The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-01-29
,HILIsBoRor'GH ~ G. WEpNEsDAY, JANUARY 20 1865


queBtly 10 offend the sirascible old gentle.
man'soi utterly. thatothe latter suddenly
Withdrew his allowance Of gi 900 per an.
mum! andHeft ourfriend to shiit:for kimsell.
His own means, never very great. were er-
tirely exhausted. lie knew too we'll the i'm
practicable temper ofshiss ther-in, law to
waste time in x,temping tsssofien him. He
also knew that by his lwile's settlement he.
shuuid, be rich at the death of the old r,nsn.
who had already passed his seventeen, year.
he could nut borrow money, for be had
been severely wounded ~ Syria. and the
INSURANCE Offices refused him. / but he felt
a spring Of lille aud youth within him that
'nocked their calcuis:ions. He'took things
cherrfully, and resolved 70 work for his iiv-
ing. lie answered nnnumbered advertise
mcnts. aud made ihcesiant applications for
sil sorts of situations. A; length matters
cSrne to . crisis; his money was nearly
gone time pressed; his wife and child must
be sapported. A sest--not 10 parliament, ,
but On the boz of an omnibus. was offered
him. lie accepted it.. The pay wss equi.
vslrnt ta thee guinssss week. Il was
hard wufk but he stuck to it maaiully.
No, unlregnsn.ly II was his lot to drive
genllemens~hu sdl'inrd al his table and
lifgnk his .wine1in iurmer days. lie never
blashed Vt thrir irqrecegnitien; he thought
working easier than sbrgginsa For nearly
len.yrars he euduted all the ups and downs
Of ninnibus lille. Atlast The tough old "a.
lher.ln-aw. who. during the whole inter
val, had never telepled, died and our he.
70 cane into the possession Of some FL
500 year. whfchhe srjoys at this pres
enIllmVRsnt. Suppose he had borrowed
aud drswa bids instead ct working those
teni years. ss many bssel done who had
lskpretsnetes before them, where would be
have bern on lis exit Irum the Queens
Rs,,eb al the expiration Of the, period s'8 In
The hands ot the Phllistines, or Of lha Jewsf
Oar nexi specimen 10 that of a nov sue.
ces,fsl authur. who. uwing TO the peculiari-
" Oiihls slyle, fell, Notwithstanding a.rath-
.ra'a-lhng debut, ialo great difficulty and
i,strrss. His isnlIy Withdrew all support
because he sbandoned the more regular
prospects Of tue legal profession tor the
mNAF bhA ANee NFft1iU GNtEGE
literature. lie iclt that he had the stuff in
him lo Rake popular writer but he was
asu eompelte lied lo admit thai popularity Was
not IA his case ts be the work Of day. The
res augusis domi grew closer and closer |;
aud though not objec'lng 10 dispense with
tho supposed necessity m dining. he Islt
that bread aud cheese, 10 ihr- literal acsep-
talinn Of the teraI. wrre really indispensa-
ble 10 existence. Hence, one day, he in.
vested h,s solitary halEcr0wn in the print.
Ing Of hundred cards. announcing that at
the " classical and commercial day school oI
NJ, &c. young gentlemen were IN.
structed 10 all the branches, &C., for the
moderate sun Of two shtllings weekly"
These cards he distributed by the agency
Of the milkman in the suburban aud some.
whai,po usighborhoo,l,1 in which he oc-
copied couple VI rooIns at the m"dera,e
SUN vf seven slullings weekly. IL was not
long brIbrs a few pupils made, nns BY one.
theIr appearance al the weuIil be pada.
goyse's. sAs they we're mostly the sons pii
petly trsdesnuen round about, he raised HsI
oujec tiau TO taking out their sehonllng IN
kind, >, and bs this means earned at least q
subsi.tsnee till m"rs prosperous times ar
ri,ed. and publishers discovered his latent
merits. But for this device, he might not
un probably hare shared the tate ei Chat
tetton and others, less unserupuloas rs 10
a resource tor the " mrsntime"--ihai rock
yn which so many an embryo genius ieun-
ders.s @6s4. ~" 7@ ~=@"*. ~#b "a o." "@t""
The misfortune Of our uext case was, not
that Ne abandoned tile law. but that the Law
abandoned him. lie was a solicitor in p
county town. where the people we're %
little inclined 10 litigation, or 81 happy inI
not finding cause for il. that he tailed from
sheer want oi clients, and, as natafal con-
sequence, betook himself to The metropolis