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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 54, 4 March 1878, Page 4

Our Saturday Night. — The Cotter's Saturday nights of which Burns wrote, aud over which he has ihrowu the halo of poetry, romance, and religion, evidently were very unlike the Siturday night of this day and generation, Of bis " Cotter's Saturday Night" Burns aung : — '•Erom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad ; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." Our Saturday nights are not given (o " making old clothes look nlmnst as well as new," nor does the " gudemau" of the house, as a rule in modern aooiety give reverend thanks over his Saturday nighi's supper for the blessings of the week, Our Saturday nights are nights of torture, worriment, and fierco contortion; nights in which all the troubles of the n-eek aeeuralnfe and dart honors into the innermost soul, aod hence to many (hey become ni^-his of dissipation Oa Saturday eve the ever v'igii.-tut creditor promptly m:,kes his ro"undf, death is not more piompt than ha b in his call?; grocers, bakers, and birclicrs muaf, be paid, (1 n ! oven t.Jmt nuidancolo California—tha Chin-sa wnsiicuo ra;«o( hi settled witii, or " no enn h.b i!em ehirtee for Si'jndee." Tlu-ae o-e n few ' of tha horrors \hn congregate on Saturday uifihlsanj make o^e fi rse ify w s i Ihe night wan blotted out of Jhe o«!eu•Jiir, or ihet the dovil would fi/ >. wii y wi!h all p;s;il»in (iu -a ; bhJ nuy Jupilor ct.'« found :!il= mvi who lvv ■:vi-j\\ creait an i oiher Bcjuncta of civiiis ;;io,i. But i:o som«, Sa ui-^uy niaiit i:o?n:->a aa if vviili healing oa U H wiig?, n m-j¥-:ec-»er of Jiou^ and pir'psurr. CaMow luds iitld (iftllow JitiSD.!, io::-:d (O ihe top Of lhi:ir b^iu. v/'to th« fioiieioaisneaa ol iove's youcg cire^m, ioil iiy approach, for it iv a time -.vhec lovora c.-vi coco*, whisper noil nonaoiise into willing ears, sip U.ie cool it-e cream, suck iha succulent candy, ana generally make tnemBblvcb ready to enter upon the miserable [ futura which, happily, they oauuot foresee, — Sacramento Bee.