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HEBREW ANALOGIES IN THE BOOK OF MORMON. 239

The names that appear in the foregoing lists, from Zara to the close, comprise a class in which it appears very probable that most of the variations from the Biblical standard are due to modi- fications in their orthography by the Nephites, and when we con- sider that these people were cut off entirely from communication with their brethren in Palestine during the whole period while the Book of Mormon history was making, it is not strange that such changes in some of the Jewish names were made. Their occur- rence was inevitable under the circumstances; and they are just as necessary and valuable as evidence to sustain the authenticity of the Book of Mormon record, as the remarkable features of cor- respondence connected with the names in the first part of the exhibit are. Our case would be very defective without these vari- ations. Taking the names that have been given above as of Jewish origin, and this course seems fully justified, and adding them to those in the Book of Mormon that are identical in every way with Biblical names, there are fully sixty per cent of all that occur in the former work that are Hebraic on their face — about thirty per cent in the foregoing lists alone.

(to be continued.) Flagstaff, Ariz.

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John D. Rockefeller never wearies of impressing on the young the folly of mean and parsimonious habits. In one of his most recent inter- views he said: "These miserly people reap nothing but discomfort from their false economies. Take, for example, the case of Mrs. Silas Long of Sussex. " 'Martha,' said old Silas one fall day, T think I'll go and get a few apples from the orchard.' "He looked at her timidly. She said: ' 'Well, be careful now, Si, only to pick the bad ones.' "Suppose there ain't no bad ones, Martha?' " 'Then ye'll have to wait till some goes bad, of course,' the old lady snapt. 'We can't afford to eat good, sound fruit wuth three cents a bushel." St. Louis Globe- Democrat.