He liveth long who liveth well!
All else is being flung away.
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day.

Waste not thy being; back to Him
Who freely gave it, freely give;
Else is that being but a dream;
'Tis but to be, and not to live.

Be wise, and use thy wisdom well:
Who wisdom speaks, must live it too.
He is the wisest who can tell

How first he lived, then spoke, the true.

Be what thou seemest! live thy creed!
Hold up to earth the torch divine.
Be what thou prayest to be made:
Let the great Master's steps be thine.

Fill up each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go:
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.

Sow truth, if thou the true wouldst reap:
Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
Erect and sound thy conscience keep:
From hollow words and deeds refrain.

Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure.
Sow peace,
and reap its harvests bright.
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest-home of light.

WHAT A CHILD CAN DO.

It is one of the excellencies of our Christianity, that even a child may aid in its great mission of mercy for the salvation of the world. A company of men were pushing a boat into the water; but it stuck so fast they could not move it. "Another pound,” said one, " and it will go." "I can push a pound," answered a little boy. Upon the addition of his strength, the boat again moved, and soon floated on the water. But all these men could

not of themselves move the big vessel.

LITTLE WILLIE having hunted in all the corners for his shoes, at last appears to give them up, and climbing on a chair, betakes himself to a big book lying on the sidetable. Mother says to him, "What is darling doing with the book ?" "It'th the dictionary. Papa lookth in the dictionary for things, and I'm looking to see if I can find my shoes."

THE wildest of all wild animals, and the fiercest of all the fierce beasts of the forest, is the tiger. Unlike the elephant, the lion, the rhinoceros, or the buffalo, either of which in its most untamed state will seldom attack other animals or man, except when ravenous with hunger, the tiger seems to kill rather to please the malignity of its nature than to appease its natural appetite. And yet the tiger is the most beautiful of animals; its coat is the most glossy; it is marked by the finest colours; its form is elegant, its movements graceful, and its face attractive. But, like too many other things in nature-man, unfortunately, included-its handsome exterior but covers a black and vicious nature.

The stories told of its size and strength appear to be too often exaggerations. M. Buffon, the great French naturalist, for instance, gives an account, on the authority NOVEMBER, 1862.

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of one of his friends, of a tiger fifteen feet long. A far more probable length is that given by Goldsmith, of a tiger which he saw at the Tower, of six feet, which, allowing three feet more for the length of the tail, would make the entire length, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, nine feet. Another story told of it, illustrative of its strength, is, that a tiger, having drawn a live buffalo out of a quagmire and killed it, threw the carcase, weighing 1,000 lbs., over its shoulder and quietly walked off with it. When we consider that the weight here given is as great as that of two large bullocks, we are naturally led to the conclusion that the narrator was more anxious to bring out the marvellous than to adhere to plain truth in his stories. Nevertheless, the strength, size, and ferocity of this animal are enormous, and are perhaps only equalled by its swiftness and rapacity. The tiger is made for running, or perhaps more properly we should say, for springing, for its running is only a series of immense springs. So fleet is it, that it can overtake the fastest horseman, and seizing, tear him from his horse. The following anecdotes indicative of some of the characteristics of the tiger cannot fail to be interesting. The first, of a combat between three elephants and a tiger, is related by Father Taehard, who was an eye-witness of the fight, which took place at Siam by order of the King.

Three elephants were brought into an area about a hundred feet square. Their heads and a part of their trunks were covered with a kind of armour, which defended those parts from the assaults of the tiger with which they were to engage. A large tiger was then brought forward. It was not at first let loose, but held with cords, so that one of the elephants approaching, gave it three or four terrible blows on the back with its trunk with such force that the tiger was for some time stunned and lay without motion. However, as soon as it was let loose, although the first blows had already abated its fury, it made at the elephant with a loud shriek, and aimed at seizing its trunk; but the elephant, wrinkling it up with great dexterity, received the tiger on its great

teeth, and tossed it up into the air. This so discouraged the furious animal that it no more ventured to approach the elephant, but made several circuits round the palisade, often attempting to fly at the spectators. Shortly afterwards three more elephants were sent against it, and they continued to strike it so terribly with their trunks that it once more lay for dead, and would certainly have been killed had not a stop been put to the combat. The odds here were too much for the tiger.

The other story is of a fight between two tigers and a lion in the Tower of London. By some means the partition separating them had been left loose, and the animals found themselves face to face. How they glared upon each other we can easily imagine; but they did not glare long; the lion instantly erecting his mane, with a tremendous roar sprang at the tiger. The tiger, equally eager for the fight, flew at his assailant, and was at once seconded by his mate. The roaring and yelling resounded through the yards, and the noise was increased tenfold by the cries of the other animals. The lion fought most bravely, but was evidently overmatched, having to contend with two adversaries lately from the woods, while he had been seven years caged. Still the battle raged with doubtful success, until the tiger seized his adversary by the neck, threw him on the ground, and being quickly seconded by the tigress, succeeded in pinning the lion against the verandah. Here the lion struggled royally. But by this time iron rods had been heated, and by the assistance of the red-hot ends of these applied to the mouths of the combatants, they were at length parted. The tiger had lost one of his tusks, but the lion was severely punished. The battle lasted half an hour.

The tiger is found chiefly in the warmest provinces of the East; in Malabar, Siam, and in Bengal, it is common. Tigers are also found in parts of America.

It has been said that the tiger is incapable of being tamed; but this is not strictly correct, as several instances on record prove.