Show milto paper not wasted thero there is no such thing as waste paper said the junk dealer to a reporter hardly a scrap of white paper is wasted every lit bit of it that is thrown away is carefully gathered up and finds its way eventually to tho mill again to bo be made over the notebook in your hand may furnish material for the pages on which you will write a letter six months benco hence and perhaps a year later you will unknowingly find it incorporated in a summer novel with dekow covers thus the stock of paper that supplies tho world is used over aud and over again indefinitely through the medium of tho the scavengers the dealers in junk and tho the factories which are continually engaged in transforming the discarded material into fresh and clean sheets brown paper however is dil different because it is composed of nothing more valuable than straw it is mostly thrown away and never used again I 1 would not pay you twenty five cents for a ton toll of it A few years ago old newspapers were worth four cents a pound being made of rags now they are manufactured out of 0 wood pulp and straw and their market value is ollya only a quarter of a cent a pound office paper such as old bills and such scraps are worth tho the samo same price as newspapers while what we call office sweepings composed largely of envelopes are quoted at fifteen cents a hundredweight washington star |