ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE ENGINEE* >! 



I was once invited by an engineer to come out and see 

 nice his engine was running. 1 id foun<l 



engine itself was running very smoothly, in fact al- 

 most noiselessly, but he looked very much disappointed 

 \ lien I asked him why he was doing all his work with 

 one etui of the cylinder. He asked me what I meant, 

 and I had some difficulty in getting him to detect the 

 difference in the exhaust of the two ends, in fact the en- 

 gine was only making one exhaust to a revolution. He 

 was one of those engineers who never discovered any- 

 thing wrong until he could see it. Did you know that 

 there are people in the world whose mental capacity can 

 only grasp one idea at a time? That is when their n 

 are on any one object or principle they can not see or 

 observe anything else. That was the case with this en- 

 gineer, his mind had been thoroughly occupied in getting 

 all the reciprocating (moving) parts perfectly adjusted, 

 and if the exhaust had made all sorts of peculiar noises, 

 he would not have discovered it. 



The one idea man will not make a successful engineer. 

 The good engineer can stand 1>\ and at a glance take in 

 the entire engine, from the tank to the top of the smoke 

 stack. He has the faculty of noting mentally, what he 

 sees, and what he hears and by combining the results of 

 the two, he is enabled to size up the condition of the en- 

 gine peri- 



