The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-11-20
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~ HWY 10 Ii'hShiiA 'iAlit ASSaN W i'ii liIt
snow fora text, by one Of cur mos. valued
correspondents.
For The Cecil H'hg.
The Snow.
Mn. EDITOR THE weather beng very
Convenient entering wedge to open conycrsa-
ton, 1t often serves a good turn speaking
with the public generally, over an editor 5
shoulder. altho it may violate in some re.
Spccts that standing rule among editor $ and
printers: bputy.
a the opening of all new scenes, however,
more License is allowed TO both pen and tongue,
and the present snow, no doubt, will have
greater celebrity IN the public print, than
many poor politician who has been striving
foi years 10 gain a name, and whose hopes
in the end were rs evaneSCcnt as the SNOW
Now while write the Young moon and little
stars are brightly shining over the white
landscape, giving us Il prelude, at least, to a
grand winter scene. We need hut the sting
ing frosty air, and chime of the gladstone
sleigh bells TO make the picture complete
! think il there were no bells Winter would
be but dull old fellow at best. cant
Imagine how people did in the ''eood old
timeS"-as we are always wont to tenn the
far away past--whcn they had no sleigh bells
nor coal stoves. hut vent slipping about silent
as ghosts among the drifts in what would hc
taken now adavS for wood slttlS. and Shivcr-
ing round wood fires, in wide mouth fire
pieces. occupying the major part of one sid,
Of the log house, with an open seam between
each log and It's ncghbor, where Jack froSt
Ian III. pursued by angry B9rcaS. t. warm
his nose and then his bead at the bright
inviting blaze. And yet the old folks there
are some jolly old folks, who laugh and Joke
and toll the young folks about the sports Of
their early days, and what crops Of wild
oats they Sowcd and so many fine stories of
fun and froic. that we come to believe at
last, they had good times in those days
away back in the rough sic Ugh, the log house
and oren fire place. These are the good
humored jolly old folks, rotund and com
Portable. who couture up in our minds such
pleasant images. investing by-cone days with
romantic interest. and filling the past with
poetry They tel us too, those pleasant old
iolks-they had petty girls then, that our
mothers were pietticr than our sweet hearts
liza ha we'll never believe that. They had
10 hoops then, and our grand DANES went
stalking about with their ret'icoats hanging
about them like sails round the mas, in dead
calm. AId then our grand-maS are such
STOUT oIu WoH'cll IhaJtS'lc anu tai. lhcy
never could have been SO dainty and neat as
oar llttlc girls, done up in brocadc and furs
NOT they: we wont believe that any how
These are the jolly old folks who tel us those
pleasant things. There is another kind Of
old folks grim and cross. who pronounce all
our fun looery, down night expense and FOLLY,
A waste of money, money morcy That's
it They tell us there was no such foolish.
ness in their young days, tina: people who had
such carvings on, weren't respectable, died
poor or come TO no good end, that respectable
people belonged to ciuich, Snarl,d or frown-
cd down as they express it-at everything
pleasant, worked all the time. got all they
could, kept all they got-and made money
Were always most courteous TO those who
had the most money, grew Old ON the rack
Of anxiety and concern beng fretiul and
miserable in old age when iliiintns pre-
vented the pursuit of wealth, that being the
only stimulus the moral man ever enjoyed
Which Of the two pictur,s will you choose
gentle reader, for the choice is now before
you You must accept one or the other,
whether fiom choice or necessity. ACORN.
TIE MoRTARA CAsE.--A great master of
the human ncart has said a one touch Of
nature makes the whole world kim" The