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STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY 5 N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; was graduated at Emma Willard's Seminary, in Troy, N. Y., in 1832; called the first Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848 ; addressed the New York Legis- lature on the rights of married women in 1854, and in advocacy of divorce for drunkenness in 1860; and was an un- successful candidate for Congress in 1868. She was a member of numerous Woman's Suffrage societies, editor of "The Revolution," and the author of "The History of Woman Suffrage"; "Eighty Years and More"; "The Wo- man's Bible" ; and other works. She died in 1902. STANTON, FRANK LEBBY, an American poet and journalist, born at Charleston, S. C, in 1857. After being connected with various newspapers in Atlanta, Ga., he joined the staff of the Atlanta "Constitution," where for sev- eral years he contributed daily verse and prose. He published "Songs of the Soil" (1894) ; "Comes One With a Song" (1898), and "Little Folks Down South" (1904). STANTON, OSCAR FITZALAN, an American naval officer, born in Sag Har- bor, N. Y., in 1834. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, in 1849, and gradually rose through the various grades of the service, becoming a rear admiral in July, 1894, just before he was retired. He served in various posts throughout the Civil War, and saw service in Chinese and Japanese waters from 1872 to 1874. Besides holding commands on various vessels of the United States Navy, his assignments included service at the New York Navv Yard (1864-1865), Norfolk Navy Yard (1874-1877), Newport Tor- pedo Station (1878), Naval Station, New London, Conn. (1885-1889), Newport Training Station (1890-1891), and the Philadelphia Naval Home (1891-1893). He was a member of various patriotic and naval societies. STANTON, THEODORE, an American journalist, son of Henry B. and Eliza- beth Cady; born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1851. He was a correspondent for the New York "Tribune" at Berlin from 1880, and later engaged as a jour- nalist in Paris. He translated Goff's "Life of Thiers" (1879), and wrote: "The Woman Question in Europe" (1884) and "Life of Rosa Bonheur" (1910). He edited several volumes of letters relating to the World War. STANWOOD. EDWARD, an American editor, born in Augusta, Me., in 1841. I STAR He was educated at Bowdoin College, from which he also received an honorary degree in 1894. From 1867 to 1882 he was assistant editor, and from 1882 to 1883, editor of the Boston "Daily Ad- vertiser." From 1887 to 1911 he was managing editor of the "Youth's Com- panion." He acted as special agent on several of the United States manufac- turing censuses, was a trustee of Bov/- doin College, and a member and record- ing secretary of the Massachusetts His- torical Society. He wrote, besides many articles for domestic and foreign re- views and for many other periodicals: "History of Presidential Elections" (1884); "History of the Presidency" (1898 and 1912); "American Tariff Controversies" (1903); "James Gillespie Blaine" (1905) ; etc. STANZA, a number of lines or verses regularly adjusted to each other, and properly ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem ordinarily con- taining every variety of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike in measure. A stanza is various- ly termed terzina, quartetto, sestina, ottava, etc., according as it consists of three, four, six, eight, etc., lines. STAPLE, the modern form of the Anglo-Saxon word stapel, meaning a heap, or regularly piled up accumula- tion, of goods; hence a place where goods are stored up for sale. In the Mid- dle Ages, when the term was in common use, a staple meant both the trading town for particular commodities and the commodities that were wont to be ex- posed for sale there. STAR, one of the self-luminous bodies which surrounds our solar system on all sides. They are distinguished from the planets by their flickering light, by the comparative constancy of their relative positions in space, and by their inappre- ciable diameter even v/hen viewed by the most powerful optical instruments. The number of stars visible to the naked eye is estimated at about 5,000; and these have from an early age been grouped in constellations and classified according to their brightness or magnitude. Those belonging to the first six magnitudes are visible to the naked eye ; but the telescope reveals myriads which are distinguished down to the 16th magnitude. The ear- liest catalogue which has come down to us is that in Ptolemy's "Almagest," sup- posed to have been compiled by Hippar- chus (150 B. C). Ptolemy gives 1,030 stars, of which several cannot now be certainly identified. The last important