AEOLUS AGAIN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8861, 19 July 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

AEOLUS AGAIN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin,—Cranks punish nil tbeir friends. Just look at my case. Mr Mautz says of mo—"hia guida, philosophor, and friend," —that I am nothing, represent nothing, not even a principle (mark! ha has been studyiug Victor Hugo), nnd says it too in view of the fact that I have ever boen pleading with him on behalf of the principle of " eternal silence," " golden silence." Hnroly ol him it may be affirmed There runs Nonsense precipitate like lead Through zig-zig crannies in his head. I have done my best. I bays appealed to himself to shun the press, I bare appealed to his friends to confine him, if need were, in a room destitute of paper —even on the walls —and to scrape tha soot out of the chimney; but all in vain, tho diarrkcea verborum continues undiminiched. Will my friend not ba advised, and consider that to many he looks like some ancient rooster on a midden heap as he poi3es himself and struts about, and is as proud as that same rooster of his performance, when he flaps his wings and cries cock-a-doodle-doo ? A German savant has said " there ia nothing real on the earth bub myself and the aliments which nourish me." My fritud has drunk at this foantain and the draught has intoxicated him. I fear the verdicS of your readers will be rather that of another German savant, who say 3 " man ia what he eats," or Scot'ke, " there's naethin' in him ava but what the spoon pits in him." Mr Uantz ought iv all conscienca now to stop, for he has succeeded in convincing your readers that he knows everything in Heaven and on ear'b, save only himself, — I am, &o, July 15. Iconoclast.