Show A great eastern electrical firm has extended its bonus system to include salaried and office employees on hourly rates they are to receive a bonus of 8 per cent providing their total excusable time absent and late during the month does not exceed six hours incurred on not more than three oc ca an additional 4 per cent is given for per cent attendance thus bringing the bonus to 12 per cent in the latter case it is of course a form of br arbery bery designed to assist the working force to do its plain duty and it is rather one sided but withal it is a good idea and should prove a success mistakes certainly we make them and they will occur in every publication until the millennium A prominent minister said not long ago to save an editor from starvation take his paper and pay for it to save him from bankruptcy advertise ui in his paper to save him from profanity write your correspondence plainly on one side of the sheet and send it in as early as possible to save him from mistakes misi akes toury bury him dead people are the only ones who never make mistakes A record in drifting was made recently in the west drift of the monarch pitts burg mine at tonopah To three shifts consisting of a and a to each shift were employed and a clearance of feet in seven days was made it is said to toe be a record for southern nevada we do not know the figures for other districts but considering the few men engaged and the distance from the surface we venture the assertion that it probably has seldom been exceeded anywhere the mining review is in receipt of a long letter from a san francisco man protesting against the manner in which the banking interests of our sister state knock mining and also criticizing criticising critics critic crit icis ising ing certain commissioners ners and laws there the letter contains some good ideas but the writer states that he does not sign his real name because of his position anonymous communications go into the wastebasket waste basket in every publishers office in the land if all the postage which is wasted on such letters every year could toe be collected and turned to charity it would toe be sufficient to alleviate the suffering of a big city when the writer of a manuscript is afraid to assume responsibility for his ideas because of his position wh why y should we go out of our way to do so |