The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-02-10
His Contribution
BY MARTHA HoTcHKlss
Copyright. 1910, BY American Press
Association.

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li Association.
Mr. Heating was young man who
had a natural gift as financial OPP
orator only twenty-six years old, he
Mad carried through several deals IA
stocks. re had met Miss Ethel Lamb.
who was quite willing to marry him
Not that be had asked Der. for be had
not; he wished TO get himself 10 bet
ter financial shape before doing so,
Mr. Heating she said 10 him one
evening 4 am so anxious to make
little money. I want it for a certain
purpose IT'S something / can't tell
you about. FOR ! have promised not 70
tell any one. You see there are sew
eral Of JUS interested In It, and ! would
not be justified ID telling their secret
Certainly not Some social move,
supposey'
mo. it's not social"
"0h. You are going IN FOR some Of
these fads the rich women are taking
up woman voting helping women op-
eratiYes who strike or something Of
that kind
Nothing Of the sort ! see you have
got wrong impression entirely, SO III
have 10 tell YOU"
And she did They were going TO
eudow a colored church.
That's laudabIe object, and I'd be
very mean not to help you. Would a
hundred dollars dof"
Eve wish TO make ten thousand.
Now Il seems to me that II you would
give as a--whst do you call itT'
"a upY
Yes; q tip when some stock you are
going to make money in is going up,
SO fhat we can buy some Of It We
can make all we want
In one fell swoop'
''Yes, that's Il. without having to
beg it in llttle lots, get up fairs and
ali that sort Of thing
VERY we'll I'm thinking Of q little
scheme now X It comes to anything
III let you know"
Not long after that Mr.. Heating called
on Miss Lamb and asked II ne could
speak 70 her without being overheard.
She shut all the doors, ard be said to
her Ii a low tone.
''lf I give you a tip win you be sure
not 70 tell any oner
Certainly"
aWen. buy Jimberiaw Lead. You'll
make your $1,000 But II you should
lose IN stand your loss myself"
Miss Ethel Lamb thanked her IN
former, thaugh she said it wouldn't be
quite fair for him to stand any loss.
Still. since there wouldn't be any loss
there wouldn't be anything for him 70
stand
The next day she went TO friend
who was a stockbr0ker and told him
that she had received tip on timber.
Jaw Lead and asked him TO buy some
Of the stock for her She had ne mon
ey to put up for q margin. but be told
her that if she would convince him
that the tip was reliable be wonld buy
some stock for her without any margin. /
Miss Lamb remembered her promise.
but. considering the cause she was
working for warranted her breaking It. /
concluded 10 tell hin provided be would /
promise solemnly not 10 tell a single
person lie promised and she told
him that the tip bad come from Mr.
Heating.
He opened his eyes, but said nothing /
and the next morning she received
notice Of the purchase OF 500 shares Of /
JImberjaw Lead al soon az she had /
lefg The Office the broker told hts part /
ners that Heating bad tipped a lady +
be the brokeFl happened to know heat- /
ing was attentive b that there was 20
be q movement n Jimhefiaw Lead +
This was done Ia the private Office,
where no one except the members Of
the firm could hear
A number 81 customers doing bust
ness with the arm were quietly ad
vised to buy a little OF the stock with
out having been given the source from
which the information about II came
But the clerks. seeing large orders for
the shares going into the exchange Il
took fiieFs and conGaentiaily told the
clerks Of other Offices
Very soon the price Of Jilnberiaw
lead began to rise. at arst slowly, but
Ia time rapidly Then It began to
jump One morning Miss Lamb was
informed By her broker That she had
profit Of $4,000. Would she sell? Il
She said she would like first 70 ask her
Upper She telephoned Heating for ia
formation, who told her 70 hold on
and she would surely make her $4,000
This information she communicated TO
her brokers. and it raaiated IN many
directions
There were large sales Of Jimberiaw
Lead for a few days, the stock gain
ing and losing in price alternately
then 1t began 10 20 down Suddenly
a large lot was dropped on the market,
and Miss Lambs profit was wiped
out. From that time forward it sank
slowly until she had LOSE some $4,000.
She sent for Mr. Heating
what shall d02n she moaned.
rive lost money cant pay
Didn't ] tell you would stand your
lossY
yes. but / don't Ike to have You
60 that Besides, the church"
9Th take care of the church
This somewhat treasured her.