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Show ROYALTY AND AN ENGINEER'S STORY, In a paper before us is a picture of the King of Spain and his future Queen. , f We have heard a great deal about that particular particu-lar couple in the last three months, but the pictures remind us of the old engineer's story. He drove one of the first engines through the State of Indiana. In-diana. Stopping, one night just after dusk at a wood station, while the stoker and brakemen were throwing on wood, the engineer, went forward and waa, oiling the locomotive, when two long-haired rural youths came out of the woods and stayed at a respectful distance watching the marvelous ma, chine. At last one of them said to the engineer: ' ' "Mister, be that a locomotive?" He answered, "Yes." j ; . ; . There was silence for a moment, then the rustic asked: . f t'Be you the engineer?" ' Another "yes," another pause, then the rustic turning to his companion said: "Jake, it don't take much of a man to make a engineer, do it?" . k . J |