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NARROW ESCAPE
Singular Accident in a Large
Building At Concord.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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