Show DID IUD YOU L n A FREAK IIEr HET Salt Satt Lake Lalee men may have ha bet hot some som mone money But j the they didn't make mako fools of thc themselves That Is ro reserved re- re y served for the maker of freak ireal bets And no bet beton beton beton on Judgment backed b by mono money or hats or 01 the of t lunch luncheon on can be bo called freakish For or vyone jl 1 has Ims to ll have o money and hats hals and luncheons man has to rido ride in Jn a n wheelbarrow No on ono has t to roll roil lemons down tho the block No one has to go with half his face shaved sha No o one ono has ilas to carr carry his friend up three flights of or stairs on his back Nobody but the maker of ot fool tool bets has to do these things And Aud h hI he heIs Is much loss than nobody In tho the estimation of tho the good people who watch tho the winner collect From Flom er e every part of ot the tho country como come reports of tho the fool tool bet and the ridiculous figure fig made by the tho loser when ho Ito Im pays s One paper devotes otes more than titan thant t two o columns with a scare head hea 1 to telegrams from half bate a a. hundred to towns n and the burden of e el every l' l ono one of them is more exasperatingly foolish h than all the rest reet It Is bad enough to bet money lOne lOne- and then hush up tho the matter with payment No one sees that In tho the rush and anti hurry of tho the day no thought ht Is given ell It comes In ill tho the regular course Ie IC an any one asks about It ono one can be bo tol told there was some mistake In the reporting I But flut the maker of or the r fool ol bet puts himself inthe inthe in inthe the annals of or his town Ho publisher his toll folly People ma may forget torget ho Ito has lived lI fifty years an upright upright upright up up- right and noble lIf life But they will vIll never ne forget forget forget- not even en on omi tho lay day of or his funeral thai funeral that ho lost nn an election bet in such a a. year ear ear and und walked across town In a R barrel and back again to tho the point where his hits trousers were ero held as hostage e. The fool bet Is the topmost bubblo bubble in ill tho timo froth of C campaign buncombe And nd It dont don't pa pay |