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a balloon. He constructed a balloon that was 

 buoyant enough to carry three persons, with 

 provisions and apparatus. On July 11, 1897, 

 Andree with two companions left Spitibergetf, 

 on his ill-fated expedition to the pole. The 

 balloon carried thirteen buoys which Andre 

 planned to drop at intervals. Five of these 

 eventually came to shore near Spitzbergen, but 

 of Andree and his companions no trace has 

 : been found. 



ANDREWS, an' drewz, ELISHA BENJAMIN 

 (1844-1917), one of the foremost American 

 educators of his day, economist, historian and 

 college president, was born at Hinsdale, N. H. 

 He fought in the Union army during the War 

 of Secession, and lost an eye at the siege of 

 Petersburg. After graduating from Brown 

 University in 1870 he entered the Baptist min- 

 istry, but soon gave up this field for teaching. 

 He was professor of history and political econ- 

 omy at Brown from 1882 to 1888, and from 

 1889 to 1898 was its president. He was then 

 for two years superintendent of schools at 

 Chicago, and from 1900 to 1908 was chancellor 

 of the University of Nebraska. Andrews was 

 a frequent speaker and writer on political, 

 educational and economic topics, and was espe- 

 cially noted as a strong advocate of interna- 

 tional bimetallism. He is the author of 

 Institutes of General History, Institutes of 

 Economics and A History of the United States 

 in Our Own Times. 



ANDROMACHE, an drom' a kee, in Greek 

 mythology, was wife of Hector of Troy, whom 

 Homer's Iliad makes one of the most attrac- 

 tive women of antiquity. The passages de- 

 scribing her parting with her husband when he 

 was setting out for his last battle, and her 

 grief at his death, are among the most pa- 

 thetic in all literature. After the fall of Troy 

 she was taken to Greece by the son of Achilles. 

 See TROY; ILIAD. 



ANDROMEDA, an drom' e da, one of the 

 favorite heroines of Greek mythology. Her 

 mother, Cassiopeia, wife of the Ethiopia king 

 Cepheus, boasted that Andromeda was more 

 beautiful than the Nereids, and the offended 

 sea-goddesses induced their father to send a 

 frightful monster to ravage the coasts of Ethi- 

 opia. To secure the country from destruction 

 Andromeda was chained to a rock to be de- 

 voured by the monster, but was rescued by 

 Perseus (which see). After her death she was 

 changed to a constellation, which may be seen 

 in the northern sky. 



Ethiopia actually existed; the southern part 



ANEMONE 



of it is now modern Abyssinia. See MYTHOI/. 

 OGY. 



ANDROS, an' drh, SIR EDMUND (1637, 

 1714), an English colonial governor in Amer- 

 ica, whose devotion to the interests of hia 

 king brought him into quite serious conflict 

 several times with the colonists. As governor 

 of New York from 1674 to 1683 he made an ex- 

 cellent record. In 1686 he was appointed gov- 

 ernor of New England, which had just been 

 made a single province under the name "Do- 

 minion of New England." The colonists, an- 

 gered by this consolidation, refused to recog- 

 nize the new governor's authority. Andros 

 then made a journey to Hartford to demand 

 the surrender of Connecticut's charter, but, 

 according to the story which was long believed, 

 this document was hidden in a tree which has 

 ever since been called the Charter Oak (which 

 see). In 1688, when news of the revolution in 

 England reached the colonies, Andros was 

 imprisoned by the citizens of Boston, and was 

 even ordered to England to answer charges of 

 tyranny. No formal trial, however, was held, 

 and Andros returned to America in 1692 as 

 governor of Virginia. Here he served for six 

 years and was very popular. 



ANE'MIA. See ANAEMIA. 



ANEMONE, anem' once, from a Greek 

 word meaning wind, is the commonest name 

 of those flowers which 

 are also known as 

 wind flowers; and it 

 is believed that both 

 names were given 

 them because they 

 seemed to grow best 

 in a breezy location. 

 Best known of all 

 the species is the deli- 

 cate wood anemone, 

 which with its frail 

 white blossoms is one 

 of the favorite spring 

 wild flowers. Some 

 anemones are garden 

 or hothouse plants 

 which produce beau- 

 tiful blue, red or pink 

 blossoms, and by cul- 

 tivation may be made 

 "double," like the 

 rose. It has been 

 adopted as the state 

 flower of South Da- 

 kota. ANEMONE 



