--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 2 number: 11 published: 1899-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Notes," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 11 (September 1899): 872.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera211unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera211unse start_page: 872 end_page: 872 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera211unse publication_year: 1899 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Notes NOTES. It is a characteristic of a great man that he has time. He is not in a hurry; he bosses his work, and does not permit it to control him. He always has strength in reserve. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. After all, of what use is this pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It can not promote health, nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. But what madness must it be to run in debt for superfluities! Think what you do when you run in debt: you give to another power over your liberty. Poor Richard. Elder Henry W. Naisbitt, under the heading. "Bread and Bread," re- plies pertinently to a writer in "Beerhom's Corn Trade List" who says that he saw in Bristol, specimens of the first cargo of Utah wheat ever brought to England; the shipment consisted of 13,000 quarters or 104,000 bushels, and combined the qualities of the California and East- ern States wheat, although quite unlike either; nevertheless it was counted a very useful wheat by Messrs. Humphries and Bobbit, who own the great roller mills in Bristol, and were partial purchasers of this special cargo. Elder Naisbitt remarks, in the Millennial Star, that in regard to this being the first cargo of Utah wheat ever imported into England, the writer is in error, for ever since Utah was connected with the west- ern coast, shipments have been made direct to London at least, via San Francisco, Septimus Sears, Esq., having many years ago come over here [England] as the agent of the Z. C. M. I. to dispose of immense quantities of wheat from that inland State. We think it is somewhat curious to observe that the people of that city of determined opposition (Bristol) should eat the "bread that perisheth," raised by a misunderstood and misrepresented people, and yet reject "the bread of life" presented gratis by its authorized agents, and ignorantly asking, as of old, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?"