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When Santa Claus Forgets!
Drawn for The Bee by Windsor Mckay
Power of Will to
Subdue Alcoholism
t'opyrtsht. 116, Intern I New Hervloo.
Many Men Who Have
Redeemed Selves Have
Proved that Practically
Every Victim Can Eg
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By DR. CHAKLE H. PARKHUR8T
To any readers of thla page of The Bee
who may chance to be victims of the
alcoholic habit I want to address half
a dosen paragraphs in regard to the will
'iiu in mtsiu w mo win iwwer cunsiu
cred as means of changing one's life and
its habits. The will Is a faculty that no
one can exactly describe, except thu It
is tremendously effective If we will let It
work. If a man Is a drunkard and doe
not want to give up drinking then he
won't But if he is a drunkard and does
want to give up drinking then he can.
There la much said about alcoholism
being a disease, and there Is truth in
that way of putting the matter. But be
cause It works disease in the body it
does not follow that It crushes the power
of the will, and it Is the wilt that is.
going to settle the matter, or that can
settle the matter If we will let it
There are too many cases that we all
know or hare read of where will has
successfully - crashed the drinking habit
to leave room for supposing that It has
not the power to do so. The trouble Is
not with the will, but with the failure to
use It
I was talking a few days ago with a
man whom I had been observing with
some Interest, and he told me his story.
He seemed to be nothing out of the ordi
nary, and yet had the appearanoe of
being a straight sort of fellow and
abounding In health and good spirits. It
eeems that from the age of about 18 until
he was over 90 he drank hard and pretty
steadily. He reduced himself to extreme
verty and was refused a cap of coffee
wvuav xia w" . v. uvv fj ivr ik
That experience gave him a sudden
sense of degradation and he said to him
self abruptly: "I am done with drink."
And he was. When he told me his story
he must have been 45. In the meantime
he told me ' he had not tasted ' a drop.
His face and general bearing Indicated
as much. He was telling the truth. All
those twelve years of whisky he had had
a will as good as anybody's, but had not
used It.
Another case that I waa once rery
familiar with was that at a younger
man who during most of ' the time for
thirty years was soaked with liquor. His
debauches, were fearful, sometimes con
tinuing for days. He considered his own
condition hopeless. It was recognised by
his friends that his will was conquered
end that he 'was sunk Into a condition
of slavery from which there was' ho
emancipation.
And yet his case had ' this peculiar
feature. He waa accustomed each year to
spend four or five months la the coun
try. .The people of the country town had
no knowledge of his habits. While there
he lived the life of a total abstainer. He
declaimed eloquently against the drink
habit; was active in closing saloons. The
pride hs took In being held in good repute
helped to keep him up. But immediately
he returned to his winter home, where
he was known as a drunkard, ha coi
lopeed and celebrated his return with a
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Santa Claus is not careless, but he is awfully busy and is likely to forget some folks who really should not be overlooked
It is on behalf of these The Bee is making its appeal for the deserving poor whose cases have been suggested by Mrs. Doane of
the Associated Charities. But any contribution to a fund for the help of those who otherwise will have no Christmas is money
well given, and The Bee is in favor of them all. It advocates the particular cases that it has mentioned to its readers because
they are specific instances of where practical assistance is actually needed. x
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How a Jealous Wife Robbed Husband's Mother '
debauch.
There waa nothing the matter with his
will. Ha oould have controlled himseil
it he had wanted to. These people should
not be babied and pitied because they
are helpless. They are not helpless. They
had rather drink than exercise the power,
the will-power, that God gave theat and
which it is wicked to disuse.
If many of those that have been the
worst Inebriates had not shown that
they oould stand erect and get the best
of the habit, when they choose to. we
might not speak so confidently. But as
it is, such cases disprove the whole
theory of helplessness.
For the purpose of Illustrating what a
tremendous thing the will Is. and what
it can accomplish against the most ad
verse circumstances, I want to relate a
story which may be some encourage
ment to whisky victims, although it has
nothing to do with whiskey. There Is a
fascinating little book, by the lata Wil
liam C. Prime, entitled, "Among the
Northern Hills." Mr. Prime was a great
lover of New England and, as a man
fond of the line and the fly, he had made
Wmself familiar with all the trout
brooks of the region and with the house
holders that lived along their borders.
in this wav he picked up no end of
incidents, some of them funny, some ot
them pathetic, but ell exceedingly read
able. Among others was one that had to
do with an old lady and her son. She not
i in New England, but was full
t thm. New England spiru. ana m.
spirit Included, among other things.
will that was solid as adamant and as
forceful as a catapult It should bo
premised that as to her son. she was not
fond of him, the reason lor wnicn m
htry does not explain,
Bhe lived upon a large farm and was
in control of its affairs and supposed
that the farm was her own. Bhe had
been mistress of It for so long a tlmo
that a misunderstanding In regard to
actual legal ownership oould easily have
arisen. The time came, however, for the
old lady to die; at least her condition
pointed very manifestly in that direction.
The change came upon her suddenly.
The doctor came post haste and the
lawyer followed In his wake, having been
summoned for testamentary purposes.
"Ksquire," she sold, "I am going to die
and I want to make my will, disposing of
this farm."
"Madame," be replied, "the farm la
not yours. You have simply held it in
trust under terms of a will that requires
that on your decease it should pass Into
hands of your son."
"Esquire, do you mean that if I die
this property is going to belong to my
Certslnly." said the lawyer.
Well, then," said she, "I am not
(joins w
Whereupon she gathered herself up,
strode across the room, got well and
lived for fifteen years, surviving her son
ly four yesrs. That la what the human
will means when it is used and not dis
'.urded. .. '"
By DOROTHY MX
Do you remember that story of O.
Henry's in which he tells of the man
who dreamed that he died and went up
before the Great Judge to receive his
sentence? Just as he was about to be
given a through ticket to Gehenna he
observed that he was being sent down
with a bunch of fat, prosperous looking
devils, and he Inquired who they were.
"Why," replied the Recording Angel,
they are the men who hired working
girls and paid them $6 or W a week to
live on. Do you belong with them?
"Not on your immortality," cried out
the Lost Soul, "I'm only the fellow that
set fire to an orphan asylum and mur
dered a blind man for his pennies!"
A good story, that. It gives you some
thing to think about. There are crimes
committed by perfectly respectable,
smug, complacent people that make you
feel that you would rather take your
place with thugs and murderers on the
judgment day than with them. For in
stance, listen to this little episode from
real life, which I assure you is absolutely
true, every word of It:
About thirty years ago a man died,
leaving a very young wife and a little
boy baby only 4 months old. He had
paid for the little home In tne small
town In which they lived, but that was j
all that he left to his widow and his son.
People wondered how they would get
along. They said that she could sell the
house for S3.000 or ti.Ouo. and that would
keep them for a while, but after that was
gone heaven knew how they would live.
But the little widow did not sell her
home. She was a simple, domestic woman
who had never been trained to any trade
and had little education, but she had the
Inspiration that comes from a great love
and an absorbing purpose, so she rolled
up her sleeves and went to work.
She took in sewing plain sewing, that
pays a beggarly wage in rural communi
ties. She baked cakes and sold them.
She went out slck-nurslng. She sold
vegetables out of her garden. She stewed
over a hot stove all summer putting up
preserves for other people. She worked
eighteen hours a day at anything and
everything that would earn a penny. She
denied herself everything except the bare
sustenance that would keep soul and body
together.
She kept her little home for her child.
She kept her boy fat and well. She
put him through the grammar school and
high school and college by some miracle
of financing, and she had her reward
in seeing her son grow up Into a splen
did young man, who repaid her affection
I in kind, for the mother and eon were
chums and compsntons.
The young man went out Into the
world to seek his fortune. We got a
position in a thriving manufactory, n
which he made good, and after a bit
he was given an opportunity to buy
some stock in it. To enable him to do
this the mother sold the little house that
she had protected with her very heart's
blood and gave him the money to invest
in It. It was her ail, the pittance that
stood between her and the poorhoutie.
but she gave him her money as freely
aa she had given him her life.
Everything prospered. The investment
j proved a good one. The son was kind
and attentive to his mother, and it
seemed that she was going to be re
warded for all of her sacrifices. Then
the inevitable woman came Into the son's
life.
Oh, no. She wasn't a bad woman with
a dark and lurid past. The son dldn t
fall into the tolls of any siren. He be
came engaged to a perfectly respectable
woman, in a perfectly respectable way,
and they were married and had a beau
tiful church wedding. For the bride was
a religious young person much given to
social service work and convinced that
she had a mission to uplift the world.
But she was jealous of the poor old
mother. She resented her husband's af
fection for his mother and his considera
tion for her. She felt that every penny
that he gave his mother was robbing
her Just that much. She made life a hell
on earth for the unfortunate old woman,
and at last forced her to leave her son's
roof, '
The old women lives In a bearding
house' now, a forlorn old creature, with
nothing to do and nowhere to go, be
cause her life had boen bound up In her
son so long that she has no separate
existence. Her son even visits her by
stealth, so afraid Is he of his wife, and
she speaks of the "burden" that their
mother-in-law is to them. They could
keep a car if John didn't have to support
his mother. I
Khe has even taught her little children
to look with contempt upon their grand
mother. And she justifies her conduct by ;
raying that the old must give way to
the young. It Is the law of nature, she
says, and the old mother accepts It with- 1
out question, because she is mother to
the laat, and willing to efface herself If
It will make things easier for her bey-
That Is the story of a woman who has
deliberately separated a mother from her
son, robbed years of sacrifice of their
just reward and broken an old woman's
heart.
The old woman told me this story very
simply, her sunken mouth working plte
ously, and as I looked at her work
knotted hands snd bent, old shoulders
and thought of all that she had endured,
I remembered O. Henry's story .and I
thought that at the judgment (lay 1
would rather cast In my lot with the out
casts than with those daughters-in-law
who have turned their husbands' old
mothers out of doors or come between
a mother and her son.
Our Worth in the World
Itj BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"So long as we love we serve; so
long as we are loved by some one, I
would almost say that we are Indispen
sable; and no man is useless while he
has a friend." Robert Louis Stevenson.
"There isn't any place for me in life.
Nobody wants me," a sad little girl I
know sighs over and over. To her mere
living is a desperate burden that she
is hardly willing to carry. To her and
all the other morbid souls who Cannot
find a place for themselves in the scheme
of existence I want to talk today.
"So long as we love we serve," and
the beloved "R. U. 8.," whose own ban
dicap tf desperate ill health did not pre
vent lilin from leaving the world books
which are a veritable anthology of cheer
fulness. If there seems to be no place for you
In life, isn't It because you are failing
to give out to life any affection? The
girl of whom I speak looks upon men
aa ravening wild beasts. Her attitude
toward the whole scheme of existence is
one of criticism. She sees nothing any
where to I'.ka or admire or approve.
If slie meets some one who Is kind and
unselfish she tersUts In regarding that
person as a strange exception to the
general ruU. Within herself she has
created a world that does not know
kindness or love or unselfishness. And
having created that world she lives In it
without trying to give anything of help or
faith.
She persists in regarding herself as
an unhappy and lonely creature and
this in spite of the fsct thst she pos
sesses one friend whom she noi she
can trust, one friend who is loyal and
kind, one friend for whom she feels
affection and in whom she can place
faith
It never occurs to her morbid little
soul that she owes something to that
friendship, that because someone worth
while ,aies for her aha has even at the
moment of her greatest unhspplness a
place In life, and that she Is of use to
the world. In fact and In potentiality, be
cause she has the friendship of a fine
and admirable soul.
Every human being has a definite place
in the scheme of things. It may be tiny
for always, but at least it Is a place;
no one else can fill It, and the Individual
who is to put into it Is a link In a chsin.
Just being alive carries with It a cer
tain responsibility. How does any of us
know that any other human oelng can
do the work we find to hand? How does
any of us know that anyone else can do
the work we shirk In the mere fact that
we fall to look for it?
None of us can look ahead so much as
an hour; none of us knows what tomor
row wUl bring. It is possible that just
by being at a given place at a certain
time we may prove ot inestimable value
In the scheme of things but more than
this we all owe to life a state o( "pre
paredness." To educate yourself so that
you may be of service to the world In
general and of value to those who care
for you is a part of your duty.
Even though you feel friendless and
unnecessary in the scheme of things you
have no guarantee that the state of af
fairs Is going to last in a world of
change. How then dare you throw away
your chance to make ready to be ot
value to life? '
Being of service to the world Is In It
self valuable. It Is the responsibility of
life. No one has a right to sit around
and think how miserable and lonely and
unhappy and abused he or she Is with
out recognising the fact that there are
plenty of people In like state. And If
they are, any one who can think must
figure out her responsibility to help
other unhappy souls.
Life Isn't a thing to run away from;
It is a thing to meet with outstretched
hands of service. Into those hands
talks shall be put and In the fulfilling
of them lies more than mere usefulness
to life duty, to yourself and a chance
to make a place for yourself la the
world.
At the Rexall Drug Stores You're
Sure of Getting What You Want
Largest stocks of the world's best-known and most popular Drugs, Medicines, Toilet
Preparations and Sundries make it certain that you will find what you want here. Buying
in tremendous quantities and always keeping quality at tlio highest enables these stores to
offer values .that give your money the greatest purchasing power. The prices tell the story.
IMPORTED PERFUMES
Our store in the place to find the choicest se
of Perfumes the kind you are sure about.
Coty IOrlgan Ex
tract, bottle
Coty Muguet Ex
tract, bottle
Coty Jacqueminot
ox Pourpe Eau da
Toilette, per bottle.
Crown Perfumery
Co., London, Crab
apple Extract, per
bottle, 76e and ....
Houhlgant'a. Paris,
Ideal Perfume, in
-ox. cut glass
bottles
Houblgant's Coeur
le Jeannette. per os
K e r k o f f Parts,
lJer Kiss Extract,
$1.60, a.60 and ...
$3.00
$2.50
$4.75
$1.25
$4.90
$2.00
$3.00
Kerkoff Toilet
Water, per bottle.,
Roger Gullet's
choicest Extracts,
In 1 and !-os. bot
tles, each, at 11.00,
1.05 and
Atkinson, London,
White Rose Ex.
tract, os
Maubnrt's Ktiuge
rie imperlalr, os.,..
Houquet Laureco,
per os.
HI gaud'
Harden
tier os. . .
K 1 g a u d '
s Mary
Extract,
I. lias
s
Extract, per "....
LeQrand's, Paris,
Violet Olixa, bottle..
lection
$1.00
$2.00
75c
$1.50
$1.00
$2.00
$2.00
$1.50
Smokeri, Remember
Saturday in
OUR CIGAR DEPT.
. 50
'25c
,10c
fa R.V
WW
$1.65
10c
$1.65
$1.35
10o Tom Moor
for
10c Cubanolds,
for
ISc Reynaido Orandl
osos, eaoh ,
Kox of ten lta ouallt
foil wrapped Manl
cigars ror
(0 Henry Oeorge
for
5c Reynaldoa,
3 for
Box of SO Little
Toms fur
Box of 6b Manila
Regalias for
ODO-ao-iro
Dalaty Toilet Uaold fol
removing all body
edjrs, boo, too and.
CHOICE FRESH
CANDIES
I -lb. box Trlola "JO
Bweets for
1-lb. box Calvin's Ripe QQi,
I'lneapple Chocolates.,
1-lb. box Guth's De 3QC
Luxe Caramels for . . .
IJggett's Elect Choco
lates (every piece
containing a nut.
fruit or nougat cen- RQc
ler), lb
ralnty Putca De- 2(Vj
Sights, H-lb
lb 000
Llrgetfs Butter and
Milk Bittersweet, per AQn
H-lb
I I lb
LlKgott'a Fruit Cordis RQc
Chocolates, ft lb. . . . " "
I lb tl-00
We sell the original
Harr's ) "Saturday
Candy." fresh every 29C
Saturday, 1-lb..
RUBBER GOODS
We buy our Rubber Goods
direct from factories and
can guarantee same to be In
prime condition.
Nearly 1.000 article
In the Rubber Gooda
line. We have skilled
salesmen and salesladies
and fitters In our Rubber
Goods, Truss and Shoul
der Brace Department.
Some of them have done
tbla work for us for 12 to
IB years.
SSo Yellow boa Fropby.
Uotto Tooth 19c
Brush, for
DRUG STORE GOODS
tKc Alcock's Porous
I'laaters , ...
Mroino Seltser,
lie, ate and
2&c Carter's Little
Liver Pills
On Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin
SOc Doan's Kidney
Pills
father John's
Medicine
Fellows' Syrup
for
II. !(S Oude's Pepto .
Mangan
20c Hill's Cascara '
Wulnlne
Horllck's Malted Milk,
Uo and
II 00 llyomel,
complete
,12c
79c
12c
,29c
,34c
34c
"84c
.93c
14c
'69c
89c
Palmolive or Jap
n se Boap, Ratax.
aay, per cake ......
6c
I. Uterine.
18o, lo, 3M and ......
Melltn's Food,
30 and ,
36o Mennen's Talcum
(4 shades), for
Mentholetura
0o Papa's I)ia- Onn
pepsin
:4c Packer's Tar
Soap
1.00 Plnkham's
Compound
60c Pebeco Tooth
Paste ,
11.00 Plnaud's Lllaa
Vegetal
Sal H pat Ice,
Jo. S4o and
60a Syrup of
Figs
SOc Scott's Emul
sion 26c TIs, for tender
feet
59c
64c
12c
14c
14c
64c
34c
59c
64c
34c
34c
14c
TOILET GOODS
Prices for Saturday
EOc Poinpeian Massage Oft,
Cream
60c bottle Day 0v
Rum iIC
6 rakes Ivory or Wool 1QC
KnA
14c
29c
29c
29c
tOc Melba Cold Creams OQq
and Powders for
IBc Ranltol Tooth
Powder
60c Malvlna
lire am
60o Java Rloe Pow
der for
60c Rlcksecker's Cold
Cream
PURE DRUGS, Fresh
CoDneraa or Sdlnhur.
Ver lb
lorlc Acid,
lb
Witch Hasel.
pint
Wood Alcohol.
int
Illnkle Tablets,
100 for
Quinine Capsules,
1 dosen
Arom Castor Oil
(Honey-Ol
100 Hlaud's Iron Tonlo
Tablets
I dosen Asperln Tab
lets or Capsules for . .
lOe hlaola, Satmraay
per bos
5c
24c
15c
15c
19c
25c
25c
29c
35o
5c
This Atomise $1.00 An atomiser that
does not work isn't worth anything".
this cut Is simple In
mechanism and doesn't
get out of repair easily.
We sell dosens
ot kinds for med
icine and per-
El
Jn Th n iik
1 y
fumes;
SSo to
. .$3
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