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Show On the Paris 'Change ! It may be sa.d that a seat among tho Seventy (they call It a charge) costs about 3,iiiii' Ono francs (iiiu,iiu() or sometimes I'.OUO.tH'U, a charge eurns from D lo IS per cent I net) a year, so that the annual proilts are from 30,-COO 30,-COO to Siiu.iiuij, or niorci In exceptional years. Hut these are usually divided among sete ral assoclatea, for it rarely rare-ly happens that an agent Is tho solo owner of his sent. More oftc n he has paid for only half of It. or a third of It, nnd bus three or four silent part nejra who own Ihe rest and who may again havo sub partners, ao lluil jou will hear of n person owning an eighth or a slMeiuth of a mat or even a thirty-second, the.e tie-lng sample sam-ple Investments that carry no rll'.hlB or privileges on thu bonne. Ah to procuring a charg.-. the thing has nonce of the Stock Kxchaiigo simplicity, sim-plicity, where the main requirement for getting tl sect Is to he uhle to pay for It. Mere u caudlillite iuiimI bo it I I rriK'tinmn urnl at IcuHt 25 yfuin old Ho uimt Imvo Hurvr-i four ynnrn la o-Tliilii foniii of IrUHini-ttd. He biuhI In p.THdimlly ur'i)iithlo lo the ftftMit frutii whom tj woiiM p,iro(!juo the h.'iit, nml oftc n In IiIh fiiuilly, luclinfluc tta) Inilkx. i imt'-t bu pAHrttH liiHia by tlin H'onty with f.trmul volln. ae t If lit) won jcilnltiK coinn kmU'CC club, !ilrh lt 1. Tlititf Mi tint Im no ntjila dti hlM luf iiu-sH n-coiil and no Rltir no f lilfl prK.i.)f.l cliunicttT. A cnnclhlata hum r- Jftt.-il riciMiily for bml hfttltM, I mi'l iui'iUm-i fur rio fault of hln own, but b'MMi)"i ti 1 h hrMthiT Imil btn n con f c riifl l'i ij'i-l I' rM'.hlo trnnsurtluiiK. With nil Mils r.hnr.ihl)- f.'ttlril, tbore r In till ni,'l.'il i hf nnn.viil uf thn mln- ' f I tT of lii;iUH-ts ii ml O'rt nppmviU of ttj- n-ti(:i'iit. Tliin iiuiki'a It ch-ar (, trnnn h why inutiy of (ho itbb -at on lb- li'.uiv" li.ivr not Itii'ii jnt'inhiTH of Hit' :.iir'iii''t, Inil of 1!m cuiiIIkmo. Tbey i po:il-i .'t ct't Into tho iirfi,ft. Cou- r :!'?.- |