He drove a fine pair of horses which were a present from the company, and his salary was twelve thousand dollars a year.

The superintendent of another of the great mines traveled in grand state, had a salary of twenty-eight thousand dollars a year, and in a law suit in after days claimed that he was to have had one per cent.

on the gross yield of the bullion likewise.
Money was wonderfully plenty.

The trouble was, not how to get it,--but how to spend it, how to lavish it, get rid of it, squander it.

And so it was a happy thing that just at this juncture the news came over the wires that a great United States Sanitary Commission had been formed and money was wanted for the relief of the wounded sailors and soldiers of the Union languishing in the Eastern hospitals.