The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-23
acknowledgement.
rIc cANYAssER's TALE.
Buying Echoes.

that hDout MS HuiAS
'ook, his dccayed.geutility clothes, that
,Ino,t reached the mu,sard.seed OF chari-
" that sliIl remained, remote and lone.
anne, in the empty vastnesS OF my heart,
Notwithstanding observed portfolio
rpIcr his arm, and said to myself, Be-
hold, Providence hath delivered His SER
r,pt rnso tho hands OF another canyasser.
We'll, these people always get one in.
,.,e,,sl. Before we'll knew how it came
about, this ono was telling me his history
and / was all attention and sympathy.
He told it something like this: u
Nv parents died, alas, when / was q
lille, .iuieAs child. My uncle lthuriel
TOOK me to his heart and reared me as
Mi own. lie was my only relative in the
siIo world; but he was good, and rich,
,nd generous. He reared mo in the lap
Ilurury, know no want that money
could satisfy.
In the iullness OF time | was gradu-
.,sd, and went with two Of my servants
INV chamberlain and my yalet-to travel
iuioreiVn countries. During four years
I lifted upon careless wing amid the
bs4uteOui gardens Of the distant strand,
ilyou will permit this form OF speech in
one whose tongue WAS ever attuned TO
poesy; and indeed no speak with conf.
lance, as one unto hid kind, for | per.
ceiys by your eyes that you too, sir, are
Tilted with tho divine imitation. In those
Hr land, | revcIed 10 tho ambrosial food
that fructfey the soul, the mind, the
heart. But OF all things, that which
most appealed to my Unborn esthetic
,s.,c was the prevailing custom there,
among tho rich, Of making collections OF
.I.gsnt aud costly rariiies, dainty oestS
Il srtH, and in M evil hour | tried TO
upliit my uncle lIhuriOl to plane OF
sympathy with this exquisite employ.
ment.
| wrote and told him OF one gentle.
mans vast collection OF shells; anothers
nsie collection oi;mOerachaum pipes; an.
other. CIeyaIing and refining collection Of
gudecipherable autographs; another's
SELECTION OF old china; auo,her's enchan'
tag collection Of postage.stamps-and so
!,rih aud so on. Soon my letters yielded
fruit. My uncle began to look about for
something to make collection Of. You
may know, perhaps, how Geetly taste
liz this dilates. Ills soon became a
raIins fever, though | knew it not. He
gsiia to neglect his great pork business
ptstently hU wholly retired, and turned
40 elegant leisure Into u rabid search for
curious things. His wealth was vast,
ADD he spared it not. First he tried COW.
bells. Lie made collection which filled
I've large saloons, and comprehended all
The different sorts Of cow.bells that ever
hld been Contrived, save one. That one
In antique, and tho only specimen ex-
lut-was possessed by another collector.
Ny urcls offered enormous sums for It,
but the gentleman would not SELL
Doubtless you know what necessarily re-
,ulls4, A true collector attaches no
value 10 collection that is not complete.
h sells his hoard, he turna his mind to
some field that seems unoccupied. .
Thus did my uncle. lie next tried
btickbln. After piling up vast and
intensely interesting collection, the for
ass difficulty supervened; his great
heart broke again; he sold out his souls
dol 10 the retired brewer who possessed
The missing brick. Then he tried flint
Lltchets and other implements OF Prime
TAl Man, but by and by discovered that
The factory where they were made was
supplying other collectors 81 we'll as
himseIl lie tried Aztec inscriptions and
stuffed whales-another failure, after in.
credible labor and expense. When his
collection seemed at last perfect, Il stuffed
whale arrived from Greenland and an
Aztec inscription from the CuEdurango
regions Of Central America that made
all former specimens insignificant. My
uncle hastened 10 secure these noble
gems. lie got the stuffed whale, but an.
other collector 80. the inscription. A
real Cunduraugo, as possibly you know,
Il a possession OF such supreme value
that, when once collector gets II, he
viii rather part with his family than
Tith 1t. So my uncle sold out, aud saw
bis darliHgG go forth, never more to re-
ShItO as snow In single night.
Now he waited, end thought. III
kueV smother disappointment might Kill
him. Ho was resolved that he woul'
choose things next time that no othe
Dan va, collecting. He carefully mad
% hi, uint, aud oncc moro entered tn
i:d-his time to make a collection o
echoes.
vi what7" said /.
Echoes, sir. His frst purchase was Al
sISo 10 Georgia that repeated four time;
as next was a six.rcpeatcr In Maryland
Az next was ia thirteen.rcpeater In Maine
S9uexi was ninO repeater in Kansas
bis next was atwelve-rep eater in TenneE
~, which he got cheap, 40 to speak, be
ease IL was out OF repair, portion Q
Atefag which reflected it having tum
aA down. lie believed he could repai
"at cost OF few thousand dollar
'adby Increasing the elevation with ma
@,Sa'y treble tho repeating capacity; bu
We architect who undertook tho job ha
ss1t! built an echo before, and 80 h
NS'ly spoiled this one. Before h
Ssldled with 1t, 1t used 10 talk back lik
HosheF.in.law, but now It was only q
,'F The deaf and dumb asylum. We'll
SUs DO brought lot OF cheap Iittl
s90o'e'batEeled echoes, scattered arounC
:eE various States aud Territories; b
sA@su at 20 per cent Of BY taking tn
w Next no bought perfect Gatlin
t'a OiAn echo Ia Oregon, and II cost
,.inauo, | can tell you, You may know
~ mat In tho Gcho.market the scale o
r'ss' sseumulAtive, like the osrat.scal
diamonds in fact, the same phrase
SSy Is used. A singIecarat echo
J9'a but $40 over and above tho yalu
SAH Iind ills on; a two.oarat or double
a'ieIed echo ia worth $50: a fiye.cara
m worth $3.50; ten carat Is worth SIS
W Ny uncIe's Oregon echo, which h
Sasa the Great Pitt echo, was a twenty
%%sslat gem, and cost S2lO OOO-tbe
NV the land in, for 1t was 400 mile
NJ, wv 10 the meantime my path was
n Of EesM. Twas the accepted suI,o
W. only and lovely daughter Of Z
-V@A Easl, and wAI beloved 70 dISt.n