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FIGHT WAGED OVER TIL! MAN CHILDREN HEARING IS ADJOURNED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY. T# Make Rejoinder to Allegation Thai Young Ben Tillman is Still Addicted to Drink Hal>it. Columbia, Nov. 26.?The petition of Benjamin R. Tillman, Jr., son of Senator B. R. Tillman, a-sking for the custoday of his two little girls, and the return of their mother, Mrs. Lucy Dugas, his divorced wife, were heard by the supreme court this morning, and the hearing marked che climax in one of rJip rnasr infprpsrine leenl hattlps ever waged in South Carolina. On motien of the attorneys tor the petitioner, in which they asked to make rejoinder to the allegations of Mrs. | Dugas that young Tillman was still! addicted to drink, the case was ad-1 journed until next Monday, December i 2, and both sides are permitted to file \ affidavits and if the court thinks ad- i visable they may order a reference if j anything in the affidavits so decide j them. I The supreme court room was crowded when the case was^called, many J iadies being in attendance. Mrs. Lucy j Dugas was present with her two little f. daughters, Douschka Pici:ens and Sarah Starke, around whom the battle ; is raging. The little girls looked very ; sweet and pretty and were not fright- j t ened by their strange surroundings, j i Grouped around Mrs. Dugas were sev- |l eral ladies from Edgefield and Coliun- j? bia. long her intimate friends; and 11 directly in front of her sat her coun- j j sel. DePass & DePass, of Columbia, ie and S. McG. Simkins, of Edgefield. I Among the ladies present in addition | h to Mrs. Dugas and her two daughters | p were Mrs. S. McG. Simkins, Mrs. Wal- t] lace W. Sheppard, Mrs. Ettie Brooks p Jones, Mrs. F. W. P. Butler, Mrs. H. W. a Richardson. ^ fi The Scene in Court. To the left of Mrs. Dugas's attorneys j al sat B. R. Tillman, Jr., with his coun- j sel, Tillman & Mays, of Gr^nwood, i Mr. Mars read the petition of the fath- j er, while Mr. Simkins read the return, j ^ / m of the mother. There was a mass of statements, affidavits and letters intro- j duced by both sides and the reading ; an required over t\to hours. j w(. Immediately upon the conclusion of i pj, the reading of the return of Mrs. Du- <ia; gas the court took a recess of ten min- I utes. When court reconvened Mr. j f0r Mays, of Mr. Tillman's counsel, asked ! for for an extension of time as they desir- j ed to reply to the affidavits introduced in Which it was allfeeri that "R P Till. ~ " ; ent man, oi\, is still addicted to drir.k. Mr. , _ i hac DePass offered to withdraw the affi- s i ma. davits so as not to interfere with the , , i est] progress ot the case, but Mr. Mavs ob- , i hus jected to them being withdrawn from ! of the record and wanted to refute them., Ion After consultation with the other just ate lices, Chief .Justice Gary announced; ary xhat the case would be continued until on next Monday and both sides could file ,, affidavits. ; . ? ; of ' Throughout the reading of the peti- j tion and reply and during the reading j of the letters which passed between j , imot] y-oung Tulman ana his former wife' . ? i then the spectators followed every detail j .closely. It was m every respect oneu , . x. , . 1 to hi oi the most interesting cases ever i turn heard in a South Carolina court. ^^ Pending the outcome of the case the ;. . two little girls remain in the poises- L . 4 ... ^ . , ., . , fatne sion ot their mother, who, while in the ! ^em city, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. F. P. W. Butler. Senator Tillman was not . imm( present m the supreme court room , . . , jdenc< during the trial. ; Contest Over Children. * Two pretty little girls were the central figures of interest in one of the ^r"' ( Qenol most intensely interesting battles ever fV* waged in South Carolina when the supreme court today heard the habeas eIls 2 corpus proceedings brought by B. R. gas Tillman, Jr., against Uis divorced wife, Mrs. Lucy Dugas, for the custody of ^ their two little daughters, Douschka pus 1 Pickens Tillman and Sarah Starke a*IeS Tillman, 8 and 6 years old respectively. TilIrr In Mrs. Dugas's veins flows the best: an blood of South. Carolina, the blood of t,aAlu' the rough pioneer lighter being mixed nis ^ -with the more finished product of the *rre ' hp i ^ Revolutionary ancestors, and still further refined by that charm and ele- an ?* thp Q| gance -which characterized the old slave owners of the South. Her mater- awar nal ancestry in South Carolina sprang UI from Andrew Pickens, who was born in Paxton, Penn., of Huguenot parents, Th< and moved with them into this State in the 1 3742. Serving through the revolution- raise ary war as a captain and brevet brig- crym adier general, be was afterwards a take member of the State legislature, con- press gress, major general of militia, and a stron member of die first South Carolina law < constitutional convention. and i The grandfather of Mrs. Dugas, 10, IS Francis Wilkinson Pickens, shed ad- conve ditional lustre on the family name. He dr*en. was a member of the State legislature, j served in coEgrosj, ;t:.J it was while Al'i i 'lie was minister to Russia that he wooed ; and won the hand of the beautiful J Miss Lucy Halconib, the grandmother I of Mrs. Dugas. Mrs. Pickens's beauty | at the court of Russia created a sensai tion and she was a prime favorite with | the Czar and the Czarina, so much so ' that the Czar stood as godfather for lier daughter, and called her "Douschka," Russian for "darling." The beau! ty and grace of Mrs. Pickens were i transmitted to her daughter, Francis i Pickens, who was later married to Dr. Dugas, of Augusta, a physician of scientific attainment. To them, was born Lucy Pickens Dugas, with all the graces of charm and elegance as well j as beauty that distinguished her j mother and grandmother. Young Ben Tillman. Young B. R. Tillman sprang from the humbler tillers of the soil, and between his people and that of his former : u- i?*? I i vwit; jls tt gun umcu iac>iea iur genera- j ! tions, and his forefathers viewed the i forefatliers of Mrs. Dugas with all that suspicion and discontent with which the humblei classes looked 011 the slave owning aristocracy. His ancestors came from Vi"ginia before the Revolution and were of a robust stock. Young Tiliman's grandparents were Benjamin Ryan Tillman and Sophia Ann Hancock. To them were born the present senior senator from South Carolina, in Edgefield, August 11, 1847. B. R. Tillman, Sr's. father, a man of bright 1 rnina ana nervous temperament, and i' an omniverous reader, died two years ' after tlie senator's birth, who assumed * ;he management of hi-, mother'^ fsvir, kvhich remained his occupation until le aspired for political preferment. ? Senator Tillman was married to Salie Starke, of Elbert county, Georgia, ^ lanuary S, 1868, and to this union even children were born. B. R. Tillman, Sr., proudly calling imself the leader of the "common eople," swept from political power tie people of Miss Lucy Dugas and the d ickenses, calling them aristocrats oi nd bourbons and fanning into bitter ^ ames all the class hatred and ani- b< losities of which he alone was cap- 2i )le, rode into power in 1890. in Despite the social demarcation of j merations and the endangered po- ^ co ical animosities, young "Ben" Tillwi an loved beautiful Lucy Dugas and op ter an impetuous courtship, won her wi art and hand and they were married d took up their residences at "Edge- j >od," the ancestral home of the ;kenses. To then. were born two ughters, Douschka Pickens, October 1904, and Sarah Starke, one named the mother of the mother and one i the mother of the father. | j Domestic Troubles. \ the ^he element of human frailty now j er, ers into the little family circle; all! dul I not gone well with young Till-1 Jud n and his wife. They became so! Not ranged that Mrs. Tillman left her deb band on November 23, 1908, because mei "certain unjust and cruel attacks her character" and his "intemper- 10-5 habits." Subsequently, in Febru, 1909, she was reconciled to him 1 T< his promise of "the retraction of charges against her" and the faith Dut for his contrition and promise of rea." After this B. R. Tillman, Jr., j ?n : the two children on a visit to his j tier. Mrs s s 1or 5 , JL. mUiCUi, YVJLL-l> YV <Atj I . Jilt in Washington as he informed his _ . I seeri . He was then private secretary I is father, Senator Tillman. He re- j ed the afternoon of the same day out his children, "his explanation ! I that he had given them to his! i ir and mother, who had taken: I . to South Carolina." Mr. B. R. ! lan, Jr., then packed his grips, j Th* Kliately after leaving his resi- j reade 3, declaring to his wife, "his inten- of an to desert her." urina December 1, 1909, B. R. Tillman, gers i leeded to his father and mother, word tor and Mrs. Tillman, the custody ka-s 3 p tWA liffal -? -l-i? T%' * w ,nu giiio, i-rjusciuta i'ick- 1 coqvi md Sarah Starke. Mrs. Lucy Du- j Mrs rilLiian, the mother of the little Car., ren, petitioned the supreme court! dered e State for a writ of habeas cor- pains to release the children from the There ed "unlawful restraints" of B. R. back tan and his wife, Mrs. S. S. Till- scarc The writ was granted, and on tions ary 31, 1910, Senator Tillman and great rife brought the two children be- cians the viourt vhere, after hearing I reme< sides argu .i, the full court filed least )inion February 15, 1910, declared of ev< tatute under which young Tillman j law p ded the children to his parents to ney 5 ^constitutional and gave them to Son's mother, Mrs. Lucy Pickens Dugag they i d case excited so much interest at indue ime th.it a storm oi protest was after [1 from the women of the State de- boxes g as barbarous a law that with and i I a child from its mother. The their lire of public opinion became so mend" g that the legislature passed a of m: iompletely abrogating the old act do so. iullify: ' its terms. On January For >10, Senator and Mrs. Tillman re-j cents >yed the custody of the two chil- j New back to young B. R. Tillman. ! States Before Supreme Court ] Ren thv -iecisicrtthe supreme | fake 1 '/court, Mrs. Lucy Dugas lived with hei . children at her ancestral home, "Edge i wood," near Edgefield, paying occaJ sional visits to Cincinnati, 0. In the | meanwhile she had changed the name jof the youngest child from Sarab Starke to Lucy Frances. In the early part of 1910 "Ben" Tillman wrote several letters to his wife proposing reconciliation and making offers of money for the support of the children, all offers of reconciliation being rejected. Young Tillman says in his affidavit that he has seen his children only four times since they were awarded to his wife. A few weeks ago young Tillman took further steps to regain his children and filed with the supreme court a writ of habeas corpus asking that the children be awarded him. NOTICE OF ELECTION FOR MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. . | Notice is hereby given that the reg- j ular annual election for a mayor and! ?TT? * ' " * ' ijL?o aiucimcu, one aiaerman lor eacn j of the five wards, to serve for a term j of one year, will be held at the Coun- j cil Chamber in the opera'house in the Town of Newberry, South Carolina, on the second Tuesday in December. 1912, being the tenth day of said; month, the polls to be opened at 8j D'clock in the forenoon and to close j it 6 o'clock in the afternoon. G. "W Hiller, J. R. Davidson and Alex Single :on are appointed managers of the said 1 election. By order of the Town Council of! dewberry, S. (?., on this the 27th day >f September, 1912. J. J. Langford, j Lttest: Mayor, j J. R. Scurry, j o m u. OC i. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that the unersigned will make final settlement f the estate of Martha (or Mattlc) C. 'erts, in the Probate Court of New3rry county, on Saturday, November j I, 1912, at 11 o'clock a. m., and will | imediately thereafter apply for their [ scharge as administrators of the said tate. All persons indebted to the id estate will make settlement forthth. and all nersoTic hnlrfm^ rlnims akist said estate will file the same I th the undersigned, or with their at- I *ney, Eugene S. Blease, Xewberry, ! J. Pat Blair, Thomas S. Blair, tober 21,1912. Administrators. ^ 50TICE TO CBEDITOKS. " Lll persons holding claims against estate of Jacob Middleton Wheel- A deceased, will present the same, | y attested, to me or to the Probate I ige on or before the 24th day of I rember, 1912. And all persons inX _ 3 X. I I iea 10 saia estate win maxe pay-1 it at once. Nannie A. Whealer, . I ?5-3t. Administratrix. q NOTICE. o All Who Are Subject to< ReaA y in Newberry County: The time paying commutation tax expires December 31. All who are subject E>ad duty had better pay your tax, i ~ ou certainly will be required to in your full time under my over5. A word to the wise is sufficient. W. A- Hill, p Supervisor-elect, L-l , NO REASON FOR IT. i ?? j I ST A' on Are Shawn a Way Oat. r I V/1 ( ere can be no reason why any >r of this who suffers the tortures i aching back, the annoyance of Geor ry disorders, the pains and dan-! pa of kidney ills will fail to heed the! I cn< of a resident of this locality who [ found relief. The following is 1 ., I AUo ncmg proof. 3. J. M. Wheeler, Prosperity, S. Ceor says: "My kidneys were disor- ' for a long time, causing terrible .hrough my loins and limbs. _ . est I i was also a constant ache in my: x. j Newt and on some occasions I could k ^ ely get about The kidney secre- j were unnatural and annoyed me' .. i situa ly. I consulted several physiI Th and tried a number of kidney \ lies, but did not improve in the!him J I had about given up the hope ^oar* sr being cured when my son-in- tract rocured a supply of Doan's Kid- land:? 'ills for me at W. E. Pelham & 011 11 drug store. He had read that mjI irere good for kidney trouble and ^ ed me to try them. I did so and *ainil I had taken the contents of two arres my backache had disappeared or ny kidneys had been restored to j Park! normal condition. I have recom- j Smiti ed Doan's Kidney Pills to many) ^e^7 friends and shall continue toj Tr? ** I scom' sale by all dealers. Price 501 an(i s Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, | or York, so'e agents for the United j i. j No.' 2 r_ ember the nam*?Doan's?and ; Trs no othtx. and s * ???I | The Nt Capital S i I You may bi | I or it matters i some of your | to save tor a i I be able to ear j "The Bank I Four Per Cei JAS. McINTOSH, Pres JUY A PET ALU MA HSf CHICKEi JlUUl THF PPT; let An Early Hatching StartSPEOIAL OF Genuine White Indian he 20th Century Egg Machines?Over 2 -Dry Land Ducks. Breeding Birds,. $E limited number. Eggs $2.50, $3.50 i SELND IN YOUR ORDER RET ALUM A INOUE ETALUPTACALL N. TE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, bounde OUNTY OF NEWBERRY. railroad DOURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Tracl Newberry Savings Bank, Plaintiff, and s against acres,, ge T. Reid, Industrial Trust Ccin- the G. < ny and the Farmers and Mer- R- M. i lats Bank of Greenwood, S. C., No. 3. Pendants. The a Robert Johns,, et al, ry trac against represe ge T. Reid. et al. N'ovemt art order of the cour?: herein, 3 veyor, i sell at public outcry to the high- ijna l0 bidder before court house at James jerry, S. C., on Monday, December ^ ^ 12, the same being salesday, the an iving tracts of land lying and j hQ te in Newberry county, to-wit: .. ^ e Scurry tract containing four LeRoy red (400) acres more or less, pernaps led on the north by the Parks Term , on the east anti south by other cjlase p , of the said George T. Reid, and balance le west by Saluda river and the insta)m< ions tract. secured s McGowan or Smith tract, cod- mortga^ ig three hundred and twienty from ds , more or less, bounded by lands the rate formerly of J. R. Scurry, A. S. abie an] 5, Keith & Thompson, W. R. anfj ^ i, Geo. G. DeWalt and Geo. T. or pU? col I ec tic ict No. 1, of the Jame3 X. Lip- to the a b place, containing two hundred ney's fe< iixty-three and a half acre?, more ers to i-s, and bounded by lands of J. R. credit t y. Mrs. R. M. Simkins aud Tract Purch&s cording ict \o. Z, containing two hundred ixty-Qve acres, more or less, and Xovoi L C kVlTKAlMMT V A wwm. ;wueii]f oavuigs tock, - $50, \&UerWh e a Farmer, or a Miller, or a I lot what your trade or profe: money in the bank It will rainy day or a day when yon n as much as now. That Always Has The 1 it Interest Paid en Sayings D ident J.;L NORfff f _??^f hbbb syy A PET ALU MA W1 HlTC Are Raised Profitably j A 1LUMA WAY I ^ GATAL.OGS NOW ?Poultry Is Money. j> ~FER i! I > Runner Ducks ' SO Pure White Eggs a Year LOO each, $15.00 per trio on md $5.00 per setting. t AT ONCE \ATOR CO. Delaware St.* Indianapolis f St TnMHMHHMHMBBBnW . 1 " d by Tract No. 2, the G. and C. i and Tract No. 4. t No. 4, containing two hundred |1| ;eveaity-three and one-fourth more or less, and bounded by & C. ral'road, by lands oX Mrs. Simkins, J. 2 Coles and Tract Lbove tracts, excepting the Scur:t, contain tlie 1,12.2 acres as j nted by plats thereof made on l >er ?, 1SS0, by J. S. Pitte, sur- j uid filed in suit of South Caro- . an and Trust company against OWN J N. Lipscomo.* - % HEill tract, concalning iwg hun- ^on' [v twen d seventy-eight acres, more or among unded by lands of, or form er- be that Walter Andrews, J. B. Scurry, w^s 1 Holloway, J. S. Simmons and ; seit an , others. j BE Y< s of sale: One-third of the pur- i i YO U r rice to be paid in cash, and the conv-mc in one and two c-quat annual of thos< snts, the credit ooriiou to be lse?P & v i i Natm Kc nr*f>/le. r> r TMifr>n!>?c.rsi on. I I vj ? - | 3 vouni jes of the premises, iaterefctj ty of sale till paid in iuil at mmmm of 8 per cent, per,annum, pay- |^f%3 iually; and in case said bonds rtg ges are collected bv s>'4* coiti'^f8 in tlie hands of attorneys for >n 10 per cent, must be added Lmcunts due thereon as attor- - _ es; with leave to the purchas- a gag anticipate payments of the Ijiil >ortion in whole or in part.! -HS?*) J ' <( Cv ers to pay for pap^n? and re-; ! > 'li same. i ' H. H. 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