The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-20
fCopyrisht 1909, by Benj. B. Hampton.)

IMMY ELPHINSTONE, of the New Jersey J very good and sufficient The savings ,anls in his home town paid three per cent the Hudson River Savings Bank in Manhattan paid four @ One day he strode into the private room of Billy od his and exhibited his P bank Ss 69dk to 1nr h ,,1emI I wish owned that book. As it IS, haven't not three hundred" : f returned Ephinstone. .s, senior partner hos of ulcd,;nstone S O1ds "itn come-ltH come my Doy. Olds leaned back in his revolving enair ana ghm11u out of the window, Elphinstone was youngEhi55iy n5 stone was clever sharp, short, very energetc Glos was stolid slow somewhat stupd remarkaDy ras rong ho,ud. olds mastiff Yet both these men had an unlimited capacity for hard work TOT the S.aIs a, ;s rneant that the two we're doing business of seven thousand dollars a year. gross gooe i.os ,r p that Jersey town for law partnersnlp oi 'en ''a1ing aJimmy Ephnstone." said William ods as he looked across the street I tase om P hank You've eof good house, with the building loan assoeiation on of s five Sss s Sa sad ess hs forehead soh. say. your tinlel come Bill; don't you worry ms ali ean returned olds uncertainty ~but what with the children: You haven't got any onli returned Elphinstone there's just Miriam and yselfl" He went back to his own room @ aha a st e. the dool xsi aa And he knew why law partner shin is peculiar thing Sometimes as in the case 0t M TeT divided Iu their expenses these and took care of each others clients in emergencies that
 all Thsy M ,s called , aansrs w Gy it. ne But Ephn strr,e had his business, and Olds had ms Ana E[pn- instone had known somehow how to get I1e ousI,. t and how to handle 1t once he had it. but as TOT AWell hen never make itnevsI" James sg EPhn. 1,,. .ton. told his young wife that night He tossed the srL hlnt over aJust look at that" he said Then he smiled Miriam I'm through saving for the present e1a The next thousand that we get wsii take aiA' ''p
 We Could have gone to Europe three tines aT: oys5 sd =, this money" said Elphinstones wife I'm gia9a -. d;dn't" she sighed "It was hard work saving 1t, xe don't draw the interest it will keep on compromising though well have to put the surplus in another four M per cent bank over in New York l landed that It was time now Miriam agreed with him, to think about flu eSs oteI 5p oeops e besan to He watched men. strange bee began to Duzz "lln'n One day he heard Patricia, the cook, singing in hig1-voiced tones out Tn the kitchen:
 Let the women do the work-do the work,
 Do the work-~f
 Let the m-e-e-n-take it e-e-easy.
 And Elphinstone began hurnming the song as she sang Suddenly while the tune kept on the words changed in his own mind
 Let your money do the work, do the work, do the
 work.
 That was the keynote That was sum and substance of his meditations of months. Let your money do . ,ne MerI eh do tise the work, lo sass do the work
 thought of it Not the Wan Street that gulled the people, not the Wall Street that the papers talfea Ws that the solution He talked it over with Miriam. She assented.
 Moore & Co. They were brokers and they were safe
 sWhat do you ttnk?" he asked of Marchbank s'Yes," said Marchbank slowly, 'eyou make liv- ing over here. You can do it safely on twenty-five ebt ues to watch the market every dayevery hour every minute. You must be Johnny Spot You must watch the market You must know the bus- ness"
 It sounded good It sounded easy. Watch the market That meant leaning back in leather chairs in on Change upon occasions of excitement. It meant Mirams coming in the afternoon after the close and taking supper up at Goulet's or the Hotel La It meant ease with goodly dash of ceverness thrown always felt shy of Wall Street But, after al the people who lost the people, the hand who other hand hand, the ~ people who didn't know
 What do you want to buy or sell?" asked March bank
 "I thought you'd tell me that" suggested their young aWe'd like to hear from you," returned Marchbank, Elphinstone thought for moment, "Tripper," he finally announced Tripper was T. R. P, in the pub lie eye very doubtful stock
 Sell" queried Moore
 ~Buy," announced Eiphinstonc
  You'll do'' he said to Ephinsone you've hit the aail upon the head. You've got the Wall Street in stinct, Elphinstone"
 ~Ive got thousand dollars margin" E1phinstone announced, and produced the cash They took it, gave s s saey be eogd o TpRs5 s m HNow, remember, boy they told him. sbusiness is business Friendship doesn't count for farthing in this office You've got to keep your margin good If you don't. sell you out, that's all You'd better understand that at the start.
 T know" returned Elphinstone. '11l take of hat"
 week later Moore rushed into him as he in the pig room in leather chair It was twelve o'clock. Moore shook his head "Tripper's going down beyond he danger line, Jim," he said, land the old n- sists We've got to have another thousand by this afternoon"
 Elphinstone telephoned to Miriam. He had to tele- phone three times.
 You'll have 10 bring that sav;ngs-bank book over, se informed her. She brought it In the interim e felt little shvers chasing themselves up and down his spine. He couldn't eat lunch. He had to work out mighty problem. Should he lose his thousand st,~rx1I I> Tx