The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1898-10-14

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Regular 1ucomes.
In the TiaegIe for life, which Is so
keen at tns end Of the century. some
people resor 10 strange expedients to
get bread and cheese or 70 Increase a
pittance 70 comfortable Income. In
spector Lirnestone, who was formerly
IN charge Of the police at the Law
courts teas "a tragic story OF a poor
and orietesa barristcr who fought
long and grim battle with fate. and
was oeaten IN the end. In the early
nours OF the morning he worked rs a
market porter at Covent Garden. and
then at 10 O'clock adjourned to his
chambers 70 the Temple, donned wig
ana gown and attended the courts
waiting day after day to grasp the
skirts OF happy chance. Others as I'M
known to the world and friendless as
he had Then opportunity, but none pre-
sented Itself 70 him, and in hope ever
deferred his race was run.
A Somerset House clerk, who rushed
into matrimony before he had proper
~ counted the cost, and found It din
cult to run even a modest household on
fl5O a year, especially after the ar
rival OF a little stranger, got over the
embarrassment by starting a coffee
stall near Smlthheld Market in the
early morning. He kept his truck in
the neighborhood, but brought down
his stock Of comesubles from his home
In Camden Town. Fortunately, his
wife, who did her best to help on the
enterprise vas a capital plain cook.
and his mutton pies and buns had Il
great reputation in the market. lie
was generally cleaned out by s o'clock,
and no one would have thought Of iden-
tifying himwith the smart young man.
sllk-hatted and top-coated, who two
hours later crossed the Strand to Som
erset 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 n
brokers' man. Taken as a whole, he
found 1t a most unpleasant experience
but he declares that he wouldn't have
missed 1t for the world, for It has sup
piled him with material for numbers of
sketches and short stories a Christ
mas story which brought a lot Of
praise, for Instance, was a chapter
from that experience, and we'll de-
served the enc0mium of very realistic"
from the critics.
A friend o. the writer. who rejoices
in what the police reports call "a very
aristOcratic appearance" and has In adj.
ditiOn excellent manners, adds enough
to slender income to pay for the sum
mer holiday for himself and family,
his tailor's and bOOtmaker's bills, and
even his rent by acting as private
detective at balls and receptions In Bel
gravia and Mayfair. Chance threw
him in contact with the manager of
n detective agency which does n great
deal of business of this kind. and his
first job was, In fact, simply as
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 special mention of It to tho
manager, who accordingly proposed to
my friend that he should accept regu-
lar paid employment. He was nothing
lOath, and now has engagements nj.
most every night during the season.
Another curious case is that of a
NoncOnformist minister in the south Of
London who doubles his slender salary
by the profits Of n fourishing photOg-
raphy business on the other side Of the
Thames- Originally he took up photog
raphy as pastime, but acquiring con
siderable skin In the work, was pes
tered by people who wanted to get
their portraits taken on the cheap. So
he determined to gain instead of lose
by his work and taking convenient
rooms at some distance from the scene
of his ministerial labors, set up as a
Photographic artist" under another
name, his daughter acting as his assist
ant Fortune favored him, and before
the secret Of bis constant absence from
home was fathomed by the curious of
his flock, he had made so promising a
business that he stood in no awe of
deacons or church, though, indeed, the
former have taken very sensible view
Of the matter and admire rather than
condemn his enterprise.-Cassell's Sat
urday Journal