A Joker Joked With

When the Elks held their initiatie" on Tuesday night of last week Aid Ferguson was presentad with a hand' some travelling bag, initial to his re" moval to !át. Louis, Mo. A praotical joke whioh caused considerable merriment was played upon James Kelly, of Detroit. Kelly is au old sbowman and used to be Forepangh's right hand man. He painted the big white elephant which Forepaagh took aronnd the country to gull the great American public with the fairy story of its Siamese origin. On stepping from the train that eveniug an oflioer iroceeded to place Mr. Kelly in custody. He was told that he was wanted for jumping a board bill at the Uook house Mr. Kelly remembered that npon a recent, risit here he had been in a hurry to oatch a train and had left his bill unpaid at the suggestion of the boys that they wolri take care of it for him. He thonght thafe they had been direlect in the dischaijue of the courtesy assumed by them. He said that he would settle, but Offlcer Armbruster said that overy board bill jumper talked the same way. The officer thereup m took him to the marshal 's office, from there to the Cook house, where Mr. Kelly desired that the Elks be sent for. They came but didn't stay after they fonnd that their friend was in trouble. They fled precipitately.disgraced that aguestof theirs should be wanted for jumping a board bill. Well, just as Mr. Kelly was getting beyond the expostulatiug period and had coma to the idea that throngh some horrible mistake he had come here to ocoupy a cell at the jail instead of a place at a festivo board, the jokers made known the f act that warrant had been fletitious and that he, instead thia time of making someone else a guy, had been made the buttfor some innocent merrimeut bimself. Mr. Kelly and his friends took the fiotitious warrant back with them to Detroit and it will be given a place oa the wall in the Detroit lodge room.