EDWARDSVILLE 



1959 



EGERIA 



in New England, whose fame still lives in an 

 extraordinary book entitled An Inquiry into 

 the Freedom oj the Will. This work, which is 

 a defense of the 

 doctrines of fore- 

 ordination, orig- 

 inal sin and 

 eternal punish- 

 ment, is a mas- 

 terpiece of phil- 

 osophical reason- 

 ing. It has been 

 called "the one 

 large contribution 

 which America 

 has made to the 

 deeper philo- 

 Sophie thought Of JONATHAN EDWARDS 

 the world." Edwards was born in Connecti- 

 cut, and after graduating from Yale at the age 

 f seventeen became tutor in that college for 

 three years. He then became pastor of the 

 church at Northampton, Mass., where he re- 

 mained until 1750, when he resigned his charge 

 and entered into missionary work among the 

 Indians. Just a few weeks before he died he 

 was chosen president of Princeton College. 



ED' WARDS VILLE, PA., a residential Dor- 

 ough of Luzerne County, with a mixed popu- 

 lation which increased from 8.407 in 1910 to 

 10,443 in 1916. Welsh predominate in the for- 

 eign element. The borough is situated in the 

 northeastern part of the state, twenty miles 

 southwest of Scranton, and on Toby's Creek, 

 a branch of the Susquehanna River. Electric 

 lines connect it with Wilkes-Barre, two miles 

 east, where railroad transportation is provided 

 by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the 

 Lehigh Valley and the Pennsylvania lines. 

 Edwardsville is largely interested in coal min- 

 ing, about 6,000 people being engaged in this 

 industry. The notable buildings are a $21,000 

 town hall and a $25,000 Congregational Church. 

 There are three playgrounds, a park, a high 

 school and a library. The borough was in- 

 corporated in 1885. Edwardsville is the offi- 

 cial name of the post office. T.H.W. 



EEL, the name applied to a species of long, 

 practically scaleless fish with slimy skin, the 

 common variety of which is found in the riv- 

 ers and fresh waters of Europe (except those 

 draining towards the Arctic Ocean), of the 

 Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and also on 

 the Atlantic side of North America. The eel 

 goes to salt water only to lay and hatch its 

 eggs; it feeds upon all sorts of refuse, pre- 



ferring dead fish and other animal matter. It 

 is particularly fond of shad, and has been 

 known to devour the contents of nets left out 

 but a short time. The food value of the flesh 

 of the eel has long been known, but many 

 are prejudiced against it because of the repul- 

 sive, snakelike appearance. These fish are 

 caught by hand and set lines, eel shears, eel 

 pots and weirs (fences of stakes set in the 

 stream). 



The conger eel is much larger than the com- 

 mon eel, and lives in salt water. Another 

 interesting variety is the electric eel, found in 

 South American waters, which grows to n 

 length of six feet (see ELECTRICAL FISH). Ac- 

 cording to Humboldt, the German scientist, 

 the natives of South America take their horse ; 



COMMON EEL 



to streams inhabited by these eels, which ex- 

 haust their supply of electricity in attacking 

 the animals and are then easily captured. 

 Zoologists classify eels as a degenerate type of 

 fish. 



EGBERT ( ? -839), the first king of the 

 English, who subdued all other Saxon kings 

 and in 829 united all the inhabitants of Britain 

 under one ruler. Having spent several years 

 at the court of Charlemagne, he had seen that 

 great ruler make himself master of most of 

 Western Europe, so he was not content to 

 remain simply king of Wessex. In a aeries of 

 wars he conquered Cornwall, Mercia, Knit. 

 Sussex and Essex, and thus a great step \v:i- 

 taken towards the political union of the dif- 

 ferent sections. 



EGERIA, in Roman mythology, a nymph or 

 stream goddess who fell in love with King 

 Numa and became his wife. His wise organi- 

 zation of the religious life of the state was 

 largely due to her influence. After his death 

 she mourned so unceasingly that Diana, either 

 in wrath or in pity, transformed her into a 

 spring. 



