Eggleston, Rdward

was born in 1837. He isa popular novelist and the author of a series of biographies of American Indians and a history of social life in the colonies. Hight-Hour Law. The Act of August 1, 1892, restricts to eight hours the working day of all laborers and mechanics employed by the United States Government, by the District of Columbia, or by any contractor upon any of the public works. Violation of this law is punishable by fine ard imprisonment. E1 Bracito, N. M., a short, but hotly contested, battle between Colonel Doniphan’s army of goo men and a force of 1,100 Mexicans, under an officer named Ponce de Leon, December 24, 1846. These troops charged npon the Americans, but were easily repulsed by a volley from rifles. This occurred during Doniphan's celebrated expedition against Chihuahua to join and relieve General Wool. E1 Dorado, meaning ‘“‘ The Gilded Man.” Among the Muysea Indians of Bogot4 it was customary, at the time of the Spanish explorations of the sixteenth century, for each new chief, with his naked body anointed with resinous gums and covered with gold dust, to head a solemn proce ion to the Lake of Govita, and to wash himself therein after much impre ive ceremony. At the same time the a embled savages cast into the lake gold trinkets and precious stones, as offerings to the godde of the lake, the drowned wife of a former chieftain. Hence the term ¢/ dorado came to be applied to any place where gold was reported to exist. Many expeditions were undertaken in search of the mythical ¢/ dorado by the Spaniards. South America, Mexico and Florida were all, at different times, supposed to be the country of the long sought ¢/ dorado. 238