Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-01

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a two-carat or double.ba barrcled echo is
worth thirty dollars; fve.carat Is
worth nine hundred and fifty; tcn-oarat
is worth thirteen thousand. My uncle's
Oregon echo, which he called the Great
! Pitt Echo, was q twenty-five carat gem,
and cost two hundred and sixteen thou
sand dollars--they threw the land in, for
1t was four hundred miles from a settle
ment
Well, in the meantime my path was u
path of roses. was the accepted suitor
of the only and lovely daughter of an
English Earl, and was beloved to distrac.
tion. In that dear presence l swan in
seas of bliss. The family were content,
| for IL was known that / was sole heir to
an uncle held to be worth five millions
of dollars. However, none of us knew
that my uncle had become collector, at
least in anything more than small way,
for aesthetic amusement.
Now gathered the clouds above my
unconscious head That divine echo,
since known throughout the world as the
Great Koh-i-noor, or Mountain of Repe-
titions, was discovered. 1t was a sixty
! tive-carat gem. You could utter q word
and it would talk back at you for fifteen
minutes, when the day was otherwise
quiet. But behold another discovery
was made at the same time another
echo-collector was in the field, The two
rushed to make the purchase. The prop
crty consisted of couple of small hills
with shadow-vale between, out yon-
der among the back settlements of
New York State Both men arrived
on the ground at the same time, and
neither knew the other was there. The
echo was not all owned by one man; a
person by the name of Williamson Boil
ivar Jarvis owned the east hill, and a
person by the name of HARRISON j.
Blcdso owned the west hill; the swale
between was the dividing line So while
my uncle was buying Jarvis hill for
three million two hundred and eighty
five thousand dollars, the other party was
buying Bledso's hill for shade over
three million.
Now, do you perceive the natural re-
suit? Why, the noblest collection of
echoes on earth was forever and ever in
complete, since it possessed but the one.
half of the king echo of the universe.
Neither man was content with this di-
vided ownership, yet neither would sell
to the other. There were jawings, bick-
erings, heart burnings. And at last that
other collector, with malignitY which
only collector can ever feel toward a
man and brother, proceeded to cut
down this hill!
You see, as long as he could not have
the echo, he was resolved that nobody
should have it. He would remove his
hill, and then there would be nothing to
reflect my uncles echo. My uncle re.
monstrated with him, but the man said:
81 own one end of this echo; | choose
to kill my end; you must take care of
your own end yourself"
Well, my uncle got an injunction put
on him. The other man appealed and
fought it in u higher court. They car
ried it on up, clear to the Supreme Court
of the United States. 1t made no end
of trouble there. Two of the Judges
believed that an echo was personal prop
erty, because it was impal able to sight
and touch, and yet was purchasable,
! salable, and consequently taxable; two
others believed that an echo was real
estate, because it was manifestly at
tached to the land, and was not remov
able from place to place; others of the
Judges contended that an echo was not
property at all
1t was finally decided that the echo
was property; that the hills were prop
erty; that the two men were separate
and independent owners of the two hills,
but tenants in common in the echo;
therefore defendant was at full liberty to
cut down his hill, since it belonged
solely to him, but he must give bonds in
three million dollars as indemnity for
damages which might result to my un-
clc's half of the echo. This decision also
debarred my uncle from using defend
ants hill to reflect his part of the echo,
without defendants consent; he must use
only his own hill; if his part of the echo
would not go, under these circumstances,
it was sad, of course, but the court could
find no remedy. The court also de-
barred defendant from using my uncle's
hill to reflect his end of the echo, with
out consent. You see the grand result!
Neither man would give consent, and so
that astonishing and most noble echo
had to cease from its great powers; and
since that day that magnificent property
is tied up and unstable.
A week before my wedding day, while
was still swimming in bliss and the no.
bility were gathering from far and near
to honor our espousals, came news of my
uncle's death, and also copy of his will,
making me his sole heir. lie was gone
alasl my dear benefactor was no more.
The thought surcharges my heart even at
this remote day. handed the will to
the Earl; l could not read it for the
binding tears. The Earl read it, then
he sternly said; Sir, do you call this
wealth?-but doubtless you do in your
inflated country. Sir, you are left sole
heir to vast collection of echoes-if
thing can be called a collection that is
scattered far and wide over the huge
! length and breadth of the American con-
tinent; sir, this is not all; you are head
and ears in debt; there is not an echo in
the lot but has a mortgage on it; sir,
am not hard man, but l must look to
my child's interest; if you had but one
echo which you could honestly call your
own; if you had but one echo which was
free from incumbrance, 80 that you
could retire to it with my child, and by
humble, painstaking industry cultivate
and improve it, and thus wrest from it
maintenance, l would not say you nay;
but cannot marry my child to beggar.
Leave his side, my darling; go, sir; take
your mortgage.ridden echoes and quit
my sight forever"
My noble Celestine clung to me IN
tears, with loving arms, and swore she
would willingly, nay, gladly, marry me,
though had not an echo in the world.
But it could not be. We were torn
asunder, she to pine and die within the
twelvemonth, l to toll life's long journey
sad and lone, praying daily, hourly, for
that release which shall join us together
| again in that dear realm where the
wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest, Now, sir, if you will
be so kind as TO look at these maps and
plans in my portfolio, am sure can
sell you an echo for less money than any
man in the trade. Now this one which
cost my uncle ten dollars, thirty years
ago, and is one of the sweetest things in
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