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loreiman, now reeciving a good salary and cnjoving - the entire confidence of - his cmployers, who, o few vears aco, was an ordinary scoop-driver. The sccond case i that of a man who, some fifteen or sixteen years sinee, obtained a job at a provineial gas- works. e was in absolute want, and had walked the roads for many a weary day in rcarch of work. He addressed the casunl mquiry, which most pedestrians have heard, Lo a passing stranger : ** Do you know of any- cne who could give a man something to do ? 7 He, fortunately, happened to be speaking to an- employé of the gas-works, who sceured himy a post as stoker. He proved himsell an cthicient and reliable servant, and was ulti- mately promoted to be head foreman with o salary of /150 a year. He is now the proucdl possessor ol several houses, and is credibly veported to have accumulated, by judicious mvestment of his savings, as much as A2, 000.

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and down the retort-house, one of which is made to perform the operation of raking out the coke, whilst the other contains o supply of coal from which the scoop is lilled. The coal 15 deposited in the retort-house, s carried I clevator buckets to a hopper overhead, lrom which it is dropped into the charging machine. .\ couple of men with very little

expertence can with these machines do the work of several expert stokers, Asothe gas Teaves the retort it s very hot and very impure. Tts tempera- ture has thercfore to be reduced and its impurities have to he removed. It passes mto a pipe known as the *hydraulic main,” the air in which is exhausted by means of engines, which may be scen at work - the engine-house. 'T'he main contams water through which the Uas s forced. Irom the hydraulic main it enters the condenscers, which are pipes running back-

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