Connecticut western news., 1881-03-02

consider how much that is in year? If you save that-and it is @ small saving-and add it every year, with six per cent. interest, from the time you are twenty-one years old till you are sxty.one, you will have about $6,OOo. You can save more than that out of moderate wages, and before you are an old man you may have a comfortable home. This is gained without any excessive labor or unbe- coming frugality.
 As the poor man rises out of his poverty he begins to suit his manner of life to his new condition, and to attain those accomplish ments which are requisite to his better posi- tion in society. He is careful of his personal appearance. He makes his home attractive. He provides for the mental and moral culture of his children, and they all rise in the scale of social life.
 add one caution. eff riches increase, set not your heart upon them" Let not your thrift degenerate into mean stinginess. "Cov- eteousness is idolatry," and it is not the sin of the very rich only. Use your wealth wise- ly and you shall enjoy the good of your labor.
 Second, get Kaaoaoledge. This is not to be put of till you have got your pile of money, but it is to be gathered at the same time You are told that Knowledge is power. That is an unworthy saying It implies the inferiority of knowledge, and that it is sub servlent to power, and that it is to be meas. ured by the low scale of utility. It refuses to be measured by this standard. You must see it's excellence as you see the intrinsic ex- celence of honesty, or beauty or love, If could persuade you to seek for knowl. edge las for silver. and search for her as for hid treasure" it would be better for you than gift of great wealth. The acquisition o knowledge is not merely storing up the words of many books, but it is aided greatly by studying carefully some of the best books. and with some variety. Most of you suppose have left the school, where you only laid the foundation. That was only the beginning There should be no ending. You will al the best gain only very small part of serer al knowledge, but the best end oft will bt gained-to give you habits of thought, tt sharpen your wit, to lift your aspirations You should gain some knowledge of science and every one of you should read Americal history and some general history. Yo, ought not to be ignorant of what is called thu English Classics." Don't read too man, newspapers. Don't read the serial story You have not time. Read but few novels and only the best. Do you think I am lay ing out for you the work of literary gentle man. Not at all. I can assure you tha most valuable acquisitions of learning may b made by every laboring man.
 "How can that be-" you ask. As tn power of small gains in getting an estate, & it is, that by patient study, little at time day by day. you can lay up most valuabl store of knowledge A few minutes day which you can spare better than not, given t good book, will soon carry you through respectable octave. Your reading should b systematic and progressive, that which yo, gain may be added to what you already have How it refreshes the weary, after his dail. labor; how it soothes the distracted spirit, a the end of the day, to take up the accustome' book and find where the leaf is 'turne, down. as the agitated Brutus said on th eve of the fatal fight at Philippi;
 ''Look Lucius, here is the book sought for put it in the pocket of my gown.
 Let me see, let me see is not the leaf turne l down
 | Where was reading? Here it is. I think"
 How a proper attention to letters make old age cheery, would like to say. if ther were space here for it. The never failin source of delight in them is declared in thos oft repeated lines of the great Roman orator "Degectant GonaS, pern0ct0nt nobescuna ",A''~naan n'AtaAa' s'aAstscGnatalr" wiser thar Cicero had said the same thing and I sus poet the Roman had somewhere seen tn, words of Solomon, 'Take fast hold of instruc tion, let her not go, keep her for she Is tn, life.-When thou gosst it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee, ant when thou wakest it shall talk with thee
 7Hird, get Wisdom. This is higher thar knowledge, as the moral is higher than the intellectual. Wisdom is wit turned to tn, 1 SOOO, IL buOWS WldG IS UoSG bO D( done, and how to do it "Get wisdom" says the divinely wise man "Wsdom is tn, principal thing "Get understanding" "Wis dom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared | to it"
 What else to get Now when you have made good beginning in the attainment o these three things, money, knowledge anG wisdom your catalogue is not yet complete I say attainment because I suppose not one of you is born with gold spoon in his mouth, and perhaps not one is genius Every one of you must gain these good things by manly endeavor. Don't wait for some. thing to turn up; you must turn it up. You only need courage, industry, and patience.
 And now when you have well started as said, you had better take hold of hands with somebody who is going the same way. It will help you wonderfully to gain an estate, and use it right, to cheer the way of learning, and to inspire to the highest wisdom. The requisite good things to be locked for iu this yoke-fellow you may count on your five fn- gers: Good health, good sense, good temper. good manners, and good will.
 Don't try to get all your estate and your wis om by yourself. Hear what the wise man says again: "She is like the merchants ships.' and 'She openeth her mouth with wisdom" and also, "She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life."
 Fifty Years Ago.