. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. cutin salaries of a certain class of work-ers. Result—more than half of theseare looking for new positions—withspite, rather than desire for moremoney, the chief motive. The B— Company discharged tenper cent, of this class of workers, andthen, explaining its position fully tothose remaining, announced a five percent, increase in wages, with the state-ment that it expected the ninety percent, to do the work previously doneby the full force. And from what Ican learn these expectations are be-ing fulfilled. The first company has a discon-tented, demoraliz
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. cutin salaries of a certain class of work-ers. Result—more than half of theseare looking for new positions—withspite, rather than desire for moremoney, the chief motive. The B— Company discharged tenper cent, of this class of workers, andthen, explaining its position fully tothose remaining, announced a five percent, increase in wages, with the state-ment that it expected the ninety percent, to do the work previously doneby the full force. And from what Ican learn these expectations are be-ing fulfilled. The first company has a discon-tented, demoralized force, one-quarterof which will probably leave and haveto be replaced with new help, whichmeans inefiiciency and expense. The second concern has a loyal, en-thused set of workers, has got rid ofits poorest operators, and is savinga clean five per cent. Something for nothing is no morepossible in handling workers than indealing in mining stocks. He whostints is out-stinted. To him who givesgood measure is returned Telegraphing Pictures Translation, from the Windsor Magazine, of an Article by Professor Korn, the Inventor Give me a fulcrum, and I will raisethe world wrote Archimedes. Doubt-less there is a great deal in .what hesaid, but no one could put at his dis-posal the means for which he asked,and this, all things considered, wasperhaps as well. Less ambitious than Archimedes, Iam content to say: Give me a thou-sand telegraph wires, or those of thetelephone, and I will enable you to seethe person with whom you talk, even ifhe is at the other end of the , I am not given them to pre-sent, and for the moment I am obligedto content myself by transmitting tele-graphically such photography as Ican. Telephotography is found in theparticuiar properties of a substancecalled selenium, a non-metallic, ele-ment, in general chemical analogies,related to sulphur and tellurium. Itwas discovered by chance in 1873,when an ingenious Englishman, Wil-lougb
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