Show HANSOM n Where Wh Had Power p Pow to Lull J Cupidity New York Press It IB Is probable ble that thai Miss Stone an anber anyn her ber companions in captivity will wilt not be able to sing their way to freedom for the Turkish or Bulgarian bandits vho ho have them in charge evidently want money too badly to be lured away from their purpose by gentle ge harmony Yet there have been cases here the captives of tf bandits have han havet hanu t u procured d their release by a song I Charles Santley was wais once traveling in Mexico O with some friends when he h and I his companions were seized by somE home somEI some I halfbreed bandits and taken to the mountains where they were told they the I 1 would be liberated only upon the pay payment pa ment meat of a large ransom After supper II the singer possibly to keep up his spir spirits spirits its ita broke out into song The bandits heard and were charmed The leader I demanded that he sing some more Santley saw his chance and agreed to I sing as ashe aa he provided the j I ll liberty bt ty of himself and his friends was wasu u n I the th reward The TIle brigand con consented leader eon con consented and for fOl it hew the Ute mountain wastes echoed to the songs of the accomplished ac accomplished I vocalist Then true to their word the allowed Sant Santley Santley ley and those with him to depart un unharmed unharmed unharmed harmed The late Joseph Maas had a some somewhat some somewhat m I what similar experience Some years back he was vas traveling in the west we t which was the wild west then and was captured by Indians along anon with one 01 ot of I his friends When the Indian Indian camp I was reached the captives were at their wits ends j to think of some way of propitiating their captors cantors The friend suggested song and taking the hint Maas broke forth into an operatic se selection selection selection lection which so 80 delighted his captors capton that they loosened loo ened his bis h l bonds aati de demanded demanded that he continue CO tt ue to sing When he got at weary they revived his hie flagging ng I zeal by pricks prick with the points of their knives kaiv and sv so 9 Kept him shit tn ug Ig 4 I Inight I night nl ht long Finally as it grew grei peat near 18 the Indians one by one dropped Fo 8 leep and Maas and his companion made their escape Marios Marrs wonderful voice once onee once saved him lira in a ike Mke manner He was travel lag fag with 1 th some companions in IA S Spain when he fell into the hands of er C a band hand of ot marauding brigands who demanded de demanded deman man ed money Mario answered them Otero in impromptu song SOna which so d ht i ed eel them that tha t according aC to the singers story they elected him captain et e their band In the course of the day Mario managed ml to make Ms es escape escape cape with his hi friends On another ut er occasion Mario was waa arrested in by Ma itta Madrid M aa as he be h was returning from the theatre on the charge of J beIng eing a po political conspirator The great creat singer Bl ger gerVas was Vas indignant indig ant and ant telling who he was demanded that his friends be communicated with The captain of t police before be before before fore whom the singer Binger had been brought replied that if the prisoner were in indeed Indeed indeed deed the great Mario Marlo he had a sure way of proving it Thereupon Mario burst into song long and five minutes s later was bowed out of the police station with profuse apologies for his Ill arrest arrestA A good story is told of the th celebrated brace ban singer One day as he was strolling leisurely through a French fair a cry was raised rai d suddenly that a 8 abear abear bear had escaped from the menagerie The crowd fled in every direction ail save the singer whose massive proportions proportions proportions precluded the idea of rapid move movement ment luent tle t He Ee alone stood unmoved await awalt awaiting ing lug the Ute onslaught of the ferocious beast which sure enough soon came rapidly toward him When within a 8 afew afew few feet teet of ot the singer the bear halted and aDd gathered itself together as if It for tor fora a final rush rUM Then the mighty La blache stepping forward sent forth from tr m the lowest t depth of his immense Immen e chest such a roar that the affrighted beast beut turned and fled ned |