. The locomotive engineer . ne was immediately slatted out tomove ibe eai^ to a safe position; but in the liurryand confusion it went off the track at the turntable,which, of course, blocked all the other engines own lives; that tliey have adopted sucliorsuch abusiness, have chosea from all the world thewoman who is to be their lifelong selected their s|>eciul friends, and in shorthave ordered their whole career, and this is then^dsou we w often hear of ■ self-made men. It israther remarkable that it is only when a man risesfrom obscurity to some high position, or frompovert
. The locomotive engineer . ne was immediately slatted out tomove ibe eai^ to a safe position; but in the liurryand confusion it went off the track at the turntable,which, of course, blocked all the other engines own lives; that tliey have adopted sucliorsuch abusiness, have chosea from all the world thewoman who is to be their lifelong selected their s|>eciul friends, and in shorthave ordered their whole career, and this is then^dsou we w often hear of ■ self-made men. It israther remarkable that it is only when a man risesfrom obscurity to some high position, or frompoverty to affluence, that he likes to employ theterm, or to hear it coupled with his name. Let biscourse have been in the conlrarj direction, and heat gncc disclaims having had any hand in the mat-ter; then his own will was nothing; heredity, evilinfluences, bad luck, everything was against him;but. even as he speaks, he is only half convinced oftliG tnith of his excuses; his conscience—if he J.,;,hl,iu •■••I Trit PiKii:V Ikak CrrMiiKii. rhmuQli VilUUfrr engine for future mountain roads in this country,of which, no doubt, there will be not a f<-w iil Danger of Ituiinilhiiiisett In Cuse of Fire. Ilia recent article by J. Davis Barneli. superin-tindent of the locoinoli ve simps of the Grand Trunk,lit Stratford, Ont., reference was made. «ays Thrfinj/iiiffriiig Xeie», to the almost universal Anieri-Ian planofdcsignin4*loiomotiveroundliuuBessothatuU the tracks converge at a liinitiiblc pit liarnclt ciille of accident to thb, or inensc of derailment on the narrow e»it tracks bc-jond. all egress from the roundhouse may be bloik-iil. Instead of this American type of engine ilariii-lt favond the English plan of building from passing out. Some barrels of kerosene onthe freight house platform burst, and their burningcontents ran down the trucks, set
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