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LEBANON

Cavalry School for the instruction of army officers and a military prison are also located here. Leavenworth has a population of 19,363.

Lebanon (Ubf'd-nun§, a Turkish province and Syrian mountain-range running from north to south. The range is divided into Lebanon on the west and Anti-Lebanon on the east, with a valley between, traversed by Litany and El-Asi Rivers. The highest peak, El-Kudib, on the north of the Lebanon range, reaches an elevation of 10,018 feet. The western sides are covered by rich vegetation, many acres being devoted to vine-cultivation and the mulberry tree, as silk-manufacturing is one of the main industries of the inhabitants, who number about 200,000. Tobacco, wheat, barley and millet are cultivated, and the mountaineers keep large flocks of goats and sheep. Many remains, besides those at the head of the Kadisha valley, of the large cedar forests of Solomon's time still stand. In 1860 the government was taken from Turkey and given to a Christian governor under the protection of the European powers.

Lebanon, Pa., an old but growing city, the capital of Lebanon County in southeastern Pennsylvania, is 24 miles east of Harrisburg, on the Philadelphia and Reading and Cornwall and Lebanon railroads. It lies in a good agricultural country watered by Swatara Creek, and is rich in good brick-clay and stone quarries. The Cornwall iron mills adjoin the city, and it has iron-furnaces, rolling mills, machine shops, stove, boiler, nut, chain and bolt works, furniture, organ and cigar factories, agricultural implement works, steel plants and a silk mill. It has admirable public and parochial schools, a business college and a school of telegraphy. It has several churches, four libraries and six banks. Population 10,2/to.

Le Brun (le-brun), Charles, a French historical painter, was born at Paris, Feb. 22, 1619, and was taken to Rome by Nicholas Poussin, where he studied for four years. Returning to Paris, he was employed by Fouquet, Cardinal Mazarin, Anne of Austria and Louis XIV, and was made the first director of the famous Gobelin tapestry-works at their foundation in 1660. While in full charge of the decoration of Versailles and called the founder of the French school of painters, a rival in royal favor arose and Le Brun retired, sickened, and died on Feb. 12, 1600.

Le Brun, Marie, a French painter, was born at Paris, April 16, 1755, and in 1776 married J. B. P. Le Brun, the grandnephew of Charles Le Brun. Her great beauty and charming painting made her very popular, and her first painting of Marie Antoinette (1779) made her the friend of the queen. In 1783, after much opposition on account of her sex, she was admitted a member of the Royal Academy of Painting. She left Paris at the Revolution, and after a triumphant tour of Europe, arrived in London in 1802, where she painted the portraits of the Prince of Wales, Lord Byron and others. She returned to Paris in 1805, and remained there until her death, March 30, 1842. Many of her best works, which, besides portraits, comprise landscapes and historical subjects, are in the Louvre in Paris.

 Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, historian and philosopher, was born near Dublin, March 26, 1838, and graduated from Trinity in 1850. He anonymously published Leaders of Public Opinion in Ire-land, brilliant essays on Flood, Swift, Grattan, and O'Connell. His later works are History of Rationalism in Europe, History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne and his philosophical study and historical portraiture of England in the Eighteenth Century. He sat in the House of Commons for Dublin University, but declared strongly against Irish Home rule. His later works include Democracy and Liberty and reflective philosophy entitled The Map of Life. He died on Oct. 22, 1903. 

Leclaire (le-cUrf}, Edme-Jean father of the modern system of profit-sharing, was born at Aisy-sur-Armanjon, 100 miles southeast of Paris, May 14, 1801. At Paris he apprenticed himself to a house-painter, and in his 26th year began business on his own account. Having a large number of workmen under him, and believing that it was his duty not only to pay them reasonable wages but to build up their manlines-s and self-respect and to do away with all causes of antagonism between himself and his workmen, he determined to adopt Pre-gier's advice and allow them to participate in the profits of his business. The system of profit-sharing which he devised worked most successfully. There were no strikes among his workmen; they not only worked more faithfully and efficiently, but were better satisfied than employes under a strict wage system. To what extent Leclaire's principle of profit-sharing might be made a means of solving all questions now in issue between capital and labor is a question well-worthy the consideration of all political economists and social reformers. Leclaire died on July 13, 1872.

Le Conte (le kdnf) Joseph (1823-1901), an eminent American physicist, born in

WILLIAM E. H. LECKY