Stewart Island
an island of New Zealand, S. of South Island; area, 655 square miles. STEWART, CHARLES D., an American writer, born at Zanesville, Ohio, in 1868. He was educated in the public schools of Milwaukee and at Wayland Academy (Wis.). From 1915 to 1916 he was executive secretary to the governor of Wisconsin. Besides contributing many short stories, poems, etc., to magazines, he also wrote "The Fugitive Black-gle against Great Britain. When the smith" (1905); "Partners of Providence" (1907); "Essays on the Spot" (1910); "The Wrong Woman" (1912); "Finerty of the Sand-house" (1913);
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Steyn (II)
MARTINUS THEUNIS, a Boer statesman; born in Winburg, Orange Free State, Oct. 2, 1857; worked on his father's farm till 1876, when he went to England England to study. He returned to Africa in 1882 and practised law in Bloemfontein till 1889, when he was made second puisne judge and state attorney. Later he became first puisne judge, and in 1896 was chosen president of Orange Free State. For a number of years before his election to the presidency he had been in communication with President Krüger and their close relations finally resulted in the union of the interests of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in their strug- Boer War broke out he took the field in person with the Free State troops. When Great Britain in 1910 federated the Orange Free State and Transvaal as the Union of South Africa, Steyn subscribed to the constitution, but he was believed to favor the rebellion of 1915. He died in 1916.
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Stibnite
trisulphide of antimony, an ore consisting of 72.88 antimony and 27.12 sulphur. The color is lead-gray or blackish, and is very brittle. ore is the source of most of the antimony Called also antimony of commerce. glance.
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Stickseed
a plant of the borage family. A more common name is beggar's lice. The name is due to from one to three rows of prickles or hooks which arm the seeds, causing them to adhere to clothing, the hair of animals, etc. The hooks are one of Nature's devices for scattering the seeds. The seeds catch in the wool of sheep and make clots which give no end of trouble to the wool spinner. The most common American stickseed is known to botanists as Echino-spermum Virginicum, meaning the Virginian hedgehog seed. This weed has minute blue flowers which remind one some-what of the forget-me-not. The stem and leaves are hairy. The plant is a pest along roads and in sheep pastures.
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Stigmaria
in palæobotany, a pseudo-genus of coal plants, now proved by roots chiefly of actual union to be the Sigillaria, but in some cases of Lepidodendron. Cylindrical, trunk-like bodies, often more or less compressed, the external surface of which is covered with shallow pits, sometimes with a rootlet projecting. Very abundant in the fireclay of the carboniferous rocks, the old soil in which the Sigillariæ grew. The common species is S. ficoides.
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Stigmatization
the appearance or impression of counterparts of all or some of the wounds received by Jesus in His Passion, in their appropriate positions on the human body. The first case on record, and the most important, is that of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscans. It is said that while the saint was engaged in a fast of 40 days on Mount A Alvernus, in the year 1224, a crucified seraph with six wings appeared and discoursed to him of heavenly things. Francis fainted, and on recovering consciousness found himself marked with the wounds of crucifixion in his hands, his feet, and right side. Thomas à Celana and St. Buonaventura attested the case, and Pope Alexander IV. (1254-1261) claimed to have seen the stigmata during the life time of St. Francis and after his death. A feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis is celebrated in the Roman Church on September 17. The Dominicans claimed a similar distinction for a saint of their order (St. Catherine of Siena, 1347- 1380), and the fact of her stigmatization is recorded in the fifth lection of the office of her feast (April 30) in the Roman Breviary. She is honored with a special feast in her own order, though she is never represented in painting or sculpture with the stigmata. Since then many persons have claimed to have received these marks of divine favor.
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Stikine River
the largest and most important stream of southeastern Alaska. Its course is primarily in British Columbia and forms the principal route between the interior of British Columbia and the Pacific Ocean. In the summer steamer service is provided as far as Telegraph Creek, about 175 miles from the mouth of the river.
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Stilbite
a mineral of a shining pearly luster, of a white color, or white shaded with gray, yellow, or red. It has been associated with zeolite, and called foliated zeolite and radiated zeolite.
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Stiles
CHARLES WARDELL, an American zoologist, born at Spring Valley, in 1867. He attended the Wesleyan University in 1885-6, and later_studied . In 1891 in Germany and in France he became connected with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, and from 1902 was consulting zoologist. He was professor of zoology for the United States Public Health Service, from 1902, and was assistant surgeon-general of this service, from 1919. He also occиpied chairs of zoölogy in several universities, including Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins. He was a member of many international commissions on chemical subjects, and was a member of many scientific societies. He was the author of many books on diseases of cattle and kindred subjects, and was an authority on hookworm and other obscure diseases.
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Stilicho
FLAVIUS, a Vandal of great genius and bravery, who distinguished_himself at the declining period of the Roman empire, was advanced to the highest dignities of the state by Theodosius the Great, and married Serena, the emperor's adopted daughter, besides being intrusted in 394 with the guardianship of his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius. On the division of the empire, Stilicho became virtual governor of the West, in the character of first minister to Honorius, while the same power in the East was exercised by Rufinus, under Arcadius, the other emperor. The military genius of Stilicho, after this period, was exhibited in the reduction of Africa which had been led into a revolt by Eutropius the successor of Rufinus at the Eastern court, and subsequently in the great contests with Alaric and Radagaisus. In the year 403 he routed the former near Verona, and in 406 put the hosts of the latter to flight and killed their commander. While Stilicho lived he sustained the fortunes of the Roman name, but he was accused of having a secret understanding with Alaric, and was treacherously put to death in 408. The wives and children of 30,000 Germans who were in his service were massacred at the same time.
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