North America, and are used for gloves, braces, and boots.

Hippopotamus hides are imported in limited number from South Africa. They make an exceedingly thick and compact leather.

Mogadore goat skins are made into black morocco, generally called black Spanish leather.

Hints.

THE best mirror is an old friend. The child says nothing but what is heard by the fire.

Although it rain, throw not away thy watering-pot.

A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

A married man turns his staff into a stake.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

Life without a friend, is death without a witness.

The comforter's head never aches. To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

He that seeks trouble never misses. He that hath a fox for his mate, hath need of a net at his girdle.

Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

He that speaks sows, and he that holds his peace gathers.

Counsel breaks not the head.
Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow.
Trust not one night's ice.
Good finds good.

To weep for joy is a kind of manna.

Gems.

We should want nothing had we more faith and patience.

Our wills have been the cause of all

our woes.

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Fear men less, and trust God more. Precious faith makes sin rare to a believer.

All the prayers, tears, humiliations, and repentings in the world, cannot wash away the defilement of one heart. Nothing but the blood of Christ can do that.

A pure heart is always ready for

service.

Secret sins are like hidden weights of lead hung upon the wings of the soul. He who is saved from sin cannot be hurt by anything else.

He lives in danger of being broken every day who has most of his treasure in a worldly bottom.

The wells of salvation are always full. It is our want of buckets that so often deprives us of our comfort.

A sincere heart is the best sanctuary a soul can find in time of distress and in the day of death. A leaky ship looks as well as a sound one in a calm, but sinks in a storm.

Poetic Selections.
LET US GIVE THANKS,

LET us give thanks; the day is breaking,

The tide of life is in our hearts,
And blessings of our Father's making

Gather around, and care departs.

Let us give thanks to Him who renders

The highlands beautiful with bloom;

Gives music to the brook that wanders

Amid the forests' wondrous gloom.

Let us give thanks to Him who streweth

With dazzling snow these blooming banks, And when the wild wind loudly bloweth And the storms rage-let us give thanks. He in whose hands thy fate is holden,

He to whose throne thy prayers arise, Hath made thy life a pathway golden With rainbows set amid the skies.

O! when around thy flashing ingle

Gather at night thy household band, Let gratitude with gladness mingle,

Let prayer and peace go hand in hand. Let us give thanks! So full of blessings So shadowless have been the heavens, Has been this pilgrimage of ours, Our upward path is bright with flowers!