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DR JAMES H CARLISLE 1 IS NO MORE. DiED FULL OF YEARS AND HONORS AFTER lONG.DISTiNGHSHED CAREER- SPENT I LIFE IN TRAINING YOUTH. I)r James Henry Carlisle died Thursday morning, October 21, at his home in Spartanburg. The end came quietly after I several days of illness. | James Henry Carlisle was born at Winnsboro, Fairfield county, May 4, 1825. He was the son of Dr William Carlisle, a native of the north of Ireland, who came to America in 1818 and settled at Winnsboro, who was a physician and practiced for 20 years, .dying in 1866. The son, "as a beardless youth, half advanced," entered the South Carolina college as a I sophomore, February ?, 1842, after having attended the common schools of Winnsboro. His parents having moved to Camden, he received his training for college in that historic town, his teachers being Profs. McCandless, Hatfield and Maj Leland. During his course at the South Carolina college Dr Robert Henry was in charge of the language department and Dr Lieberin political economy and civil law. These men afterwards became illustrious in educational work. Dr James H Thorn well, then a young man, was chaplain, and just entering on a career that was destined to influence the church, the State and the South Carolina College. Dr Carlisle graduated in 1844 as the second honor man of his class. Having second honor it fell to his lot to deliver an English oration. 1 His ~ ^ i m .11 t> subject was '"rue roet aneney, then dead a dozen years. This oration attracted much attention and justified the prediction of his friends and comrades that he would make his mark in the world as a great orator. Dr Carlisle went from the college to the school room and soon after graduating was made principal of the Odd Fellows' institute in Columbia. This position he held four years. In 1848, he went to Columbia Male academy, and five years later when Wofford college was established in Spartanburg he took the chair of mathematics. After 1854, the history of Wofford college and this great man were inseparably linked. Dr Carlisle was offered many positions of greater emoluments and higher honors, but turned his back on them all, preferring to remain with the college of his church. At different times ne taught mathematics, astronomy, ethics, civics and the English Bible. He was the author of a text-book on astronomy. The honors that came to him came unsought, as he was always reticent, modest and unassuming. He was possible the best posted man in South Carolina on the history of the State, her people and her great men. He was elected a member of the first general conference of the Methodist church, South, to which laymen were admitted, and was elected to each succeeding one. He was also elected to several ecumenical con ferences. He was a member of the Secession convention and a representative in the last Confederate Legislature, 1863-1864, the only political offices he ever accepted. In 1875, he was made president of Wofford college, serving faithfully at its head until 1905. If people with symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble could realize their danger they would without loss of time commence taking Foley's Kidney Remedy. This great remedy stops the pains and the irregularities, strengthens and builds up these organs and there is no danger of Bright's disease or other serious disorder. Do not neglect the early symptoms. D C Scott A QUAINT SWISS CUSTOM. Picturesque Ceremonies Accompanying j the "Passing of Winter." The land of the Switzers is rich indeed in folklore. Who has not heard of the ringing deeds of Wil- j liam Tell? And so thoroughly do > these hardy mountain folk enter j into the spirit of these old stories ! and quaint customs that the travel! er finds monuments erected to the memory of this traditional hero, while even in such up to date cities as Zurich, that so impresses the \ fonrlc on flrrniint. nf 11?: illlli;! 'tai! IVHI 4CWC vu ?.v imposing buildings and busy stir, the entire population abandons its industry in order to take part in a symbolic festival every spring. It is the ''passing winter," or, to use , the picturesque native expression, "sechselauten"?G o'clock ringing feast?the beginning of which is an- ' nounced by the cathedral chiming the hour of G. The real celebrations begin at 8 o'clock, when the national and cantonal Hags arc hoisted on tile staff of the cathedral. A pretty sight is that of the procession of ! more than 1,000 children, in appro- j priate costumes, escorting the triumphal car bearing the (loddess of t Spring, attended bv her maidens, i while behind her is drawn amid' dancing clowns the captive Boegg, representing winter, being a huge figure made of wood and covered with cotton wool stuffed with crack- j ers and gunpowder. Winding tbrougn trie streets on either tide of the river Limmat, the procession makes its way to the lakes. Here the Boegg is raised on | high poles and a bonfire built up : around it. During the afternoon , the city guilds parade in quaint cos- ! tumes, and many merry jokes are j played, until at the first stroke of 6 the torch is applied to our friend Boegg, and winter's reign is a thing of the past. The flames leap up and are reflected in the lake, while j from surrounding boats fireworks add to the liveliness of the scene. i* The guild houses, of which Zurich has many handsome examples, are thrown open to visitors, and the evening is devoted entirely to pleas- i ure and entertainment. ? Spring- 1 field Bepublican. ?? i Spaniards' Tasts In Raading. The librarian selected a book entitled "Farming In the Ohio Valley." j "Will yon give this to that young man waiting at the desk?" she said to an assistant. "He is a Spanish student. learning to read English, and I think I this will suit him." | "That sounds like a very unpromising subject for a student In English to tackle," a frknd remarked. "It would be uninteresting to any- j body bnt a Spanish student," said the j librarian, "but the Spaniards ran to farming literature. When training be- \ gltiners in English of any other na- i tlooallty something sprightly In the ' way of fiction or travel usually Is rec- , ommended. But not to the Spaniard. Nine time* out of ten It la a woek on ! agriculture that be will make the bnt progress In."?New York Press. i Had to Bow to Custom. Tko late King Oscar of Sweden was | tbe least conventional of monarcbs, ' bat be had to courtesy to custom nev ertbeless. Tbe king and M. Bonnier, ' the botanist, met as strangers while j out In search of flowers near Stock- I holm. They were soon the best of friends, and Bonnier suggested lunch at his inn. "Come borne with me instead," said tbe other. When the way led to the palace gates Bonnier hesitated. "I'm sorry," said his companion, i "but I happen to be tbe kiz^ of this country, and this Is the only place where I can entertain my friends." Early Marriags. The marriage age in Austria is fourteen years for both sexes; Germany, the man at eighteen, the woman at fourteen; Belgium, the man at eighteen, the woman at fifteen; Spain, the man at fourteen, the wo-: man at twelve; Mexico, with paren-; tal consent sixteen and eighteen, oth-! erwise twenty-one for both; France, \ the man at eighteen, the woman at fifteen; Greece, the man at fourteen, the woman at twelve; Hungary, Catholics, the man at fourteen, the woman at twelve; Protestants, the man at eighteen, the wo- j man at fifteen; Portugal, the man | at fourteen, the woman at twelve;, Russia, the man at eighteen, the woman at fifteen; Saxony, the man at eighteen, the woman at sixteen; Switzerland, the man at fourteen, the woman at twelve.?Exchange. Killed to Save Silk. On attaining full growth the silk 1 worm stops feeding and throws out J silken threads. The silk is formed in a fluid condition and issues from the body of the worm in a glutinous state, apparently in a single thread. From this silk the worm constructs j its oocoon, an interval of from three to five days being required to complete its imprisonment in the envelope. In order that the silken strands may not be subjected to the danger of breakage by the moth emerging from the cocoon, the cooeons are steamed till the inclosed | insects sra dead. Alter this the silk i PECULIAR ACCIDENTS. jl The "Irony of Life" Illustrated lit Stories of Falls. The "irony of life" was strikingly illustrated recently hi the news of a rustic who slipped from a six barred gate and broke his ueek and of an i, Italian aeronaut who fell l.ium feet with his collapsed balloon with no j" worse result than a sprain*! ankle. A French woman. Mine. .Morel, and j her daughter, while climbing in the i ( Alps, near Zerniatt. fed a dtsfcitce of , l.L'iio feet, not much less than a quar- i, ter of a mile. and. although the mother was killed on the spot, her daughter 1 ( eseajH'd with a few bruises. .Mr. > Whynt|?er. the famous tuouutaiueer. ] had a situilarly niiraculotts deliverance J from what seemed to be certain death ( When sealing the Matterhorn. Losing | his footing, he fell from rock to rock to the Itottoui of a precipitous gully. ; Hn? yards in depth, only to recover his i' feet with uo worse damage than a;, badly cut head. And M. i'arville, a , French writer, tells the story of an ) East Indian liriug in the island of Oghiu who fell over a precipice 1.000 feet ?leen with no more serious cou- j' sequence than a good shaking, his fall j being broken by the dense vegetation (j which grew at the foot of the cliff. While climbing a waterworks tower ( 1 240 feet high in Chicago a steeplejack dislodged a loose stone and was precipitated to the ground from a i height of 175 feet, fortunately strik- j iug telegraph wires forty feet above j the street and thus breaking his fall, j The spectators gasped with horror as they saw the man drop swiftly to de- * struction. A rush was made to pick ' up his shattered remains only to dls- ] yover that he was practically un- ! harmed. Not a bone was broken, and ' a week later he was walking about as j If nothing had happened. ; More remarkable an^ Indeed al-most Incredible was the experience of 1 Charles Woolcot when he was making a parachute descent in Venezuela. At J a height of 3,0>0 feet Woolcot flung . himself off his balloon Into space. ;' when, to the horror of the thousands |\ of onlookers, the parachute failed to open. The man dropped like a stone with terrible speed until, when about . 200 feet from the earth, the parachute flew open aud at once collapsed. He } was dashed to the ground, his right * thigh and hip were broken, both ankles j and knees were badly crushed, and his j spinal column was dislocated, and yet, j after a year spent In hospital, Wookot j was restored to soundness or nmD aner surely the most terrible adventure ] of which any man has lived to tell the J story. | But it is in the history of ballooning that one encounters the most remark- < able cases of sensational drops from 1 the clouds. When Mr. Wise, a famous aeronaut of the early nineteenth cen- ' tury, was once making an ascent his i balloon exploded at an altitude of 13.- j 000 feet and began to drop swiftly to \ the earth, more than a couple of | miles below. "The descent at first was 2 rapid," Mr. Wise writes, "and accom- J pasted by a fearful moaning noise cansed by air rushing through the net- ( work and the gas escaping from above. 1 In another moment I felt a slight shock, ' and, looking up to see what caused it, j 1 discovered that the balloon was canting over, being nicely doubled in, the ' lower half Into the upper." The balloon bad, in fact formed it- 1 self into a parachute and, oscillating < wildly, continued its descent untt it struck the earth violently, throwing ( the aeronaut ten yards out of the car. < "The car had turned bottom upward, and there I stood." says Mr. Wise, "congratulating myself and the |>cr- ' Bpiration rolling down nty forehead la KWlfllcl,.!, <r I/H'K I'livl-f Wsll.'llch. piwiuni\'ia. -? . w' - .... t Do You Want to Help Boom This Town? fconstructed [ml jg\| ! g.yigi: I If you do, you'll assist the ec.itors In advertising the place. If you do, you'll patronize home industries, including the printer. , If you do, you'll subscribe for this paper regularly and advertise in it ButIf you don't, you'll sneer at our efforts for town Improvement If you don't, you'll order your Job printing from some outsider. If you don't you'll borrow your neigh* boris copy of the paper to read. DO YOU OR DON'T YOU? Old papers for sale at this office. I CHAIRMAN OF AUDITING BOARD'S REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,1909. 'Concluded from last week.) n ptcmber 1: J Wesley Cook, return of ro:td tax $ 2 00 I Wesley Cok. ireaMirer'ssalary, August 03 31 II Ollie Kpps, otlice supplies 5 30 .1 McC'ullough.sal supt e?l? *>< 00 ' stamps -I 8" Erne?t V Richaids, architect, court house and j.ill 110 21 i; M Gamble, roaus?contract... IS Ou N A Lesesne " 44 30 II S Gamble ' - "> Oh II DFerrill&Bro" - .. 37 00 DA Lesesne, '* 44 17 Oh WE Allen 4 44 ..0 00 ''F Cutter * 44 10 00 A-'Cutter ' 44 1 0 00 Stewart Starr, publishing road notice 0 00 *amuel (? Bryan, road contract. 16 uo September 7: The Good Roads Maohinery Co. repairs for road plow '17 00 1 L Blakehy, roads -contract., 50 I EMcFadden, road plow 24 70 H .1 McFadden ?*1^2 oo E II Carsten, beef for chain ^ usng 31 03 Dr \\ J Haselden.becl for chain gang 8 25 I j Epps, read plow 14 42 T M Kellahan. load plow *>92 IV EMcKnight, roads?contract 20 UO R B Filch, roads?contract 17 00 HAbtuekey " 44 8 00 L> E and B Cooper, roads?contract ? 41 (0 A. C Boyd, loads-contract t>9 5 0 s P Cooper " " 14 (0 E B Cooper 44 " 65 Oo ET'Davis " " 23 00 I R Cox * * 93 00 \cey B Burrows, chaingang? 5 04 E R Rowell, roads 27 00 T W Tlmmons ' 38 00 I J Snow, lumber for rd bridges 7 98 Williamsburg Live Stock Co, chaingang 16 70 Dr W V Brcckington.chaingang 1 10 44 " 44 lunatic? 6 50 I W Timmons. bridges 23 (X) * C Godwin * 32 95 SV T Rowell 44 55 00 I Wesley Cook, treasurer, refunded on cotton licenses 320 00 J J>B Montgomery, auditor and commissioner, salary 45 84 ? M Brockinton, com, salary... 12 50 1 N H^mmet, salary 50 00 5 M Bradsliaw, mag and con ? 33 75 3eo W Davis, mag, sal 18 75 L> F Edwards, eon, sal 17 20 R K Wallace, magistrate's *al.. 100 00 Hiss L .1 Cunningham, reindexing 36 55 R J Kirk, reindex.ng 36 75 R K Gamble, coroner's salary .. 37 50 ? O MeElveen. uiae and con 33 75 N B Haseldtn,roads-contract. 9 00 X'tober 5: T P Graham " 44 19 50 14 50 2 B McAllister 44 34 50 1C Young 44 14 54 it F Epps 44 r> 50 I J B Montgomery, contingent. 3 10 I Wesley Cook 44 2 05 4 4 44 treas's sal 38 34 A R Eaddv, roadfli-eontract? 40 50 FT 4jf ' .... 51 00 m .... 65 00 4SHuggins F4 44 14 00 A Cottinghang road plow 23 17 I P Frierson and guard, chain gang 90 00 P H Grumbles, roads 26 00 f J Graham, road engineer 100 00 A R Eaddy, road??contract? 32 00 H J Bartield, constable 15 00 S G McDonald, mag 18 75 Seo .1 Graham, sheriff's salary 3 mos 375 00 October 6: Geo J Graham, jail report Sept. 54 60 44 44 constable 50 00 44 4 4 lunatics 21 00 J X Hammet, contingent 3 15 W M Vause & Son, cage for bloodhounds ? 10 75 W D Byrdic, bridges 57 50 J B Files, mag and cons 33 75 J T Eaddy, roads 64 00 PH Grumbles, bridges 8 00 S B Gordon, board of equalizatn 4 00 W T Rowell, constable 7 00 T M Rodgers, roads 14 00 Rev W 11 Hodges, feed for road plow 16 00 W I Hodges &Co, chaingang .. 79 66 E J Donnelly, roads?contract.. 41 00 5 D Tisdale 44 44 .. 9 50 DAHeins 44 44 .. 7 00 5V M Vause & Hon, road plow.. 13 05 r D Gamble, roads?contract... 4 00 Williamsburg Live Stock Co. road plow 66 25 W R Smith, road plow 6 00 W M Collins roads 10 00 42 00 \ W Rogers, road plow 9 45 44 41 roads 26 00 ? 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