Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-03-10

Win ohileS Adkins. Inc Two met and
the young woman, who is masculine in
many respects, proposed the elopement
Ihey rode across the country to Milton,
where they the Chesapeake and Ohio for
lronton, Ohio, where they were married
They returned home, Lucy appearing
very proud of her husband, who is the
more efeminate of the two. Lucy's
career as II moonshiner has given her
fame. She is now under 81 900 bonds to
appear before the United States Court TO
answer the charge Of illicit selling. Her
plan was unique one. Her sales were
made principally to the workmen on tho
Norfolk and Western extension. She
had fleet little pony, two jugs and a
small revolver. For more than year
she evaded the officers who were after
her. She knew every road in the ooun-
try and had friends along them ALL
Whenever the officers were in pursuit
she would be notified and either escape
upon her fleet pony or was shielded BY
her frienls. Finally she was surprised,
and the officers being too many for her,
she surrendered.
TIE police of San Francisco in their
war upon the Highbinders and other
criminal Chinese societies have found it
necessary to invade the sacred Joss
house. The murder of one Chuey Sue
Yee, u Chinese doctor, was recently
traced to the Chun Ling San Tong So
ciety, and as a means to securing evi-
dence it was decided to break up the
meeting place of the Council of the
Society. This the police learned was in
an old building in the neighborhood of
the office where tho doctor had been shot
down as he sat working at his desk. A
squad of police surrounded the place, and
ten of them broke into it with axes and
sledges. Within temple of Joss was
discovered, furnished and embellished
after the Celestial fashion The police
men with their axes hewed down the god,
split the heavy mahogany tables, laid
low idols in the inches, and knocked to
pieces the metal vessels and other para
phernalia of the society. Nothing was
left intact but an iron safe containing
the records of the society, which was
carried off.
QUAINT practice still exists (or did
exist two years ago. at the bishop of
London's palace ut Fulham; and this
consisted in what appears to be II time
honored custom OF rousing up the episco-
pal domestics by means of long pole.
AT Fulham the palace lodge keeper has
u regular early morning duty to perform
i'll knocking up certain of the servants
at successive hours. beginning at about
half-past five. The pole he uses is not
aY L1 Il Oh,
''rousing- g-staves," which were used in
churches directly upon the persons of in
attentive or doing members of the con-
gregation to bring them to u proper
sense of their position. The venerable
man is provided with slender rod some
fifteen feet in length, and with this he
raps on the antique easements of the
servants bedrooms in the quadrangle
within the massive wooden gates of the
large western archway, and he continues
his attentions until the sleeper gives
more or less grateful answer in reply.
THE most widely known of all the
Royal dogs" of the present day is
Black, the pet dog of the Russian Grand
Duke Alexis. Black is sportsman's
dog of no very aristocratic breed, but of
the race of mongrels which the fisher
men in the south of France take out to
sea. His record is not only u common
fisherman, but as u I" fisher of men, for
he has saved no less than six persons
from watery grave, Some three or
four years ago the Grand Duke Alexis
was staying at Biarritz. One stormy
day barge was just being wrecked and
he saw dog dashing with angry growls
and barks into the water, and bringing
to land one by one, three drowning mon
The Grand Duke approached to caress
the dog, and the animals master then
offered Black to him, refusing to accept
any payment.
A THRILLING story comes from st.
Johns, New Foundland, of the rescue of
the crew of the Prince Edward Island
schooner Avenger. She was driven on
the rocks twenty miles from st. Johns
in II binding snow storm. While she
was pounding to pieces the boat was
launched and Immediately swamped.
Murdock Mills volunteered to swim
ashore with a lifeline. lie was carried
ashore ON u big wave, but could not
land, tho coost being so precipitous. He
was drawn back on board the vessel
where he rested an hour, and then tried
again and successfully. He drew him
self up from one point of rock to another
until he reached Il place where he could
fasten line Then he drew ashore
larger line, by means of which the cap
tain and crew all got safely to shore.
The Empress of Germany is in the
habit of writing, for few minutes daily,
in her diary. Nobody ever sees the con
tents of the diary, not even the emperor
AT the close of the year Il new diary is
opened, and the old one, which has n
locked clasp, is consigned TO the iron
safe containing her majesty's domestic
jewelry, rs she calls it, meaning the
gems she is in the habit of wearing when
state ceremony does not require her to
deck herself with the public Jewels of her
exalted station. The same key serves
for all the diaries, and the empress
usually carries 1t attached to chatelain
at her waist. AS her majesty is keen
observer of men and things, it is proba-
BILE that the diaries record many curious
impressions and some weighty secrets.
Mr.. E. PHELPS, of Shreveport, La, is
regular customer of well-known St.
Louis shoe merchant. His orders vary
in some details, but never in the size of
shoes. To an ordinary st. Louisian the
sizes between IL and II are unknown.
They are never seen in the show win
dows, and no citizen ventures on the
street with shoes of this ca!ibre. But
colony of colored people in Shreveport
would mt themselves in ,pon,, 10 meow ,