TROUBLE DEVELOPS NATURAL ENERGY.
Trouble and affliction are known to have a purifying and elevating effect upon human character; difficulties encountered in the execution of work, develop the skill of the true artisan; and trouble on the road, or accidents to locomotives, furnish the engineer with opportunities for developing natural energy, ingenuity, and perseverance, if these attributes are in him, or they publish to his employers his lack of these important qualities.
One of the most serious sources of trouble that an engineer can meet with on the road, is shortness of water.