Dependence is a poor trade to follow.

Deeds are fruit, words are but leaves.

Do unto others as you would have them do tɔ you.
Every couple is not a pair.

Everything is good in its season.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.
False friends are worse than open enemies.
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
Great barkers are no biters.

Great gain and little pain makes a man weary.
Give a rogue rope enough and he will hang himself.
Home is a home be it ever so homely.

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
Have your cloak made before it begins to rain.
Idle folks have the least leisure.

Live not to eat, but eat to live.

Let not your tongue cut your throat.

Liars are not to be believed when they speak the truth.
Never split wood against the grain.

Never make a mountain out of a mole hill.
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
One is not so soon healed as hurt.
One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
One bad example spoils many good precepts.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.

Praise a fair day at night.

Patience and time run through the longest day.

Quick at meat quick at work.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Short reckoning makes long friends.

Temperance is the best physic.

'Tis the second blow that makes the fray.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Welcome is the best cheer.

Where there is a will there is a way.

When the will is ready the foct is light.

What may be done at any time is never done.

The first in the quarrel is the second who speaks.

TOYS FOR CHILDREN.

THE amount expended for toys and play-things for children is immense. Is this right, in accordance with Bible stewardship? Were children trained in the way they should go, nurtured from early infancy in the fear of the Lord, on gospel principles, would they delight as they now do in these trifling toys? Are not very many of these fancy articles, on which millions are lavished, worse than useless, of a pernicious tendency? Such is the opinion of not a few who are wise in things pertaining to the heavenly kingdom.

An intelligent writer, alluding to this unwise and extravagant expenditure, says 'Playthings that the children make for themselves are a great deal better than those which are bought for them. They employ them a much longer time, they exercise ingenuity, and they please them more. A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers of acorns than to have a set of earthen ones supplied. A boy takes ten times more pleasure in a little wooden cart he has pegged together than he would in a painted and gilded carriage brought from the toyshop; and we do not believe any expensive rocking-horse ever gave so much satisfaction as we have seen a child in the country take with a cocoa-nut husk which he had bridled and placed on four sticks. There is a peculiar satisfaction in inventing things for one's self. No matter though the construction be clumsy and awkward, it employs time (which is a great object in childhood), and the pleasure the invention gives is the first impulse to ingenuity and skill. For this reason the making of little boats and mechanical toys should not be discouraged; and when any difficulty occurs above the powers of a child, assistance should be cheerfully given.

WORSE THAN TIGERS.

APPEARANCES are often deceptive; sometimes under a rough exterior we discover kindly dispositions, while under the more fascinating appearance there is hid duplicity and inhumanity. This may be illustrated by reference to the tiger. It is one of the prettiest of creatures -perhaps the most beautiful among quadrupeds. Its jet black stripes and spotted feet enrich the appearance of its glossy, yellow skin. When young it will play harmlessly with such persons as have the courage to fondle it. But the full-grown tiger is a terror to man. Missionaries have often been exposed to great danger from them; but, in a

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wonderful way, God has often preserved them from the jaws of this destructive animal. The following tale is told on this subject: 'Opposite to the door of a missionary's room a large looking-glass was placed. One day, when the door was open and the missionary present, a large tiger walked in, and, seeing a representation of himself in the glass, he rushed at it, broke it to atoms, and then fled from the room in terror.' The tiger had never seen himself before, and mistook himself for another-for an enemy; hence his rage. The tiger is only a large cat, and, cat-like, it will spring upon its intended victim and crush it to death. Men are often thus destroyed by tigers, and in their turn often hunt the tiger to destroy him. The picture in page 238 represents a tiger-hunt; the arrow from the bow of the barbarian hunter has just passed through the body of the tiger, while his companion stands, spear in hand, ready to complete the destruction of the animal should he, in his death-struggle, spring upon his assailant. Large rewards have been offered in India to those who shall destroy these ferocious animals, for they are not only insidious, blood-thirsty, and malevolent, but seem to prefer preying upon the human race. If these animals existed, and were at large in our country, no doubt every effort would be used to destroy them. But we have in our country something worse than tigers. The drink traffic is one of these things. By it thousands are destroyed every year. Gentlemen, as they are understood to be, have large capital embarked in this trade, which one of themselves has described as the war of hell against heaven. Not unfrequently these gentlemen assume the guise of Christianity and philanthropy-they will build costly churches and give largely to charities; but the money they give is the price of blood. But we can find something worse than tigers nearer home. What are evil thoughts? Are not they of this class? You can keep out of the way of tigers, but how evil thoughts hunt you! If they seize you they will devour every good affection in your heart, and thus destroy you for ever. O pray, 'Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.' Amen.