The Morning of the Restoration

capitol building in Salt Lake City; for the increase of the state revenue without increasing the set levy; for the erection of an Armory building for the Utah National Guard; the erection of a main building for the University of Utah; a gymnasium for the Agricultural College at Logan; the establishment of a state highway; the creation of an emigration and labor bureau under state supervision, together with many other useful minor laws. Representative Joseph Howell returned to Utah early in March for a vacation between the adjournment of the 61st Congress and the opening of the special session of Congress on April 4. He reports many important enactments passed, directly and indirectly affecting Utah. Among the most important of these is the Howell bill, authorizing the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the supervision of the Agricultural department of Utah in the extermination of the alfalfa weevils on Utah farm lands. Another was a bill giving relief to prospective homesteaders on the Uintah Indian reservation, pro- viding that a homesteader is only required to reside on the land taken by him, for a period of eight months. Another bill granted the state for educational purposes the group of federal buildings at Randalet, in Uintah county, formerly used by the government for Indian schools; also the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars for the construction of a steel bridge across the Duchesne river in Wasatch connty. The last three measures were originated with Senator Reed Smoot in the Senate- A bill was introduced appropriating two hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars for the erection and establishment of a complete navy and army sanitarium and hospital at Beck's Hot Springs, but Congress adjourned before proper consideration could be made of this. "Life Lines" is the title of a new book of poems recently issued from the press of the Skelton Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, con- taining the poems of Ellis Reynolds Shipp, M. D. There are some three hundred titles in the three hundred and ten pages of the work. The book is dedicated to the author's children, and is introduced by Emmeline B. Wells, who says that in some of the subjects portrayed is apparent the true and genuine love of nature and humanity. The ills of life are touched with delicate skill, which seeks to ameliorate sorrow and excess- ive grief. The author has a depth of feeling for all things beautiful in nature and humanity, and her poems are full of hope and faith in God. The poems contain many inspirational verses written and sent forth in the spirit of love.

The Boy Scout Movement in Utah. Report of a Special Committee to the General Board. To the General Super intendency and General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A.: Dear Brethren: — Your committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the subject of "The Boy Scout Movement of America," now being introduced into the state of Utah, beg leave to report as follows: ORIGIN. The movement seems to have had its origin in the active inter- ests and labors of Ernest Thompson Seton, the noted author of Animal Life, etc., and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the first of America, the second of England. The movement is now of some six or eight years' standing. AIM OF THE MOVEMENT. "The aim of the Boy Scout Movement is to supplement the various existing educational agencies, and to promote the ability in boys to do things for themselves and others. The method is summed up in the term 'Scoutcraft,' and is a combination of observation, education and handiness, or the ability to do. Scout- craft consists of first aid, life-saving, tracking, signalling, cycling, nature study, seamanship, and other instruction. This is accom- plished in games and team-play, and the only equipment it needs is the out-doors, a group of boys and a leader." THE SCOUT'S OATH. Before he becomes a scout, a boy must take the oath thus: