Connecticut western news., 1900-05-24

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 Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was beyond computation, and at Saltaire, England, he had church and chapel built and supported by himself-the church for those who preferred the Episcopal service and the chapel for those who preferred the Methodist service. At the opening of one of his factories he gave a great dinner, and there were $500 people present, and in his after dinner speech he said to these people gathered: II cannot look around me and see this vast assemblage of friends and work people without being moved. I feel greatly honored by the presence of the nobleman at my side, and I am especially delighted at the presence of my work people. I hope to draw around me population that will enjoy the beauties of this neighborhood "a population of we'll paid, contented, happy operatives. I have given in- structions to my architects that noth- ing is to be spared to render the dwell ings of the operatives a pattern to the country, and If my life Is spared by divine Providence, I hope to see con- tentment, satisfaction and happiness around me-"
 That Is Christian character demon strated. There are others in this coun- try and In other lands on a smaller scale doing their best for their em- ployees. They have not forgotten their own early struggles. They remember how they were discouraged, how hun- gry they were and how cold and how tired they were, and, though they may be 50 or 70 years of age, they know just how a boy feels between 10 and 20, and how a young man feels be- tween 20 and 30. They have not for gotten 1t. Those wealthy employers were not originally let down out Of heaven with pulleys of silk in a wicker basket, satin lined famed by cherubic wings. They started in toughest era dle, on whose rocker misfortune put her violent foot and tipped them into the cold world. Those old men are sympathetic with boys.
 God VIII Remember.
 But you are not only to be kind to those who are under you-Christianly kind-but you are also to see that your boss workman and your head clerks and your agents and your overseers In stores are kind to those under them Sometimes a man will get little brief authority in a store or in factory, and, while they are very courteous to you, the capitalists, or to you, the head man of the firm, they are most brutal in nf thpm God only knows what some of the lads suffer in the cellars and In the lofts of some of our great esta blishments. They have no one to appeal to. The time | will come when their arm will be strong and they can defend themselves, | but not now. Alas, for some of the l cashboys and the messenger boys and the boys that sweep the store! Alas, for some of them! Now, you capitalist, | you, the head man of the firm, must | look, supervise, see those all around l you, investigate all beneath you.
 And then charge you not to put un- ! necessary temptation in the way of | your young men. Do not keep large | sums of money lying around unguard- l ed. Know how much money there Is in the till Do not have the account 1 books loosely kept. There are tempta- tions inevitable to young men, and | enough of them, without your putting l any unnecessary temptations in their 1 way. Men in Wall street having 30 years of reputation for honesty have dropped into Sing Sing and perdition, I and you must be careful how you try a lad of 15. And if he do wrong do not | bounce on him like a hyena. If he prove himself unworthy of your conf dence, do not call in the police, but take him home. Tell why you dismiss ed him to those who will give him an | other chance. Many young man has done wrong once who will never do | wrong again. Ah, my friends, think we can afford to give everybody anoth-
 CT chance when God knows we should
 all have been in perdition if he had not
 given us 10000 chances.
 Then, if in moving around your fac
 tory or mill or barn or store you are
 inexorable with young men, God will
 remember 1t. Some day the wheel oi
 fortune will turn, and you will be g
 pauper, and your daughter will go tc
 the workhouse, and your son will dit
 on the scaffold. If in moving among
 your young men you see one with aI
 ominous pallor of cheek or you heal
 him coughing behind the counter, say
 to him, Stay at home day or two
 and rest or go out and breathe tht
 breath of the hills" If his mother die
 do not demand that on the day aftel
 the funeral he be in the store. Give
 him at least a week to get over tha
 which he will never get over.
 Set Q Good Example.
 Employers, urge upon your employ
 ees, above all, religious life. So fa
 from that, how is 1t, young men? In
 stead of being cheered on the road t
 heaven some of you are caricatured
 and it is hard thing for you to keeI
 your Christian integrity In that stor,
 or factory where there are so man.
 hostile to religion. Ziethen, a grav'
 general under Frederick the Great
 was a Christian. Frederick the Grea
 venerable, white haired general, aske,
 to be excused from military duty tha he might attend the holy sacrament
 He was excused. A few days afte Ziethen was dining with the king an, with many notables of Prussia, whel Frederick the Great in jocose wa. said, "Well, Ziethen, how did that sac rament of last Friday digestp Tn venerable old warrior arose and said "For your majesty I have risked m, life many time on the battlefield, an, | I Io rxyfIlf I'm any time to die; but you do wron when you insult the Christian religion You will forgive me If I, your old mi itary servant, cannot bear in silenc any insult to my Lord and my Say jour-" Frederick the Great leaped t
 his feet, and he put out his hand, an