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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.
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Old Private Stock Corn
Pocahontas Corn
Old Process Corn
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Sweet Mash, white as spring water, 10()
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Old Grand Dad 3 50
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Duffy's Malt
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Turkey Gin 3 50
Swan Gin 250
Holland Gin 3 00
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inc 322 e. broad street.
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FOR SALE-Several hundred corda
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Newspapers for sale by The Times.
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:k of Jewelry and hav
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i. RUFF, President
The Small
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Is a very important item in the economy of most men. It is
thoughtful purchaser selects a buggy made of the best materia
buggies we are offering the public, the best buggy that can be
hardwood firmly glued, with the corners mitred and secured wi
the height 42 to 46 inches. Axles are made with case-hardened
finest quality oil-tempered steel and the gears are of the best s
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used in the tires of these buggies, or where steel tires are pref
buggy is for rubber tired or steel tired, respectively,
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to the people of Fort Mill that we
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ads.
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ions and backs are made of extra fine leather with the
are of these buggies only the best quality paint is used
re of the famous Bradley make. The very best rubber is
erred, the steel is of the best quality. The price of this
$80.
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