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Show Ntttv ! An English nobleman who died recently re-cently was frequently sjxiken of among his fellows m being "too good for this earth." He was excessively absent minded when in society, and passed much of his time in solitudo and medita-I medita-I tion. "Ho was as pure aud unworldly," I says his biographer, "as a being of an-i an-i other sphere." Looking closely at his life, however, it apiiears, in spite of the large opportuni- . ties which his wealth ami rank gave him, to have been of littlo use or value , to his fellow men. Aspirations and : dreams, however high and noble, which never pass into words or actions do not weigh heavily in the world. When Prince Bismarck retired from public life a member of the Reichstag said, shrewdly: "The power of the prince fur irnnrl tr evil l.'iv in tlio iira -wliicli tin made of the present moment. He never worked for tomorrow, but for today." Probably the same criticism could be made upon every man who exerts a living liv-ing force upon his generation. Ho lives not to dream of the past, nor to hope for the future, but to work now. Youth'i I Companion. |