Vacation Philosophy—See Routine. Vacuity—See Oratory; Social Vanity. Valuation, Extravagant—See Mystery, Value of. VALUE IN RUBBISH The rubbish of New York City is worth about $200,000 a year. The city gathers and carries its rubbish to the scows at the river-*front. Then a contractor trims the scows and disposes of the litter. This operation costs him about $3,000 a week, or $500 each working day. For the privilege of handling the stuff, and winnowing it for goodly finds, the contractor, Celesto Di Maico, pays $1,750 a week, or $90,000 a year, to the city. This is $25,000 more than the previous contracts.—Collier's Weekly.
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VALUE OF ONE MAN
Of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, The Episcopal Recorder says:
In these days, when every millionaire
comes in for his share of just or unjust criticism,
it is refreshing to read the kindly comments
made on Thomas A. Edison and his
work. Mr. Edison is an enormously wealthy
man, but strange to say, we seldom think
of Edison and millions in the same moment.
The enormous force generated by this brilliant
man is seen in the fact that his inventions
and those which he has materially assisted
have given existence to industries capitalized
at more than $7,000,000,000, and earning
annually more than $1,000,000,000, while
they find employment for half a million people.
Even these stupendous figures do not cover
the facts, for no figures can begin to indicate
the value of the service Mr. Edison's inventions
have rendered to mankind. If we could
take out of every-day life those things that
owe their existence to his genius, there would
be quite a conspicuous gap, and Mr. Edison
has not finished yet. The impress of this
quiet man of sixty-three is possibly one of
the greatest ever made by any one. Certainly
his conquests of peace far surpass all the
conquests of war.
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Value Recognized—See Genius Can Not Be Hidden.
VALUE THROUGH CHRIST
A class of medical students were being
taken through the wards of a hospital. Their
professor was showing them some strange
case—a man who was a mere wreck, lying
upon his bed hopeless and helpless, a broken
fragment of humanity, a man who had
spoiled his chances, sold his soul and body.
The professor said in Latin, Fiat experimentum in corpore vili, "Let the experiment
be made upon a worthless body." But the
man was an old university man, and before
the days of his crash, he, too, knew Latin.
He arose in his bed and answered back, Pro hoc corpore vili Jesus Christus mortuus est,
"For this worthless body Jesus Christ has
died." And from every broken bit of the
wreckage of humanity, and from every bit
of your own soul's life that is wrecked and
broken, comes the same response to-day. God
knows that for this worthless body Jesus
Christ is on His cross still waiting to see of
the travail of His soul.—John Kelman.
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VALUES
Charles Wagner, in "The Gospel of Life," points a conclusion worth considering:
In finance, a figure is a figure. Two equal
numbers have the same value, and a hundred
dollars are twice fifty and twenty times as
much as five dollars. But when intentions
are involved, it is another matter; then the
value of the figures depends no longer upon
their size. This is what Jesus causes us to
observe. Beware of neglecting the little
pennies; there are pennies that are poems,
there are pennies that have a soul.
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VALUES IN QUESTION
Money talks just as loudly in the realm of
music as anywhere else. The despised violin,
which merely is an incumbrance when it is
thought to be worth not more than $10, becomes
the chief ornament of the household
when an expert says it is worth not less than
$1,000. In Chicago there is a business man
