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WARDLE. 203 WAREHOUSEMAN. and cricket, in Dickens's Picktcick Papers. He has two lively dauglitei's, Kiiiily and Isabella, and a nuiidcn sister, Miss Kacliol, of decided niatrinioniul predilections. He is barely able to save tlie latter from marriage with the de- signini; .liiit'lc (q.v.) . WARDSHIP AND MARRIAGE. An inci- dent ul' a t'eiidal tuniui' by knight si'ivice, consist- ing in the right of tlie lord to receive the income of the estate of a minor heir ont of which the lieir is supported, and to arrange the heir's mar- riage. See Tenure. WARE. A market town in Hertfordshire, England, 2V2 miles northeast of Hertford (Map: England, (i 5). Malting and brewing are the chief industries. Ware is celebrated in Cowper's poem of John Gilpin, and at Kye House, four miles distant, removed from one of the inns of the town, is still to be seen the famous bed of Ware mentioned in Shakespeare's Tif-clfth Xight. Population, in 1901, 5573. WARE. A town in Hampshire County, Mass., 25 miles west of Worcester, on the Ware River, and on the Boston and Albany and the Boston and Maine railroads (Map: Massachu- setts, C 3). Manufacturing is the most im- portant industry, the leading products being cot- ton and woolen goods, and boots and shoes. The goverinnent is administered by town meetings. The water-works are owned and operated by the town. Population, in 1890. 7329: in 1900, 8203. Settled about 1730. Ware became a ]u-ecinct in 1742, and a town in 1701. Consult Gay. Gazet- teer of nampshire County (Syracuse, 1888). WARE, Eugene F. (1841 — ). An American lawyer and poet, born in Hartford, Conn. He removed when a boy with his parents to Iowa and was educated in the public schools of Bur- lington, in that State. At the outbreak of the Civil W'ar he enlisted as a private in the First Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and when mustered out of the service in 1805 held the rank of cap- tain in the Seventh Iowa Cavalry. Settling in Kansas after the war, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Fort Scott in 1871. He won rapid recognition in his practice and took an active part in Republican State politics, and served five years as a member of the State Sen- ate. Upon the resignation of Henry Clay Evans as Commissioner of Pensions in May, 1902, he was appointed by President Roosevelt to su<'ceed him. He became widely known as a contributor to the magazines, particularly through the verse written under the pseudonym 'Ironquill.' His publications include Coroimdo's March (1895), a, prose translation from the French of Terneaux- Camjians of Castaneda's narrative in Spanish, ami Rhi/mes ly Ironquill { 10th ed. 1900) . WARE, Henry (1764-1845). A Unitarian di- vine. He was born at Sherburne, Mass.. and graduated at Harvard in 1785. He was pastor of the First Church in Hingham. Mass., 1787-1805, when he was called to the Hollis professorship of divinity at Harvard College. During his resi- dence at Cambridge he became one of the Uni- tarian leaders, representing, however, the more conservative wing. He carried on a controversy with Dr. Leonard Woods, whose Letters to Vni- tariaiis he answered in Letterx Adflrexsed to Trinitarians and Calcinists (1820); Answer to Dr. Woods's Reply (1822) ; and Postscript to an . mi-er, etc. (1823). He also published Foun- dation, Evidences, and Truths of Ueligion (1842). WARE, Henrv, Jr. (1794-1843). A Uni- tarian divine. He was born at Hingham. Mass., son of Henry Ware (1779-1853). He graduated at Harvard in 1812; was an instructor in Phil- lips Exeter Academy (1812-14) ; studied theology under his father, and in 1817 was settled over the Second Church (Unitarian) in Boston. He [dayed a prominent part in organizing his de- nomination. He was professor of pulpit elo- quence and pastoral care in the Harvard Divinity School, 1830-42. He was one of the editors of the Christian Disciple, afterwards the Christian E.naminer, a T'nit:irian ])erii)ilicai (1819-22). Among his W'orks are Hints on Extemporaneous Prcachintj (1824) and Life of the Nauiour (1832). His select writings were edited by Chandler Kob- bins (4 vols., Boston, 1840-47). Consult his memoir by his brother John (Boston, 1840). WARE, WiLLi.M (1797-1852). An American romancer, born at Hingham, Mass. lie grad- uated at Harvard, 1810, studied for the Uni- tarian ministry, and preached mainly in New York (1821-30"), and later in Massachusetts. From 1839 to 1844 he edited the Christian Ex- aminer. In 1848-49 he traveled in Europe and later lectured ;it home on his travels. His reputa- tion was chielly gained by his historical roniiinces, Zcnobia, or the Fall of Palmyra (first pul)lislied as Letters from Palmyra. 1.S30 and 1837), and Aurelian (first entitled Probus, 1838). ■lulian. or Scenes in Judea, appeared in 1841. Also anmng his writings are the Life of Nathaniel Bacon in Sparks's American Biography (1848) and Lec- tnn-s (in Washinyion Allslon (1852). WARE, WiLLi.M RonERT (1832—). An American architect, born at Cambridge, Mass., and educated at Harvard and at the Lawrence Scientific School. He pr.acticcd architecture in Boston from 1801 to 1881, and was professor of architecture in the Massachusetts Institute of Teclundogy from 1805 to 1881. He then went to the School of Mines of Columbia College, where he had entire charge of the department of architecture. In 1881 he became a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. New York. He de- signed the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Greece, and, with Henry Van Brunt, Memorial Hall at Harvard and the First Church ill Boston. WAREHOUSEMAN. One engaged in the business of receiving and storing goods and mer- chandise for compensation. The L'nited States Supreme Court has held that the business of warehousemen may under special circumstances become atfected with a public use and thus be- come a public calling subject to regulation by State legislation. In some States statutes have been enacted making some classes of warehouse- men public warehousemen with rights and ob- ligations substantially like those of innkeepers and common carriers. They are bound to re- ceive all goods tendered for storage at a reason- able charge so long as they have capacity to . store them, but they may require the bailor to pay the charge in advance .ind are also generally given a statutory lien. Upon receipt of the goods it is customary for the warehouseman to deliver to the bailor a written receipt for them. This