ANCIENT MARINER 



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ANDERSEN 



a firmer hold in good ground but in loose soil 

 it may be pulled out by the motion of the 



PARTS OF AN ANCHOR 



(a) Shackle (e) Crown 



(b) Ring (/) Palm 



(c) Stock (g) Arm 



(d) Shank (h) Fluke 



>hip. When the anchor is weighed, it is 

 hoisted to the vessel. 



ANCIENT, ayn' shent, MARINER, THE, a 

 long poem written by Samuel Taylor Coler- 

 idge, containing some of the most exquisite 

 poetry in the English language, as well as a 

 beautifully-stated moral, expressed in the fol- 

 lowing words: 



He prayeth best, who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all. 



It is a story poem, which tells of a sailor 

 who in wanton sport shoots an albatross which 

 has followed his ship, while his companions 

 praise him for his deed. For this they are 

 punished with death, while he meets the worse 

 fate of having to sail "alone on a wide, wide 

 sea," until he feels in his heart love for the 

 moving things he sees about him on the water. 

 Then he is released from his weight of guilt, 

 but is doomed for the rest of his life to seek 

 out men to whom he may tell his story. See 



Al.HATROM. 



ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORK- 

 MEN, a mutual-benefit society, organized in 

 1868, at Meadville, Pa. Families of deceased 

 m- i iibers receive a benefit of $2,000. '!') 

 lushest governing body of the society is the 

 "supreme lodge"; this controls the "grand" or 

 "state" lodges, and these in turn direct sub- 

 Mate lodges. In 1016 the organisation had 

 a total membership of 400,000. There were 

 forty grand lodges and 4,500 sub-lodges. Since 

 the organisation of tho society over $250,000,- 

 000 has been expended in benefits. 



ANCONA, angko' na, the capital of a prov- 

 ince of the same name in Italy, and next to 

 Venice the most important port on the Adriatic 

 coast, as it is a harbor for the Italian fleet. 

 It is located 185 miles northeast of Rome in 

 an amphitheatre between two hills and is 

 divided into two parts, the old and the new 

 city. The Cathedral of Saint Cyriac, built in 

 the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and a tri- 

 umphal arch of Parian marble erected in honor 

 of Trojan, are the most remarkable features 

 of the city. Ancona was founded about four 

 centuries before the Christian Era, and fell 

 into the hands of the Romans in the first half 

 of the third century B.C. Population in 1911, 

 63,100. 



ANDERSEN, ahn' dursen, HANS CHRISTIAN 

 (1805-1875), one of the best-loved writers of 

 children's stories, known the world over as 

 the author of The Ugly Duckling, The Fir 

 Tree, The Constant Tin Soldier, and other 



HAN'S CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 



tales -no less delightful. He waa a strange 

 man, and had in some ways a strange lit'.-. 

 Born at Odense, in Denmark, into a poor 

 home, he grew up with little education and 

 almost no home training; but he acquired, 

 ilmnmh HIMMK to see every play of the travel- 

 ing companies who visited his town, a great 

 love for the theater. In 1819 he went to 

 Copenhagen, determined to be an actor, and 

 visited one theater after another, without sue- 

 ce. Finally kind friends became interested 

 in him, sent him to school, and supported him 



