Atchison
city and county-seat of Atchison co., Kan.; on the Missouri river and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Burlington, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Missouri Pacific railroads; 25 miles N. by N. W. of Leavenworth. The city is an important commercial center, by reason of its excellent river and extensive railroad facilities.
It exports largely grain, flour, live stock, and dressed meats, and has many important manufacturing establishments. There are gas, electric light, sewer, water and electric railway plants; several public parks; a noteworthy bridge across the Missouri river; an attractive Union depôt; National banks; and daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. Atchison is the seat of the State Soldiers' Orphans' Home, of Midland College (Lutheran) and St. Benedict's College (Roman Catholic), and has a public library, public high and graded schools, and a number of high graded private schools. Pop. (1910) 16,429; (1920) 12,630.
ATE ATE (ā'tē), in Greek mythology, the goddess of hate, injustice, crime and retribution. At the birth of Hercules she led Zeus to make a rash oath, in consequence of which she was hurled from Olympus to the earth, where she still worked mischief. The Litai, daughters of Zeus, followed her, and, if prayed to, repaired the evil she had perpetrated.
ATELES (at'ē-lēs), a genus of South American monkeys, of the division with long prehensile tails, to which the name Sapajou is sometimes collectively applied. The English name of spidermonkey is sometimes used as a generic designation; the fore-limbs are either destitute of a thumb or have a rudimentary one.
ATELLANÆ FABULE (at-el-an'ē[i] fab'ö-lē[i], called also Oscan plays), a kind of light interlude, in ancient Rome, performed, not by the regular actors, but by freeborn young Romans; it originated from the ancient Atella, a city of the Oscans.