Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-21 | Page 4 | A Fool There Was

I A FOOL THERE WAS Sum.- ono with ;i brazen (Jisrrranl of the law, has written th following latter to a Danbury, Gonn., paper: Last Maj I made a barrel, about fifty gallons, of dan-delion dan-delion cordial al a coal of ;il"m $15, which for the moat pari uhs fnr suc;ir al 25 cents n pound l bave I1 the eprdial for $10 i gallon Profit, $485. I have made four barrels ol grape wine al ; coal of about $60 for the sugar. This baa been itracted for al $8 a gallon Profil $1550 I have now ton barrel! of oidet which I ahall allow to freeae and then draw off the .center of th- frozen maaa for prime stone fence' al $60 i gallon One barrel should yield al least three gallons of the ''lightning Profil " f,,iv ss,) Sature doea all mv work and I make $3835 The author ..I the foregoing has told bnlj pari of the storj and givm not more than o nde of the ledger account Eventually his defiance of the law will bring him to an accounting r.n.l th.-n his j 13835 rapidlv will disappear Furthermore, if he is of the tcmpera-I tcmpera-I menl and habits of a m ishiner, he will be his own good patron and accumulate i large number of ill-, due to rxwsscs. Ih- will l's- i"v money, his Libert and hia health, and, when too late, regrets willj torment his soul. It is the itory "i r.-. . t which know! no law, bul brings iiai own chastisement At the cloae the offender againsl law ami health will say, ' a fool there was"'