Year: 1877

Almonds; IN fact the same phraseology
is used. A single echo is worth but ten
dollars over and above the value of the
land it is on; two.carat or double
barreled echo is worth so dollars; a
fve-carat is worth nine hundred and
fifty ten carat is worth thirty thou
sand. My uncle's Oregon echo, which
he called the great Patt echo. was %
carat gem, and cost two hundred and
sixteen thousand dollars-they threw
the land in, for it was 400 miles from a
settlement.


"Well. in the mean time my path
was path of roses. was the aceept
ed suitor of the only and lovely daugh-
ter of an English earl. and was beloved
to distraction. In that dear presence |
swan in seas of bliss. The family were
content, for it was known that was
sole heir to an uncle held to be worth
five millions of dollars. However. none
of us knew that our uncle had become
collector, at least in anything more
that small way, for aesthetic amuse-
ment.


Now gathered the clouds over my
unconscious head That divine echo.
since known throughout the world as
the great Kohl moor, or Mountain of
Repetition was discovered. 1t was a
65-carat gem. You could utter word,
and it would fall back at you for / 5
minutes. when the day was otherwise
quiet. But, behold, another discovery
was made at the same time: auothn,-
echo-collector was in the field. The two
rushed to make the purchase. The
property consisted of a couple of small
hills with shallow swalc between, out
yonder among the back settlements of
New York state Both men arrived on
the ground at the same time, and neither
| know the other was there The echo
was not all owned by one man person
by the name of Williamson Bolive Jar
Wis owned the east hill, and person by
the name of Horbison J. Bledso owned
the west hill the swale between was a
dividing line So while my uncle was
buying Jarvis hill fer three million two
hundred and eighty-6ve thousand doll


ars. the other party was buying Bled-
SOS hill for shade over three million.


"Now, do you perceive the natural
result! why, the nUUIUoV VVIIUcVIUu VI
echoes on earth was forever and ever in
complete, since it possessed but oue-half


of the king echo of the universe. Nei-


ther man was content with this divided


ownership, yet neither would sell to the


other. There were jawings, chickering's.


heart burnings. And at last. that other


collector, with malignity which only a


collector can ever feel toward a man


and brother, proceeded to cut down


his hill You see. as long as he could


not have the echo, he was resolved that


nobody should have it. He would re.


move his hill, and there would be moth.


ing to reflect my uncles echo. My un
Gle demonstrated with him. but the mar
said. Il own one end of this echo;
! choose to kill my end; you must tax,
} care of your own end YOURSELF


) well. my uncle got an injunction
} put on him. The other man appealed


and fought it in a higher court. The,
/ carried it on up. clear to the suprem,
a court of the United States. 1t made n
end of trouble there. Two of the judg


es believed that an echo was persona
a property. because 1t was impal pable t
: sight and touch, and yet was purchase
e BILE, salable, and consequently taxable
two others believed that an echo wa
! real estate. because it was manifest
i attached to the land and was not remoy
# able from place to place other of th
; judges contended that an echo was nt
It property at all.


y 1t was finally decided that the eel
o was property; that the hills were pro-
is erty; that the two men we're sepera
n and independent owners of the two hill


but tenants in common in the ech(
lie therefore defendant was at full liber
At to cut down his hill, since it belongt
le solely to him, but must give bonds
10 three million dollars as indemnity
ly damages which might result to my u
r. cle's half of the echo. This decisi
It. also debarred my uncle from using d


fendant's hill to reflect his part of t


echo, without defendants consent;
as must use only his own hill: if his p;
ur of the echo would not go, under the
in circumstances, it was sad, of course,
Ter the court could fnd no remedy. I
re- court also debarred defendant from
ap irg my uncle's hill to reflect his end
air the echo. without consent. You see I
it grand result Neither man would g
ed consent, and so the astonishing a
ew most noble echo had to cease from
the great powers; and since the day Il
re- magnificent property is tied up and
tho salable.


an "A week before my wedding d
ed while | was still swimming in bliss, /;