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In spite of white hairs and snowy moustache, his eyes shone clear and nn as in the days when on s vigilance depended the lives res of passengers As he rem » & reporter a faraway look once watchful orbs engineer imagined him- e, back at the throttle ng out of the cab window at the ribbons of steel along whose locomotive would juivering like a living thing fing. Ah! It has changed since I first started int 4 bot over half a century ( England. 1 got my first en was only nineteen years the ran with pardon- 'Tk soon afterwards this country and join Trunk. There was mx fireman in those days urself up to engineer Ne r. leastways at Western A mat about it before evef sld allow him to tak their course Grand train out They burnt peat in those days run t of Montreal. That was back said the old railroader. "Som had got hold of the about the eity company. and inded out to us wving St. Lambert load up witl didn't last he firemen K A n a hurry, tender got partly wd on cord wo the the officials peat bogs around hey sold 1t to the dirty stuff with Le ir tenders to was h pla n t the mpany trains guthe vy, just about the man on the road crumbly stuff which was just a | coniposs f mu and grass re hike bricks ve threw ' waste right inte tl thousand ton stacked T! whol fir Ther: rE an d the windows of pass. cracked by the hea end of our troubles used on the Grand Some seventide began extent. The years saw its introduetion, but not until about "80 that it came general use Before that the nobrous locking old wood-burners iar only to the present genera- from pictures, lugged the trains dike ears wl-burners Were all were a terror said the Govern. nm into the 'anadian locomotives to any tion and they ut hot cinders," That why the vut on those wire of the stacks Bus erviceable little en. they only weighed In those days each wk after his own and keep it in wn out of the and ry uld get d a nut or adju 1 keep his eve You didn't ks on the wheels big drivers it you can bet er would hear about it. We with lead hammers so that we wouldn't nun cngine you ever manage in the the air-brake was invent asked the reporter we did well enough. The en r knew his crew, and when he led 'on brakes' the boys wers job. It certately seem ide compared with what wi now adays 'the running alon ws of moving cars, - r and turning of the old brake: on the platforms semed to get along with it wd let me tell vou," said the old "up to the time of the Greal estorn's amalgamation with the irand Trunk, in '80. we hadn't bad single rear-end collision on wy n---8t. Thomas te the : Falls Buflal And there was lots ol ght traffic over that hne then, too. That was the great stock rout from the American west. In those days were big herds of cattls ou the plains, and hundreds of train. loads used to pass through from Detroit « But if collisions dents of other a-plenty. "The St was built in the said my informant, "and the road 5s a sure enough rough one then. a was something running off the | track all the time. It was otly used for freight in the beginning; and 1 can tell you we freight crews had our own time of it. "A man starting out never Knew just when he was going to get back. Once 1 was a whole week making the round trip. Just think of it. St Thomas to the Falls and back, seven days. There were five crews tied up all near each other for over a day. We hadn't any provisions with us, and had a hard time foraging for food at ene of the few settlers houses in the vicinity. Twenty hun. gry men finally deserted their trains and went over in a body to a farmer's place. We were nearly starved. be- ing a good day and a half without food. and I can tell Fou the pork and potatoes that farmer set out for us fairly melted away when our gang got after them." a. thera were few, aceh kinds there were Thomas division early séventies,™ The more a man butts in the often: er he gets kicked out. Occasionally . those who say bat lit tie talk too much. is metimes with Bad habits don't seein ap bac if they | THE DAILY BRITISH SHG. ER a aed A SKILFUL ARCHITECT, {| The Canadian Muskrat Than the Beaver. Vhea it comes to ingenuity and system in dem maste x. can give the littl skrat few pointers. In buil the muskrat w marsh land th will tide or igh water tidal margins. The animal bank of the stream or pond, as the case may uning below the edge of low ark, to the site it has select. home eliminaries completed, 1h¢ uts with its chisel] ko broad, strong stalks an flag and long, se materials the busy carries to the buildinz it braids and twists then in circular form and builds ayer upon layer, gradually nar. rowing the structure until a firm shaped house is the result. This strengthened and made liberal mixture of muskrat out of Is Cleverer gements the beaver i at high from the COars: cone is further comfortable by a mortar made by the marsh mud The interior of a is always divided into two floors or stories. Bometimes it will have as four apartments, one above i other. The number is believed be regulated by the expected height f the water. Access to them from chamber or gallery inner f. the muskrat"s house many as below is by a built around the edge of house and rising like a spiral stair- The muskrat expects and wants ground floor of its house to b flooded, but there must always be a dry, warm room at the terior is lhimed with a ry grasses and leaves rance amd exit to the house subterranean passage from the of the water. the ground floor on a level with that tunnel The Irishman Had Him. John Tolmie, who t Bruee in the House among hls good stories, of the when the joke neatly turned him An Irishinan, who knew Imi cotch and that h tician for a great asked why it was that 8S wed such great ability directions cotchmen are preachers or politicians," said ishman Irish are just as "Mr. Telmie bank being re prese of Commons was that opposite } remarkable.' 'They are either men or--". The remainder of remark was drowned by t} of the listeners { the Bruce Old in which most of ww people were Scotch, Mr. Tolmi¢ told how he had got back at the Irish- man. But an Insh Old Boy at the gathering turned the laugh on Tolmie i the Irishman: "I must admit that it takes about half t! Irish as policemen to keen the other ! of jail, but Mr. Tolmie forget that it takes half the as preachers to keep the other half out of Hades." Too Careful. 1 politics as well as in business it necessary to do thing rather free hand. and it wa the lack of ability to so rise weasion that made a former upant of a Cabinet position in the Legislature not altogether i to his position When this man was appointed, a ewspaper man got from him some in formation for a write-up. The Minis. ter was asked if he would like a pies of the paper in which srite-up was to appear, and he said, "Yes, send me a dozen." The newspape nian saw the Minis ter a few days r and said: "I've iven you a pretty good show in that writeup. Don't think you ought to get quite a number of papers and end them to some of the country litars #*' you ¢ :ndid idea," said the Minister thusiastically "How many papers did we arrange for you send me?" "Oh, we said about a dozen. ™ "Well," said the Minister in a tone indicamng great decision, "send. me two dozea, and send the bill to me." A Lucky. Find. Currelly, the well-knowr archaeologist, tells of a cur was niece of luck which befell him eccasion. He was working vith a party of one hundred men on he excavation of a number of im- sortant tombs in Egypt, when a n tive me to him with the story i in ir ting discovery gome distance way. Leaving the werk on whict } vas engaged, he went to the place de ieribed by the native, only to find at it was a wild-goose chase. Oa w way back, however, from this fruitless expedition he noticed a pile f gravel which appeared to him to be i 1 unnatura: arrangement He stopped aod sunk a pit. To his sur wriss and delight, a tomb was dis- vered which proved to be thal of Pharaoh "which knew not Jos. * This monarch had completely den his tomb, building it in an he-way piace, and like that of orest peasant; underground, ver, n veritable palace had been nstructed New Brunswick Amendments, J. K. Pinder, one of the present nembers of York County in the N.B House of Assembly, once did some work for the old Conservative Govern- nent on Grand Island Bar in the River Bi. John, which was very se verely. criticized by his political op- ponents. Some years later Mr. Pinder was naking some remarks in the House xhiich rather ruffled the temper of a nember on the opposite side, who alled out: "What about Grand Isiand Bar?" "1 do not wonder at the question." sspliad' Mr. Pinder, "for al! of the wherable member's troubles in lif. ave sorung from the work on 'bars.' rat there is this difference, that there wl lenty, of water on Grand Msted 41 'anadian 1 One A good cook in a wile and mother helps wonderfully in happy home mak- ing. The man who sidetracks to mourn lost opportunities is a dead pro SATURDAY, \ | RISE OF "DR. TAFFY." i - The Little Welshman Court Fi: W k Queei 11} a Wels] t play It is firs some vears. ( ti hero of 1} fn 8 War i's or t-hand an at waz a Pembre shire man | was home on furlough after many | vears of foreign sarvies The urim id warrior was walking in the coun- ry roms one day, when he met a fine specimen of untry lad, clad in moleskin trousers, and with an old pair of clogs om « feet After some talk, the general was so taken with the boy that he asked, in his usual blunt way: "Well, my boy. whose son are you?' The boy repl promptly "Mab Sheni'r ser." (Johnny, the blacksmi "Well, bot, what like to "Doct ser then, doctor you shall be" varrior kept his word, as he did. To his credit be it said, r the lad's education 3 Elizabeth's Gramma School at ¢ marthen, and sent him to one of London hospitals, where he passe his examinations with great credit But just at that time--by the ¥ of fate--Picton was killed a* loo, and trouble began. Witheut money or influenc Dr. Daniel Davies pluckily started a practic Drury Lane and Seven Dials, time the - worst slums in Europ populari attended him, and "Dr. Taffy' became a household word with the wretched inhabitants sir.) shoul Great ed at his doc Duct d "Dr. Taffy," and sent for. He saved of the child al mistress was In | case, and the ros ¢ | hope The old ecoachman, however, | suved the situation. "Send for 'D Taffy," "' he said confidently save her." The advice was acted ot Davies arrived... When he = | how matters stood with the royal | patient he asked, bluntly "Whi | do you want me to keep alive, th { mother or the c¢child® [he agonized duke instantly replied "My wife "Well," he iberately, "1 will { keep them both alive And he di The little Welshman becam and the baby became Queen Victoria The debt Empire owes to that Wels! ean mever be repaid. Known In Every Home. Wiliiam Hartley, the head of famous British jam firm, who em of profit-shanng is proving x0 eficial to his employes, started the age of thirteern-by -helping i mother in a small grocers shop Coine, Lancashire, England. In thre years the bu 88 had prospered i such an extent that he urged his par j ents to take large premises. At lirst { they set their faces against this enter prise, but al last gave way, and a surprisipgty short time their sou was employing a staff of fifty mer Then he started manufzcturing and soom Hartley's jam became kn in every hom A deeply religi iam was the first years to be appx tive Methodis he'll said, del po} hysician, great British doclor : 2. nas g i } pe" ands tw the funds of igs der nati 4 hort ago he Giv } rd's money has ; and recreation same systematic business; and, money is a task than been I try it on the lines ths use in in fact, to distribute my harder and more anxious waking 8." Great Men of the South of Eglo I'he southern Englishman is con stantly having the men of the north and nudlands rammed down his throat as examples to lumself But, really, among the prominent present tame, the south 8 by no means without ils representa. tives Captain Scott, the great explorer, is a Devonshire Frederick Treves, the great and Mr. Thomas Hardy, the nove are both Dorset men: Mr. H. G Wells was born Bromiey, Kent; Sir Wil liam Dunn, who has done so much on behalf of the umfortunate depositors in the Charing Cross Bank, is a Corn- Antarctic man; Sir surge London show up at all 3 Sir Vesey Strong, the Lord Mayor, was born in St. Bride's; whil Sir John Wolfe Barry, the eugineer, Lord Halsbury, Sir Rufus Isaacs, and Mr. John Burns are all London men. A Good Example. Moulton frankly is wot a member Old Mr that he church... "But 1 go regularly," he invariably adds, "and, what's more, I get to the meeting house on time. It's part of my religion not to disturb the religion of other folks.' confesses £ : i i as any Strength of Bank Note. As jllustrating the excellence-of the! paper (which 1s made from umused linen scraps) upon which Bamk of England notes are printed, it is stat ed that when one of these notes is twisted into a rope it will sustainls weight of 358 pounds -------- Old Mitten Giving. 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