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* EPILEPTIC COLONY. 151 EPIPHANIUS. home production of canned goods, hay, grain, fod- der, and vegetables, to $111.1 17.96. The State of New Jersey set apart, in 18!)8, a farm of 187 acres on the Sou Hand Mountain, near Skillman, Somerset County, for the estab- lishment of an epileptic colony. Later it ac- quired the adjoining farm of 213 acres, on which buildings are being erected for the reception of the 1000 epileptic patients who arc wards of the State. The Massachusetts colony for epileptics was opened in 18!)8 at Mon- son, and comprises 237 acres, one-half of which is tillable. It shelters over 250 patients. A private corporation, known as the Pennsylvania Epileptic Hospital and Colony Farm, established in 1898 a colony of thirty patients at Oakbourne, on a farm of 110 acres. Illinois began to establish her Stale epileptic colony at Notch Cliff, near Elsah, in Jersey County, to accommodate the 4000 or 5000 epileptics in the State, ami Texas began to es- tablish a colony for epileptics near Abilene in 1902. EPTLO'BITJM (Neo-Lat, from Gk. M, epi, upon + 2.o/3Ar, lobos, lobe, pod). A genus of plants of the order Onagrariea>. the members of which have four deciduous sepals, four petals, a much elongated, quadripartite, many-seeded capsule, and seeds tufted with hairs at one end. The spe- cies are herbaceous perennials, natives of temper- ate and cold countries, and very widely diffused in both the Northern and the Southern Hemi- spheres. The fireweed (Epilooium amgustifoli- um ) is frequently planted in gardens and shrub- beries on account of its numerous and beautiful rose-colored flowers. It is called fireweed, from its very common occurrence in tracts that have been recently burned over, in which places it is one of the first plants to appear. It is found in very northern regions. The pith, when dried, yields a quantity of sugar to boiling water, and is used in Kamchatka for making a kind of ale, from which also vinegar is made. EP'ILOGTJE (Lat. epilogus, Gk. iirtXoyoc, con- clusion, from ETriXfyfii/, epilegein, to say in addi- tion, from ettI, epi. upon + syeLv, legein, to say). In oratory, the summing up or conclusion of a discourse: but, in connection with the drama, it denotes the short speech in prose or verse which frequently, in former times, was subjoined to plays, especially to comedies EPIMENIDES, ep'I-men'i-dez (Lat., from Gk. EirifievlSr/s). A Greek priest of Crete, said to have come to Athens about B.C. 600. and purified {he city from the guilt contracted by putting to death the adherents of Cylon (q.v.). The person- ality of Epimenides early became hidden under a mass of legend, as in the case of other prophets of new religious revelations in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., when the Orphic movement was at its height, and to him was attached the common folk-tale of a prolonged sleep. To him are attributed the lines cited by Saint Paul (Titus i. 12) : "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons." He is also said to have written a poem on the voyage of the Argonauts, and numerous oracles. Consult: Schultess, De Epimenide Crete (Gottingen, 1877); Loescheke, Die Enneakrunos-Episode bei Pausanias (Dorpat, 1883) ; Toepfer, Attische Genealogie (Berlin. 1889) ; Kern, De Orphei, Epimenidis, Pherecydis Theogoniis (Berlin. 1S8S) : Diels. Epimenides von Kreta ( Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie, 1891) ; Rohde, Psych l I n iburg, 1860-94] IV- moulin, Epimenide  Crete (Brussels, I9t EPIME'THEUS I Lat.. from Gk. 'En ■,. afterthought). The son of [apetus and I lymene, brother of Prometheus and husband of Pandora (q.v.), with whom he begol Pyrrha, the wife of Deucalion. See Prometiiei s. EPINAL, a'pe'nal'. The capital of the French Department of Vosges, situated at the western base of the Vosges Mountains on both banks of the Moselle, 2t>4 miles by rail east- southeast of Paris (Map: France, N 3). it is a well-built, handsome town, with clean and regular streets, a number of squares, a hos- pital, a college, and a library containing a num- ber of valuable old volumes. The departmental museum contain.-, several collections and a fine picture gallery. Among its chief buildings are the parish church, an antique Gothic structure; the barracks, and the residence of the prefect of the department. There are ruins of an old castle and scanty remains of ramparts of the thirteenth century. Modern forts crown the sur- rounding hills. A monument commemorates the victims of the war of 1870-71, when the Ger- mans occupied the town after a brief battle. Epinal has a variety of manufactures, includ- ing cotton fabrics, wrought-iron, pottery, cutlery, paper, and leather, and has some trade in grain, wine, and timber.' Population, in 1901, 28,080. EPINAL GLOSSARY. A glossary of Anglo- Saxon and old Saxon, ascribed to the end of the seventh century, and so called because preserved at Epinal, France. A facsimile has been pub- lished by Sweet (London, 1883). EP1NASTY (from Gk.ent, .711, upon +vaar6s, nastos, closely packed, from pao-cttv, nassein, to press close). In plants, the more rapid growth of a dorsi ventral organ upon its upper side, cans ing the organ to bend downward or to be pressed close to the earth. This may be brought about by various external causes or by unknown internal causes. See Growth. EPINAY, a'pe'na'. Loose Florence Petro- xille Tardief d'Esclavelles de la Live d' ( 1726-83). A French writer of memoirs, born at Valenciennes. The friend of noted literary men, among them Diderot, D'Alembert, and Holbach, her relations with Rousseau and F. M. Grimm were more intimate still. She had been unhappi- ly married at nineteen to a cousin, who proved worthless, and in 1756 she retired to a cottage, the famous Hermitage, in the valley of Mont- morency, where, during Grimm's absence from France (1775-76), Rousseau resided. There, with the help of Diderot, she conducted acceptably Grimm's famous Correspondence with European Courts. She wrote Les conversations d'Emilie 1 1774), a complement to Rousseau's Emile, de- signed for the education of her granddaughter, and crowned by the Academy in the year of her death, and MSmoires ct correspondance (3 vols., 1818). Consult; Fallue, La Marquise d'Epinay (Paris, 1866); Percy et Maugras, La jeunesse de Madame d'Epinay 1 Paris, 1882), and Les dernidres annies • !<■ Madame d'Epinay (ib.. 1883). EP'IOR'NIS. See .Epyorxis. EPTIPHA'NITJS (Lat., from Gk. 'E*-<0<£iws, Epiphanios), Saint (c. 315-403). A Christian bishop and writer. He was born of Jewish par-