Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-12-16

paper, and will go down to posterity
showing how much law we had in
the early days of California. Nobody
will say anything about whether the
laws were kept or not; and so it
does not matter if we pay our money
and get our history.
The young people here are coming
up to look upon drunkenness as a
great joke in this city. People laugh
at it, and don't see why it should
not exist, it is SO comfortable to get
out of ones misery in that way. A
few evenings since a neighbor of
ours, very respectable young man,
dined out, and coming home in sea-
son to go to bed before people
missed him, could not find the key
hole, and sat down to rest for an
other effort; the thought struck him
to pull the bell, and the room in the
third story was reached after some
efforts, but the going to bed was not
so easy, for in the effort to master the
position the wardrobe was thrown
over, and the master of the house, on
going to his room, found the inter-
esting youth mounted on the top of
handicapped bureau, making
frantic efforts to climb over it into
bed. OF course it was joke, and
the young man talks as innocently of
dining out as if nothing had hap
pened.
iiOnce q man who considered him
self decent, would have wished to
have concealed the fact, that he
was ever slightly inebriated, now
the young men talk of being in
their cups, and of falling asleep
at dinner party, as something
too funny for anything, and the
young girls down here-the sensi-
BILE ones-begin to feel that the
national tendency of young men is
to turn to idiocy to show how little
far they were from idiots in the be-
ginning. 1t is not fair to charge
them with the error altogether. 1t
is the fault of their elders and bet
tiers in the beginning, who should
show them what manly life was in
the good old times, when drunken
ness was disgrace, and when ban
ishment from all decent society
would have been the result of this
inebriation to total depravity.
Stanford is evidently preparing
for war. He has a rampant eight
feet thick around his premises and
is now digging a sort of subter-
anean passage, possibly intended
for a carriage drive, but which
would serve a useful purpose as a
redoubt in case of siege. We
shall look for a demonstration of
its use hereafter. AT present it is
certainly something marvellous to
look upon, and gives an idea of
Stanford's taste, as solid and sub
stantial beyond description. The
place is walled up and may be made
useful sometime or other as a
public garden. A new building on
the French fiat system is now pro-
posed. It is French fiat in one
sense, and American fiat in another;
being designed to make economy
by being abont as far from it as
possible; having banqueting hall,
ballroom, etc., for the common
good, to which the fiat system is
added, in a space for eleven rooms.
The American flats who are rich
enough to enjoy ostentation will
hardly take to it in this way, anu
the poor ones will never be able to
pay for banqueting halls, ETC.. and
the thing will probably fall as fiat
as the combination of two such flats
could only do. The fiat system as
used in Europe is comfortable and
inexpensive, ground rent being
avoided, and the use of elevators
being established would help to
obviate the trials of stair cases-its
greatest objection. But when we
endeavor to inaugurate a system OF
ostentation and economy combined
in this way We commence failure.
CYNTHIA ANN.