who is
likely to become possessed of a vast fortune,
according to the following facts learned by us
to-day. The man of fortune is none Other
than Mr.. G. A. Shouse, hardware salesman
for the Wholesale Saddlery Hardware House
of Joe W. Bell, this city. 1t became known
a few years ago in New York City, thst the
leases for certain large possessions in and
around the city had expired, and that there
was coming to some branch of the family of
Van Horns an immense estate, consisting of
$82, 900, 900 IN Holland. Harlem fats, COM
prising several hundred acres of land adjoin-
ing the city, all the wharfages fronting on
Hell-gate Pass and rentages on it already col
lected, of about 81 ,000, 900; also large tracts
of land in New Jersey, altogether valued at
about $3.50, 100000. A company was formed
lin Philadelphia, Pa, known as the Van Horn
Association, who Immediately set to work to
find the rightful heirs, and in their search
found will that had been made by Barnard
Van Horn the first, owner of the estate, in
which he willed the estate to the fifth 'gener-
alton of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
branch of the Van Horn family. There ap-
pears to be four distinct families of Van
Horns IN this country, two of whom have al
ready tried to establish their claim to the
property, but failed to show theiI connection
with Barnard the first. Mrs. Harrison, of
Rock Island, Ills, full cousin of Mr.. C. A i.
Shouse's father, met the Association and
proved herself to be one OF the heirs She
was told that there were ten families, and
that if she could find majority of them it
would be sufficient to warrant the commence
ment of proceedings to recover the estate
She has found the sixth family in that of Mr.
Shouse's and expects to find seventh in Co
lumbiana Co., o., the number of heirs being
now about seventy, and says that from the
latest report of the Association the matter will
probably be settled within a month or by
spring at the farthest. The father of Mr.
Shouse has become a member of the AssOcia-
ton and will share the % per cent, which is
allowed the members for collecting the for
tune, in addition to his portion as one of the
heirs. If this immense fortune is secured,
and there is little doubt but that it will be, it
will be another send-off for Mansfield, as the
greater portion of friend Cy's part will be in
vested in this city,"
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at last found myself cropping my way in
to the inner attic through the door
have just described. Then on my hands
and knees l crawled under the caves
breathless and trembling; left no corn.
er unexplored. remember going back
more than once, to be sure that | had
not 'shirked.' In this way l went into
every room, crawling under every bed
which was an especial horror to me; ]
don't know why,-do you, Pussie?'
''Oh, auntie, it is dreadful under the
bedsr'
But what is it you are afraid of Are
you afraid that some one is concealed
there who will hurt you?"
"NO, indeed; l don't know ,ChGt it is
but always feel that something is hid.
den there, auntie-something awful"
"Well, Pussie, so did /, and as crawl,
ed out from each bed | felt that | had
had narrow escape, expecting the next
would reveal the dreadful thing. And
all this time the windows seemed to
grin at me; but L thought of my father,
and of his telling me that l could con-
quer if l tried and / went on, closing
the door of every room as went in, 60
ing faithfully into every closet, and feel
ing with my hand under every piece of
furniture which was not set close to the
floor. 1t was such long time to me
felt as if had not seen my father and
mother for hours; but at last began to
feel that / was near the end, and / re-
call going back and exploring for the
ecold time the unknown region under
the last bed, because felt in my heart
that had not been honest about it. l
was conscious that the left corner near
est the window had not been really in
vestigated. At last it was finished, and
| can remember how l felt when | OPEN
ed the door of the room where the 9TH
ers were laughing and talking, with
bright lights and the fre-I can remem-
ber my bewildered feeling-as if awak-
ing from sleep, and the sensation of
having been saved from something; and
when my father put his hand out to me-
and drew me to his side, asking where
his little girl had been all this time, and
L cuddled up to him as you are doing
now, dearie, was so happy as l whis-
pered back SO softly that none of the
rest could hear, 4 have been everywhere
in the dark, under the beds and all l
oholi CfOL 1O1SCS iOOh uO SohO
as he drew me closer to him and kissed
me, whispering back, My brave little
girlp And when By and by nv mothers
lovely eyes beamed upon me as she
stopped and kissed me, l felt quite re-
paid for all my distress; and, my darl-
ing, l never afterward suffered in the
same way. OF course l had little thrills
and panics, but lasting only for mo-
ment. l could always send them away
when thought of my fathers kiss. If
have any courage, it is due to my
fathers loving reasoning, to his patience
and his sympathy.
Both arms were round Miss Rather
ines neck, and Pussie said, gently.
"Auntie, 1 will try" And she did try,
and did conquer her foolish fears so
thoroughly that the dark has lost all its
terrors for her, and a Drawer little girl
cannot be found in the country.
-Harper's Young People.
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SluInber Land.
BY MARGARET vANDEGRIFT.

''Comel" she said "it is sleepy time;
i will sing you such sweet little rhyme
Something that you can understand
About what they do in Slumber Land"
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