--- 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: 13 number: 3 published: 1910-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Thrift, Thrift, Horatio," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 3 (January 1910): 239.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse 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: improvementera1303unse start_page: 239 end_page: 239 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse publication_year: 1910 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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Thrift, Thrift, Horatio — 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. Thrift, Thrift, Horatio. 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.