. Review of reviews and world's work. E STUDENTS. The response which the mountain people them-selves make to these efforts proves that we are notgreatly mistaken in our aims, or hopes, or meth-ods. It does ones heart good to lielp a youngLincoln who comes stalking in perhaps a threedays journey on foot, with a few hard-earneddollais in his pocket and a great eagerness forthe education he can so faintly comprehend.(Scores of our young people see their first rail-road train at Berea !) And. it is a joy to welcome the mountain girlwho comes back after having taught her firstschool, bringing the m
. Review of reviews and world's work. E STUDENTS. The response which the mountain people them-selves make to these efforts proves that we are notgreatly mistaken in our aims, or hopes, or meth-ods. It does ones heart good to lielp a youngLincoln who comes stalking in perhaps a threedays journey on foot, with a few hard-earneddollais in his pocket and a great eagerness forthe education he can so faintly comprehend.(Scores of our young people see their first rail-road train at Berea !) And. it is a joy to welcome the mountain girlwho comes back after having taught her firstschool, bringing the money to pay her debts andbuy her first coinforta(ble outfit—including rub-bers and suitable underclothing—and perhapsbringing with Iier a younger sister. 8ucli a giil exerts a great influence in herschool and mountain liome. An enthusiastic oldmountaineer described an example in this wise : 1 tell yeou hit teks a moughty resolute gal terdo what tiiat thar gal has done. She got, Ireckon, about the toughest deestiic in the ceounty,. BEREA STUDENTS LEARNING TO WORK IN WOOD. THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AT BEREA. 311 whicli is say in a good deal. An tlien fer board-in-place—well, there warnt much choice. Therewas one house, with one room. Ikit she kepright on, an yeou would hev thought she washavin the finest kind of a time ter look at then the last day, when they was sayin theirpieces an sich, some sorry fellers come in tharfull o moonshine an shot their revolvers. Ima-tellin ye hit takes a moughty rc^oXute gal. It is such resolution that brings young peoplefrom their far-oflf homes, and has made the num-ber of our mountain students double and doubleagain. Almost without exception these boys and girlsgo back to their mountains to help build upthe country. A lad who has been at Berea twoor three years will be needed for some office in his native county. The most attractive homesyou will see in a long ride are presided over byyoung women who were once pupils at
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