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TILLIAN'S WAYS ARE MILDER HE'S STILL VIGOROUS AND AL WAYS APPROACHABLE. Traits of South Carolina's Senator Used to Work Lying on Floor -Sees More Cranks than any other Public Man Fond of Flowers. New York Sun. Washington. March 3.-At the mid dle of the main corridor of the sen ate gallery, directly opposite the vice - president's seat, is a door opening into the senate document room. Pass through this and through a long row of stacked masses of documents, turn to the right, then to the left, and into a darker and a narrower corridor, and afew feet to the second door, whereon you will see the sign "Five Civili ized Tribes." Open the door and there you find Senator Tillman, the chief. When he first came to the senate ten years ago they say he was fitter, perhaps; to be at the head of a com mittee on the five savage tribes. Now, they say, he has become more amiable, more amenable, "tamed,'" and they have accordingly promoted him. But when he got this assignment he him self, possessed of a keen sense of humor, must have recalled the time when a few years ago the Methodist conference in his state assigned the Rev. Mr. Sojourner to a town called "Traveller's Rest." It was at least suggestive. You are apt to find him, especially if he has just spoken in the senate, pacing up and down telling his clerks and visitors what has just occurred, _speaking in the same animated way which he had just been using on the Ioor of the senate, making the same vigorous gestures with his arms, shaking the big head, snapping the massive jaws; "this old one eye of mine,'" as he calls it, shooting flashes throughout the room like those of a searchlight. Else you will find him seated at a desk at the far end of the room dictating to a clerk who sits in a large upholstered chair by his side. He is not a hard man to see at all. He seems to enjoy having a crowd around him when he is at work. It does not interrupt him. When his mind is concentrated on anything' or when "this old one eye'' is fixed upon a page he seems to be oblivious to all else around him. It has always been Senator Till man's habit to work thus in a crowd. He does things and as far as possible thinks them in the open, as it were. *And his family, from his wife, who since he was 20 years old has been his constant companion and chief adviser, down to the youngest of his children, all know his business, both public and private. At his home he receives his visitors, friends and strangers alike, in the presence of his family. He has *with him in his apartments at the Co lonial Hotel on 15th street, besides* Mrs. Tillman, two of his daughters, Miss Leona, a young lady in the neighborhood of 20, and Sallie May. aged 12. His oldest son, B. R. Till man, .Jr., is his private secretary, but he is married.and lives in another part of the city. He has another daughter at Hollins Institute, Virginia, and an other son studying law in Charles ton, S. C. B. R. Tillman, Jr., gives a good il lustration of how his father studied and worked. The first thing that. brought Mr. Tillman into prominence was a series of speeches and newspa per letters in advocacy of a farmers' college. They were written, said young Tillman. while his father was lying flat on his back on the piazza floor, his head and shoulders slightly propped up on a pillow leaned against an inverted straight back chair, while le, the son, and his little sister, both small children, were crawling all over his body and between his outstretched legs and running their hands into his pockets. It was his habit every day to come in from his farm and lie thus on the floor, reading or writing, all unconscious of what was going dn around him. *When Mr. Tillman came to Wash ington and entered the senate he gave up this habit, but he did not give it up altogether when he went to Co lumbia to be governor. One day a visitor came into the portico of the governor's mansion, and somewhat to his bewilderment found a man lying down on the floor near the front door reading a book. The man did not look up and the visitor rang the door bell over his head. In a few minutes a servant came to the door and the vis itor asked to see the governor. "Law!'' exclaimed the negro in surprise and in chagrin for his mas ter, delh gov 'nor; down deh on de fio."' It was thus lying on the floor, or upon his little improvised lounge, part foa nd part chair. that Senator Tillman stored his mind with trea. ures of English and classic literature which crop out continually in hiE speeches and writings. Several tine. recently. when morphine had to bE given him to ease the pain of his throat, upon which several operation, have been performed, he lay back on his bed and repeated line after line and stanza after stanza from Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Shakes peare and other English poets, stanzas which he had not read for perhaps twenty years. His reading now is confined almost entirely to the newspapers and maga zines or books dealing with present day questions and conditions. But from his boyhood until the time, at 43, he became governor of South Car olina he read constantly, widely, closely. He was two years old when his father died, being the youngest of seven sons and four daughters. His uncle, John Tillman, was a man of strong intellectual qualities, and being "independent," or what was known in the south then as a ''gentleman of leisure,'' was a constant, careful and discriminating reader. He collected a large library and was of the kind who studied his books as well as read them, and profusely annotated them. Even when his nephew, Ben, was a small boy his uncle picked him out as the one who would most likely con serve and- advance the Tillman name and to him he bequeathed all his larce and well chosen library. - Mr. Tillman from that day to tlhi has been a student. He never had the advantage of a college education When war broke out between the see tions he was 14 years old and wanted to prepare himself for college. Hi mother sent him to an academy noi far from their home. As the war wen1 oi he soon realized that he had but short time to go to school and he de voted himself so arduously to hi studies that he impaired his healt] and -came near losing his life. Al abscess formed in his head back o: his left eye and in time destroyed th eye. He did not entirely recover fo some years after the war. -At 17 h enlisted in the artillery corps in At lanta, but was nevef able to go to th front on account of his illness. As soon as he recovered his healt] Ihe took charge of his mother's larg estate, a farm of 600 acres, and thi e managed, adding largely to hi holdings until he was elected govern 1or in 1890. He married at 20. . Fo eight years he had no children. Hi fellow student of his farm and all i affairs was his young wife. Mr. Tillman did not hold any pub li office until he was elected governo' of South Carolina. Five years be tfore that he was scarcely known out side of his immediate section, and h< lived ten miles off the railroad, in backwoods section of Edgefield coun t. The first speech he ever mad< except when a boy at school was at state g'athering of farmers at Ben nettsville in 1885, when he was 3 yasold, and the speech atfractet more attention tharf any that had pre v-iously been made in the state foi ten years. That brought him int< immediate prominence and from tha1 day to this he has been the most con spicuous figure in South Carolina. If ever a crank comes to Washing ton with a freak idea 'he wants em bodied into a law, or even an ag grieved person of any kind comes here, he hunts up Senator Tillman And Senator Tillman always listen: patiently. 'It takes him butt a fev minutes to size up the man and hu 'case, but after that, even if he find: the man~'a crank. he listens still fo: the fun of the thing. If,- on the othe' hand, the idea or the grievance seem: agood one he takes hold of it. ani whether it is his business or not h< does what he can to help the cause IA few days ago, whils Senator Till man was busiest with the affairs o: the senate he got a letter from a mai in Georgia .asking him how to' cur< hams. The senator sat down and die tated the whole process. Senator Tillman is exceedingly fon< of flowers and takes more interest i1 them perhaps than any other membe of congress. On his place at Trentor S. C., ihe has the best flower garden 1. his state, where the people generall; are especially fond of flowers. A let ter received by one of the senator' clerks reads: 'Mr. -told me that Senat(; Tillman and the superintendent o the Botanical Gardens were as ,thicl as runaway negroes and that if wanted anything from The Garden the senator was the man to write to Please ask him to send me some roses as I have enlarged my rose bed ani have not enough to fill it out. 'One of my boys wants a billygoal and the other a Shetland pony, brut] do not feel that I am sufficiently in imate with the senator to ask him tc procure from the government either of the aforesaid animals.'' The most remarkable request ever - eeie by Seo Tilm n came not long ago from a lady m his state. "I want a husband.' her letter said. "and I feel sure you can procure one for me. Your influence as a senator. I understand. is very great. le must be old: 1 do not want a yun,.. man. and J would prefrt. him to lbe rieb. Please let Ine hear from you. That was one time Senator Till man failed to come up to expectations. But that was before he was made chairman of the Five Civilized Tribes committee. They Wouldn't Hear Him. Angie invited her Young man to supper. Everything passed off har maoniously until the seven-year-old brother broke the blissful silence by saymIIC': "Oh, ma. you oughter seen Mr. the other night when he called to take Angie to the drill. He looked so nice sittin' longside of her with his arm-" *Fred '' screamed the maiden, quickly placing her hand over the bov's mouth. You oughter seen him,' continued the persistent informant after gain )ing his breath. "He had his arm-" "Freddie!" shouted the mother, as, in her frantic attempt to reach the boy's auricular appendage, she upset the contents of the teapot. 'I was just going to-say," the half frightened boy pleaded, between a cry and an injured whine. "he had his arm-" "John.'' thundered ihe father. .leave the table!" And the boy did so. exclaiming as e ent. "I was only going to say Mr. - ad his army clothes oi. and I leave it to him if he didn 't. His Wife's Money. Atehison Globe. Once upon a time a man married a woman who had inherited $500 from a grandfather. This was all she ever received. but the man never got r credit for his efforts the rest of his life. He built a new store. "Did it with his wife's money," the neigh bors said. The home was made over and enlarged. "His wife's money did it.'' was the only comment. The little measly $500 she inherited was given the credit for everything he did sduring life and when he died and his w idow put up a monument with his rlife insuranee, "Her money paid for that.'' was said again. 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