Montrose
a seaport of Forfarshire, Scotland, 76 miles N. N. E. of Edinburgh and 42 S. S. W. of Aberdeen, on a level peninsula between Montrose Basin and the mouth of the river South Esk. A fine suspension bridge (1829), 432 feet long, leads to Inchbrayock or Rossie Island, in the Esk's channel, and is continued thence by a drawbridge. The foreign trade (timber its staple), is chiefly with the Baltic and Canada; and the average tonnage of ships entering the port exceeds 90,000 tons per annum. Flax spinning is the principal industry; and ropes, canvas, soap, etc., are also manufactured. It has memories of Edward I., the two Melvilles, the Great Marquis, the Old Pretender, Dr. Johnson, and Lola Montez. Pop. about 13,000.
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Monument Park
situated N. of Colorado Springs in El Paso co., Col. Though small in extent, the park has many claims of interest, because of the natural stone columns rising 15 to 25 feet from the ground. They are composed of sandstone and are capped by a firm ferruginous sandstone which joins the pillars in pairs and groups. The effects of the weather and erosions of time have given some of the columns a rough resemblance to fantastic figures of human shape, some striking and grotesque.
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Monumental City
. See Baltimore
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Moody, Dwight Lyman
Dwight Lyman (1837-1899), an American evangelist. He was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, and died there. A farmer's boy, a shoe salesman in Boston, again a salesman in Chicago, he became interested in the mission work of the latter city. From 1860 on he gave himself up to holding revival services chiefly in connection with the Congregational churches. During the Civil War he worked among the soldiers. At its close he resumed work in Chicago, becoming associated with Ira D. Sankey, the singer, with whom he visited England and Scotland, holding immense meetings. Great meetings were held also in nearly every large city of the Union. An admirer estimates that Mr. Moody addressed in all no less than 50,000,000 people. Toward the close of his labors he made his home at the place of his birth, where he established an academy for girls, one for boys, and a training school for revival workers. He was a man of fervent, simple eloquence, whose sayings linger.
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Moonwort
an interesting fern, native of Great Britain, and widely distributed over northern Europe, penetrating to Arctic regions and Asia, the few other species of which the family is composed appearing also in North America. The plant consists of a root-stock bearing a single erect stem from three to six inches high. A single pinnate leaf springs from the stem about midway, the segments halfmoon shaped, pale green, and thick. The fructification is developed on a branched , pyramidal in outline, from one two inches long. The largest growing , named the rattlesnake fern, abounds in places frequented by that
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Moor
a native of the N. coast of Africa, which formed the ancient Mauritania, now represented by the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli. In 709 the Arabs conquered Mauritania, and converted the people to Mohammed. anism. The conquerors and the conquered amalgamated together, and in 711 an army of this mixed populatión, under Arab leaders, crossed at the Straits of Gibraltar, and began the conquest of the Spanish peninsula. This they speedily effected, with the exception of the mountainous districts of Asturias and Galicia. When almost the whole of the rest of Europe was sunk in ignorance and barbarism, learning and the arts flourished among the Moors in Spain. About the middle of the 11th century, many of the local governors established themselves as independent potentates. The wars that followed so weakened the power of the Moors that the Christians rose against them under Alfonso, "the battler," and took Castile, with its capital, Toledo. Their progress was for a time checked; but subsequently they continued to extend their conquests till the
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Moor Fowl
. See Grouse
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Moorhead
a city of Minnesota, the county-seat of Clay co., situated on the Red river of the North, and on the North ern Pacific and Great Northern railroads. It contains the State normal school and Concordia College. It has also an excellent public library. The city is the center of a productive agricultural community. It has grain elevators, silo factories, railroad yards, foundries, and machine shops. Pop. (1910) 4,840; (1920) 5,720.
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Mooruk
a variety of cassowary, inhabiting the island of New Britain.
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Moosehead Lake
the chief lake in New England, situated on the border of Somerset and Piscataquis counties, Maine. It is about 35 miles long and 12 miles wide. It has an area of about 115 square miles. The Roach and Moose rivers empty into it, and its outlet is the Kennebec river. The lake is one of the most important centers for hunting in New England and at Greenville are excellent hotel accommodations.
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Moosejaw
the chief city of a division of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Moosejaw river, and on the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railways. The city has many important public edifices, including a public library, court house, city hall, and collegiate institute. It has also important industrial interests, including iron works, flour mills, lumber mills, and manufactories of automobiles and tractors. Pop. about 14,000. MOOSE, LOYAL ORDER OF, an American secret and benevolent organization founded by Dr. J. H. Wilson at Louisville, Ky., in 1888. The purposes of the order are social and fraternal, and to furnish payments to members during illness, and funeral benefits. The first lodge was established at Cincinnati, O. The organization owns an estate of 1,000 acres at Mooseheart, near Aurora, Ill., where has been established a home, farm, and school for orphans and dependent members. The order is governed through the supreme lodge. There were in 1920 1,600 lodges and over 600,- 000 members.
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Moplas
a race of southern India, mainly near the Malabar coast, who as fanatical Mohammedans have caused trouble by outbreaks. Descended from the old Arab traders, they number about 700,000.
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Mopses, The
A secret association imported into Germany , which celebrated the rites of the gnostic Sabbath. It replaced the Kabalistic "goat" by the Hermetic as an object of worship. The candidate for the order was brought into the circle of adepts with the eyes bandaged in the midst of a great uproar, and after saluting the idol was initiated. The sign of recognition was a grimace. Tho whole doctrine of the society was that of black magic . The Mopses recruited only among Catholics, and for the oath at reception they substituted a solemn engagement on honour to reveal no secrets of the order, the practices of which much resembled the Sabbath of mediæval sorcerers.
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