women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with portraits. Andrew Jenson, assistant Church historian, has written or compiled the sketches which include the names of many of the pioneers of the state whose worthy deeds the book is intended to perpetuate. As a work of reference it is extremely valuable. Many of the sketches are carefully written, and are really character sketches, the subjects being mostly men and women who have become prominent in the Church as general officers, bishops, presidents of stakes, counsellors to bishops, leading elders, seventies, patriarchs, Sabbath school superintendents, officers of Mutual Improvement associations and others. This is undoubtedly one of the most valuable works that have yet been compiled by Elder Jenson, whose "Historical Record," and "Church Chronology" are well known in the literature of the Church.

Christian and Mormon Doctrine, by Charles Ellis, is a little pamphlet of thirty-eight pages defining the differences between Christian and "Mormon" doctrines pertaining to God, the origin and destiny of man, future life, eternal torments, endless progress, etc. Charles Ellis is a well-known free religionist, and in this pamphlet has set forth with great plainness the Christian conception of God, and the origin and destiny of man, as well as the repugnant doctrine of eternal torment. He maintains that the horrors preached by early Christianity on the torments of hell, are still believed in, and that they came through a false conception of man's origin, purpose and destiny; and he makes very clear that the mission of “Mormonism," is to restore the religion of Jesus of Nazareth, and to bring back the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God unto the hearts and homes of men. He has succeeded in defining the position and purpose of the Latter-day Saints very well, and the pamphlet is one that will be read with deep interest.-Charles Ellis, Salt Lake City, Utah. Price ten cents.

John T. Miller, is the author of a discussion of Educational Problems, a treatise concerning moral purity, religious training, physical education, prevention of disease, and the rational method of cure, including an essay on stimulants and narcotics. This treatise is attached to Child Culture, a book of seventy-seven pages treating on the laws of physiological phrenology and mental suggestion, by N. N. Riddell, Ph. D., who is also the author of a little book entitled A Plain Talk to Boys. These books will doubtless do much good wherever they are read. The contents of Educational Problems, written in simple but plain language, are more to be commended than the typographical execution of the books which is very indifferent. Published by Human Culture Publishing Co., 251 East 3rd South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Child Culture and Educational Problems, bound together, fifty cents. Plain talks to Boys, ten cents.

NOTES.

Character is the one thing whose foundations go down to the world's granite; and when to character we add culture, we come into an inheritance more durable than time, and richer than the kingdoms of this world.-Edwin Markham.

And in reviewing the lives of the great, we can only say that failure is the selection and emphasis of secondary and important things in life, and that success is the skill in selecting the essential and converting one's offices and honors upward into character and service that abide and are really worth while.-Dr. Hillis.

To be able to throw the searchlight of a superb personality before us, wherever we go through life, and to leave a trail of sunshine and blessing behind us; to be loved because we scatter flowers of good cheer, wherever we move, is an infinitely greater achievement-a grander work-than to pile up millions of cold, unsympathetic, mean, hard dollars. Success.

And after all it is the people that constitute a State. Let me quote a few lines on that subject:

What constitutes a State?

Not high-raised battlements or labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate,

Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned,
Not bays and broad-armed ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;

Not starred and spangled courts,

Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride.

No! Men, high-minded men,

With powers as far above dull brutes endued,

In forest, brake, or glen,

As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude;

Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.

These constitute a State.-Hon. B. S. Rodey, N. M.

IN LIGHTER MOOD.

He: "My train goes in fifteen minutes. Can you not give me one ray of hope before I leave you forever?"

She; "Er-that clock is half an hour fast"-Brooklyn Life.

Papa: "See that spider, my boy, spinning his web. Is it not wonderful? Do you reflect that, try as he may, no man could spin that web?" Johnny: "What of it? See me spin this top! Do you reflect that, try as he may, no spider could spin this top."-Tit-Bits.

The following conversation took place in a certain well-known theological college:

"You are the greatest dunce I ever met with," said the professor. "Now, I don't believe that you could repeat to me two texts of Scripture correctly."

"Yes, I can."

"Well, do it."

The student, with much feeling and thoughtful consideration, said:
"He departed and went and hanged himself."

Here the student paused, and then continued:
"Go thou and do likewise."

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We laugh at Sam Walter Foss's humorous picture of the worrying man, yet how many of us make ourselves miserable over troubles just as farfetched as this:

"The sun's heat will give out in ten thousand years more,"

And he worried about it;

"It will sure give out then, if it doesn't before,"

And he worried about it;

It would surely give out, so the scientists said,

In all the scientific books that he read,

And the whole mighty universe then would be dead.
And he worried about it.

EVENTS OF THE MONTH.

BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF Y. M. M. I. A.

LOCAL.—April 22—President Roosevelt nominated William Grant Van Horne for judge of the Court of First Instance, Cairo, Egypt; also Joseph Lippman, of Salt Lake City, to be United States Attorney for Utah ...............Senator Rawlins, of Utah, opened the debate in the Senate on the Temporary Government Bill for the Philippine Islands..................................... Postoffice inspectors discover that Postmaster Charles Meighan of Ogden, is short in his accounts about two thousand six hundred dollars, and the office is turned over to his bondsmen.................24-Joseph Lippman was confirmed by the Senate as United States Attorney for Utah, to assume his duties May 1st........... .J. C. Jack has been appointed to the office of Superintendent of Saltair....................25-The Denver and Salt Lake Railway, Mining and Tunnel Company, capital $5,000,000, has been incorporated in Denver...............Postmaster Charles Meighan of Ogden was arrested, and his bail fixed at $2500, furnished by Dr. A. S. Condon and James Ballard..................Clyde Felt, charged with the murder of Samuel Collins, was released under $4,000 bonds............... The baseball season opened with games at Salt Lake and Ogden............27George Tristram, 79 years old, of Henefer, Summit Co., who came to Utah in 1866, died...............28-George W. Heintz, for many years assistant general passenger agent of the Rio Grande Western, Salt Lake, has resigned, and his office is abolished...............325 club women from New England passed through Salt Lake on their way to the annual convention at Los Angeles................................................29-The Omnibus Public Building Bill passed the House, having an appropriation of $125,000 for a public building in Ogden, and $100,000 for Evanston, Wyo.........................................30The Utah Club Women, delegates to the general federation of Women's Clubs, arrived at Los Angeles and were quartered at Hotel Angelus....................... At the state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Ogden, William M. Bostaph was elected commander...............................................A heavy

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rain passed over Salt Lake Valley, making the month's precipitation 1.46 inches above the average.

May 1-Senator Kearns arrives from Washington. He announces himself to be in favor of Roosevelt for President in 1904......................... Webb and Austin have sheared 80,000 sheep at Lehi................2-Geo. A. Smith was appointed executor of the will of the late Mrs. Matilda Moorehouse Barrett. She bequeaths $42,000 to Church institutions, in addition to $20,000 given to the Latter-day Saints' University......... It is announced that Ft. Douglas will be converted into a regimental post, and $740,000 is to be expended by the government in improvements.........3-Plans for the new Brigham Young Memorial building of the Latter-day Saints' University are completed by architect Don Carlos Young, and the foundation begun.................5-The Campbell Building company, Chicago, will be awarded the contract of building the United States Public Building, Salt Lake City, they being the lowest bidders$409,000, with thirty-six months to complete the building.........The trial of Peter Mortensen, charged with the murder of James K. Hay, is taken up, and the labor of impanneling a jury begun...................................... .6-Thomas H. Hilton, chief of police, resigned, and the mayor and city council nominated and confirmed Samuel Paul to succeed him as chief of police of Salt Lake City........... .David Keith purchases the Tenth Ward square for $45,000..... .........John F. Grant, oldest son of

Major F. A. Grant, just returned from Manila, died in Salt Lake City ....There were 56,030 pieces of baggage handled at the depot in Ogden in April; an increase of 12,753 over 1901...................................... .Mrs. W. A. Nelden was selected for a place on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Women's Clubs................. ...7-Senator Thomas Kearns and David Keith organize a great mining company of 1200 acres west of the Silver King property, in Park City.................................................Dr. Allen Fowler, 60 years of age, a well-known physician of Salt Lake, died..................... Samuel Paul took charge of the Police Department.................................... .9-The Federal Grand Jury at Ogden, returned an indictment against Postmaster Charles Meighan, charging embezzlement..........................The first battalion of the twelfth infantry arrived in Salt Lake and encamped in Ft. Douglas............ 11-The second annual reunion of the Christian Endeavor and Epworth League and Baptist Young People of this state opened at Ogden with an attendance of 500............ .....12-President C. D. Fjelsted departed from Logan on his way to Copenhagen, Denmark, to take part in the dedication of a new "Mormon" church in that country. Andrew Jenson will accompany him to publish a new edition of the Book of Mormon.............. The Ogden city council decides to pave Washington

avenue.