Show WHAT HAT WAS oAS IT TO hill lIDI A man in years ears beard a a. little white steps a little faltering swept tho the street As he lie pushed the refuse down the tho gutter he came to a place where the cement sidewalk hardly reached to the curbstone It looked as If It the tho sidewalk had been there thero when the tho curbing was put In And In the little space old papers had collected As R the street sweeper came to them he picked them up and put them In the gutter gutter and and swept on It really wasn't an any of ot his work Nothing was more clear than that theman the tha thaman theman man picked up those scraps of or paper r simply because he was thorough in hi his liIs work He was was and and will be he till ho lie hodies dies conscientious Looking at him one might wonder what is tho the good of ot It It Yh Why not do Just so o much of oC your our task as ns you are compelled to do o One might sermonize on the answer It Is worth something to a man to be thorough and conscientious even If It he lie doesn't get rich And people who sweep streets are arc not rich If It tho thoy were were thc they would bo ho doing s something methin else whether or not it paid paM This man is poor That is evident b by his occupation He has been thor thor- ought ouCh and conscientious all his life If It I not he lie would not ha hale ha e taken talen up those thoc scraps of paper Just outside the tho limits of oC his dut duty And life lire has been been In In large m measure a asuro-a a failure to him His age unrequited shows that But he lie impressed a waiting man with his virtues Maybe Mabe the they havo have not brou brought ht riches and honors to the old oM man They brought a lesson to tho those e who watched with seeing eyes cef That Is something It was remarked b by others and Impre Impressed ed them Life Lite is 18 not a failure and virtue 1 is 19 not a delusion d even cven when thc they do not bring riches and rewards for tor they never fail tall to Impress lessons that are arc worth the learning |