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Show GOOD AND BAD LOCOMOTIVE3. 1 Of Same Type, One Will Behave Well and Another Abominably. You never seo a ship launched on a Friday, and similarly a new locomotive locomo-tive hardly over makes a trial trip on thnt day or on tho thirteenth of the month. lCvcn though the superintendent superintend-ent may Jeer at this superstition, yet ho knows too well to set it nt naught, for Just ns sailors consider thnt some ships nro unlucky, bo do trnln hands credit certain locomotives with n sort of demnnlncnl possession. It Is certainly very strnngo tho difference dif-ference thnt may be observed between two locomotives built from tho same, plans, nt the snmo time, of similar material. One goes on her wny quietly quiet-ly nnd smoothly, never breaks down, costs little or nothing for rcpnlrs; the other causes troublo from the very first, runs off tho lino, kills tho driven, driv-en, gets Into accidents of nil kinds and generally nets as though possessed pos-sessed by some evil spirit. There wns n famous Instance some years ago on the South Florldn railway rail-way A locomotlvo killed so ninny people that she gained the name of "The Hearse," nnd no fewer than three euglno drivers nctually left the employ of the company rather than continue driving her. The odd thing was thnt she never seemed to Injure herself. Eventually her owners were forced to break her up, although she was by no means worn out. Of nctunl ghosts In trains or rnll wuy engines one very seldom hears. |