Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05

After month had passed, two of the hardheaded directors who had protested in vain against the sentimental no- tions )" of the new president, began to get uneasy.
 1T say, Bacon, have you heard there ports from the mill P asked Brown, as the two met one day at little club lunch, that only cost each of them sum of workingman's wages for week. Brown was or of the larger stockhold- CTS, and had been obliged to ''cut down" his household and personal expenses to fifteen thousand year, on account of the hard times.
 "N-a-a," said the other with the latest English drawl, "what nonsense has the young 'luny' been up to,now?'
 "Why, they say the men are working almost as if they owned the mill never turned out such stock, nor at so little cost. And Fletcher is doing all the sell ing, with the help of one clerk, in place of poor Robbins, who misses his twenty thousand as agent most deucedly. They say he's actually had to take place at three thousand, down town"
 "Ah-h !-vewy good" returned the other, viewing the broiled bird before him critically,-"' Utopia, and all that sort of thing. Kingdom-come, 'cetera -'cetera. Well, Mister Brown, I like poetry and moonshine-in their proper place. But when the stock stops pay ing twenty-six per cent.-as it must, you know,-mine goes to the broker. I haven't any money to risk on accelerat- ing the approach of the millennium.
 "Just my fix" laughed the retrench- ing director, as he emptied the second bottle of his favorite wine, and mellowed up rapidly under it's influence, "'Gad, you hit it 'zac'ly. Capital idea {! Mil lennium Mill He !--he So they work sharp, eh! Glad of that. Old Fletch- er's lash or young Fletcher's> oats,--it's all one to us so long as the work comes. But no 'lenium below twenty-six. Cad, Bacon, you've said it."
 Having demonstrated that policy of justice could be made to pay ten per cent, but not twenty y-six, Harold Fetch CT bought tho stock of the discontented shareholders who were afraid of hasten ing the millennium, and proceeded to crystalline into fact few more of his theories.
 He began with the homes of the work men. From his private funds he erected one hundred model cottages. with 8 pretty yard and garden for each, and ample provision for drainage, pure air, plenty of water, and cheerfulness and convenience for work in the house. He rented them for five per cent. on their cost, which brought them within the means of all industrious and temperate men and such the workmen had to be, ifithey remained. When the ten per cent. was paid, it was received and ap- piled as purchase money-making it possible for frugal managers soon to own their own homes.
 He established Workingman's Saw ings Bank, and provided that enc third of the Board of Directors should be from their own number that no de- posits should be received in excess of one thousand dollars year from any in- dividual, so that the bank could be easily, cheaply, and safely managed for the benefit of the class for whom it was designed; and that all investments should be made in government or State bonds "a high rate of interest not being de- sired so much as absolute security, and ready convertibility into money without loss.
 He opened store on the community principle, and put an experienced and competent man at the head of it, who had no interest except to earn his salary faithfully, and keep the accounts so that MT. Fletcher himself, with committee of the patrons, could see each month that everything was straight; 8 duty which he never deputized nor shirked. At this store each family could get all that it needed to purchase of the best quality, at cost prices; and the saving was equivalent to on increrse of fifteen per cent. in the wages.
 A Lyceum was opened in towr hall built and equipped by sub scriptions secured by MT. Fletcher which he headed with one-half the cost. There was an excellent free Ii brary and reading room attached, ani weekly lectures on practical topics wer, given during the winter, with a fret concert. or other entertainment. plenti fully spiced with fun, on Saturda, nights. A competent woman was als, engaged to give lessons in the various arts of housewifery. In a surprisingl, short time, by the aid of this instruction and the printed tracts containing recipe and directions, nearly all the womel could make good soups, and prepar
 many new and wholesome dishes, at
 cost far below the wasteful cooking o
 their previously ignorant or careles
 methods. The Matron likewise gave di
 rections in cutting, fitting, making an'
 altering clothing, each week, and an
 swered questions and gave advice touch
 ing other departments and duties c
 housekeeping and home-making thu
 training the young and incompetent
 and lifting many of the fairly skillfu
 housewives out of the ruts where the
 had logged so long.
 The ounce of prevention or the poun
 of cure was applied in other direction oo tho >ro1.,oa.oJ