Connecticut western news., 1883-09-12
THE CLOSING WEEK.
Few Sober Second Thoughts for Satur-
 day Night.

How much there IS III the two words l-Saturday n;ght-says Peck's Sun. To the whole civilized world it mears much It means another week of toll over; 1t means another week of worriment and hard work past; it means that day of I rest is about to dawn; it means that an- 1 other weeks journey toward eternity is made. Yes, 1t means all of this. It means that we are older ill years and ex- perience by week. It tells us time is fast passing and every idle moment spent is just so much time lost, never to be made up.
 Did you ever sit down on Saturday night and make a careful inventory of the week? Did you ever stop to con- sider the number of ''nickles" and dimes spent during the week for which you have nothing to show? Did you ever think how much more money could have been saved for ''rainy day. from the weeks earnings, if you had done as you ought to have done to yourself and the loved ones at home? Can you not on Saturday night look back over your acts of the past week and see where you ! could have been the means of doing good to some poor creature, some un- fortunate one whose toll could have been made the easier by some pleasant word from you, which, having neglected the opportunity you have feeling of regret, and could you but live over again the days that are gone, you would have lived them better? These are but few of the many thoughts that come to the minds of the considerate on Saturday night.
 If you spend your days in idleness, devoting your time to icentious pleas ures, you are not only wasting your vital forces, but every Saturday brings you nearer the alms- house, nearer @ prema- ture-a pauper's grave. Says Charles Kingsley: ''Every man, it would seem, brings into the world certain capacity, 8 certain amount of vital force, in body and in soul; and when that is used up, the man must sink down into some sort of second childhood, and end very much where he begins." If we have nothing i lald by when Saturday night comes, we are only making ourselves the more helpless in our old age. Who wants to reach 8 helpless old age in poverty !? Not human being.
 Did you ever stand on the busy street on Saturday night and look at the crowds of men and women, boys and girls, all moving about doing something? There goes 8 man with 8 we'll filled market basket on his arm A peaceful, con | tented look is on his face. He is an honest son of toll going to his family with 8 weeks provisions. He has set tied his bill at the store and has 8 little balance left. Happy, happy man. See over there. There stands young man who earns enough to take care of him. self and have snug sum left at the end of the week, but he spends it all and is in debt. What net of misery he is weaving about himself in his profigate course. Here you meet man with his wife by his side. What happy time tc them is Saturday night. They bask in the sunlight of each others love, and conscious of a frugal, well-spent week they are content and happy. Saturda, night to them is night of pleasure, il squaring up their accounts and buying something for the little ones at home Envy them! Who does not envy them
 The closing night of the week is in deed night on which we come up fo examination. If the week has been wei or lily spent, our record will tell it Saturday night is the comma in the sen tence of our lives where we are enabled to pause for an instant to again start ol 8 better or worse course. And this i the close of the week, the world over.