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city is served by the Missouri A North Arkan- 

 sas Railroad, and is within a twelve-hour ride 

 from Saint Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Mem- 

 phis or Little Rock. 



Though the city is primarily a health resort, 

 the agricultural resources of the vicinity offer 

 inducements to the home-builder. A great 

 variety of fruits and abundant supplies of 

 alfalfa are grown in the vicinity; there is also 

 excellent timber, and a fine grade of onyx is 

 found. The city has several large hotels, a 

 Carnegie Library, a high school and Crescent 

 College for Girls. 



The first settlement was made in 1879 and 

 named Eureka, a Greek word meaning / have 

 found it ; the following year the city was char- 

 tered. The springs are held in trust by the 

 city and the waters are free to the public. 

 The city is operated under the commission 

 form of government. J.B. 



EURIPIDES, urip'ideez (about 480-406 

 B.C.), a poet of Greece, accorded by common 

 consent the third place among the Greek mas- 

 ters of tragedy. He is said to have written 

 a drama at the age of eighteen; but his first 

 play was brought out when he was twenty- 

 five. In 441 B.C., at the age of thirty-nine, he 

 contended for the tragic prize, bringing out a 

 series of four dramas, one of which was the 

 Medea. The first prize was given to a son of 

 Aeschylus, the second to Sophocles, and the 

 third to Euripides. From this time Euripides 

 and Sophocles were friendly competitors for 

 dramatic honors. 



In 408 B. c., at the age of seventy-two, Eurip- 

 ides brought out at Athens his tragedy of 

 Orestes. Directly afterward he was invited by 

 King Archelaus to go to the kingdom of Mace- 

 don, for the king was desirous that Greeks of 



culture should reside in his dominions. Here 

 Euripides completed several of his dramas 

 known to-day, but he died two years after he 

 took up his residence in Macedon. By none 

 was he mourned more than by the aged 

 Sophocles, his great rival, who was then bring- 

 ing out the last of his tragedies at Athens. 

 Sophocles clothed himself in mourning and 

 ordered the actors to present themselves in 

 funeral attire. The Athenians set up a bust 

 of Euripides in the public place, and Thucyd- 

 ides composed an inscription which was placed 

 on a monument built in his honor. 



The men whose names are foremost in Greek 

 literature Aeschylus, Sophocles, Socrates and 

 Aristophanes were contemporaries of Euripi- 

 des. The poet had the misfortune to make an 

 enemy of Aristophanes, whose sneers are still 

 voiced by many critics. According to some 

 authorities Euripides composed ninety-two 

 tragedies. The following are the titles of the 

 extant dramas, arranged in the order of their 

 composition: Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; 

 Hecuba; Ion; Supplicants; Heracleidae; Mad 

 Hercules; Troades; Electro; Helena; Phoenis- 

 sae; Iphigenia in Tauris; Andromache; Orestes; 

 Bacchae ; Cyclops; Iphigenia at Aulis. M.R.T. 



EUROPA, uro'pa, according to Greek leg- 

 end, a daughter of Phoenix, king of Phoenicia, 

 or of Agenor, and the sister of Cadmus. She 

 was admired by Jupiter, who appeared in the 

 form of a white bull, and carried her to Crete. 

 The myth inspired several notable paintings, 

 the most celebrated of which is that by Paul 

 Veronese in the Ducal Palace, Venice. An- 

 other, by Titian, is at Cobham Hall, England. 

 Contrary to belief sometimes expressed, the 

 word Europe is not derived from this name. 

 See explanation in article EUROPE. 



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UROPE, the smallest of 

 the continents, with the exception 

 of Australia. Its area of 3,754282 

 square railed is only about 25,000 square miles 

 greater than that of Canada, but while Canada 

 is one country, Europe consists of no fewer 



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than twenty-six separate nations. 

 Geographically, it is really a pen- 

 insula jutting out from the vast 

 continent of Asia, and the combined land 

 mass of the two continents is often spoken 

 of as Eurasia. This peninsulalike character 



