--- 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: 8 number: 8 published: 1905-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Man and Tools," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 8 (June 1905): 575.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0808unse 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: improvementera0808unse start_page: 575 end_page: 575 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0808unse publication_year: 1905 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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Man and Tools — CAREER OF A UTAH SONG BIRD. 575 the meetings of the Saints. An insight into her faith as a child, and a trait of her character as well, is revealed by an occurrence that took place at the time of the Tabernacle Eistedfodd, already referred to. President George Q. Cannon, who was always one of her warm said to her, "Lulu, I understand you and all friends, your little companions fasted and prayed that you might win the prize." The child paused a moment, and then replied, "I did not fast and pray that I might win the prize —but only that I might do the very oest I could." Those who have known her from childhood up, know that these words form the key note of Emma Lucy Gates' character and life. To do the best that in her lies, to strive with all her heart, mind and strength, to toil, toil, toil, never permitting a doubt to creep into her soul, always cheerful, ever scattering the sunshine in her own soul along the paths of others, such are her characteristics, her mottoes and her guiding principles through life. With such lamps to light her pathway, who can doubt that she will attain to the goal for which she has so faithfully striven? Salt Lake City, Utah. MAN AND TOOLS. "But on the whole, man is a tool-using animal. Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis,at most for the flattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadows tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use tools, can devise tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Sartor Eesartus.