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( % f$ /IV j^J Absolu The only ba ^Fl made from Royal Gr; UHBaMnaHHnBHMVNHiMHMNaawansi NARROW ESCAPE Singular Accident in a Large Building At Concord. AMILL COLLAPSES oy" Three Floors of the Splendidly Kquipped Gibson Mills Give Way and Sink Six Feet?Crumbling of Pillows Affected the Foundation. No One Was Hurt. Concord, N. C., Feb. 24.?With a croak and a slow downward movement, the three lloors of the north end of the big Gibson Mills, located in tlio northwestern part of the city , sank to a depth of probably * six feet Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock caused by tlio crumbling of a pillar which subsequently caused the giving away of the beams underneath the building, probably affecting the foundation. There were 400 hands at work in j me immense Bu uuiure auu wuen muy reullzed what was taking place a mild panic ensued, although not one sustained the slightest injury, though j two or three young women fainted. The mill is badly crippled, but to j what extent cannot be ascertained. The structure is 700 feet long and I 100 feet wide. The point where the cave-in occurred is where the south end. of what is known as the first _w^^inill was joined by an addition of 3 00 feet. Wine re this connection was made is where the greatest depression exists, and on the ground floor tho machinery slopes gradually for twenty feet at an angle of 30 degrees. The second floor is a little more precipitous and the depression runs parallel with the side walls, though in the center of the room, a distance of probably 100 feet. On the third floor the depression is still more pronounced and the floor slopes still further to the north 'end !of the structure. While this condition exists paralled with the building the floor swags inward from tho. sides only about sixty feet, one column not being injured in the least. - The top floor contains eighty spinning frames, and the second and first rooms aro filed with carding and spinning machinery. None of this machinery mentioned is located in any part of the addition to this mill, the floors of which are intact. The gradual fall of the heavy maariU flnnrinir did not cailSC L'illllCI J uuu uw. ...0 the breaking the shafting, steam pipes or ma'Sfnnery, every piece remaining in its stationery position as when put up, except for the natural bending and twisting of the pipes and rods as would be natural in a slump. The west wall is cracked for a distance of fully 150 feet, and is said to incline inward several degrees. The collapse will entail a considerable loss, both in time and property. All work connected with the mill will rfand for several days, and that part of the mill that is injured will necessitate* a shut down of at least thirW^Anys. Hundreds in#, hands made some very miraculous escapes, and the manner In which employees took care of themselves in everything demonstrates how well prepared factory hands are in perilous situations. The Gibson Mill is rated as having the finest equipment in the way } of improved machinery that is found ^anywhere in tho South. Girls, Here Is a Hint. Tho young men whose pockets are r filled with cigarette wrappers, mustach combs, finger nail cleaners, miniature curling irons, looking jslass, etc., and have their mothers crease their pant* dally, are not the ones who will i.??ke promising husbands. Tho pockets of thoso who t are helping to make the country bloom and causing two blades of grass to grow where God planted but one, will be found filled with barbed wire staples, and different sizes of nailes and screws. They are tho boya tho girls had better look after. f 4 i il Powder \f rteJyPure fr king powder 1^ apo Cream of Tartar. re KEPT HER BUSY ATLANTA ROASTS OF A REMAIUvARLF WOMAN. Though Only Thirty-Nino Years of Ago Site Has Ilea red Her Nineteen Children. Atlanta, Feb. 25.?The Journal says Mrs. Flora Brown, aged 3 9 years, who lives at G4 7 East Fair street, is the mother of 19 children, in which number there are four sets of twins. Mrs. Brown says that a home without children cannot have even a hint of real happiness, but that the greater the number of children the greater the amount of happiness for the ills of the world. "They keep mothers at home for one thing," she says. "If there were more children there would be fewer card clubs." Ten of Mrs. Brown's children are living, and all of the four sets of twins are as hale and as hearty as you please. Mrs. Brown says that though her family is like that of the old lady who lived in a shoe, she has never had an ache nor a pain in lior life. "Wh(\n you have children you are too busy to got sick," she says. Mrs. Brown has been married twice. Her llrst husband's death left her with 12 little children to support and no means of supporting them. She was then living on a farm in North Carolina. As soon as possihlo she left the farm and moved to Asheville, N. C. There she secured work In a factory for herself and those of her children were old enough to work, and they got along as she expresses it, "by nip ami tuck." Later she started a boarding house, and then conditions became more prosperous. Always she had had the necessity in mind of educating her children, and this she has done despite her hard struggle. Four boys, sho has sent to the Winston-Salem academy, N. C., and two other of her children are at the academy now. Two more at home will go to the academy in the future. Of the four bovs who have graduated from the academy all nave excellent positions. "That's because I was strict with them," says Mrs. Brown. "That's the reason all my children are good children. There two who are at home never go anywhere without asking me. I. have raised all my children that way. They never disobey me, but are always considerate of my wishes. Every mother should raise her children by this strict rule." I Mrs. Brown moved to Atlanta about two weeks ago from Ashevillo. ! Her first, husband was named Vaughn and it was by him that all of her children with the exception of one, were born. She says that getting names for her children became a diflicult thing towards the last, and she finally had to fall back on the family phy| slcian and the Bible for help. GIVEN UP FOB LOST. Has Not Been Hoard From in Nearly n Month. Mobile, Ala., Feb. 26.?All hope has been abandoned for the safety of tho schooner Dependent, which left here February 7, for Port Inblls, Fla., with a cargo of coal. The vessel was commanded by Captain Anderson Dengston and a crew of three. The vessel and crew hailed from Pensacola. Nothing has been heard from the vessel since she left hprA nnrl tt la foarnrl alin V??ia Kann .. V ? -V ? w VU OUV **WO lost with all on board. The cargo was insured. Hero It Is Again. The Fort Mill Times says one of that "town's oldost residents stated to the reporter a few days ago that those who are building hope for a fruit crop this year are doomed to disappointment. As a reason for this assertion the citizen says that January 1st was a fair day and that the ! fruit trees wore perfectly dry. He has nover known a fruit crop to follow a dry New Year's Day." COMING BAGK AGA N TUNE UP THE FIDDLE AND KOS1N THE HOW. As They Are Again to Promote Social Life and Enjoyment As They Did 1 <o ng Ago. The violin, or fiddle, as it is more familiarly called, is coming back into favor in many of the rural communities as an instrument with which tho idle hours may he passed in "sweet communion with the muses." Dealers in this class of stringed instruments declare that tlie demand for them during tho last few years lias been increased steadily. The majority of those who purchased violins, or violin repairs, are rural residents. It is the opinion of the dealers that tlie violin is destined to assume its former place of honor at the rural fireside. In tlie olden days, many years ago, the fiddle occupied as conspicuous a place in the home of tlie old plantation as the telephone, organ, piano or phonograph does today. It was an article that shared the affections and care of each menm>er of the family. If it was an instrument that had been handed down irom generation to generation its value in the eyes of tliose who knew its past history was doubly enchanced. No plantation was complete that did not have a man or two 011 it that could play the fiddle. The early setler, in particular, found the fiddle a source of much enjoyment and contentment during the long evenings, when a distance of ten or twelve miles separated neighbors and when visits between neighbors were not as frequent as now. Wjiile the wife was washing and putting away the supper dishes the husband would take down his fiddle from its nail on the wall, llo would pick at the strings a few times, to make sure the instrument was in proper tune, and tlieu vigorously apply a chunk of rosin to the strings. Placing the fiddle in playing position, his favorite selection, "Arkansas Traveler," would resound through the house, and frequently with variations that caused a spirit of restlessness to creep over members of the household, as though the room was being cleared for an old '"Viririnia Reel." or snmn other harmless dance of that kind. Each member of the family had his favorite piece, which father was duty bound to play every evening. Father was disappointed it he was not requested to play his repertory of selections. The fiddle was also the means of promoting and enlivening the social side of rural life in the old time days. The village dance would never have been the social factor that it was without the fiddle. The mere announcement of a dance was an invitation to every person, young and old, within a radius of fifteen miles to attend. The fiddlers were treated and feasted like kings an these occasions. A fiddlers was never known to retire from exhaustion. The intervals in which he rested were short. Among the variety of selections played on these occasions were: "Mohawk," "The Girl I left Behind Me," "Arkansas Traveler," "Mrs. McElrod Reel," "Who Hit Aunt Jane," "Hades Am Floatin', Do River Am Risin'," and many more pieces which, the pioneer fiddler of today can readily recall. While these selections were being played the dance caller would announce in sing-song style the following: Eight hands up, circle to left, Single file back, balance all, First couple up, circle four, Right hands cross, left hands back, jjo-si-uo, next couple up. Eight hands up, circle to left, Italanco all, swing your partners, First couple lead to the right, Circle four, lady round lady, Gent round gent, gent round lady, Lady round gent, balance to next. Eight hands up, circle to left, Everybody swing, first couple out, Circle four, both hands cross, birds In the centers, birds hop out, crows ITop in, swing, balance all, swing^ Next couplo out. Amid the music of the fiddles and shuffles of feet over floor that fair ly squeaked with its weight, peals of laughter and shouts of approval would ring from those who wero impatiently wating their turn. The villago dance of the long ago generally lasted until the wee hours of the morning and all wont home happy after tho nights frolic. Most of the dances of tho present day wore unknown in those good old days. But the increase of rural population and tho swift advancement of tho commercial side of farming, caused the fiddle and the flddlor to part company. Tho instrument was generally laid away in tho attic while the master joined the rush for the PROBABLY LYNCHED TRIED TO ENTKR HOUSE AT WILLISTOX. Was Arrested LaU'i' and Was Taken From the Lock-Up About Midnight by I*osso of Men. Willlson, Feb. 23.?About eleven o'clock Saturday night a negro by the name of Mayes, whose wife cooks for Dr. Frank Willis, made an effort tc ?nter the residence of Dr. Willlis, first at the back door, and afterward through tlio window of Mrs. Willis' room. When tho negro was discovered at tho window a sister of Dr. Willis attempted to shoot at him through the window-glass, but the baby of Mrs. Willis being near the window, sho begged her sister-in-law not to shoot through the glass as it might injure tlie infant. Finally the Indies, who wore alone at homo, decided that one should raise tho window and tho other do tho shooting. When the llrst shot was fired the negro darted under the house, where ho dropped somo bundles that he had purchased (hiring tho night. Ho then ran off in tho darkness. Tho alarm being sounded, a number of persons were soon at the Willis residence and it was not long before the chain gang bloodhounds, which were nearby, were on the trail of tho negro. He was tracked to his homo in tho outskirts of town and placed under arrest. After being placed in tho guard house Mayes confessed that he was tho party who tried to enter the house, but gave no reason for so doing. About 10 o'clock Sunday night the mayor of tho town hearing rumors of violence notified the night watchman and the deputy sheriff to keep close watch upon the guardhouse. About 20 minutes afterwards it was discovered that tho locks on the guardhouse door had been forced and tho negro was nowhere to be found. By some it is stated that tho locks were broken open, while others contend otherwise. No trace of the negro had been found up to a late hour tonight. Dr. Frank Willis is absent 011 a visit to Baltimore and New York. RECORD CHANGES HANDS. Mr. James A. Iloyt Secures Columbia Afternoon Newspaper. Columbia, Feb. 24.?The Record this afternoon has this announcement: "Negotiation, which have been going on ior some lime, loosing 10 til? purchase of the controlling interest in the stock of the Record Publishing Company, which had been held by Geo. R. Koester, the founder of tho Daily Record, and associates, wore completed today, and said control will on tho first of March pass into tho hands of Mr. James A. Iloyt and associates. As to his plans, Mr. Iloyt will make his own announcement. Mr. Koester's valedictory, so to speak, will appear in the Record of tho 27th of this month, which will be the last issued under his management. The transfer was an entirely amicable arrangement, and tho new management will start with the heartiest wishes of the present, management of the Record. It will he recalled that Mr. Jas. A. Iloyt was the promoter of tho company which was to publish the afternoon Sun in competition with the Record. Tho city of Columbia will be spared a war in tho afternoon newspaper field." I ACCIDENT AT flAHIIH'RG In Which Some Are Killed and Others Injured. Hamburg, Feb. 2 4.?Ten persons were killed and seventeen injured tonight through the slipping of a gangway between the wharf and the steamer Auguftte Victoria, which was being loaded preparatory to sailing for Now York on Saturday next. Those who were on the gangway when the accident- occurred, include members of the crew, stevedores and stewardesses. They were dashed into the water, which was covered with thick drift ice. The majority of them sustained broken bones and several were badly crushed. Only sev on toon of them wore rescued, and the officials estimate the dead, some of whose \ ulies have not yet been recovered) as ten or morp. almighty dollar. Life was filled with too mifrch hustle for the head of the family to devote any time to teasing the muses with the fiddle. The progressive spirit which moved life on the farm into a trot, completely obliterated any desire on his part to play tho "Arkansas Traveler." The reaction has come, however, and the fiddler is waging a desperate battle against the organ, the piano and tho phonograph for supremacy in furnishing amusement ir tho rural and village home. The fiddle is gaining ground rapidly BIRDS OR BUGS WHY FAltMKItS SIIOI I.I) PKHFKIt TIIK FOIOIMil. The I'scIosn Destruction of llinls Allo^" li<iurli)us Inserts to Mult Ilily .....I l?c?(.o>WeralU *" I While the birds are general).? . 'jn lected and often wantonly killed, it Is clear that the kinds of wild birds t inn. viv.' iiic luiiiii't muri: ^tiod 111 < 111 harm nro much iiioim numerous than is generally supposed, says C. M. Scherer, in the Progressive Farmer. Uirds are often detested for working among crops, when they are there limiting something harmful to the crops; when they nro there helping the farmer make better crops than he possibly could without them. Sonne of the helpful birds occasionally eat a little of the crop, but they will at the same time do so much good that the balance is in their favor from the standpoint of good farming. This is true for the ordinary farmer and for t he one who is making a specialty of truck or fruit. Hugs and worms arm the enemies that reduco the harvest of the farmer; and the birds are the enemies of tin; bugs and worms. Nothing can take the place of the birds in this good work. Will, ilw. ..r - ' - i, II nil I 11V5 VAWJIl IWIi Ul ?l I I! W ft III il I 1 I four-footed creatures, birds and lings and worms are the only wild creatures that persist in a thickly populated territory. On the one side are the birds as man's friend, and on the other side are the others as the enemies of man. All States should have laws to protect man's friends, the birds; and the laws should be enforced unless there is a strong public sentiment In favor of them. As owners or workers of the land, the attitude of the farming population will he highly important. Each farmer can suggest to those who represent him In his legislature, that ho wants his friends to have tlio benefit, of favorably laws. That is one tiling each farmer can do. Each farmer can also post Ills land, giving notice tnat hunters are not to trespass, provided lie has law on his sido; and In most States lie will have. Every fruit grower has a vital interest in protecting the birds, bbv causo without them insect enemies of fruit and truck would soon become almost uncontrollable. They are serious enough now, as every orchard 1st has realized. Hilda are not. slow to learn where they are hunted and where they are not, and will tend to increase in those places where they a no safe. Hy the means of this habit of theirs, n farmer can do something to inaku birds more numerous near his crops, In which the birds can go out and kill man's enemies. It is a quoter condition of public sentiment that protects game for i no pleasure of sportsmen and does not give protection to birds that are helpful to farmers, the largest class of citizens in the country. May the day come when those who live under laws favorable to tho protection of birds will help see that such laws are strictly enforced; and when those who do not live under such laws now will bring pressure to bear to have such laws passed. There is more than sentiment in protecting birds?there is money In it for tho farmer. It will depend mostly on tho farmer whether laws project tho birds and him. Tho sportsmen are far loss numerous, but they have usually found little | difficulty In getting their wishes put into tho form of laws. Will the biggest class of citizens In tho country, the farmers, demand what is good for them? CHILDREN SUFFOCATED. Three Arc Dead as a Result of a Fire. Charleston, Feb. 22.?Tho Post says as a result of a Ore on Saturday evening, a little after 8 o'clock, in the rear of No. 3 5 1-2 Cannon street, three negro children were suffocated, and a fourth barely saved from death. Tho lire was readily extinguished, some $150 damage being done the two-story frame building. Tho children belonged to Mary and Albert Wilson. ANTI-TRUST DAW UPHELD. Packing Company Fined $10,000 by Arkansas Court. Washington, Feb. 23.?Deciding tho case of tho Hammond Packing Company, of Chicago, versus tho - ? 4 1 ~ * * oiuiu 01 AiKansas ravoraniy to the Stato, tho supremo court of tho United States today upheld the constitutionality of tho anti-trust law of Arkansas. Tho company was fined $10,000 In tho Arkansas Stato courts for falling to observe the law. , Newspaper Burned. Richmond, Va., Fob. 23.?A flro i of unknown origin early today com> plotely wrecked the Evening Journal . plant. Estimated loss is $40,000. TOWN WRECKED &y a Tornado and Six Persons Are Killed AND MANY WOUNDED r %< ?*? Conway last ^ ut F|sherf r Tones, of 1 ,i Arkansas, w j^V( i#.???Tvn Down ami Destroyed?Damage in the Stir* rounding Country Said to !>o Very Great?News Hard to <?et. Marked Ti *e; Ark., Feb. 23. ? Six poisons were killed, more than a, score woro Injured, several seriously, and practically every building in the town of Fisher was wrecked by a tornado, which swept through the northwestern portion of this county, early today, according to meagre advices received hero late this afternoon. Wire communication with the devastated district Is completely prostrated, and the only information received was iy a messenger, who siaieu i iiat in i ne town or Fisher but two buildings are .standing, whilo tin- damage in the Hiirrounding country Is also great. The dead: J. S. Pass, Wade Freeze, Mrs. Stone, two unidentified men and a child. because of tie flooded condition of tho Interve.it.^g territory a r lief party, which started from Markoil Tree this afternoon was forced to abandon the effort for tho day. Many of tho dead and Injured, lb is stated, are burled beneath tho wreckage of tho demolished buildings. TAFT'S CAIHNKT PICKED. All PlneOH Have been Offered and Accepted Now. New York, Feb. 25.?All quaitttaf* lions of uncertainty in the prediction that Franklin ManVeagh, of Chicago, lias been accepted by Mr. Tuft as his'Secretary of tho Treasury, aro hereby removed. Mr. MacVeagh accepted tlio place yesterday, and thereby tiie Taft Cabinet was made complete as heretofore announced by tlio Associated Press. No official or unoflicial declarations of Mr. MacVeagli's appointment iff j to lie made by Mr. Taft until hi? promulgates Ids entire Cabinet. Hut in nun uiiao, as 111 outer nonces os appointments,*the [nets are knowa to bo correct. The Cabinet, as completed, with, the selection of Mr. MacVeagh, is an follows: Secretary of State?Philander C? Knox, of Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Treasury?Franklin MacVeagh, of Illinois. Secretary of War?Oeorgo W. Wickersham, of New York. Postmaster General?Frank II. Hitchcock, of Massachusetts. Secretary of t ho Navy?Geo. von L. Mgyer, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior?Richard /\. nuinnger, or wasmngion. Secretary of Agriculture?James Wilson, of Iowa. Secretary of Commerce and Labor ?Charles Nagel, of MIksoui'I. With his Postmaster General, Frank if. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft took a five-mile walk through Central Park in the biting wind today. Ho saw a number of New York financiers during the day, but said the calls were those to express friendship anil had no other significence. There was a genuine reunion of the Taft family tonight at the Henry W. Taft residence. LAWYHit GOI08 TO PRISON. Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Ilribo a Witness. New York, Feb. 24.?The trial of Carl Fischer Hansen, the lawyer anil society man under indictment charging him with bribery of a witness, was brought to a sudden close today by the entering of a plea of guilty by tho defendant to an amended complaint charging attempted bribery. A sentence of 12 months imprisonment tn ttio nontlonMnrv wna posed on Fischer Hansen by Justice Howling. In pleading guilty, Fischer Hansen completely exonerated hie law partner, Alexander Michaelson, who had been indicted jointly with him. GIRL ASSAULTED IIY NEGRO. Fifteen Arrests by Pittsburg PoHco Grow Out of AfTair. Pittsburg, Feb. 24.?Just when the authorities believed that the recent trouble in this city between whites and blacks as a result of many assaults on white girls was at ail end, another white girl was the victim of attempted assault late last night. Early today the police had arrested fifteen negroes in connection with the affair. > I