--- 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: 9 published: 1905-07 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* 8, no. 9 (July 1905): 705–706.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0809unse 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: improvementera0809unse start_page: 705 end_page: 706 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0809unse 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. --- # Notes — EDITOR'S TABLE. 705 The name of the brother of Jared is Mahonri Moriancumer. In a note to an article on The Jaredites> Elder George Reynolds, in the Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 27, page 282, says, concerning the revealing of the name, which is not found in the Book of Mormon: "While residing in Kirtland Elder Reynolds Cahoon had a son born to him. One day when President Joseph Smith was passing his door he called the Prophet in and asked him to bless and name the baby. Joseph did so and gave the boy the name of Mahonri Moriancumer. When he had finished the blessing he laid the child on the bed, and turning to Elder Cahoon he said, the name I have given your son is the name of the brother of Jared; the Lord has just shown (or revealed) it to me. Elder William F. Cahoon, who was standing near, heard the Prophet make this statement to his father; and this was the first time the name of the brother of Jared was known in the Church in this dispensation." NOTES. There is no better way of emptying the mind of evil than by filling it with good. There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. The best things are nearest. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes. Instead of asking what we can get out of the world, it would be better to consider what we can give to it. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epietetus. Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, but that whictfhas vexed thee most has been thy looking for evil, and things that never happened have chiefly made thee wretched.— Proverbial Philosophy. . 706 IMPRO VEMENT ERA "Young men, and old men, too, should learn the truth that the only real, lasting pleasure in life comes from being actively busy at some work every day; doing something worth while, and doing it as well as you know how. The more we appreciate this fact, the more will we be able to make the most of our lives." In his life of Walter Scott, Lockhart quotes from one of his father's letters: "Forty-five years old today; my life is now more than half done. The day was when I tried to kill time; now I guard each golden hour as a miser holds on to his coin. Henceforth I mean to do only the things that count." Weightier words than these the biography of great men does not contain. — Grow tall tall enough to look over Mount Difficulty into Hope City. — Grow broad broad enough to bear with people whom God has made different from ourselves. Grow deep, sending roots down into perpetual springs. Come to know God. Grow straight, measuring right up to the line of duty. Grow stout, ready for burdens, and ready for fruit. Christian Observer. "The mushroom needs only a night," says the Reverend Newell D wight Hillis, "the moss asks a week for covering the fallen tree; the humble vegetable asks several weeks, and the strawberry a few months; but, planting his apple tree, the gardener must wait a few years for his ripened russet, and the woodsman many years for the full grown oak or elm." A character in The Little Minister said he was going to cut down a certain tree which was in his way, but he kept postponing it. The tree widened and grew tall. The man aged and still the tree stood. "I grew old looking for an ax," he said. We all know people who are all their lives announcing that they are going to do a certain thing, but they never get at it. They are always waiting for an ax, waiting for the most favorable opportunity — for just the right tools.