The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 24, 1910, Image 2
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HISTORY OF THE TILLMAN i
FAMILY TROUBLE.
I
WHY THE MOTHER ASKED THE SUPREME
COURT TO GIVE HER BACK
HER CHILDREN.
Some of our readers who do not;
see the daily i?:tpers have asked us to
puiilish a biief history of the family
trouble of Mr and Mrs 15 K Tillmau.
.Ir. leading up to their separation
anu the sui' brought bv young
Mrs Tdluiau for the recovery of her
i -iJ? _.u_ f,Ani
Jirne cmiureu, wuy war la^ru ?.*vu.
her b1* her husband, Mr B K Tillt?*o.Jr,
and deeded to their grandparents,
Senator and Mrs B R Tillman.
without the mother's consent,
Tuia matter has stirred up more disoutwion
and feeling, probably, than
any civil case that has been heard
before our supreme court for many
years, and, in order that our readers
may be informed as to the merits of
the whole affair, we give a concise
statement of the case, as published
last week in the Columbia State:
On the morning of the 24th of
January of this year the people of
the State of South Carolina were
aroused to iuteuse indignation because
of the facts contained in an
article published in The State to
the effect that Mrs Lucy Dugas
Tillman would seek for a writ of
habeas corpus to compel B K Tillman,
Sr., and tiis wife to return to
her the custody of two little girls,
Donschka and Sara, taken surreptitiously
from their mother by
tbcir father while the mother was
ill ia Washington.
The case has beeu argued iu the
supreme court, both sides having
submitted in evidence affidavits of
great length. The mail of The
8tate daily has brought hundreds
of letters from all parts of the
country denouncing such a mon
atrous law as that under which I
Senator Tillman claimed the right
to take the children under the deed
aigued by his son. Mrs Lucy Dugas
Tillman has been overwhelmed with
letters of sympathy and of encouragement,
and from thousands of bedsides
have gone up nightly prayers
for the mother and her little ones to
be restored to each other.
Mrs Tillman, since her alleged
desertiou, has been making ber
home in this city with her nearest of
male kin, Dr Francis W Pickens
Butler. She is the granddaughter
of P W Pickens, "war Governor" of
South Carolina and the minister to
Russia under President Buchanan.
To Gov aud Mrs Pickens was born
ia JSt Petersburg, in the palace of
the Romanoffs, a girl baby, for
...i.sw.. tliaCjann# stood "od mother.
*lf MVlUt l*U? Vcamimm t
and she was called Douschka,
meaning 'Marling," This womau,
afterwards beloved by the people of
Sooth Carolina, married Dr Dugas
of Augusta, Ga.( the father of Mrs
Tillman. The Pickens family had
long been among the most influential
in the State.
Mr and Mrs H R Tillman, Jr.,
were married December 211. I'.*03,
and parted in November, 10os.
Mrs Tillman stated that her husband
drank to excess and was very
unkind to her. In February of
last year, after a separation of three J
iuouth3, Mr and Mrs UK Till-!
man, Jr., began iivicg together I
again, and this was supposed to lie
a happy ending of the quarrel.
But i'l December, while they
were living in Washington, Mrs
Tillman had a sudden and desperate
illness. Her husband, it is said,
provided no nurse for her. and al* J
lowed 1.0 proper attentions to her. j
Oa the tirst day of her con-j
valescei.ct- he came to the apart-}
meuts and asked to lake the two
children to set- their grandmother.
The wife assented, but trie
Children protested and had to be
forced to go to tiiei: grandmother. '
This v.as on December 3. and Mrs'
'Tillman did not see her babies J
from that hour. I:. the afternoon
Tilliuan cauie back without them,
lie told his wife that their grandmother
had taken them and had
gone to South Carolina with the
little cues. A few davs thereafter
Mis Tillman was informed by at- j
torneys for Senator Tillman that
the father of the children had made
aud recorded a regular deed in
which the custody of the children'
was given to the grandparents until
the little girls became of age. The |
deed on file with the clerk of court1
at Fdgelield shows that young
Tillman, after allegiug his wife's ,
inability and unsuitabilitv to raise
the children properly, admits that
he, too, is unable to assume the re-1
sponsibilitv.
| That young HKTiliman, even
; while writing to his wife in endear-!
' iug terms, was thinking of this
very coup, is surmised when it was.
1 learned that in his possession in!
'Washington was this memorandnm,
known in the ca9e as "Exhibit K":j
"Ail things being equal, the
fattier lias a paramount to tueuus-;
tody of his childreD, when it is
consistent with the welfare of the
children, but the welfare of the |
children is the matter of prime!
importance. A court in deciding
who is entitled to the custoilv of
children, where the issue is between I
father and mother, will awaid the ;
children to the father, all things
being equal, but will decide such
an issue with a view to the welfare
of the children from considerations '
of their health, education, training i
or otherwise. The morals, financial'
' I
ability, social standing and all,
those matters of contestants will
be weighed by the court in deciding
who should have the children.
The father has a right to deed his
rhildr^n."
Senator Tillman,wheD mformed in
Washington that he would be proceeded
agaiust in the courts,gaye out
au interview in which he claimed
that the mother had left the children
in Washington for three days before
his son took them. He did not follow
this statement in his affidavit
before the supreme court,in which he
recited rather fully all the family
troubles ot the young people.
Knowing what she had experienced
and knowing with whom she
was dealing, Mrs Tillman had fortified
her case so perfectly that from
the hundreds of affidavits as to her
character the people are given to understand
that not only is she a good
mother, but that she is a woman of j
practical common sense as well ana
there is no reason why she 6honld
have the children to raise and to
nurture.
Mrs Tillman is named for her
grandmother, Lncy Holcombe Pickens,
the belle of the Virginia fashionable
summer resorts before the !
war. Her husband was war Governor
and in her honor there was fitted out
a troop known through the war as
the Holcombe Legion. She was said
to have been the most beautiful woman
of the South at that period.
Her daughter, JDonschka, was
equally as much of a belle in South
Carolina after the wai. Of the once
distinguished family, but the two
daughters remain, Mrs Lucy Dugas
Tiliman and Mrs Wallace Sheppard. i
The late Gen M 0 Butler was an uncle
of Mrs Tillman, and he was the
political opponent of Senator Tillman
in the bitter campaign tor the
United States Senate in 18D4. An- j
other int<%sting feature is that the'
sons of B R Tillman and J 0 Shep-1
pard, who opposed each other for
Governor in 18ld2, have married sis- j
ters.
B li Tillman, Jr, is clerk to Senator
Tillman, on the Five Civilized i
Tribes committee. For several years'
he was his father's private secretary,
but resigned in 1H0S. Last year he
returned to-Washington and took liisi
present position with his father's j
committee. It ;s said that the- com-'
mitiee never meets. '
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Saved from Awful Peril.
"1 never felt so near my grave,"j
writes Lewis Chamblin of Manches-i
ter, Ohio, R II No U, "as when a
frightful cough and lung trouble
pulled me down to 115 pounds in
spite of many remedies and the best j
doctors. And that 1 am alive today is
due solely to Or King's Xew Discov-1
ery, which completely caied me. I
Now 1 weigh 100 pounds andean'
work hard. It also cured my four | j
children of croup." Infallible for i!
Coughs and ( olds, it's the most cer- i
taiu remedy for La Grippe, Asthma, j
desperate lung troubles aud all bron-,
chial affections. 50c and $1.00, A ]
trial bottle free. Guaranteed by D
C Scott. ]
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CHEROKEE FARMER TELLS HOW. 11
detbods by Wbicb 750 Pounds of Lint 1
Cotton Were Obtained from One Acre.
Gaffney, February 12: ? During
the past season, Cherokee county
has demonstrated the fact that iu the '
cotton raising industry she is entitled
to take rank iu 'he very
front. In the contest inaugurated '
by the National Bank of Gaffney,
some enormous yield were obtained,
among them being that of M -J ;
\V bmith with Wl pounds on one
acre; Mr E U Cash, with T50; Mr
T H Lockhart, with a yield of
nearly 700 on three*fourths of an
acre, and Mr II B Lipscomb, wilh
a yield of more than 6(H) pounds
on one acre. All these gentlemen
say that the yields which they got
last season will look small later o.i,
as they intend to mcrease th'm
this season very materially. This
country has within the past fewyears
made wonderlul progress farmius
and stock raising, and the other
nrmntioa in thn Ktsitp mint look to I
their laurels, else Cherokee will
pluck theru, and take the lead in
these respects, as she has in many
others.
Mr E li Cash has kindly given
The News end Courier correspondent
his method of cultivation,
which was as ^follows: "Kind of
land used, very poor, gray soil with
yellow clay, which had been planted
in cottou for several years,
yieldiug from four to five hundred
pounds seed cotton per acre. I
used as fertilizers on the acre one
ton of high grade fertilizer, and
nine loads of bam yard mauure.
About the last of January I turned
the land with a Lynchburg 2horse
plough, ten inches deep; first
week in March I ploughed the
land again with a one-horse tarn
plough, distributing guano in every
furrow, and followed the distributor
with aone-horse subsoil plough.
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AC 1018 lime i useu one luoututuu
pounds of guano. On April 4 I
laid off the rows 5 1-2 feet apart
and bedded with a large shovel
plough on April 13. Planted seed
with a Cole Hill planter 16 inches
apart in the drill, and on April 26
ran weeder over cotton across the
rows. On Maj 4 ran around cotton
with side harrow; on May 7 chopped
oat cotton to one and two
stalks in hill. On May 10 ran
around cottou again with side
harrow, using larger ploughs, and
on May 14 and 15 thinned cotton
to one stalk in the hill. On May
18 ran around cotton with 13-inch
bow and small tongue plough, and
on May 21 ploughed oat middle
with cultivator, and hoed the
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jJiauuj. v/ii jioj iau tiiuuuu
cotton with cultivator, which
ploughed out the middle entire. On
May 31 hoed cotton again, and
on June 4 distributed 300 pounds
of guano alongside of cotton about
tive inches from the plants in
every alternate row, following with
10-inch bow small shovel plough.
On June 12 treated the other rows
in the same manner, and again
distributed 300 pounds of guano.
Ou June 1)S and 19 distributed four
loads of manure raked from the cow
lot, and on June 21 ploughed cotton
with 21 -inch bow and small
plough, and on June 28 distributed
2oo pounds guano in middles and
ploughed cotton with small plough
and 2-inch bow. On July 8 or t>.
1:_ i oi .A ?. ?e
appiieu v"V> puuuua iwuuic ul cvu.i,
distributing same on each side of
cotton about 0 or S inches from the plants,
and ploughed in with a
small plough and 24-inch bow. This
finished the cultivation. Before i
breaking the land the first time in \
January I distributed broadcast 5
loads of manure raked up from
the lot. 1 used Cook's improved,big
boll cottonseed. I commenced picking
cotton on September 24, and
at the first picking gathered 295
pounds. October 14 I gathered (>90 <
pounds on October 27 gathered 034 j
pounds, and ou November 30 :
gathered 019 pounds, making a <
total of 2,235 pounds of seed cotton,
from which was ginned 750
pounds of lint cotton."
Mr Cach says that he will make a <
much larger yield this season, pro- j
vided the season is favorable, as he j
has learned a number of things (
which he did not know before, and j
tie method of cultivation will be
nuch more iutelligeut than it was
ast season.
WHEN HER BACK ACHES
V Woman Finds All Her Energy and
Ambition Slipping Away.
Kmgstree women know how the
aches and pains that come when the
kidneys fail make life a burden.
Backache, hippains, headaches,dizzy
spells, distressing urinary troubles,
all tell of sick kidneys and warn you
of the stealthy approach of diabetes,
dropsy and Bright's disease. Doan's
Kidney Pills permanently core all
these disorders. Here's proof of it in
9 Kingstree woman's woids:
Mrs E E King.W Mam St,Kingetree,
S C, says: "I found Doan's
Kidney Pills to be a valuable remedy.
I was afflicted for some time
with dull, nagging backaches, often
accompanied by pain^^n my loins
and kidneys. I did not est well aud
mornings upon arising, I felt tired
and languid and had no ambition to
begin the day's work. The kidney secretions
were so irregular in passage
that I concluded that my Kidneys
must be out of order and hearing of
Doan's Kidney Pills, I procured a
box at Scott's drug store, I used
them as directed and thty helped me
in every way. I am now free from
the pains in my back and my kidneys
are normal."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
Rnffaln
t* 'iio? jl""iUiiwi 1 u w?j a/uuuiw}
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name?Doan's?
and take no other.
Highest cash prices paid
for poultry.
PEOPLED HARKET,
H A Hiller, Prop,
2-24-4t
I TheStieff
TheShaw
The ben pianos?when quality
and durability are considered?are
the cheapest.
The best pianos on the m arket
are the
Artistic Stieff
? .0# rr\.
and O/iaw VTianos
Their quality and durability
are unexcelled. Their di lenity
has been proven by the
endorsement of the thousands
of American families using ;
them.
These pianos are manufactured
and- sold by Chas M
Stieff, and their durability,
artistic and exquisite features
cannot be denied.
Remember thename ?Stieff.
A day's delay in procuring
one of these pianos is a
week's pleasure lost.
ate
Chas. M. Stieff,
rtANUFACTURER OF THE
A;? ;<? Sf. Shaw and
| Stieff Self player Pianos
SOUTHERN WAREROOH:
5 West Trade Street,
j;
I Charlotte, - - N. C.
C H. WILMOTH. !!
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Manager.
(Mention this paper)
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Notice to Creditors
All persons having claims against the ;
"?'<2 .Tnufiiiiiiie (iravson.deceased.! -
,vi!l present the same, duly verified, to
.lit' undersigned. ai:d all persons owing
said estate will make payment to
H I. Grayson,
Administrator,
2-3-41> Benson, S C
Final DischargeNotice
is hereby given that on the
l!>th day of March, A I> HMO, at 12
/clock noon.l will apply to P M Brockinton,
.Judge of Probate of Williamsburg
count), for a final discharge as
idmini-trator of Harry Miller.deceased.
Geohuk Miller,
M7-4t Administrator,
Final Discharge
Notice is hereby g 'en that on the
12th day of March, D P>10. at 12
Yloek noon I will app fo P M Brock- .
nton, Judge of Prob; of William?
jurg county. for a fin ischarge as
idministrator of the est. f J C San- !
lers. deceased.
A W vdler.
l-17-3t A sirator.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE jl
THAT I
JENKINSON BROS. CO. ?
WILL OFFER I
Men's Heavy Plow Shoes at $1.10, the pair that looks 9^ Jj
cheap at $150. '
Men's Heavy Oil Grain Shoes at $1.35 that are well
worth $2.00, but they will go at $1.35 as long as they
last. Also a splendid line ot Shoes of all kinds for
Gents, Ladies and Children.
DRESS GOODS- If;
We have some very attractive things to offer in Dress
Goods. How does this sound?
A 36-inch imported Black Brilliantine at 39c the yard. v \?
Sold everywhere at 50c per yard, but you get it as long
as it lasts from us at 39c per yard. .
90-inch Dress Linene at 75c per yard that looks real \
cheap at $1.00, but you get what you want from us at
75c per yard.
The Goddess of Fashion has decreed that all kinds of
Linen Fabrics will play an important part in aress ior
Ladies and Misses this spring, hence we are prepared to
show a splendid line of Linens in plaifl white and in |
colors. We will be pleased to have }'Ou call and look ,
over our splendid line of Linen and Worsted dress fabrics.
It is a fact that goes without saying that
Laces and Embroideries ~x> Jm
will always play an important part in ladies' dress and
in view of this fact,ladies,we have some things in dainty
.Laces ana J&moroiaeries mat win nu your eyes pleasure- **
full. Space will not allow description, but all we ask is
to come and see.
DRESS BUTTONS. )
Ladies, you no doubt have lots of trouble to get your 3
dress buttons to match your dress materials. To meet
this requirement we have a button machine in our store. 'J
Just send in the scraps from your dress and we will
make your buttons in any size you want. If it is a wash
dress we will make you a rust-proof button. Any size
button you want we will make for you.
In conclusion, we wish to impress one very important
fact upon the trading public?that every dollar's worth Mt
of goods in our store is absolutely new. We are new' fl|
- - J?_ \T. _u
I people in ttie town witn a new siock oi gooas. i\o oia
goods to work off on you.
When in town come to see us. We will be glad to show
you our goods, whether you buy a cent of us or not. I jw
Yours for business, I |?
Jenkinson Brothers Co. 11
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Ccmmetxral J^Eptrcgs Hank ] J
Charleston, 5. <L
N. E. Corner Kins ?d Wentworth Street*.
CAPITAL, - - - - $100,000 |
We conduct a
General and Savings Department (if *
40\ allowed in Savings Department, computed
\? quarterly, January: April, July and October.
OUT-OF-TOWN ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. \
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TRISTRAM T. HYDE, President. COURTENAY OLNEV, Cistiif. il
J. S.PINKUSSOHN. Vice Pres. T
j directors: \
| M. H. LAZARUS, R. G. RI1ETT,
| JULIUS M. VISANSKA, J, S. I'INKUSSOHN,
I G. B. BT'ELL, J. ALWYXBALL,
i E. MITCHELL SEA BROOK, LELAND MOORE,
1 AUG. R. RUGHEIMER, A. J. BUIST, M. D.
I W.A.MOORE, R. S. WHALEY, rm
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