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, • , * t-,?. :«#»•*« THE MZiOJP three terms in From that time g Iflinndf aln BT BATm JB. 8. to tell J. YA^F 8LTKE, KDTTOB AKP PUBLISHER. HcHEKBT, ILLINOIS. t^rrv- ;••• • &, » +j,j. QVM ^mrximJBsS - ; pt| " TheKi*0 '" ****<** SfWMBH vary pmtty, ?.". •. Hewaaalvwywis*, ^ Anfl toi>oo<, wh»a , , .. &i paralysed surprise. rt Afwwklsdlsd, aspeddedlaA, ' .,;, ' Who wraMtontaUf toss, '* jt f r And--though not absolutely ted-- 4' * Bad«Mk 1 fumyBOMI '? -f 4 •«' He hadn't any msnasn, ^ .#- '*•• ̂ t ;*« Ha didn't know Ids books, *<' »*> < r ' ^ iid, I mwt own, Ida prlnciflss Did not belie bis looks. tfe:;^s Ha *» cluxnay »t work, and awkward St play t % $ And every hair grew a diffstsat way-- ' Then why did they iaak« Mm King of the May f Ej?-; ' . T«, blithely, in » circle, ^ . They whirled around their King; £ ( - And than ha stood, half crying, Half pleased to hear them slag, *i\* f - ,,'ji Till in hie heart a mighty part 1 - 3 1. Was given Mm to do; taction thrilled Ui little breast ,, ; * 'Cj '• *' And gave him fervor new: * |T ^111 do it i t>*at I will I" he thooffht. ' ^ * It tail mneh. I know I ought!--" « oh do! Oh do! Oh do!» MBg they, (̂ «v' " And we will crown pfJ^WIdoit! Yea, 111 dolt t* " /J • v s Bfisheart sang back again, i J Until a ray of loveliness Came to hia face so plain. ! His eyelids quivered; he slwaat Shllfdl ?fHie young form stood erect-- ' When manly thoughts stir boyish seals " What else ean yon expect? ,i And a till they sang their roundelay, The circling girls, so sweet sad gay, . v J About their Ming, their King of May'P ' Bark! The King is speaking-- The eager girls press near. Be aays aloud: " Ml do it I "I" In ringing voioe. and clear, And from his pocket, as froma Slowly he drew it forth; He looked to east, he looked to weat|r"?' He looked to south and north; The skies their blest assurance gave, Twas noble to be kind Mid brave. He drew it forth; he gave it over. As though he were each maiden's lovsr, As though it were his life. The thing they'd begged for hours sad To cut the May-pole vines and flowers-- That little rascal's Knife I Ah, see them! see them! well-a-day! How gleefully they akip away. Leaving alone their King of Hay, His brief reign ended. Well-a-day! In St.Jfichola* for Mag, Th» Ifay-lTniiiitfc On a sonny hiUkride grew a little OOlony 0f May-flowers. They had alept qttietly through the long winter, tacked up, snag and warm, in their covering of mow; and now the bright sun looked down on them, and the wind stirred them, and the birds called to them, and they raised their strong, hardy leayes, and lifted up their stems of small buds, and rejoiced that spring was near. A little girl came oat among them. She said to herself: "I am going away to­ morrow. I cant stay to see the dear May-flowers open, so I will take some of them with me, and keep them in water, and they Will remind me of this beau­ tiful place, and perhaps they will bios* *" Oh," said the Hay-flowers, "please don't take us!" Bat the wind Mew, so that Maxy, the little girl, did not hear them, and she polled stem after stem, till she had as many as she could hold in her small hands. Then she looked around her at the bine sky, and the branches of the trees against it, and the soft, dead leaves flying in the wind, and the patches of white snow in the hollows; and away in the distance the light house and the btho water. She said good-by to it all, for she was afraid she might not see it again scon; and the little May-flowers said good-by to it, too. The next day Mary tied the May­ flowers together, and wound a pieoe of wet paper around their stems, and they started on their journey. The cars were erowded and hot, and Mary held the flowers very tight for fear of losing them, and the tall people rested their elbows on them, and the stout ones pushed against them, and they thought they would die. But soon the paper was taken of^and the string was untied, and they were 'pot into a vase of water. The little May-flowers drooped for a time, and could not hold pp their heads. Mary set them in an open window, and a gay bird in a cage sang to them; but they mourned for their pleasant home, and they did not like to stand with their feet in water, and they said: c "Let as give up in despair." Then the bird sang, "Cheerup! eheer up! chirrup I chirrup I" They did not listen to hint at flnt» but bj-and-by thej said to him: "Why do you say that to us? Do you know that we have been taken from our home and our friends on the hill- aide, where the sun shone and the birds --rig all around us? How can we live aad be happy here, and with our feet |K the water, too? " "But the bird said# "Ohee* up! The sun is shining on yoo, and I am singing to you as well as I can, and how much better it will be for you to blossom and be beautiful, and make some one happy, ftan to do nothing but wither and be thrown away. Do you think I like to have wings to fly? No! U door should be left open, you' me fly up to that chimney in "Could your stfd the little "Yes, indeed," said the bird "Would you T" said the flowers. "Yes," said the bird, "and then into that tree, and then away to the woods somewhere. But, while I am here, I think I may as well sing and be gay." "Perhaps he is right," thought the flowers; so they lifted their heads and looked up. Maxy gave litem fresh water every day, and loved them dearly, and talked to them of the beautiful hill-side; and fihe cheerful bird sang to them, and at last the little buds began to grow and make the best of it. One bright morning, just two weeks after they were gathered, the largest bud opened its petals, and blossomed into a full-grown May-flower. It was white, with a lovely tinge of pink, and oh, so fragrant! Mary almost oried with delight, aad she kissed the dear flower, and carried it to every one In the house to be admired, The bird Stood on tip-toe on his highest perch and flapped his wings, and sang his best pong. v " Was I right f said he. "Did I give jou good advice?" "Yes," said the flowers, "you were right. To blossom and be beautiful, end make some one happy, is better than to gite up in despair and do nothing. What Boyt Should Be, 1. Be true--be genuine. Ko edu­ cation is worth anything that does not include this. A man had better not know how to read--he had better never learn a letter of the alphabet, and be true and genuine in intention and in ac­ tion, rather than being learned in ail sciences and in all languages, to be at the same time false in heait and counter­ feit in life. Above all things, teach the boys that truth is more than riches, more than culture, more than earthly power or position. 2. Be pure in thought, language- pure in mind and body. An impure man, young or old, poisoning the so­ ciety where he moves with smutty sto­ ries and impure examples, is a moral ulcer, a plague-spot, a leper, who ought to be treated as were the lepers of old, who were to cry " Unclean I" as a warn­ ing to save others from the pestilence. 3. Be unselfish. To care for the feel­ ings and, comforts ef others. To be polite. To be just in all dealings with others. To be generous, noble and manly. This will include a genuine reverence for the aged and things sacred. 1 Be self-reHantand self-helpfal even from early childhood. To be industri­ ous always, and self-supporting at the earliest proper age. Teach them that all honest work is honorable, and that an idle, useless life of dependence on others is disgraceful. When a boy has learned these four things, when he has made these ideas a part of his being--however young he may be, however poor, or however rich --he has learned some of the most im­ portant things he ought to know when he becomes a man. With these four properly mastered, it will be easy to find all the rest.--Home Arts. at AmAssarATMwr or MWI.KRS, There have been more than thirty attempts on the lives of Kings and rulers during as many years. The Duke of Modem, attacked in 1848; the Prince of Prussia (now the Emperor Wiliiaaxk), at Minden, in June, 1848; the late Sing of Prussia in 1852; Queen Yiotoria in 1852; an infernal-machine discovered at Marseilles on Napoleon HX's visit in 1852; the Austrian Em­ peror slightly wounded by the Hunga­ rian, Libenyez, ip 1853; attack *on King Viotor Emmanuel in 1853; also on Napoleon III., opposite the Opera Com- ique; the Duke of Parma mortally stabbed in 1854; Napoleon HI, feed at by Pianori in the Champs Elysew in 1855; a policeman seized Fuentes when aboui to fire at Queen Isabella in 1856; Milano, a soldier, stabbed King Ferdi­ nand of Naples in lp56; three Italians from London oonvicted of conspiracy against Napoleon IIL in 1858: King of Prussia twice fired at, but not hit, by the student Beker at Baden in 1861; Queen of Greece shot at by the student Brusios, in 1862; three Italians from London arrested for conspiring against Napoleon III in 1869; President Lin­ coln assassinated in 1865; the Czar at­ tacked at 8t. Petersburg in 1866 and at Paris in 1867; Prince Michael of Servia assassinated in 1868; King Amadous of Spain attacked in 1871; President of Peru assassinated in 1872; President of Bolivia in 1873; President of Ecuador in 1875; President of Paraguay in 1877, mmilar attacks upon the Kings of Prussia, Italy and Spain; and, finally, the Nihilist plot against the life of the Gsar. . A JAPANESE lady of a southern prov­ ince has lately mad6 a woman's rights demonstration by protesting against the payment of taxes unless she was allowed to vote. Her letter on the subject has been referred by the local authorities to the central Government. •«# ' ;; • ... * laze, I have got some you that is worth hearing. tnde has run away with Bill Clark, the old Governor's coachman, qnd got mar­ ried." " Why how you dew talk! can it be possible, Jim? Well, I guess well have enough to talk about now for awhile; it seemed this morning like there want no news nowhere. I'm almost glad on't, the Governor's folks set themselves up so much above any one else." M Well, Bill is a pretty good fallow; no bad habits, and has a little money laid up." " How does the old Governor and his wife feel about it?" " Oh, they are about crasy, and feel so disgraced that they can hardly hold up their heads. She is a mighty pooty girl, and only about 18, and he about 25. Tbey say she has been trying for some time to teach him all she oould, and she has« grand education; aad he has been allowed to drive out alone with her, and go with her when she rode horseback, and all the time they were sparking, but the Governor's folks thought nothing about it, as he was only a servant^ and die so much above him, but now they've got pretty well come up with." " That's so; but, as l said before, Fm glad on't; they need not feel so big." While this talk was going on between a oouple of the Governor's tenants, he and his wife were in deep consultation in ihe Governor's library. "I have been thinking," said the Governor, " that perhaps we had better overlook it, as Bill is suoh a steady fel­ low. Send for them to come home, and then fit them out for Nebraska, Kansas, or some other Western State, and in time, with Alice's teaching, and money enough to give them position, and the help that my name as father-in-law will give him, he will be apt to be put into offioe, and who knows but he may yet be sent from there to Congress? I have often thought that, if he had had the advantages for an education that I did when I was young, he would have made a mighty smart fellow." "Well, Governor, perhaps you are right. If you give him nothing he will always be poor, no doubt; and, in hav­ ing to work constantly for a livelihood, will have no time for improvement. But we must have it in the bargain that he is to make the most of his advantages and in the course of time become a classical scholar. I encouraged Alice in trying to teach him, for she said she never knew any one to learn so fast; and, during the two yean he was with us, you know how much he improved. He got so he spoke very properly; and, every moment he oould spare, he was either reading or writing." "Yes, I noticed it, wife, or I should not be ready to make him the offer I have proposed to you." Then the Gov­ ernor took a pen and wrote: "My dear daughter: You have acted very wrong, and grieved us so that we feel it very keenly, but we will try to overlook it, and, if you will both return home, .we are prepared to make you an offer which we think will work for your good. Come as soon as you like. From your grieved father and mother." Alice and her husband received the letter, and the following day started for home. As the Governor FM worth a million, at least, and had but one child except Alice, he thought he oould afford to give the newly-married oouple a hundred thousand dollars to start off with, with the understanding that if they did not make good use of it they were to have nothing more. The con­ ditions were that Bill was to have noth­ ing to do for four years that would inter­ fere with his studies, and at the end of that time consider himself a candidate for office. He promised to study very hard with Alice for a teacher. So the Governor fitted them out for their Western home, though not yet knowing exactly where it would be, and they were soon on their way toward the setting sun. Gossip was busy, meantime, and, al­ though Bill had always been a saving, industrious young man, many evil- minded persons predicted that he would spend all his money in less than four years, and be back to the Gover­ nor for more. But he did no suoh a thing; at the end of that time, in con­ sequence of the rise of real estate in which they had invested money, they were worth twice or thrice as much as the Governor had given them. And he had become a thorough scholar, and something of a linguist, and, being very fine-looking, he now made a suitable husband for Alioe; but, not yet satisfied ipth his attainments, he entered a law office for the purpose of studying law. He did not intend to become a lawyer in practice, byt wanted sufficient knowl­ edge of law to help him along in the political career to which he now looked forward. In the course of two or three years he had a law office himself, and practiced more or less when he was home; but he was most of the time away delivering political already served the Stale his year after bis sent as The Governor and his family had vis­ ited Clark Mid Alioe two 01 three times already, but they did not return the visit until they were on their way home- watd from Washington, after the close of the first session of Congress in which he had served. Alioe was still very beautiful, and was greatly admired in Washington society, acd her husband all through the term had been growing in favor. The newspapers, of oourse, had not been slow in recording these items, so their fame had preceded them, and, when they reached the Governor's house, all the people far and near, even to Lixe and her husband, whom we met in the first of our story, were ready to honor them. The Governor was satis­ fied with his $100,000 investment, as, without it, his daughter and husband could not have risen to suoh distinc­ tion ; but still said he never should have intrasted Clark with so much money only that he had discovered traits about him whidl the <WMhirii>n not possess. ." ' Pnrariisu*, COJWM. AMettCttis fast becoming, already, the greatest coffee-consuming country on the globe. Coffee is no longer a luxury, but a necessity of the humble home as well as the abode of the rich. We import annually, in round numbers, 900,000,000 pounds of ooffee, the value of which is $25,000,000. This is every year increasing, and in greater ratio than that of any nation on the globe. Our increase during the last twenty-five years has been 8| per cent., against per cent, for Europe. The substitutes for coffee which have met with favor in other countries are not popular in America. We can hardly understand now how the world got along before the days ot coffee. The Gieeks and Romans never got a scent of the glorious beverage for even centuries after it was used in Ethiopia and Abys­ sinia. During the sixteenth century it was carried down to Egypt from Arabia, and about the same time its fame began to spread over Europe. In view of its importance, the question of ooffee cult­ ure in the United States has been largely discussed and many times at­ tempted, but always failed. It is a very tender plant, and will not flourish in a climate where the thermometer falls be­ low 50 degrees. The orange tree will flourish with a temperature of 35 Those who have studied the plant, its nature and requisites, have been foroed to the oonclusion that it is simply a waste of time to experiment upon it in any portion of the United States. A KABBOW XBCAPX. As is well known, the law sometimes murders by means of circumstantial evi­ dence. One evening, a young man went to see a play. Taken with a fit of coughing, he left the theater. As he strode along, two men came rushing down the street, one of them dropping a gold watoh and chain, which the young man pioked up, and then went after the loser, running into the arms of a policeman, who marched him off to the station to explain matters. Pres­ ently a messenger arrived in hot haste, saying the thief was wanted at a certain hotel. The unfortunate prisoner was taken there, and brought face to face with a man lying on a lounge, covered with blood. " Is this the man who stabbed you?" asked the officer. "It is," said the poor fellow, falling back, never to speak again. The innocent young man was tried for murder, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged; and hanged he would have been, if, a fortnight before the day fixed for his execution, a prisoner in Sing-Sing had not confessed on his death-bed that he Irnd robbed the man of Ms watch, then liad stabbed him and run off, afterward slypjppng the watch as he ra%. - ,v> 1 i t * " . , » hto|Vt •,*'«. A HAM" MXDZtrir. " Where's mamma? " cried blue-eyed Bessie, running breathlessly into the room the other morning. "Never mind, you'll do, aunty, I only want to know something. Is my pa rich ? " "Notvery. Why?" "Oh! 'cause Benny Bend and May Monk and Kate Kinsley are out here telling about their pas, and I didmt know about mine." " Well, Bessie, FH tell you. Your pa is not too rich, and not too poor; he is just comfortably well oft." The child stood for a moment, look­ ing thoughtfully, then repeated over and over to herself, " Not weddy rich, not weddy poor, jest comferble," and went out. Presently her mother came in, Bes­ sie following her. "Well, Bessie," said she, " have you been a good girl to-day?" 1 •" *' " Why, Bessie, Xhope you have not been a bad girl?" " No, mamma." said the little thing. "Not weddy bad, not weddy good, jest mt, May L--SWATS.--111M passage of Ur. KnykendalTs Fee uid Salary bill, yester­ day, was reooaaidaMd, Ui@ bill recommitted. --The following bills wsre killed: Doing away with Grand Juries: Senator Taliaferro's Htock Yards MIL...Bills passed To compel gas oompanlMi to pay interest on de­ posits made for meters or other purposes; Mr. Davis® Tolumiooos School bill; giving Cook cotinty Judges power to appoint receivers in vacation; amending the sot in re­ gard to judgments aud decrees; allowing a Coroner's jury to order a txwt-mortem exami­ nation; to reroute the practice of dentistry; toameud the law in regard to fish-Waye; for the incorporation of loan associations; amend­ ing the Township Insurance law; Including swine infected by cholera among the animals prohibited being brought in the ot\te or per­ mitted to rnn at Urge, and adding 10 the pen­ alty named a civil action for damages occa­ sioned thereby. HOUSE --The Hinds Tempsraoee Mil, after a brief contest, was mado the special order for Thursday morning, and the Anti-Treating hili was ordered to a third reading... .Mr. Powell offered a joint raaoiatioa to adjourn sine die May £3, which was adopted, with Si rus, the principal be