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Show BB Thos. Lee, the Engineer on the B Cache.) unction and Pieston bianch, Ba "lien but thirteen yeais of age started BBl to work for the O. S. L. talhoad coin- Bb pany as an engine cleaner. He was BBl changed to the position of fireman, BBl :md when lie learned how to handle an BT engine was Anally given the position Bl of engineer which he now holds today, BBl ami Is drawing a good salaiy. Uest of BY nil, he Is In good standing, and has u BY Mist-class jecotd. If he continues BY "loiiK the same lines In tlie futuie, BY wlien he becomes phjslcally disabled BY bo will be entitled to a pension fiom BY the company. We refer to this merely B ns an example to joung men. He c.ue- BY u' I" selecting jour avocation, let It BV be something that suits jou and In KV which you can advance and then stay BY by lt remembering alvvajs that ex- BY ' perience brings cniclency In oillce. If, JH however, a joung man Is unsettled in BHBBVBVBBJwc-- -.. hislaboi and changes fiom one line to another he will not gain experience nor clliciencyand neither will bene-lits bene-lits aecruo to him. On the other hand he Is paying tor expeilencc, which means a loss In the outcome. If thcic Is one thing above another our people lack oi fall short of in this country it Is continuity. Asaiule they lay down too quickly. Men have been known to start In business, battling against odds for a little time, get discouraged, and right at the time when the experience ex-perience they had passed tluough would insure them success In the futuie. fu-tuie. A little gilt, and determination to succeed against odds Is the feeling that is necessary, and by reading the sketches of noted men's lives jou will see almost Invariably that at the commencement, com-mencement, trials had to be endured and finally overcome. Nothing short of this will do In any new line. "Work" "Work" Is the motto for cveiy young man, and never let up until thoiough-ly thoiough-ly convened to the fact that the wrong avocation has been selected. |