Prosperity's Friends

One of the bardest trials of those who fall froni affluence and honor to poverty and obscurity, is the discovei'y that the attachuient of so many iii whom they confided, was a pretencc, a mask, to gain their own ends, was a miserable shallowness. Sometimos, doubt'ess, it is with regret thitt these frivolous followers of tho world desert those upon whom thoy havo Etiwned ; but they soon forgetthem. Flies leave the kitchen when the dishes are empt}7. The parasites that cluster arouud the favorito of iortuno, to gatber his gifts and climb by his aid, lingor by the snnshine, but scattor at the approach of a storm, as leavos cling to a tree in eummer weather, but drop off at the breath of winter, and leave it naked to the stinging blast. Like ravens settled for a banquet, and siuldenly scared by a noiae, how quickly at the h'rst sound of calairiity, these uperficial earthlinga are raerc specks on the horizon ! But a true friend site in tho centro, and is for all times. Our nood only reve'ais hitn tnore fully, and biuds hini more closely to us. Prosperity and adversity ai e both rovealers, the dilleí-erfce being that in tha fórraer our f rienda know us, and in tho latter we kuow them. But notA-ithstunding the insincority and greediness prevalent among men, there is a vast deal moro oi esteem and fellow yearning than is evei oulwardly shovvn. There are more exainplos of unadulterated. attection, more doods of uilent lóveand magnauirnity, than is usually suppo-ed. Om; misfortunes bring to our nides real fWend; before utiknovvn. I)(!iH;v(}lent impulses, wherö we should BOt expeot the.n, in modest privacy, enaot many a seene of beautil'ul wonder amidst a plaudit of angels. - North American Review. "Is that clock right over there?" I a&ked a visitor the olhor day. " Kight over there?" said a boy; " 'taint uo hora eku,"