Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-09-21
HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE.
Oueer Ways of Eking Out Insufhe'eh'
Regular Incomes.


In the struggle for life, when Is 81
keen at this end of the century, sohae
people resort to strange expeoiehes "
get bread and cheese or to increase
pittance to a comfortable income. III
spector Livingstone, who was formerly
in charge of the police at the La"
Courts, tells a tragic story Oh pun
and briefess barrlster who 1oughl
long and grim battle with Iate' anu
was beaten in the end. In the carry
hours of the morning he worked as
market porter at Coyent Garden anu
then at 10 o'clock adjourned 10 MS
chambers in the Temple, donned wig
and gown, and attended the courts
waiting day after day to grasp ehe
skirts of happy chance. others us un-
known to the world and friendless as
he had their opportunity, but none pre-
sented itself to him, and in nope ever
deferred his race was run.
A Somerset House clerk, who rusneu
into matrimony before he had proper
" counted the cost. and found 1t DIM
tulI W tNtH IL
f150 a year, especially after the ar
rival of a little stranger, got over the
embarrassment by starting a coffee
stall near Smithfield Market in the
early morning. He kept his truck III
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
enterprise, was capital plain COOK,
and his mutton pies and buns had
great reputation in the market. He
was generally cleaned out by s o'clock,
and no one would have thought of iden-
tifying him with the smart young man,
silk hated 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
brokers' man. Taken as Il whole, he
found it most unpleasant experience,
but he declares that he wouldn't have
missed it for the world, for it has sup
piled him with material for numbers Of
sketches and short stories. A Christ
mas story which brought lot OF
praise, for instance, was chapter
from that experience, and well de-
served the encomium of very realistic"
from the critics.
A friend of the writer, who rejoices
in what the police reports call "a very
aristocratic appearance" and has in ad
dition excellent manners, adds enough
to slender income to pay for the sum
mer holiday for himself and family
his tailor's and bootmakers bills, and
even his rent, by acting as a private
detective at balls and receptions in Bel
gravia and Mayfair. Chance threw
him in contact with the manager OF
a detective agency which does a 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 1t to the
manager, who accordingly proposed to
my friend that he should accept regu
lar paid employment. He was nothing
loath, and now has engagements al
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 flourishng photog
raphy business on the other side of the
Thames. Originally he took up photog
raphy as pastime, but acquiring con.
siderable skill 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 his 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 erprise.-Cassell's Sat.
urday Journal.