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Show REWHRD POOR WHITRESS WITH A $1000 CHECK FOR BEING PLEASANT MSSaSSBSSSjSBSSSMSISSaiBSSSSSSSa From waiting on a table in a restaurant to attending a first-class school in, California and seeing her dream of an education realized, is the happy turn in life that has come to pretty Miss Mamie Berning, and all because she won the admiration and friendshirroitwo rich mining nien. When she opened a letter today she found In it a nice, big checks for $1000 from R, L. Colburn and Milton M. Detch, prominent men who oyn mining interests in-terests near Ooldfleld. A little note which accompanied it put more Joy into this poor girl's life than she bad dreamed was in the whole world. For the two blg-hearted blg-hearted men told her to use the money in getting the education for which she craved so much. Miss Berning has been working long hours, but patiently, in a restaurant at Carson City, Nev. When Mr. ColburtTand Mr. Detch were visiting at the capital during the session of the Legislature, they went to the restaurant and Miss Berning waited on them. She was pleasant and polite and she was pretty. They always asked for her table when they dined there after that. The wealthy mining men liked her and they wanted to make her life happier. The check today accomplished that purpose, for no girl in the West is happier than she. Miss Berning 's career as a waitress is ended. She resigned as soon as she opened the letter, and is getting ready to leave for the coast to get her education. Does it pay to be pleasant and accommodating in life? Ask Miss Berning. |