CARLETON PLACE 



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CARLYLE 



Carleton's poetry is simply written, enlivened 

 by humor and bits of homely philosophy, and 

 graced by touches of pathos. The following 

 lines, from The First Settler's Story, are typical 

 of his style and his manner of philosophizing: 



Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged 



birds ; 



You can't do that way when you're flying words ; 

 "Careful with fire," is good advice we know, 

 "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so. 

 Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back 



dead ; 

 But God Himself can't kill them when they're 



said. 



CARLETON PLACE, a town located in 

 Lanark County, Ontario, twenty-eight miles 

 southwest of Ottawa and forty-five miles north- 

 west of Brockville. It is on a small tributary 

 of the Ottawa River, and is near several small 

 lakes which provide excellent fishing for sports- 

 men. The town is a division point on the main 

 line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which 

 maintains large repair shops there. Foundry 

 products, woolen goods, gloves and flour are 

 the leading manufactures. Carleton Place was 

 founded in 1818, and was named for a small 

 town of the same name not far from Glasgow, 

 in Lanark County, Scotland. Population in 

 1911, 3,621; in 1916, about 3,900. 



CARLISLE, kahrlyle', PA., county seat of 

 Cumberland County, in the southeastern part 

 of the state, nineteen miles southwest of Har- 

 risburg. It is an attractive town, favorably 

 situated in the fertile agricultural Cumberland 

 Valley, and is served by the Cumberland Valley 

 and the Philadelphia & Reading railroads and 

 electric interurban lines. The population in 

 1910 was 10,303; it was 10,589 in 1914. 



It is the seat of the United States Indian 

 Industrial arid Training School (which see), 

 and of Dickinson College (non-sectarian) , which 

 includes the Metzger Institute for girls. James 

 Buchanan (President) and R. B. Taney (Chief 

 Justice) were graduates of Dickinson College. 

 In the mountains near Carlisle is Mount Holly 

 Springs, a popular summer resort. The prom- 

 inent industrial plants include boot and shoe 

 factories, machine shops and manufactories of 

 railway frogs and switches, axles, carpets, rib- 

 bon, hosiery and paper-boxes. The combined 

 manufactured products have an annual value 

 of about $3,415,000. 



Carlisle was organized as a town in 1751 

 and was incorporated as a borough in 1872. 

 Major John Andre was one of a number of 

 British prisoners held here during the War 

 of Independence, and at the time of the Whisky 



Rebellion George Washington made Carlisle 

 his headquarters. 



CARLISLE, kahrlyle', INDIAN SCHOOL, 

 the popular name of the UNITED STATES INDIAN 

 INDUSTRIAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL (which see). 



CARLSBAD, karls'baht, or KARLSBAD, a 

 free, royal city of Bohemia, seventy miles 

 northwest of Prague, and one of the most 

 celebrated of European watering places. Tens 

 of thousands of visitors in normal times are an- 

 nually attracted to its hot mineral springs. 

 The chief ingredients of the water are car- 

 bonate of soda, sulphate of soda and common 

 salt. The Sprudel, the most famous of the 

 nineteen springs, has a temperature of 165 

 and discharges about 2,000 quarts of water a 

 minute. The waters are clear and odorless, and 

 are sometimes beneficial in cases of gout, kid- 

 ney troubles, rheumatism and stomach com- 

 plaints. The salt obtained from the water is 

 exported in large quantities. The discovery 

 of the hot springs is attributed to Charles IV 

 in 1347, and they were known as Charles's Bath, 

 as the king bathed in the waters and believed 

 in their curative properties. The town was 

 raised to the rank of a free royal city in 1707. 

 Population, about 15,500. 



CARLYLE, kahrlyle', THOMAS (1795-1881), 

 an eminent Scottish writer, in whose work 

 breathes an intense hatred of shams and a 

 belief that work and duty, not happiness, 

 should be the aim of life. Although pessimis- 

 tic, bitter and 

 unhappy, he yet 

 stands as one of 

 the men who 

 helped to raise 

 the tone of so- 

 ciety in his day. 

 Carly 1 e was 

 born at Eccle- 

 fechan, in Dum- 

 friesshire, and 

 was educated for 

 the Church. 

 Finding during 

 his years at the 

 University of Ed- 

 inburgh that general reading was far more to 

 his taste than theological studies, he gave up 

 the idea of becoming a minister, and for a time 

 was a teacher. This troubled his independent 

 spirit, however, and in 1818 he removed to 

 Edinburgh and began to support himself, fru- 

 gally enough, by literary work. His career as 

 an author may be said to have begun with the 



. ,./;,*) 

 THOMAS CARLYLE 



