Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — The Impossible. [ARTICLE]
The Impossible.
Andrew Carnegie, at a recent din-' ner in New York, said of a certain labor trouble: , ’ - “It is silly of employers to pretend in these troubles that they are Always in the right. Employers are often in the /wrong: often unreasonable. They often —like Mrs. Smith-Jones — ask impossible things: , “Mrs. Smith-Jonea, taking a Villa at Palm Beach, engaged for butler a stately old colored deacon. “‘Now, Clay,’ she said to the old fellow, ‘there are two things I must Insist upon—truthfulness and obedience.’ “ ‘Yes, madam,’ the venerable servant answered, ‘and when yo’ bids me tell yo* guests yo’s out when yo’s in. which shall It be, madam?*”
