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EDWARD  EVERETT   HALE

Sea or Land Within the Compass of these 1,500 Years. This work is considered of such lasting value that an edition was published in 1885-90.

Hale, Edward Everett, was born at Bos-tfon, Mass., April 3, 1822, graduated at Harvard in 1839, and ordained a Congregational minister in 1842. In 1856 he was called to the South Congregational (Unitarian) Church in Boston. His influence in benevolent movements has been widespread. His book, Ten Times One IsTen(iBjo) originated in the United States a series of clubs called Lend a Hand, and some with other names, which have branches in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific island. The society of The King's Daughters also owes its beginning to Dr. Hale. The motto of these clubs is: "Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand." Dr. Hale has edited religious and other journals, Lingard's History of England and original documents from the British state-papers and the British Museum, relating to the founding of Virginia. He was long the chaplain of the United States Senate, His published books, mostly stories, number nearly 50, the best known of which are The Man without a Country, In His Name, Ten Times One Is Ten and Philip Nolan's Friends; together with the Story of Massachusetts, Lowell and his Friends and Memoirs of a Hundred Years. His collected works appeared in a series of volumes in 1091. He died June 10, 1900.

Hale, John Parker, American statesman, was born at Rochester, N. H., March 31, 1806, and died at Dover, N. H., Nov. 19, 1873. After graduating at Bowdoin College, he studied law and in 1830 was admitted to the bar of his state. In 1842 he was elected to congress, after which he sat in the United States senate from 1847 to 1853 and from 1855 to 1865. In the interval he was candidate of the Free Soil party^ for the presidency, but was defeated by Pierce. He was a born orator, and possessed no little humor and pathos. From 1865 "to 1869 he held the post of United States minister to Spain. In his later years he was affected by paralysis, which for several years before his death impaired his mental and physical faculties.

Hale, Nathan, was an American soldier in the Revolutionary army, who rose to the rank of captain. He was born at

Coventry, Conn., June 6, 1755. Having volunteered to penetrate the British lines and procure information for Washington, he was detected and executed as a spy in New York city, Sept. 22, 1776. See The Two Spies, Nathan Hale and John Andre, by Lossing.

Half«Tone, a process by which reproductions of photographs, engravings and wash-drawings are made on copper or zinc plates for printing. A photographic negative of the picture to be reproduced is made through a screen consisting of two glass-plates which have been prepared as follows; Each glass-plate is coated with a prepared varnish, then ruled at an angle of.45° with a diamond-pointed cutter, the parallel lines being of any fineness desired. It is then treated with an acid which eats or etches the exposed lines, which are then filled with an opaque pigment and baked in an oven. The glass is then polished smooth, leaving the clear glass transparent. The two, ruled glass-plates are placed together, so that the lines cpss at right angles, and are cemented with Canada balsam. This screen is placed in the camera in front of the sensitive plate, and the image is thus broken into dots and the light and shade of the original are preserved. A sensitized plate — generally of. copper — is exposed under the half-tone negative, the plate is then given a cold-water bath, and the parts of the coating not printed on are washed out. The picture remaining upon the plate is hardened by a baking process, and is then etched; the plate is carefully finished and mounted on a wood block type high and is ready for the printing-press.

Hal' ibur' ton, Hon. Thomas Chandler (Sam Slick), was born at Windsor, N. S., in December, 1796. He was called to the bar and became chief justice of the court of common pleas of Nova Scotia in 1828 and of the supreme court in 1840, resigning and going to England in 1856, where he died, near Isleworth, Aug. 27, 1867. He is still remembered for his humorous and historical writings, which include The Clock-maker: or Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville, nrst series (1837), second series (1838), third series (1840); The Attache: or Sam Slick in England (1843); The Bubbles of Canada (1839); The Old Judge: or Life in a Colony (1843), ^n addition to a History of Nova Scotia.

Hal' ibut, the largest of the flat fishes and the most important as a food-supply. They are more elongated in form than the other flat fishes and reach a larger size. They are dark above and whitish below. The average full-grown male weighs about 50 pounds, but the female is larger and an average weight is from 100 to 150 pounds. Besides these average sizes, exceptional sizes are recorded running up to six hundred