The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-12-07
The Anti-Monopolist.

It 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 SO that astonishing and most
noble echo had to cease from it's great
powers; and since that day that mag
nifcent property is tied up and un-
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. I handed the will to the
earl; I could not read it for the blind
ing 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 Amer
lean continent; sir, this is not all
you are head and ears in debt; ther e
is not an echo in the lot but has a
mortgage on it; sir, | am not a 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 | 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 had not IN echo in the
world. But it could not be. We were
torn aSunder, she to pine and die with
IN the twelvemonth. l TO 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 SO, 80 years ago, and is
one of the sweetest things in Texas, |
will let you have for
LET me interrupt yOu,' l said.
"My friend, | have not had moment 8
respite from canvaSSerS this day.
have bought sewing which
did not want; have bought a map
which is mistaken in all its details
have bought clock which will not 60;
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
of this foolishness. l would not have
one of your echoes if you were even to
give it to me. would not let it stay
on the place. always hate a man
who tries to sell me echoes. You see
this gun! Now, take your collection
and move on; let us not have blood.
she'd.
But he only smiled a sad, sweet
smile. and got some more diagrams.
You know the result perfectly well,
because you know when you have once
opened the door to q canvasser, the
trouble is done, and you have got to
suffer defeat.
compromised with this man at the
end of an intolerable hour. / bought
two double barrelled echoes in good
condition, and he threw in an
other, which he said was not salable
because it only spoke German. He
said. "She was a perfect polyglot once
but somehow her palate got down."
An Indiana wife's Ambition.