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Wartburg (q.v.), just outside, and a 

 ruined castle stands on an adjacent 

 rock. The town was founded by a 

 landgrave of Thuringia, and after 

 being part of Thuringia passed to 

 Saxony. It was the capital of one 

 of the little principalities into 

 which Saxony was divided for a 

 number of years, until in 1741 it 

 was finally united "with Saxe- 

 Weimar, of which it became the 

 second capital. Pop. 38,362. 



Eisenberg. Town of Germany, 

 in Saxe-Altenburg. It is 24 m. S. W. 

 of Altenburg, and is on the rly. 

 to Leipzig. The buildings include 

 a castle, churches, schools, etc., and 

 there are several manufactures. 

 Pop. 10,750. 



Eisenstadt. Town of Hungary, 

 hi the prov. of Odenburg, known 

 also as Kismarton. It is 25 m. S.E. 

 of Vienna, at the base of the 

 Leitha Mts. It is famous for its 

 magnificent palace, long the resi- 

 dence of the Esterhazy family. 

 Built in 1683, and enlarged in 1805, 

 this has a fine library and beauti- 

 ful gardens. The town has also a 

 Franciscan monastery, with a 

 church in which the Esterhazy s 

 are buried. Haydn was conductor 

 of the palace orchestra from 1760 

 to 1790, and he is buried in a 

 church near that of Maria-Einsie- 

 del, a popular pilgrim resort. 



Eisfeld. Town of Saxe-Meinin- 

 gen, Germany. It stands on the 

 Werra, 23 m. from Meiningen, and 

 is known for its association with 

 Luther. The town church, a 16th 

 century building, contains a statue 

 of the reformer, and near is the 

 grave of his friend, Justus Jonas, 

 who was its minister. Pop. 4,100. 



Eisleben. Town of Germany 

 in the Prussian prov. of Saxony. 

 It is 20 m. W.N. W. of Halle, and is 

 famous for its association with 

 Luther, who was born and died 

 there. The chief churches are those 

 of S. Andrew and SS. Peter and 

 Paul. The memorials of Luther 

 include the house hi which ho 

 died, now a museum, a school 

 which he founded, and a bronze 

 statue. Eisleben has a school of 

 mining, and is the trading centre 

 for the silver and copper mines 

 of the neighbourhood. Eisleben is 

 divided into an old and a new 

 town. It was long on the lands of 

 the counts of Mansfeld. In 1710 

 it passed to Saxony, and in 

 1815 became part of Prussia. Pop. 

 24,629. 



Eisner, KUBT (1867-1919). 

 Name adopted by Salomon Kosnow- 

 sky, a German socialist writer and 

 politician. He was born in Berlin, 

 May 14, 1867, of Galician- Jewish 

 origin. Joining the socialists he 

 became associate editor of their 

 organ, Vorwarts. , "'. When the 



Great War broke out he joined his of an old English action to recover 

 party in supporting it, but before possession of land. Originally it 

 the end he was could only be brought by a lease- 

 one of the South holder and not by a freeholder ; but 

 German leaders by the fiction of John Doe judges 

 who opposed allowed it to be made use of by 

 freeholders, who preferred it to the 

 cumbersome remedies of a writ of 

 right, or a writ of Novel Disseisin. 

 By the Common Land Procedure 

 Act, 1852, John Doe was abolished, 

 and now an action for the posses- 

 and minister of sion of land may be brought by 

 foreign affairs, anyone entitled to such possession. 

 See Land Laws. 



Ejector. Appliance for operat- 

 ing a vacuum brake by exhausting 

 or ejecting air from the brake 

 cylinders. It consists of a pipe 

 within an outer casing with an an- 

 nular space between the two. 

 When steam is admitted to the 

 pipe, hi the act of escaping at the 

 outer end it draws the air from the 

 annular space which is connected 



most difficult climbs in the High by piping to the brake cylinders. 

 Tatra, but theview from the summit Valves are provided for controlling 



the Kaiser. On 

 the outbreak of 

 the revolution 

 he himself took 

 the position of 

 prime minister 



Kurt Eisner, 



German socialist 

 and later that of first president of 

 the Bavarian republic. He sought 

 to separate Bavaria from the other 

 German states, and to make sepa- 

 rate peace arrangements with the 

 Allies, but unavailingly, and was 

 assassinated in Munich, Feb. 21, 

 1919. His collected writings, 2 vols., 

 appeared in 1920. 



Eistaler Spitze. Peak in Czecho- 

 slovakia, 8,630 ft. It is one of the 



over the wide plain of Galicia to the 

 N., and the Hungarian lowlands to 

 the S., well repays the climber. 



Eisteddfod (Welsh, session). 

 Welsh national bardic festival. 

 According to tradition, under the 

 name of the Gorsedd or Druidic 

 congress, it was celebrated before 

 the Roman invasion of Britain, 

 and was the repository of the 

 laws, science and poetry of the 

 country. Authentic records go no 

 farther back than the 12th century. 

 The Eisteddfod flourished under 

 the Tudors ; on one occasion, in the 

 time of Elizabeth, the assembly 

 being summoned by royal com- 

 mission. In the Cromwellian period 

 it fell into abeyance, but a notable 

 revival was witnessed in the 19th 

 century. For some time it has been 

 held annually, in the north or south 

 of the principality alternately. 

 Noteworthy features of the occasion 

 are the crowning of the chief bard 

 and the award of prizes for choral, 

 vocal, and lyrical compositions and 

 their rendering, and for excellence 



i n handicrafts, 



etc. In Aug., f 

 1920, the Eistedd- 

 fod was held j 

 at Barry, when j 

 expression was j 

 given to the desire i 

 that the festival 

 should concern ' 

 itself less with , : 

 ancient bardism 

 and local matters, 

 and be made 

 more representa- 

 tive of national 

 progress. 



Ejectment 

 (Lat. ejectare, to 

 cast out). Name 



provided for controlling 

 the amount of steam and air ad- 

 mitted. The ejector is fitted in the 

 driver's cab, and is controlled by 

 the engine-driver, but valves are 

 provided in guards' vans so that a 

 guard may apply the brakes in- 

 dependently. The ejector of a 

 gun is a mechanical device which 

 throws o\it the used cartridges 

 after each round. 



An ejector pump is one used 

 principally for the drainage of flat 

 districts and works by means of 

 compressed air supplied from a 

 central station. The pressure of the 

 air forces the drainage through a 

 system of valves, until it reaches 

 its discharging point. These ejec- 

 tors save the necessity for large 

 central power pumping stations, 

 and for complicated deep-laid 

 drainage systems. As a rule each 

 is suited to control a small dis- 

 trict. See Injector ; Pump ; Steam 

 Engine. 



Ejiboo OR EJIGBO. Town of 

 Nigeria in Yoruba. It is 150 m. N. 

 of Lagos. 



Eisteddfod. Ceremony in the Gorsedd circle, in front 

 of the ruins of Aberystwyth Castle, Aug. 1916 



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