The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-28

'1e sptse Hot .pHtuft DegtdHfHgS.-zl IL IS felaled in the Gentleman's Magazine, of Chantry, the celebrated sculptor, that, when boy, he was observed by gentleman in the neigh borhood of Sheffield very attentively engaged
 Ill cutting stick of wood with n penknife. He asked the lad what he was doing when, with great simplicity of manner but with great courtesy, he replied, s. am cutting old Fox's head.o Fox was the schoolmaster of the village. On this, the gentleman asked to see what he had done, and pronouncine it to be an excellent likeness, gave the youth a slxpence. And this Giayf 5e rekconed the first money Chantry ever received for the pro- duction of his art
 This anecdote IS but one i'll thousand that might be cited of as many different men who from small beginnings rise to station and influence, and shows the importance of not despsing the day of small things in any condition or circumstances of life. All na- ture, Ill fact, Is full of instructive lessons on this point, which it would be well for us more thoroughly to study and appreciate.
 The river rolling onward it's accumulated waters to the ocean, was in it's small bepin- ming but an oozing Till, tricklng dows some moss-covered rock, and winding liAe 4lyers thread between -the green banks to which 1t imparted verdurc. The tree that swept the air with it's hundred branches, and mocks at the bowling oi the tempest, was in ils small beginning but little seed trodden under foot, unnotieed, then small shoot that the leap ing hare might have forever crushed.
 Every thing around Us tells Us not to de- spise small beginnings; for they are the lower rounds of ladder that reaches to great re- suits, and we must step upon these before we can ascend higher.
 Despise not small beginnings of wealth.
 The Rothsehilds, Girard, Astor, and most of the richest men, began with small Aaans From cents they proceeded 10 dollars; from hundreds to thousands and from thousands 10 millions. Had they neglected these first earnings, had they said within themselves, what is the use of these few cents ? they are not of much value, and will just spend them, and enjoy myself as go--they would never have risen 10 be tic weathiest among their fellows. It is only Ey this economical husbanding of small means that they increase to large sums. Ii is the hardest part of suc- cess to gain little; this lille once gained moro will easily follow.
 Desp!se not small beginnings of education
 Franklin had but little early education, yet look at what he became, and how he is reverenced. Ferguson, feeding his sheep on the hills of Scotland, picked up merely the rudiments of learning, but subsequently rose to be one of the first astronomers in Eu- rope. Herschell, the great astronomer, was in his youth drummer-boy to marching regiment, and received but little more than drummer-boy's education but this name is now associated with the brightest discoveries of science, and is borne by the planet which his zeal discovered. A host of instances rise up to testify that, by properly improving the small and perhaps imperfect beginnings of knowledge, they may become as Foundations stones of a temple of learning, which the fu- ture shall gaze upon and admire
 A man can scarcely be too ayaricious in the acquisition of knowledge; he should hoard up his intellectual gain with the ut most assiduity and diligence; but, unlike the lucre-seeking miser, must put out his knowl- edge at usury, and by lending ont his stock to others, increase by the commerce of his thoughts his capital, until his one talent shall have become five, and these five shall have gained to them other five.