Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-24
NOTHING USELESS.
The Importance of Finding tho Right Place
For Things We DO Not Need.

The Importance of Finding tho Right Place
For Things We DO Not Need.
A visitor to Western Pennsylvania.
while admiring the glowing fires in II
house warmed by the natural gas.
stopped to discover what the substance
was which filled the CRATES and sent
forth such intense and radiant heat. He
found it to be broken cinders from the
gas-works in the neighborhoOd.
why this is the refuse which have
always seen carted into the river!' he
said.
yes" replied the mill owner; ''but
there is always use for refuse some
where. The great secret of this
worlds economy is to find the right
place for the waste"
Our French and Chinese kinsfolks
know this secret better than We do.
They find Il place for the scraps and the
dust. The debris of every tradesman' 5
work goes to help another with his
task. Even the offal is turned to sweet
and wholesome uses.
Gather up the fragments that re-
MAN," said He who created world.
''that nothing be lost"
A few years ago Il good woman in
one of our cities was veXed to see how
many magazines were thrown into the
wastc-paper basket in her home. She
collected them, assorted them, and sent
them TO a lonely life-saving station on
the New Jersey sea-beach. When she
died, friend who loved her continued
the work in her name, and the system
has been extended until every station
on the coast of the United States is
provided with little library of these
waste magazines for the use of the
crews in their solitary watches during
the long. stormy winters.
A missionary in Montana, a man Of
scholarship and intellectual tastes. li,-
ing in cabin and fighting off starva-
ton with a salary of two hundred dol
lars = year, once wrote: "A poor
family in New York send me their one
magazine and newspaper after they
have read them. They have been like
water to man dying with thirst. Many
time they have kept me from despair
IN this solitude. Iwould read them at
night. and 60 to bed happy. thanking
God that there was so much comfort
and pleasure in the world.
But the waste cinders are not always
thus put into the empty CRATE to throw
forth glowing. radiant heat. In almost
every house in our cities there are
heaps of books and periodicals which
have been read and destroyed as use
less. Throughout the West and South
there are tens Of thousands of poor
homes into which this waste matte
would bring light and happiness. The
rich mans child throws his toys Into
the ire, and on the next street little
cripple lies on his bed in the garnet.
with not rag doll to bear him con-
pany. In this house woman. upon
whose musical training fortune has
been spent, is miserable with ennui,
and across the way is hospital for in.
curables. watching their few remaining
days creep YEARLY away. A song or
strain of music every day would come
into their dull lives like air from
Heaven. Here is young girl en-.
dowed with education, fortune and
gentle. winning manners. spending
her years in absolute idieness, and in
the alley near her. in her own kitchen
it may be, is another girl, poor, ignor-
ant, eager. into whose empty mind and
soul the knowledge and time she is
wasting might bring strength and life.
Is there nothing lying waste in our
houses or in our lives for which God
has use.--T Youths Companion.