Show M M M M 44 t. t t THE STONE RESCUE i t t t t Jn in regard to the rescue of the missionary Miss Stone tone which every American is glad has been ac- ac some remarks on the subject of her bel abduct abduction on offered by bj Mr 11 Spencer Eddy first secretary sec see f tary of our legation at Constantinople are of in in- terest Mr Eddy asserts that it was pure patriotism patriotism patriot patriot- i ism m that caused the brigands Capture to the woman and ancI hold her bel for an hundred thousand dollars ran ran- som sam The he Macedonian cry y for liberty and particularly par par- for independence of our friend Abdul AbdulHamid Hamid inid had reached and wrenched their hearts Therefore they needed money for revolutionary purposes purposes and who had as much of it as the Americans Ameri Amen cans ns' ns So they bagged an un American and requested jt hel friends to pass around the tile hat t We Ye are informed that it was not only the cash th h y mi might ht take in at the box office that inspired ed the loving freedom bandits to commit the amiable moral Amoral indiscretion to which their sensitive feelings led leti them but that it wa was as indulged in as well for advertising purposes They The seem to have been imbued im imbued with the idt idea t that the publicity which Miss liss Stones Stone's embarrassing position would give to the Macedonian cause in the United States would raise up an army of generous subscribers ers to it therein I Y Alas for the tIle gentle and suffering long cutthroat cutthroat cut cut- throat victims of oppression Their ignorance of American merican conditions social and sectional though natural al a ural was lamentable They thought it only le- le qU red notoriety to fill every ery plate of brown bread pork and beans and codfish in all New Nev England full of bitter tears for fol the woes of blighted Macedonia Mace Mace- donia with donia-with with Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria on the side and Russia under the table oj 4 Considering East down-East sobs for Greece wails wails' for Armenia and howls for Aguinaldo perhaps the thet t brigands' brigands prognosis was not an unreasonable one But nut they slipped the eccentric was in kid kid- J naping a a. Yankee and a missionary They did not 1 know that the whole of New England is populated m by those classes of people exclusively nor nr that they j stick together like two sheets of fly paper If Miss t 1 Stone had been from some other part pait of the Union no doubt by this time the Boston Filipino junta would have reorganized itself into a Macedonian committee and would be shipping Aladdin cook cool stoves to Salonica But it today as is there is no f thy thy- for the bandits And but bit for the peculiar peculiar unusual and would be liar circumstances this that revolves revolves revolves re re- re- re the region strange because throughout around the Hub there is sympathy enough and to spare for bandits in the Philippines and any- any where else so that iUs itis fa far enough nough away |