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10 Our dead —I cannot call them so, The loved ones gone before — A fuller life than this they know Beyond the shadowy shore. The Implements of earthly toil Their hands have la'd aside, To wield far mightier forces In the realms where they abide. Their eyes behold the glory of The Lamb upon the Throne; They catch the echo of His praise* And it rings from zone to zone. FLATTERY SOME OF THE PHASES OF FALSE SENTIMENT Araminta and Rosamonda—The Fol lowers of Beauty and Wealth —Evil Effect of Flattery at Home. Few people are proof against flat tery, however broadly administered, and more have been ruined by this than on the one hand have been chill ed by unsympathetic snubbing, on the other heartened up to brave endeavor by timely praise. Indeed there is just this difference between the two de grees of praise and flattery, that whereas the former does thus hearten up to brave and ever braver endeavor, the latter checks self-culture and de stroys future progress by making you believe in attainment. According to the flatterer, the goal has been won and the great plateau of perfection reached. There are no more dreary distances to traverse, no more rugged mountain sides to climb. The place of “Rest and Be Thankful” has been gained, and all that is needed now Is to enjoy what you have and be grate ful and glad fer what you are. Like too many sweets, flattery ruins the digest' - on and spoils (the taste foT plainer and more wholesome food. No one accustomed to it can take even exhortat’en with a good grace; while rebuke is an impertinence to be re ceived as an insult and rejected as a falsehood. Money and Beauty Men with money, and women with beauty, are the two classes who are treated with the largest and most perilous amount of flattery. Where the calf is fa.t pick’ngs abound, and Larazus is glad of the crumbs which fall to the ground when Dives cuts the loaf. Lavish expenditure is to be accompanied by a crowd of flat- COULD NOT WRITE. Versailles, Ky.—Mrs. Elisha Green, of th's place, says “I could not write all the different pains I had when I first tried Cardui. I could scarcely walk. Now I am able to run the sew ing machine and do my work; and my neighbors tell me the medicine must be good, for I look so much bet ter.” Cardui is a specific, pain-reliev ing, tonic remedy, for women. In the past s*o years it has been found to re lieve women’s unnecessary pains and female misery, for which over a mil lion suffering women have successfully used It. Try Cardui for your troubles. It will help you. At the searest drug store. THE HOUSEHOLD A DEPARTMENT OF EXPRESSION FOR THOSE WHO FEEL AND THINK. OUR DEAD They know their dark Gethsemane — Those dearly loved of ours; But bravely strove to hide their cross Beneath Life’s fairest flowers. Now, methinks, the Lethian waters Have borne their tr'als away, And the sunlight of His Presence Banished earth clouds dark and gray. And the joys of eternal, In the heaverly mansions fair, Throughout the unending ages. With our Saviour dear, they share. THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF SEPT. 11 terers, as crows follow the plough man’s furrow; for where much flows out something is to be caught, and pleasure, at least, is to be had from association with moneyed men who spend freely, if a practical share in the spoil itself is not to be got at. Wherefore, flatterers gather around the rich man as mites multiply in the cheese, and too often he finds that— When the means are gone that bring this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. The only way in which can be tested the sincerity of those who flatter him now as if he were a god is by the loss of the money which attracts them. And if Timon of Ath ens speaks tme the loss would be a blessed one, so Who’d be so mock’d with glory? or to love But in a dream of friendship? To have a pomp, and all what state compounds, But only painted like his varnished friend? A Spoiled Child No sooner aoes a pretty, fresh young inai*e her appearance in society man <uu conspire to natter ner and rob ner 01 me very charm tney praise. Now she is uneonsc.ous, de void of vanity, considerate for others, without egotism or self-seeking; in a short time sue will be made the ex act conti ary of this. She will have have been flattered into self-con sciousness, which is the first step to van.ty; and that very quality of her alertness will be lost in the cloud of incense burnt to celebrate its charm. She will have learned that she has fine eyes, and every look, every ex pression will have been chronicled and detailed; she will hear that she has fine hair, and she will learn its exact shade in the sun and the depth of its lustre in the shadow; and she will be told of her creamy skin, of her orettv mcv’th. of her graceful fig ure, of her pweetT><»eg and mpld°p.li ness and simplicity and modestv. .And the consequence of all this wMI he that c he vMll her 1co Ij -r *nd v>nr g«d her at prjooq t ? f rneft f\P so !«*t. a~d eho baiwymee or a Creature Os art as if she were a paid actress on the boards. She will spend hours in arranging her hair so as best to show its curl, its sheen, its length, its thickness. Before this time she had dressed it s'mply, by which all its beauties were half revealed, half con cealed; that beauty withourt lnten t'on, which is the most beautiful thing of all. She will spend hours- in learning this trick of her head, that act'on of her hands; this way of standing and that way of setting; and here again she will lose all the grace of simplicity which first attracted to her the baleful crowd of flatterers who have destroyed what they so dis astrously belauded. Flattery at Home It is not only from the world with out that we gather the sweet poison of flattery. We get quite enough at times at home, and are taught to be lieve that we are unique in our graces. The brothers or affectionate sisters are the cleverest and hand somest and most promising of all the golden youth of England; the sisters to each other are the most beautiful and most accomplished. Lina’s draw ings are perfection; Nina’s voice would be finer than Patti’s were she to sing at Covent Garden; Mao’s music is as good as Halle’s; no one dances so well as Fay; L’lly has the most splendid hair that can be seen out of a show; and Milly has eyes that would make the fortune of one whose face was to be her fortune, should chances to throw her into the way of King Cophetua. So of all they do and are —their work, their play, their tempers, their brains. Only when they get out into the world and measure themselves against others do they learn truly what their own dimensions really are. The loving flattery of home has made them bigger and h ! gher in every way, and the waking to the bare truth is sometimes painful enough. But, bad as is all this flat tery from the outside, that wh : ch we give to ourselves is the worst of all. “L’amour propre est le plus grand de tons es flatteurs,” says Rochelou cault, and the Frenchman was rght. If we were flatterded every day in the week, aa.d yet did not accept as true what we were told, it would do us no harm; but when we beam to flatter ourselves we have tumbled in to the pit, and getfng out again is the difficult problem, which not all of us are able to master. We have to be somewhat severely handled before we can say that we have learnt our lesson —of how to walk in safety, free of flattery end its lures, and how to avoid the p’tfalls of vanity resulting therefrom. —London Que*n. A sad story is told by a Pennsylva nia man of a lad In his town who, like many another boy, has been obliged to wear the cast-off clothing of his father. One afternoon this lad was discov ered in tears. “What’s the trouble, my boy?” asked the man who tell* the story. “Why,” explained the youngster be tween sobs, “pop has gone and shaved his face clean, and now I s’pose I’ll have to wear all them red whiskers.” —Harper’s. NO JOKE. 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