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Lansing (ROBERT an American in He)

ROBERT, an American in 1864. He graduated from Amherst College in 1886 and was admitted to the bar in 1889. Until 1892 he practiced law in Watertown. In that year he was appointed associate counsel for the United States in the Bering Sea Arbitration, and tion, and was also counsel for the United States during the Bering Sea Claims Commission , from 1896 to 1897. From 1903 he was counsel for the United States under the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and served as special counsel international proceedings. He was appointed counselor of the State Department in 1914, and in the following year year he was appointed Secretary of State ad interim on June 9, 1915. On June 23 of the same year he was aphe Hering Sen Claims n 18 to 1897. From for the United Jaskan Boundary s special counsel proceedings. He was elor of the State Ded in the following appointed Secretary of same year he was ap- State.& E Wilson as pegotiate ontinued to p n his retur nocalling abinet durin occasioned osident and

1920 he p tion of Mr. ade by hin COSEBE LANE eace and th ant were ver oficially aceded that t variance of the T On his re nued the pre TENET (la Edier, origir antry, raise toward th fterward, s who gave aid highest inte lanc a game st common a lamp or pointed Secretary of State. He was of a case or vessel made of tin, with pointed Secretary of State. He was chosen by President Wilson as one of the commissioners to negotiate peace in Paris in 1918. He continued to act as Secretary of State on his return from Paris. His action in calling together the members of the Cabinet during President Wilson's illness occasioned the resentment of the President and on the latter's recovery in 1920 he practically asked for the resignation of Mr. Lansing.

Severe criticisms made by him on the ROBERT LANSING Treaty of Peace and the League of Na- Treaty of Peace and the League of Naand were never officially denied. It was generally conceded that he and the Presigenerally conceded that he and the Presinegotiations of the Treaty and to its final terms. On his retirement from office he continued the practice of law. final terms. On his retirement from ofcommon soldier, originally one belonging to the infantry, raised by the Emperor Maximilian toward the end of the 15th to the infantry, raised by the Emperor a soldier who gave his services to any one who paid highest. The name became corrupted into lance-knight. Also the name of a game at cards. one who paid highest. The name became turn), a common contrivance used for carrying a lamp or candle in, consisting such as horn or glass. Lanterns are first spoken of by Theopompus, a Greek of a case or vessel made of tin, with sashes of some transparent substance, such as horn or glass. Lanterns are tion of an Egyptian lantern that has come down to us probably did not differ comic poet, and Empedocles of Agrigensensibly from those spoken of in St. John xviii: 3, where the party of men which tion of an Egyptian lantern that has cients in augury. The only representacome down to us probably did not differ sensibly from those spoken of in St. John xviii: 3, where the party of men which the top of a dome, or in other similar went out of Jerusalem to apprehend situations, for the purpose of admitting and torches."

In architecture, a small structure on the top of a dome, or in other similar situations, for the purpose of admitting as an example. In Gothic architecture ment, of which that on the top of the capitol at Washington may be referred to as an example. In Gothic architecture the term is sometimes applied to louvres on the roofs of halls, etc., but it usually interior, open to view from the ground, height, or a considerable portion of the interior, open to view from the ground, and is lighted by an upper tier of windows. ward of Poseidon, in Troy, who married classic legend, a priest of Apollo, afteragainst the will of the former god, and against the will of the former god, and one or both of these reasons he was demitting the wooden horse into Troy. For one or both of these reasons he was destroyed along with his two sons by two the sea. The subject is represented in one of the most famous works of ancient sculpture still in existence, a group discovered in 1506 at Rome, and purchased by Pope Julius II. for the Vatican. It was carried by Bonaparte to Paris in 1796, but recovered in 1814. According to Pliny, it was the work of the Rhodian artists, Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus. The best authorities place its date at a little before 100 B. C. artists, Agesander, Polydorus, and Athedate at a little before 100 в. c. LAODICEA (-sē'ä), in ancient geog- Asia, the most important of which was a raphy, the name of several towns of Asia, the most important of which was a city of ancient Phrygia, near the river Antiochus Theos, its founder, built on Lycos, so called after Laodice, Queen of the site of an older town named Diospolis. It was destroyed by an earth- quake during the reign of Tiberius, but polis. It was destroyed by an earthrebuilt by the inhabitants, who were very wealthy. A severe rebuke is addressed to its inhabitants in the Apocalypse. It fell into the hands of the Turks in 1255, was again destroyed in 1402, and is now a heap of ruins, known by the name of Eski-Hissar. Art and science flourished of tin, with Int substance, Lanterns are epus, & Greek s of Agrigenby the an- My representafern that has did not differ of in St. John of men which to apprehend semane is de with lantern structure o other simila of admittin or for orn he top of t be referred architectu fied to louv but it usua as the wh bortion of n the grou tier of according Apollo, a who ma mer god n agains ato Troy. ns he wa sons b ame un represen cks of s a gro and pu Vatic to P 4. Ac us, ar ities C. ancie ral wh ear lice, der nas by Ti whe is Doc was strong col. since led round e-to 1790 nt cathedr ch lay The number of Jews who were settled strong position, it has been a fortress among the ancient Laodiceans, and it was strong position, it has been a fortress the seat of a famous medical school.

The number of Jews who were settled here at the rise of Christianity will account for its importance. An important ecclesiastical council, the First Council of Laodicea, was held here in 363, which to 1790 it was the seat of a bishop. The rounded with ruinous walls. From 515 to 1790 it was the seat of a bishop. The century, and the bishop's palace, now a law-court, still remain. The inhabitants has been a fortress story; its citadel is surinns walls. From 515 eat of a bishen. The this edifice of the 12th bishop's palace, now a main. The inhabitants T JP ed marketthe city w of Francis 1814, Nap lies under urrendered 1870. In t es captures THE LAOCOON GROUP adopted resolutions concerning the canon THE LAOCOON GROUP of the Old and New Testaments and referring to ecclesiastical discipline. A second council, 476, condemned the ferring to ecclesiastical discipline. A Eutychians.

LAON (lä-ong), the chief town of the French department of Aisne; 87 miles N. E. of Paris. Occupying a naturally century the city was the place of residence of the Carlovingian kings, and are noted market-gardeners. In the 10th and it surrendered to a German force, and 10, 1814, Napoleon I. was repulsed Sept. 9, 1870. In the fall of 1914, Gerby the allies under Blücher and Bülow; man forces captured the town and held deners. In the 10th the place of resilovingian klugs, and At Laon, March 9 leon I. was repulsed Blücher and Bülow; to a German force, he fall of 1914, Ger- I the town and held Eve in the 15,000, ry in the L led by the S nd the Chi cea, estima est. 1,500,0 ng rice, cot bearing t and preci been UD 1892. L Political aga hen the ter Nuking a celebrat erally reput - of Taois shares the Ch Confucia e appellati in 604 B. al library ot far fro in Ho-na eans the "ol cain can life. Sz ncient Chin the Tâo an f sim bein at he reside seeing th went away f the roya the N. W. by Yin Hsi ce of which on to write d the "Tho down to us aching. It what he The originathe mother me it is not ppear," he God." "It ablest of Ferious ex od (or to properly way"; and es it. His orical exch things he primal ad should the convernmant. is to let sis hate- The wisit until the Allied offensive in the sumit until the Allied offensive in the summer of 1918. Pop. about 15,000. states Annam, Tonking, and the Chinese China peninsula, surrounded by the Shan 91,000 square miles; pop. est.

1,500,000; stones are LAPIS LAZULI dom of men defeats its own ends. Tâo works by contraries, and the secret of its these teachings Lão-tsze may seem to be only a visionary dreamer, but he enunciates many lessons of a very high morthe soil is fertile, producing rice, cotton, ality. Its fundamental quality is humil- 91,000 square miles; pop. est.

1,500,000; ity. He even rises to the greatest of all the soil is fertile, producing rice, cotton, moral principles, the returning of good tobacco, and fruits, and bearing teak for evil, and enunciates "recompensing forests; gold, tin, lead, and precious injury with kindness." He nowhere found. Has been under speaks clearly of the state of man after was the subject of four political agreewas the subject of four political agreements, the last in 1907 when the territory on the W. side of Nuking was partly restored to Siam. philosopher of China; generally reputed which at the present day shares the alwhich at the present day shares the alism and Buddhism under the appellation ism and Buddhism under the appellation He was curator of the royal library in the capital city of Loh, not far from the present city of Loh-yang in Ho-nan.

The designation Lão-tsze means the "old philosopher." Nothing certain can be said of the length of Lâo's life. Szema-Ch'ien, the historian of ancient China, tells us that he cultivated "the Tâo and its characteristics," his chief aim being to keep himself unknown; that he resided long at the capital, and then seeing the decay of the dynasty of Châu went away ," he to the gate which led out of the royal domain toward the regions of the N. W.; that there he was recognized by Yin Hsî, the keeper of the gate, the place of which is shown in the present Shan Châu of Ho-nan, and was prevailed on to write out for him the treatise called the "Tâo Teh King," which has come down to us as the only record of his teaching. It is not easy, however, to say what he meant by his Tâo. "It was the originator of heaven and earth: it is the mother of all things." At the same time it is not a personal being. "It might appear," says, "to have been before God." "It all Lão's followers, "their mysterious existence to spirits and to God (or to gods)." The character Tâo properly means "path," "course," or "way"; and it is in this sense that Lão uses it. His pression for the way in which things nothingness. Of the same kind should be the influence of the Tâo in the conduct of individuals and of government. The secret of good government is to let duct of individuals and of government. men alone. The appeal to arms is hate- The secret of good government is to let