Show ji IM LITTLE C E BUT ILL TRY brave child of section foreman saved train and set example for all others she was only seven years old elleen eileen martin the section foremans lo remans daughter as she ahe stood reaching up to a telephone at the little littie town of alta cal telling the agent at the nearest station that a rail was broken childlike she knew the semaphore signals had come to the track to see the overland limited whirl by and had bad watched the long finger drop letting the train into the bock block im pretty little but ill try she said when the station agent asked her if 1 she could not stop the train that was past him and started out with her sister ot of fourteen who had just appeared they ran town lown the track stopped the train and saved a wreck pretty macii much every primary school in the city ought within the next neit week to hear bear of eileena leens El Ei im pretty little but ill try the alert attention which knew the semaphore signal tho the quick wit which understood what a broken rail meant the decision and initiative which alone sought the telephone the courage with which she and her sister started up the track waving their aprons to stop the big overland limited as it bore down upon them these are the qualities which through life bring self help for others success and happiness and she was only seven years old pretty little but ready to try philadelphia press |