The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-28
MAKE MONEY ONLY
 ID GIVE II AWAY
Young Ladies Now in City Have Had Novel Experi-
 ences in Charity Work

To have made s10,ooo in six years only tQ give it away and to continue to make money only in order to give it to charity
 is the unusual record of two young women who are in Birmingham today for the purpose of increasing their sl's to charitable enterprises.
 For six years Miss Edith Macdonald and Miss Ida Lackey have been travel ing all over the United States selling 10 cent periodical, The Bible Training School, and devoting the proceeds of their sales to charity. Both young
 women seem to have no other purpose in life than to help those whom the world has used hardly. They are especi- ally partial to orphans.
 While attending the Bible Training school at Long Island, in 1905, the appal- ing conditions existing among the little girl widows in India were brought to their attention. Their sympathies were aroused to such an extent that they left the school and. having ordered several thousand copies of the journal, they started out to sell them On this first missionary trip they went through all the states of the south, getting as far south as Tampa. and finishing up at Ogden, Utah. And when that trip was finished they had made enough money over their expenses to send a mission ary and his wife to India
 The first missionary trip seemed to bring them to decision as to their fu- ture work They concluded that they would continue to make money and give
 it away as fast as they made it to worthy. enterprises in which their inter- est might be aroused. During a visit in southern California they became inter ested in an institution which was en- gagged in mcdiaal missionary evangelis- tic work, and finding that it was in desperate need of immediate funds, they started out again with their magazines and returned shortly with several hun dred dollars which they donated to the institution. Miss Laekey is a trained nurse and masseuse.
 Then they came to Alabama and stum- bled upon an industrial school at Hunts vile. They discovered a number of or plan children whom they thought ought to attend this school and get an educa- ton, but they had no means to do so So they started out again with their magazines and in a short time they established an orphanage in connection with this school, thus making it possible for number of parentless children to start life aright.
 In the summer of 1909 they spent two months in the mountains of Tennessee. They discovered that the mountaineers there had splendid natural ability, but that it remained dormant because they fewer school advantages than even the interested in these white mountaineers. and the result was that Miss Macdonald S brother-in-law, w. R. Holman. a gradu- ate of the University of Maine, filling a lucrative position with a large steel con cern' on Staten Island. was persuaded to put 5000 to which he had just fallen heir. into the establishment of the Old Paths Industrial school, located just south of the Tennessee line in Alabama at Sand mountain. In the winter of 1909 Miss Macdonald taught in this school. It then had an enrolment of 45.
 Here. as at Huntsville, it soon became evident that much greater good could be accomplished if there were an orphanage in connection with the school. So Misses Macdonald and Lackey used all the money they had made in securing a piece of land adjoining the school prop erty and putting the lumber for the buildings they wanted upon the land Then they had to stop for lack of funds, and start out again with their periodi- cal. This is the trip they are now on.
 While doing this extensive missionary work these girls have travelled from Maine to California, and from the gulf cities to the cities of the great lakes, making their expenses as they travelled And they have made more than $1O,OOO- and given 1t all away.