. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . hat men call luck is only talent forhard work. Do not lean on others to doyour thinking or to conquer your difficul-ties. Be conscientious in the dischargeof every duty. Do your work one can rise who slights work. Donot try to begin at the top. Begin at thebottom, and you will have a chance torise, and will be surer of reaching thetop some time. Be punctual. Keep yourappointments. Be there a minute beforetime, if you have to lose your dinner todo it. Be polite. Every smile, ever
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . hat men call luck is only talent forhard work. Do not lean on others to doyour thinking or to conquer your difficul-ties. Be conscientious in the dischargeof every duty. Do your work one can rise who slights work. Donot try to begin at the top. Begin at thebottom, and you will have a chance torise, and will be surer of reaching thetop some time. Be punctual. Keep yourappointments. Be there a minute beforetime, if you have to lose your dinner todo it. Be polite. Every smile, everygentle bow is money in your pocket. Begenerous. Meanness makes enemies andbreeds distrust. Spend less than youearn. Do not run in debt. Watch thelittle leaks, and you can live on yoursalary. The accompanying illustration shows aview of the interior of one of the travel-ing wards which are in service in twonewly designed ambulance trains that tain a complete surgical outfit and everypossible comfort and necessity for thetransportation of the wounded from thebattle line to the base hospitals. These. INTERIOR (IF NEWEST DESIGN OF BRITISH AMBULANCE CAR. were completed last month by the London trains are the first of their kind in opera- and North Western Railway at the order tion and will be rapidly succeeded by ex- of the British War office for the use in tensive additions, as the exigencies of the France of the British soldiers. They con- service may require. First African Explorer. The first white man to explore thewild interior of Africa and the first toreach the previously well-nigh fabulouswaters of the Niger was Mungo Park,who was born in Scotland 144 years agolast month. Park was apprenticed to a sur-geon, and started his wandering careerin 1792 as assistant surgeon on board theWorcester, an East Indiaman. He madea voyage to Sumatra, where his investi-gations added much to the scientific know-ledge of that island and its surroundingwaters. The Scotch surgeon was thenemploy
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