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Show MISS STONE RELEASED. Miss Stone Is released: It Is pleasant news that gives tills Information. We said a few duys ago, that the bundlts, being mere bandits and not Iiulgnrltn or Turkish (Uncials, would piobably keep their word, und release her at the expiration of tho week they asked for after the pameut of the money, to secure their own safety. They kept that promise to tho day. It has been a curious case. Thero has mt l-ciked suspicion that her capture cap-ture was u political plot, und tli.it the Ilulgnrlm oinc la hcp-U tn share In the ransom. And then thero was a 1 roieet by missionaries In those regions against raising the lansom demanded, the Idea being that If the. brigands fouml that they could extort money fiom America by capturing American missionaries and holding them for ran-torn, ran-torn, none of the mleslonii lea would be safe for u daj , that It would become a tegular business It may be, too, that this Mew will be found to bo correct. Time will show, nut it Is certain that the response In the next case, should there be one, will by no means be as hearty or iih considerable In amount as It was In the case of Miss Htonu, repetitions will destroy values. The American missionary wnilt In llulgarl.i has assumed high Import-ame. Import-ame. not nlone by reisnn of tho number num-ber of innviris and churches, but by n i'"n of Us ctu'r iional fenturrs 'iheie I o twenty cln icho In the mis. h with un ivci iK of u hundrM incmb-18 to c-ih, Tho Americans tianslated the niblo Into Tlulgarlan and have established many schools. It was while on a mission to eitabllih a school that Miss Htone was captured At the head of the educational ssstem Is the Ilobert college, located on n crag on the Kuiopean side or the Uophorus It has bn In operation for thirty years It has always been populor with the earnest men of Itulgarla. nnd Its graduates, as stated by Mr. W. T Stood In an article In th Independent, have In effect created the Stnto of llulgarla. It was ltussla that effected the liberation, but Itobert college men who formed the Slate and modeled It upon American lines. The Itusslan troops, on pasting the crag Itnuniell HISBar. on their return from that victorious victo-rious war, cheered the college as they passed, nnd their bands played American Ameri-can airs. The most Influential woman In Inilgaila, Mrs. W. II. Kneautntli. was a pupil or Miss Stone's The Americans Amer-icans lu this mission lire looked to by tho peoile of Ilulgarl i for idvlto and guidance. America has, therefore, a gret stnke In tint region, nnd Its inline in-line nee Is bound to grow. It was entirely en-tirely fit, therefore, that the American people should come to the release nf Miss Stone, nnd the fact that they did so promptly and llliornlly will add enormously to the prestige of the mission. |