Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-12-07

ill, and a person by the name of Har-
bison j. Bledso owned the west hill |
he swale between was the dividing
inc. So while my uncle was buying
Jarvis hill for three million two hun.
lred and eighty.ive thousand dollars,
The other party was buying Bledso's
nil 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
since it possessed but one.
half Of the king echo of the universe.
Neither man was content with his di.
vided ownership, yet neither would
sell to the other. There were jawings,
chickering's, heart burnings. And at
last, that other collector, with ma
lightly which only a collector can ever
feel toward man and brother, pro.
ceeded to cut down his hill
You see as long as he could not have
the echo he was resolved that nobody
should have it. lie would remove his
hill land then there would be nothing to
reflect my uncle's echo. My uncle re.
with him, but the man
said, Il own one end of this echo; I
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 higher court. They
carried it on up, clear to the supreme
court of the United States. It made
no end of trouble there. Two of the
judges believed that an echo was not
personal property, because it was i'm
pa. pable 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 attached to the land and
was not removable from place to place;
other 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, snce it be.
longed to him, but must give bonds in
s., 100000 as indemnity for damages
which might result to my uncle 8 half of
the echo. This decision also debarred
my uncle from using defendants 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 circum.
stances, it was sad, of course, but the
court could find no remedy. The court
also debarred defendant from using
my uncle's hill to use his end of the
echo, without consent. You see the
result. Neither man would give con.
sent, and SD that astonishing and most
noble echo had to cease from it's great
powers; and since that day that mag.
lnificent property is tied up and I'M
|saleable.
A week before my wedding day,
when l was swimming in bliss and the
nobility were gathering from far and
near to honor our espousals, came
news of my uncle's death, and also a
copy of his will, making me his sole
heir. He was gone; alas, my dear
benefactor was no more. The thought
surcharges my heart even at this re.
mote day. l handed the will to the
earl; could not read it for the blind.
ing tears. The earl read it; then he
sternly said, s:Sir, do you call this
wealth but doubtless you do in your
inflated country. Sir, you are left sole
heir to a vast collection of echoes-if
a thing can be called a collection that
is scattered far and wide over the
huge length and breadth of the Amer.
lean continent; sir, this is not all
you are head and ears in debt; there
is not an echo in the lot but has
mortgage on it; sir, l am not u hard
man, but must look to my child's in.
terest; If you had but one echo which
you could honestly call your own, if
you had but one echo which was free
from incumbrance, so that you could |
retire to it with my child, and by
humble, painstaking industry cult.
vate and improve it, and thus wrest |
from it maintenance, would not say
you nay: but I cannot marry my child |
to beggar. Leave his side, my dar-
ling; go, sir; take your mortgage.
ridden echoes, and quit my sight for.
ever.
My noble Celestine chung to me in
tears, with loving arms. and swore
she would willingly, nay, gladly, marry
me, though I had not IN echo in the |
world. But it could not be. We were
torn asunder, she to pine and die with.
in the twclvemonth. l 10 toll life's |
long journey sad and alone, 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 $40, 80 years ago, and is
one OF the sweetest things in Texas, I
will let you have for
.sLet me interrupt yOu,'' L said.
my friend, | have not had moments
respite from canvassers this day. lie
have bought a sewing machine which
| did not want; ! have bought map
which is mistaken in all its details; 1 E
have bought a clock which will not 70; Il
have bought moth poison which
The moths prefer to any other bever.
age; have bought no end of useless
inventions, and now have had enough e