talked. Gladly would we have heard him longer. Dr. Webber has spofenf before! thousands rf audiences. has? preached in every'-state %f the! un-on: has been ; has been around the world and has spen- much time on the islands of the sea and in the Orient. He spoke Of 'his experiences in Egypt and C--ve a powerful, graphic descrip¬tion of his visit tr- one of the pyra¬mids. In making the tour of the pyramid he placed himself under the guidance of an Arabian guide whom he trusted implicitly. To have done otherwise would have been extremely hazardous. He observed in the beginning that the Arab is trustworthy and if he likes you will do anything for you even to offering up . his life. The narrative evidenced time and again how prudent Mr. Webber had been in following the iristruc- tibns of his guide without reser¬vation. At the close of his address Dr. Webber drew the conclusion that in life, as in passing through the pyramid, one should select his pilot or guide and then follow him. The high school students are grateful for having had the op¬portunity of hearing Archdeacon Webber. They will always remem¬ber him. APPOINTMENTS We understand that Robert Craven has received an appoint¬ment as-; principal from Congress¬man Colton to Annapolis. Leland Newman received a tele¬gram from Senator King on Sat¬urday advising that the Senator would appoint him as principal to Annapolis. None of the congress¬ional delegates has appointments at West Point. MORE PRIZE ESSAYS Mr. J. H. Manerfield, manager of the Salt Lake Union stockyards is offering prizes of $15. $10, and $5, to the boy or girl under twenty years of age, who has not finshed high school, for the best essay of from eight hundred to one-thous¬and words, on the subject "The Benefit I Have Received From At¬tending a Livestock Show." The winning essay will be pub¬lished in the March 25 issue of "The Utah Farmer." All essays must be in the hands of Reed W. Warick, secretary of The Intermountain Stock and Horse show, care of the chamber of commerce, Salt Lake, not later than March 12. The essays will be based upon (1) content, center idea based on facts; (2), organization; (3) .style, originality of expression and point of view. The following poem was sub¬mitted to thNotes. We be¬lieve that the teacher who in¬spired the writing of this poem deserves praise, as well as does the talented student who composed it. CHARM How can I write, how can I frame, In words, however jeweled, your name ? Can you be Circe? your mysteries i Are unfathomable; as elusive as summer seas. A goddess, yes, you are to me ! Slender as the slim birch tree, i. That sways to the wind. and dreams with the moon And listens enraptured to the nightingale's tune. You waft a fragrance of unknown lands, Cross stormy seas and reefy strands. You whisper a song thru' the stilly night A .whisper—'tis gone—a shaft of light. Come, whisper again; I live and hope, To capture : -ur charm to bind with a trope. To the very life and soul of one Who. lies at you feet 'til life is done Yet life is pleasant , 'tho my soul be not free Stay, whisper and dream, sweet mystery. —Marjorie Kelley. INTERESTING WORDS Macadamize really means to cover something, such as road with small broken stones. This peculiar word had its origin in 1818, when a man by the. name of J. L. McAdam introduced the ! now popular plan of building roads. The i oun. Macadam for the "surface" of such a road is ai back formation from the verb macadamize. This word has been in constant usage since 1818. —Thelma Burt. NOSTRUM Nostrum is a word that is tak¬en directly from the Latin langu¬age and used in the English, al¬though the meaning is somewhat changed. Nostrum means "our own", that is a "proprietary reme¬dy" unknown to the profession in general; hence it has acquired the' meaning of a quack medicine. 2-23-27 Ogden High School Notes MISTAKES When I look back and see the things > I've done -The words I've said, the paflis I've blindly passed It seems a greater joy to me at last To know the same mistakes I'll i-. ever shun And try to leave the others still undone. And when in doubt, from these Missteps I'll ask Advice and then go on my way alone. The world is full of tricky paths to fame And some of them are traveled more at times Than others that look slow and not so sure; But in the end they hold the winning name. And now, in looking back, I know I'll find The path that leads up to the open door. —Mildred McKay. GAME POSTPONED. Our game with Davis will be played next Saturday evening in¬stead of Friday this week in the new Weber county high school gymnasium. The game is called at 7:30 o'clock. HEARD COOLIDGE. A small group of townspeople and students sat in the corner of the chemistry laboratory at the high school Tuesday morning and heard President Calvin Coolidge's masterful address on Washington. Every word was heard with dis¬tinctness and without effort. Those who heard it regret that all Ogden was not there to enjoy the treat. It seemed as if the : president must be jn the opposite corner of the room instead of in ' the house of representatives in far-off Washington. Those present also heard the announcements at the close of the address and joined with all America in the “Star-Spangled Ban¬ner." THE OPERA NEXT. The next great event on the high school calendar is the opera, "China Shop," to be presented in the Orpheum theatre next Tues¬day evening. This will be a great musical treat—one of the best things the school has done in this ijne—and we expect the theatre will be filled on this occasion. The box office will be open for the sale of seats on Sunday after¬noon at 3 o'clock. GIRLS ASK CHANCE. The seniors staged another very interesting wrestling and boxing match Tuesday evening in the gymnasium before the- boys of the school and their dads. This sort of entertainment has proved so popular that the girls are now clamoring for an opportunity to show what they can do in these athletic sports. CASH PRIZES, jf* Word comes from the far west —the University of California— that Garff Wilson won a $50 cash prize for excellent-scholarship last semester. Word comes from the far east —Harvard university—that Her¬bert Adams, another high school graduate, was given a $3 00 cash prize for scholarship last semes¬ter. INTERESTING WORDS. Humor. Humor—a very peculiar word indeed, is derived from the Latin word, "humor," meaning mois¬ture, fluid, vapor. It began by meaning simply "liquid." It passed through the stage of being a term of art used by the old physicians—whom we now call physiologists—and by degrees has come to be generally understood I to signify a certain "habit of the mind." The present definition of the word humor resulted from Dr. Johnson's definition: "Different kinds of moisture in man's body, reckoned by the old physicians to be phlegm, blood, choler and melancholy, which, as they pre¬dominate, are supposed to - de¬termine the temper of the mind." Hence the word now refers to one's disposition or state of mind. —Melba Bowman. Booze. Hergesheimer. in bis "Man Alone," is responsible for the story of the origin of this word. In 1840 during the presidential campaign the Whigs Used the log cabin as a symbol of Harrison's democracy. A distiller of the-per¬iod conceived the idea of having his bottles blown in the form of a log cabin with this name, E. C. Booze, across the top. This brand became so popular that would- be purchasers instead of asking for a quart of whisky, called for a quart of booze. A BATTLE ROYAL. A battle royal waged during the 1 eighteenth century as regards the origin of life. The battle was fought between Abbe Spallanzani. an Italian priest, and his followers on one side, and Abbe Needham, an Englishman, and his fol¬lowers on the other. Spallanzani, following the lead of Redi, main¬tained that microbes must have parentage, and Father Needham said that parentage was unneces¬sary, superfluous, that microbes arose spontaneously out of putrid matter. Both men were experimenters and claimed that their conclusions were based upon actually ob¬served facts. Both reported their findings to the Royal society and both were acclaimed "great scien¬tists," although all knew that one of these men must be absolutely wrong. Abbe Needham said: "I have taken mutton gravy hot from the fire, and put itin_a bottle and plugged the bottle tip tight with a cork, so that no little amnuus or eggs could possibly get into the gravy from the air. I have even gone so far as to heat the 'bottle and its mutton gravy m ..hot ashes. Surely this must have killed any little animals or their eggs that remained m the tlask. But lo and behold in a few days 'when I open the flask the gravy i was swarming with animalnui ; These come from, the juice of tn. gravy; they couldn't come from any other source." i Says Spallanzani: "You didn't heat your bottles sufficiently to kill the animalcules or the egg-. : I have performed this experiment, many times and when I have heated the bottles sufficient after being hermetically sealed to kill the germs—there are no mi¬crobes found in my gravy—-alt >t many, many days. This proves that the microbes come from pre- existent life—and they do not rise spontaneously." And thus for -/ears and yea -s the debate continued—neither side being willing to concede. At last, however, Spallanzani was vindi¬cated and a great scientific truth —that life comes from life—was established. Error, then as «U- ' ways, however, refused to be downed—and even to this da/ there are people who will con- to v>p.lieve in the exploded Ogden High TOSKA Dark clouds smother the world, And a cold wind blows over the j hill; The trees are withered and gray, And the ground is covered with ; leaves That rustle a mournful tune. And my heart is tired of hoping, For winter brews his icy storms, And all the world is dead with cold.—Robert G. True. MISTAKE IN DATE The notes announced Wednesday that the school opera would be 1 given next Tuesday night. This was an'error. The opera will be 1 presented on Wednesday night, March 2. BEAUTIFUL OGDEN The Ladies' Civic Improvement 1 club is responsible for many of the beauty spots in Ogden. For many years the members have ; made an annual campaign for the planting of roses. Usually the schools have co-operated, and . have been glad to co-operate in such a good cause. This year again the schools will co-operate with the, club in its effort to make a more beautiful Ogden. BE AT HOME One high school room has this sentiment neatly printed on a card at the front of the room: "Make yourself at home here. Be comfortable. If you are neat, tidy, orderly at home—be the same here. Make yourself at home." IN CUSTOM'S GRIP Some people would forever re¬main in custom's strong grip. To them there is a reverence to do everything that is old. Sometimes we fear these people worship the past blindly without any reference to present-day situations and needs. It may have been wise on the part of George Washintgon, the first president of the American republic, to refuse the tender of a third term, but the resolution of Senator La Follette that "any de- parture from this time honored' custom would be unwise, unpatri-otic and fraught with peril to our free institutions" is insane and silly. No wonder the senators smiled. OFF FOR LOGAN George Bergstrom is in Logan this afternoon helping to put over a scout program there. Mr. Bergstrom is one of the outstanding scout leaders of the state and his services are in great demand. FLAG TALK Captain C. J. Dockler gave a very interesting talk to the fac- n morning on the subject , of "Our Flag." The captain an- ~ swered all the questions recently " asked by the American legion aux¬iliary. The talk was appreciated and tho American legion auxiliary is to be complimented on this fine piece of work—making the teach- ~ ers and pupils of the schools fa¬miliar with all the rules concern¬ing the proper observance of the flag. "SPREADING THE NEWS" Students of the one-act play _ presented "Spreading the News" ! at Central Junior Wednesday at 11 o'clock. The cast consisted of the following students: Helen Wilcox, Wilma Bailey, Bella Herscovitz, Vernon Newman, Emerson Thatch¬er, Don Corey, Spencer Walker, James Niel, Robert True. DAWN OF A NEW DAY On a day in October in IS31, a 9-year-old boy ran frightened away from the edge of a crowd that blocked the door of a black- smith shop of a village in -the eastern part of France. Above the awed excited whispers of the people at the door this boy had heard the cracking "s-s-s-s-sz" of a white hot iron on human flesh, accompanied by the terrifying groah of pain. The victim was a farmer , by the name of Nicole. He tid just been mangled by a