Harte
FRANCIS BRET, an Amerfornia in 1854, and figured as a coal N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839. He went to Cali- "Golden Era," in which appeared some dealer, a teacher , and a typesetter on the of his earliest literary efforts. He next became editor of the " Californian," and Mint at San Francisco; in 1868 he bein 1864 secretary secretary to the United States came editor of the "Overland Monthly," in which appeared , in 1869, the humorous poem of "The Heathen Chinee." In 1878 he became United States consul at Crefeld, whence he was transferred to 1885. Among his best known works are Glasgow in 1880 , and remained there till "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"; "The Argonauts of '49"; "Two Men of Sandy Bar"; "Gabriel Conroy" ; "Mrs. Skagg's Husbands"; "East and West Poems"; "In the Carquinez Woods"; "Maruja, a Waif of the Plains"; "A Ward of the Novel"; "Crusade of the Excelsior"; "A Golden Gate"; "A Sappho of Green "Tales of Trail and Town"; "Under the Springs"; "Susy " ; "Three Partners"; Redwoods"; etc. He died May 5, 1902. State of Connecticut, port of entry and
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Hartford City
a city of Indiana, the c county-seat of Blackford co. It is on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Lake Erie and Western railroads. It is the center of an important natural gas and oil region and has manufactures of paper, tile, brick, wagons, and glass. Pop. (1910) 6,187; (1920) 6,183. HARTFORD THEOLOGICAL SEM- INARY, an institution for theological education, founded in 1834, at East Windsor Hill, Conn., as The Theological Institute of Connecticut. It was removed in 1865 to Hartford, and its name was changed to Hartford Theological Seminary. It was affiliated in 1902 with the Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy. It includes a department of missions, known as the Kennedy School of Missions in memory of John Stewart Kennedy. The library contains over 100,000 volumes. In 1919 there were 12 instructors and 48 students. President, W. D. MacKenzie, D. D.
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Hartlepool
an English seaport in the North Sea, consisting of Hartlepool proper and former West Hartlepool, separated by Hartlepool Bay. A parliamentary borough of Durham County. The first harbor was constructed at West Hartlepool in 1847, of 12 acres, and has since been greatly enlarged. The dock area of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool together, including the timber and shipbuilding yards, etc., is over 300 acres in extent. Extensive iron shipbuilding yards, cement works, wood pulp works, and marine engine building establishments have been established. Governed from 1854 by a local commission, the town was created a municipal borough in 1887. Pop. of municipal was borough about 85,300. Hartlepool bombarded by the Germans in 1914.
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Hartmannsweilerkopf
a village of Alsace, situated on a hill, which during the was a center of fighting World War. Following the French thrust into Alsace at the beginning of the war Jan. it was captured by the Germans 21, 1915, 915, and recaptured by the French, March 27, who lost it again gain on April 25 only to retake it three days later. It changed hands repeatedly, but was permanently held by the French after Oct. 16, 1915.
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Harty
JEREMIAH J., a Roman Catholic archbishop, born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1853. He was educated in St. Louis University, and St. Vincent's College. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1878. He served as rector in churches in St. Louis and organized the parish of St. Leo's in that city. He served as pastor in that church until his appointment as Archbishop of Manila in 1903. He afterward became bishop of Omaha. HARTZ. See HARZ MOUNTAINS. HARUN AL-RASCHID. See HAROUN. an American
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Haruspication
(See Divination .) Hasidim ( Pious Ones"): Devotees of a mystical phase of Judaism. They are first heard of in the pre-Maccabean age. In the first centuries of the Christian era we again hear of the Hasidim, sometimes supposed to be the descendants of the earlier sect. The later Hasidim were saints and workers of miracles, gifted with esoteric wisdom and the prophetic faculty. Early in the eighteenth century there arose yet another sect of the same name, having for its aim the revival of spirituality in the Jewish religion. Representatives of this mystic body are still to be found in Hungary, Poland, and Russia .
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Harvard
JOHN, clergyman; born in England in 1607. He was graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and came to the United States in 1637. He was made a citizen of Massachusetts and given a tract of land in Charlestown, where he began preaching as a Congregational minister, and in his will bequeathed $3,750 and 320 volumes from his library for the establishment of a college. A granite monument was erected over his remains in Charlestown in 1828, and a memorial statue on the Delta at Harvard University was unveiled in 1884. See HARVARD UNIVERSITY. in OBSERVATORY, HARVARD Cambridge, Mass., founded in 1843, equipped with a 15-inch Merz & Mahler equatorial in 1847, with an 84-inch Troughton & Simms meridian-circle in 1870, with various photometers by Professor Pickering since 1876, and with a large num number and variety of photographic telescopes, a part of the largest of them being loaned to the observatory by Mrs. Henry Draper since 1835. It is the richest endowed and in some respects (especially photographically) the best equipped observatory in the world.
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Harvest
. See Reaper; Wheat ; etc.
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Harvey Birch
the principal figure in Cooper's novel, The Spy, published in 1821.
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Harz Mountains
a mountain range of Germany, extending between the rivers Weser and Elbe, S. of Brunswick, with a length of 57 miles, a breadth of 20, and a superficial area of 900 square miles. It forms an elevated plateau, rising on most sides somewhat steeply from the plains. The range, which is divided into Upper and Lower Harz, the average elevations of which are 2,100 and 1,000 feet, respectively, is composed for the most part of rocks belonging to the Devonian and Lower Carboniferous formations, and broken through in a few places by g granite, as in the Brocken, the highest peak (3,740 feet) of central Germany. The Harz are exceedingly rich in metals and minerals, as silver, iron, lead, copper, zinc, marble, alabaster, and granite. These mountains form a natural line of division between the Low German and the High German races. Industries connected with the mines and the forests, as well as some cattle-breeding and agriculture, afford employment to the inhabitants. The rearing of singing birds is also a source of profit. The region is rich in historic and legendary interest.
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