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(lie lake its name. Lumbering is naturally 

 the principal occupation of the region, and 

 there are large mills at Kenora and other 

 points on the lake. Fishing is also important 

 as an industry and as a sport, and the lake is 

 now perhaps best known as a summer resort. 

 Railways run along the northern and southern 

 .shores, and in summer there are excursion 



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.steamers which ply up and down the lake, and 

 go east on Rainy River as far as Fort Frances. 

 Tin' Winnipeg River issues from Lake of the 

 Woods at its northern end. 



LAKES, in painting, are pigments, or colors, 

 formed by separating animal or vegetable col- 

 nrinjr matters from their- solutions, chiefly with 

 oxide of tin or alumina. The name is taken 

 from lac, tin substance from which they were 

 onuinally prepared. The cochineal and madder 

 l,ikc> are used only by artists. Cochineal pig- 

 ments carmine, crimson lake, scarlet lake. 

 purple lake and Florentine lake do not pos- 

 seee the permanency of the madder lakes and 

 are used particularly in flower painting. The 

 madder pigments, called rose madder or mad- 

 der lake and madder carmine, are of great 

 value both as oil and water colors. See COCHI- 

 M:AI,; L\< . 



LAKES, (lia.Ai. See ( IKKAT LARKS, THK. 



LAKE SCHOOL, or LAKE POETS, as 

 Woid.-worth. Coleridge and Southey were 

 called, were so named by the Edinburgh 

 w because they chose to live in the lake 

 districi df Cumberland and V/estmoreland. 

 Tln-ir only characteristic in common was a dis- 

 like of the stilTnes- of the prevailing rl.-i 



and a determination to cultivate a simple and 

 natural school of poetry. They wrote at the 

 beginning of the nineteenth century, which was 

 sometimes called the second age of English 

 verse. 



LAKEWOOD, OHIO, in Cuyahoga County, 

 i.- a residential suburb called the "City of 

 Beautiful Homes," four miles west of Cleve- 

 land, on the shore of Lake Erie. Lake Ave- 

 nue, the principal thoroughfare, is lined by the 

 handsome residences of Cleveland business 

 men. The city has a Masonic Temple. Carne- 

 gie Library, Lakewood Hospital and a number 

 of beautiful church buildings. There are a few- 

 manufacturing plants in the eastern part of the 

 city. The area is nearly six square miles. The 

 population in 1910 was 15,181; in 1916 it was 

 22,615 (Federal estimate). 



LAMAISM, lah'maiz'm, an offshoot from 

 Buddhism, so called from its lamas, or priests. 

 This cult had its origin in the seventh century 

 A. D., and is yet professed by the Tartar tribes 

 of Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria. Buddha is 

 worshiped as the founder of the religion and 

 is supposed to be embodied in the two priestly 

 leaders, Dalai-Lama and Tensh-Lama. The 

 former is the more powerful of the two by 

 reason of his larger territorial possessions, and 

 is the recognized head of the Buddhists inhab- 

 iting Tibet, Mongolia and China. See BUD- 

 DHISM. 



LAMAR, lamahr' , Lucius Quixxrs Cix- 

 C-IXXATUS (1825-1893), an American statesman 

 and orator, born in Eatonton, Ga.. educated 

 at Emory College (Oxford, Ga.) and admitted 

 to the bar in 1847. After a short residence in 

 Mississippi, Lamar returned to Georgia and 

 was elected to the legislature in 1855. Again in 

 Mississippi, he was twice made Congressman. 

 In 1861 he resigned to become lieutenant- 

 colonel in the Confederate army. Lamar 

 drafted the secession ordinance for Mississippi. 

 At the close of the war he was elected to Con- 

 gress, holding a seat in the Senate from 1877 

 to 1885, and from 1885 to 1888 was Secretary 

 of the Interior in the cabinet of President 

 Cleveland. After 1888 he was Associate Jus- 

 tice of the United States Supreme Court, by 

 appointment by President Cleveland. He vig- 

 orously opposed the inflation or debasement of 

 the national currency, and for stating his opin- 

 ions, while a member of the Senate, was asked 

 by the Mississippi legislature to change his 

 views or resign. Refusing to do either, Lamar 

 submitted his case to the people, who enthu- 

 siastically upheld him. 



