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m FAMOUS SLEUTH. , ( ^Remarkable Career of Gen. D. J. i wf Cook?He was Feared by u Bad Men. 1 \ m '' Whenever you hear that a man e wis going to get .von, go after him. Hunt Hiim up. If necessary net him first. c Ak>ut generally, when the man is found, c A: will not he ready. A talk and an ^ B^lorstandiug will remove causes of i^ive a desperado no opportunity s i" tv a pistol. My motto lias al- c V was P'w: 'It is better to kiM two 1 "|:I) to have one kill you.' " t statemei?-0 principles faithfully liv- , The-on, oUgi, forty-live years of ? I l,,1'(UVS'Uhe frontier as a peace i ,1 > General Dav- I ? " -? lm" 'BU, fen red bv , Y f ' ?W? Hoek'v , I Wk will, ow alljfc tho Cunn(|i,,;, I an. by hn^-Jfe , says the San |, '""'""V,."ft. As a brigadier , _ ninn.M.vi ,; Indian Seoul, 1 United States marshal, chief of police 0 of Denver in the lawless days, sheriff of Arapaho county and head of the j, Kooky Mountain Detective agency, he croalcd a name that was a terror to j tlic bad men of the border. Though he * was scnty-one years old when he * died in his Denver home last week, j> there are si ill men living in the West / who heaved a sigh of relief when they 1 , hoard the dauntless peace olTieer had ' !1mwc(1 ihe ??uide across the range. ( tioneral Cook had little respect for j t!u' professional "bad man." and ' uieiiihers of that class knew it. In ^ hi> lime he had arrested more than "I I hem, beginning with his career in Denver in 1S5J). Among them were between fifty and seventy-live v murderers, all gun fighters and pro- '' A fessional terrors on the frontier, who 1 JB boa*tod of the notches on their gun a Jf barrels. <' Through so many dangers General . funk escaped unharmed tc? an ad- 1 1 vanced age. He explained his good fortune through the curious fact that he was left-handed in handling wea- t pons. Time and again the desperate . bordermen, waiting for first chance, had watched Cook's right hand while preparing to got the drop. Then suddenly Cook's unguarded left flashed ^ out with a forty-four on a bewildered k prisoner. ? Cook did more to drive outlaws A from Colorado and keep the peace ^ ban anv other man in the Western Country.' J, v An ludianan by birth, horn in La V Porte, where some of his lelatives still j live, he early entered on the adventuron* career to which a love of peril attracted him. lie came to Denver in the ordnance department until ISO!!. One of liis exploits was I he externii- j nation of the Reynold* guerrillas during the war. Captain -lames RovV nolds, a Texan, with a courageous ' band of riders, came north toward the, dose of the war. intending to take | ^ and destroy Denver. <hi I he way i ( they burned a number of New Moxi-I can and Colorado villages ol pro-1 n-! ^ L ion sympathizers. They were met by I r Cook and his rangers thirty miles j south of Denver, near Klk creek, audi a pitched battle ensued. The Tcxans ^ were routed with a hiss of nearly all ^ their forces, and live of their captives v were shot. One escaped.however, and ( told a story that has led to a neverending hunt for buried treasure. It seemed that the guerrillas on j their way north, had attacked and | captured a Mexican treasure train. , from which they secured $<0,000, ( mostly in greenbacks. T ie-e they buri- j ed in a locality on I'-lk creek. inteud-|| ing to return and secure the treasure ( a ?'{ ;?r I hey had deslroyed Denver. I lie . extermination of the band lost the so- ^ rret. and because the only survivor was never able to describe I be place ( where the fortune was buried, it re- _ mains safe to litis day, ( ook liunte.l ^ for the treasure often, and every sum- ; lner parties spoilt weeks seeking l'. I" One of General Cook's most notable j v I exploits was tho <|tielling ol the < hi-j , | Ariose riots iu Denver in ISSO. Keelingj, % against the Chinese who then lived here in great numbers, v.row to such , a pitch that infuriated mobs captured Chinese on the streets and strung . I hem up lo telegraph polos. I lie law- ( lessness grew to such an extent that | the sheriff and the police were power- . ^ )r',s, and the Chinese quarter, with j &L its population of 11,000 was threatened ^Rwith burning. In desperation the , county and state officials appealed to j H General Cook for assistance. lie swore ( Bin twenty-five picked deputies, all ( I dead shots and fearless men like him- , B self. They were known to the rioters , H as men who would do their duty, and { mobs dispersed as fast, as they ad- ( vanced. Without bloodshed peace was t restored in a few hours and many ar- , I rests of leaders were made. ( It, was about Ibis time that Cook performed a feat as famous in the j West as the ride of Sheridan in war < n annals. One of the banks at Lead- j ( villc, then a camp just bursting into', fame, was threatened with a disas-L HL-'. ou.s run 11,ore was teiegraph, but 1;u,roa(l- The bank oflieials wired 0 1 enver to a correspondent lor aid '?< tins bank employed funk to ride ,, '"'V'8 ,,vt'r mountains to Leadl,,c' lV'?l,-h ?" outlaw eotuilry, to an'-v *??'??> to the distressed l,i?k. Cook undertook alone the dan?er"* nussion, and heavily armed starlit with the lortune in his saddle bags. Mierever (|,e telegraph wire reached 1 Mage station messages were sent for nil? ?t |U)1'S0 S J?mpiii?; from the addle ot one exhausted horse to an>1 her Cook spurred over the trail in rs ,lu:M ?welvo hours. AH olle day he cashier stood at the window and >aid the clamoring crowds of angry inners, while Cook was making his 1(,e- ,he bank had twenty minutes l)Uoer to last When Cook spurred h rough the streets of the camp and ode a horse covered with foam V-l!r 11,0 ei"owd8 up to the door. As ie lilted the bags of money from his addle and carried thorn inside the "ie of cursing miners broke into boors and melted away. The most noted detective work done >v Cook was in connection with the nut dors of four Italian musicians in 'enver. The murderers, who were line countrymen of the victims, had our days' start when the bodies wore mnd hacked *o pieces in a shanty, 'ook traced and arrested them all in lifforont j.arts- of the state, and later aved their lire:. when, with his depuies he fought off a mob that tried to vnch them in Denver. At! nine were onvicted. As a govermmvit detective n?k saved the government *'100,000 n case- handled by him. In >pite of his advanced a.je Genral Coi?|< appeared regularly at his osk at the Denver poli.-e headquarters, where his experience made his ssistanoe valuable, lie was assignd to special duty and contributed nly recently to the solution of a u.mber of difficult cases. Until atacked by heart disease only a few iionths ago he was vigorous in spite f a life of great stress and activity. Ie stood over six feet in his stoekugs and was as agile as a cat. General Cook was a thirty-second egree Mason and was high in the Odd Allows and Knights of Pythias orers. Among police and detective flicers his reputation was national, nd lie was equally known in military ircles. From 1803 to 1S00 he held he posts of commander of the state roops during the Indian wars or was heritf of Arapaho county or chief of lolice of Denver, almost without a ireak. Pioneers assembled from ali >arts of the state to attend his burial. DETROIT'S GIRL DIVER. jaid Up Comfortable For time by Her Calling?Her Father is Captain of Divers. Detroit's ijirl diver. Miss l'Yancis >aker, is regarded as a p rot eye by all' lie sailors of the Great hakes, says I Deiroii dispatch t. ihe N'ew \'<irk .Vorhl. She i< twenty-one years of ige and has laid up a comfortable tank account by following her hazirdous calling. Her first professional vork was when she raised $20,000 vortit of copper from the ship \V. II. Sevens, which sank in eighty feet of valer in Lake Krie several years i go. Miss Raker's father, Capt. II. V. iaker, was a captain of divers, and 'mm the first time she was allowed to o down to the river alone. she used o watch her ruber's wrecking ship eave i he .lock and longed to go with tint. The ambition to become a div>r matured in her as she grow older, tnd she deplored the fate which had '.ondenined her to be ;t girl. At last her desire to become a diver ivercatne the objection of her friends, tnd site began making wrecking trips villi her father, anil soon became his nspearahle companion. She made a study of the machinery connected villi diving, and in lime learned to ommand the wrecking boat with real skill and assurance. Iler first descent was in Lake Ifit*on, where a l?ig wooden ha rue had rone down, and before the wrecking it earner had reached t!ie s|>ot where lie barge sunk, the owner spoke 0 Miss Baker, regret t in*: I lie i ->s of 1 diamond ring which wa- ::i the cabn. Mi.- - Laker immediately offered fo ecover it for him, as she had been danning for some time to make her irst descent upon the first favorable ipportunity. When everything was nade ready for her to descend, her ;w!i father manned the compressed lir apparatus, which meant life or leath to her, as she calmly walked h?wn I h<i. ship's ladder and without a nomenf's hesitation disappeared tinier the. water. In describing the sensations of the nitial trip she said that the feeling it the oufset was as if some great reatnre with a thousand arms was M'esspi" her gently but firmly on all ides, and as if in a few minutes her <' I- ' .. broil Hi would l)o nil off entirely, but! \'u' vvas Ji,r lrom frightened, anil c-oiitniut'd Jier descent uuiil the shadow ' ?1 the sunken barge loomed up bot?ro lior. Siio had a stranj-e feeling! >t buoyancy and tho twenty pounds I ?l lend attao.hed to hor loot seemed ! '<> heavier than leal her soles as she ' ollowed her companion to the walls >1 the sunken ship, and with his aid, 'limbed over them. At this point she experienced severe Jiltns in her head and felt as if her lose was going to bleed, but, still unlaunted, she reached the cabin of the large, where she entered, and, with lie aid of the electric light at her belt, iou?'lit out the corner of the cabin' vliich contained a small stand, upon \.hieh was the tiny box containing the nucli desired diamond ring. fn hor haste to reach it she sturned and toll, and for the moment vius consumed by a terrible fear, as he pressure of the water, together vi1 h breatJiing the compressed air, iad now become almost overpowering, >nt she (juickly gained her self-eonrol, and with the box iu her and reurned to the deck of the wrecker. As a reward for this exploit Miss ^aker wj<s presented with the dianond ring she had recovered, and it is low in her possession. The ring marked the beginning of ior fortune, as she had proved that he could live under (lie water, and o be able in do this niean< that ;; lorson is worth any when- iroui .f.'jU 0 f-liO a day t<> a wrecking conipaiiv. \s ninety-nine tlul ol every one hunlred men who descend into the waer> ot tlx? lakes will in a few niinules H'"iu !< sutler I r? * in bb ding at the lose, head-splitting pain... and suffo Vition, that is why all good divers roni one end of the Great Lakes to lie other may In; counted on one's itigers and toes. Mother. ^o sweeter woman ever (rod the earth THAN mother! \ flower of sweetness, to her soul at birlh Mauds of her infants clung with baby grace, And little eyes looked up into her face And little lips of love in childhood bliss 1* ell I lie soft roseleaf of her velvet kiss; Willi happiness too much for trniguo to tell. 11 iey wandered trustful in her beauteous spell! No gent.or spirit over dwell with men fl I AX mother! 1 ?rinv :ii - the old times sweetness back a : a i n. W il!i ( i * a l in e. p.iiie.-: !] mcI I :itrol, No : slider couraue in a -t rouger 'il. Ken above disaster and content W i the sweet love she gathered ;>s ! >he went i nun 1 iio-t ;!ii draw alnn.it her davi by day In the calm beauty of her mother- j way! Nu sweeter name sweeter spell of life Til AX mother! "own the dark valley of the years of st rife, mother, mother, we go our wav As inoii found fighting where the light-j nings plav, 1'Ook back with longing to vour arms of old. And dream the dreaming of their sweet enfold, And know your goodness, and are glad to creep (hi the soil pillow of your breast to sleep! 1 have an excel one can put it oi Sapolin Floor Pc Sapolin Furnitur Star Enamel. Aluminum Enam Gold Enamel. Wire Screen Ena Try a 10 cent cat WE W AI TO COt that while we sell goods \ is always first considerec of shoes for 75 cents or c it must be the best pair t ey will buy. New Lawns, Etc. I Just received, 50 pieces colored Muslin worth 12c. at special for Saturday and Monday, 9c. yd. 5 pieces Brown Linen at 10c. yd. 10 pieces Brown Linen worth 20c.. at special 15c. yard. 3 pieces Brown Linen worth 25c., full 30 in. wide at 20c. yd. Sheets, Pillow Gases, White Quilts. Etc. 40 do/., hem stitched Sheets, full size worth Si.00. at special 75c. each. 125 doz. Pillow Cases worth i2^c. at special 6 pairs f r$i.oo. Light and dark Percales for Shirts, Shirt Waists, etc., cheaper than you can buy them elsewhere. Clothing! Clothing! At cost, for reason, our store room is too small to carry any goods from one season to another. We will sell all spring and summer Clothing and low cut Shoes at or about first cost. Shirts! Shirts! 25 doz. Coat Shirts worth 75c. and $1.00, at special 49c. the Shirt. By the doz. S5.75. All $1.00 Shirts at 85c. each. Undershirts from 25c. up. 5 gross Men's Washable Ties at special 5 for $1.00 NOTICE--This store se If you will pay for goo your money will be refur E. L. Bail 1 j _ciI! it for less, ?sm.*^uc.iwomnwa?tr,aaisrv Modest Chinese. I "IMeniy uf A-l | Tin following i> ;i literal t ransla-i men ) kmnv my it j tion >>I a Chinese ink maker's adver- er cheated?they I tisement, ami is a lairly yood example a ?ood name. I m;i o1' thv "1>U,T |?f Heaven' and a At tlie simp Tae-sliinu (prosperous . in til.- extreme)?verv nood ink, line! .< \ . i, ? , . ' | As the roar <1 line. Ancient shop, irreat-irranillather, " ramilather, father ami self, make OTCI!Ki2B3i: this ink: fine ami hard, very hard;: Capital $50,1 picked with care, selected with at-: I tent inn. 1 sell very <>ood ink, prime j j c?i>t i- very. This ink is heavy; so is' |jj| land dazzles, s<? does ihis ink. No one || g j| makes like it. Others who make ink ; make ii for ihe sake .d' accninnl.itinn ! j Itase coin and cheat, while 1 make it ' 1 only lor a name. lent Polish. Any n. dish. e Polish. T' an err I 1 iel. I is prepared to i at legal rates, j or for other pu: imel. positors of com ^ ^n^eres _ JP'IVJH NT YOU MSIDER 'ery cheap, that quality I with us. If it is a pair i pair of shoes for $5.00 hat that amount of monFall Shoes Coming In. We arc agents for six of the best factory made Shoes on the market. i ,000 pairs Dean's second Brogans, worth $1.70 a leader at $1.25 the pair. These were shipped ten days ago, but haven't come in yet. Ladies' coarse or work Shoes, made by Wolf Bros., Columbus, Ohio. Every pair guaranteed, worth $2.50, special $1.98 the pair. One pair will last all season, cheaper than two $1.50 pairs. We also handle this line in Boys', Misses and Children s. Look at this line before you buy your fall Shoes. We are also agents for the Bu.>ter Brown Blue Ribbon Shoes for Buys and Girls, C.. II. Gerber's Shoes for Children, T. B. Barry's finer Shoes for Men, the Brown Shoe Co.'s Shoes for Men, Ladies and Children, John Michel's special ?^.00 and S3.50 Shoes for Men. We handle only factory made Shoes and sell them for less. All.low cut Shoes and Oxfords at cost. 1986 pairs Men's Odd Pants to close at less than you can buy tlieiu elsewhere. Ladies' Skirts. 427 Ladies Skirls in all the new cloths from 98c. each to $7.50. 7 bolts 25c. Matting left, to close at $5.^0 the roll. Coats' Spool cotton 5c. spool. 8 balls good Sewing Cotton for 5c ? ? rrr?n? ! 1111 1 nan imbi sits goods for cash only, ds and not satisfactory ided. les. Prop. Cheapest in Stale. ammcnv, -T.n>11 \waii-ts;ios (?cntle- j In c\ct \ |?I:??* , so docs llu; J'ame of ?k- my I amity nev-jihe dragon's .jewel' ( meaning his have always liorne | ink.) Conic, all A-Kwan-lsaos (ironikc ink for ill.' ' Son j IIcnx'ii). com,, lo my shop ami see iho II ?Ik* mandarins in . siyn Tea-shin- ai I he side of the door. j 11 i< Sea-im-shwiiy si reel (small walI Ilic fiiifr extendsj vHeei) outside the South ale." 300,00 Surplus$54,924.33 Deposits $324,552.84. of Newberry, S, C., O XSiSnXJQd 23 Ca"V.Tt3X*. lergency you may need a little money. he Commercial Bank loan reasonable sums on acceptable collateral If you need money to pay or discount your bills rposes come to the bank and talk l.t over. De"se receive the preference. -at p. c. t Paid in Savings Department. Bank for your Savings " ^D, Pres. o. B. MAYER, Vice-Pres. J. Y. McFALL, Cashier.