One's Friends

Money can buy itiany tümgs, ttood and evil. AU the wwrtttk ot the WÓrJd coi'Iil )' it lmv ytfa üfrifiiil, nor payyou Lor the loss of cue. "I have wanted ouly one thing to make me happy," Hazlitt writea ; "hut, wautiug thnt, havo wantod everything." And again : "My heart, shut up in the prison-house of rudé olay, has neveí found, uor will it ever find, a heart to sprak tor" Wa are the weakest of spendthrifts. if wo let one friend drop off through Luattention, et luionc push away anofcher ófr if we hold aloof from one for petty jealousy or heedleea slight or roughnesé. Would you throw awayadiainond.beoauso it pvicked you r - one good friorid is not to bc weiglied againai the jewols of all the earth. If there is coolness or ünkindnesa betweeri ns, let us come boa to face and have it out. Quiclc. before tfrowa cold ! "Life is too short to quiurel in," or to carry bl.ack thoughts of friends. If I was wrong, I Sin -mry : if you, then I am sorrier yet, for sliould I not grieve for my friend's misf rtune ? and the monding of your fault dons not lie with me. But the forgiving it does, and.th:it is tho happiei office. Crivü me your fiand and cali it even. There ! it is gonc ; and I thank a kind Heaven ■ I keep my friend still ! A friend is too precicus a thing to be lightly ht:ld, bat it must be a littlo hoart that cannot find room for moro than one or two. The kiadness I feel for you wiivms me toward all the' rest, niakes me long to do something to make you all liappy. It is easy to lose a frind, but new one will not come for :oalling, nor tuake up for tho oldone vrhen ho comes. - Lvppincottfs Magatme. r 1 is a Imndlo of para.doxes ; e go to it with reluctance, yet qxtii it with regret ; and we tnake np our minds svery night to leave it èJtrly, but wo mako up our bodics isyery moniing to keep it late. Do you likc oodflsh-balla, Mr. Wïgjin8?" ' I tcally don't know, miss; I cdn't rc ojlepi ever attending one," replied M. '""., hesitatingly. - Rome will so, n be fun;i-í;''l irith a, rlsüy pn er.