The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-05-18
HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE
Queer Ways of Fixing Out Insnfileie Mt
Regular Incomes.

Queer Ways of Fixing Out Insnfileis Mt
Regular Incomes.
In the struggle for life. which Is 81
keen at this end of the century. some
people resort 10 strange expedients TO
get bread and cheese or TO increase a
Ipittance 10 comfortable income. In
spectOr Livingstone. who was formerly
in charge of the police at the law
courts, tells n agile story of a poor and
brlehess barrlster who fought a long
and grim battle with fate, and was
beaten in the end. In the early hours
Of the morning be worked as a market
porter at Coyent Garden, and then at
10 o'clock adjonred TO his chambers In
the Temple, donned wig and gown and
attended the courts. waiting day after
day to grasp The skirts of happy chance.
Others as unknown TO the world and
friendless 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 matrlmony before he had properly
counted the cost, and found II difficult
to run even a modest household on
fl50 a year. especially after the arrival
Of little stranger, got over the EN-
barrassment by starting coffee stall
near Smlthfield Market In The early
morning. He kept his truck In the
neighb0rhood, but brought down his
stock OF comestibles from his home in
Camden Town. Fortunately, his wife.
who did her best 10 help on the enter
prise. was II capital plain cook, and his
mutton pies and buns had a great repn-
tation In the market He was gener-
ally cleaned out by o'clock, and no
one would have thought OF Identifying
him with the smart young man. silk
hated and top-coated, who two hours
later crossed the Strand to Somerset
House
A rising author who is now sought 10y
the publishers. but had particularly
hard struggle to find acceptance. tlded
over the worst period by acting as a
brokers' man. Taken as whole. he
found 1t a most unpleasant experience,
but he declares that he wouldn't have
missed II for the world, for 1t has sup
piled him with material for numbers of
sketches and short stories. A Christ
mas story which brought him a lot of
praise, for instance, was a chapter from
that experience and well deserved the
encomum of very realistic" from the
critics.
A friend of the writer, who rej0lces
In what tho nalIaa pannrts aal vary
arlstOcratlc appearance" and has In ad
dition excellent manners, adds enough
10 a slender income TO pay for the sum
mer holiday for himself and family,
his tailors and bootmaker's bills and
even his rent. by acting as private de-
tective at balls and receptions In Bel
gravla 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 a nights
diversion at the invita- tion of the man
ager aforesaid. But so pleased was the
lady Of the house with his appearance
and obliging courtesy that she made
special mention of Ii to the manager,
who accordingly proposed 10 my friend
that he should accept regular paid EN-
ployment. He was nothing loath, and
now has engagements almost every
night during the season.
Another curious case is that of non
eonformist minister In the south of
London who doubles his slender salary
by the profits of a Aourlshlng photog-
raphy business on the other side of the
Thames. Originally he took up pho
Biography as pastlme. but, acquiring
considerable 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 "photo-
graphic artist" under another name, his
daughter acting as his assistant. For
tune 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 a very sensible view OF the mat
ter, and admire rather than condemn
his enterprise. - Casselfs Saturday
Journal.