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Show Value in Little Things. Kroin waalr paper alonr ona railroad last ear reallxed 60. Pin, pena nallf old brcom. hcttlr tin eans and worn-out marhlnerx .if nil rl ore gathered up alonr Hie route by the railway companlr and turnrd Into monci Ken thr ushec ars aold or utilized foi Improving; thr roadbed. These ililnp seem mall lo I onintand the al -tantlon of a rich railway company But It muni be leu.embereil thai the railway company I rlrh laiReix because n looks aflei the little t hint The greatest corporations In the world are not abjve taking care of the, fractions of pennies pen-nies The railway scrap-heap of the country last year reached the value of Sl.2eU.ox- gj molt respectable re-spectable mint of money notwithstanding It came from plcked-Up pins and pnper. old nails and old hroorr.s Wast forms one of the mos.? vital o.ueallons In econntnlca. not alone for railroads end blc manufacturing plants, hut for every household house-hold ft la Impossible, of COUrW for any ver creat sum to be reallr.ed It. the saving- of waste In a household And yet the usual wpste of nnv home la relatively far ureaier than that of a i ul li ,aA. We think It mean and miserly to look after the little thlnKS And for than reason more than for an)' other, human life la cursed with poverty and pauperism Therfl 1 ls mrannr In n poor man's v-Inr v-Inr a penny than In a r I h mun's savlna: rr.ll-llon rr.ll-llon ChleaB'. .lourtia! |