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Show Fortune Cam Hii Way Fortunes are not always the re-u!t re-u!t of hard work and good Judgment, Judg-ment, hut art- sometimes made by accident, says John McLaren In writing upon the subject In the London Lon-don Tfally Chronicle. One such ense occurred when a roundabout was landed nt Thursday Island n cosmopolitan cos-mopolitan pearling center off the north const of Australia for transhipment to Japan. Finding there were a few days to wait, the proprietor decided to erect his ap-- ap-- pa rut us and employ the Interval by making It earn a little. Instead of a few days he stayed three years, l'or the Island was completely lacking In entertainment, and the colored population rushed the roundabout as they would have rushed nothing else, riding It twenty twen-ty hours a day, men, women and children, often three to a horse. Fare collectors had to be put on In relays. So many were the repairs necessitated neces-sitated by the excessive working that before the end of the second year the whole affair had been twice completely rebuilt. Those three years gave the owner far mure money than he had thought to earn In the whole of his life. |