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DR. CARLISLE. A Story of the Life Work of a Soutb Carolina Teacher. World's Work: If you were to go to the town of Spartanburg. S. C., and spend an evening in the house of any man who lives there conversation would be sure to turn- on Dr. Cralisle, and if you should happen to go to the home of any one who has a direct personal interest in Wofford eollege. which is situated at one end of the town. the chances are that most of the talk of the evening would be about Dr. Car lisle. If you happen to be at the col lege at a commencement time, you would hear a reverent and affection ate allusion to Dr. Carlisle in every public address, and you might see every class that comes back to its re union go to his house in a body to ex press their affectionate obligation to him. And who is Dr. Cralisle? A man who went to the college a teacher of astromony and moral science, in 1854. when it was founded. and who has been there ever sin-e. a pirt of the time i.s teacher, a part of the time as president. and again as teacher. He still meets his classes once or twice a week even at his advanced age. Doubtless neither philosophers nor astronomers regard him as a great contributor to their departments ot learning. Yet it is doubtful whether there be an astronomer or philosopher at any institution or in any commun ity in our land who has exerted so strong an influence upon the young men who have come in contact with him. They do not say that he taught them astronomy or philosophy, but they do all bear testimony to his giv ing them in a greater measure than any other man a right adjustment to life and a moral uplift-a kind of in fluence that the oldest of his pupils, who are now themselves far on in modle life, remember with affec tion -that has grown since their youth, and throughout the college's influence men and women say: "We must send our sons to Wofford col lege because Dr. Carlisle is there." He is now an old gentlem-an of great dignity of tharacter and of speech, of wide if desultory reading, but not of the modern .type of schol arship. He is not an orator, and yet, until a few years ego, he had the habit of delivering a public lecture once a year, or oftener, in the town, and anybody who did not go to hear him: lost stan ding in the community by his absence. These lectures were lay sermons, but everybody receiv ed them as a sort of halfinspired de liverances. He has never held a pub lic office, except that 'he was a mem ber of the Secession convention in Sou'th Carolina, and' is the only sur viving nrember but one, and he is said -to have ealled this adventure ai piece of boyish foolishness. He was never a preacher, but always only a teaeher, and what he taught best was, nither science nor literature-but character. The story is told of a man in Tel as who met a visitor from Spartan burg. The first question he askea was: "Do you know Dr. Carlislet' "Yes," said the other. "Are you go ing back to Spartanburg?'' "Yes." "Well, I wish you would give Dr-. Carlisle my most affectionate regards, remind him that I was dismissed from? college in spite of his effort to save me-. tell 'him that I came to Texas and for several yeairs I itried my best to go to the devil by various roads. but that I did not succeed, be cause before I got far I always sa his finger pointed at mYe and heard his voice. and they rest-rained me. He may be glad to hear this." Possibly the great business ot teaching may get some .hint from this simple story. GREAT OAKS FROM ACORNS. How the Little Things of Life Bring About Important Hap penmngs. Chicago Journal. Value is not measured by square feet or avoirdu'pois. An ounce of gold is worth many times as much as a pound of straw, but it doesnt occu py as much space. Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of the supreme court, is a man of very small stature, and S'enator Mahone, who at one time swayed the destinies of congress, barely escaped being a midget. The world is full of small big men and of large small men. Atoms are essential. If you are a Srelatively perfect atom you possess a positive value. You are necessary tc the successful whole. The family is a collection of units. The happiness and harmony of th' whole depends upon the quality of -each unit. Contentment and happineSS 'do noi come as the result of great ev but are the fruit of What liam Moore calls 'the large aggregate little thinrs.' It was not any one thing that rc ed the colonies to revolt in '70. act of oppression after another fit I produced an unbearable aggg.eg. Gerge wash,inton was the gr( est iani in the galaxy of great m becatise he possessedi more individ vr 1ne qualt' made him greatest. The civil wiar was nt. fought the en ! ho wre the 1caulets. xvas t clllctive stren-th of rank an file that made the victoi The very safety of the republic in the fact that its goverument is aggOregate of atoms; that every vc is a political factor. History is full of instances wb little incidents have wronglit great sults. It was a little wind that blew Moyflower from its (-ourse and n Plvm1athI Rock istiP ouf the mo :f the lJame, river i:lmortual as landing place of the Pilgrims. Newton 's great discovery was result ot an apple falling off tle I under whih lIe lav. Five years after the discovery America Vasseo de Gama sai arOlnd the Cape (f Good Hope. wa4 not a great thing to do. but resulted in the discovery of AustI ia and laid the foundations for E land's Indian empire. The great results of small acts often entirely unforeseen. We soi times do great things uneonscion by doing little things. Every great achievement has bi the result of m:n" le'ser :wh'c ments. "Luther himself." says Ma "had no idea of the scope and me ing of his Wittenberg declaratin The friendly grasp of a hand ] been known to change the career o man. It was a mou.e in Aesop's fa that liberated the lion. A microbe has been known to I an elephant. The big things will evolve by a tural process; it is the little thii that need our careful consideratio Every dollar is composed of p nmes. Every' hour has its relative value the economy of every day. The propeller is a very small p of an ocean liner, but without it great ship would be a helpless de liet. "If" is one of the shortest wo in the English language, but it1 often barred the road to success. The savings bank is a forceful lustration of the value of the mite A penning doubled twenty times comes $5,242.88. IIn the every-day affairs of eve day men there are no great ever but the little things well done of produce a great result. OUR "JACQUERIE," Some Facts About Our Vagrant H< , Population. Few people realize the size of army of tramps in normal times still fewer how enorr..ously t American "jacquerie" has been cruited during the current ye There is a new and distinct re forcement which has bee" ad< within this period, a sort of 'junic army, a class of boy tramps. It easily c.onceivable that boy tray may become the most dangerons they' are certainly tlie saddest most deplorable element of trar dom. It appears from the reports odficers of the Northern Pacifie r jway that tramps have recently vaded all class6s of railroad roll stock, passenger cars as well fr'eit ears;, sometimes in such m bers .that the train hands fear to tempt to drive them out, they so far outnumbered in out of the o places by the outlaws. The rep. of the courts of the country si that the commitments of tramps vagrancy and petty offences ar< maj:rit-67ner cent-of ;l . tenees to the jails. Then in the la majority of eases of arrests tramps, the sentences are suspen on condition that the offenders disappear from the immediate nei borhood where arrested. It is beginning to draw (on publie mind that this teinporary< appearance from a given commur means the prompt reappearance the community next door. As Ja: J. Hill, who favors long senter with hard labor for tramps, puts i his forcible. elear-headed 'a "'When all neighborhoods are d( the same thing, each community eeivee again exactly as much ref als it gets rid of.'' Hs railroad1 ordinates describe the depredatior the tramps of this year as someti lahi 1 :0iitli t-ll--di tle elit'li V coul of i rv. enlves and barli- are strippen f: I. flrewi w d ; t'i res a r*e somet imeI-C Us- :!l 11lsill 4 ov f, I I vl I !: s. vaII S Ing )ne ex1(ei':XV col nfi rations c(abins foL ial- shelter of tramps are knocked to ite. !ether ont of materials stoden fron, at- inilr-:md vards or farms: eolonies ot en, small shacks thus built and tenanrted ual will often terrorize the respectable. flhwim. One estimate (if the cost f(, bv railro:1(ls of tiese depredati01S it it trips is as high as .$25.000.000 a -ies appears from the statistics tha tIhe everaae cmmitlie-nt for va! ies ran.Y 01rougll"hout the countrv is foi an les than a month. and that when the ter prisoners are worked on rock piles. instead of fined, no guard is placed ere over fhenm and they run away-evi re- dently what the sentenein- authori ties want. Tt is the expense of keep the inz the tramips az prisoners that the ide average Commnnity balks at. T U '.9' t-e of t* taxpayers. t1le town an the (tw!1 \ aItlhortiles are apt to think. Iholll not I)e spent t( sippl tramiph the w i d(ing. aI ho:ipd. No long l e e i '* V : 11V .ti o n ' I ev D i s -. I ! u i te l of edlY d eSC tlron!.llt tlle ()uII Ili. l led r:'_ed army will keep thle field it it full numYber evwhere.' only int!i i 1 'aing its uit1 betwe-1n plha-es. al- Thi. as Mr. J. .J. Hill says. is self 11. evd n .--rtnT-n c iI ar BATTLE FOR THE INDIAN. ne * Government Starts Fight Aga-ast the Great White Plague. - Te Inli:in department is begin a fight at Lewiston. Jd:ho, t n-Ioet the spre:nd (if taberculois, w.:l is rapidly decimating the Tn dinns. and two or nire tubercular a pamps will be biilt on the Nez Perce f a reservation, where the sufferin-- red men can be treated by Ag-eney Phy ble sician John N. Ally, a. recognized au thority. The fight is not local, a6 Cill the commissioner of Indian affairs has directed Indian agents to begin a a- campign against the great white pla igs gue in every tribe in the United n. States. Doetor Alle believes 75 per en- cent of the Nez Perces are affected with tubercular trouble in some stage. in The tribe is decreasing rapidly. despite eareful efforts on the part of art t-he government employ.es, and the the Ibattle which has received its impetus re- ifrom Washington, will be a scientifie attempt to remove the cause of the ds disease. Indian Agent 0. H. Lipps as expects to establish one camp in the mountains. where th;e -patients cans ii- Iget plenty of air and exercise. The c amp will be a model of scientifie be.. improvements over old tubercula' camps. A second camp will be estab ry.. lished in the valley where the sick its, Indians can be treat d in winter. Out ten door life and primit .ve tent homes are to be encouraged, although the details have not been worked out. Doctor Ally, who has been at Fort La.pwai several years, has made a close study of. the tubercular pat >ients and the eauses which are re sponsible for the spread of the pla gue. He attributes the general con the dit'ion to two causes: First, intermar od riage. and second, ignorance of laws his of ventilation and santitation. The rIndians aeinbreeding smuhthat ar' they are already paying the penalty en- for th violation ofthe lwo u man nature. r. The .Nez Perees are clean, their 1homes are neat, their kitcbens and Sbedrooms free from dirt, but they as hv okoldeo h eest mof ventilation. In days of old they ap Jlived a care-free, happy life moving from place to place, sleeping undet 9the stars or in a eanvass teepee, se in- curing~ fresh air and obeying na mg ture's hygienic laws without knowl as edge of them. Now they live in frame ""~ houses, which are poorly ,heatett at- ithstoves adoften ventilated on aref ly th rongh cracks and crevices. ir Those Indians who make annual Opilgrimages to the Bitter Roots re fturn in the fall with health restorea, unless the patient has passed muto a hopeless stage of c'onsutmpt ion. These trips ito the mounliltains. where the Indians live in a simple. primitive led way.* are encouraged, as ther are lor.ked upon. as a benefit not to be oh ~itained in isolation camps. Almost every Indian family has one member twith the hectic flush and the cough that indicates the irapid ravages of hs-v the disease. The Indian agent will -labor among his people to show them me the necessity of treatment, and the .cooperation of the patients themsel .yes will 'be sought. ing BATS USED AS PETS. use Despised Little Animals Can be Made ubl- Most Affetionate Creature. of ing Technical World. -nd I A bat in a woman 's bedroom cn : e :*r:iI- r(1:1 r 11f the 1izi clmfes flipping and flapping against t he wal and eeilings snh shrieks are licited fromi the terrified fe:nale as to arouse the wdhole family and brintg them to the rescue with broom, and vanes. All of which is sheer foolishness for if she would but :ive him a .3 . i: h t ci)al" provWe o) hevi enti1re s:tisfaction that he is an in telli.-e:nt an ami:1ble ere"'Iare m!I 11o - InV:rth of a pRmanen,111VIlt I)Ice in the houseIblI1d. Yes. the dete-ted bat :;ost ag.-reeable hmoisehola pet. Ile is a most affectionate creatur< and will attach himself to a perso.. as does a kindly and intelligent do,. A college professor says: "When 1 1 was a student at the university I ha two bats. which came and went free lv of their own accord. In the evern inz they were wont to rs,I thro'I!: tl ae winldow into tile n1eilhorin :~ rdn hmU inseets. a nd when iei it huner was .ppeased they would re n- room. They s lept mn a lwhere they suspenidei Iie C1 V fr) r I a dietioll'ry. Ar tHil :p s h. tr th h :iniii attaehmnift to mni I follows me about thronlzi - o my house. if T call it.' a:ia tenpct seems to be nn. e-:ionable estimoiv in favor ot that the ear of the bat is 1, 1i !v su.-4eptible to high ana hrill sounds, but also for the lowet onds of the human voice. Recog it is called, the creature. evide:lv is able to distingnis1 dif ferent shades and accents. This advr-ate of bIs as pets fur ther states that when lie talks pleas antl y it hi m.-esent far-ite raises and lower its ears., much after the manner of a horse, blinks its eyes j a contonted fashion and lieks its noz zle with its tongne, and, in generai, disports it-elf in a manner that indi cates it is nleased and contented. When harshl- spoken to, it lays back its ears, shrinks away, and seeks to escape by climbing up the curtain. The proprietor of this bat adds: "When I sit by lamplight in the morning working at my desk. I can hardly get rid of it. It comes and goes, rambling -about the desk or limbing up my legs or else it sits on the curtain and endeavors by violent shakings of the 'head and shrill twittering to excite my attention and to obtain worms-its usual food thereby. Its appetite is indeed some thing uncanny. Thirty fat worms are readily taken at one meal." KILLS FLEAS, and cures the worst case of mange, Bicaises Mange Cure. Not poisonous. For sale by Dr. Van Smith, Sole Agent. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. By Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire, Probate Judge. WHEREAS, S. J. Kohn made suit to me, to grant him letters of admin istration of the estate of and effects of Walter J. Kohn., THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish al and singular the kin dred and ereditors of the said Waltei J. Kohin, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on the twenty4ifth day of No vember next after publication there-u of. at 11 'o'clock in tihe forenoon, to show cause, if any 'they have, why tile s;A administration should not be granted. (GtVEN under my hland,l this 9th day of November. Anno Domini, 1908. Frank M. Schumpert. J. P. N tC. EYE SYMPTOMS De iiot always make their presence know~n by faili".g of sight. Red Lids, Headaches, Nervousness, Stomach Disorders, in most cases can be traced to i perfections of the eyes. We do cure troubles of the above kind with glasses. :DR. G. W. CONNOR, Newberry, S. C. Office Over Copeland Bros. Store. T HE M I L LI DEPART n ourstoreis just >e turning out the ul and attractive c Come and selec ind have your hat We are showing -ome and becomit which the variety making and trimr lats is in the hat who know their bu Pursley and Pop Jones is in this del ,Vill be glad to see ind assures them >est services will b COME AND SOME OF OUR To be conservative. To pay four per cent. To calculate interest semi-ann To bond every employee. To be progressive and accomr To lend our money to our cus To treat our patrons courteou: To be liberal and prompt. To secure business from all cl; TO BE THE VERY BEST I TO DO BUSINESS WI'] Our institution is under the supe3 examined by the State Bank ExamiI The Bank of I Pt osperity DR. GEO.YV.HUNTER, Dl President. J. F. BROWNE, J. I Cashier. REPORT OF CON TihE EXCHAN of Newberr ondensed from report of iner September1 Loans and disco'unts-.-.-.---.-...-..---. )verdrafts ...---.---.--.--. --.--.--.--.--. Eurnitum 'and fixtures-....-. -..--.-. >sh on hand and in Banks..-..-..--.--. LIABILITIE~ apital stock.....--.---..-..--.--..-..--. Profits less all expenses paid (earned) Jnpaid Dividens..-..--..--..--.--..--..--. ashiers Checks ...-..--..-..--..--.--..--. te-Discounts.....--..--..--..-..--..--..--. Bills Payable..--. .-..--.--..--.--..-..--. Deposits' Individual... ..-..--..--..--. Your business is what we want. We I. D. DAVENPORT, Pi esieent. EDW. R- HIPP, Vice-President. GEO. B. U")MER E R Y M E N T is busy as can most beauti :reations. :t your shape made. many hand ig models, of is great. The nirg of these ids of artists isiness, Misses e. Miss Joe >artment, and all her friends, that~her very e given. SEE US. IWER COO POLUCIES: ually. iodating. tomers. sly. sses. ~ANK FOR YOU ~H. rvision of and regularly ier. 'rosperitU, L. 3.S. WHEELER, V. President. A. COUNTS, Assistant Cashier. DITION OF GE BANK y, S. C., State Bank Exam: i I th, 1908. ...........$214,655 05 ... .. ..- -- - - 3,143.18 ... . . .. . -- - - 3,696.62 .... .. .... ... 17,138.44 $238,633.29 ................$ 50,000.00 .................. 7,391.77 .... ... .... ...17.50 .... ... .... ... 1,476,87 .... ... .... ... 6,789.22 .... ..-------- 95,000.00 ....-$ 3,075.91 .... 74,882.02- 77,957.93 $238,633.2 pay 4 per cent on time deposits M. L SPEARMAN, *Cashier. W. B. WALLACE, Assistant Cashier. A ttorney.