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•WABHAM. Warham was a generous patron of' learning, and from 1506 was chancellor of the Oxford University. His private life, as described by Erasmus," was simple and abstemious, while he was munificent in his pxiblie character. Con- sult: Campbell. Lices of the Lords Chancellors (London, 1S4.5-46; new ed.. New York, 1874-75) ; Dixon. History of the Church of England, vols. i. and ii. (London. 1884-91):. and Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterhury, new ser., vol. i. (ib., 1868). WARING, wfir'ing. George Edwin, Jr. (1833- 98 ) . An American soldier and sanitary engineer, born at Poundridge, X. Y. He studied agriculture and agricultural chemistry under James Jay Mapes. and became a lecturer on these subjects. In 1855 Horace Greeley (q.v.) employed him to manage the Greeley farm at Chappaqua, N. Y., and two years later Waring became agricultural and drainage engineer of Central Park. New York. He served as major of the Thirty-ninth New Y'ork Volunteers in the first battle of Bull Run, and in August, 1861, he went to Saint Louis and raised six troops of cavalry, which he named the Fremont Hussars. aJid of *vhich he was com- missioned major. Later these troops were united with the Benton Hussars to form the Fourth ^Mis- souri Cavalry, and Waring was commissioned colonel of the new regiment, which he led through the western campaigns until the close of the war. He then managed the Ogden farm at Newport, R. I., until 1877, after which he d_e- voted himself to sanitary engineering. In 1878 he was employed by the city of Memphis, which had just sufTered from yellow fever, to change its drainage system, and in 1804 he was ap- pointed assistant engineer of New Orleans. In December of that year he became Commissioner of Street-Cleaning "under the Strong administra- tion in New Y*ork City. He reorganized the force of street-cleaners, secured new equipment, and did what had been pronounced impossible — cleaned the streets of New Y'ork. But his work was only accomplished in the face of the strong- est ojiposition, and when, at the end of JIayor Strong's administration, Tammany Hall again gained control, Colonel Waring was dismissed. On October 2, 1898, he was appointed a com- missioner to report on the sanitary condition of Havana, and while in that city contracted yel- low fever, of which he died soon after his re- turn to the United States. He published a num- ber of books, including The Elements of Agricul- ture (1S.')4); Druininq for Profit and Draining for ilealth (1867) ; Whip and Spur (1875) ; A Farmer's Vacation (1876): Sanitary Condition of City and Country Dwelling Bouses (1877); Village Improvements and Farm Villages ( 1877) ; Sen-age and Land Drainage ( 1889) ; and Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal for Towns (1894). WAR'MAN, (Y (18.5.5—). An American journalist :ind authtu-, born near Greenup, 111. In 1888 lie established the Western h'aiUray. a semi-monthly magazine, at Denver, and in 1892 the shortlived Daily Chronicle at Crcede. Colo. General altcnlion was first called to him by the New York .S'hii in 1892, in an article which char- acterized him as the "JPoet of the Rockies;" and subsequently his verse and his railroad stories, which opened a new literary vein, became widely 296 WARNER. His publications include: popular. His publications include: Tales of an Engineer (1895) ; The Express Messenger (1897); Frontier Stories (1898); The Story of the Railroad (1898); The White Mail (1899); Snow on the Headlight (1899) ; and Short Rails (1900). He also published a volume of verse, and wrote a number of songs, including the once popular Sweet Marie. WARM-BLOODED ANIMALS. The birds and mammals. See Animal Heat. WARMING. See Heating and Ventilation. WARMOUTH, or Goggle-Eye. A small fresh-water bass (Clicenohryttus gulosus), closely related to the rock-bass (see B..ss) of the East- ern and Central United States, which is more elongate than the sunfish. very variable in color and markings, and noted for its large mouth and great voracity. See Plate of Perch. WARMSPRING. A collective designation for several remnant tribes of Shahaptian stock (q.v.) now residing with the Wasco (q.v.) and Tenino (q.v.) upon the Warmspriug Reservation in Northern Oregon, upon which they were col- lected under the terms of a treaty made in 1855. They speak the same language as the Tenino. and like them they were originally .salmon-fishers, root-diggers, and berry-gatherers. Although now mostly living in houses and wearing citizen's dress, they are still the most conservative tribe on the reservation. It was chiefly by their aid that the ilodocs (q.v.) were finally conquered in the war of 1872-73, the Warmsprings pursuing them into their retreat in the rocks of the Lava Beds, where the soldiers were afraid to venture. They number now about 400. Some of the Apache of Arizona are also desig- nated as the Warmspring band, from their for- mer habitat in the vicinity of Aguas Calientes. WARNECK, viir'nek, Gustav Adolf (1834 — ) . A German theologian. He was born at Naumburg, studied at Halle, and served for many years as pastor. In 1897 he became honorary ])rofessor in Halle. Of his many writings on the subject of missions the most important are Mis- sionsstundcn (1878-84) ; Die gegenscitigen Bezie- hungen zwisehen der modernen Mission und Kullur (1879;- Eng. trans. 1883): Abriss eiiur (leschichte der protestantischeti Missionen I'OJi der Reformation his auf die Gegenwart (1882; Eng. trans. 1884) : Erangelische Missionslelire (1893-97). In 1874 he founded the Allgetneino Missionszcitschrift. WAR'NEB, Anna Bartlett (1820—). An American writer, known under her pseudonym of Amy Lothrop. She was born in New York City, the younger sister of the once celebrated Susan Warner (Elizabeth Wetherell). With her she collaborated in Say and Seal (1860), Ellen Montqomrni's Bookshelf (1863). Books of Bless- ing (1868)', and Wych Hazel (1870). Her own books include Sybil and Chrissa. Dollars and Cents (1853), My Brother's Keeper (1855). Stories of Vinegar Hill (1871), The Fourth Watch (1872), and Miss Tiller's Vegetable Gar- den (1873). WARNER, Charles Dudley (1829-1900). .

Auicrican author, liorn in Plainfield, Mass. 

He graduated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1851. After spending a short time in BUr-