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Show INTERNATIONAL BLUFF. J A bill before congress to repay some sixty-odd thousands dollars to those who subscribed to "ransom" Miss Ellen Stone, tho missionary, recalls re-calls a rare Instance of successful international bluff Everybody knows now that Miss Stone was abducted not by Moslem -"Turks, but by Christian Chris-tian Bulgarians in Turkish dominoos, with the patriotic purpose of filling their war coffers. An English lady who knew the head "bandit" an amiable am-iable fellow in his ay asked him I aftorward in Sofia if ho was not ashamed as-hamed of himself to make so much trouble by capturing a fellow-Chrls-Itlan. "I don't see why Miss Stone ! should object," he said "Didn't she come over hero to help us Christians. Well, tho rifles and ammuntltlon i got or that $G0,000 were of verv great assistance to us in Macencloula.'' |