Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-06-09
Wonderful Economy.

scene of whose tolls and perplexit'e:
was in tie eastern part of the State
came one night to his hotel worn ant
exhausted from the days labor, anC
went to his room to lay him down I,
repose. He was man whose penu
Iious practices, so Numerically con
trary to the prevailing spirit of tht
time and place in which he lived
gained for him a widespread notori
sty. No enc liked him, and his out
spoken enemies were not few-aiI
because he was stingy almost to dis
honesty. He WAS from London, and
his company was an English enc
Riches he inherited in abundance,
and he boosted a large ownership In
the property whose guardian he was
sent across the water 10 be. These
facts heightened the general dislike
for him among men who spent their
money as freely Us though it grew on
the sage-brush and could he got at
any moment for the trouble OF pick
ing it off. At length, after this model
of English economy run mad had
drawn around his aching breast the
curtains of repose and gone off in
dreams of the probable bullion pro-
duct of his mine for the current
month, the dark-skinned cicerone
whose business it was to lead the
wsy with lighted candle TO the
marrow sleeping apartments of the
house CHANGED TO pass his room. An
odor as of cotton burning grated his
rotund nostrils. Was ihe house on
fret He must see at once. So, burst
ing in the door, to the horror of the
man inside, who, in his confusion and
dismay, presented an antiquated
blunderbuss wrong end to at the in
truding servant, the exact locality Of
the combustion was ascertaiued. The
economical gentleman from London
had washed ont his socks in the toilet
bowl. contrary to a standing rule of
the house, and placed them on the
top Of the stove to dry. He went of
in peaceful slumber and left them
there, to be partly consumed by the
fire and to fill the house with the I'M
mistakable odor Of combustion. He
was caught, and, finding no means
Of escape. made a clean breast of the
matt II, leaving the hotel in shame
the next morning. We presume that
this man has since sent his washing
out regularly to the cheapest plsce
where such work is done, and
accorded to himself the luxury OF
regular change of linen-at any
rate 50 far as would be consistent
with rigid self denial and personal
economy from London standpoint.
At least we have never since heard OF
him in connection with the washing
of socks. either his own OF other per-
sons He has, however. just popped
into view in quite as odious and dis
graceful light. HIS company has
been trying to reduce the price of
charcoal below living rate to the
manufacturers, because the latter
have lot on hand that cannot be
sold elsewhere than in Eureka to the
furnaces there. II is an old game.
revived and attempted to be played
anew, in which the coal men have
always held the hes. hand. Seeing.
perhaps, that nothing in the way OF
saving could be made in this direc-
ton, the sock-washing superintendent
resolved upon other means. He
issued an edict that all miners and
furnace men in the employ of the
company should be paid in silver
dollars or checks on some San Fran.
cisco bank, payable a, 5 per cent.
discount. What the miners intend
to do in the matter has not trans
PRED. If the point is carried against
them, enough will be deducted
monthly from their hardesrnei
wages to pay the laundry bills Of the
stockholders Of the oppressive COR
poration. 1t would scarcely be RICH,
70 drop the pen without adding the
name OF the superintendent and 81
the company. Probert 10 one, and
the Richmond Mining Company i.
the other.