Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-03-13

army at the instance of rich tatherln-law, mad the
misfortune subsequently to offend the lrasclble oio
gentleman utterly, that the latter suddenly Wlta
drew his allowance of $1,000 per annum, and left
our friend to shift for himself His own means,
never very great, were utterly exhausted. lie
knew too we'll the impracticable temper of his ia
ther-in-law to waste time in attempting to soften
him. He also knew that by his wife's settlement
he should be rich at the death of the old man, VINO
had already passed his SEVENTEEN year. lie could
not borrow money, for he had been severely woun-
ded in Syria, and the insmance-cthces refused MN:
but he felt a spring of life and youth within MN
that Knocked their calculations lie took Things
cheerully and resolved to work for his living. lie
answered unnumbered advertisements, ana MAGE
ncessant applications for all sorts OF sltuauois' AZ
length matters came to a crisis his money was
nearly gone; time pressed his wife and child must
be supported A seat--not in parliament, but on
the box of an omnibus, was offered him. lie &C
cepted it. The pay equivalent to three guneas
a week 1t was hard work, but he stuck to 1t man
fully. Not -unfrequenty it was his lot to drive
gentlemen who had dined at his table, and drunk
his wine in former days He never blushed at their
recognition he thought work easier than begging
For nearly ten years he endured all the ups and
downs of omnibus life. At last the tough old IA
therin-law, who during the whole interval had
never relented, died; and our hero came into pos
session of some f150O year, which he enjoys at
this present moment. Suppose he had borrowed
and drawn bills instead of working during those
ten years, as many have done who had expectan-
cies before them, where would he have been on his
exit from the Queens Bench at the expiration OF
the period? In the hands OF the Pmllstlnes, OF OF
the Jews
Our next specimen is that of now successful
author, who, owing to the popularity of his style,
fell, Notwithstanding a rather dashing DEBUT, into
great difficulty and distress. His family withdrew
all support, because he abandoned the more regu-
lar prospects of the legal profession for the more
ambitious but less certain career of literature. He
felt that he had the stuff in him to make popular
writer; but he was also compelled to admit that
popularity was not in his case to be the work of
day. The res anguste doni grew closer and clio
ser; and though not Directing to dispense with the
supposed necessity of dining he felt that bread and
cheese in the literal acceptation of the term, were
really indispensable to existence. Hence one day,
he invested his solitary halfcrown in the printing
of hundred cards, announcing that at the Class
ical and Commercial Day-school of Mr. ---,
&c, Young Gentlemen were instructed in all the
Branches, &c, for the moderate sum of Two Shill-
ings weekly" These cards he distributed by the
agency of the milkman III the suburban and some
what poor neighborhood, in which he occupied
couple of at the moderate rent of Is. weekly.
1t was not long before few pupils made one by
one, their appearance at the would-be Pedagogue's
As they were mostly the sons of petty tradesmen
round about, he raised objection to taking out
their schooling in kind, and by this means earned
at least subsistence till more prosperous times
rived and publishers discovered his latent merits.
But for this device, he might not improbably have
shared the fate of Chatterton and Others, less I'M
scrupulous as to resource for the "mean time
that rock on which so many an embryo genius
founders.
The misfortune of our next case was, not that he
abandoned the law, but that the law abandoned
him. He a solicitor in country town, where
the people either so little inclined to litigation,
or so happy in not finding for it. that he fail
ed from sheer want of clients, and natural con-
sequence, betook himself to the metropolis-that
Mecca cum Medina of all desperate pilgrims in
search of tickle Fortune. There his only available
friend was pastry in large way of business.
1t SO happened that the man of tarts and jellies
was precisely at that epoch in want of a foreman
and book-keeper, his last prime-minister having
emgrated to America with view to 4 more indie
pendent career. Our ex-laW ger, feeling the con-
sumption of tarts to be more Immediately certain
than the demand tor WIS, proposed to his friends
amazement, for the vacant post; and so we'll did
he fill it, that in few years he had saved enough
of money to start again in his old profession. The
pastry-cook and his friends became clients and he
is at present thriving attorney in Lincoln's Inn,
none the worse a lawyer for practical knowledge
of the patties filed by those oysters whose shells
are the proverbial heritage of his patrons.
a still more singular resource that of
young gentleman Of no particular profession, who,
having disposed somehow or other in improbable
spcculations, of very moderate inheritance found
himself what is technically termed "on his BEAM
ends" much SO, indeed, that his condition grad
ualy came to verge on positive restitution; and he
sat disconsolately in little garnet one morning,
quite at his wits end for the means of contrivin
what Goethe facetiously called the delightful ha-
bit OF existing" Turning over his scanty remains
of clothes and other possessions, in the vain hope
OF lighting upon something of marketable char
acter, he suddenly took up sheet of cardboard
which in happier days he had destined for the
sketches at which he Indifferent adept.
He had evidently formed plan, however absurd
that was plain from the odd smile which irradiated
his features. He descended the stairs to borrow
of his landlad y-what? A shilling BY no means
A needle and thread, and pair of scissors Then
he took out his box of watercoors and set to work
To design picture Mot a bit of it; to make
dancing-dos Yes, the man without profession
had found trade. BY the time it was dusk he
had made several figures with movable legs and
arms: one bore rude resemblance t6Napoleon;
another, with scarcely excusable license represented
the Pope; third held the very devil up to ridi-
Guile; and the fourth bore hideous resemblance to
the grim King of Terrors himself They were but
rude productions works Of art; but there was a
spirit and expression about them that toyshops
rarely exhibit. The ingenious manufacturer then
sailed forth with his merchandise. Within an
hour ho r,orbt hove boo, 49,,