were about thirty contestants for this prize. Yankee cleverness won it.

An American with

Next was the love chase, ring and shuffleboard contests, pitching quoits made of rope, punching the bag,and other games too numerous to mention. Of all the games provided none other seemed so well suited to provide a clean, exciting amusement as the hotly contested and old sea-game of shuffleboard. In this game wooden discs about six inches in diameter and one and one-half inches thick are used. There are four red and four white ones. They are pushed by means of a long stick, widened at the end, and the discs made to slide across the deck, the attempt being made to have them stop at advantageous positions in courts marked off on the deck with certain numbers; or attempts are made to knock your adversary's discs out of good positions which he may have attained. That which makes the game especially interesting is to figure correctly on the motion of the boat, which by inclining the deck, changes the course of the sliding discs.

With the exception of the second day the sea was comparatively smooth all the way to Honolulu. Some "globe trotters" may imagine the voyage monotonous, but I beg to differ. What is there more delightful after the sports are over, than to lounge in an easy chair on the top deck and watch nature in her different moods. You see the rolling, restless, deep and dark blue ocean, and the cloud-checkered sky meeting it along the level horizon all around. The modifications which the setting sun makes as this brilliant orb peeps through the rifted clouds lighting up their fringes in gorgeous colors, and throwing a broad level highway of silver and golden shimmer upon the ocean in front of us, combine a picture of elegance and sublimity which only the most beautiful rainbow in all its grand array of colors can equal. Though simple the scene, yet because of its magnificence, one never becomes weary of watching, till finally the sun disappears like a ball of red fire into the blue sea. At daybreak, on the morning of April 2, with the aid of our field glasses, we beheld the faint outlines of land ahead. When the sun rose in unclouded splendor, Koko point stood out in bold relief, all its rugged outlines sharply defined against a tropical sky. We had a full and unobstructed view of the coast as it was slowly revealed like an un

folding panorama. Diamond Head loomed up in its majestic greatness, and the cocoanut trees, dimmed by the distance, the flashing surf breaking upon the reef, the remote valleys with their veils of verdure, Punch Bowl, seeming so low because of its great girth, all combined to make an enchanting first impression, that we enjoy but once, and afterwards we may reflect while we remember it as a beautiful dream:

WONDERS OF SOUTHERN UTAH. Scene near the District of Henrieville, in the northwest corner of sec. 7 Township 37 South, and Range 3 West, looking northwest from the center of sec. 7.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

WHAT THE PURPOSE?

In order that a young man may make up his mind what course in life to take he must pay some thought on where he is going in the long run; what shall be the condition he would like to enjoy through life, and particularly the end towards which he would like to work. Otherwise it will be hard for him to steer his actions from day to day towards the goal of his ambition.

Van Dyke, writing on this subject, in Counsels by the Way, to which my attention has been called, says that there are really only four practical ends for which men and women can work in this world, and he names them as Pleasure, Wealth, Fame and Usefulness. Whether or not these are all, we need not discuss, but granting his statement is correct, I am inclined to conclude with him that of these Usefulness will serve man the best and bring the greatest happiness.

But Pleasure, or the immediate gratification of our physical senses, appetites and inclinations, is made the main end of life by many people. There is no end or purpose to their lives outside of pleasure-seeking, and this terminates in itself; it accomplishes nothing in the long run, there is no purpose or object in it—"it leads nowhere and leaves nothing behind it," as is truly said by the author referred to.

He says further, "A pleasure-seeking life is a living death, because its object perishes even while it is attained, and at the end nothing is left of it but dust and corruption."

Charles Wagner, author of Courage, says: "Woe to him who is possessed by the ideal of an effeminate and enervating existence which is to consist only in strange sights, disturbing sensa

tions and excitement. Moral gangrene has set in, andill devour slowly, undermining all the living forces that are in him."

Robert Burns wrote:

But pleasures are like poppies spread,

You seize the flower the bloom is shed:

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Seneca, the old Stoic philosopher, is quoted as saying: "Those who have permitted pleasure to lead the van lose virtue altogether; and yet they do not possess pleasure, but are possessed by it, and are either tortured by its absence or choked by its excesses."

Referring to the Bible to obtain the religious view of the question, we find that St. Paul, on several occasions spoke of the unsatisfactory condition of the pleasure-seekers, "whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things." Again he declares, "Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and have been wanton, go to now, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upɔn you." And again as to women," She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."

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Calmly viewing these sayings, and hundreds of others of a similar nature to be found in other good books, and hearing also the experiences and warnings of many more wise men who live in our time and settlements, who are exemplary shepherds of the people in our many Church organizations, and who are constantly giving warning against excessive pleasure-seeking, the thoughtful young man must confess that Pleasure is not the goal that he would seek, that the man would seek who desires to make the best out of life.

The wise man is, therefore, going to steer his course away from the living death of pleasure-seeking. He is not going into bondage or debt to buy automobiles and other costly equipages to keep pace with the rush of fashionable pleasure-seeking, in this respect. He is not going to borrow money to satisfy the popular craze for traveling in Europe or in our own country with no purpose in view but pleasure. He is not going to grow nervous and gray in a struggle for means that his wife and daughter, for mere pleasure, may spend the summer at costly, fashionable resorts, or in distant lands. It is true that there are many in our community who do

not appear to be wise, and who are doing just these and other foolish acts for so-called pleasure.

It has been said by good authority that no other city in the United States in proportion to population spends so much in amusements as Salt Lake City. The time and money wasted in the kind of pleasure-seeking which "leads nowhere and leaves nothing behind it" is appalling, and the number of people who are "choked by its excesses," and who "live in pleasure, and yet are dead while they live," must fill the sober citizen with consternation. Go into these streets after the close of business and remain until one o'clock in the morning, and behold the thousands of people hurrying to and fro in the wild rush for the resorts and theatres. See both the well-to-do and the poor, both those who can afford it and those who cannot! Whole families who cannot meet their legitimate obligations for a living, but must run into debt for the necessaries of life, are known to go week after week to this or that theatre, or to this or that resort; to spend their means in the mad rush for nowhere, and in the thrilling excitement of some new pleasure device, having neither peace nor purpose. The restlessness of it all is something to be wondered at, and the people to be pitied.

The result of this hunt for pleasure and excitement and for keeping pace with what only the very wealthy can but ought not to do, is that many are forced to undertake all kinds of illegiti mate schemes to obtain money to gratify the tendency. Hence the growth of financial immorality. Many underhanded methods are adopted to obtain means, and even cheating and lying and deceiving friends and neighbors are frequently resorted to in order that money may be obtained to gratify this inordinate desire for pleasure. The story is told of one good lady who got flour at her grocer's on credit, and sold it for cash at a bargain to get money to go pleasure-seeking. Thus the morals are corrupted. This applies to rich and poor alike.

You men who are sensible fathers, is this course worth while?

You young men who have a goal in sight, is this the course to take to fit your purpose and to get the best results out of life? Without discussing wealth and fame, shall we not call a halt in