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Show A Forgotten Heroine. ' Only'a few years ago tho country rang with the praise cf Miss Kato Shelley, of Monigona, la., who crossed u swollen stream in tho dark, at great risk to 'herself 'her-self and in tho midst of a howling storm, to save a passenger train, for a bridge had been swept away by a torrent. Poems woro written on the episode, pic-, pic-, tures appeared in tho illustrated papers and innumerable paragraphs were written writ-ten about tho heroine. It is said that she saved tha railroad company $50,000, or more, in property, to say nothing noth-ing about what they might have been called upon to pay for lives lost, and passengers injured. Today Miss Shelley is the sole Bupport of a widowed mother and threo small children, and they aro living in a heavily mortgaged house, which is their only property. Threo years ago sho risked her lil'o for others, and her reward is chiefly the consc-ious-ness of a bravo and successful deed. Tho railroad company gave her a small reward, re-ward, let than tho value of ono of the ! cars which sho saved, and the passengers, passen-gers, whose lives were preserved by her ; act, have entirely forgotten her. Brook- . lyn Standard-Union. , i |