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Show I TO THE DERELICTS!, By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. WITH every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived, and buried deep All yesterdays; there let then sleep. Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host. Concern yourself with but Today ; Woo it, and teach it to obey Your wish and will ; since Time becran Today has been the friend of man. Rut in his blindness and his sorrow-He sorrow-He looks to yesterday and tomorrow. You and Today, a soul sublime And tho great pregnant hour of tunc; With God between to bind the twain, Go forth, I say. Attain, Attain! PASSrNO through our city parks in any of the large cities of America Is oftimes a painful experience to a sympathetic man or woman. Because of the human derelicts, washed ashore by the wa es of misfortune mis-fortune to be found in these places. It Is ln :be city parks on fre benrho8 where the unemployed and the poor oonvaJesoenti from the charity char-ity hospitals pass their time. The faces of these people four brothers and sisters') are Studies In the expre-;-I slons of melancholy, despair, worry, hatred and sorrow. There Is scarcely ;in emotion in the sad list of human f- eling which may not be seen upon some countenance In a walk through these parks on a bright sunny day The part alcohol plays in the lives of the human race Is too evident, here Bul Instead of lessening our sympathy sym-pathy this onh eads us to Question, what led or drove these poor creatures crea-tures to stimulants? Perhaps that old man vonder With the Intelligent faco, despite its rum-marred rum-marred condition, had worked faithfully faith-fully for some minor business house during a score or more years; and then the trust came iilong. and the minor business boiise was absorbedi and the ptnee this man had grown to think hip own by right of industry w.is given to the son or the son-iii-law of the trust owner. After that be tried to obtain employment em-ployment elsewhere and found '.hat every employer wanted a younger man. And slowly his courage and hope dlfd out of his heart : and one dav he took a stlmn'nnt. lust to brace himself him-self over a mood ol despondency. And now he sits C tho pink and w.ilts for the free coffee and bread hour. That woman with the red ii"se nnd hlearv eyes; on can se she was pretty fifteen years ago. low did tt all begin'.' With haul work and poor wages, and contemplation of the other women wom-en who rojo hr In their employer's carriage, perhaps. And with the Upd erstSOd Ing Of tho lungles and abysses to which the easy road to sin eads for S woman. After she found out drink gave her tho only forget fulness of her depravity. deprav-ity. If every one of these human wrecks stranded in the city parks knew the power thev havo In their own minds, tl ey could firing themselves out of Hell and enter Heaven. It would take time; it would require practice. It would necessitate patience. pa-tience. , Vet would not th result pav for the effort? Should this meet the eye of any suffering sml sittinc: in the park today, to-day, dwelling on miserable thoughts of failure and mistakes, of wrongs and InjuHthc. let him begin now and at once to try the experiment of building himself s Portable Heaven. Let him k ia i In memory to the best n ml happiest hours of his life. And let him think of himself as Just beginning life all over again Put away every unhappy and despairing recollect ion Bring to the surface of the memory mem-ory every bright and beautiful event. I Picture .ifc as it might be to bring happiness. Asl fi;r guidance and light, to find the way to materialize these pictures. j And let every moment of time not used In active efforts for self-support, he employed In these mental pictures of happiness, health, suc- cess and usefulness. Every such tneuthi Is a particle of i mind substance which goes Into the forming of a foundation for the Portable Port-able Heaven to lie enjoyed right hero on earth hv the persistent toller In the Invisible S'ou who have gone for months or years In the old way of worry and ibni-u and misery and failure must so, thai It is a road which lends you nowhere hut to deeper misery. It Is destructive mental power which vou are using. Turn now nnd try CON-BTRCCTfVIl CON-BTRCCTfVIl thought. It Is nol too lat- to build your Portable Heaven. If is not t. ,a'e for you to make n success of your life. Set to work In Che rgbt way; Trent" Tre-nt" what you doslro Th material Is yours if you wish t' employ It. Tl .wove- ."fv--'t vr.ur situation, however ho- t)eg m'r outlooK. do not waste one moment more in thinking think-ing upon your condition In that light. You havo eceofl pllehed nothing so faf by such thoughts However nr world Seems to you. put r'1 Spell des?Kirtlv thoughts awnv and v" i n i reconstruct recon-struct your llfo on a nW foundation. Once you set about it astonishing thins will happen. Not nt once, but arradnally will changes occur which seem today 1m- possible to you. . You are master of your own mind. Compel It, then, to think only the thoughts than can build you n heav-I heav-I en to earn- about with you wherever wher-ever VOU gO. Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven. I And all othci things shall bo addod I thereto. |