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Show Matheson Astonished. Tho following in uuower to Frotwoll will 0I0F0 tho oontroverav. Ed. a ,, Editor Record: 1 confess to boiug fe Hotcewhat actonlshed, on reading tho IT last Iseuo of your everweloonio paper, ' to Hud thoroin a uumhor of queatloua 1 directed to mo by cur mutual friend. It Mr. Frotwell. Uo does not appear to mwiorstaud what 1 hud been writlug about and goes cfr on a tangont with a number of questiona that has no coniieotlo.i with the subject in baud, liut to follow up with his style of ressouliig, ho appears to thluk that it la tho correct thiug for tho nntious to hu overrun with hungry meu and women, and that moro eugiuea of war uhould bo constructed to murdor of tho human family. J will only uoto two of hla many questions. Ho wnnts to kuow if 1 want to como hack to tho tallow dip. To that I would remind him that I suggested piping a warm spring into tho electric light ditoh in ordor to urovout its freezing in extreme oold weather, so that tho light might bo more steady. How la tbat for a tallow tal-low dip? And I also recommended a town clock somo months ago. Thoso things would benefit Cedar Olty, but my friend Frotwell is moro llboral.'tolug anxious to holp Unolo Sam with cash whloh he sends to tho Patent OUlae for tho privliego of raisin, rais-in, water out of a ponn with a too-ohinu too-ohinu that will propel Itself a la perpetual motion prlnolplo but as ho Intimatod to mo, I havqn't braiua ouough to understand it, ho only noods more money, and moro wheels, and thou ho will put the lawn of nature na-ture to detlanco. Now, Mr. Editor, I trust you will be good in tho future and not publish artloles in tho Reoord that Mr. Fret-well Fret-well doesn't approve of, uud I think a doea of hia own meuloino might hove a Bolutory effect on him, in not allowing bla effusion lu the Reoord, because I am very much afraid of his iutorminablo volumlnus verbosity, but not of hia logic ALEX MATHESON. |