The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-27
MISS JENNIE sMI~u.
Her Great Work and her small Pay-Her
Three Books.

Her Great Work and her small PRy-IIeT
Three Books.
A gentleman who Is thoroughly &C.
qualnted with Miss Jennie Smiths work,
her history and her affairs, said to an In.
TELLIuENCER reporter yesterday: "Isee by
your paper ofyesLerday morningthat a rail-
road man desires TO be one Of a hundredto
contribute $40 each, toapurseto beglvento
Miss Smith. l am sure that man meant
what he said, andI wish his plan could be
carried out. II 1t Is like other PROPOSE.
lions Of the same kind 1t will not be given
effect, but the report will 90 over the
country that q thousand dollars were
raised for her in Wheeling. The relig.
ious papers and the secular newspapers
have from time to time contained extrava.
CANT stories based ON well meant sugges.
lions Of this kind. There has been 80
much Of this that the public Is thoroughly
convinced that Miss Jennie Smith haa q
cottage at MI. Lake Park, paid for by her
friends, and that she Is otherwise
well provided for life. She Is so modest
about her own affairs that she never
c~outradiCts these statements unless she is
directly questioned OF the subject. Now
with regard to that Mountain Lake cot
tage. The ground wa given to her by
Major j.. O. Anderson, Of this city, who
felt that she ought to have a home aud
wanted to help her to get 1t. II was
said that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company built her cottage; again, that 1t
had been built by her friends in the en-
ploy OF the road. The fact Ia, that EN-.
ploye1 OF the road raised SIG for this
purpose, and that Mr.. Robert Garrett, his
brother and his sister sent her 500,
making III all $2l0, which ia the whole
contribution FROM oil sources, toward
building her a home. You must under.
stand the Baltimore & Ohio Company Ia
very kind to her in other ways. She
travels over the road as often as che
pleases without any cost. This she warm.
ly appreciates, and regards the Baltimore
& Ohio people as her good friends"
"Is 1t true that Miss Jennie Smith is q
good deal in debt by reason Of building
her ~cottageP"
ayes; Il Is, and she is doing oil abe can
to pay off the debt and provide a home
for herself; but she Is not o money.hunter.
She puts no price on her work. Some
times she gets little sometimes she gets
nothing. / have known OF q wealthy con,
~gregation that allowed her TO 60 away
without giving her o cent. BY the way, It
Ia rather odd, that the little towns OF Nor
gantown, Washington, Pa, and Waynes-
burg, gave her In the past winter the
largest sums she has ever received any.
where. They gave her 500 each. This
was for herself and Miss Sherman, her co.
laborer, who Is now at work In North
Carolina. OF course she has 10 have food,
shelter and raiment, but o good many PEG.
pie do not think OF that. Ihope 1t will
not be overlooked here, for she Is doing a
good work, and Wheeling can well afford
to recognize it."
Doesn't she realize something from her
books2"
"Yell, not nearly 90 much as che ought
To. She has never made q feature OF push.
ing her books, though l can tell you that
az the record Of an exceptional religious
experience, they ought to be In the hands
Of everybody. In the Valley Of BaCa'
and From Baca to Beulah,' its sequel
you get the wonderful story Of her lie,
told with a beautiful simplicity that
charms every heart. Her latest book,
'Rambllngs In Bsulah Land, Is equally
interesting. These books ought 10 sell on
their merits, and would II they were
pushed. But Miss Jennie Smith has not
pushed them, although she has them With
her and is glad TO sell them. They ought
to be In every Wheeling home. The
two earlier books sell for 81 apiece; the
'Ramblings' for so cents In cloth and IS
cents In paper, and in their own field OF
Christian testimony are u%nequaled."