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LEFT HARPY 474 HABmS wall Jackson at this point. It is the seat of Storer College, and has considerable local trade. Pop. about 1,000. HARPY, a fabulous creature in Greek mythology, considered as a minister of the vengeance of the gods. Various ac- counts are given of the numbers and parentage of the Harpies. Homer men- tions but one, Podarge; Hesiod enumer- ates two, Aello and Okypete, daughters of Thaumas by the Oceanid Electra, fair-haired and winged maidens, very swift of flight. Three are sometimes rec- ognized by later writers, who call them variously daughters of Poseidon or of Typhon, and describe them as hideous monsters with wings, of fierce and loath- some aspect, with their faces pale with hunger, living in an atmosphere of filth and stench, and contaminating every- thing that they approached. Vergil lo- cates them in the Strophades. A harpy in heraldry is represented as a vulture, with the head and breast of a woman. HARRADEN, BEATRICE, an Eng- lish novelist, daughter of an East India agent in London; born about 1864. Af- ter private schooling and a season in Germany, she took her degi'ee at London University at 21. She was then em- ployed in a publishing house, but ill health compelled her to leave. Her first novel, "Ships That Pass in the Night," was instantly successful. This was fol- lowed by "In Varying Moods," "Things Will Take a Turn," "Hilda Strafford," "The Fowler," "The Scholar's Daughter" (1906) ; "Interplay" (1908) ; "Out of the Wreck I Rise" (1912); "Where Your Heart Is" (1918). HARRIGAN, EDWARD, an Ameri- can actor and playwright; born in New York, in 1845. He formed a partnership with Tony Hart (1871-1885), when the two opened in New York their first The- atre Comique (1876), bringing out there the "Mulligan Guard" series of plays. Among his dramas, which are all of humble New York life, strong in char- acter drawing, though weak in a liter- ary sense, may be named "Squatter Sov- ereignty" and "Cordelia's Aspirations." In 1903-1904 he produced "Under Cov- er." He died in 1911. HARRIMAlSr, EDWARD HENRY, an American financier and railroad offi- cial, born at Hempstead, N. Y., in 1848. He was educated in the public schools and at Trinity School, New York City. Entering commercial life at the age of fourteen, he advanced rapidly, and was a member of the Stock Exchange when barely past his majority. He was the founder of the banking and brokerage house of Harriman & Co. In 1883 ha became identified with the Illinois Cen- tral railroad as a director, proceeding, in 1887, to the vice-presidency. From this position, he began his organizing and consolidating operations, which ex- tended to the acquisition of the Central and Southern Pacific roads in 1897-1898 and of the connecting lines to the Pacific Coast. His next step was thwarted by J. J. Hill and resulted in the Stock Ex- change panic in 1901, after Harriman had failed to gain control of the Great Northern. Harriman was, if not the originator, at least one of the most note- worthy exponents of the use of "watered stock," as the subsequent investigations of the Interstate Commerce Commission revealed, notably in the Chicago and Al- ton railroad deal in 1901. He was ac- tively interested in politics, and although a heavy contributor to the Roosevelt campaign fund of 1904, his financial methods led Roosevelt to break with him later. Many times prosecuted by the Federal government under the Sherman Act, Harriman was able to maintain his operations and actually increase his grip upon the railroad system of the country. He died in 1909, leaving an estate of over $200,000,000 to his wife. HARRIS, SIR AUGUSTUS GLOS- SOP, an English actor, manager, and dramatist; born in Paris, in 1852. Ap- pearing on the stage in 1873, in 1879 he became lessee and manager of Drury Lane Theater, where he produced popu- lar pantomimes and melodramas written in collaboration — among them: "The Woi;ld"; "Youth"; "Human Nature"; "Rifn of Luck"; "Prodigal Daughter": "Life of Pleasure"; "Derby Winner.*^ He induced the revival of grand opera at Covent Garden. He was made sheriff of London and knighted in 1891. He died in Folkestone, England, Jan. 22, 1896. HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE), an American writer, born at Farm Hill, Ga., in 1869. In 1887 she married Rev. Lundy Howard Harris. She began writ- ing in 1899. Her published books in- clude "The Jessica Letters" (1904) ; "A Circuit Rider's Wife" (19i0) ; "Eve's Second Husband" (1910) ; and "In Search of a Husband" (1913). She vis- ited Europe during the World War and contributed articles to the "Saturday Evening Post." HARRIS, FRANK, an editor and writer, born in Galway, Ireland, 1854. In 1870 he came to the United States where he studied in the University of Kansas. Later he was also a student in half a dozen European universities,