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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April. 1SS0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THK TKUE S??THKON. Established Joue, ? s*?6 Consolidated Au?. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1900. Sew Series-Yoi. XIX. So. 29 "Yes. Let rae "state my rcaso J*robably they are the same as yoi in fact, I am sure they are." 1 ?ashop paused a moment, then went .with increasing feeling: "Calvin, yon know how many ya I have been doing the work of my TK tion, and yon know something of 1 responsibility and the care of it I not mean to say that my life has bi free from bnrden bearing or sorro but I have certainly led what the pc and desperate of this sinfnl city WOT call a very comfortable--yes, a ve Inxnrious-life. I have a beau ti J -house to live in, the most expensi food, clothing and physical pleasures, have been able to go abroad at leasl , dozen times and have enjoyed for yes the beautiful companionship of art aj letters and music and all the rest of t very best. I have never known what meant to be without money or i equivalent, and I have been unable silence the question of late, 'What ha I suffered for the sake of Christ ?' Pa ?was told what great things he mu suffer for the sake of his Lord. Ma well's position at Raymond is well ta en when he insists that to walk in tl steps of Christ means to suffer. Whe has my suffering come in ? The pet trials and annoyances of my clerical li are not worth mentioning as sorrows < suffering. Compared with Paul or ai of the Christian martyrs or early disc pies, I have lived a luxurious, sinfi Efe, full of ease and pleasure. I cann< endure this any longer. I have tin within me which of late rises in eve: whelming condemnation of such a fo lowing of Jesus. I have not been wall ing in his steps. Under the present sy: tem Of church and social life I see n escape from this condemnation excej. to* give the rest of my life personally i the actual physical and soul needs c the wretched people in the worst pai of ibis city." " The bishop had risen now and walke ever to the window. The street in fron .f the house was as light as day, an he looked out at the crowds passing then turned, and, with a passionate ut terance that showed how deep the vol canic fire in him burned, he exclaimed "Calvin, this is a terrible city ii which we live. Its misery, its sin, it selfishness, appall my heart, and I hav* struggled for years with the sickening dread of the time when I should b forced to leave the pleasant luxury o my official position to put my life into contact with the modern paganism o: this century. The awful condition o: the girls in the great department stores, the brutal selfishness of the insolent so? ciety, fashion and wealth that ignore* all the sorrows of the city, the fearful curse of the drink and gambling hell, the wail of the unemployed, the hatred of the church by countless men who see in the church only great piles of costly stone and upholstered furniture and the minister as a luxurious idler, all the .vast tumult of this vast torrent of hu? manity with its false and its true ideas, its exaggeration of evils in the church and its bitterness and shame that are tbe result of many complex causes-all this as a total fact, in its contrast with the easy, comfortable life I have lived, fills me more and more with a sense of mingled terror and self accusation. I "have heard the words of Jesus mari y times lately, 'inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, my brethren, ye did it not to me. ' And when have I -t^ersonally visited the prisoner or the desperate or the sinful in any way that __,has actually carsed me suffering? Rather I have followed the conven? tional, soft habits of .my position and have lived in the society of the rich. Tefined, aristocratic members of my con? gregations. Where has the suffering come in? What have I suffered for Jesus' sake? Do you know. Calvin" the bishop turned abruptly toward his "friend-'"I have been tempted of late' to lash inyseif with a scourge. If I had lived in Martin Luther's time. I would ??^ave bared my back to a self inflicted torture. ' * Dr. Bruce was very pale. Xever had he seen the bishop or heard him when under the influence of such a passion. There was a sudden silence in tho room. The bishop had sat down a:rain and bowed his head. Dr. Bruce spoke at last ''Edward. I do not need to say that you have expressed my feelings also. I have been in a similar position for years. My life has been one of compar? ative luxury. I du not, of course, mean to say that I have not hard trials and discouragements and burdens in my church ministry, her I cannot say that I have suffered any for Jesus. That verse in Peter haunts me. 'Christ also suffered for yon, leaving you an exam? ple that ye should follow his .st? ps. ' I have lived in luxury. 1 do not know what it means to want. I also ha\ e had my leisure for travel and beautiful com? panionship, i have been surrounded by soft, easy comforts of civilization. The sin and misery of ibis irr'-at city have beat like waves against the st<.n?: wails of my church and <<f this hons?- in which I live, and ? have hardly heeded them, the walls have been so thick I have reached a point where 1 cannot endure this any longer. 1 am not con? demning the church, i love her. i am not forsaking the church ? believe in her mission and have no desire to de? stroy: Least of all, in the step 1 am about to take, do I d< sire to be charged with abandoning the Chfisthm fellow? ship, but i feei 1 must resign my place i as pastor of Nazareth Avenue church 1 in order to satisfy myself that I am wallrjig asj^ought to walk in his steps, j In this action I judge no other LLUH ters and pass no criticism on othe discipleship, but I feel as von do. Ir a closer contact with the sin and sha] and degradation of this great city must come personally, and I know tl to do that I must sever my imined? connection with Nazareth Aven church. I do not see any other way 1 myself to suffer for his sake as I f< that I ought to suffer. " Again that sudden silence fell o\ these two men. It was no ordinary t tion they we: deciding. They had bo reached the same conclusion by t same reasoning, and they were t thoughtful, too well accustomed to t measuring of conduct, to underestima the seriousness of their position. "What is your plan?" The bishop last spoke gently, looking np with 1 smile that always beautified his fae The bishop's face grew in glory no every day. "My plan.'* replied Dr. Bruce slow! "is, in brief, the putting of myself in the center of the greatest human ne< I can find in this city and living ther My wife is fully in accord with m We have already decided to find a res dence in that part of the city where v can make our personal lives count f< the most. ' * * 'Let me suggest a place. ' ' The bishc was on fire now. His fine face actual] glowed with the enthusiasm of tl movement in which he and his frier were inevitably embarked. He went o and unfolded a plan of such farreachin power and possibility that Dr., Brue? capable and experienced as be was, fe! amazed at the vision of a greater soi than his own. They sat up late and were as eagc and even glad as if they were plannin for a trip together to some rare land c unexplored travel. Indeed the bisho said many times afterward that th moment his decision was reached to liv the lif of personal sacrifice he ha chosen he suddenly felt an uplifting, a if a great burden was taken from him He was exultant. So was Dr. Brue from the same cause. Their plan as it finally grew into ; workable fact was in reality nothin; more than the renting of a large build ing formerly used as a warehouse for ; brewery, reconstructing it and livinj in it themselves in the very heart of : territory where the saloon ruled wit] power, where the tenement was it filthiest, where vice and ignorance an( shame and poverty were congested int? hideous forms. It was not a new idea It was an idea started by Jesus Chris when he left his Father's house and for sook the riches that were his in orde: to get nearer humanity and. by becom? ing a part of its sin, help to draw hu manity apart from its sin. The univer sity settlement idea is not modern. It i: as old as Bethlehem and Nazareth, anc in this particular case it was the near? est approach to anything tha oulc satisfy the hunger of these two men tc suffer for Christ. There had sprung nj in them at the same time a longing that amounted to a passion to get nearer thc great physical poverty and spiritual destitution of the mighty city that throbbed around them. How could they do this except as they became 3 part of it, as nearly as one man can become a part of another's misery ? Where was the suffering to come in unless there was an actual self denial of some sort ? And what was to make that self denial apparent to then, elves or any one else unless it took this concrete, actual, per? sonal form of trying to share the deep? est suffering and sin of the city ? So they reasoned for themselves, not judging others. They were simply keep? ing their own pledge to do as Jesus would do, as they honestly judged he would do. That was what they had promised. How could they quarrel with the result ? They were irresistibly com? pelled to do what they were planning to do. The bishop had money of his own. Every one in Chicago knew that the bishop had a handsome fortune. Dr Bruce had acquired and saved by liter? ary work carrie : on in connection with his parish duties more than a comforta? ble competence. This money, a large part of it. the two friends agreed to put at once into the work, most of it into the furnishing of a settlement house. Meanwhile Nazareth Avenue church was experiencing something never known before in all its history. The simple appeal on the part of its pastor to his members to do as Jesus would do had created a sensation that still con? tinued. The result of that appeal was very much tho same as in Henry Max? well's church in Raymond, only Naza? reth Avenue church was far more aris? tocratic, wealthy and conventional Nevertheless when one Sunday morn? ing in ?-arly summer Dr. Bruce came into his pulpit and announced his resig? nation ti;?- sensation deepened all over the city, although Dr. Bruce had ad? vised with Iiis board-of trustees, and the movement he intended was not a mat? ter of surprise to them. But when it became publicly known that thc bishoj) also had announc? -i hi retirement from tin- position he had held ; ? long in order to go and live !r' in the center of the worst part of Chicago the public astonishment reached its li*-iir 1 * '"But why.:' i!:-- bishop replied t.> one valued fri ad who had almost with tears tried to dissuade i. i : ; i from his purpose -"why should what Dr. Bruce an 1 J propose to do seem so r- markable a tiling, as ii i: were unheard.of that a. doctor of divinity and bishop I should want to save souls in this p; j ticular manner. If we were to resi i our charges fur the purpose of going { Bombay or Hongkong or any place j Africa, the churches and the peo] j would exclaim at the heroism of m ! sions. Why should it seem so greal i thing if we have been led to give o j lives To help rescue the heathen and t I lost of our own city iu the way we a i going io try'.' is ir, then, such a ti ; mendous event that two Christian mi j isters should he not only willing h ; eager to live close to thc misery of t i world in order to know it and reali I it? ls it such a rare thing that love ? humanity should find this particul j form of expression in the rescue j souls?" However the bishop may have sati fied himself that there ought tobe not lng so remarkable about it all, the pu lie continued to talk and the church to record their astonishment that tv such men, so prominent in the ministr should leave their comfortable home voluntarily resign their pleasant sod positions and enter upon a life of har ship, of self denial and actual -sufferin; Chirstian America 1 Is it a reproac upon the form of our discipleship th; the exhibition of actual suffering f< Jesus on the part of those who walk i his steps always provokes astonishmen as at the sight of something very m usual? Nazareth Avenue church parted fro: its pastor with regret for the most par although the regret was modified t some relief on the part of those who ha refused to take the pledge. Dr. Bru< carried with him the respect of me who, entangled in business in such j way that obedience to the pledge won] ; have ruined them, still held in the: deeper, better natures a genuine admin tion for courage and consistency. The had known Dr. Bruce many years as kindly, safe man, but the thought c him in the light of sacrifice of this soi was not familiar to them. As fast a they understood it they gave their pas tor the credit of being absolutely tra to his recent convictions as to what foi lowing Jesus meant. Nazareth Avenu church has never lost the impulse c that movement started by Dr. Bruce Those who went with him in makin; the promise breathed into the churc the very breath of divine life and ar continuing that life giving work at th present time. It was fall again, and the city face? another hard winter. The bishop on afternoon came out of the settlemen and walked around the block, intendin; to go on a visit to one of his new friend in the district. He had walked abou four blocks when he was attracted by i shop that looked different from the oth ers. The neighborhood was still quit? new to the bishop, and every day h< discovered some strange spot or stum bled upon some unexpected humanity. The place that attracted his notic< was a small house close by a Chines< laundry. There were two windows ii the front, very clean, and that was re markable, to begin with. . Then insid* the window was a tempting display oi cookery, with prices attached to th? various articles, that made the bishoj wonder somewhat, for he was familial by this time with many facts in th< life of the people once unknown to him. As he stood looking at the windows the door between them opened, and Fe? licia Sterling came out. "Felicia!" said the bishop. "When did you move into my parish without my knowledge ?" "How did you find me so soon?" asked Felicia. '"Why, don't you knew? These are the only clean windows in the block." "I believe they are," replied Felicia, with a laugh that did the bishop good to hear. "But why have you dared to come to Chicago without telling me, and how have you entered my diocese without my knowledge?" asked the bishop, and Felicia looked so like that beautiful, clean, educated, refined world he once knew that he might be pardoned for seeing in her something of the old para? dise, although, to speak truth for the bishop, he had no desire to go back to it again. "Well, dear bishop," said Felicia, who had always called him so when? ever they had met. "I know how over? whelmed you were with your work. I did not want to burden you with my plans, and, besides, I am going to offer you my services. Indeed I was just on my way to see you and ask your advice. I am settled here for the present with Mrs. Bascom, a saleswoman who rents our three rooms, and with one of Ra? chel's music pupils, who is being helped to a course in violin by Virginia Page. She is from the people. ' ' continued Fe? licia, using the words "from the peo? ple" so gravely and unconsciously that the bishop smiled, "and I am keeping house for her and at the same time be? ginning an experiment in pure food ior the masses. I am an expert, and I have a plan I want you to admire and de? velop. Will you, dear bishop?" "Indeed I will." replied the bishop. The sight of Felicia and her remarkable vitality, enthusiasm and evident pur? pose almost bewildered him. "Martha can help at the settlement with her violin, and I will heh) with my messes. You see, 1 thought I would get settled first and work out something and then come with some real thing to offer. I'm able to earn my own living now. " "Yon are'/" Th" bishop said i? a lit tl'* incredulously. "How v Making those things?" " 'Those things!' " said Felicia, with a show* of indignation. "I would have tie- best cooked; purest food products in this wh< ?le vii v. -i don't doubt if." sai 1 tho bishop hastily, while his eyes twmkkcl. "Still, tie- 'i>. ;t? of the putting' Y. u know ; the rest. " j "(Vnne iTi ate! try some. " exclaimed j Felicia. "Ton poor ;>;: hi ?pl Yon look j as ir you lia :n*t lae' a good meal for" a i monti'. " Si:-' insisted on the bishops entering j the litil'- front room where Martha-, a j wide awake girl with short ce.riv hair i sad an unmistaisable air of music about ?? j her, was busy with practice. j "Go right on, Martha. This is t j bishop. Yon have heard nie speak I him so often. Sit down here and let i j give yon a taste of the fleshpots ! Egypt, for J believe yon have been ; ! tually fasting. " 80 Felicia and the bishop had an i: ! provis: d lunch, and the bishop, who, tell the truth, had not taken time i : weeks to enjoy his meals, feasted on t j delight of his unexpected discovery a ; was able to express his astonishme : incl gratification at the quality of t j t lokery. "1 thong!*! you would at least say ; was as good as the meals you used j get at the Auditorium at the bigla j quets. " said Felicia slyly. " 'As good as!' The Auditorium ba: quets were simply husks compared this one, Felicia. But you must co? to the settlement. I want you to s what we are doing. And I am simp astonished to find you here candi your living this way. I begin to s< what your plan is. You can be of i: finite help to us. You don't really mes that you will live here and help the people to know the value of good food ? "Indeed I do," Felicia ans wen gravely. "That is my gospel. Shall not follow it?" "Aye, aye! You're right. Bless Gc for sense like yours. When I left tl world' '-the bishop smiled at the phrai -"they were talking a good deal abot the 'new woman.' If you are one < them, I am a convert right now ar here." "Flattery still! Is there no escai from it even in the slums of Chicago ? Felicia laughed again, and the bishop heart, heavy though it had grown du: ing several months of vast sin bearing rejoiced to hear it. It sounded good. J was good. It belonged to God. Felicia wanted to visit the settlemer and went back with the bishop. Si was amazed at the results of what coi siderable money and a good deal of coi secrated brains had done. As they wall ed through the building they talked ii cessantly. Felicia was the inearnatio of vital enthusiasm. Even the bisho wondered at the exhibition of it as' i bubbled up and sparkled over. They went down into the basement and the bishop pushed open the dooi from behind which came the sound of carpenter's plane. It was a small bu well equipped carpenter's shop. i [ young man with a paper cap on hi head and clad in blouse and overall 1 was whistling and driving the plane a I he whistled, ile looked upas the bisho; ! and Felicia entered and took off his cap ! As he did so his little finger carried ; j ?mall curling shaving up to his hair and it caught there, j "Miss Sterling. Mr. Stephen Clyde,' ! said the bishop. "Clyde is one or* ou: j helpers here two afternoons in thi week." Just then the bishop was called r.] stairs, and ho excused hin-.self for a mc mont, leaving Felicia and the youn: carpenter together. "We have met before," said Felicia looking at Clyde frankly. "Yes. 'back in the world.' as thi bishop says," replied the young man. and his fingers trembled a Ik tl',' as thc;; lay on the board he had been planing. ""Yes." Felicia hesitated. "I at: very glad to see you. " "Are you?" The flush of pleasure mounted to the voung carp, a tor's fore? head. "You have had'a great ? :al r.j trouble since-thea*r" he said. anrl :.. a he was afraid he had wounded ii roi called up painful memories, but Felicia had lived over ali that "Yes. and yon also. How is ? yon are working h rev" "lt is a long story. Miss Sterling. My father lost his money, ar. 1 I was obliged to go to work, a very good thing for lue. The bishop says I ought to bj grateful. I am. I am very happy now. I learned the trade hoping sume time to be of usc?. I am nie:ht clerk at one of the hotels. That Sunday morning when you took the pledge at Nazareth Av? enue church I took it with the others." "Did you';" said Felicia slowly "I am glad. Just then the bishop came back, and very soon he and Felicia went .away, leaving the young carpenter at l:is work. Some ene noticed that he whistled loud? er than ever as he planned. "Felicia," said the bishop, "did yon know Stephen Clyde before?" "Yes, 'back in the world, ' dear bishop. He was one of my acquaintances in Nazareth Aven Tie church." "Ah!" said the bishop. "We were very good friends." added Felicia. ' 'But nothing more ?' ' the bishop ven? tured to ask. Felicia's face glowed for an instant. Then she looked the bishop in the eyes frankly and answered: "Truly afid truly, nothing more." "It would be just the way of the world for chose two people to come te like each other, though," thought the bishop to himself, and somehow the thought made him grave. It was al? most like tho old pang over Camilla, but it passed, leaving him afterward, when Felicia had gone back, with tears in his eyes and a feeling that was al? most hope that Felicia and Stephen would likeeach other. "After all. " said the bishop, like the sensible, good man that ?ie was. "is net romancea part of humanity? Love is older than lam and wiser. " Tii'' week following tho bishop had an experience that belongs to this part ot' the s< ttiement's history. Ile was coming back to the settle? ment vere late f rom some gathering of the striking tailors and was wallang ulong, with his hands behind 'inn. when two men jun peil cut from behind an old fence that shut off an abandoned factory from the street and faced him. One of iii.- men thrust a pistol ii. i o the bishop's face; and the other threatened him with a ragged stake rhat had ev i denrlv he h ;i from the fem e. ..lio! i np \. ur ha .ads. and he quick j about it '" said lie' man with th*- pistol 'i i: - place was solitary, an-i tho bishop i had no thought of resistance. Me did as he wa.s commanded; and tito man with ' j the began ie, go through his pock- . i ; ts. The bishop was calm. Iiis nerves j did not quiver; As he .stood there with his arms uplifted au ignorant spectator might have thought that he was pray? ing for the souls of these twomen. And he* was. and his prayer was singularly l.nswered that very night. , [TO DE CONTINUED.] Henry Clay Richardson Dies at Greensboro, Ala Special to The Mate Demopolre, Feb G -Maj Henry Clay Richardson, weil known to a gfreat many Columbians, died at Greensboro, Ala., this morning, a* which p'ace he has been station d for the past few years as cotton buyer Rheumatism cf the heart was the cause of hie death. Maj Richardson was a resident of Columbia for twenty five years and as city editor of the Register and Columbia correspondent ?f the News and Courier did perhaps the best and most effective work of any newspapej man in South Carolina in carrying the State for Hampton in 1876. He was a fearless and incisive writer and hoards of carpet-baggers who made Sooth Carolina the prostrate State were made to squirm every day under the lashings of his pen He was born in Virginia and although South Carolina .was his adopted home, he loved the State as any of her own eons In his. last hours he was generously ministered to by many kind friends and had every attention to sooth him in his dying moments. A sister in Cyntbiana, Ky, and a brother in Pennsylvania, have been notified of his death. Where the remains will be buried has not jet beeii decided Elorence, Eeb 7 -The Pee Dee Tobacco Ware House, a verj large wooden building, was destroyed by fire at 10 o'clock tonight. The fire originated in a email wooden building next door to the ware bouse in some unexplained manner The building was owned by W. E Dargan, cf | Darlington, and was insurred with W. R Barringer's agency for $1, 700 The value of the building was $3,000. Bombay, Feb 7 -The mortality in this city yesterday was unprecedent? ed. There was a total of 408 deaths The situation is aggravated by the advent of famine refugees Washington, Feb 6 -The house committee on claims today favorably reported the Cooper bill for the pay ment of the southern cotton claims The bill involves an expenditure of $10,000,000 - tm i Newberry, Feb 7.-A sale of 1,667 bales of cotton by the Newberry Warehouse Company to O McR Holmes breaks the record here for the largest single transaction in the staple Eight cents was paid all round and the sale amounted to up? wards of $6o,000. -i t &m A statue of President Kroger is to be erected io Pretoria, and ii is unique in at lea3t two respects. In tbe first place, it is the first time ia the history nf sculpture thar any statue bas worn a hat of the "plug" variety. In the second place, owing to the kindly and thoughtful suggestion of Frau Kruger, that hat is boilow, so that the little birds c&n drink out of tbe pool of rain water wbicb wiii accumulate CUBAN OIL cures Cuts, u Burns, Bruises, Rheuma? tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts Sold by Hugbson-Ligoo Co. Speaker Gary Will Ruo. Speaker Gary was a-ked last night whether tbe report wan true that be would be a candidate for governor He replied tbat it was bis present intention to enter the raoe. This makes three candidates wbo bave for maily announced their caedidaoy-Gov McSweeney, Mr A. H. Patterson and Speaker Gary. There are others yet to hear from, the indication being tbst nne or two ethers will enter the lists. C-eurobla Record, Feb S Prkin, February 8.-Tbe dowager empress of China, ic is asserted, appears to be de:ermined to relapse into the ancient conservatism. Yesterday she issued an edict commanding a return to .he cid manner cf study, according to the teaohiogs of Confucius, for exami nrtjons for official rank, and ordering The abolition of ibe study of the . now depraved and erroneous subjects of the western schools," and tbreafenin<; with f-unisnmeur the teaohers cf such sub j cts Tbe closing of ?he now naiver -i v ar Pekin fs expected to speedily follow ?Mall -- Working for a Big Fair. The Slate Agricultural and Me chanicai society ut ifs annual meeting de< ided to p:>y freight on ail exhibits J shipped to the State fair from points in rv uth Carolina, provided the own er* release the exhibit at the lowest j possible rate Tee above provision 'ogether with ? the increase made in the premium list should oe tl lo gt t at i\ increase j the number cl exhibitors at the c< m ia g State f iii Thc matter of the improvement oj the ait department was left by the | association it? the bands cf Gol liol io way, l he secretary. O T A S H gives color, flavor and fwiliness to all fruits. No good fruit can be raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least 8 to 10% of Potash will give best results on all fruits. Write for our pamphlets, which ought to be in every farmer's library. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS. UFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER SUMTER COUNTY. S CM TER. S. C , Sept 29, 18S9. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be ia my office in the Coonty Coort House ac ? am ter from October 15th to December gist, 1399, inclusive, tor the collection of laxes for the fiscal year 1899. The levy is as follows : For State purposes, 5 mills. For Couoty purposes, 3J milts. For School purposes, 3 mills. Total levy, 11$ mills. Also the following special school levies : School District No. I, 2 mills. School District No 16, 2 mills. School District No. 18, 2 mills. School District No 20, 3 mills. Mt Cito, 2 mills. Concord, 2 mills. Privateer, 2 mills. No 5, 1 mill. No. 17, 1 mill. Commutation Road Tax for 1900 is also payable at the same time. H. L. SCARBOROUGH, Oct 4 Treasurer Sumter Co. Estates of Mrs. Frances C. Brunson, Deceased, and of Miss Mary M. Brunson, Dec'd AS Administratrix cf E?tate of W Hayoe Gordon, Deceased, I hereby give notice mat on February 17th, 1900, I will apply to the Judge of Probate of Sumter Couoty for a Final Settlement and Discbarge io the aforesaid Estates. ALICE C GORDON, Adm'x Administratrix E3t. W. Hayne Gordon, Dec'd Jan 17 4t FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER, STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DE? POSITORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital.$ 75,000 00 Surplus and Profits - - - - 25,000 00 Additional Liability of Stock? holders in excess cf their stock. 75,000 00 Total protection to depositors, $175.000 0O Tracsacts a G?rerai Banking Bustness. Special atte?tion ?iven to collections. * SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. 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