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" '* Sv ' ;V' ,' * . M */ f -ryr,' . v v TILLMAN AGAIN A FARMER Curreapondence Columbia Record. Senator Tillman is once more a farmer, and for the time being a farmer only. He is, apparently, taking no part, and has no interest, in politics. When I spent the night at his gracious home a few nights ago I tried to get a rise out of him by bringing up the subject of Col. Roosevelt and his Western tour, but all the senator would say was "Oh! Shucks." Hut he was very much interested in his farm. Particularly in his new barn. To that he is devoting his entire time and attention and until that is completed he is not going to think about anything else. The story of the barn is interesting anci wnile my visit to the senator was personal, and I did not go for an interview or a write-up, still the part he has played in the nistory of the State is so important that the people are necessarily interested in whatever he does, and a little story about the barn may be pardoned. Before he went in for politics, Mr. Tillman was becoming very much interested in the raising of cattle in this State, v*Jth particular reference to the usefulness of cattle in supplying fertilizer. The sand hill lands of his section, along the ridge which stretches across the central portion of the State, ? from Chesterfield to Aiken -these >; ' and hill lands are peculiarly suscepv tible to the application of fertilizers, "land Mr. Tillman had determined to go <*iii for cattle raising on a large scale, ^lle had gone so far as to build a tre-JRiendous barn and had bought a large nerd of cattle. Then he got into politics?and, by the way, the cattle eventually got into politics, too. He was elected governor in 1890 and came to Columbia to live, and finding it more and more difficult to keep up with his farming operations he determined to sell his cattle. They were sold to the State Hospital for the Insane?and thereby hangs the tale of several cows and . steers that need not now be dwelt on, except to say that the hospital farm doubtless got a bargain. The cattle gone, the barn stood. But the senator had left the farm on which it stood and moved to his place near Trenton. He always intended to move that barn and again go in for cattle raising, especially uuriug uie iitsi few years he has become more and more interested in the subject of fertilizers and has watched the experiments at Clemson and elsewhere with increasing interest. So last year he started to tear down the barn and have it moved to the Trenton place* While in South Carolina last February he arranged everything for the transfer. Then, soon after he returned to Washington, he wis stricken down. "All the time I was ill," said the senator, "that barn worried me. I didn't want Mrs. Tillman to have to bother with it after I died, and I just thought about it all the time." I The work went ahead, but was not properly done in the senator's absence, and a big storm "blew the whole thing down. As soon as the senator was sufficiently recovered to come home and take charge of things, he went to work on that barn again. It is about ready for its occupants. One big red silo is not only oompleted but half full of ensilage and the other silo is going up. Those silos look good to me?though I am no farmer nor even the son of a farmer. I take the senator's word for it that they are all right. He will soon have his herd of more than 100 cattle in his new barn. Then perhaj>s the senator will again take a little interest in politics. He has some mighty line cotton now and they say that his asparagus field last season yielded a fine profit. Senator Tillman, to have been as seriously ill as he was less than a year ago, is now in splendid condition. He still uses a stick to walk with but gets around with no trouble and it is difficult for his family to restrain him from doing too much. He wants to be out at the barn or in the field all the time, at work. He sleeps well and has a splendid appetite and his condition generally is extremely satisfactory. By the time the congress opens up in December he will doubtless be very much of his old self again. Besides the barn the matter of most concern to the senator now is the condition of one of hi3 negroes, who recently injured his knee while at work in the saw mill. The senator proposes to send the negro off to a hospital where he can have the best of i medical and surgical treatment, and he and his family are being cared for by the senator and Mrs. Tillman. This incident illustrates what has so frequently been said about the senator; he makes the most violent speeches on the race question but the negroes ion his plantation are devoted to him and he treats them with unusual gentleness and kindness. A high-class vaudeville entertainment will be given in the Fort Mill town hall Saturday evening by Dr. F. G. Moore.* FOR SALE ?Elms property in Fort Mill. Two-story, 7-room dwelling, li acre lot, with good barn, orchard and well. For price and terms, write W. L. Plexico, Rock Hill, S. C. List .your property with me. Tur iv inn i"* JEWE] STOl "Rock Hil If you wont the bes buy a "Rock Hill" an Farm \ One- and two-horse sizes and of the best such as Studebaker, Thornhill. See us if Fort Mill M Marble and Granite Monuments. A large stock at prices from $5.00 up. Call and see the line at our storeroom. Boulevard and Palmer streets. Phone 1618. Write and let us call and show designs. Queen City Marble & Granite Works, Charlotte, N. 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