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Kelley

HOWARD G., a Canadian

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Kellogg, Elijah

Elijah (1813-1901), an American writer for the young. Born at Portland, Maine, May 20, 1813. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1840, and at Andover Theological Seminary three years later. He became pastor of the Congregational church at Harpswell, Maine, where the greater part of his subsequent life was passed. He wrote The Elm Island Series, Pleasant Cove Series, and Good Old Times Series. School boys will remember some of his short prose declamations. "Spartacus to the Gladiators," is one of them.

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Kellogg, Kemal, Kendrick & King

Kellogg FRANK B., defeated for reelection to the U. S. Senate, 1922. Kemal MUSTAPHA. (See TURKEY: NATIONALIST MOVEMENT.) Kendrick JOHN B., re-elected to the Senate, 1922. King WILLIAM HENRY, re-elected Senator, 1922, for the term 1923-29. Koo, VI-KYUIN WELLINGTON, represented China on the Council of the League of Nations and was acting president of that body in 1921. For a short time in 1922 he was Foreign Minister in the cabinet at Peking.

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Kelly, Edward & Kirk, Robert

Kelly, Edward (See Dee.) Kirk, Robert (See Scotland .)

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Kelman

JOHN, a Scotch clergyman. He was born in 1864 and was educated at the Royal High School, New College, Edinburgh, and Ormond College, Melbourne. In 1890 he became assistant to the Rev. G. A. Smith in Aberdeen, ordained in 1891, minister of New North Church, Edinburgh, 1897-1907, later pastor Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York. His works include: "The Holy Land"; "Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson"; "The Light That Saves"; "Courts of the Temple"; "Salted with Fire."

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Keloid

or CHELOID, in pathology, an unsightly excrescence arising on the sternum or elsewhere, generally from over the over-active growth of a cicatrix a wound.

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Kelpie

or KELPY, a sort of mischievous spirit, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms. They generally appear in the form of a horse.

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Kelpie, The

A water spirit which, in Scotland , is believed to haunt streams and torrents. Kelpies appear to be of a mischievous nature, and were often accused of stopping the water-wheels of mills, and of swelling streams. The Kelpie is occasionally used as a name of terror to frighten unruly children; and it was believed that he also devoured women. It

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Kelsey Beds

a subdivision of the Pleistocene accumulations, consisting with marine chiefly of gravel, charged shells and remains of mammoth, rhinoceros, etc., which occurs at Kelsey Hill the near Hedon, and other places in neighborhood of Hull, England.

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Kelso

a market-town of Roxburghshire, England. It stands on the N. bank of the Tweed, her joined by the Teviot, and spanned by Rennie's noble five-arch bridge (1803). In 1126 David I. translated to "Calchou" a Tironensian abbey, founded by him at Selkirk, 13 years before. This, wrecked by the Eng lish under Hertford in 1545, is now represented by the stately ruins of its cruci form church. Across the river, on the peninsula formed by the Teviot, the royal castle and town of Roxburgh, demolished in 1460. Pop. about 4,000.

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Kelts

. See Celts

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Kelung

a town and seaport in the N. part of Formosa. It was opened to foreign commerce in 1863. Coal fields are worked by Chinese in the neighborhood, and large quantities of coal are exported. There is also an extensive export trade in rice, sugar, and camphor. Pop. 70,000.

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Kelvin

LORD. See THOMSON, SIR WILLIAM.

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Kemble, John Philip

John Philip (1757-1823), a noted English actor. He was a native of Lancashire. He completed his education in the English Catholic College of Douay in France. In 1783 he won success at Drury Lane in the character of Hamlet. Brutus and Coriolanus were favorite characters with hi. He became the manager of the Drury Lane Theater, also a stockholder in Covent Garden Theater. He left the stage in 1817, at which date a public dinner was given in his honor. His later years were spent in Switzerland. See Kean

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Kemmel

MOUNT, an elevation 500 MT, an ele feet high, wooded upon the side, N. W. upon the s of Bailleul which figured prominently in gured prot the Battle of the Lys, Ap April and May, 1918. The hill overlooked a wide ill ovariool range of country, and on April 17 пopиb the Germans attacked it heavily, conked it he tinuing the attack for several days. On April for seve 25 they renewed the attack in renewed the force from a point N. of Bailleul, push- N. of Bail ing back the Allied line along its whole line along front and taking many prisoners, and seizing many prisd the hill at nine o'clock. The British and French made great efforts to recapture the hill, but the Germans conout tinued to hold it.

MOUNT ager of this theater in 1788-1802. From 1801 to 1803 he made a most successful tour of France and Spain, and on his ad Spain. return to London purchased a share in purchas the Covent Garden Theater, and made Theater. himself a splendid reputation in the d reputat characters of Julius Cæsar, Ha ar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, etc. He abandoned s, etc. H the stage in 1817. His statue was placed His statue in Westminster Abbey in 1833. His sis- Dey in 1834 ter, Sarah, was the celebrated Mrs. Sidcelebrated dons. He died in Lausanne, Switzer- Lausanne land, Feb. 26, 1823.

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Kemp

SIR ALBERT EDWARD, a Canadian statesman. He was born at Clarenceville, Quebec , in 1858, and was educated at the Lacolle Academy. He is director of the National Trust Co. and Imperial Life Assurance Co., Toronto, and has been president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and Toronto Board of Trade. In 1900-1908 and since 1900-1908 1911 he has had a seat in the Canadian seat in the House of Commons. He was chairman He was of the War Purchasing Commission and has been Sing Commi Minister of Militia since 1916. of Militis s

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Kempis

THOMAS À (kem'pis), a AS A German mystic; born in Kempen born (whence his name, "Thomas from Kem- "Thomas pen"), near Cologne, in 1380. His true , in 1850. name was Hamerken (Latin, Malleolus). a (Latin, Sub-prior of the monastery of Mount St. nastery Agnes, near Zwolle, he was distinguished he was for piety and success as an instructor of as ag youth. He was author of the "Imitation of Christ," ore of the most famous of books. It is said that it has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible. He died in 1471.

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