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ECONOMICAL BEAUTY.

The fashion of the day is TO make
beauty as expensive thing as possible.
Persons who thrive by those arts that
ornamental housekeeping needs for its
display. and all such as value architec-
ture. furniture, and appearance, by the
amount of money paid for them. have
tacitly agreed that beauty shall be sold
to high bidders, and none others shall
enter into competition for it. To some
extent they have succeeded. Public
taste has certainly been yitiated suffi-
ciently to make the trade in beauty lu
claiive affair, and to give The aristocracy
of gold no small advantage over people
of limited means. Great works of art
ought to be costly, and artists of extra
orninary merit should be most literally
rewarded; but the minor forms of beauty
that concern domestic life might surely
be placed within the reach of moderate
circumstances. Apart from the business
view of this matter, it is really point
of interest in the cultivation of general
taste, that the love of beauty and its
qualification should hare no outward
impediments beyond what are unable
Beauty is the common heritage of mind.
Nature has made ample provision for its
presence every where. and in everything,
in some degree or measure. And how
often Providence brings it close to the
heart. and moves us TO IFS embraced
What service, as an auxiliary. does re-
ligion derive from its illustrative and con
frmative power! Ii it has pleased God
10 put such an estimate on beauty. every
one should wish to see the largest posi-
bic numbsr enjoying its benefits.
Something may be done toward this
end by convincing those around us that
all the beauty which is needed to educate
taste and refine Humanity. in obedience
TO the general laws of Intellectual and
moral life; is at easy command. Like
ihe best gifts Of Heaven, it is at our
doors asking only to be admitted to our
hospitality. and profering all its serene
blessings on the simple condition of re-
cipiency. The poorest man may feel
that il has already been bought and paid
for. 1t is TO him. ifhe will view it Alright,
3 free offering, not taxed commodity. |
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ORIGIN OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

So late as the time of the restoration
every merchant kept a strong-box in his
o Sn house; and when an acceptance was
presented to him, told down the crowns
and caroluses on his own counter. Gen
tlemen locked up their gold in their
country houses, or travelled with it in
their coaches. Those were the halcyon
days of thieves, when burglar would
often be able, after a single nights work.
10 retire with fortune; and highway
robbery was lucrative profession,
whose adopts were styled "Gentlemen
of the road''
By the end of Charles First's was
discovered that it was both safer and
more convenient to have agents to keep
the cash of commercial houses. This
new branch of business fell naturally
into the hands of geldsmiths. who were
accustomed to traffic largely in the pre-
cious me tails, and VIII o had vaults where
masses OF bullion could lie secure from
robbers and fire. 1t was at the shops ol
the goldsmiths of Lombard street that all
the payments in coin were made: Other
traders gave and received nothing but
paper.
Ofcourse the goldsmiths, from being
the treasurers, soon become master Of the
city. Goldsmith's notes passed curreni
on change for cash. The nobility had te
court the favor of the go,dsniths, and
Royalty ITSELF when government loan
was needed, privately summoned some
of the wealthy goldsmiths to its audience
chamber.
The same reasons which led the COM
munity to gather their cash into fifty
vaults instead of leaving it scattered
among a thousand, soon led them to see
that it would be still better to keep it in
one, instead of fifty. In William the
Ttird's time the matter was freely dis
cussed, and 1894 it took the definite
shape of plan for national bank.
Of course so great change was not
effected without bitter opposition. A
large class denounced the "Bank of Eng
land" with much violence and yindictive-
ness. Tories declared that banks were
republican institutions and predicted the
ruin of the monarchy. Wings declared
it would be an instrument OF Royal tyran-
ny worse than the star chamber, and pre-
dicted the ruin of the English liberty
The nobility suspected it to be scheme
to elevate traders above the peerage, and
the poor were made to believe it new
device TO grind them to the dust. Never
theless, the bank was established, and
gained papular favor, less by arguments
than by its manifest convenience and util-
ity. 1t lived and grew and prospered,
and for a hundred and fifty years, the
wealth of England has lived and grown
and prospered with it.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-12-23
ICELAND,

On stepping ashore in Iceland, the to
tai absence of trees and forests, and the
astonishing purity of the atmosphere,
strikes the spectator as among the mole
remarkable characteristics of the coun-
try. The fields are beautifully green;
the mountains, clothed in purple heath,
seem so near that you are almost tempt
ed to reach forth your hand 10 touch
their side. At fifteen or twenty miles
distance, they appear but three or four;
and at seventy or eighty miles, they
seem within ten or fifteen. Such is the
effect of the magical purity of the atmos-
phere. In other countries you go and
visit cities and ruins: here you see nature
in her most fantastic forms. In other
states you pay shilling, franc, or a
plaster, for a warm bath in a vat OF mar
Bile: here you bathe in a spring of any
desired temperature, or plung into cool
lake and swim to the region of hot
spring in the bottom, guided by the
steam On the surface. In other lands
you step into marble palaces that are
lined with precious stones, and find leg
islators making laws; here you see a
grass-grown amphitheatre. where con-
gress met and legislated in the open air
for nearly a thousand years. In other
and more favored climes, you find COM
Portable houses, and ''fruits of fragrance
blush on every tree;" here, not fruit,
save one small and tasteless berry, and
not a single variety of grain will ripen,
and their houses are mere huts of lava
and turf, looking as green as the mead
ows and pastures. In other lands, coal
and wood fires enliven every hearth, and
mines of iron, lead, copper, silver, and
gold reward the labor of the deliver; but
here not particle of coal, not one single
mineral of value, and not a stick of
wood larger than walking cane, can be
found. Many of the mountains are clad
in eternal SHOWS, and some pour out riv-
ers of fire several times every century,
But, though sterile the soil, and scanty
the productions, our knowledge of the
country must be limited, if we consid-
er it barren of historical facts and
literary records. A country like
this, nearly as large as England. must
possess few agricultural and commercial
resources, 10 have at this time, nearly
one thousand years after its first settle
ment, population of only sixty thou
sand souls. Yet the Icelanders, while
laboring under great disadvantages. are
more contented, moral and religious, pos
sess greater attachment to country, are
less given to crime and alteration, and
show greater hospitality and kindness to
strangers, than any other people the sun
shines upon. Their contentment and
immunity from crime and offence do not
arise from sluggishness and Incidence Of
character; nor are they noted alone for
their negative virtues. They possess a
greater spirit of historical research and
literary inquiry, have more scholars,
poets, and learned men, than can be
found among any equal population on
the face of the globe. Some of their
linguists speak and write greater num-
Der of languages than those that have
ever met in any other countIy.-Chris.
tian Miscellany.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-12-23

A TENDER REPRooF.-A very little
boy had one day done wrong, and was
sent, after parental correction, to ask in
secret the forgiveness of his Heavenly
Father. His offence had been passion.
Anxious TO hear what he would say, his
mother followed to the door of his room.
In lisping accents she heard him ask to
be made better, never to be angry again;
and then, with childlike simplicity, he
added, "Lord make mas temper better
too !''
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SONG FOR THE WEARY.
FROM THE GERMAN.

FROM THE GERMAN.
Heart. be still
In the darkness of thy woe,
= Bow thou silently and low;
Come to thee whate' 'er God will;-
Be thou still
Be thou still
Vainly all thy words are spoken,
Till the word of God hath broken
Life's dark mysteries-good or i'll
Be thou still.
Rest thou still
IT'S thy Fathers work of grace,
Wait thon yet before His face,
He thy sure deliverance will
Keep thou still.
Lord, my Cod
By thy grace, o may be
All Submissive, silently,
To the Christening of thy rod
Lord, my God
From thy fulness grant to me
Still. yet fearless faith in thee,
Till from night the day shall spring
Shepherd, Kingi
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-12-23

Fictions are revelations not of truth,
for they are most unreal, but of that
which the soul longs to be true; they are
mirrors not Of actual human experience,
but of human dreams and aspirations Of
the eternal desires of the heart.
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fm TIE farmer.
From the Ohio Farmer-I
SUGAR FROM SORGHUM.

EDITOR Ono FARMER:-I take pleas
ure in presenting 10 you an account of
varied and useful experiments in the man.
ufac,ure of molasses and sugar from the
Sorghum. They were made by Mr..
George K. Pellon, of Vernon, in this
county, who Kept careful memoranda Of
them, at the time. have eaten Of his
sugar, aud have had the pleasure Of hav-
ing the crystals melt on my tongue. One
small batch of his syrup he poured into
large, shallow dish, and three-fourths of
it turned to sugar. With spoon, Plowed
furrow half an inch deep in that sugar;
and believe your eyes would have
splrkled to see the well-defned crystals
turn up. More of this in its place.
On the 9th and 2sth of May, Mr. Pel-
ton planted 10 ounces of seed on l33
square rods of lOomy land, or four-fifh,
Of an acre. He cultivated it like Indian
corn, in rows feet apart one way, and
from 10 3 feet the other, and seeds in
hill. On the 22d September, he COM
msnced making it into molasses. His
mill he made himself, using three upright
rollers, fifteen isches in diameter, and
sixteen in length. (He weuld now make
them ten inches longer.) 1t is a substan-
,ial and excellent mill, and he assures me
that fifteen dollars viii cover the whole
expense, including full pay for his time:
1 in making it. He was laughed at for
making his mill before his cane grew ;
and when planting his cane, he was gen.
erousiy told that he would make more
money by planting bis land with Posssoes;
but he disreg> rded The good nsinrrdl iSAbs-s
of the increduloL-.
Bis crop has yielded 152 gallons Of
beautiful nolasses, and some fine crystal
\ lied sugar, being at the rate of 200 GAL
Ions 10 the acre. This is less than some
have made on an acre; but he is abun-
daqily satisfied, and so am I. Two hun
dred gallons to the acre, a, IS cents
gallon-i&e price ks has sold st-wiII
give $50. Is BOG sI.ah we'll enough2-
Among his experiments were these:
Sept 22-when the most Of his cane
was in bloom, 81 gals. juice Hads lof
niolasses.
Sept. 24-he made p gals. syrup, aads
a small portion turned 10 sugar.
Oct. 12-thirty one selected canes, that
were started in hot-bed the first of May,
(now fully ripe,) weighing so lbs, yielded
26i lbs, Of juice, which, on being boiled
to Al lbs. turned fully three-fourihs to-
sugar. In clarifying this batch, he used
soda, and the suiphate of zinc.
Oct. 15-nineiy average main stalk
canes, weighing $50 lbs. yielded 90 lbs.
of juice, which made II lbs. very thick
syrup.
Oct. 23-of 90 hills of cane, brough,
four miles, and which, before being cut,
had had three heavy frosts, when ice was
formed as thick as widow glass, he made
40 gallons of juice, and 6of good molasses.
Oct. 24-of two loads of good cane,
brought ten miles, he made, in one day,
40 gallons of excellent nlolasses, begin
ming before sunrise, and closing at 1Oo'-
clock P. NJ; little less than gallons of
juice made / of molasses.
His table of expense and profit is as
c.Ilo,,..
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potttp.
For the chrOniele.l
THE TIMES.
BY GEORGE W. cROwELL.

A storm is low'ring in the sky,
The winds are moving Ger the deep,
Dark shadows swift are fleeing by,
O'er human hopes with onward sweep.
Coming events their shadows throw,
A lengthening, long and gloomy line;
The ghostly vanguard of foe,
Which ever treads the glade of time.
A world of commerce and of trade,
Whose beating pulse we ever feel;
A chilling fear, gloomy shade
Ger all its varied forms now steal.
The spreading sail is furled to rest,
The steamer at her mooring swings,
Whilst mellow autumn o'er earth's breast,
Her choicest gifts of nature filings.
The earth. enriched with plenty, teens,
The air is breathing sweet perfume,
The harvest field in beauty CLEANS,
With sunsets softened rays illummed.
The God OF nature. art and man.
Has spread his bounties far and wide,
Has scattered here with liberal hand,
His wealth of gifts, our joy and pride.
But still with plenty amply crowned,
The humming wheel has ceased toplay,
The factory sleeps in rest profound.
While commerce lags along the quay.
For trades machinery, vast and grand.
Disiointed ali its fragments lie;
Commercial gloom reigns o'er the land,
Its swift winged thoughts no longer fly.
A storm is low'ring in the sky,
The winds are moving o'er the deep.
Dark shadows swift are fleeing by,
Der hopes and fears which never sleep.
CLEVELAND, o.
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What is this world? A dream within
dream-as we grew older, each step
has an inward awakening. The youth
awakes and he thinks from childhood
the full grown man despises the pursuits
of youth as visionary-the old man looks
on manhood as feverish dream. Isdeath
the last sleep? Not is the final awak
ening.-Sv. Waher Scott.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-12-23

The MUsTACHE IN The ENGLISH PUL-
PIr.-A writer in late London periodi-
cal states that nearly all the English
clergymen, living between two and three
hundred years ago, wore the mustache.
In his list of those who wore the beard on
the upper lip. we find the well known
names of John Donne. George Herbert,
Robert Herrick, Jeremy Taylor. Thomas
Fuller and Robert South. The famous
John Knox. and the celebrated John
Bunyan, wore the mustache, also, Wick
life. Cardinal Pole. Abp. Cranmer,
Bishop Ridley, Lstimer. Jewel. Hclbecb,
Thirdly Goodrich, Skip. Abp. Laud and
a host of others.
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follows

ln the process OF his experiments, hs
learned several things:
L. That under low arch, old rails do
better for fuel than good hickory wood.
,. That soda is better clarifer than
lime. He was led, gradually, to the entire
disuse Of lime. Soda made the syrup Of
lighter color, more like that Of honey,
and he thinks the nlolasses better.
3. That in October, in cool weather,
you need be in no hurry 10 make up your
cane. SJrne OF his lay more than week.
without injury, after it was cut; and il
was not cut I'LL it had been touched by the
frost.
A. That frost diminishes the quantity
OF juice, and the amount Of green matter
in it, without diminishing the quantity Of
sweet.
B. That with the help of boy eleven
years old, and with two horses, (and a
third, two or three hours, be can maks
forty gallons Of good molasses in u day,
the cane being delivered ready for the
mill.
6. That cane, planted in hot-bed the
first of May, gave him seed perfectly ma
Iured, and sugar in handsome crystals.
Z. That when he commenced, Sep. 10,
eight and half gallons of juice made one
Of molasses-tbat on the 24ih of October,
cane gave one gallon of molasses
or little less than six of juice.
It will also be observed that he obtained
'or:s sugar from immature cane, the 24th
September.
Very Respectfully. Yours,
BENJAMIN FEM.
HARrroRD, Trumbull, Co., o. '57.
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The true poet is he who finds for the
universal thought and feeling, the becom.
ing language.
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The world is a comedy to those who
think, and a tragedy to those who feel.
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The best bank ever yet known is a
bank of earth-it never refuses to dis
count to honest labor. And the best
share is plOughshare-on which divi-
dends are always liberal. That's SO.
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Who discerns what is infinitely small,
Only one; the Infinitely Great.
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Never forsake friend. When enc
mics gather around-when sickness falls
on the heart-when the world is dark
and cheerless-is the time to try true
friendship. They who turn from the
cry of distress. betray their hypocrisy
and prove that interest alone moves them.
If you have a friend who loves you and
studies your happiness-be sure to sus-
tain him in adversely. Let him feel that
his former kindness is appreciated and
his love was not thrown away. Real fidel-
ity may be rare, but it exists in the heart.
Who has not seen and felt its power?--
They only deny its worth and power
who have never loved friend or labor
ed TO make friend happy.
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fWe owe the writer of the above lines an
apology. They were received some two months
since. during the time when the money panic
was at its height, but were mislaid and over
looked-EDsi
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GIRLs.-Holmes in one of his poems
says in parenthetical way
my grandma
Loved girls when he was young"

Loved girls when he was young"
No doubt of it, for Holmes was sen
sible man and must have had grand
father. All sensible men love girls when
they are young. and when they are old
too. We apply the "old" to the men,
not the girls, mind you. Girlhood is an
institution-a peculiar institution, which
as lovers of the union we feel bound to
cherish, and as to the girls, large and
small, we hold that no gentleman's fam
lily is complete without them. Of little
girls an American poet says:
"With rosy cheeks and dancing curls.
And eyes of tender light,
o, very beautiful are little girls;
And goodly to the sight"
And as to large girls-big bouncing
girIs-what pity it is they must soon
be women-stately, matronly, queenly
women who are not angels because they
are not girlsl-who by the way are not
angels either, but vastly more charming
than any we remember to have seen in
the pictures or elsewhere
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RICH MEN.

1t were no bad comparison to hken
mere rich men 10 camels or mules, for
they often pursue their devious way over
hills and mountains, laden with Indian
purple, with gems, aromas, and gener-
Gus wines upon their backs. attended TOO,
by long line Of servants. as safeguard
on their way Soon, however, they
come to their evening halIing- place. and
forthwith their precious burdens are Ia
ken from their backs, and they, now
wearied and stripped of their lading, and
their retinue of slaves, show nothing but
livid marks of stripes. So, also, those
who glitter in gold and purple raiment,
when the evening of life comes rushing
on them, have naught to show but marks
and wounds of sin impressed upon them
by the evil use of riches.-&. Augus-
tines Sermon on Lazarus and Dives.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-16
WALKERS POSITION IN NICARAGUA.

A correspondent of The Herald thus disposes of the
report pat in circulation at Panama by Capt. Hunting
ton Of the Sierra Nevada, that Walker had 200
men and 80 mounted rangers, and was casting cannon
and ballsut Rvas Of which place he in possession
81 know of no iron which he could make use Of in
his cannon fCundey except an old Yankee stove, be-
longing to DR.. Cole of Rvas, which be stated to me
hao been brokenup by Rvass people on account OF his
sympathy for flLbustersm. Besides there are no iron
miles IN or near that dapid.ted city. DR.. Cole tNt
ioiI cd the CbamorTo party but their getting &c:
aied fled TO Cartesyo Gotta Rica, where he resided
until Walker entered Nicaragua, at the instance OF q
Pacific steamship king. Since that tune he has been
q fugitive DR. G. resided seven yeare In Rivas.
GAS TO the 200 men and $50 mounted rangers,
there were not Dec dozen mules to be found in
the whole department of Rivas, except those In the
hands of Generals Canas and Bosquet, of Costs Rca,
of that place. then in their possession and IT. after Us
ipc so good men in relieving Hepningsen at Granada,
sbo hid about GO left out of his force of $50 after
eeee of 9 days. he Dad 600 left at that tme when con-
ceptlated at ST. George, and the enemy wee on all
s'des and in posses OF the lake steamers how long,
think you in q tropical country, with cholera, yeuo
fever dyse ntery, dahea, vomito, &C., would take
10 decate and even eXiiuguish his emsll force The
schooner said to be in Walkers possession vas caved
in al Ometepe at the tme natives OF that island at
tackled The sick and wOu0dtd under Gen. Fry, and
was after a previous inspection by myself al Virgin
Bay dock, entirely decsyed and rotten, which iacte
weie ackno yledged by her captain. Besides, her tun
nepe as about 70 tuns and not 81 uDs as reported
BY Captain Huntington Of the Sierra Nevada one OF
Garrisons agents. The enemy had also driven OH all
the cattle in the department Of Rvas, and we can ex
pect no facts in regard TO this closing melancholy and
MAGICAL expedition until the arrival of the steamship
Columbus belonging TO the Pacific Mad Steamship
Company, which, on her way down from Ls Union
and Realeo touches at Punta Arenas Gotta Rica, and
upon the arrival of the Illinois will feel assured end
The melancholy drama which has been played III tha
afflicted State of Nicaragua