The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-27

A stock BROKER who bad his n~w .
hOuas-powsr isIO model automobIls Dr.
hveT~d TO him tho othor day dacided 20
celebrate thu occasion. tho market bslng
dull. by . run on tho country roads.
To bo on tho sAfo alaa on hAs gasolsns
supply he dscidsd % stop at . garage 20
havo tho tank nlled- A. u was being
MEASURED out h. turned 10 his son. Q
asurdy chap &C q Who had followed him
inside the eArAeo. to impreas upon him
the dangers of gasoleDe. Calling him BY
name hs said:
You would 20 straight 20 heaven 10 I
put match To that gasolsne.
Looking hia father straight In the eyes
h replied:
And wbsrO would you %. dadr-
Park Commissioner Slower has estab-
iish"si q swan and duck nursery on the
lower lake 20 Central Park where mother
fowl may hatch cut their young without
mOlestaiion from maraudeTS, who IA past
years have bssn getting most Of the
benefit 80 the citys industrious water
fowl.
In q hlg reservation where there are
no keep 81 tho grass signs the visitors
Ilsod tO wander into all the secluded
places Whsre tbs fowl were trying 20 do
their duty tn the master that fed them.
Some Of thu ViAitors helpsd themselves
To the eg@ after driving from the nest
the motherly duck or swan. For years
not a swan eGG was left In the nest long
enough 10 grstify the ambition o' 'he
ait ting fowl.
This year the prospsct IL brighter.
for the aix black and twenty white swans
and the twenty or thirty Wild ducks thar
have their home on the small body OF
water that hes among the hills IN the
sOutherly part % the park. The nursery
10 upon q peninsula that iuts out into the
lake. A high wire fence has been pant up
on the neck Of the peninsula TO keep out
egg stealers and policeman and . keeper
from the menagerie have been placed as
! guardians over 10.
To insure peace to the mOtherly fowl
Commissioner Slower has rescinded the
| boat privilege on that body Of water
| The pIace In TO be the permanent home OF
the water fowl. a. all ~ them have been
transferred from the upper arm OF the
| b n lake opposite West Seventy seventh
street. where several Of them died last
winter from some unknown cause.
The chap who works on One side Of
me. said an ofice man. has been married
six weeks and he eneaks TO the telephone
about four times a day and calls up his
wife. and then hear him saying: DEER.
how j. your headache now3 hope yor
are feeling better Then pretty soon
he comes hack tn his desk and goes 20
work again all smiling.
The man who WORKS on tine other side
of me has been married AK years and ne
Rues to the Telephone only when be =
I called and then hear him ayinG: Why.
the money: and then he comes hack 20
his desk all Sowing.
And. reilly. when hear the way these
two men go On I don't know what - do:
I don't know whether @ get married or
Co stay a bachelor
The snfte-t job in New York. Whv.
that &C the colOred citizen In the white
duck coat. who only Ia. o. stretch out
IN n rocking chair in the window OF
furniture store on This ~ fourth street.
and rad a hook while by mn chinery h"
h rocked and rocked and rocked.
An ODD circus man was dolefully reading
the report 81 fTos'hitten crops In the
middle West
-wha, do Won care'- interrupted a
iippant New Yorker.
Care shouted the cirrus man -Asid"
from humanitarian instincts. take = trc-
rpsndo,s interest in those bill ghtei fields
~ TNINlHfNllEF
read in a couple % weeks ] an slated
for r,iral division this season and n
country circus'H route u shape1 entirely
Nv the condition of ~" cJop- In" heat
RI n th.. cold the rain and the drought
r.~,IN whether We shall show IN centr'l
Iowa or southern TenneSse~. The plrS E"
where tho weather u permitting u .
farmer TO make the most money u the
placa for rs Owing to the unC ertsiniy
Of weather conditions the small circus
never plRns its route moro than Two or
three weeks ir advance. I ike TO play
the middle Ne~. When crops are good
the folks out there simply throw money
az a circus
Two Concy Island walters were talking
ahout short changing.
-It's bad 10 take a raw chance. said
one. -bccause Won can never tell wha'
will happen f you're caught. Tho hest
r,chingS evey had ! didn't take any
chances on. u vas last summer n the
Seattle eNDonition. | NRs selling tickets
Z n a fifteen cont attraction. Every time
a g,Iy showed in a two dollar tall for ore
mr. Two tickets. I counted ont carefully
ave ,r len conts in silver 100 much. n
M. bought two tickets Id lay out ~ cents
, IN 4ilver Nire meu ont OF Ten would
+ grab tho change and heat n. thinking they
f bad heat me our 81 a dime They seldom
/ rouaFnlparsd thai ! had a dollar more tn
/ giVe them they Werc IN such a hurry tn
I 20, aNey with my dime.
The tenth man, who dldn' fali Tor ne
aarne was generally honest enough 20
shove NV dime Rack. 90 ] seldom Lost any
/ hing. I made go a dsv hesides my pay,
al Mi1hotIt taking n chance