The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-25
NOTHING USELESS.


The Importance OF Finding the Right Place
For Things We DO Not Need.
A visitor to Western Pennsylvania,
while admiring the glowing fires in a
house warmed by the natural gas.
stopped to discover what the substance
was which filed 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.
Eyes" replied the mill owner; ''bus
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 place for the scraps and the
dust. The debris Of every tradesman's
work goes to help another with his
task. Even the offal is turned to sweet
and wholesome uses.
Gather up the fragments that re-
main. said He who created q world.
'that nothing be lost"
A few years ago u good woman in
one of our cities was vexed to see how
many magazines were thrown into the
waste-paper basket in her home. She
collected them. assorted them, and sent
them TO a lonely life-saving station on
the Now Jersey sea-beach. When she
died. a friend who loved her continued
the work in her name, and the system
has been extended until every station
Oh 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. man Of
scholarship and intellectual tastes. liv-
ing in cabin and fighting of starva-
ton with q salary Of two hundred dol
lars a 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 go to bed happy. thanking
God that there was 80 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
rlch mans child throws his toys into
the fire. and on the next street q little
cripple lies on his bed in the garrett.
with not rag doll to bear him con-
pany. In this house q woman, upon
whose musical training fortune has
been spent. is miserable with ennni.
and across the way is hospital for En-
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 idleness, 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 i'll our
houses or in our lives for which God
has a USE Youths Cosapanion