Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1887 — No Cut in Wages. [ARTICLE]

No Cut in Wages.

The employes of a Michigan railroad had been trembling in their boots over a reduction of wages, when an agent dispatched from headquarters, passed along the line and said to the various station officials: “I am happy to inform you that there will be no cut in salaries.” “Good. My salary is so small that I could hardly stand a cut of 5 per cent.” “The road is not making ahy money, but the President feels that every employe is earning his salary, and that, perhaps, the fall business may bring us out all right. Put your name down for what you can afford.” “On what?” “Why, on this paper. It is a subscription to buy the President a $2,000 silver tea-set as a token of the esteem of the employe ■>. Let’s see ? You get S6OO per year. If you put your name down for SSO you will be giving all you can afford. Rest easy, Mr. Blank, there will be no cut in salaries.” WaU Street News. t \ The Plantagenet line of English kings began with Henry 11. and ended with Richard If., occupying the throne of England for nearly two and a half centuries—that is, from 1154 to 13i)'y. Shakspeabe and Cervantes died on the same day—April 23, 1616.