Show fortune came hit his way fortunes are not always the reut out of hard work and good judg input but are sometimes made by accident says bays john mcfiren McL iren la in writing upon the subject in the london dally daily chronicle one such case cae occurred when a roundabout was landed at thursday island a cos pearling center off the north const of australia for transshipment tran shipment to japan finding there were nere a few days to wait the proprietor decided to erect his ap Ii aratus and employ the interval by making it earn a little instead of a few tays he stayed three years for the island was completely lacking in entertainment and the colored population rushed the roundabout as they would have rushed nothing else riding it twenty hours a day men women and children often throe three to a horse fare collectors had to be put on in relays so many were the repairs necessitated by the excessive working that before the end of the secona second year the whole affair had been twice completely rebuilt those three years gae the owned far more money than he had thought to earn in th whole of his life |