New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-24
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

You can never expect employe TO really in
terest himself in company affars until the com
pany takes some interest in the employees affairs
says ~ W. Bolen. general superintendent Of the
Public Service Railway Of New Jersey. in The
Era" until IL makes IL evident that IL regards the
empoyo a human being. made OF the same clay
the man in power. with the same desires. the
same needs. the same motives and the same at
tributes-not a mere cog in a piece OF machinery
expected to do certain work. to receive no credit
for superior performance and to be cast aside for
failure. Again, the effort start at the top
The spirit Of humanity must be transmitted from
the highest official TO his immediate subordinates
and from them down through the intermediate steps
until it reaches the man on the platform or in the
shop"
Joax-Shakespeare told us all about the seven
ages Of man. but he didn't say anything about the
two ages Of woman.
Hoax-And what are the two ages Of woman?
JoaX-The age she says she is and the age she
really s.-Philadelphia Record.
II looks IL it will cost more to die in Can
ada. A consular report says that st is expected
that all the makers Of collins throughout Canada
will be amalgamated in one concern capitalized at
100000 The usual plea is made that there is to
be no increase in prices. The main objects of the
ANA gamation, it recently announced, are to
effect economy In the purchase OF materials for
the factories in large quantities and to effect
ing in shipping costs by supplying orders In diff
ferent parts Of the country through the factories
nearest the places from which the orders come"
There are $4,000 words in the English Ian.
guage" said the fussy little man in the in
his usual impressive manner
II thought it more than that said the mild
man with the laxative wife
And the fussy man collapsed Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The ingenuity Of the smuggler is almost I'M
limited. Geneva dispatch to THE London Ex-
press" says that during funeral the Swiss
Bavarian frontier the coffin was seized by the Ger
man custom house officials. and it found to be
filed with saccharin All the mourners who were
arrested had also saccharin in their pockets and
more of the contraband goods discovered con-
ceaed under the hearse. The suspicious OF the
authorities had been aroused by the frequency Of
funerals recently from the little Swiss village of ST.
Oswald. on the frontier. TO German territory"
Tommy-Pop what wasted opportunities?
Tommy's Pop-Wasted opportunities. my son.
generally those that go TO other peopie'-Phia-
delpha Record.
The Ischl correspondent Of the "Neue Freie
Presse," In account of a talking moving picture
performance in that place at which the Emperor
Franz Josef was present, says that the Emperor
seemed to he highly pleased when he learned that
Mr.. Graf Mr. Edisons representative on that occa-
sion was an Austrian. "And how long have you
been associated with Edison?" the Emperor asked
Eighteen years" Then you can tell me, is 1t true
that Edison works so many hours daily Yes
your majesty" was the reply, about eighteen or
twenty" Wonderful! But so are the results"
Paterfamilias docking up from the morning paper
Il don't know what we going to do IL tho ex
pense of running our table keeps going UP ali the
time.
The Youngest Boy-I know what I'd do
What, my boyT'
We'll pop, for one thing I'd stop saying grace at
meals any more."-Life.