The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-05-07
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Written for tho THIN Weekly Tribune
STUDYING LAW.
ny Wu,. Lunshan, Rsq.

"Whcn law and Love combine
In one Individuality, then only
~ Love the master be- aud Law
The slave" Oh PLAY
As | grow old in years, and the
gray hairs in my head multiply daily,
they admonish me Of my slow but
certain decent down the closing stretch
of life; and it affords me sort of
sweet pleasure to sit by my 6reside,
though the warmth of spring is near,
and review in mental parade the line
of incidents in my life, aud in the
lives of those, yet living, who started
in the race with me. l studied law;
and now, after a life not uumixed
with much care and solicitude and, in
the start, a close financial policy to
make both ends meet, | am proud to
know that il none of the sudden
changes in fortune, which occur to so
many, visit me, shall be beyond the
necessity of a daily strife for money,
and can let Time wing on her way,
while ] onjoy, in old man fashion, my
balance OF life.
Studying Law is no jOke--indced,
II the young man who essays to be a
lawyer is peuniess, as by a singular
faulty many are, it is a serious thing
to undertake and If he is under
moral obligations to support depend
ent mother or sister, while pursu
ing his study, he is almost ceusurable
for attempting il atall. Reading the
abstract theories aud principles of
law contained ia Blackstone, is about
as profitable in the procuration of
bread ss is the whiting of a pine
box on the street in summer, or sit
ting behind a stovo in a grocery in
winter.
\ With a miuuteness that one always
Enjoys, at my age, and after victory
over poverty, | say take infinite de-
light in reviewing my past. Then,
~ a young man, my aspirations were
as lively, my hopes as bright, my ef-
forts as persevering as those of any
student of law now "a. days eau be, and
none will ever sit with volume be.
fore him, and gazing dreamingly over
the top of il, build castles in the air
with more industry than did /. None
will meet with more obstacles, for
was not educated preliminarily look
ing to the law profession as my fu-
ture means Of getting on in the
world, though | was a very fair
scholar. Let me throw in here the
truth that any young man who has
not within him mine Of persever-
ence--a capacity to receive and laugh
at snubs, while he takes a little OK.
perience from them-who has not the
patience to wait for business and keep
his shingle bright--who expects to
become a lawyer without hard knocks
and rough usage from his adversary,
had better far save his time and
money by going at something else. II
he possesses these qualities, however,
together with native talent and ae-
eumen, he ill surely win his goal,
Fortunate 'umstances sometimes
assist one yo lawyer more than
another, and l. IS on faster if he
can see aud pro, by his good for
tune; but even wthout these aids,
hard work and study, close attention
to business when it ereeps into his
Office, aud a dogged persistence in
keeping himself before the people,
will eventually bring him out into
the sunshine of prosperity.
i worked hard and a long time at
my books, but believe that / might
have succumbed to the necessity Of
going to trado for bread, had no /
my star Of good fortune dawned upon
me ia a needy hour, 1t may sound
foolish to the ears of some of my
cynical readers when / inform them
that my good fortune was not in the
shape Of a legacy, nor rich client,
nor gold mine, nor an oil we'll hut
simply love, yet there ia nothing
foolish about II! Love ,sas my star
of fortHne, aud the day that love
dawned upon and took possession Of
my soul, l knew my master, became
a willing vassal, aud worked like a
Turk Tor him as you shall sec.
The bright glanees that made me
blush, came from the black eyes of
Lucy Clifford, aud the form that l
recognized amotg hundreds, and
which made my heart dance number-
Less jlgs, belonged to this same girl.
The time that | spent behind a ledge
Of rocks to got sight Of her as she