Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — Poverty and Fame. [ARTICLE]

Poverty and Fame.

In the last century, some of the most distinguished of English writers were familiar with poor lodgings and scanty fare. Even such masters of the pen as Johnson and Goldsmith had 1 8 struggle hard to keep the wolf out of doors. ; In our day popular writers are better paid, and some of them have acquired wealth and lived in luxury. Yet not a few of those whose productions delight thousands have been forced to practice a stern economy in ordel to live free from debt. ( Lord Macaulay, during the early part of his famous career in Parliament, when his speeches crowded the House of Commons, and his essays were craved by the Edinburgh Review, was so poor that he was compelled to jsell the gold prize medals he had taken at Cambridge. He bad no income save what was received from his articles in the Edinburgh, and a small amount as a college fellow. But he never whimpered. He would pit all night in Parliament, and walk home in the early morning to hia chambers, and make a supper on a icheese which was a present from one of his Wiltshire constituents, and a glass of the audit ale wluch reminded him that he was still a fellow of Trinity. He had his reward in later life when his publisher presented him with a check for SIOO,OOO, as his percentage on the sale of his history, the largest sum ever received by a single litera-y man for a single work— Youth's Coin\j anion.