THE PORT OF PLEASANT DREAMS, I sailed in the good bark Fancy Down the still, deep river of sleep, From the lands of deep December To a port that the sunbeams keep; ‘While the glad winds followed after, And sang with a happy nest, And I heard them croon o'er the infant mon, As it lay on the night's broad breast, And the port of the good bark Fancy, A port that the sunbeams keep, Is called Ploasant Dreams; like an opal it gleams Oar the strange, dark river of sleep, There, flushed with the wine of laughtor, The voyager sings quesr sons, And, borne in a car of the sunset, Rides oft with the elfin throngs Up, up through the rosy cloudiand, Where the round little mistmen stay, To the stars abloom in the cool, soft gloom Of gardens far away. There are none too poor for a voyage To this port that is centuries old; Where hunger e'er finds a banquet, And poverty rovels in gold; Where, robed in the garb of morniag, The earth in new beauty glows, And the amulet of the summer Is worn on the heart of the rose, Oft from the fields of sorrow, To the brink of the river of sleep, Wan toilers come, and, restful, They sail on its waters deep; Till clear through the gates of sundown The past, like a beacon beams, And Jove, sweet mariner, anchors In the port of Pleasant Dreams. ~Ingram Crockett. in Frank Leslie's THE PIONEERS FAMILY. I was a boy only eight years old when my father moved into the hill country of Western Minnesota. He was known to all the pioneers about as “Big Dave,” and to the Indians as the ““Iron Man.” He was six feet tall, weighed 210 pounds, , and, at forty years of age, the strongest man in the United States, and certainly one of the most fearless of men. Mother was above the height, and weight, and father's str ReTve and « rifle, skin dle a canoe, able to t We had been settled when father had been pr ling around vent out ext dav to was perhaps Average in engi, was n urage. 4 deer, se and, as of ours Ane CAlY months apt I whink jet : r which t, and but | f them had visited if them koew anvthis father except that he was a | ig There was an Indian village fous away, and the showed thei dragging the body over the snow and leaving ain trail for him to foll F "was justly indignant, once took up the trail for the vil age i had a light shotgun, while he k ud a rifle, hatchet and hunting knife. We followed the 0 the villag th miles fallin 5 ieiiows who got the bear r contempt for father by Iw. wind we at trail right int , Bn him out to me, Lat meat alone! dozen of the bucks began to ir, and fat} y threw down his murmm ier haoded me his knife and hatche ed oul “There was more mw by the were four, they If they Are mer et tl knives the four This than one thief! 1 3 : iin the soow that squaws or men! em come i 4 ay and ere. once! haile i leclaration was who had stolen the front. They were all stout and supple young men, and every Indian in the vil lage was fully expected that he good drubbing, sad with mischief in their eves - You bear came to gathered around to see the vould get a the four advanced just keep out of the way then the sides and just from four four rushed in on him and thore was asi next thing we saw was the body of an In dian sailing in the alr. and a second roll. log over and over bu kward, and then | | father gure the crowd an exhibition of his stroogth. He grasped an Indian in each hand and played with them as easily a you can handle bro.msticks, circled them about, bumped them to gether, and floally gave thom a fling, which rolled both of them into the cold waters of the creek. “Have you six mon here? demanded my futher, as be turned to the chief. “II 80, let them come forward and sek to t me down, If they can accomplish it will go home and say no more.” There was a gener flutter of excite. mont, and as the chief named six of hus best men each stepped forward with » whoop. Father was smiling and con. ce told me that | need have no fears. At « iven signal the six Indisus made a rush. y got hold of arms and legs and body, but with a mighty wrench father shook them off and then took the aggressive, There was neitier striking nor kicking in the struggle, but the way he did twis those redskine about made the crow dizzy. In two minutes he was victor, atid the chief came forward and shook his hand, and then and there gave him the title of “The Mas of Iron.” Ever thereafter the Indians held him in the juste awe and respect, and any one of luvited to eat at our table felt high. were | | She carried me while | ! with my | ready to fire growl | there | aside their | I will take | | in a couple with a shout, and in less than & minute the four | the | | His weapons were retained and fun It | and | don’t get frightened,” said father to me, | i panthers were For an instant he was hidden from sight | eat hurr wing, but the | them, He | | to the edge of the glade, and had opened pony when a) ly honored. Igot a title at the same time father did, If I was scared while in the village I was at least determined not to betray the fact, and so it happened that they dubbed me “The-Boy-Who- Stood Fast.” In April of the next year I cut my foot while chopping and was laid up for sev- eral weeks. This was during the sugar. making season, and father and mother were necessarily in the bush a good share of the time. Our cabin had but one room below, and my bed was in a far corner. The path from the sugar bush came up at the rear of the house. One warm, pleasant day about the end of the month, and about mid-afternoon, I was aroused from a light sleep by hear- ing some one open the door. 1 lay fac- ing it, and I saw a strange white man enter and look around. He was a rough, evil-looking man, and I knew that he was a stranger in the neighborhood. I suppose that he believed us all in the bush, for he leaned his rifle against the logs and walked over to a chest in which father kept his papers and which was the storehouse for articles of personal wear which we never used, A report had got abroad that father bad brought movey into the country to buy land, While this was untrue, it had found believers, and this desperado had come to rob us. I had not yet been out of bed, sugar camp, while my shotgun hung on its hooks ten feet awuy. I could do nothing to drive the man away, and if ! betrayed my presence he might kill me. that I therefore lay quiet, hoping thing might bring fathe: up. ‘he chest had a spring lock, and the key was hanging on the chimney. The stranger did not even look for it, but set about breaking open the chest with his hunting knife. back from the point. and growling and still at work when I heard mother’s footsteps outside, I was to the in turning the corner of the house the path led over a rocky surface. I knev in the man, and I re kill her, b ly became so that I co not lift a ff y Yoice close logs, aud on 14 might it 1 sudd woax raise m The pushed it door was and mother pen DG WHRIKOL in. had As she sp ang i huntin ap. unp 1% 1 Lhe puncheon the entered had was only three minutes from tirne shi mtil she and it that she the door snd foot, after thal ration looked ower n ARE yw snug and fast are you aw had the fell ve him almost oieq |i iim until he 1, and m ] als to his flesh to calm to a chair, g ¢, and hea left a rest for my lo father. I sat there sho in my hands, different ws I co 1 it and made on the When f snged his ie as a dog. that he thought and [#1 his Hoc le be sther termined not to came up the man ch “ and became as hum tried to make us | yar cabin the h that he was after a deed whic yh \ \ his uncle, was illegal ' Every ler hborh own laws in t of od made its Father called to consult over the case, and a i the fel Was taken out, tied to a snd then switched on the back until his cries bor J Oi cighbors ' tree Oar for mercy could be heard a mile AWAY. he was set free settlement fifteen miles the trail for a was expected that to take WAY. It he would return some day for reve uge, | i 4 ut he never did In those early days the = untry was full of game, and wolves, bears, panthers ind wild cats were numerous. The war grealost foes, as they » kill everything in the line of stock, and we lost several head by sion when our pony was running loose in the woods with a bell on his neck, [ went to look him up I found him two miles from home sou BR i Un one ox Guided by the bell, I discovered him on i the further side of a glade or opening, | about ten rods across. I had just come my mouth to call the panther sprang on his back trom the limb of a tree. His spring almost knocked the pony down, but hoe was a stout little fellow, and he got his feat and came dashing straight st me. The panther was fairly on his back, but the motion. gave him enough to do to hang on. The pony dashed for a big beech | with low spreading lima, and at two { Jumps he was relieved of his burden and { the panther rolled to the ground within fident as he spat on his bands, sad he | four feet of me, screaming out in a way to lift my heels off the ground. [1 ex. pected to be attacked, and on this oe. cosion had no weapon with we. The beast hind got more than enough, how. over. One of his eyes were put out, his shoulder broken, and he must have been badly bruised up. He rolled around for & while, screaming in pain and anger, and then slunk off without having seen It was in connection with a panther I saw my father perform a feat Is recorded in pioneer histories, in October be and 1 were out + 1 had | agged bebind to plack Father had his rifle at the | some- | In his efforts he broke | the blade square off about two ine hes | He was cursing | she'd walk right | zed that he | ager nor | him tied hand | op- | to me and | IKE &} me to watch ! nd three | who was de. | tactics, | He | some wild grapes, and, coming to a spring on a hillside, father knelt down to quench his thirst. He was hardly on him from a limb about ten feet above the ground. The yells of surprise father gave reached my ears and I hastened my footsteps, I came up to find him bat- tling burehanded with the beast, I had my gun, but, for fear of killing father, was obliged to stand by as a spectator, Father had leaned his rifle against a tree, but, owing to the activity of the panther, could not reach it. He had a hunting knife in his belt, but declared afterward that he totally forgot its presence. thoy seemed to be whirling in a circle most of the time, this: The panther aimed to spring aad pull father down, but father ducked and dodged, and at every opportunity got in a kick or a blow, put & bullet into him, but he was mov- ing about like greased lightning, Once him ten feet away, but he gathered him- | self up and was back before I could fire, | My presence was known, sad pretty soon | father called out: “Don’t fire! Get my gun and stand {off a bit and be ready for this fellow’s mute when she comes!” I carried out this order, and theres fore did not see the finish of the fight. | Father got the panther by the back of { the neck and the tail, end carrying her to a rock thirty feet away he beat her on the stone until she was dead. The mate did not combat lasted fully twenty minutes, and father's home- | spun suit was cut to pieces, as if with a knife. He had thirty eight claw marks { on his body, each of which drew blood, wus, and he was day . — New York show up. The but none of them was seri not laid up for even a Sun. Physical Pecullarities Induced by Various Occupations. is almost in conse- ight shoulder his left hy A carpenter's invariably higher than { quence of having to use his right arm all the time in planing and lu With woulder | with a jerk, and it tinally ral to him to hold himself in that way. The right of a the sam i while the snmering every shaving rises nes nata Arm blacksmith, for nyperiroplieq, strophied, A sh should emaker is red from « a} the last hamm The ! held al alr, from st abnormally wide mouths, This is the direct couse- quencs of their habit } ing sonorous | deliberation If one prac- tices this before Can sea {that the cheeks are stretched more than ordinarily, and the mouth is extended a great deal more than in everyday Then, too, nature has something to do with it, A nose, is a large m with bi { 1 words and se i { and correct pr S00 bi MUOsCios In conversation ath, like wominent power. But men | mouths are not orators. Thank for that! | sign of Leaver Pr be grateful. — Detroit Sonoma's Seven Moons. Ti offered if Sot the native the hav many explanati 8 to why the i times past nan i] this valley by was given of i while wh LN un mn 100 +} t 0 Indians, man clion Df cours advent of t over of we | years ago, country by tho know that 8 | means “Valle y why that nam another question, | we bel peopled this all ROMA Va in aboriginee of the M but just was bestowed upon it is sands low wy on," which and one, 00, lieve has never been satisfactorily to an on the old 1" A aged Indian who has resided Nick Carrigan ranch for mao years, aad who was an old man when General Vallejo settled in Sonoma fifty years ago, and must now be something over 100 years of age, he stated the redson the valley was called Sonoma was because it had ‘‘heep muchee moon," (translated into good English, many moons), Fur- ther inquiry developed the fact that be wots and the Bella distance of four or won, when it is full, can be seen by the traveler to rise seven times in succession over the mountains in the east, owing to their peculiar for. mation. This phenomenon has been wit. nessed by many old residents in the early evening at the rising of the full moon, This, no doubt, has been ob. served by the lodiaos, and hence the name, ‘‘Valloy ol the Moon. ' «Sonoma (Cal) Index Tribune, EE ———— sm Between the North and South. The Mason and Dixon line runs along | the parallel of latitude thirty-nine de | grees and forty-three minutes, twenty-six | degrees and three minutes, separating Pennsylvania from Maryland, It was answered, ently, in talking ny { tween the town of 8 Vista vineyards, a five miles, the m down when a large malo panther sprang | SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Germany makes hollow bricks. Twenty-one electrical clocks are run. ning at Marshalltown, Iowa. Small drills can be tempered by heat- ing over a small gas jet, then dipping in water or oil, cast-iron There are now 15,000 electric motors in use in the United States among 200 industries, An Italian savant claims that injecting | | a current of electricity through milk de- The | panther snarled and father shouted, and lays its souring for several days, Utilizing scrap steel rod by welding it ' and drawing it into fence wire is one of The real situation was | the recent successes of electric welding Those lands, which in Continental Europe are devoted to the grape and | produce the best and most costly wine Had the beast re- | mained quiet three seconds I could have father caught him by the tail and flung | | drawn by two distioguished Eaglish sur. | | veyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiab | tient exclaimed, | Dixon, who (began their work in 1763 | land finished it in 1767. | marked by stones sot at intervals of five | miles, each having the arms of Lord | Baltimore engraved upon one side and | those of the Pena family upon the other. | Besides these large stones sel to mark | each fifth mile, smaller stones were set at the end of each nile, these having » letter I* ongraved upon one side and a letter M on the other; these lutended as initial letters of Peansylvania and Mary. land. All of these stones wore engraved in England, The Muson and Dixon line was not the line se ting the free and the slave States, he line settled on in the compromise of 1820 was thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes. The Mason and et of Sher diiron oud the § ning . The line is are remarkable for the great amount of phosphoric acid they contain, The most astonishing novelty in Paris is & calculating machine, invented by M. Bolle, of Le Mans, By simply turning 8 wheel it adds, multiplies or divides any number of figures up to lines of fif- teen, and with RINAZIDG rapidity. Chief Engineer States Navy, able discovery in the the United has recently made a valu. Inch of shape sition that will prevent the adherence of corals, or dest fauna or flora to sea-going vessels. An It saving belt that « of a compo- 3 DArnacies, other Yas {aim 4 have § tod Ran cinims 0 have invented a life continually on traveler can wear shipboas i, snd which will instantly expand if the person falls into the water, and hold him upon the water's surface for | ty-eight hours, some practical improvements have re- : t cently been made in diving Instead of the heavy ele hitherto used, light but p lamps are helmet, free. apparatus, tric hand lamp ywerful glow of the the diver BOW leay affixed to the 1 ip the | aC Lane ing is of A traveling lance laboratory use for testing room, or ambu- has Leen 1 successful several m cables of one companies of batt y and carries two p In Nor yan ting the Germany, dling the molten metal from the « to ta the and fr pits has been in troduced. The work is dood by ma a series of overhead evs moved by a Wire rpe cot flasks capacity of 400 car about 130 tons of ud wheeis 0 mn ul chinery entirely, tre carryiag nection Indies, snd wheels, The foundry has a wheels per day, and metal can be handled the new system. the in six hours by s———————— Six Huudred Veet of Frost! For many years scientist ed over well at have been the Y a ng ago as 1828 a Ru y sink this »n DE on it job, having at ww three | R82 a Dad to a depth of tl tiirough the municated Academy of charge of dirty foel f ’ y frozen gre facts to k, Who ind 1 these he Russian Seenot sent men to the duaguiag operation at the wouadertul II. These scientific gentlemen tolled away at their work for several years, but at last abandoned it when a depth of 352 feet was reached, the earth frozen as hard as In 1844 the academy had the I ratare of the soi! les of the we with still a rock temp at the wl well taken at various depths. Fi data thus glart om the they came to the ing conclusion that frozen to a depth exceeding 600 feet, Although it is known to gists that the pole of the lowest known obtained the ground =~as : meteorolo. temperature is in that region of Siberia, it is conceded that not even that rigorous climate could force frost to such a great depth below the surface. After figuring on the subject for over a quarter of a iry geologists have come to the con- clusion that the great frozen valley of the Lena River was deposited, frozen just as it is found to.day, during the great grinding up era of the glacial epoch we St. Lowis Rey ublie, cent Cut OF the Fair Patient's Wig, There is astory told of a young physi. cian of this city, who was connected at one time with the Emergency Hospital, It has caused many a smile at his expanse. 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