The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-03
HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE.
Queer Ways of EI1inS Out INSULT
cient Regular Incomes.

cient Regular Incomes.
From Cassells Saturday Journal.
In the struggle for life, which is so keen
at this end of the century, some people
resort to strange expedients to get bread
and cheese or to increase a pittance to
q comfortable income. Inspector Living
stone, who was formerly in charge of the
police at the law courts, tells tragic
story of a poor and briefiess barrister who
fought a long and grim battle with fate,
and was beaten in the end. In the early
hours of the morning he worked as a mar
ket porter at Convent garden, and then at
10 o'clock adjourned to his chambers in
the temple, donned wig and gown, and at
tended the courts, waiting day after day
to grasp the skirts of happy chance. 9th
ers as unknown to the world and friend
less as he had their opportunity, but none
presented itself to him, and in hope ever
deferred his race was run.
A Somerset house clerk, who rushed into
matrimony before he had properly count
ed the cost, and found it difficult to run
even a modest household on $50 a year,
especially after the arrival of a little
stranger, got over the embarrassment by
starting a coffee stall near Smithfield mar
ket in the early morning. He kept his
truck in the neighborhood, but brought
down his stock of comestibles from his
home in Camden Town. Fortunately, his
wife, who did her best to help on the en-
terprise, was a capital plain cook, and
his mutton pies and puns had a great
reputation in the market. He was gener-
ally cleared out by 5 O'clock and no one
would have thought of Identifying him
with the smart young man, silk-hatted
and top-coated, who two hours later cross
ed the Strand to Somerset house.
A rising author, who is now sought by
the publishers, but had a particularly
hard struggle to find acceptance, tided
over the worst period by acting as a bro
ker's man. Taken as a whole, he found
it a most unpleasant experience, but he
declares that he wouldn't have missed 1t
for the world, for 1t has supplied him with
material for numbers of sketches and
short stories. A Christmas story, which
brought him lot Of praise, for Instance,
was a chapter from that experience, and
we'll deserved the eneomium of very real
istic" from the critics.
friend of the writer, who rejoices in
what the police reports call "a very arts
tocratic appearance" and has in addition
excellent manners, adds enough to
slender income to pay for the summer hol-
idays for himself and family, his tailor's
and bootmaker's bills, and even his rent,
by acting as a private detective at balls
and reception in Belgravia and Mayfair.
Chance threw him in contact with the
manager of detective agency which does
a great deal of business of this kind, and
his first job was, in fact, simply as a
nights diversion at the invitation of the
manager aforesaid But so pleased was
the lady of the house with his appearance
and obliging courtesy that she made spe-
cial mention of it to the manager, who ac-
cordlngly proposed to my friend that he
should accept regular paid employment
He was nothing 10th, and now has en-
gagements almost every night during the
season..
Another curious case is that of Nom
conformist minister in the south of Lon
don, who doubles his slender salary by
the profits of a hourfshing photography
business on the other side Of the Thames
Originally he took up photography as a
pastlme, but acquiring considerable skill