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The age-herald., 1901-10-04
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 Ksdna41sng ef Mss Stove

Kansas City October 3-A detailed ac- count of the capture of Miss Ellen M. Stone. the missionary, by brigands in Turkey, has been received from Mrs. H. c. Haskell of Samokov, Bulgaria, to a relative here. Her letter says Miss Stone had been holding her usual summer school for Bible workers in Bansko. Macedonia. On September a party con- sisting of six students from the Collegiate Institute at Samokov, three or four Bull garian teachers, MT. and Mrs. Tsllka, who had spent several years In America, Mrs. Ooshera and Miss Stone. started for DJumiak, twelve hours travel. From there they were to go to their different homes. At about 4:3O that afternoon as they were resting In the mountains, Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilka being on horseback and the rest on foot, they were surround ed by thirty or forty armed men. They were dressed in Turkish costume, but were masked or blackened. They ordered the party to march, and drove them up the steep mountain side. Miss Stone thought they were taking them away from the road to rob and perhaps kill them. She did not speak of capture, as 1t is almost unheard of for brigands to take women.
 After going an hours distance the brigands stopped and demanded their money. They took what gold they had, but returned the silver!
 When this was done one of them said to Miss Stone: We want you" and or dered her ana Mrs. Tsilka to go with them. She made no remonstrance. MT. Tsilka made a move to follow his wife, but they forced him back. A part of the brigands kept watch on those that re- mained to keep them from hurrying to in- form the government. but next morning let them go
 The brigands murdered one of the men of the party before the eyes of the captives. to get his horse They took his animal, as well as the .lorses ridden by Miss Stone anu Mrs. TsillSa. The students came to Samokov and wired Dr. House at Salonika, Miss Stones station. He immediately went to the American consul and also telegraphed General Dickinson, who knew Miss Stone.
 The news spread over Bulgaria like a flash, for Miss Stone was widely known and greatly beloved.
 Miss Stone Is a charming and cultivated woman from Chelsea, Mass. Before she went as missionary to Bulgaria twenty five years ago, she was on the staff of the Congregationalist of Boston, the leading weekly paper of the Congrega- tional denomination. She had charge of the Bible women in her field-women who go about among the homes of the people in the villages. She had travelled over most of Bulgaria and Macedonia and was widely known and beloved. During the summer she held her usual training school in Bansko, a mountain village of Macedonia, and on September 3 started with party of twelve for Djumia. Late in the afternoon they were surrounded in a mountain defile by thirty or forty armed men, dressed in Turkish costume, with faces masked or backened. The rest of the party was robbed and Miss Stone and a Mrs. Tsilka were taken to the mountains, whence letter was sent to missionaries in Bulgaria demanding ransom.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
MORE CHILDREN
At the White House Now Than Ever
 Before In Tits History.

From the New York Times.
 A president at the age of 43 is a novelty and so young a president with so large family of young children has never be- fore occupied the white house since John Adams entered 1t short time before the close of his term of office, when the building was scarcely fit for habitation. Adams became president at the very ma ture age of 62, and he had a small fam fly. Jefferson was widower for 20 years when he reached the presidency. and his daughter, Mrs. Randolph, had family of something like dozen children, of whom 1t is related that they attended a school kept for their improvement In one of the second-floor rooms of the building.
 William Henry Harrison would have brought a family or six sons and four daughters to the white house. but he died before the family had arranged their af- fairs at home sufficiently to permit them to join him in this city. MT. Cleveland after MT. Roosevelt, was the youngest president. reaching the office at the age of 45 When the new pres dent has as- sembled his two daughtrs and four sons under the historic roof 1t will be the most numerous presidential family gathered there since 1901.
 It is not likely. however, that all of MT. Roosevelts children will be here often at the same time. Already it is known here, where everything about the white house arrangements and accommodations has been familiar knowledge for these many years, that there is scant space in the liv- ing rooms of the house for a family of eight that has been accustomed to liberal living space. Then there are servants to be thought of, and now and then guest. but President Roosevelt will not be able to invite many guests at one time. unless the family puts itself to inconvenience in order that visitors may be comfortable. Of course. the oft-repeated suggestion for an enlarged house. or for a new residence apart from the white house, will be made and will again be dropped. as being of no political importance.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04

Brigandage is fairly common fin Turkey. Frequently bands of outlaws pay the Pasha of district for the privilege of robbing. Forty years ago a Mir Merriam an American missionary. was killed by brigands. The English government took up the case so vigorously that the Balkan peninsula was free from robbers for several years. Brigands rarely tor ture .-leir captives, although they fre- quently treat them with great severity if the ransom is not forthcoming Death is usually the penalty for captured rob- bers, so if they are hard pressed they sometimes will kill their prisoners to avoid possible identification later. Such an instance occurred near Samokov, Bulgar- ia, only a few years ago. The suggestion that the Macedonian revolutionary com mittee was concerned in the capture of Miss Stone is plausible. This is an or ganization of robbers who plunder under pretence of securing funds for freeing Macedonia from Turkey. Possibly they would be more amenable to political in- f1uence than ordinary brigands
 While Miss Stones situation is desper- ate. the United States officials at Con- stantinople may be depended upon to do case is in the hands of Consul General Dickinson, an efficient officer and a per sonal friend of Miss Stone.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04

the war of 1872, and since then 1t has fought Indians, Mexicans, the Chinese, losing Colonel Liscum, the Spanish at Santiago, besides it's service in the civil war.
 But its record will not excuse the want of pickets at Samar. The com pany was at breakfast when 400 in- surgents attacked them. No pickets had been posted, and there was there fore no warning. However we'll the men fought, there should be a search ing and unsparing inquiry as to the lax sense of security which left the company unwarned.
 The truth is the army in the Philip pines is still in the enemies country, and some one is to blame for this dis aster. Over-confidence in the insur- gents led to the entrapping of the company beyond a doubt, for the ap- proach of the enemy was a complete surprise. The men who were respon- sible for this disaster, be they dead or alive, should be named, and all the facts be made known. The condition of the entire service demands this.
 This disaster will not of course change the Philippine policy of this country. We have gone too far to re- treat, and the entire archipelago must be brought under the rule of this coun- try, no matter what the cost be in lives or money. These treacherous Malays are hostile to us, and 1t will be long time before complete pacification will become assured throughout the archi- pelago.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
A SENSATIONAL STATEMENT.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The statement of earnings made by the United States Steel Corporation In re- sponse to the demand for greater public ity, Is sensational document. It repre- sents a prot over operating expenses of $54, 900 900 for six months. After paying interest on bonds, two quarterly dividends at the rate of per cent. per annum on the preferred stock and per cent. on the common, and setting aside over s7,00O, 900 for sinking fund and maintenance, there remains $12.s26 900 for the surplus or emer- gency fund. It is a remarkably strong showing.
 The company has not gone as far in the matter of publicity, however as would be desirap.e. It has taken the public into it's confidence to the extent of making statement. But it .las given neither the public nor it's stockholders any information that might enable them to form an independent estimate of it's future earning capacity. It is a good sign, of course. that the managers of this huge combination are sensitive enough to public opinion to make any sort of advance over the customary cor porate methods But until the English plan of giving full details of the business and the privilege of voting dividends to the stockholders is adopted there will be something left to be desired.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
Cotton In September.

The Investigations of the New Or leans Times-Democrat go to show that deterioration was the rule throughout the cotton belt in September Even mississippi lost ground. The shortage : in Texas cannot be overcome even by a late frost. Arkansas scarcely held it's own. Louisiana and the Atlantic district did some better in September, but no where is there a prospect of a bumper yield.
 The Journal of Commerce puts the loss in September at 7.2 points, thus bringing the average condition of the crop down to 63, as against TOP on September 1, and 67 at that date of last year. All reports agree in saying that heavy rains have hurt the out look, and that very little top crop will be made.
 The crop movement bears out these reports. There came into sight in September 694,6S6 bales, as against S79,327 bales in 1900, 1,118,712 bales in 1899, 960,350 bales in 1898, and 1,069,- 43O bales in 1897. The small Septem- Der movement was not due to any unusual holding back of cotton, so far as information goes. The crop is mar ,.eted as fast as it is ready.
 Prices are well maintained, but Liv- erpool still refuses to recognize the unmistakable evidence of short crop. It is buying on the basis of eleven million bale crop, when it is clear it will fall short of that aggregate at least a million bales. The Age-Herald again urges it's readers to hold theil cotton for eight cents. Not pound should be sold for less, for men can be found in every community who will carry cotton, and it will soon com mand the price named as minimum.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
Massacre in Samar.

Not since the Custer massacre on the Little Big Horn has anything hap. pened so serious to the army as the surprise of Captain Councils company of the Ninth regulars on the Island of 5amar. Two-thirds of the company were killed, and the rest saved their lives in flight. Samar Is central sland of the Philippine archipelago, filed with half-civilized people. It is ibout the size of the State of Ala ,ama, perhaps little larger.
 The regiment has long history. It vas formed over a century ago, when rouble with France was imminent. It ought the British at Lundy's Lane in
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
HOW SIR RICHARD DIED.

By Walter Thornbury. Slowly as bridegroom to a feast
 Sir Richard trod the scaffold stair, And, lowing to the crowd, united
 The lovelocks from his sable hair; Took off his watch-.'Give that to Ned: I've done with Time" he proudly said. Twas bitter cold; it made him shake: Said one-Ah! see the villains look.' Sir Richard, with scornful frown,
 Cried. Frost. not fear, my bcdy
 shookr' Giving gold piece to the slave, He laughed-"Now praise me, Master
 Knave!' They pointed. with a sneering smile,
 Unto black box, long and grim; But no white shroud or badge of death. Had power to draw a tear from him. Tt needs no lock-" he said in jest, This chamber where tonight rest" Then crying out-"God save the King, In spite of hiss and shout and frown. He stripped his doubiet, dropped his
 cloak
 And gave the headsman's man a crown. Then, On for heavenl'' he proudly cried And bowed his bead-and so he died.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
Black Belt Voters Distrusted.

MT. Coulson, who lives beyond the Tennessee river near the Tennessee ,.ne, seems to have a great distrust, if not dislike, of the Black Belt. The Age-Herald begs to assure him that the Black Belt never manipulates the ballot when white supremacy can be maintained wlthout it. As every county in the State will, in all human probability, vote ir favor of the New constitution when it is contrasted with the Old constitution, there will be no occasion for ballot box manipulation in the Black Belt, and there will be none.
 The Age-Herald knows nothing of the statement contained in MT. Coul- sons second question. Such a state ment has not been made. it is plain, by any responsible person, and it may be set down as a device of the enemy.
 MT. Coulson's th..A and fourth ques- tions are but repetitions of his first two questions, and they need no fur ther attention.
 Such questions as MT. Coulson asks do not relate to the merits or demerits of the New constitution at all, but they 70 show that a very lamentable state of things exists in the State. It is this state of things that the New consti- tuition has been devised to remedy. MT Coulson knows full we'll that no remedy for baliot box troubles can be found in the Old constitution, and he should turn to the New in the hope of relief. He will scarcely deny that the New may provide an electorate that will cure the evils he complains of AS long as he knows that the elector- ate of the Old constitution presents a hopeless case, it seems as if he must turn to the New as the only remedy in sight. As fair-minded, just and patriotic man, The Age-Herald looks to him to lead campaign on this line in the State of Jackson.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
pr. R. M. Cunningham.

Russell NJ. Cunningham of Pratt City gave out a statement yesterday that he would not be a candidate for governor next year. but would support Governor Jelks for the Democratic nomination.
 Certain newspapers had printed the statement that Dr. Cunningham would be candidate. They were misinformed. as were the newspapers whic-- stated that Gen. George P. Harrison of Opelika would be candidate. General Harrison having denied having any such inten- ton.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
To Improve Tennessee River.

The meeting of the Tennessee River Im- provement Association which is to take place in Huntsville, October 16th, Is at tracting great deal of attention throughout the Tennessee valley and the tributary territory. All river towns and towns interested in the river trade will be represented in the meeting.
 The improvement of the Tennessee is a matter of very great interest to Alabama. Tennessee, Georgia and lower Kentucky, and to territory even beyond those limits.
 we are especially concerned about Colbert Shoals" writes Congressman William Richardson of Huntsville to the .,ge-Herald.
 ''The Tennessee river will never yield It's inestimable benefits until the Colbert Shoals obstructions to navigation are re- moved. If t--ese Instructions be removed the benefits will be appreciabie at once, because 1t will give about saeo miles of
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
About Persons.

Thomas J. Scott of Montgomery, D. A. Evans and S. J. Wilson of Mobile and S. W. Adams of Summerfieid are at the Metropolitan.
 Former State Senator Amos Horton of Greene and former State Senator Hall of Marshall are at the Metropolitan. Senator Horton has fully recovered his health, and weighs more by fifteen pounds than ever he did before Indeed his physical proportions are now fully aldermanic.
 Col. Thomas D. Radcliffe of Sheffield is at the Morris.
 M. B. Neece and J. c. Jones of Hunts vile are at the Florence.
 F. J. Glenn of Argo is at the Flor ence.
 Ben. F. Cook of Mont gomery Is at the Florence.
 Rube oxdine of Dallas. Texas, is at the Florence.
 E. E. Reynolds and F. w., Barker of Boston are at the Morris.
 H. w. Hayden of Demopolis is at the Morris.
 Hon. William Youngblood, former third auditor of the United States treasury, and R. c. Minor of Washington, D. C., are at the Morris.
 W. W. Lavender of Centreville Is at the Metropolitan.
 New Workers at the Morris are R. L. Bacharach, s. M. Milliken, M. Miller, A. c. Langstone, l.. Benedict, Felix B. Lipp- man, James Atchison. J. Carlisle. H. c. Ellis. Alex Buhr. H. Newman and Mrs. Newman, T. 2. Platt. and F. s. Warren.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
Ask Removal of Murphx.

New York, October 3.-The Mer- chants Association of this city, through it's secretary, announced to- ....y that Mayor Van Wyck will be asked to remove Commissioner of Po- lice Murphy for his refusal to take cognizance of the charges of oppres- sion while presiding. at police trials which were recently preferred against Deputy Commissioned Devrey by the association.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
CONCERNING THE BLACK BELT
Q the Editor of the Age-Herald:

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 As your paper is open for inquiries de- sire answers to the following questions: What assurance have the voters in the white counties that fraud will not be practiced in the fifteen Black Belt coun- ties so as to secure a majority for the proposed constitution? What are we in the white counties, to understand by the statement that no matter what the white counties may do the Black Belt counties will roll up .--e usual majority for it?' Is this majority to be secured by the old methods of fraud that have been practiced Tor years? Are we in the white counties to understand. as white men that we are to have a constitution forced upon us by the negro vote of the black counties? The answer to these questions will help us in the mountains among the Hill Billies."
 l.. c. COULSON.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
David Belasco, southerner.

T came South in Pullman car with David Belasco. the author of The Auc- tioneer,' the new play which is having such phenomenal run in the Bijou The atre, New York;" said Dr. Richard w Roland, who returned to Birmingham from the Metropolis yesterday.
 MT. Belasco, who Is Southerner, was on his way to visit Shreveport, his home town. I found him to be a most charm ing companion. He is a lawyer turned playwright, and permanently resides in New York. Although he looks to be not over twentw-five, he informed me that he is thirty-nine years old.
 Speaking of The Auctioneer,' MT. Be- lasco says that critics and friends to whom he showed the rough draft of the play sought to dissuade him from putting 1t on the stage, arguing that the public would not appreciate the strong and emo tional type of Jew he had portrayed; but he persisted. and the result Is a great success and the rising of the one new and powerful star actor of the season, MT. Warfield
 MT. Belasco was kind enough to give me piece of information that Is of wide public interest, and that Is that he has nearly completed new play, which he will call Over Yonder' The scene of the play Is laid in Southwest Georgia, where MT. Belasco spent some time in doing certain magazine work. asked him why he didn't give the play a Georgia name. His answer was that Over Wonder was more poetic ard catchy.
 Speaking of his methods of work, MT. Belasco said that he never worked longer than four hours a day, and expressed the opinion that no man could do his best in literary work if he remained at his desk longer than four hours out of the twen- ty-four. He said that he devoted his idle hours to the clubs and theatres, and other pastimes, and that as a rule he went to bed early and slept late, in order to get great deal of bodily rest"
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
Mss Stones captors.

Constantinople, October 3.-The brig ands who carried off Miss Helen M. Stone the American missionary, and her com- panion, Madame Tsilka, Bulgarian lady, have fixed October as the limit of time for the payment of the ransom $11O,0oO demanded for Miss Stones release
 The hiding place of the brigands has not yet been discovered and the delay ac- corded by the abductors is taken to indi- cate that they consider their retreat quite secure.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
czoLeosz.

From the Bloomington Pantagraph. Monstrous, hated name! Thy breath doth
 poison Freedoms air; Al Z Thy craven blow hath laid the Hand lin
 gloom. Despair Hath followed thy dark aim and Hone
 erstwhile so bold, fy Hath fallen. faint and low; while Peace.
 to hear the story told, Affrighted fees away. o, spawn of Hate,
 to smite Where Love had sought to greeti O the
 ill-measured might Of one fell arm to bring this woe; this
 ruin deep @ And leave a world in tears. while an-
 swering heavens weep! Perish thy name 'mong sons of men! Or. 7 let it be Hecast for surer speech with scorn to sass laternitx&s JNB%k
The age-herald., 1901-10-04

schools in Washington. We don't think that any of President Garieids children attended the Washington schools during the spring months of 1ss1 Tad Lincoln might have gone to Washington public school If he had lived. As a general rule young boys and girls have not been nu- merous in the white house families.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
Turkey and Bulgaria Appealed To.

Washington, October 3.-Turkey and Bulgaria have both been appealed to- to aid in the liberation of Mss Stone, the American missionary held captive by Bull garian brigands. No demands contem- plating the use of forcibie measures for the recovery of the lady have been made. Action consequent upon such demands would probably lead to her death This government in its representations to Fur key and Bulgaria ..as been extremely careful to avoid recommending any course which will result 4n the murder of the captive. Considerable difficulty is expe- rienced in raising Miss ,tone's ransom. The Nbrigands have demanded 25,00O Tur- kish pounds, ($112.0OO), ana the missionary society, 1t is reported is unable to raise this large sum. The state department has no fund at its disposal, otherwise 1t would willingly draw upon it to effect her release. Negotiations are in progress be- tween the agents of the Boston Board of Missions, who are in Constantinople, and the brigands, looking to the reduction of the sum dem anded. The delay is ad- vantageous, however, as 1t will enable the Turkish and Bulgarian governments to place troops in a position to destroy and capture .ie band of abductors as soon as their captive Is at liberty Quick action following her release may result in the capture of the money and lead to the punishment of all concerned in her abduction.
The age-herald., 1901-10-04
NOT THE YOUNGEST.

From the Boston Herald.
 And yet President Roosevelt is older than Emperor :. Illiam of Germany, who is fl; the Nzar Is but S1; King Victor Elm manuel Is 33 Queen Wilhelmina is 21 and Alfonso XIII is only 15 The young folks are very much at the helm.