The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-26


brace Of bulldogs OF the mos, threat
ening appearance was overheard COM
planning that II would be necessary for
her to send her favorites to the country.
because both were suffering from nervous
prostration because the children In the
adjoining apartment were noisy.
Francis Wilson, meeting friend on Broad
way one morning at an early hour, was
invited to take a drink. He courteously
declined. saying Thank you very much.
it is entirely too early, and besides | have
already had one"
A German locksmith in Harlem had a
call one night recently from a young man
who said that he'd lost his keys and wanted
to get into his house quietly. The lock-
smith went with the young man to house
near by, and set to work on the lock.
There's no use Of my hanging around,
said the young man, "1'm going to the corner
for drink. When you get through, whistle
The German stuck to his task, and in ten
minutes he had the way clear Then he
whisted.
ihe youps man zane e e., up E. The l01 Ha
was told to como around in the morning.
Az he knew some Of the occupants OF the
house. he consented. The young man
walked into the house and the German
went home.
Next morning he went around for his
money. The house was full Of cops. He
stayed long enough to hear that the house
had Teen looted, and then made tracks
for his shop
THAT ola scheme for cooling drinking
water" said travelling Australian. is all
right when 1t is all right. In my part of the
world it works to perfection, and 1t would be
pretty hard to tell what would become
OF the Commonwealth OF Australia If it
didn't We don't Use 'ollas, because they
cost too much and break too readily. We
have water bags made OF duck or sailcloth.
and they cool the water to delicious and
entirely wholesome temperature. Upwhere
| live. at the Northwest Bend Of the Murray
River. we have sun temperatures OF 1875
or 40 for days on end but It's as dry az
bone. and that's what does the trick, Here
in New York where It's principally muggy
in summer. it would not work out as well
It's the evaporation from the surface that
cools the water within the ola, and your
summers are not much good for evaporation
The Weather Bureau can give you the equa-
tons that apply, but it u enough to know
at 100, as 1t has done recently, there will be
no evaporation and your ola will hold moth
ing but tepid water When you have to get
out n table of logarithms to find out whether
the wafer IL III 10 uTulk you hIIltllCdue
would ra ther fall back on one Of those rickey
things
That Brooklyn is so good as to set an ex-
ample will be acknowledged by all, hut It
may not be so we'll known that it is a great
place for help in being good, a sort Of syndi-
Gated righteousness. Take the humble cop
In Manhattan the roundsman gets him
on the midnight tour, or II he makes good
with the rounds the shoohy gathers him in.
But you don't hear Of their catching the
Brooklyn cop. The night motorman looks
out for that, for the Brooklyn cops have
few beats out Of reach Of the sound of one or
more trolley gongs. For ordinary crossing
peal in pairs. But In the silent night, when
the keen hawk has spotted the rounds. he
rings at every street an odd number OF
strokes. OF course the cop is always on his
or the Ave strokes he knows it's time to come
out from where he has been.
A night worker Of a social nature on his
way from the station to home generally
stops for n moment to pass the time OF
day with the policeman on the corner.
Now. that the warm weather is here, the
windows are open, and as he stood with the
copper the other morning the tinke Of an
alarm clock was heard. Then a second
rang out in minor key. Then came
third fourth, and then more at few minute
intervals.
When the first was heard the policeman
paused his club swinging long enough to
remark:
There's Gallagher's sign to make the
fire"
At the second alarm the bluecoat an
nounced that it was $50 o'clock and that
Casey must soon leave for the gas works
With each succeeding jingle he would an
nounce whose turn 1t was to get UP.
you see, cop don't have nuthin' to do
these times a day. an it's easy" he ex-
planned -Four ffteen's Gala gher's time
for he's due at his job at the Battery at q,
an he's the first one out. Youll see him
in minute dom hotfoot. for it's late,
There's Cassidy's gong, an it's 5 O'Clock.
"The next outs Casey 30 know his bell g
tn second, an so on. What'd saw There's
Gallagher now on tn run fer tn express. :"
At last there came a discordant jangle
from a clock somewhere in the row.
That's walkin' time fer me. Kava-
nagh's o'clock call an time fer rounds,
There he Is now. Good morning"
I sid know that old gentleman and bis wife