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WARDS OF COURT TAKE STAX1 ? Tillman Children Again Causes t Litigation. Columbia. S. C., November 24.Douschka Pickens Tillman, 1 years of age. and Lucy Frances (c Sarah S.) Tillman, S years of ag< 4 were put through a severe crosse> amination by attorneys before the si preme court yesterday in the case ir volving their custody. It is probabl the first time in the history of Sout / ?! * i 1 A rem JiQVP liPPTl 1 vai umia mai ttuiut^u u?* ? v ed to testify before the supreni court. The little girls have bee growing up under the jurisdiction c ? the court during the last seven years. The principal contention in the cas was that the little girls had dis obeyed the mandate of the court b refusing to remain with their granc parents. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Tillmai during a stated period. After taking the testimony c many witnesses, including that c Mrs. Lucy Dugas, mother of the chi dren, the court adjourned for the da and took the case under advisemen * - ' - ft Alter me nearmg jBsiciua?, ui gene B. Gary chief justice, signe the following order: "At the hearing on the return t ^ the rule hereto attached, the atto: neys for B. R. Tillman. Jr., the fatht of the children above named, made appear to the court that, on accour of his absence from the State on bus ness for several months past, he ha no opportunity to see or be with h children, and that his business woul call him out of the State again abov December 1, next, when he would t ' absent for some time. He therefoi requested the court to order the pending the decision of the court o the return herein, he be allowed t have his children with him as muc as possible from now until Decembc 1. The court deems the request re; sonable. "It is therefore ordered that tb children, Douschka P. Tillman an Sarah S. Tillman, stay with the father Thursday, November 26, an Saturday and Sunday, November 2 and 29: their going to their fath< and their return to tneir moim to be at such times as will not inte fere with their duties or studies ; school. Let a certified copy of th order be served upon Mrs. Lucy Di gas. the mother of said children." The case was called for hearin at 10 o'clock and all testimony ha been completed by noon. B. R. Til man, Jr., father of the little girl sat with his attorneys in the coui f room. He recently returned froi Alaska, where he is engaged in gcr ernment work. He is to return t Alaska soon. Mrs. Lucy Dugas, motlief of tl children, had been ordered to appet before the court and show cause wh she should not give up the parti; custody of the children. Under tl first order of the court, the childre were required to be left with tl father at their grandparents' home < certain periods during the year, was charged that the children refuse to remain with their grandparen and that they were very unruly. Father Files Petition. B. R. Tillman. Jr.. filed the fo lowing petition with the court: ? "Dii.cnont tn tlio nrftpr of tl court heretofore passed in this caus the petitioner, B. R. Tillman, Jr., a ^ pears before the court and respec fully submits the affidavits hereto a tached and in reference thereto r spectfully asks that the honorab court make such disposition of tl custody and control of his said chi dren as shall be for their best inte est and in connection therewith th petitioner desires to express his wi] ingness either to assume full chari and control of his said children, c if the court deems it best, to pla< them in some'institution where th< will be properly cared for and trai ed, this petitioner will gladly be: whatever expense may be required properly support, educate and mai tain them. "Your petitioner earnestly pra that in either event the direction a: i control of the future education ai training of these children ne piac< in his hands and that such dispoi tion of them be made which will 1 more beneficial to their future trai ing than the present arrangement. "If allowed to have the care ai custody of his children, this pel tioner will gladly afford every re k sonable opportunity for their moth to see and be with them." ? Accompanying this petition we affidavits by B. R. Tillman, Jr.. Mi Sallie S. Tillman. Sallie May Tillma Mary Hill and Mrs. J. B. Knigl The affidavits stated that the childn had refused to remain at the home Senator Tillman. In one of the affidavits the folio ing statement appears: "They absolutely refused to g off the train, and although depone tried to reason with them the youn est was very impudent am! told d ponent that she had kidnapped ti? once before, showing that she h: been taught by someone to hate h grandmother and to harbor up evei ). thing against her." .Mother .Makes Reply. .Mrs. Dugas tiled a petition with > , the court asking that she be allowed ; to keep the little girls. She based j her plea on "mother love" and stated j ~~ that she was doing everything for the1 ? 0 1 good of the children, paying for their ir education, sending them to Sunday i school, teaching them their lessons and trying to instil a love in them for their father, B. It. Tillman, Jr.. ^ l" She denied emphatically that she had s ever taught the children to hate their '' grandparents. j ' "My recollection of these matters j* e is entirely different from the matters * n contained in those affidavits," said tl X. G. Evans, of Edgefield, who said h , that he appeared as a friend of Mrs. jh i Dugas. He declared that he had n ,e known the principals in the case all j 5 liic lifp j y J I "These little girls are the best be- 0 " haved and the most genteel little;,, ' girls that visit our home." said Mr.!" ! Evans, referring to the visit of the j , ' {Tillman children to his home. He!* | . had been questioned as to the be- 0 "jhavior of the children. He declared ^ yj that he had never heard the children n *i speak disrespectfully to anyone. "The 1 1_ children are better cared for and betdjter reared than nine-tenths of the 4 i children in South Carolina," said the 1 ' j witness. . 7 r"i F. \V. P. Butler, M. D., of Colum*r bia, told the court that the children P 1 j had visited his home many times and q it 1 | that they were "just as good as they , " could be." d! ~ . ... . ? "Tney are iwo 01 me s?ccicbi mis tie babes I have ever known." said Joe .Minis, of Edgefield, who was q lt called to testify. Mr. Minis sent the e |0 children to their mother's home in v e the country on one occasion, when t it I j they came back from Trenton. His j S testimony was given to prove that the -f ' j mother had not told the children to V] j return immediately from their grand} i father's home and that she would be k 1- 1 ; at the train to meet them. 1 j "The children are as well behaved ^ 1 j as any 1 know." said Mrs. F. \V. P. ) 1 i Butler, of Columbia, referring to i ir i ; their visit to her home. v j Children Testify. T The little girls, when asked why r >r thev had left the home of Senator a >r Tillman, declared it was because of j the absence of their father. e it , : "You know vour father?" r IS j "Yes, there he is," said Douschka, "'Pointing to B. R. Tillman, Jr., who i ? A * * ~*V?/v toKlo frnm bpr ? ' S3.C J US l (iliUdd \.uxz iau?c . v lf i "Did vour mother tell you to re- s id I . main with your grandfather?" j j "Yes" j "Why did you leave?" lj I "Because B. R. was not there," re- t 1X1 I i plied the child, referring to her p ! father. The little girl then stated 0 o , that shet had always gone away from t Senator Tillman's home because of f 16 the absence of her father, who she c said was in Alaska. t IV a"ji "Does your mother teach you to > love vour father?" s ie .. I "\es. The little girl said that she had r 16 ^ written several letters to her father s j and that once her mother had paid c , her to write. o ?(1 "Whv did you not want to remain f ts I with Senator Tillman?" a "I just don't want to stay." ( "What dpes your mother teach { >1-1 you about your father?" f "She teaches me to love him." ie< "Obey him?" e, "Yes." \ p-l "You left Senator Tillman's home i t-J of your own will?" t-J "Yes." . j e-j The witness said that she had missle! ed school only a few days during the ^ ie past two years. ^ ,1-j "Do you go to Sunday-school?" r-i "Yes." is! Attorneys for Mr. Tillman asked II-'the little girl several questions. ;e! "Did you obey your grandmother?" r, i "No." eel "Why?" ?y "Because 1 just don't like them * n-( and don't want to stay away from my ar mother," replied the little witness, to Lucy Frances Tillman, eight years n-;old, was the next witness. The child ( ! declared that her mother had not in- 1 ys structed her to return from Senator id Tillman's home, id "Why did you not stay?" ?d "'Cause I didn't want to." si- "What did your mother teach you ho about vour father?" , n-i "She told me to write to him. to I love him and to mind him." id "Did your mother know you were ti- coming back from Senator Tillman's a- i home?" er "No" "Who changed your name front re Sarah Stark to Lucy?" s. j "I changed it." replied the witness, n, I Mrs. Lucy Dugas was the next witit. ! ness. She said that when the chil?n dren returned from Senator Tillman's of home she was preparing for a trip to j Washington, where she intended to | iv- visit friends. She was expecting a! ! viiention and was surprised, she saidj et when the children did not remain at | rit Trenton. it a>j The witness was asked as to the- j !e- punishment intlietod upon the cliil-j, in di- n because they di.-obcyel her. ad "None. 1 did not expect to whip < er the children for ever coininsr hack to J , y- nie from anybody." said .Mrs. Dutras. j 11)14 COTTON CHOI*. 1>I lumber of liales (iinned Prior to Nov. 1 ttli 11,<>:>4,708. Washington, Nov. 21.?Possibility ^ f this year's cotton crop equalling, ^e" r perhaps exceeding, the greatest *1C1 rop heretofore grown was lhaicaicd 1!1S aday in the census bureau s fifth inning report of the season, which tor; iiowed the quantity of cotton ginned fun rior to November 14 was 11,<124.- ol;s OS bales, the largest on record. In ti?t he past seven years the average of I!':! he entire crop ginned to the end of -^r' his period was 75 per cent. On this asis the present crop would seem to e between 1 5.500,000 and 1(5,000,- 'ne oo bales. I was The ginning from the period from j ^ie .'ovember 1 to 14 established a rec- J ti?i rd of 1,795.026 ba'es. exceeding ist vear by ir?2.000 bales and 1911 y 458.000 bales. For the season C his year's einnings exceed the rec- sub rd by 81 1.000 bales. In Alabama, nal irkansas. Florida and Oklahoma an ew records for ginning to November! '-01 I / >! i t 4 were established. Included in the ginnings were 22,- re? npo 64 round bales, compared with 74,- H t 67 last year. (12,768 in 1912 and - H U "96.1 in 1911. . fen Son island cotton included number on u "i 876 ba'es. compared with 51,- ^ ">0 ba'es l*>st vear. 40.989 hales in < 010 and 71.204 bales in 1911. tha Ul _ the Knee Question in . C. T. I. Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 20.?The negro b0I luestion. which stirred up a bit of pei xcitement in the white house last j are veek. has been injected into the na- j ]js( ional convention of the \V. C. T. l\: wjj n Atlanta through the arrival of j Ir0 our negro women, delegates from j jjn, rexas, who were totally unexpected. ser The corps of girl ushers who have the he seating arrangements in' charge' (jj lad made no arrangements for this' . tha lelegation, and asked that the four | irunette delegates go into the gal . ~ ! off ery 01 tne tjapusi lauemanc,. vhere the convention is meeting. J wa They indignantly refused to be seg- ^ia egated, marched down the main fr0 .isle and found seats between two hin lelegations from the North, who ing ;ave the black sisters a cordial wel-j ome. Just across the aisle is the Ala-: >ama delegation, and these ladies ^ fere highly indignant at the inva- Qtj1 ion from the black belt. One of the pec tlabama visitors left the hall. pack-jwh d her grips and returned to Ala-.bee iama at once. It is reported that tru he lady who heads the corps of; t >ages threatened to address the body; l0 n the desirability of having a Nor-,in hern and Southern \V. C. T. U. in j * uture, with two conventions if the! olor line is not drawn. None of' * his story, by the way, got into the! ^e itlanta papers, the editors fighting] hy of stirring up trouble. acr The color trouble has been augnented by the persistent efforts ?f fe] everal local negro women, friends j >f th.e Texas delegates, to enter the gee onvention and sit beside their jn-s riends. it was necessary to can me t_? j tr.i issistance of several men before they i 1 1 III ould be ejected. A big rumpus in j sjj( he W. C. T. 17. ranks is expected to tQl ollow. ? Another One Fooled. \ e met: ^latonis friendship, we agreed, was best; ( mpersonal, of course, but everlasting chums : ? ro run about together, seeing things,1 * 1 .Vith just the touch of sentiment, IJ perhaps, brother shows toward his dearest sister: 3ut of that treacherous state called ' love" thing apart. 3ur walks and talks were quite be- Qa yond compare, rramping the countryside like any ^ men, )r sitting by the fire, discoursing life; ? Immune from all those promptings of the heart rviot t-nnii tho noafpfiil harmonv of mind. Wi Till, when we least expected, came along The other man? A brute, with smile insidious. of the kind That talks of souls unit- 0f ed. hearts as one. Mo And flutters all the reason out of girls. Whether they wish or C. whether they do not. Suffice it that he came, j he saw he con quered: And T found, instead of l>oin?T riclit. as T supposed. Tiiat T was left. ?Jndrre. _ r . rn'u" fi'o cnnuort of flio i A^rc: flpt 1 ? ? o?' rvroncr.^ "T >' r?vr?T*V- ' feL >1,;r,r ur.r1 tl>ov 1>1V^ pr-v r>" H T1V j J" nrrt^r to li<"?7n f'TPOT't fr? Mii] ?roP.**j id mother. j IFFKKKXCK IX LOXGTITIDK. tween Washington ami Paris I)eterinined by Wireless. Vashington, Nov. 21.?Actual difence in longiitiule between the ofal meridians of Paris and Washton is T> hours and 17 minutes 1 :.s seconds, naval ohservay officials announced today after ipleting their elaborate wireless ervations in which Frpnch sciens participated. The observations. <!e through the wireless station at ington and Eiffel tower, eonsti? the first direct determination of , ' i ritudinal difference between Washton and Europe. When the work ; half completed the scientists of two sovernments exchanged sta1S. South Carolinians Enlisted. Mty Engineer S. H. Lea, who is a scriber to the Minneapolis Jour, Minneapolis, Minn., points out interesting item a dispatch from idon saying that 1.000 South Carnans have enlisted in Canadian intents recruiting for the Euro,n war. The dispatch reads: 'London, Oct. 31.?General Sam ghes, Canadian minister of dese, before sailing for New York the American liner, St. Paul to said: 'Canada has To,000 more men m it realy wants for enlistment in i war. 'Americans are pouring over the der and demanding that they be mitted to enlist. I imagine there > more than 1.000 Americans ened from South Carolina alone. He I should say that 60.000 men rn Oilier nuui uic uuiuct e to Tennessee have offered their vices. We had to shut down on im as we had to do also on Canans, simp'y because we had more in enough men. "General Hughes got a great sendat Euston station. The platform s lined with officers of the Canan contingent. A squad of pipers m the London contingent escorted 1 out of the station amid deafencheers." " - ? 1 T? .i ?non liivm iiatc. Hie average duration of life is rter in New Guinea than in any er country, possibly owing to the uliar diet affected by the natives, 0 devour with gusto the larvae of sties, dug out of decayed tree nks, and habitually drink sea wawhen near the coast. "The peodie off at about 40," we are told Mr. A. E. Pratt's "Two Years iong the New Guinea Cannibals," s the London Chronicle. "We v one very old man. who may have >n about 60 years of age?the only imple of longevity that we came oss. He was bent almost double 1 had a long, white beard. His low-tribesmen regarded him as a ;at curiosity, and brought him to ! us. Despite the decrepitude of body, however, there was no ce of senility; his senses were unpaired and the poor old creature >wed great gratitude for a gift of lacco." R. P. BELLINGER ATTORNEY AT LAW )ffioe Over Bamberg Ranking Co. 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