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KELLY By May E. Lillie II "I don't think the flowers (tiarc) have smelled so sweetly before as they have today," wrote Kelly from the South Seas in his usual journal letter. "Also there is an appetizing odor of cooking bread- fruit in the air. You see, we don't 'earn our bread by the sweat of our brow.' We very often get breadfruit for the table for novelty's sake. They grow like apples and are about the size of a large canta- loupe, of a light green color and perfectly round. They are best cooked on hot rocks. The natives pick avotas from trees, from which butter is made. Avotas are known in the States as alligator pears, and bring quite a price there. Here, we get them for twenty cents a basket. It is quite interesting to see natives coming from market in couples — one in front, and one in the rear, with the end of a pole on each right shoulder and a string of breadfruit or cocoanuts hanging from the center. "On Saturdays, after our work is done, we generally go swim- ming about a mile up the beach. Here we have a good time splashing in the surf. We swim a few strokes out in the water and the waves carry us back head over heels, kicking and gasping. After we are fairly started it usually commences to rain, which we enjoy greatly until we realize that our clothes are getting the benefit of a heavy shower. Then we would 'like to croak,' as Inez says. These are days of long, hard study for me, but they are not without interest or novelty. This evening we strolled down to the harbor, as a change from studying. There we saw three huge Swedish steamers, probably owned by one company. Two of them were coaling, the method here being very laborious and crude. Large baskets are filled by a score or more of thin, emaciated Chinamen, and then slid down a track to the ship's side where they are heaved to the deck by the ship's cranes. "You have written for my interpretation of a parable about the water lilies. 'There was once a man, so the story goes, 'who had a pond full of beautiful water lilies. They blossomed sweetly and were a joy to all beholders. People came from far and near to gaze upon their beauty and inhale their fragrance, until one day the man had the pond cleaned of all its slime and mossy undergrowth and then those lilies bloomed no more.' " 'What does the storm signify?' you asked. "Let us imagine that the pond full of beautiful water lilies is the world, with all its charm and loveliness, and, on the other hand, the slime and mossy undergrowth are its sorrows and sufferings; the lilies represent the human family. If we should remove the slime, or trials

KELLY 629 and heartaches of life, we should die — not a literal death, perhaps, but a mental and spiritual one, for we would have nothing on which to fertilize our efforts to rise to ethereal heights." Mother exclaimed exultantly over the depth of insight of Kelly's splendid mind. She said his letter, along with others from the same source, should be kept forever sacredly treasured among all our other precious things in the family's "Golden Vase." The story of this vase is quite interesting. It began with an Arabian proverb. A long time ago, we are told, an Arabian gentle- man had a most wonderful golden vase into which he was to deposit a pearl for every perfect day of his life. The vase had belonged to his father before him, and neither of these gentlemen had succeeded in saving many pearls, which proves that perfect days are rare. But it is said that if those Arabians had been content to count the perfect hours instead of whole days of happiness, they might have collected quite a number of pearls. Memory is supposed to be the Golden Vase, and beautiful thoughts are the pearls, and so into this precious family heirloom we try to store as many perfect thoughts as possible. In one chapter of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott says: "Oh, when these hidden stores of ours, Lie open to the Master's sight, May they be rich in golden hours, Deeds that show fairer for the light." Before Kelly sailed to Hikueru, in the Spring, he jotted down a few more ideas in his journal letter, and if "Beauty is its own excuse for being," this too, shall go down into our books of remembrance: "This is the dawn of a beautiful day. As I look out over the veranda, I can see the dew dripping from the trees like rain. This morning will end a day of fasting and prayer. One of our brothers is afflicted with very weak eyes. We shall administer to him in a few moments, and if our faith is great enough, he will be healed and be permitted to remain in the mission field." Afternoon: "Our afflicted companion's eyes were restored to their normal condition immediately upon our performing the admin- istration. I am going to an island where ships from Papeete touch very irregularly, so don't stop writing, thinking I have stopped, for you and your loved ones are in my thoughts always. "With Sincerity, Kelly." "Good-bye" "Good-bye," 'tis such a little word to cause us grief and pain, Yet inspiration tells the soul that you shall return again. Our hearts go with you all the way across the ocean's foam, May God protect you in your work and bring you safely home, We know his angels guard you, though parting brings a sigh, It grieves the heart when friends must part, Good-bye, dear boy, good-bye.

630 IMPROVEMENT ERA "Farewell," 'tis such a little word to cause the tears to flow, May God sustain, in times of need, and keep you from want or woe. All righteous prayer "availeth much," so we, thy friends, shall pray, That God will bless the ones you love, when you are far away. We know his love upholds them, though parting brings a sigh, It grieves the heart when loved ones part, Good-bye, dear boy, good-bye. Salt Lake City Memory O Memory! How wonderful art thou! With all thy recollections stored away; Where every thought and action printed now, Within the mind's recess forever stay. Beyond the limits set by Time's decree, When all things earthly shall have gone to rest, And passed within the great eternity, Thy page shall still withstand the acid test. So endless — as the soul of man shall be — Though dimmed by Time's corroding power here — Yet all restored in immortality, In clear remembrance shall thy thoughts appear. Though Earth must die and Heaven fade away, And all things mortal wither as the grass; When Death and Hell are judged, and lose their sway, And stars grow dim — and so their light must pass- Yet thou shalt be renewed, O Memory! And all thy recollections be made bright; When, through the resurrection, thou shalt see Heaven and Earth renewed in glorious light. The guilty conscience, seared by sin and shame — Unless repentant and by Christ be healed — Shall, through the ages yet to come, remain In torment and by Satan's chain be sealed. Christ has power to blot away thy sin, If on his truth and love thou shalt rely, That there may be no vestige left within, Of fire unquenched, or worm that cannot die. Pray then, let all thy deeds be nobly wrought, And carved in righteousness upon thy scroll, That joy and happiness may there be brought, A recompense to every faithful soul. GAZELAM.

Top: Showing young Zarn on the second lap of the derby, February 22, 1924. Bottom: Showing the finish of the race, with Zarn, the winner in front with one of his exhausted dogs on the sleigh. The Canadian team is shown just behind. American Dog Derby at Ashton, Idaho This annual event took place again this year on Washington's Birthday, at Ashton, witnessed by approximately 8,000 people. Olcott Zarn, a six- teen-year-old schoolboy, son of George Zarn, Ashton, Idaho, won the Derby championship in the spectacular race against a famous team from Canada and against other of the best drivers in the west. This is the eight renewal of the Idaho classic. Smoky Gaston won the race a year ago and came in third this year. Shorty Russick, driver of the Canadian team, owing to the crippling of his dog leader, finished fourth. Tud Kent was forced to retire at two-thirds distance when two of his dogs virtually collapsed. As observed in the picture, Zarn drove under the flags at the finishing line with one of his dogs on the sled, completely exhausted, with a margin of victory of 1 minute and 57 seconds, he having made the 25 -mile course in 2 hours and 22 minutes and 40 seconds. The team behind the winning Zarn team is that of Warren Cordingsley, who came in second. The conduct of the race was pronounced perfect in every particular, and the 900 citizens of Ashton succeeded admirably in taking care of the 8,000 visitors that came to the town, under leadership of the derby committee. Olcott Zarn was happy in his victory, as he had tried for three years before to make the mark with his team of dogs, and the $600 prize will go far to give him a start in college. We are indebted to H. A. Hess for information and pictures sent.

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Photo by Geo. Ed. An3erson, Springville, Utah Tombstone of Isaac Hale, father of Emma Hale Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, McKune cemetery, near Susquehanna, Penn. The inscription under the name and date reads: "The body of Isaac Hale, the hunter, like the cover of an old book, its con- tents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms, yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in g new and more beautiful edition, corrected, and amended,''

GIVING UTAH A BOOST By D. E. Robinson, Utah Agricultural College. Utah, her interesting religious and social organization and her high religious ideals will receive widespread recognition this coming summer as a result of a National Summer School which the Utah Agricultural College, of Logan, will hold during the coming summer months. This recognition will come about in two ways. In the first place, leading educators of the United States have been secured to serve on the faculty, of this National Summer School. There men will come and live for a period of six weeks in a typical Utah community where they will be able to see, under most favorable con- ditions, Utah's social and religious organization. In the second place, hundreds of teachers from outside of Utah will come to attend this national summer session. They also will live among Utah people for an extended period of time, long enough to observe something of Utah's viewpoint and long enough to become appreciative of the high type of citizen found in our state. Utah always receives unstinted praise from impartial observers who have been with the people long enough to get fully acquainted with them. The following statements made by leading educators of the Nation show just how true this is: Dr. Bagley, of Teachers' College of Columbia University: "Utah should be numbered among the leading states from the standpoint of its educational system and its social organization." Miss Lizzie Wooster, formerly state superintendent of public in- struction of Kansas: "Utah's educational leadership was definitely estab- lished by the inauguration of a National Summer School at the Utah Agricultural College." Supt. W. R. Siders, of the Pocatello city schools, in an address in which he urged the calling of an intermountain conference of school administrators at Salt Lake City, declared that one of the greatest move- ments inaugurated in the West was this same National Summer School which will bring to Utah leading educators from all over the United States. Dr. Thomas D. Wood, of Columbia, who will teach courses in health education, at this Summer School, has declared that not only is Utah famous for its scenic beauty but also famous for its wonderful social organization; while Prof. Henry C. Cowles, of Chicago, who will offer courses in botany during the summer session, in a public address recently delivered said that on a previous visit to Utah he was very much im- pressed with the high standard of morality prevalent among the people. Dr. Pierce, Superintendent of schools of Milwaukee: "I have a pro- found admiration for the social organization of Utah which has made possible great advance within the state so that today Utah is leading the United States in many matters in education." Prof. J. W. Searson, professor of English at the University of Nebraska, and editor of the Educational Digest, declared recently that:

GIVING UTAH A BOOST 635 "Utah presents in her social organization an example that many states might follow." He went on to say, "Utah leads the Nation in rural and health education. She is far ahead of other states in her community development. She is again showing her educational leadership in the plans for a National Summer School to be held on the campus of the Utah Agricultural College this coming Summer. This institution has organized a faculty unequaled in the history of America for summer instruction. Out of this National Summer School should spring big things in the educational development of the United States." Right: Prof. E. L. Thorndike, Head Department of Psychology and Education, Teachers' College, Columbia University. Left: Prof. Eliot Blackwelder, Head Department Geology, Stanford University. These few quotations show the wonderful standing that Utah has among those of other states who know her best. Surely if we can bring to Utah a great group of educators and several hundred leading teachers of the Nation, the word they will take back to their respective communities will be one of the greatest boosts ever given the state. But it will require earnest cooperation, dignified conduct, cheer and hospitality to measure up to all the good things said of us. Logan, Utah.