Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-18

spot while others, swearing or cry
ing, were taking UP a collection. Enough
money to fill Baptist preachers stove-
pipe hat was raised in two minutes.
Mamie thanked everybody in sweet,
bewildered way, but told them that her
mother was dead, and that there was
no cCe to care for the children and run
the house in the absence of her father
but herself.
Told Her Story.
With the modesty Of the violets by
her side, the girl talked shyly of her
family affairs, and explained why it
would be impossible for her to accept
the many kind offers showered upon
her for home in big house, with serv-
ants to wait upon her and piano to
play after she had learned music and
other things.
She accepted the money however, be-
cause it was pressed upon her. and they
told her that she could do what she
pleased with it. 1t was all hers, they
said
Like dutiful daughter, she gcve every
penny of it to her father who is an in
dustrious and honest man. Instead Of
going on North Carolina spree to
drink rloonshine whisky and have a big
time with the boys at the crossroads,
he went further down the mountain and
bought the sweetest little home you
ever saw. There is patch of grass
around the house, a fine area of farm
land under cultivation, with the clearest
of trout brooks flashing down from the
glens above to irrigate the crops during
= dry seasons.
In New Home.
1t is an ideal place, where the blue
bells and violets bloom all the season,
where the skies are as blue as in Italy,
and the air is crisp and tingling with
health.
1t was in this new home that Mamie
and her father settled down with the
children the other day, and were SIX
times happier than a Texas ranchman
with 100 square miles of land and cattle.
In this particular case it seemed as
if virtue were really its own reward.
There was only one possible thing that
the girl hoped for, and that was an edu-
cation. Like all resolute minds who
read, she was ambitious for knowledge
of books and the world she dreamed Of
Such was the situation in that quiet
mountain home near the wonderful re.
gion of Asheville, where the Vanderbilt
and other millionaires have their>pal
aces, when the unexpected happened. A
representative of the Southern Railway
company appeared and said the corpora.
ton was anxious to offer the girl SUD
stantial and permanent reward for hel
courageous foresight in saving the train
in that awful emergency
Wanted Only Education.
TIL girl said that she wanted nothing
now that she had home, except an edu.
cation; but she little thought that any
thing short of miracle or a cloud Of
angels from Heaven could bri1g thai
wonderful thing about. Then the rail
road man told her that she should &C
to college at the company's expense and
receive a first-class up-to-date education
In the bewilderment of this astounding
information, when everything in thu
world seemed dancing to fairy music
she began talking Of her brothers ant
sisters and asking herself what would
become of them. 1t was explained tt
her that with education she could easily
look after them.
So it came about that the matter was
speedily arranged, and in that longes
and most beautiful of all the sunny
days of the girls life she learned tina
she was to begin her education at tht
Asheville Normal Collegiate institute.
1t would take a diamond-pointed pei
with an ink pot full of rainbows to tegir
to describe the joy of the girl and he,
household over their wonderful goot
luck in saving the train full of peopl'
and in getting pretty little mountain
farm with frst-class college education
thrown in. But that seems to be tn
way they do things on great occasions
down among those mountains nea
Asheville n. c.
| Her Presence OF Mind
81 was listening to hear the train 81
by when the landslide came" said Nan
ME, as she afterward described the Incl
dents in what was to prove to be tn
great and memorable day of her life
Il knew by the sun that it was prett,
near the time. l was listening for TIL
train to go along so as to put the potatoe
on. If you put them on when tn
train goes by they are cooked just RICH
when daddy comes home to dinner S.
when l heard the noise of the landslid
l knew that it must be almost trail
time That's what made me hurry 8
and run down the track to stop tn
train. didn't feel very sure that
could stop it, because the trains neve
do stop here. | was afraid that tn
engine driver wouldn't pay any atten