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yielding in the first year a profit of 

 14,000 and in the second 25,000. 

 Its ever-increasing success it had 

 in 1920 a net sale of 825,825 led to 

 the foundation of The Daily Mail. 

 From 1894 until 1896 Kennedy 

 Jones was editor ; he was succeeded 

 by W. J. Evans. Prominent regular 

 contributors have included Claude 

 Burton (C. E. B.), Oswald Barron 

 (The Londoner), P. H. Fearon 

 (Poy), and Arthur Machen. With 

 The Daily Mail and The Weekly 

 Dispatch it is issued by The Asso- 

 ciated Newspapers, Limited, from 

 Carmelite House. See Daily Mail ; 

 Northcliffe, Viscount. 



Evening Primrose (Oenothera 

 biennis). Biennial herb of the 

 natural order Onagraceae. It is 

 a native of N. p-"^ 

 America. The 

 leaves are ob- 

 long-lance- 

 shaped; the 

 flowering stem 

 (2nd year), 4 ft. 

 or 5 ft. high, 

 branched with 

 narrower, 

 toothed leaves, 

 terminates in a 

 long spike of 

 large, pale yel- 

 low flowers, 

 opening in the 



Evening Primrose, 

 a biennial berb 



evening. The variety lamarckiana 

 has much larger flowers than the 

 type form, and has been much 

 studied. See Mutation. 



Evening Schools. Term speci- 

 fically given to evening classes 

 established in the United Kingdom, 

 mainly during the first half of the 

 19th century, for giving elementary 

 instruction to illiterate adults. One 

 of the earliest was started at Bala, 

 N.Wales, in 1811. The system was 

 warmly supported by Bishop Hinds 

 in 1839, and was adopted by the 

 Ragged School Union, founded 

 1844, and known since 1898 as the 

 Shaftesbury Society. The term is 

 still officially used to cover schools 

 in which pupils beyond the com- 

 pulsory school age may continue 

 their education. See Continuation 

 School ; Education. 



Evening Standard, THE. Lon- 

 don evening newspaper, started 

 June 11, 1860, as a pendant to its 

 morning namesake, itself originally 

 an evening paper first published 

 May 21, 1827. Acquired from the 

 Johnstone family in 1905 by C. 

 Arthur Pearson, who had in 1903 

 purchased the St. James's Gazette 

 (founded in 1880), The Evening 

 Standard was merged with the 

 latter. In 1910 Davison Dalzie! 

 secured the controlling influence ; 

 in 1915-23 it was owned by 

 Hulton & Co., and from 1924 by 

 Lord Beaverbrook. 



Everest. Loftiest peak of the 

 Himalayas. Its height is 29,002 ft. 

 (5m.), the highest on the globe. It 

 stands on the border between Ne- 

 pal and Tibet, and its snow-covered 

 peak is difficult of access, and has 

 never been ascended or thoroughly 

 explored. It was named after Sir 

 George Everest (1790-1866), sur- 

 veyor-general of India, and has 

 often been confused with the 

 neighbouring peak, Gaurisaukar. 

 British expeditions, in 1921, 1922, 

 and 1924 attempted to scale it, 

 but without success 



Everett. City of Massachusetts, 

 U.S.A., in Middlesex co. It stands 

 on the Mystic river, 4 m. N.E. of 

 Boston, and is served by the 

 Boston and Maine Rly. Its indus- 

 trial activities include ironfounding 

 and the manufacture of steel, boots 

 and shoes, radiators, and leather 

 goods. Settled in 1643, it became a 

 city in 1892. Pop. 40,150. 



Everett. City of Washington, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Snohomish 

 co. A port of entry on Puget 

 Sound, it is 34 m. N. of Seattle, and 

 is served by the Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee and St. Paul, and other rlys. 

 Situated in a mineral and lumber- 

 ing region, it has an excellent har- 

 bour, and trades largely in the pro- 

 ducts of the locality. Settled in 

 1891, it was incorporated in 1893. 

 Pop. 32,050. 



Everett, EDWARD (1794-1865). 

 American statesman and writer. 

 Born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, 

 April 11, 1794, he was for two years 

 a Unitarian minister. Leaving the 

 ministry, he became professor of 

 Greek at Harvard College, 1819-25, 

 and president, 1846-49. He edited 

 the North American Review, 1820- 

 24, was member of Congress, 1824- 



35, minister to Great Britain 

 1841-45, and senator 1853-54, when 

 he abandoned publiclife. In politics 

 Everett was 

 a republican, 

 and when the 

 Civil War 

 broke "(fat he 

 strongly sup- 

 ported the 

 cause of the 

 Union, al- 

 though to the 

 Edward Everett, last he had 

 American statesman hoped that 

 war might be averted. He died at 

 Boston, Jan. 15,1 865. His literary 

 output consists mainly of articles in 

 The North American Review, and 

 A Defence of Christianity, 1814. 

 His reputation, however, chiefly 

 rests upon his speeches, highly 

 elaborate and most carefully pre- 

 pared. See Orations and Speeches, 

 1850-59 ; Life and Services of 

 Edward Everett, R. H. Dana, 1865. 

 Everglades. Swampy wilder- 

 ness in S. Florida, U.S.A. The 

 region is low-lying and its heavy 

 rainfall and high temperature en- 

 courage the rank growth of vegeta- 

 tion, thus increasing the natural 

 difficulty of drainage. Situated in 

 the S part of the state, it extends 

 N. to S. for about 120 m. and is 

 about 45 m. broad. During the 

 rainy season it has a depth of 1 ft. 

 to 10 ft. It contains a number of 

 islands bearing cypresses, pines, 

 palms, and vines, but is mainly a 

 huge, almost impenetrable, tract 

 covered with saw-grass which 

 reaches a height of 6 ft. Attempts 

 at reclamation by cutting canals 

 have met with some success, and 

 sugar-cane has been cultivated in 

 the drained portions. See Florida. 



Everest. The highest peak in tbe world viewed from Mt. Phalut, Darieeling. 

 Five miles high, its summit is almost inaccessible * 



