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* HENDERSON. 757 HEN-HAWK. Orchestral Music (1902), and numerous other tales and stories. HEN'DEBSONVILXE. A town and the county-scat of Henderson County, N. C, 21 miles south of Asheville; on the Southern Railway (Map: North Carolina, B 4). It has a tannery, a furniture-factory, a lumber-yard, etc., and considerable trade in agricultural products, par- ticularly potatoes, cabbages, and apples. Tlie town enjoys considerable popularity as a summer resort. Population, in 1890, 121G; in 1900, 1017. HEN'DON. A towTi in Middlesex, England, situated on the picturesque coach route from London to Saint Alban's, six miles northwest of Saint Pancras Station, London (Map: London, C 6). Population, in 1891, 15,800; in 1901, 22,- 450. HEN'DEICKS, Thomas Andrews (1819-85). An American politician. He was born near Zanesville, Ohio; was early taken by his parents to Indiana; graduated at South Hanover College in 1841, and two years later was admitted to the bar. He practiced his profession with suc- cess in Indiana; was a member of the Legisla- ture and the State Constitutional Convention of 1851 : and was a member of Congress from 1851 lo 1855. He was United States Senator from 1803 to 1869, and in 1868 was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. In the next Presidential election, the Democratic candidate, Horace Greeley, having died before the casting of the electoral votes, they were given to Hendricks. He was Governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877. He ran for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Samuel .T. Til- den in 1876, and was elected Vice-President in 1884 on the ticket with Grover Cleveland, but died on November 25th of the following year. HENTKICKSON, George Lincoln (1865 — ). An American Latinist, born at Winchester, 111. He was educated at Beloit College, the Johns Hopkins University, and the universities of Bonn and Berlin. From 1S91 to 1896 he was professor of Latin at the University of Wisconsin, and in 1897 was appointed to a similar chair at the University of Chicago. His writings include fre- quent contributions to the Ayyierican Journal of Philolofiy on subjects relating to the history of Latin literature. HENGEST, heng'gest, or HENGIST AND HOB'SA. The legendary leaders of the first (Jennaiiic invaders of Britain. About 449 A.D. a band of Jutes landed at Ebbsfleet on the island of Thanet. They came from the peninsula now called Jutland, and, according to tradition, were in three vessels. Tradition has assigned to their leaders the names of Hengest and Horsa, one meaning the horse and the other the mare. It is now generally held that these names are mj'thi- eal. This point of view is confirmed by the fact that Hengest is the name assigned to the hero of many different traditions. The cromlech called 'Wayland Smithy' has sometimes been designated as a monument to Hengest and Horsa. Consult Elton. Oric/ius of Enr/Ush Ilislory (Lon- don. 1882). See Anglo-Saxons. HENGSTENBERG, heng'stcn-bfrK. Ernst WiLHELM (1802-69). The leader of the Conser- vative School of theologians in Germany during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was born in Westphalia. October 20. 1802, the son of a clergyman. He studied at Bonn and became tutor in Basel (1823-24). Going to Berlin in 1824 as privat-docent, he put himself at the head of a rising orthodox school, and, with most con- scientious devotedness, made the scientific defense of their principles the aim of his labors in the university and through the press. Ho was made professor extraordinary in 1826, and full pro- fessor in 1828. As editor of the Evanij<'lisclie Kircheiizeitung, begun in 1827, he combated rationalism even in n.s mildest forms, .seeking to restore the orthodoxy and (Jhurch discipline of the sixteenth and seventetmth centuries. Vith the same view were written all his principal works: Chrislologie des alten Testaments (1829- 35; 2d ed. 1854-57); Beiirdge zur Einleitung ins alle Testament (1831-39); Kommentar iiber die Psalmen (1842-45; 2d ed. 1850) ; Das llohe- lied Salomonis ausgelegt (1853); and others devoted to the defense of the old interpreta- tion and criticism of the Scriptures against the results of modern biblical science. Hengsten- berg's influence in ecclesiastical matters also was employed in carrying out the high Lutheran dogmas of the Church, of Church otKces, and of the sacraments, by persecution of sectaries, by opposition to the union of Lutherans and Re- formed, and by attempts to depose from their chairs Gesenius, Wegscheider, De Wette, and other rationalistic teachers in the universities. He died in Berlin, May 28, 18G9. Among his later works were: Die Weissagungen dcs Prophe- ten Ezekiel (1867-68); Geschichte des Reiches Gottes unter dem alien Bunde (1809-71); Das Btich Biob erlautert (1870-75). Most of his ex- egetical and critical works have been translated. For his life, consult Bachmann and Schmalen- bach (Gutersloh, 1876-92). HEN-HARRIER. See Hen-Hawk. HEN-HAWK, Hen-Harrieb, or Chicken- Hawk. A hawk which attacks poultry. This definition includes an extensive list and variety of birds of prey, if the entire English-speaking world is considered, and the accusation is not always a fair one, as the offense is occasional rather than habitual with many of the birds against which it is charged. The term 'hen-har- rier' is British, and belongs to the subfamily Circina?, represented in the United States by the innocent marsh-hawk (q.v.). Many of the eagles and larger falcons, as well as some of the smaller ones, do now and then swoop upon domestic fowls: yet these robberies constitute only a small proportion of their food, which mainly consists of small mammals, frogs, grasshoppers, and other insects. In certain places, the smaller falcons may become a serious local nuisance to the poul- try-keeper, especially -in winter; but in general the harm they do is far more than compensated for by their service to agriculturists in destroy- ing injurious rodents and insects. The miscel- laneous destruction of hawks and owls is there- fore unwise. The species commonly called hen- hawks include two birds, the red-tailed and the red-shouldered hawk. See Buzzard. Red-Tailed Hawk. Tlie redtail (Butco bore- alis) is one of the largest, most numerous, and most widely distributed of North .American buz- zard-hawks. It is from 19 to 25 inches long, and its spread of wings is from 49 to 58 inches. In maturity the upper surface is blnckish-brown, variegated with whitish and dull rust-color, the last tint growing brighter on the upper surface