The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-06
The Old.FashiOned Mother.

Thank God some of us have an old
fashioned mother. Not woman of the
period, enameled and painted, with her
great chignon, her curls and hustle, whose
white jeweled hands have never felt the
clasp of baby fingers; but dear, old-fash-
ioned, sweet-voiced mother. with eyes in
whose clear depths the love-light shone,
and brown hair, threaded with silver, lying
smooth upon her faded cheek. Those dear
hands worn with toll, gently guided our
tottering steps in childhood, and smoothed
our pillow in sickness, even reaching out
to u.s. in yearning tenderness when her
sweet spirit was baptized in the pearly
spirit of the river.
Blessed is the memory of an old-fashion-
ed mother. 1t floats to us now. like the
beautiful perfume of some woodland bios
SONS. The music of other voices may be
lost, but the enhancing memory of hers
will echo in our souls forever. Other faces
will fade away and be forgotten, but hers
will shine on until the light from heavens s
portals shall glorify our own. When in
the fitful pauses of busy life our feet wan
der back to the old homestead, and cross
ing the well-worn threshold stand once
more in the low, quaint, room, sohallowed
by her presence, now the feeling of child
ish innocence and dependence comes over
us, and we kneel down in the molten sun
shine, streaming through the western win
dow-just where long years ago we knelt
by our inother's knee, lisping "Our
Father" low many times when the temp
sacred h"uls, that mothers words, her
faith and lrayers, saved us from plunging
into the deep abyss Of sin! Years have
filled great drifts between her and us, but
they have ,ot hidden from our sight the
glory of her pure, unselfish love.
ANCIENT MUsIC.-The Egyptian flute
was only cows horn with three or four
holes in il, and their harp or Tyre had only
three strings; the Grecian Tyre has only
seven strings, and was very small, being
held in one hand; the Jewish trumpets that
made the walls of Jerico fall down were
only rams horns; their finite was the same
as the Egyptian; they had no other instru-
mental music but by percussion, of which
the greatest boast made was the psaltery, a
small triangular harp or Tyre with wire
strings, and struck with an iron needle or
stick; their sackbut was something like a
bag pipe; the timbrel was a tambouline;
and the dulcimer was horizontal harp,
with wire strings, and struck with stick
like the psaltery. They had no written
music; had scarcely a vowel in their Ian
guage; and yet according to Josephus) had
two hundred Thousand musicians playing
at the dedication of the temple of Solomon.
Mozart would have died in such a concert
in the greatest agonies!
THE MINES OF UTAH.-The Utah mines
are exciting quite as much attention rs the
Utah Mormons. In the massive range of
the Wasatch Mountains, which runs right
through the territory from Arizona to
Idaho, thu ere is a six hundred mile long
deposit Of minerals of great value. Tin,
coal, copper, bismuth, magnanese and
silver chlorides fascinate the seeker. The
silver bearing ores are mainly found in a
mineral belt which begins in Little Cotton
wood and extends through the so-called
Big Cottonwood conon. In a succession of
canons for five or ten miles is 4 formation
of pure granite, back of which, at an aver
age altitude of ten thousand feet, lie the
silver-bearing lodes. The ores oc these
mines will average about $400 per ton
The permanency of the deposits seem very
well assured by high authorities. In every
instance where mine has paid at all the
quality and quantity of the ore has in
creased with the depth of the shafts. At
one smelling establishment 1900 tons of
silver and lead bearing ore are now waiting
reduction.
A shrewd little fellow was entrusted
to the care of his uncle, who fed the boy
very poorly. One day he happened to see
a greyhound, whereupon he asked the little
fellow if he knew what made the dog so
poor. The reply was: 81 suspect he lives
with his uncle"