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? -.- "~~J~,T~~_T ' -- Ca?tion in Tobacco Growing Advised 2fcepartment of Agriculture Says Be IJnwise-^War Conditions Keep Prices Up. Wr8shington, Feb. 14.?"Plunging" in tobacco growing to the, neglect of other crops is not justified: by the l?resent tobacco situation, which the Department of Agriculture, in a . '"s?_ttememT issued today, describes as - difficult. In territory where tobacco is a new crop.,recently introduced to j replace cotto? under boll-weevil con ditions, asy{ portions of South Caro- j lina and 040rg:a, the best interests of i the farm.ers. the statement says, ap- | pear to He in the^ development of a j safe r^xid well-diversified system ofj fanr_lng -rather than to plunge from j th^i, uncertainty of cotton production i^ito-the possibility still greater uncer tainty of tobacco production under ex isting conditions. While it is impos sible, the statement declares, to ar rive, at the. quantity of tobacco Europe: ^WtU'"be"prepared to purchase during! the. next year or two, it .seems likely) that any considerable increase over J the T918 crop in the fiuecured section! would be followed by a decline in market prices. -:-^Phe-:largest crop of tobacco the country- has ever produced is being marketed, and while prevailing mar ket-prices are very high for some of the leading types, such abnormal prices are said to be due primarly to .js&r conditions. The department ? joints out that the country has grown three large crops of tobacco in sue- i cession, with no decided shortage in ! production of any of the leading types. - ?-As. -compared with pre-war figures, exports of leaf tobacco were somewhat above .normal in 1916, much below normal in 1917, and still slightly be low-the average in 1918, average ex ports for these three years being ap* prpximately 380,000,000 pounds as .^4?gainst an average of 4(16,000,000 pounds-for the three years ending with 1913.. The quantity of leaf tobacco an nually consumed in domestic manu- . facture during the last three years ? shows an. increase of about 100.000,- ; 000 pounds over the preceding period, ] due largely to a decided progressive 5 Increase in the manufacture of cigar- 2 ett&s. -However, present indications - are that no more tobacco was consum ed in domestic manufacture in 1918 j than in the preceding year. Stocks of 1 leaf tobacco in the hands of dealers j and ".manufacturers as of January 1 t are reported as about 1,235,000,000 ] pnnhds'for all types, a considerable j increase over the figures of . previous 3 years. With a 1918 crop estimated at'j .iL,340,000,000 pounds, a domestic con- i sumption of about 720,000.000 pounds.! leaving a large surplus over pre-war J j .export.requirements, and with stocks}, of leaf-tobacco in the hands of dealers ? ajid-jnanufacturers above the normal, , it,soems obvious, says the department. ] that .ordinarily there would be a ten dency toward lower prices. Unfortu- ? nately there appears to be no means , available at this time for arriving at . .the. European requirements for leaf tobacco and its products during the j, nest jrear^ Cigar leaf, practically all ! oX which goes into domestic consump-j <^?n,".has declined sharply in price singe" the signing of the armistice, and the market for this type has been in- |, active. The fire-cured types, which], are exported perhaps to the exten* ofj( 80 jper cent of the production, are sell ing'at moderately high prices. The flue-jcured type, somewhat more than half of which is normally exported, and." Burley, which ordinarily is not an\*~export type, have been selling at ; abnormally high prices. .The situation with reference to j ft?e^cured tobacco is of special im- j portance in view of the extraordin arily large crop of last year and the j possibility of a further large increase j in/the crop this year, particularly in j. eastern," North Carolina and in South j "r^C&roIina and Georgia, where cotton is the chief competing crop. The situa-| trop* would seem to be one calling for the.exercise of caution by farmers,' particularly on the part of those who i have not previously grown the crop.' and would need to provide new cur- j ing barns and other cquipmen :?: Held in Washington j Wounded Abbeville Negro toj Be Brought to State. - Washington. Feb. 13.?Traveling; more than 500 miles with serious gun-j shot wounds in the thigh and hand, a~negro. giving his name as Marks' Smith, 24 years of age. of Abbeville ! today, was arrested by the police of | the Eighth Precinct at Freedman's | hospital and is being held "or the j sheriff of Abbeville. Smith, who came j here by a Southern train Saturday, ad-1 mits that his wounds were received j in an affray with revenue officers, and j he is suspected of being a moon-] shiner. He admits the police say, \ that he wounded one of the officers! who .tried to capture him. Make It More Attractive Glass Asks for Wider Authority on Next Loan. Washington, Feb. 13.?Secretary . Glass told the house ways and means committee that it was apparent "something must be done to make the bonds or notes of the victory "lib erty loan more attractive than their predecessors" and asked that congress give him authority to fix interest, rates and determine exemptions from Tax ation according to financial conditions existing when the loan is rtoated in April. The head of the nation's financial system also urged that authority be jriven the war finance corporation t<> make advances to exporters not to exceed $1,000.000,000 and that the purposes for which the treasury may make loans to foreign governments be broadehed. Mr. Glass said both provisions were necessary to restora tion of the country's foreign trade and would be mutually helpful to this government and the allies. Bourgeois Plan j Is Rejected I President Wilson Will Read Twenty-Six Articles to Plen ary Meeting of Conference To-Day. Paris, Feb. 13 (By the Associated Press)?The Bourgeois propos.tian ? for an interallied military force to : enforce peace was defeated by an overwhelming vote at the meeting of the Society of Nations commission ' today. j The French and Czecho-Slovaks were the only representatives in the j I affirmative. The draft of the society of nations plan was then unanimously adopted j as a whole. The final draft consists of 2G arti-! cles. President Wilson will personal- I ly read the dr?*t.to a plenary meeting; of the peace conference tomorrow, j The conference will not be asked to j finally adopt it at this time. The Jap- j anese delegation presented an amend- j ment providing that racial discrimina tion should not be tolerated in im migration laws. Several delegates urged that this! would open such a large question that | great delay might ensue, and the matter was dropped without a vote. ; Oppose Big Army Military Committee's S?md j Brings Forth Applause?Not Over 175,000 Men. ? ? _ i - Washington. Feb. 12.?General op- I position to a standing army in excess | of 175,000 men as authorized in the j national defense act three years ago, was voiced in the house today during j debate on the annual army approp ia- j tion bill with its provision for a mill- j tary force of 536.000 officers and men during the period of demobilization. Chairman.Der.: of the military c< m mittee was questioned closely as to the future army with several mem bers asking if the force provided in . the bill was to be the permanent army strength. The chairman .-explained that it was not and there was general applause from both sides of the House when Representative McKen-j; sie, of Illinois, Republican, said the j 1 military committee favored a small}; umy. ... r . Mr. McKenzie said the proposal of the army general staff for a peroia- ] lent peace time military establish- i nent of 500,000 had been rejected by j ;he committee, and Representative - Kahn, of California, Republican, in- . :erruptcd to say that not a single ? Member of the committee favored the j, proposal, a j i Discussion in the House continued ]; throughout the day with leadens >f- ! fering no prediction as to when a < i-ote would be taken on the meas \e.\\ which carries a total of $1.100.0 0. 000 for the war department during . the fiscal year beginning next Jul?. 1. 1 Debate was not confined to the bill itself. There was criticism of the war department, praise for Gen. Persh.ng and various American units wfc ch j fought in France, discussion of L-ol--l sheyism and protest against Presid nr. Wilson accepting a set of books as a birthday gift from King George, of England. Much of the discussion was given over to the National Guard. Repre sentative McKenzie said that what- | ever the future military policy might be the Xationc ;ard should be re tained and his .claration was vigor ously applauded. Other members in urging retention of the guard after . demobilization praised the work of i the guard divisions during the war. .-:-?-I Goes to Defend Self I Washington, Feb. 13.?-F. H. En- j gelken. former director of the mintj and later president of the farm loan bank at Columbia, is on his way to | Washington, according to the state-j ment of friends here today, who \ wired him to come on and take,care J of his case before the senate judiciary j committee and to answer charges; found against him by the South Ca**o- j Mna Council of Defense, through Former Senator Christie Benet. These charges, which have already j been made public through the pre ss.; go to the bottom of Mr. Engelkcu'sj loyalty to the I'nited States at a time when ho was holding a responsible and lucrative position under the treos-i ury department. If the charges are! sustained, as Mr. 'Benet said they! must be by the affidavits on file; there is much speculation as to what the j next step will be. Governor Manning and Senator) Benet are prepared to carry the mat ter to its limit if necessary to furth-! er * substantiate the charges which they have filed here under affidavits) and at the same time. Mr. Engelken, ' his friends say. is in lighting trim. Xo indication of what the commit tee investigating the charges, with; other alleged pro-German matters, i would do was forthcoming today nor could it be ascertained whether thei reports ':rom th?- secret service de partment of the treasury had yet been . examined. It slated that Mr. En-; gelken will not. Jet the matter rest ) where it is but will insist that there be a show-down with no "wliitewa h-: A Former Sumtor Boy. Among former Sumter boys who have seen much active service in France is Kenneth Harby, who left here several years ago to rejoin Iiis family who had moved from Sumt< r to Little Hock. Ark. He save up a position in which lie was doing well to train with the 312th Engineers at Camp Pike. Ark., and later at Camp Dix. X. J. From these he was sent to the front where he has had a stren uous experience in that branch of our army which has won so many laurels. His fri-nds will regfre't to learn that he has recently been ill with pneu monia in a hospital in France. His last. letter reported that be was con valescing. The banks are now ready to dis tribute the last issue of Liberty -Bonds to purchasers. Safety First To Farmers and Business Men in Cotton Territory. Washington. Feb. 12.?The depart ment oi agriculture is just issuing a bulletin which I have prepared l or the purpose of putting the present sit uation up to the farmers and busi ness men. It is entitled "Safe Farm ing in the Southern States in 1919." Ask your county agent for a copy. The present situation is the most j dangerous which the cotton states have faced in recent years. You have j had four years of comparative pros perity, partly because of four short i crops of cotton with resultant good prices, and partly because you produc ed so much of your own food and feed. During- the last four years there have been short crops in T^xasj mainly due to drought. In 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 the Texas crop averaged 4,418,250 bales, while dur ing 1913, 1916, 1917 and 1918 it1 averaged only 3.164,500 bales, or 1, 253,750 bales less per annum. Tex as has had good rains this winter.! From 1911 to 1914, inclusive, Okla homa averaged 1,036,250 bales per annum. From 1915 to 1918, inclu sive, the average was only 742,250 bales or 294,000 bales less per an-' num, mainly due to drought. Okla homa has had splendid rains this, winter. A big crop in Texas and Ok-' lahoma has always meant a big crop i in the whole country. Think that j over before you decide to increase j your acreage in cotton. Will the mills of Northern France; and Belgium be restored to full work- j ing capacity at once? Certainly not! j Will the poor people of Europe seek; food or cotton first? Food, of course! > People can and will wear patched i clothing and sleep without pillow; cases and sheets if need be, but the j hungry stomach must be fed. Think j about that. The last four years have been a j period of gradually increasing prices.; Farmers and business men havej profited out of this constant in- j srease. Cotton just about kept puce with other thmgs. A pound or an icre of it would buy about the same1 quantity of other commodities in ! 1918 at 30 cents a pound as it did in1 1914 at 12 cents a pound. But car-1 ing this time the farmers had the j idvantage of purchasing supplies in j he spring and summer at one level of prices and then selling cotton in the ral! at the top price of the year and paying the debts contracted at ihe| ower prices. Be on your guard now, j "or when prices begin to settle dewnj he situation becomes more difficult. ; We may be in the position of mak nrri i crop of cotton with high-priced j aipplies and settling our debts out of; cotton at a lower price. Especially aril! this be true if we produce a very ai*ge crop and thereby do all in ? ur | power to lower the market price of; cotton. Has not a large crop always j neant lower prices? Think that over, i What about acreage? bet u< 1-okt it the acreage figures in the bulle in. rhe total for 1918 was 35,$D0/>00. Oklahoma had more acres planted in j 10IS than in either 1911, 1913 or 1914. Texas had more acres in 1918 than in 1911 and only, a,bmt] ."00,000 ;-rcres 1 ss than in 1914. The; years 1911. ' a 12, 1914 were g'-od j years w*th big crops and gen er-, i ally lov prices. With only 150.(.'00 j is_ more in the whole country in L911 than we had in the whole comi try in 1518. wo produced 15,693. 00 ! :>ales, and the farm price December 1, j 1911, averaged 8.8 cents per pound.; in 1913 we had 37.089,000 acres and ; produced 14,15$,000 bales, and the farm price averaged 12.2 cents per; Dound December 1, 1913. In 19,14 we i had 36,832.000 acres, or only 942.-j 100 acrss*more than in 1918, and yet: :he production was 16,135.000 bales: ind the farm price December 1, 1914 j eras 6.8 cents per pound on the aver-j age, due in part no doubt, to the tvar in Fmrope. Think this over. With less acres than last year and; i good season we can easily make a1 irery large crop, especially with good j production in Texas and Oklahoma, j fn 1912 with only 34,283,000 acres wcj made 13.703,000 bales of cotton. Withj i good season ahead of us, would you j increase the' acreage? . Which would you rather do. pro- j ?uce more cotton and take a less price ? for it after working a larger number j of acres at greater expense, or limit j your production to a smaller number j of acres, better tended, permitting! the full production of your food and feed and a better chance for a good; price? It is absolute folly to upset the. present prosperity of the cotton States j by planting a Targe acreage which] can only mean a large crop and aj lower price. I hear rumors of farm ers selling their livestock to put their j land all in cotton. Such action is :n-j viting disaster. If farmers, landlords,: merchants and bankers combine toj pull the house down upon their own i heads i>y producing a large crop of cotton, they should have the cour-; age to make no appeal to the rest of the world for help if their own ac-j tton Icn^s them into distress. But remember that there is a good i way. Look in the bulletin. Food j plus cotton equals prosperity. Full production of the food for our people! and the feed for our growing live stock industry in the South shot.''I be the first and most important consid eration. Safe farming demands cau-j tion this time. Supply your own, needs first ;?s a sound measure of pro-! tection. then hold your cotton acreage down to :i moderate figure, less than in 1918, in order that we may safe guard the production and not destroy our prosperity by deliberately over producing. It is up to the South to play a safe game. Safety lirst d>> mands that every cotton farmer. !>ig and little, shall cooperate in holding down th< cotton acreage. Yours very truly. Bradford Knapp. Chief. There is a proposition before the I;Cf,'!si;itur(> to abolish th<- office ??f County Supervisor and employ a com petent road engineer t<? do th<> work the Supervisors are supposed i<> <lo. The business affairs of tie- counties, under this plan; would be directed by the Board of County Commissioners and its clerk. The plan is a most ex cellent idea. Radio Control of Torpedoes Found Army and Navy Indorse Ham mond s Invention. "Washington. Fob. 14.?Army and navy experts have reported the de vice of John Hays Hammond, Jr., for radio control of surface craft to be sent laden with explosives against enemy ships, a success, and predict similar results with submerged craft showing above water only wireless antennae. Results of tests were made public today in connection with the new fortifications appropriation bill which carries $417,000 for construction ofj an experimental submerged boat. Secretary Baker wrote the houss appropriations committee, which J! considering the bill that the joint! army and navy board was "convinced of the practicability of the control" of the surface craft, and added that there had also been demonstrations of the possibility of the control to aircraft, completely submerged ex cept for an air intake pipe. Before finally deciding on the purchase of the patents $750,000 the board de sirtj further experiment with the sub merged craft and a change in law for the experiments is necessary to per mit building so as to make success cetain before purchase. Construction of the submerged craft which will be about 80 feet and seven feet in diameter will take two years, according to Mr. Hammond, who told the committee * vts spent ten years and $4 00,000 on his inven tion. ? "There is no question whatever as to the ability to control with great accuracy the torpedo or carrier, what ever kind it is." said a letter of Maj. Gen. F. W. Coe. a member of the board, "so long as it is-a surface ves sel or has any antennae above the water, by direct radio waves, either from shore or from airplane. "The board had before it also and considered the ability of the enemy to interfere with the control of the vessel by radio energy. Mr. Ham mond's claims are that no interfer ence can be had with the craft out side a radius of 100 to 150 yards from the source of the energy; that is from the radio plant on a battleship, for example. 'With such radius a certain inter ference from a powerful wireless sta tion is possible but that interference with the apparatus only operates to keep the torpedo on a fixed course on which it may be running. With a shore station, having a height or SO feet above sea level, ra dio control of the craft has been demon.'itrated to the beard up to a distance of about seven miles, but General Coe said if controlled from an airplane there was no limit as to distance except the propelling power j of the torpedo the boat that carried) it, or that airplane. "A suiface launch with the appa ratus on it," stated General Coe, re lating demonstrations before the hoard, was controlled from both the shore and from an airplane the means of control in each case being the same. The board also witnessed the dropping of dummy depth charges from the stern of the boat while it was proceeding on any desired course. General Coe said he had ran the ?raft "all around vessels coming into the harbor at will" and at close ranges there would be no difficulty in ramming a vessel from shore. Mr. Hammond said an aviator af ter four hours' training on control aad risen 9,000 feet in a seaplane and taken control of a high speed boat running on the surface of the water. "He was able from the height of 9.000 feet and a distance of six or seven miles in a horizontal plane to exercise absolute control over the) high speed boat," declared Mr. Ham mond. "He was able to take it in and :>ut of Gloucester harbor through all the shipping, around the buoys an?T aim at a rapidly moving target with such precision he could practically strike eight times out of ten. A bat tleship would be obviously easy to strike." Besides carrying the provision to make possible the construction of the submerged Hammond boat the fortifications bill which carries a total of $11,199,200 for sea coast defense includes legislation for a complete financial accounting on fortifications appropriation being made to congress at the end of th? next fiscal year. German Sailors Were Intimidated by Mnes. Lawford. Eng. Feb. 10.?The fact that one British warship penetrated the guard patrol of the German High Seas' Fleet after the battle of .'Jut land and laid mines to cut off their j retreat has just been disclosed. The information became public j through the presentation to a Law-i ford church of a flag of the warship Abdiel, of 1,556 tons and a speed of ?40 knots. The inscription accompanying the flag testifies that the Abdiel "slipped througn the redoubled guards of pa- j trols on the night of the battle ofj Jutland. May 31?June 1. 1910. and laid a great series of mines close to the German coast, blocking the en trance of their retreating ships into the harbor. This dangerous night's! work, "adds the inscription" was com pletely carried out and the havoc among the German ships was so great | that their crews mutinied and refused to go out again. "The white ensign presented to the church was flown by the Abdiel in the Jutland battle." Dr. Mills (o Go to France. Clemson College. Feb. 11.?Dr. Wil liam H. Mills. professor of rural sociology in Clemson College, left to day fo go to Xew York in order to sail the latter part of this week for France to engage in educational work with the Overseas Educational Com mission. 1 >r. Mills will have* charge of the rural sociology work in one of the seven districts into which the work is to be divided and will huve associated with him a number of teachers of rural sociology Crom thi.^ country. He has secured leave, of absence from his work at Clemson for one year and will remain in France hat Ion;: if needed 'or this work. ( Press of Paris on Peace Name of President WiL .n Fre quently Mentioned. i ? _? j Paris, Feb. 12.?The Paris news j i>apers today in their discussion of the j nations question make frequent ref ; erence to President Wilson. ! "Mr. Wilson is decidedly a lucky I man," writes Arthur Meyer, editor of I The Gaulois. "He had in his brain of ; philosopher and apostle conceived a j certain plan. It was in 1913. He was j of the opinion that the war into i which conscience had not yet drawn him, would produce no complete vic tor and no wholly vanquished. In j I consequence of this he had built up a | whole scries of propositions which ne' now dislikes to abandon. "But there has been vanquished and there have been victors, an <? whom is the United States. Gen had to ask for an armistice. It is re-; grettable for the conceptions of Mr. j Wilson,, but it is very fortunate for I us. Had there been no victor or no j vanquished, the solution of the ac- j tual difficulties would have been { much easier. Xothing would have; prevented the formation of the league j of nations of which Mr. Wilson dreams, as all the belligerents could i have been included. "But if Mr. Wilson persists in his original plan of which no thinking j being can deny the generosity, we j desire that he should remember the | necessity of certain guarantees which j were not excluded from his original j plan and we doubt if the creation of an international police force would be; sufficient to guarantee us the security' to which we are entitled." Mr. Meyer's contention Is that I France should have a defensive fron tier as well as a membership in the j league cf nations. 287,3?" TROOPS RETURNED. Washington, Feb. 12.?From the i signing of the armistice to February ; 8, 287,332 American troops in France and Great Britain had embarked for the United States, while up to Febru ary 10. 57,545 officers and 1,069,116! men had been demobilized in this country. Total arrivals of overseas troops up to February 7 were 215,749. These figures were made public to day by Secretary Baker, together with others relating to the number of sick and wounded now in France and the : number returned home, en in France] being treated for disease on February j 1, totaled 62.561. and those suffering; from wounds were 24,484. The aggre- j gate of 87,045 was 4.6S8 less than inj the preceding week and 106.403 less than the number in hospitals overseas on November 14. Since the end of hostilities 53.042 j sick and wounded have arrived in this] country, bringing the t 1 since ~hc ? beginning of the war n -'2,120. Or: j February 1 the occupied oeds in hos- j pitals in the United States numbered 60.777, while there were 47.048 vacant i beds available for returning cases. Sand-clay and ordinary dirt roads will no. stand up under the heavy j traffic of automobiles and trucks and ! if business is to be carried on in this j country, if the farmers are to be able | to market their produce at a reason- j able cost, substantial and permanent | roads must be built. Such roads will ! cost a lot of money, but they will be worth all that they cost. People who do not want to live under modern con ditions and pay the price should move into some undeveloped region where; they, can live amidst pioneer condi- j tions and pay no taxes. j Cost of War Found Totals One Hundred and Ninety Three Billion Dollars. I _ ; Washington. Feb. 12.?The total : cost of rhc war to all belligerents, in cluding the central powers. \vas plac ed at $193,000,000,000 by Secretary Baker :n an address tonight at th? American women's "victory dinner." This estimate, the secretary said, was based on figures just compiled by th? war college. New inventions -in -the process of development by the associated gov ernments and the enemy, Mr. Baker said, would have made the fifth year of the war twice as destructive in hu man life as all the four years that had gone before. Other speakers at the dinner, which was attended by women from all parts of the country, were Madame Catherine Brshkovskaya, known . as "the Grandmother of the Russian Revolution": Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Miss Julia Lathrop and Mrs. Charles Robson of Ottawa. Save Money By Not Vsing Tobacco, I wish to discuss in your Progres sive Farmer thrift contest two idea* which have helped me save money. 1. One has been abstinence from all use of tobacco or whiskey. Old Steel's Physiology early convinced me that was the only sensible thing to do from the standpoint of health, indi gestion and nerves; and an uncle of mine brought out the money side cf the matter in a way that I have never forgotten. He was a great smoker, and in the family circle one day some body suggested that, he figure out about how much money he had spent for tobacco. I do not recollect the exact figures, but I know it astonished him and all the rest of us to. see how much he would have had if he had saved and put it out at interest?I think about $5,000. An old man rear ed near where I was gave an exper ience sometime ago that is pertinent in this connection. He said: "Forty-three years ago I quit using tobacco in any form. It had cost me a little over $24 a year. At the end of the first year I pu>; in the bank $24, taking a certificate at 4 per cent. At the end of each year I put in the bank $24 together with interest. At the end of 17 years the interest was $25. At I the end of 28 years my certificate drew $49. At the expiration of 42 years it drew $102. Total $2,690. I am using this in the education of my children. Am now sending the sixth one to college." In other words, when he as a young man was spending $24 a year on to bacco, he was spending not merely the $24 but he was spending some thing else. He was spending the pos sibility of getting all the later interest on this amount, the interest alone on his tooacco money now amounting to ?over $100 a year.?The Progressiv? Farmer. The Columbia cotton conferenee~Efc_ . solved that the cotton acreage should be reduced, and practically every man of intelligence agrees that wisdom dictates that this policy should ce followed. But will the individual farmers act wisely? A big cotton crop this year means a very low price this fall. Weimar, Feb. 14.?Frederich Ebert, president of Germany, has announced to the newspaper men that the gov ernment is arranging the details for complete disarmament and demobiliz ation of the army. B?fldiiig Material and Feed Stuffs ! Eough and Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, ; Brick, Shingles, Mouldings, Etc.] All kinds of Feed for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. We solicit your patronage. : Booth & McLeod, Inc. Phone* 10&631 * The National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter CAPITAL .$ 200,000.00 SURPLUS .175.000.00 RESOURCES .2.000.000.0? A bank big enough, strong enough, and liberal enough to take care of the legitimate needs of all its custo mers. 0. U. ROWLAND. President. f E. HINNANT. Cashier. BANK STH and'you can BANK i The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C.