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N.VriOIfAL BANK OF SOVT1I CATt OI.INA LOCATKD IN HAND HOMF NEW HOME. lastnuuon Coaductlng Buslne** on off Old Coart Moiim<?Bui Id in ? Oraato MarMe Kai?mine l op pee Front? Interior I* Fnlshed off With Marble Walnscoatlug and Mm hrstauy Fixture* ? White Wall? Bordered with Old Ivory. The Nations! Ban* of South Caro? lin* Wednesday optned its doom 'fof Instneas In It* handsome MW home opposite the City Hall and on the a te of the old court house. There wore many visitors who stopped by during the day, all of whom showed ich Interest In the tew quarters or bank, which Is one or the largest (-central South Carolina. All of visitors found tha hank official* lllig and proud of t leir new home anxious to show eevrybody its iventencee The new ?*nk buildinff Is alt tated on the site of the old court henae, which was purchased several years by the institution *s Its home, being the Irst hank In the city to own the quarters In which It conduct 04 its dally business. More than a year ago. In keeping with the growth of the Institution and to keep abreast off the times. It was decided by the baakn directors that they should have a new home. Ths old one was not ample nor convenient t > accom fee their large business, it was to huld their home on the 10 site, tearing down *o? old build? ing for this urpoee. The plans of Messrs. Walker A Burden, Charleston, architects, were accepted for the building Mr. J. M. Harby of this city was given th? contract for the build? ing. On July 1st the bank moved In? to the old First National Bank quart la the City Hall, and the work of Lng down the old building and lag their present hanlsome tore was commenced. Wednesday practical!]! si) of the ea the new building had been dated and the bank Is now com ?rtabty installed In its future home, e homo which vlil last I many years, no doubt. A f>iw finishing touch** hare etlll to be put on the vault, and the furniture In the dHectors' room has net yet coins, but otherwise the beak to completely equipped. The National Bank of South Caro tlaa building has a lofty front of white Qsargls and Vermont marble. At an oh aids of the front are white mar? ble columns with square base.* of the saget rate rial. A cornho of marble eatends across the front sf the build in*; off the top of the columns and on thjs Is Inserted "The National Bank off Souti Carolina." ijtrge copper dears afford entrance, and above the dawi way and at the windows on each aide hi handsome kalamlne copper work, whloh add* to the attractheness of the front. Amending three mar? ble atepe and passing through the copper end then mahogany doors one cornea into *he lobby of the building. The first thing that strike* the eye of the visitor is the lofty ceiling, the whits walls accentuating this, .al? though there is r o appearance of dis? proportion about the interior of the baaldlag, hoik has a width of twenty-two feet and a depth of seventy feet In the lobby and banking quarters. The height h of the celling is twenty-seven feet. The walls ars white and are relieved by borders and projections of old ivory color. In the center of the calling are shyllgits six by twelve ffset. allowing plenty of light for the employe** underneath. The floor la constructed of hetogonal tiles with borders of ceramic tile. The wains coating Is or blue-figured white mar? ble with hasebosrd of dark bluish black marble. The fixtures am all of mahogany. Doors. der?s ana oilier wood work are all of the same ma? st Oa the left as ons enters is the president m office. Next tu this is the office off th* cashier. Then conies the teller's windows and those or the bookkeepers snd collectors. Desks are placed for each of these and there In plenty of space left in the office for additioasl desks, as the growh of the bank requires more employees), Tha vault, at the rear of the office, m Ul Into two parts by i heu\% mom III. the inside part being for use of ths b?rk. while the other parf h m an entrance from the lobby und is for safety deposit boxes of custom*" * Ths vault has ten-inch concreto wall* itrength'^ned with steel. The dint? 's room Im also M the first Meet lud is a space twenty-two by si\ ?? n feet. This Is finished ofT in th<- i. .. as the n-st >?( the bank, but has yet been furnished. Above is a mine Moor, where are located in ?foVe for a stenographer, a supply ?d store room i i atorle? and toilets, ind lockers for the hank employes. The bank is heated kg gg ?serh? i I rstem of hot \%slet. nhhh ha* i?s fttrns* e on l he Kl ouml I * ,1 The Bank of South Carolina was or mixed snd began business in March. Its*. At this llmo il had a i-upiul iivttdn chop lUBpQirr. Larve Increase of Ginning* In 1911 15 Over 1913-14. The report of the government agent for ;?umter county shows that up to January 10th. 1915. there had been ginned 61,700 bales of cotton of the 1914 season crop against 4 0.533 bale* in 1914 of the 1913 season crop. This report shows a gain of 11,173 bales over last year's crop. The crop of 1914-15 Is larger than any other crop ever grown in Sumter county ex? cept in 1911, when the ginnlngs wore approximately 52,000 bales. A Parable, Once upon a time not so far from Wilmington, a man came to a sheet of water a mile wide, but it looked so ugly that lie made up his mind that he was up against it. He was about to turn back, but another male of the species came up on his way to the other side. He declared he was bound to cross and that he had no time to lose, so he waded In and the other fellow followed. The water was not knee deep anywhere a id soon both Individuals stepp d out on the other side. The party of the first part pulled off his hat, tapped his coco with his kunckles and exclaim? ed: "You blamed old nut. you caused me to lose hulf a day because you did not know enough to advance the idea that a man should wade in and try before he backs out."?W.lming i ton Star. O?orln-BhsaolKMl Flour. Since the bleaching of flour with the oxlds of nitrogen has been for? bidden in the United states under the food and drugs act, there are signs of the introduction of other pro? cesses Intended to produce similar changes in the wheat product. In one of these chlorln is the bleaching agent employed, the anhydro is gas I being diluted with an Inert gss and then used to "mature and whiten" the flour. Without commenting at this time on the legal aspects jf the matter, we may fairly ask whether the new process confers any advan? tages on the cereal which wilt ren? der it superior to the ordinary un? bleached patent flour. Mere appear? ance need not be taken into consider? ate r here. Experiments conducted In connection with tho pure food work at the Kansas State Agricultural Col llege in Manhattan have, shown that lalthcugh the chlorln content of un? treated flour may run as high as 576. parti her million, chlorln-treated flour will contain over 600 parts per million. Chlorln-treatment Increases the acidity of the flour. The gluten tests run practically alike for the b leaded and unbleached flour. The baking experts report that then; are no di Terences in loaf volume; hut the bleached flour gives a loaf havtr.g an objectionable color and texture. In nearly every case the bread made ftom unbleached flour graded better. According to The Journal ol the American Medical Association, the chlorin-bleaching canrot he defend? ed on the ground that bread-making (pialit.es of the flour are improved. stock of $60,000. Since that Lime the bank has had u steady and most gratifying growth, until now its cap? ital stock Is $200.000 and It hau a surplus and undivided profits on rand of $150.000, matting It the strongest banking institution in eastern-central South Carolina. It has paid out in dividends $100.000 In the ten years since Its organization and was the first bank In the city to have a capital stock of over $100,000. It now has a patronage of which any bank might well feel proud. Since the present i building was commenced the bank hau added to its strength by becoming a national bank, the charier as a national Institution having been r? ? el.ed on December tirst. The cost of the building is consid? erably less than that of any. of the other banks in the city, which huvo : i ?ently built their own homes, I he cost of the bank complete being about $17.Ouo. of this umount approxi? mately $13.000 were expended on the building and the remainder Ofl the fixtures. The bank s Iirst officers and board of directors were President. <\ Q, Kowlsnd. vice-president, It. f. Hnyns WOfth] cashier, It. L. Kdrrunds; di? rectors w. b, Huins. U. J llland. J. k CrossnrtU, (itMi. r. Epperson, c. ; Rowland, Isaac Schwartz, OOO, D. Hhore, .!. f. Bland, Thomai Wlfcewt, Its fiesen? Oslee personnel is as fol? lows: Pr?sident c <;. Rowland; rlcc-prialdsnta, Thomai Wilson. Isaac Hehwarts and Oeo, r Bpnersoa; oa*h?| lor <J L Warren, teller. II L. Me-1 i oj bookkeepers, t. v. Walsh snd J. I. FtMer; eolleetor, \:. B, Halgler. Directors are: \V |{. liurns. R, J, Bland, J, K. Croaswell, Qeo. r. Kppor eon, C, i> Rowland, Isaac Behwarts, i le< i?. Hhore, J, r Bland, (f, T, Mu? si Thomas Wilson, w. B, Boyle, Msrk Re) golds Mitchell Levl, J, J Brittos, It. <> Purdy. John Wilson. 4M D. Hehwarts, w. w. Rowland, Q, U Warren. | THE OM> FIUEPL?OE. Its Advantages ami Disadvantages I*rescntcd Convincingly. An editorial Writer on tlie Kansas I City Star a few days ago saw a pic? ture of a family gathered about an open fireplace or dreaming about the days of his youth on the 'farm and tho poen fireplace in the evening, wrote an editorial which appeared in the leading position in the paper of Sun? day, says the Independence (Mo.) Ex? aminer. He idealized the fireplace and the fire and the gathering of the fam? ily and advanced the theory that the home lifo had disappeared with the coining cf the hot air register and tho steam radiator. An open fireplace does not make an old -fashioned family, neither does the i mcdern system of heating run the! young folks away from home. Many of us are plenty old enough to j renember the big open fireplace, tho enormous amount of wood it required to keep it going, how the cord sticks had to be dug out of the ice and snow, { how it was a struggle to get the big back log in place, how every morn? ing the fire had to be started over again, unless you were cunning enough in woodcraft to hide some coals deep enough under the as.nes to keep them until morning, how ir the early hours of the bleak days th e rooms of the house were so cold ;t required great courage or the insistent commands of the head of the hou. e to get you up to make that fire. But this is not all. It will be remembered also that in real weather the fire from the open aide of the room bake., you on one side while the other side was frozen, and all the day long the f..*ost on the win? dows maintained the beauty of the for? mation into pictured mountains and valley undisturbed by the heat from the burning logs. The Idealist of the open fireplace re? members the good ti ties in the fall when the cold had not. yet arrived and when apples and nuts and the cider and perhaps the baked potatoes made the evening a delight. He forgets about the real business of life when winter comes down 1rom the north and when the little ok air-tight heat? er made life worth living after it was Invented. ? Yes, there :ts lots of poetry about an open flreplr.ee and we all cling to the Ideals suffciently to have at least one built in every modern home. Jt is useful to furnish the blaze add the ventilation when the fur? nace Is on the job doing the heating. It Is not likely that the modern fam? ily of boys and girls would stay at home nights any closer nowadays if the houses had the open fireplace sys? tem. The family life has 1 ot disappeared in this country. The home and family, the evening worship, the love and ac? cord of each member ot the home cir? cle, depends not on the open fireplace, the hot-air register or the steam radi? ator. It Is In the heartn of those who make the home, In the wisdom of the father and the mother r.nd the raising of the children. 1 can take you to real homes in Missouri today, real family circles, where every room in tho house is used every day and where the home would be perfect if the house were a cabin. And always when you find this home you bnd that every member of the family is busy, has tasks to dispose of every day and has a pride In the work being done. There are no homes where the family is an idle one and where the servants rule the house. The home Is not in the open fireplace, my good friend, it is in the hearts of the home makers. Volunteers for Sumtcr. The Volunteers of America have come to Sumter to open a branch of this work. The Volunteers are con? trolled by Gen. Ballington Booth, whose work is known in 59 countries and colonies. Capt and Mrs. Gossett ask cooperation of every Christian and cspeolally the ministers of this city. Capt. and Mrs. Gossett have been in this work for more than 20 years and have worked all over the I'nited States. Capt. Gossett is at this time in a hospital in Spartanlnrg, S. C. Mrs. Capt. Gossett will go on with the work until her husband is well enough to take up his work again. Mrs. Capt. Gossett asks for the pfgyetl of the Christian people in Sumter, that this work may be the means of bringing many souls to the master. Liuetenant Butler. For Capt and Mrs. Gossett. Seeks Penitentiary Board. What the attraction is for positions on the penitentiary board 01 directors! no one has ever been able to figure out, The vacancies on this board are <i sys more sought after than almost any position voted for by members. There sre non already sewn active candidate! n Ihe Held for the three vacancies on the penitentiary board of directors, These sre: Messrs, J. H, Wharton, C B, smith. T. H. Ralnsford, < > C, Scarborough, J, B. Hell, ot Gaff* neyj B, A Perry, uf Saluda and J, An hie Livingston, ol North. Ne ws and Courier. U. S. I?ubllc Health Service Report on Tuberculosis Trcutincut. In response to a resolution of the United States senate, the public health service has investigated the von Ruck ! treatment for tuberculosis. The re? pot t of these investigations has just been made public as senate document 641. This follows close on the report from the same service on the Fried? man treatment, and, as in the latter, the verdict is that von Ruck's claims have not been substantiated. On account of the evident practical difficulties in carrying out the studies on human beings, the investigation was largely confined to the attempt to confirm or disprove by animal experi? mentation the reliability and success Of von Ruck's methods and practices In the production of immunity to tu? berculosis. The studies were begun in Asheville at Dr. von Ruck's lab? oratory, but were later transferred to the Hygienic Laboratory in Wash? ington, the reason given being that Dr. von Ruck would not concede the right of the government's representa? tives to conduct an independent and uncontrolled investigation, and sum? marily interrupted the investigation in Asheville. It would seem from the report that the von Rucks did not have sufficient confidence in their methods to be willing to be investi? gated unless they had supervision and control over the investigation, truly a remarkable stand for a scientist to take. One of the most striking portions of the report is that which discusses the attempts made in von Ruck's labora? tory by some one interested in the outcome of the experiments to alter the entries in the laboratory record book in regard to the use of controls in certain serum tests. Such an oc? currence, as the report states, "had the effect of removing the entire test from consideration as a scientific pro? ceeding," and causes The Journal of the American Medical Association to indulge in speculation as to whether the investigation was not desired for reasons other than purely scientific ones. A Log Barge Enough to lave Tn. There is to be seen at Palmer Park, Detroit, Michigan, an enormous log. the inside of which is hollowed out and contains a chair and table, which were themselves carved from the log. It is large enough for a man to walk through, and the cage end of it was at one time used as a menagerie and contained a lion and tiger. One end of the log measures eight feet six inches, the other end eight feet three inches, while the length is thirty-five feet.?From the February Strand. Says True Love Comes Often. In the February Woman's Homo Companion Evelyn Gill Klahr writes a story entitled "Love Everlasting." The story is about a husband and wife who have quarreled and parted and it contains many theories and sentiments about the stability of love. A friend of the wife, a rather cynical woman, comments on love as follows: " 'Take all the things you were ab? solutely sure of in connection with love, all that one-man-in-the-world business, for instance. It's sheer rub? bish. There are dozens and dozens that each individual woman could love. Just dozens! Why, I've been in love with several myself, only each time there was a new one I persuaded my? self that the others weren't real! But they were. They were real enough. And yet in the face of my own exper? ience, and my father's too, for I had seen how he had adored both my own mother and my stepmother?in the face of it all, I kept on believing that one-man-in-the-world business. Oh, for ages I believed it. And another thing: Every young fool in love is absolutely certain that the rapture is permanent, that they are always go? ing to thrill and shiver at the sight of the loved one's eyes or voice or penmanship. Isn't it silly? Because it can't last. It may turn to calm af? fection or indifference or even hate, but that rapturous glamour simply cannot endure.' " I Care for Farm Implements. It is to be hoped that no farmer has put away his implements this winter without having Cleaned and oiled them thoroughly and that they are now well housed. Tho farm ma? chinery man at Clemson College states that a cnnsideranle portion of the profits of the American fanner la eaten up by neglect of farm ma? chinery. When going over a piece of machinery note if any parts are missing, mark down the names of these parts on tags and attach the tags to the places on Hie machine from Which the parts are missing. Thla will often prove very helpful. The High Cost of Sport. It has been asserted that the cot? ton growers of Texas lese between $40,000,000 and $00,000,000 per year because, in spite of strict game laws imi the activities of game wardena, certain bird enemies ?I the boll wee? vil have been killed off. REFUGEES IN HOLLAND. Many Towns Springing up Through Settlement of Belgians. Amsterdam, Jan. 27.?All over Southern Holland new towns are aris? ing. They are the homes of the clus? ters of Belgian refugees. The largest of these places boasts a population of 13,000, while another has 10,000. I have recently taken a trip to this refugee village of 13,000 men, wo? men and children, and many odd sides of life are to be found there. The new Belgian town is near Harderwijk, in Gelderland. It is built on the wind swept, heather grown, moorland. Every building is of wood and the whole is enclosed by a city wall of good strong barbed wire??to make the job of policing it easier. The wooden buildings, which have been constructed by the hospitable Dutch government, are little better than sheds, but they have double walls covered with a kind of rainproof as? bestos and are stout and serviceable. Two hundred and fifty persons lodge in each "apartment house," there be? ing a room to each five residents. Huge stoves give good heat and keep them warm and cosy. The town, for better policing, is di? vided further by barbed wire into three parts. Hussars guard the lines of wire inside and out.. Not all the fugitives are properly appreciative of what is done for them and disorders make it necessary from time to time to shut up a culprit in one of the two prison sheds?"Caledonia" for the men, or "The Congo" for the women. These stand in the middle of the town and have an especially formid? able wall of barbed wire all their own. There are several dining rooms each capable of seating 1,000. Here the In? habitants without regard to previous condition of poverty or affluence eat seated on benches, pulled up to the long tables. In the kitchen sheds nearly ten large stoves cook, cook, cook, ell day, for It takes a lot to feed 13,000. To guard against fire in this wood town, no cooking or smoking is al? lowed in the other buildings. The one luxury is electric light; which is plentifully supplied everywhere. Other buildings include a school, a church, an assembly hall and a post office. In a little store the few refu? gees who have brought money with them and still have some left can make their fruggal purchases. Many of the Inhabitants of this town were at first lodged in the quar? ters of Dutch soldiers at Oldebroek, which the latter vacated to house the thousands which came limping over the border from smoking Belgium. The first refugee camps, it is found, must be vacated for sanitary reasons, especially those in Zeeland, Limburg and North Brabant. The Dutch government appoints a burgomaster for each of the refugee towns, although there is a measure of "home rule." Below the Burgomaster are the parish priests, each at the head of the flock which he shepherd? ed from their sacked homes. The priests constitute a kind of town coun eil and choose reliable men, who keep order in the various houses and tell the people's grievances to the Burgomaster. The Burgomaster also has a quaint custom of making the round of the town once a day, when any one who has something to say can speak to him face to face. VILLA ORGANIZING NEW COL? UMNS. Will at Once Institute Campaign to Establish Supremacy of the Con? vention Government. Washington, Jan. 27.?Gen. Villa telegraphed the Mexico City conven? tion agency here today that he was organizing two new and powerful col? umns for a campaign to establish the supremacy of the convention govern? ment. He also announced he had ac? quired a fleet of aeroplanes to locate enemy positions and that the first of the machines already had arrived at his headquarters in Auguscalientes. Other advices, according to Enrique C. Llorente of the agency said Gen. Carrera Torrez's troops, in the ser? vice of the convention, were engaged by forces under Gen. Cabellero in the vicinity of Cuidad Victoria, capital of ! the State of Tamaulipas. Advices to the state department today from Vera Cruz said telegraphic communication between Mexico City and Vera Cruz had been broken since Sunday and probably would not be resumed for some day3. Another report announced that per? mission had been granted to the Huas teca Petroleum company to resume exports of crude petroleum. Other oil companies already had been per nitted to resume their shipments. BELGIANS NEAR STARVING. Shortage of 70,000 Tons of Food Must Be Made up in Three Months. New York, Jan. 27.?A shortage of 76,000 tons of food for relief of Bel-, gian refugees must be made up with? in the next three months by the com? mission for relief in Belgium or many persons will perish. Vice Chairman Charles W. Bates announced today. The commission today received this by cablegram from London: "The committee's actual shortage in the department for feeding desti? tute Belgians 21,000 tons for Februa? ry, 25,000 tons for March and 30, 000 tons for April. The enforced transfer of food from the department for provisioning those who can still pay something for rations during these months is bound to eat into its pro? visioning capital. "There now are 1,400,006 destitute, and the actual cost of supplying and administering the canteens for the destitute now is $2,000,000 per month. The number of destitute dally increases." Recent sales by the government to? taling 126,000,000 feet of sawtimber In the Olympic national forest, in wes? tern Washington, mark the opening of this hitherto inaccessible store? house of timber, estimated to contain a stand of 33 billion board feet. k?OFING-KOOiiiN?-ROOFhNG $3.00 PER SQUARE First-class Galvanized Corrugated and V-Crimped Roofing m 6, 7, 8 and 10 foot lengths. Sticks 10 cents per square extra. Only required with V-Crimped Roofing. COLUMBIA SUPPLY,COMPANY, 823 Gervais St., Columbia, S. C. The United States I || DEPOSITS WITH THE 8 FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Sumter. DO YOU ? I ii CAPITAL .... $100,(100,000 1 I PROFITS .... $125,000,000 ? flllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIII * "Fully Appreciated" Our duty as bankers wo aim to servo the best Interests of the community by at all times earing for our customers, not only with fidelity but intelligently. If a service of this nature appeals to you as being suited to your needs In a banking way?as being of real help In conserving your fiinnucial interest?we shall be glad to have you open an account! with us. 3: The Commercial & Savings Bank, j: t GE0. D. SHORE, J. K. CR9SSWELL. R. A. BRADHAM, J ]> President. Vice-Pres. Cashier.