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PLAINREALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pufc. MCHENRY. - - ILLINOIS ,r SEEKING FOR ^*£4^ l jOt*r the waters wide, - • fidfae by the stormy tide, Come 1 to thee; „ .,~ ^f?«7 Whereth«bright to»mleapshttfrr ' " Apita fit th« frowning sky k " , Far out, at soft. gi? - ' Cotsrtiss a -st'rr Sr-' e, Breasting he ocean wave, |p\ **' Thro rough or mnilinc sea, Come I, my love, to thee. «!>,}»• • &A Over the boundleaa sea*, M, •, ^NTf' •, W«ft by the evening breeilfe S-: Far tc the we«t; n,.. «•/... ; . ytbere the I right, sun stlw gltalHli i&j W*«PP'rt in its golden beams, Kite; j Grad ed t o rest; Where the eve strains to see Ktj /, • Bright gates of liberty, £/* Over the distant sea. , Come I, nay live, to thee. A t . O w r t h e m i d n i g h t d e e * » A*-' • Onward mv course I'll 1 Seeking for tLe\ 5 :• A" JjOTc will my path direct,; " &.c" ,%,Jr Love -will my nark protect, I*' 'v From dangers free. ..f t' Then when the morning light f"*A ' Steals o'er the shades of night, to, With hope and constancy' Btill will I seek lor thee. Toss'd by the •wavetof &trlf«, y '• Over the sea of life. aV . f. Death as the goal; §&-• 1 When ft ars my breast unman, w . •:' Onlv your prebenco <pfcu S '• ' Lighten my soul; ' effe..?i; Btill your sweet voice I bear, Calling the wend'rer near, Still will i seek for h.e, thro' eternity. RSS •sK; fW(L FRIENDS. ' loft'. clear morrifSg fn January,-- that terrible January during the jiiege when famine was knocking at 'the nates of 1 aris,--M. Morrissot, a i clock-maker by trade, was strolling iflowly along the outer boulevards, hv'&s with bowed head and bands thrust deep into his pockets he IWalked on engrossed in his own sad f'i. thoughts, he suddenly stopped before j* • a man whom he recognized as an old *: friend. It was M. hauvage, whose acquaintance he had m&de on the fivsr bank. » On each Sunday before the war S Uorrissot used to set out at dawn ^ frith a bamboo cane in his hand and >{ a tin box strapped to his back. He jjy •>>/> Ar£[cntsui! RiiiroEd tis v- a far as Colombes, and then walked to the Isle of Marante. Scarcely arrived at that dreamy place he would begin to fish, and would stay there till nightfall. > On each Sunday he used to meet a atout. jovial fellow, M. Sauvage of the Rue Notre Dame de Dorette, Who was also an enthusiastic fisher- man. Th?y oiten passed a half day together, sitting side by side, their tnes in their hands and their feet angling over the * current, and a friendship soon * sprang up between ^bern. "• On some days they would not ex­ change a word with one another, but they grew inta that perfect under­ standing which exists between per­ sons who have similar tastes and who rb£xperience similar emotions. During the bright t-pring mornings -fes they sat together in the warm aunshine Morrissot would say to his companion: "Ha, how nice this is," .. .fod M. Sauvage would reply, "I ?!, V. snow of nothing better." v? ^ r And towards the close of an autum »kv • v**day, when the heavens were brighfc- ifned by the glories of the setting aun, and the hu^e masses of crimson j ^Clouds were mirrored on the surface ?«•< f > " of the stream, and the entire land- V *'j scape was bathed in a flood of golden \4 r^Jtaht, M. Sauvage would look at his )h |.'t * companion and say, with a smile: "What a picture!" ».j,' ^ 4 An<^ Muriasot, without taking his $ I , ^ feyes from his t oat, would reply: 0r: , i "It is much better that the boule- | ^ vards, isn't it?" I IL K ' H The two friends shook hands coi- " \ diallyr but bcith felt a tinge of sad­ ness at meeting under such circum- " stances. M. Sauvage sighed and murmured: f-iK, iS: 1 "»'• "What a condition of things!" Morissot gloomily replied: "And what fine weather! Do you realize that it is New Year's Day?" 1 hey began to walk side by side and Morissot continued: "And our Ashing? How pleasant it< is to think of it!" M. Sauvage demanded- '•When shall we ever be able to go | again*" They entered a little cafe and ^1; drank together an absinthe and then presumed their promenade along the ']' boulevard. i Morissot stepped suddenly: u'.^ "Another glass?" M. Sauvage assented: '&.* ' "At your pleasure," and t.hey went %*{'• into another caf& When they came <s out M. Sauvage exclaimed: •V i "Supposing we go." / fe- • ••Where?" "Why, Ashing, to be sure." "But where?" i "To our old place. The French * advance posts are near Colombes. I « know Col. Dumoulin and I am sure 4 he ffill let us pass.'* Morissot trembled with anticipa­ tion. ' "Good." he cried. "I am with ^ you," and they parted to set their | books and lines. f« An hou - later they were walking side by side on the highway, and * soon reached the villa in which the > Colonel had established his head- ?• quarters. He smiled at their request ' and good-naturedly granted them a * pass. By 11 o'clo k they had passed the cuter pickets and Colombes, and "I found themselves at the border of a small vineyard that 6loped down to­ ward the Seine. Before them lay the apparently 2 dead and deserted village of Argen- teuil. The heights of Orgemant and Sanneis dominated the landscape.and this broad plain that extends as far { as Tsantene was a picture of desola­ tion with its leafles trees and uray, \ bare earth. I M. hauvage pointed toward the summit of the hills and murmured: ^ s »The Prussians are there." I•.-•'The Prussians.At the sound Hf that name a feeling of fear and apprehension sized upon the two frieads, for although neither of them bad ever^een a Prussian, yet to hear that name pronounced was to invoke pictures of invading hordes roaminc through their dear France, pillaging and massacreing on every hand. Such terrible reports of the ferocity of the Prussians had erept into b^eigM Paris from tb« $ x. r':i rouikdtnjr country that a sort of su­ perstitious terror had attached itself to the natural hatred for these all- powerful and victorous invaders. Morissot stammered: "Kli- Supposing we should' meet tbem?" M. Sauvage replied with that Par* isian joviality which never deseited him: ' We would offer them a fried fish." But still Intimidated by the ominous silence, they hesitated to venture across the tield. At length M. Sauv­ age decided: * "Come! Come!" And stooping down they crept through the vine­ yard, dodging from b..sh to bush, straining the^r. eyes and ear£ to de­ tect the slightest suspicion cf pur­ suit A stretch of bare ground remained to be crossed. After a long hesita­ tion they summoned their courage, and running at full speed attained the river bank and concealed them­ selves among the dry reeds. Morissot listened with bis ear to the ground for sounds of pursuit, but be heard nothing, and upon this assurance of their safety they began to tlsh. IIL Before ihem the abandonel Isle of Marante shut out the view of the opposite shore. The little restaurant was closed, and appeared to have been deserted for years. M. Salvage caught the first gudg­ eon, Morissot the second, and from time to time they polled in tbeir lines with a fish wiggiingf on the hook. The sun poured its warm rays upon them, and, absorbed in tbeir pastime which had been so long denied tbem, they soon became oblivious to their surroun inga Suddenly a dull sound seemed to hurst from the earth. The cannonade was being resumed. Morissot turned his head, and away to tiie left he perceived the great silhouette of Mt. Valarien, which bore upon its brow a tuft of smoke. Soon a second jet Of flame shot out from the fortress, shortly succeeded by a third intonation. Then others lollowed, and at regular intervals the mountain sent forth its death-deal­ ing breath and exhaled its milky vapors, which, rising slowly in the calm atmosphere, hung like a cloud above it. M. Sauvage shrugged his shoulders. "They are beginning again," he said Morissot, who was anxiously watch­ ing his float, was suddenly seized with che anger of a perceful man whose calm is disturbed, and grum­ bled; "isn't it stupid to kill one another like that?" M. >auvage replied: "They are worse than the beasts themselves." And Morissot, who had just pulled in another tlsh, declared: And t° think that this sort of thing will continue as long as there are governments >ike this." , M. Sauvage stopped him. ' The Republic would not havede- tlared war--" but Morissot inter­ rupted him, saying: "With kings you have external war, with republics you have internal wars » And then they began a tranouil discussion and solution of the great political problems with the limited reason of peaceful, quiet men gwho agree upon the one point that they never will enjoy full liberty. Meanwhile the thunder of Mount Yalarien continued incessantly, at each discharge demolishing so many French homes and lives, rudely dis­ pelling so many happy dreamy so many anticipated pleasures, and open­ ing in thd hearts of women auu mothers in this and other countries wounds which will never beaL "Such is life," declared M. Sauv­ age. "Sav rather such is death," lightly replied Morissot. Suddenly they trembled with fear, realizing that some one marchcd be­ hind them, and turning their heads, they saw four German soldiers cover­ ing them with their muskets. Their lines slipped from tbeir hands ana fell into the river; and within a few moments they were seized, bound, thrown into a boat and carried to the island. Behind the house which they thought deserted they found a squad of German soldiers. A bearded giant sitting astride a chair and smoking a huge pipe with porcelain bowl asked of them in ex­ cellent Ifrencb: "Well, gentleman, have you had good luck?" Bv way of reply one of the soldiers deposited at the officer's feet the basketful of fish which he had taken care to bring with him. The Prussian smiled. * 'Ah, that's not baa. But another thing first. Listen. t "To me you are two SB$ut sent to watch me. I take you ̂ nd 1 shall shoot you. You pretend to be fish­ ing in order tp observe me the bet­ ter. You have falien Into my hands --so mu h the w^rse for you. Such is war. > / "But as you passed the advance post* you surely have the pass word with which to return. Teil ittc mc and I will release you." The two friends, pale and tremb­ ling, their hands agitated by a slight, nervous trembling, remained silent. The officer continued: "No one will ever know it You will return in peace. Tbe secret will aisappear with you. To refuse is im­ mediate death. Choose." The two friends made no reply. The Prussian calmly said while pointing towards the river; "Think that in five minutes you will be at the bottom of that stream. In five minutes. You have families?" The two frienas stood rigidly erect and made no reply. The German I gave a few orders in his own lan- •• guase, and then moved his chair in j order not to be too near the prison- I I ers. Twelve men with loaded mus­ kets then pla ed themselves at a dis­ tance of twenty feet The officer continued: "I will give you one minute~-oot a second more." He arose and brusquely approached the two Frenchmen. Taking Mor­ issot by the arm he led him a short distance away and said in a low voice: ^ "iiuick, the pass word. Your com- rad#» will never know, f Morissot made no reply. The Prussian took Sau"age aside and made the same proposal to him. M. Sauvage made no reply. They again found themselves side by side. The officer gave a command, and the soldiers raised tbeir arms. By chance Morissot's glance fell upon tne basket of fish lving on the ground a few paces siway. The shin­ ing scales of the sti 1 living fish sparkled in the sunlighfc In spite of himself his eyes filled with tears and he Stammered: "Good-by, Monsieur Sauvage.*'; V M. Sauvage responded: ' i ^ "Good-by, Monsieur Morissot" They shook hands. The officer cried: "Fire!" The twelve reports rang out like one. M. Sauvage fell like a block. Morissot, who was taller, wavered, turned, and fell across bis compan­ ion, face upwards, a flood of blood rush ng from hi? breast. The German gave a new order, whereupon his men marched away, but returned presently with cords and stones, which they attached to th§ feet of the corpses. Two soldiers took Morissot by the head and feet and bore him to the river, and two others followed with Sauvage. The bodies, poised for an instant, were thrown into the stream, and describing a curve as they tell, plunged feet formost into the cur­ rent. The water foamed and boiled and then became calm, while a few little waves reached as far as the shore. The surface was slightly stained with blood. The officer, still serene and unruffled, quietly remarked: "Now it is the turn of Che fishes." "Then, turning toward the house, he noticed the basket of fish on the grass. He picked it uiv examined it* smiled and cried: "Wilhelm!" A soldier wearing a white apron run up at his call, and the Prussian, throwing the fish to him, com­ manded: "Fry these for me while they are still alive. They will be delicious." Then he resumed his pipe. --Amer­ ican Cultivator. LAW AND THE LOBBY. A STATE'S ATTEMPT TO ABOL­ ISH THE THIRD HOUSE. The Names of All Counael to Appear Be­ fore Committees Must Be Entered with the Sergeant-at"Arms--New York's Dis­ appearing Lobby. Mr. Joseph B. Bishop has written for the Century a paper entitled "The Price of Peac§." This is a startling revelation of the blackmail levied upon business and corporate in­ terests by legislative strikers in New York State. The following is an ex­ tract from his paper: In writing about the lobby, in his "American Commonwealth," Mr. James Bryce ?ays: "All legislative bodies which control important pe­ cuniary interests are as su^e to have a lobby as an army to have its camp- followers. Where the body is, there will the vultures be gathered. Great and wealthy states, like New York and Pennsylvania, support the larg­ est and most active lobbies." This was written several years ago, and was, like all the same author's com­ ments upon Amcricau affairs, singu­ larly penetrating and accurate. The lobby evil was then substantially the same in all the older and wealthier States, and the problem of coping witb it Dy means of laws for Its regu­ lation was a subject of current dis­ cussion. But within recent years there have been developments which have resulted virtually in th discon­ tinuance of the lobby in the richest State, and in the establishment in its place of the political boss as' the disposer and regulator of all legisla­ tion. Since Mr. Bryce wrote also one State, Massachusetts, has passed a law for the regulation and restraint of the lobby. The Massachusetts statute went into effect at the legislative session of 1891. It re juires the sergeant-at- arms of the Legislature to keep two dockets, one for the names of all per­ sons employed as counsel before com­ mittees, and the other for the names of all agents employed in connection witb any legislation atlecting the pe­ cuniary interests of any individual, association, or private or public cor­ poration. Upon these dockets the names of each eounsel and agent must be registered within one week of the date of his "employment, with the length of time it is to continue, .the special subject or subjects of leg­ islation to which his employment re­ lates, and the name and business ad­ dress of hisempioyer. Whenever ad-; ditional subjects of legislation are as- i signed to an agent or counsel, they ! must be entered on the books in such i a manner that the entries opposite the name of each employer will show all the subjects of legislation in rela- i tioh io which any counsel or agent is ! employed by him, and that the en- ; tries opposite the name of each agent: or counsel will show all the subjects , of legislation with reference to which he is employed. No person whose name is n registered is allowed to appear as counsel before any com­ mittee, or to act in any manner as agent in respect to auy legislation, and no person, or corporat.on, or as­ sociation, is permitted to employ as counsel or agent any person who is not registered. Each register or docket is closed at the end of the ses­ sion, and uew ones must be opened at the ensuing session. Within thirty days after adjournment, every per­ son, corporation, or association, whise name appears on the docket as hav* ing employed any counsel or agent, must render to the Secretary of the Commonwealth a full, complete, and detailed statement, sworn to before a justice of the peace, of all expenses paid or incurred in connection with promoting or opposing in any manner, directly or indirectly, the passage of legislation. \ iolatioa of any pro­ vision of the act is punishable by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000 lor each offence; and any person seeking to act as counsel or agent contrary to its provisions is liable to the same penalties, ana in audition will be disbarred from act­ ing in such capacity for a period of threa years front the date, of convic­ tion. The law demonstrated its uaefiti- cess to one mp«NHMfluwfiifttely upon going into operation. At the first session of the Legislature acting under its provision* many profession­ al lobbyists, including all those of the most notorious character, de­ clined to put their names upon the dockets and departed forever from the State House. Some of them took up their occupation in the hotel lob­ bies and other places frequented by members of the Legislature, but thev plied their trade under such disad­ vantages that most of tbem aban­ doned itperraanentlv not long after­ ward. TjhW/'regular counsel of the railway companies and other corpor­ ations appeared as usual and put their names on the dockets. At the close of the session of 1891, the Sec- retary of the Commnawealth sent to the Attorney General the names of sixty-seven employers of counsel and agents who had failed to m^tke sworn statements in accordance with the law. l'be Attorney Generjal sub­ mitted the cases to the grahd jury, but no indictments were returned. Since 1891 the Attorney General has sent notice to persons whose names liaye been given him as those of em­ ployers failing to comply with the law, and they have thereupon made the re >uired returns. As to the general working of this law, it is the verdict of all observers that it has made the air of the State House ste .dily clearer each year, the numberof lobbyists growing smaller at each succeeding session, as the official figures show. Let us now consider the case of New York, in which State, as I have said, the lobby has been superseded by a political boss who dispenses acd regulates all legislation. It has been a part of my professional duty for many years to keep close watch upon legislation at Albany, and to exam­ ine every bill that was introduced in either house of the Legislature I began to notice four years ago that certain forms of "strikes"--that iSs bills against corporations, designed to reduce their profits or otherwise injure them, which had beenfamilia; for many years--were not so plenti­ ful as formerly. This was in th? session of 1891. In the session o 1 1892 a still further diraunition was perceptible. In 1893 there was a total void. Not a "strike" of any size or consequence was to be found among the bills from the opening to the close of the session. In 1894 a few of the familiar ones reappeared again, but thev were of compara­ tively slight importance, and were able to make no progress. When the "strikes" began to fall off in 1891, loud complaints were heard from the lobby, and when the supply failed entirely in 1893, the lobbyists disap­ peared from the Capital, and, what was no less significant, members who for years had been notorious legisla­ tive jobbers began to complain au­ dibly that there was no longer "any­ thing in the business," since the bosses took all the profits. During the session of the Legisla­ ture of 1891', there were rumors in circulation that a new system had been put in operation, and that in­ stead of ' sending up the stuff to Al­ bany,"--to quote Mr. Tilden's phrase in description of the lobby method --a way had been opened for the di­ rect application of the "stuff" in New\orkCitv. I asked one attor­ ney of a powerful corporation, who bad' spent much time in Albany every winter tor many years, if he had any information on the point which he dould give me. His answer was that tie could only say that for the first time since his connection with the corporation he had not been asked to go to Albany to oppose any measure either in committee or else­ where. 1 asked another attorney whose knowledge of the ways of cor­ porations was intimate and large, what he thought about the matter, and his rep y was that if the truth could be got at, he suspected it would be found that every corporation liable to attack at Albany had ' 'bought peace" for itself in N ew York City. ZEALOUS SERVANT. •law He Involved lilt Master la Bmbar- raMinc Sltnatlona. A superior officer of the Beune gar- riB«& was, some time ago, the hero of a «rro?t amusing adventure. Col. Mfasse had received from Mine. Voisln an invitation to dinner; but on the day appointed, arid just as he was about to start,, he was seized with a violent attack of neuralgia, and de­ cided to forego the pleasure in store for him. The Col. wrote a letter of apology, called' hiS orderly and said: "Guy, you will give this letter to Mme Yoisins jind then go and fetch we my dinner. ~ ' Here the plot commenced Ouy setoff, after carefully secreting the letter in his bieast-pocket along with hid tobacco ppuch He arrived at Mme. Yoisin's, delivered his mes­ sage, and stood as rigid as a statue. The lady of the house was surprised, and inquired what he was waiting for. Guy replied: "The Colonel told me to fetch him his dinner." Mme. Yoisin saw the man's mis­ take, gave certain orders, and the servants handed the faithful lines- man a set of dishes emitting fragrant odors. Moreover, Mme. V oisin slipped a half bottle of champagne into the soldier's pocket, and said: "You will serve this to the Colonel at desert" Guy came back, and upon my word, the restaurant seemed to have pro­ vided such a host of good things, that the Colonel got up and took his seat at the table. Over the soup be slowly began to recover his appetite, M) his no small surprise. The side- dishes made him quite ravenous; with the entrees his pain disappeared; he was stupefied at the roast meat, and dumfounded at the game, and still his wonder grew at the marvel­ ous dishes supplied by his chop-house keeper. At the desert, the orderly, obeying his instructions, set the bot­ tle of champagne on the table. He was asked for an explanation, when everything came out. The Colonel, in despair, thought the matter over, and then gave his orderly ten franc?, telling him to buy a bunch of flowers and present it from him to Mme. Volsin. Then our Colonel, satisfied that he had done his best under the trying cir.-umstanres, set,tied down in an easy chair and composed him­ self to sieep. An hour and a half later the door opened, and Guy walked in and gravely deposited two five-franc pieces on the table. The Colonel questioned him with some anxiety. "The lady paid for the flowers," said the honest warrior, apparently well pleased with the general turn of affairs, Mme Yoisin, on receiving the bouquet, had given the soldier five francs by way of a tip, on receiving which the latter replied: "it isn't five francs, please ma'am, it is ten francs." Col. Masse was confined to his bed for three days, to the great alarm of the whole of the garrison staff.--Le Progres Iilustre. NO SAND IN THE SUGAR. Flvtng Phrtw Officers of the steamer Essex re port a school of flying fish in the Rappahanock River, Virginia. Flying fish swim in shoals in number from a dozen to a hundred or more. They often all leave the water at once, darting through the air in the same direction for two hundred yards or more, and then descending to the water quickly, rising again, and then renewing their flight. Sometimes I the dolphin may be seen in rapid pui- I suit, taking gi%at leaps out of the | water and gaining upon its prey, ; which take shorter and shorter | flights, vainly trying to escape, until ! they sink exhausted. Sometimes the i the larger seabirds catch flying fish i in the air. The question whether ; the flyin.< tlsh use their tins at all as ! wings is not fully decided. The fins j remain moist .......... ! Wear a Tag. Before starting on a lourney see that your name is clearly marked on ! some article of your dothing, as well • as with your address in your pocket- : book. In case of accident it may be Sf incalculable advantage to jou to e immediately identified. While : there are frequent and terrible disas* I ters on our large public conveyances the relative loss of life is much less than by the older and less rapid methods. At all times it-Is desirable to go tagged, and if people would wear clothes properly marked or carry other means of identification about with them, there wouldn't be so ma'ny missing peopie unaccounted for, and many an occupant of a nameless grave would be identified. Letters stitched into the bands of a skirt or other garment is pr ibably the surest method.--St. Louis Republic they did cruel execution It happen that some stout old gentle-1 man would be precipitated for some ' distance at a lively rate under the hot sun. and would disappear from sight, as a brisk an i fiery execution of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" car* ried him steaming round a corner. Like the old fable of the frogs and tbeir slayer, it was decided fun for the two w eked youths, but something more serious for their victims^ « , ilrl crant.lo. ,A DETE0IT BUILDER. A Noted Chemist Says M oat of the Food Hold Are Pure and Wholesome. Singularly exaggerated ideas con­ cerning the adulteration of food are very generally held, according to Dr. H. W. Wiley, chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture. Sand, for instance, is not sold with sugar--at least in the United States. The granulated and lump sugars in the market are almost absolutely pure; powdered sugar sometimes, though rarely, contains a little flour or starch, and low grade sugars are impure chiefly through the molasses and water they are made to absorb In manufacture. Not as good a re­ port can be given of syrups. There is but litt.e pure maple1 syrup, most of what is sold as such being a mix­ ture of glucose or canned syrups with a small proportion of the product of th • maple, while in an imitation actually protected by a patent the maple flavor is given by an extract of hickory bark. Liquid honey is largely adulterated with glucose. Of comb honey, however, only that in bottles and jars is impure,the old impression that comb honey on the frame is adulterated having been proved to be erroneous. Ground coffee is so largely adulterated with chicory, peas, beans, etc., that it is rarely found pure, and even the unground berry is im tated. Tea is rarely mixed with foreign leaves, but frequently has its weight increased by the addi­ tion of salts of iron and copper--ma­ terials quite prejudicial to health. Cocoa and chocjlate are largely adul­ terated with starch atd sugar, and products claimed to be greatly im­ proved as to digestibility may have little of the virtues of the original cocoa bean left in them. A danger in canned goods is the use of adulter­ ated tin, which may contain as high as 12 per cent, of lead, the organic salts formed by the corrosion of the lead being always poisonous. The popular practice of coloring canned peas with copper is very objectlona ble. The use of preservatives, such as salicylic acid, is not without risk, while an occasional source of danger is the development of nitrogenous bodies called ptomaines in preserved meats. The above are illustrations of the principal food adulterations, which, though bad enough, are in significant in comparison with the startling reports that have been pub lished. Much the greater part of foods we eat ie pure and wholesome. Odd, bat True. Rather a curious subject bas been engaging my attention of late isaysa recent writer). Why is it that one never dreams of smelling, although, no doubt, certain perfumes--that of cook.ng, for instance--might produce a dream, say; of a delicious dinnei? I have mentioned this to a number of my friends, who all acknowledge that my statement is true; but, with­ out advancing any theory on thesub- ject, they agree that one dreams of eating, talking, walking, flying hear­ ing both conversation and musical "sounds, but never of smelling. | Pb^l*e are more ant to believe ! what they read thau what they heat An Innocent Joke* To force a crowd of people to move fast or slow at their will was a fa­ vorite joke with two young men who had a talent for music. When trav eling together they would seek a re tired window, or even the roof of the hotel where they were stopping, and with a drum and fife, play a march for pedestrains below. It was their delight to see these people going faster or slower, as they chose Sometimes a brisk measure was se lected, and then the stream of peopi flowed fast; again a slow tune set their feet to crawling. It often hap­ pened th.it the attention of the musicians would be attracted to the peculiar walk of some person who. having no music in his soul, could not be brought into step. In that case they periormed Mahomet's miracle of the mountain, and, ac­ commodating fife and drum to his gate, brought the rest of the street into the same pace. On warm da\> What bineers? HE TELLS A REMARKABLE • i m CAMS <0 MCTKOIT TEAKS AGO. It Was Mutiny. A tall, lank old fellow, whd$e face bad been tanned by sun and wind till it was almost black as that of a negro, walked up the stairs in tbe Posto.iice building today and stumped around in the corridor till be found the Marshal's office. The chief clerk received him and aftor ho lad taken a seat he said inj».iioar$e whisper: • •' "It's a mutiny." . •-•;.• "Hey?" asked the eterk, biting his pen and frowning intently at tbr visitor. "It's a mutiny." "Mutiny where?1* < "'N the high seHA" "High seas, where?" "Eyster Bay." : "Oyster Bay9 Well, goo) vessel? Who are tbe m When did it happen?" Bill are the mutineer. Bill are my mate. We sails the Clara schooner on the sound with pleasure parties. Wednesday we took a party to Eyster Point. It was a good party and t.be$ treated Bill too well. When he tooklibe wheel to come home he had a lot of jig-water aboard and felt good. He skinned along the rocks just seem' how close he could come to 'em. I yells at him, but he started singin' and just then he scraped tbe boat over another rock. So I made a jump and (aught him and threw him away and took the wheel. I'tti 4 Jill he's only to, tut I can lick Bill when he's sober. When he's full of jig-water that's different. So he sasses up to me and gives me a biff on tbe nose. I couldn't giye up the wheel, so I sez to him: 'Bill, you and me's been friends, but we ain't friends no more. You've hit me on the nose and I'm your captain, so that's mutiny and I'll have the law on ye.' One long-legged cuss in the party said that hittin' the captain on the nose was piracy, not mutiny, but knew better. So when we gets ashore I gets a warrant from the old justice and Bill was arrested and we all goes over to the court next day, but the darned old judge, says he: 'I hain't got no jurisdiction. This crime was committed in Queens County and this is a Suffolk County Court. 'Sez I, 'Judge, if you hain't got no jurisdiction, I'll go out and get it for you. all you want, for that there Bill hit me, and by gum, I'll put him through for it.' But nothin' would do that Judge but let Bill go. So I comes here to tbe city and sees the police, and they says 'Jo Over and see the Marshal. The clerk explained that he was very sorry, but he could not bang Bill, as after an investigation of the latest maps he founa that the place where the assault on the captain's nose occurred was not on the high seas, after all. All right," said the old fellow, philosophically. "He called me an old moss-backed scollop. If be takes that bajk I'll let up, but if he don't, by gum, I'll catch him some time when he's sober, an' I'll plow an acre of ground with nis nose."--Brooklyn Eagle. Exclusive Communities. The number of ants dwelling to> gether in a community, according to Sir John Lubbock, is sometimes as great as five hundred thousand. They are always friendly toward each other, no quarrel ever having been observed between two ants mem hers of the same community. They are, however, very exclusive, and regard an immigrant with horror. When an ant of the same species belonging to another nest appears among them he is promptly taken by tne leg or antenna and put out. It would naturally be surmised that this dis­ tinction was made by means of some communication. To test whether they could recognize each other with­ out signs, attempts were made to render tbem insensible, first by chlo­ roform and afterwards by whisky. None of the ants would voluntary degrade themselves by getting drunk." Finally fifty ant? were taken, twenty-flve from one com­ munity and twenty-tlve f.orn an- other, and dipped into whisky until intoxicated. They were then ap­ propriately marked with a spot of paint and placed on a table where the ants from one nest wore feeding. The sober ones noticed the drunkards and seemed much perplexed. At length they took tbe interlopers to the edge of the moat surrounding the table and dropped each one into the water. Their comrades, how­ ever, they carried home and placed in the ne^t, where they slept off the effects of the liquor. fjowell and Poe. Lowell's friendship with Poe was not destined to good fortune. There bad been mutual good-will and re- spect, with kindly offices, on both sides. The connection of Poe with Briggs in the editorial conduct of the Broadway Journal was the occasion of an exchange of v»ews and facts between Briggs and Lowell which left Poe's reputation very much im­ paired in Lowell's judgment £$ Poe's admiration for "the author of 'Rosaline,'" on the other hand, did not survive tbe lines in "The Fable for Critics," in which his own portrait was not inaptly drawn; after Briggs ceased to be bis co-editor, Poe attacked Lowell as a plagiarist, and the latter expressed his resentment at length in a passage to be found in his published "Letters"; Lowell, too, had lately met Poe just recovering from a spree, and the impression then received was sufficient of itself to terminate thei • relations. A short time after, in October, 1845, occurred the public scandal of Poe's visit to B. ston t J read a poem before the Boston Lyceum, which confirmed him in his life-long dislike of tne Bostonians. Later, in an un­ published letter to Mr.F. W.Thomas, early in 1849, Poe denouueed Lowell with some contempt, and made a public disclosure of his changed at­ titude by an unfavorable review of •'The Fable for Criti s," in The Southern Literary Messenger, in Feb­ ruary of that year.--Scxibaer's Maga­ zine. Xwt nwf*t Xxperlene* Wortby SettonBi Attention. {Tram the Detroit Evening News.) £ Away out Gratiot avenue, far from':^ the din and turmoil of the business center, there are many attractive homes. The intersecting streets are. ;.i' Id wide, clean and shaded by large leaf- ^ , covered, trees, antl the people you meet 4 are typical of industry, economy and' ; honest toil. There are many pretty H residences, but none more inviting inrw;\^ its neatness and hcme-like comforV 4\ t than that of Mr. Levi Elsey, the well- < - known buLlder and contractor, at 74' .<1 Moran street, just off Gratiot. Mr. Elsey is an old resident of Detroit, /? having moved here about forty years ^ ago. He has erected hundreds o! H] houses in different parts of the city,, • • * and points with pride to such buildings J as the Newberry & McMullan and.\A Campau blocks, in which he displayed his ability as Superintendent. "I have seen Detroit grow from 4 village to a city," he observed (yesterV '* •'?>« day, in conversation with the writer, . "and I don't think there are man^"' ^ towns in America to-day equal to it in'7 point of beauty. I know almost every• .' body in the city, and an incident which? : recently happened in my life has in- terested all my friends. ' "•*%(> "It is now about eight years ago; since I was stricken down with my4 first case of illness. One cold, bluster-/ ing day I was down town, and through; my natural carelessness at that time iy permitted myself to get chilled righ*^ through. When I arrived home that * evening I felt a serious pain in my left leg. I bathed it that night, but by morn­ ing I found it had grown worse. In fact, it was so serious that I sent for: , ^ my family physician, and he informed1. " y; ine that 1 was suffering from varicos® " veins. My leg swelled up to doublo*.. ? its natural Bize and the pain increased . ' in volume. The agony was simply , -! awful. I was laid up and never lett ; my bed for eight weeks. At times ; felt as though I would grow frantid ; with pain. My leg was bandaged and was propped up in the bed at an of 30 degrees, in order to keep th<i" ' blood from flowing to my extremi«^)v< ties. " ^' 4r,J "I had several doctors attending mef r but I believe my own judgment helped « me better than theirs. After a siege> * of two months I could move around; still I was on the sick li^t, and had tqfe: doctor myself for years. I was never really cured, and suffered any amount of anguish. "About two years ago I noticed an article in the Evening News about my friend, Mt. Northruj, the Woodward' f avenue merchant. In an intervie# with him he stated that he had used . Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo» f ple, and that they cured him. I kce\t* ' j| him very well, having built his houifi^; lj oirfc Woodward avenue, and I thought r j; I would follow his suggestion. I must. !;] confess I did so with marvelous suo- - cess. From the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing t^ f ] ! be a new man. The / acted on me like i' a magical stimulant. The pain de» j j parted, and I soon was as strong and ! j healthy as ever. Before trying th^l ii Pink Pills I had used any amount o£! j i other medicine without any noticeable ^ benefit. But the Pills cured me, an# Hi I was myself again. 1 [I "When a person finds himself re^ j >| lieved and en oying health he is apt td l |r| expose himself again to another at^rjj tack of il ness. Some three months ago I stopped taking the Pink Pills and from tne day I did so, I noticed # | I,; change in my condition. A thort time since I renewed my habit of taking them with the same beneBcial result# i ; which met me formerly. I am again nearly as strong as ever, although I j1; am a man about 55 years of age. I | i j tell you. sir, the P nk Pills are a most wonderful medicine, and if thev do aa well in other cases as they did in mine » they are the best in the world. J freely recommend them to any suf­ ferer." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale; People contain, in a condensed form* all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They aie an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head­ ache, the after effects of la grippe, pal­ pitation of the heart, pale and faiiow complexions, and all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills arw sold by all dealers, or will le sent post­ paid on receipt of price (50 cents a bojf, or six boxes for $ .50--they are nevejfr sold in bulk or by the 100), Dy address­ ing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Sche­ nectady, N. Y. 'Si Dumas and His Dogs. Monte Crista never had its doors closed, and Dumas the elder fed a reg­ iment. The hungry trooped there. It often happened that there was not enough for dinner. He had a dog, as h< spitable as was his master, and that dog invited twelve other dogs. Dumas' factotum-in-chief wanted to dri.e off the whole pack. "Michel," said the greatest of mod­ ern romance makers, "I have a sociil^ position to fill, it entails a fixed amount of trouble and expense. You say I have thirteen dogs, and that they t are eating me put of house and home. Thirteen! That is an unlucky num- "Monsieur, if you will permit m&jj. there is nothing left tor me to da I j i must cha -e them all away." "Never, Michel, never. Go at oaee f and find me a fourteenth dog."--Our Dumb Animals. ; Strange. Friends. 'Affection between racehors^^wnd cats is rare enough to make it worth while to put on record two instances of it. Lord Godolphin owned a famous Barb horse, of which a cat was so fond that it was always to be found near it, or nestling on its back. When the hor.-e died in 1".53, aged 29 years, the cat refused all food, pined away, and died of grief. In the other case the racehorse showed the more active fondness, for it would pick up the cat with its mouth without hurting it, and then place it on its back. > flSijfh#- • ' Fruit TreeSt The German custom of some one_ go­ ing, in a state of nudity, at midnight on Christmas eve, to bind the fruit trees with ropes of straw,or the frugal housewives shaking the crumbs from the table cloth around their roots in order that they become more fruitful, clearly points to the mysterious in­ fluence attributed by the ancient Ger­ mans to the time of the Twelve Nights. In the Tyrol the fruit trees for a similar reason, are soundly beaten. -:-1-:HiLot« of Cow». There is one milch cow In this' try to every four inhabitants. . . •V m