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/ HISTORY OF THE TILLMAN i FAMILY TROUBLE. I WHY THE MOTHER ASKED THE SUPREME COURT TO GIVE HER BACK HER CHILDREN. Some of our readers who do not; see the daily i?:tpers have asked us to puiilish a biief history of the family trouble of Mr and Mrs 15 K Tillmau. .Ir. leading up to their separation anu the sui' brought bv young Mrs Tdluiau for the recovery of her i -iJ? _.u_ f,Ani Jirne cmiureu, wuy war la^ru ?.*vu. her b1* her husband, Mr B K Tillt?*o.Jr, and deeded to their grandparents, Senator and Mrs B R Tillman. without the mother's consent, Tuia matter has stirred up more disoutwion and feeling, probably, than any civil case that has been heard before our supreme court for many years, and, in order that our readers may be informed as to the merits of the whole affair, we give a concise statement of the case, as published last week in the Columbia State: On the morning of the 24th of January of this year the people of the State of South Carolina were aroused to iuteuse indignation because of the facts contained in an article published in The State to the effect that Mrs Lucy Dugas Tillman would seek for a writ of habeas corpus to compel B K Tillman, Sr., and tiis wife to return to her the custody of two little girls, Donschka and Sara, taken surreptitiously from their mother by tbcir father while the mother was ill ia Washington. The case has beeu argued iu the supreme court, both sides having submitted in evidence affidavits of great length. The mail of The 8tate daily has brought hundreds of letters from all parts of the country denouncing such a mon atrous law as that under which I Senator Tillman claimed the right to take the children under the deed aigued by his son. Mrs Lucy Dugas Tillman has been overwhelmed with letters of sympathy and of encouragement, and from thousands of bedsides have gone up nightly prayers for the mother and her little ones to be restored to each other. Mrs Tillman, since her alleged desertiou, has been making ber home in this city with her nearest of male kin, Dr Francis W Pickens Butler. She is the granddaughter of P W Pickens, "war Governor" of South Carolina and the minister to Russia under President Buchanan. To Gov aud Mrs Pickens was born ia JSt Petersburg, in the palace of the Romanoffs, a girl baby, for ...i.sw.. tliaCjann# stood "od mother. *lf MVlUt l*U? Vcamimm t and she was called Douschka, meaning 'Marling," This womau, afterwards beloved by the people of Sooth Carolina, married Dr Dugas of Augusta, Ga.( the father of Mrs Tillman. The Pickens family had long been among the most influential in the State. Mr and Mrs H R Tillman, Jr., were married December 211. I'.*03, and parted in November, 10os. Mrs Tillman stated that her husband drank to excess and was very unkind to her. In February of last year, after a separation of three J iuouth3, Mr and Mrs UK Till-! man, Jr., began iivicg together I again, and this was supposed to lie a happy ending of the quarrel. But i'l December, while they were living in Washington, Mrs Tillman had a sudden and desperate illness. Her husband, it is said, provided no nurse for her. and al* J lowed 1.0 proper attentions to her. j Oa the tirst day of her con-j valescei.ct- he came to the apart-} meuts and asked to lake the two children to set- their grandmother. The wife assented, but trie Children protested and had to be forced to go to tiiei: grandmother. ' This v.as on December 3. and Mrs' 'Tillman did not see her babies J from that hour. I:. the afternoon Tilliuan cauie back without them, lie told his wife that their grandmother had taken them and had gone to South Carolina with the little cues. A few davs thereafter Mis Tillman was informed by at- j torneys for Senator Tillman that the father of the children had made aud recorded a regular deed in which the custody of the children' was given to the grandparents until the little girls became of age. The | deed on file with the clerk of court1 at Fdgelield shows that young Tillman, after allegiug his wife's , inability and unsuitabilitv to raise the children properly, admits that he, too, is unable to assume the re-1 sponsibilitv. | That young HKTiliman, even ; while writing to his wife in endear-! ' iug terms, was thinking of this very coup, is surmised when it was. 1 learned that in his possession in! 'Washington was this memorandnm, known in the ca9e as "Exhibit K":j "Ail things being equal, the fattier lias a paramount to tueuus-; tody of his childreD, when it is consistent with the welfare of the children, but the welfare of the | children is the matter of prime! importance. A court in deciding who is entitled to the custoilv of children, where the issue is between I father and mother, will awaid the ; children to the father, all things being equal, but will decide such an issue with a view to the welfare of the children from considerations ' of their health, education, training i or otherwise. The morals, financial' ' I ability, social standing and all, those matters of contestants will be weighed by the court in deciding who should have the children. The father has a right to deed his rhildr^n." Senator Tillman,wheD mformed in Washington that he would be proceeded agaiust in the courts,gaye out au interview in which he claimed that the mother had left the children in Washington for three days before his son took them. He did not follow this statement in his affidavit before the supreme court,in which he recited rather fully all the family troubles ot the young people. Knowing what she had experienced and knowing with whom she was dealing, Mrs Tillman had fortified her case so perfectly that from the hundreds of affidavits as to her character the people are given to understand that not only is she a good mother, but that she is a woman of j practical common sense as well ana there is no reason why she 6honld have the children to raise and to nurture. Mrs Tillman is named for her grandmother, Lncy Holcombe Pickens, the belle of the Virginia fashionable summer resorts before the ! war. Her husband was war Governor and in her honor there was fitted out a troop known through the war as the Holcombe Legion. She was said to have been the most beautiful woman of the South at that period. Her daughter, JDonschka, was equally as much of a belle in South Carolina after the wai. Of the once distinguished family, but the two daughters remain, Mrs Lucy Dugas Tiliman and Mrs Wallace Sheppard. i The late Gen M 0 Butler was an uncle of Mrs Tillman, and he was the political opponent of Senator Tillman in the bitter campaign tor the United States Senate in 18D4. An- j other int<%sting feature is that the' sons of B R Tillman and J 0 Shep-1 pard, who opposed each other for Governor in 18ld2, have married sis- j ters. B li Tillman, Jr, is clerk to Senator Tillman, on the Five Civilized i Tribes committee. For several years' he was his father's private secretary, but resigned in 1H0S. Last year he returned to-Washington and took liisi present position with his father's j committee. It ;s said that the- com-' mitiee never meets. ' i Saved from Awful Peril. "1 never felt so near my grave,"j writes Lewis Chamblin of Manches-i ter, Ohio, R II No U, "as when a frightful cough and lung trouble pulled me down to 115 pounds in spite of many remedies and the best j doctors. And that 1 am alive today is due solely to Or King's Xew Discov-1 ery, which completely caied me. I Now 1 weigh 100 pounds andean' work hard. It also cured my four | j children of croup." Infallible for i! Coughs and ( olds, it's the most cer- i taiu remedy for La Grippe, Asthma, j desperate lung troubles aud all bron-, chial affections. 50c and $1.00, A ] trial bottle free. Guaranteed by D C Scott. ] Old papers for sale at The Record ] office i CHEROKEE FARMER TELLS HOW. 11 detbods by Wbicb 750 Pounds of Lint 1 Cotton Were Obtained from One Acre. Gaffney, February 12: ? During the past season, Cherokee county has demonstrated the fact that iu the ' cotton raising industry she is entitled to take rank iu 'he very front. In the contest inaugurated ' by the National Bank of Gaffney, some enormous yield were obtained, among them being that of M -J ; \V bmith with Wl pounds on one acre; Mr E U Cash, with T50; Mr T H Lockhart, with a yield of nearly 700 on three*fourths of an acre, and Mr II B Lipscomb, wilh a yield of more than 6(H) pounds on one acre. All these gentlemen say that the yields which they got last season will look small later o.i, as they intend to mcrease th'm this season very materially. This country has within the past fewyears made wonderlul progress farmius and stock raising, and the other nrmntioa in thn Ktsitp mint look to I their laurels, else Cherokee will pluck theru, and take the lead in these respects, as she has in many others. Mr E li Cash has kindly given The News end Courier correspondent his method of cultivation, which was as ^follows: "Kind of land used, very poor, gray soil with yellow clay, which had been planted in cottou for several years, yieldiug from four to five hundred pounds seed cotton per acre. I used as fertilizers on the acre one ton of high grade fertilizer, and nine loads of bam yard mauure. About the last of January I turned the land with a Lynchburg 2horse plough, ten inches deep; first week in March I ploughed the land again with a one-horse tarn plough, distributing guano in every furrow, and followed the distributor with aone-horse subsoil plough. * * '' i?- il 1 AC 1018 lime i useu one luoututuu pounds of guano. On April 4 I laid off the rows 5 1-2 feet apart and bedded with a large shovel plough on April 13. Planted seed with a Cole Hill planter 16 inches apart in the drill, and on April 26 ran weeder over cotton across the rows. On Maj 4 ran around cotton with side harrow; on May 7 chopped oat cotton to one and two stalks in hill. On May 10 ran around cottou again with side harrow, using larger ploughs, and on May 14 and 15 thinned cotton to one stalk in the hill. On May 18 ran around cotton with 13-inch bow and small tongue plough, and on May 21 ploughed oat middle with cultivator, and hoed the -I ? /"k-. M.._ OO jJiauuj. v/ii jioj iau tiiuuuu cotton with cultivator, which ploughed out the middle entire. On May 31 hoed cotton again, and on June 4 distributed 300 pounds of guano alongside of cotton about tive inches from the plants in every alternate row, following with 10-inch bow small shovel plough. On June 12 treated the other rows in the same manner, and again distributed 300 pounds of guano. Ou June 1)S and 19 distributed four loads of manure raked from the cow lot, and on June 21 ploughed cotton with 21 -inch bow and small plough, and on June 28 distributed 2oo pounds guano in middles and ploughed cotton with small plough and 2-inch bow. On July 8 or t>. 1:_ i oi .A ?. ?e appiieu v"V> puuuua iwuuic ul cvu.i, distributing same on each side of cotton about 0 or S inches from the plants, and ploughed in with a small plough and 24-inch bow. This finished the cultivation. Before i breaking the land the first time in \ January I distributed broadcast 5 loads of manure raked up from the lot. 1 used Cook's improved,big boll cottonseed. I commenced picking cotton on September 24, and at the first picking gathered 295 pounds. October 14 I gathered (>90 < pounds on October 27 gathered 034 j pounds, and ou November 30 : gathered 019 pounds, making a < total of 2,235 pounds of seed cotton, from which was ginned 750 pounds of lint cotton." Mr Cach says that he will make a < much larger yield this season, pro- j vided the season is favorable, as he j has learned a number of things ( which he did not know before, and j tie method of cultivation will be nuch more iutelligeut than it was ast season. WHEN HER BACK ACHES V Woman Finds All Her Energy and Ambition Slipping Away. Kmgstree women know how the aches and pains that come when the kidneys fail make life a burden. Backache, hippains, headaches,dizzy spells, distressing urinary troubles, all tell of sick kidneys and warn you of the stealthy approach of diabetes, dropsy and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills permanently core all these disorders. Here's proof of it in 9 Kingstree woman's woids: Mrs E E King.W Mam St,Kingetree, S C, says: "I found Doan's Kidney Pills to be a valuable remedy. I was afflicted for some time with dull, nagging backaches, often accompanied by pain^^n my loins and kidneys. I did not est well aud mornings upon arising, I felt tired and languid and had no ambition to begin the day's work. The kidney secretions were so irregular in passage that I concluded that my Kidneys must be out of order and hearing of Doan's Kidney Pills, I procured a box at Scott's drug store, I used them as directed and thty helped me in every way. I am now free from the pains in my back and my kidneys are normal." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 Rnffaln t* 'iio? jl""iUiiwi 1 u w?j a/uuuiw} New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. Highest cash prices paid for poultry. PEOPLED HARKET, H A Hiller, Prop, 2-24-4t I TheStieff TheShaw The ben pianos?when quality and durability are considered?are the cheapest. The best pianos on the m arket are the Artistic Stieff ? .0# rr\. and O/iaw VTianos Their quality and durability are unexcelled. Their di lenity has been proven by the endorsement of the thousands of American families using ; them. These pianos are manufactured and- sold by Chas M Stieff, and their durability, artistic and exquisite features cannot be denied. Remember thename ?Stieff. A day's delay in procuring one of these pianos is a week's pleasure lost. ate Chas. M. Stieff, rtANUFACTURER OF THE A;? ;<? Sf. Shaw and | Stieff Self player Pianos SOUTHERN WAREROOH: 5 West Trade Street, j; I Charlotte, - - N. C. C H. WILMOTH. !! I ) Manager. (Mention this paper) I [ ? Notice to Creditors All persons having claims against the ; "?'<2 .Tnufiiiiiiie (iravson.deceased.! - ,vi!l present the same, duly verified, to .lit' undersigned. ai:d all persons owing said estate will make payment to H I. Grayson, Administrator, 2-3-41> Benson, S C Final DischargeNotice is hereby given that on the l!>th day of March, A I> HMO, at 12 /clock noon.l will apply to P M Brockinton, .Judge of Probate of Williamsburg count), for a final discharge as idmini-trator of Harry Miller.deceased. Geohuk Miller, M7-4t Administrator, Final Discharge Notice is hereby g 'en that on the 12th day of March, D P>10. at 12 Yloek noon I will app fo P M Brock- . nton, Judge of Prob; of William? jurg county. for a fin ischarge as idministrator of the est. f J C San- ! lers. deceased. A W vdler. l-17-3t A sirator. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE jl THAT I JENKINSON BROS. CO. ? WILL OFFER I Men's Heavy Plow Shoes at $1.10, the pair that looks 9^ Jj cheap at $150. ' Men's Heavy Oil Grain Shoes at $1.35 that are well worth $2.00, but they will go at $1.35 as long as they last. Also a splendid line ot Shoes of all kinds for Gents, Ladies and Children. DRESS GOODS- If; We have some very attractive things to offer in Dress Goods. How does this sound? A 36-inch imported Black Brilliantine at 39c the yard. v \? Sold everywhere at 50c per yard, but you get it as long as it lasts from us at 39c per yard. . 90-inch Dress Linene at 75c per yard that looks real \ cheap at $1.00, but you get what you want from us at 75c per yard. The Goddess of Fashion has decreed that all kinds of Linen Fabrics will play an important part in aress ior Ladies and Misses this spring, hence we are prepared to show a splendid line of Linens in plaifl white and in | colors. We will be pleased to have }'Ou call and look , over our splendid line of Linen and Worsted dress fabrics. It is a fact that goes without saying that Laces and Embroideries ~x> Jm will always play an important part in ladies' dress and in view of this fact,ladies,we have some things in dainty .Laces ana J&moroiaeries mat win nu your eyes pleasure- ** full. Space will not allow description, but all we ask is to come and see. DRESS BUTTONS. ) Ladies, you no doubt have lots of trouble to get your 3 dress buttons to match your dress materials. To meet this requirement we have a button machine in our store. 'J Just send in the scraps from your dress and we will make your buttons in any size you want. If it is a wash dress we will make you a rust-proof button. Any size button you want we will make for you. In conclusion, we wish to impress one very important fact upon the trading public?that every dollar's worth Mt of goods in our store is absolutely new. We are new' fl| - - J?_ \T. _u I people in ttie town witn a new siock oi gooas. i\o oia goods to work off on you. When in town come to see us. We will be glad to show you our goods, whether you buy a cent of us or not. I jw Yours for business, I |? Jenkinson Brothers Co. 11 JfeFURSlg ^QRSsHHwhn white *oo? V y Ccmmetxral J^Eptrcgs Hank ] J Charleston, 5. <L N. E. Corner Kins ?d Wentworth Street*. CAPITAL, - - - - $100,000 | We conduct a General and Savings Department (if * 40\ allowed in Savings Department, computed \? quarterly, January: April, July and October. 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