The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-08
TWO YOUNG LADY
 TRAVELLERS HERE
ARRIVE TODAY ON TOUR OF THE WORLD AS THEY ARE SELL
 ING BIBLES.
Have Made S1o,ooo on Their Trip and Have Given 1t Away to Such
 Causes as Are Worthy.

To have made $1OO00 in six years, only to give it away and to continue to make money only in order to giye 1t to charity, is the unusual record of two young women who are In Hot i Springs today for the purpose of in, creasing their gifts to charitable en- | terprises.
 For six years Miss Edith Macdonald and Miss Ida Lackey have been tray, cling all over the United States sell.
 ing a l0-cent periodical, The Bible Training School, and deyoting 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 especially partial to orphans.
 While attending the bible training school at Nashville, Tenn, In 1905, the appalling conditions existing among the little girl widows in In dia 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 the first missionary trip they went through all the states of the south, getting as tar south as Tampa, and finishing ul at Ogden, Utah. And when that trip was finished they had made enough l missionary and his wife to India.
 This first missionary trip seemed to bring them to decision as to their future work They concluded that they would continue to make money and give it away as fast as they made it, to worthy enterprises tn which their interest might be aroused. | During a visit in southern California they became interested in an institll- ton which was engaged in medical missionary evangelistic work, and, finding that it was in desperate need of immediate funds, they started out again with their magazines and re | turned shortly with several hundred dollars which they donated to the in stitution. Miss Lackey is a trained nurse and masseuse.
 Then they went to Alabama and stumbled upon an industrial school at 1 Huntsville. They discovered a num- Der of orphan children whom they thought ought to attend this school and get an education, but they had no means to do so. So they started | out again with their magazines, and in a short time they came back with Sl 900, and with this they established an orphanage in connection with this school, thus making it possible for a number of parentless children to start life alright.
 In the summer of 1909 they spent two months in the mountains of Ten nessee. They discovered that the mountaineers there had splendid nat ural ability. but that it remained dor mant because they had fewer school advantages than even the colored peo- ole of the south They grew inter ested in these White mountaineers, and the result was that Miss Macdon- aids brother-in-law, w. R. Tolman, a graduate of the University of Maine, filling lucrative position with a l large steel concern on Staten Island, was persuaded to put $3,000. to which he had just fallen heir, into the rs- tablishment of the Old Paths Indus trial school, located just south of the Tennessee line in Alabama at Sand | Mountain. In the winter of 1909 Miss Macdonald taught in this school 1t then had an enrolment of 45.
 Here. as at Huntsville, it soon be- l came evident that much greater good could be accomplished if there We're an orphanage in connection with the school So Misses Macdonald and IAckey used all the money they had made in securing a piece of land ad- | joining the school property and put ting the lumber for the buildings they wanted upon the land. Then they had to stop for lack of funGs and start out again with their periodi- cal. This is the trip they are now on.
 While doing this extensive mission. ary work, these girls have travelled from Maine to California. and from il the Gulf cities to the cities of the Craat akaa making their exDeuseg AS