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WRECK FOUND Of A British Warship Missing Eight Years in / THE PACIRC OCEAN The Oonilor, With a Crow of One lluiHlnsl ami Forty Men* Sailrd From ]?>><iiiimii)t anil thus Xovor Hern liraril From Sitiro Sailing I'ntil Found a Short Tiinr Ago. The wreck of the British sloop of war Condor, whose fate and that of the 14u oflicers and men farming her company have been 0110 of the mysteries of tlie sea since December 3, 11*01, has been located, submerged In comparatively shallow water, about one and a half miles oft shore at Long Beach, mid-way b?vtween the southern entrance to Berkeley Sound and the settlement of Calyoquot, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The wreckage is about fourteen miles distant from the village of Clayoquot and seemingly rests upon an uncharted reef, of which there are many in the vicinity of Long Beach and W reck Bay, which adjoins it. Tile news of the discovery of the long missing sloop of war was brought from the coast by Bonneycastic Dale, an ICngllsh naturalist and journalist, who has communicated his discovery to the British Admiralty, lie regards the evidence | of identity as invent rovert idle, and it is expected that immediate investigations will be made by the adtnirality upon his report. The principal obstacle In the way of salvage operations is believed to bo the prevailing heavy swell-met within this locality in the calmest weather. A surface wave beyond the line of tin* barrier reef that fronts the bay marks the spot where the vessel is supposed to lie. A few weeks ago a spar stamped with the admirably mark, with nltches patched with copper in naval style, after being visible four days, floating attached to the wreck beneath, drifted ashore. Upon the same beach some time ago there drifted a jib Xoom spur stamped "Condor," a life buoy similarly mark<Mj and several signal rocket cases marked with the name of the ill-Htarred vessel, mute testimony of the whereabouts of the long missing sloop. About a mile and a half out from Long Beach the surface ripples over the ship that is supposed to be the sepulchre of one hundred and forty officers and men of His Majesty's navy. At high tide It Is hardly visible but at extreme low tide the sea boils about the obstruction. Half a dozen residents of the west coast who have gone out to the spot in saiooxn water and at low tide declared that the hulk of the submerged ship Is plainly visible. On the morning of December 3, 1001, the sloop of war Condor, iu company with H. M. S. Warship, left Ksquimalt, the former never to return. The Condor was bound for Honolulu and Tahiti heavily laden with coal for a long cruise and carrying a large consignment of mails for the British Inhabitants in the isolated South Sea Island. In the straits a strong southeast gale prevailed and the war ships parted company, the Warsplte continuing on her way south and the Condor starting to carry out gun practice at the entrance to the straits prior to making for Honolulu. Whether this gun practice was carried out has never been ascertained. Outside the straits that fateful night a terrified storm was raging, which compelled every vessel in the region to fight for life, and In this storm the Condor was seen for a brief { moment, laboring heavily and flying | signals of distress, by Captain James Boyd, now of the Bank line steamer ' Aymeric, and then in command of the south bound lumber ship Springbank. Naturally the name of the struggling washlp was not made out, but there was no doubt of her identity in the minds of Captain Boyd and his officers. They did not go to j the supposedly disabled gun boat's assistance. Indeed, they gave her scant thought or attention at the time, as thoy w?>re having all they ii 1 /I ^ 4 ^ ' " wuiu uw to save iiK-ir own ship and J thoir lives. This was the last seen of the Condor or any of her com- i pany. The Condor never reached Honolulu and gradually her name passed Into history as identified with j one more of the tragic mysteries of the sea. Toward the end of that December | a stern bcjiIT and lifebuoy with the name "H. M. Condor" on wore picked iip in the neighborhood of Wreck Bay. Theories are numerous as to the fate of the vessel and the 140 lives sho carried. The same night was responsible /or anotner mystery of the North Pacific. The collier Mattewan left Nanaimo for San Francisco on December 2 and never reached her port. Some believe she foundered, j Borne say she crashed into the Con- ' dor and both vessels were sunk. | The Condor was ^f similar type to 1 the Algorinc and the Shearwater, 1 GRAFT GALORE HOW THIS l'KOl'LR HAVK 11KKX 1101*1*191) OF MILLIONS. The Astounding KovcUtkms Made by Senator ltoveridj;? About the Stealing of tlie ToImmoo Trust. No revelation of tho extra session Lou Lnon www ?o c* t ti r t 1 i V) ir f )i !i Vl iMirt r? % which Senator Hevoridge made about the almost unbelievable graft of the Tobacco trust for eight years, says the Washington Times. That was a case of legislative partnership with a trust in a project to fleece the people. Somebody must have boon "Axed," "(Jreused," "oiled." It is inconceivable that congress will plead guilty to such sublime innocence and j incompetence as would be testified , by the explanation that nobody in ; congress saw what was being given to the Tobacco trust. Here is what happened: When the Spanish war taxes were imposed, the ! internal revenue duty on tobacco went np. The law was so arranged that tobacco dealers were permitted to sell underweight packages, deducting enough from the weight to compensate them for the increase in the internal revenue tax. Thus a "tobacco pound' was considerably less than a I G-ounce pound; but it j was legal because of this legislation. The tax was thus carried down to the consumer, and nobody particularly felt it. Hut when the war and the need J of war taxes passed, what happened? Tiie additional tobacco tax was re- 1 pealed, but the trust's privilege of < selling underweight packages was not stopped. The trust was left collecting the war tax from the people, hut pocketing it instead of turning it into tin- Federal treasury. i Hy this process, in eight years, tl'o ( i trust lias got away with $184,000,-)' 000 of tin; people's money. That 1 money ought either to luivo been left 1 in the pockets of the tobacco users, or else to have gone to the Federal treasury. In fact, it went to the ' coffers of the Tobacco trust. It is manifest that to repeal the war tax, but to forget to repeal the ' short weight privilege must have been ditUcult and Complicated. Some skilled person or persons must have steered that thing through congress with consummate cleverness. Who did it? Was he an "Inside worker" or an "outside man?" If he was an insider, his identity ought to be 1 known, so that he can be duly defeated next election by a betrayed constituency. If he be merely a smart lobbyist, he should at least be questioned about thS* methods by which he Induced committer and lenders and organisations to permit such a tremendous steal. Senator Ileverldge has gone about this business In a fashion which Indicates purpose to stick by It till the whole Inwardness of this strange transaction Is bared. The present $li6,000,000-a-year largess of the Tobacco trust should first be taken ' away; then the process by which con- 1 gross was either befooled or corrupt- '' ed should be Investigated. It is a wondrous interesting ctr- ' cumstauce that the trusts which seem most Influential with congress are those which most often appear ' in the criminal courts as defendants. The Sugar trust has seldom been out ' of the criminal courts in the last 1 ? i * - ' tww w? v?uf>, on out' cnarge or another or defrauding the government Its reward is the privilege of taking $060,000,000 in twelve years from * the people. Why should such a spoctai j.rivi- ( lege be freely given to a criminal of , the most fixed and persistent crim- f inal habits? The American Tobacco Company is i now defendant in a great case < brought by the government under tho ( anti-trust laws, charging it with con- j spiracy In restrain of trade. That < it is actually, if not techinally guilty, j is the common knowledge. Does it , not seeiu strange that it, too, should . be abb* to have conferred upon It j a special delegation of the taxing ) power? ( Does congress have any paction- t lar preference for the great crimi- j nals? Its diatrlbution of its favors \ seems to suggest something of tho ( kind, i Cyclone Passes Denmark. A small cyclone passed about one ( mile northwest of Denmark about ( 6 o'clock Thursday evening, wrecking the home and stables of Mr. Asa ' Baxter and a tenant house of Mr. 1 J. W. Baxter. Mr. Asa Baxter's eld- 1 est daughter was slightly injured. 1 No one killed. nOW un.jii11iitt11 Diaiion. jsne nnd '< a very low free hoard, and the the- < ory has been advanced that she ship- < pod a tremendous sea, and before t It had time to run through, the seup- * pei'H were struck by another, which I caused her to founder. Another favored theory is that her coal cargo * shifted in the gale, and'4 that she 3 turned turtel. An Investigation of t the wreck beneath the waves off I.ong f Headh may throw light, on the mys- I terious happening and will doubtless 1 disclose the bodies or many or the c bluejackets penned beneath decks $ when the ships wont to their doom. 1 Plain FACTS About the Tariff bill Told by Senator Smith ON FLOOR OF SENATE He Boldly Declares That tin- Whole # Tendency of the Present IvogisUition is to (jive the Manufacturer I ndue Advantage Over the Producer and the Consumer. Denouncing the pending *uriff bill us giving the munufactuier an undue ad vantage over the American fanner and working man, Senator Smith, ot South Carolina, unei|uivocally expressed his faith in a free trude policy iti an extended stcech while the cotton schedule was under consideration in the Senate on Tuesday. The following write-up of the speech was furnished The News and Courier b> its Washington correspondent: "The whole tendency of this legislation has been to cheapen the raw material and raise the price of the finished article," said Mr. Smith, thereby giving to the protected manufacturer a double advantage, lessening the price of what he has to buy ami raising the price of what , he has to sell. "I am not pleading for, nor shall 1 vote for, protection for the raw , material. I believe a thing is worth ( what it will bring in the.* open mark- | tits of the world. What I shall vole | ugainst is the iniquitous and indo- ( feasible system of legislating a profit , by artificial methods. I believe that American skill and the wonderful t mechanical devices operated by . steam, water and electricity, our nearness to the source of supply for ' the raw material makes it possible , tor us to compete with tin* nations of j the world." Senator Smith said It was abso- j lately idle to talk about the protective tariff being a benefit to the cot- 4 iuu unu fA I ?ii II fjl UWl'I'S Ul A11UT1CU. J hi support of his position, Mr. Smith t quoted, though not by name, a "loading manufacturer of the South," who, f lie said, had told hlui that he be- t lievod it was right and Just that the , protective feature of the tariff on , cotton goods should be entirely wip- , ed out. The protection of the Gov- ( ernment, usaorted Mr. Smith, giving f such a margin of profit, has invited j and brought into the cotton manufac- , luring business "a lot of financial j buccaneers and plungers, who, by the marvelous profits that could bo figured, possibly on paper, put on fool impossible schemes, which have resulted disasterouly to the milling ' Industry of the country." lie said that what is true of the cotton industry is largely true of every other manufacturing industry. c "The monstrous injustice of this r bill is nindo in two particulars," con- ' tinned Mr. Smith. "This hill de- 1 Clares that It is for the purpose of f encouraging American industries J und guaranteeing to them a reason- ' able pro fit, while on the other hand, h In sharp contrast with it in the bill, n is incorporated a tax on the very * fertilizing element upon which the f igricultnral laborer is dependent for * the enrichment of his soil. This 1 iimnonia, or this nitrogenous elenent that is so costly and so essential ' n the production of this crop, must * >e taxed because of a few coke and *as companies, who, already protect d and making their millions, canlot be denied the privilege of mak- t ng other millions out of that which he Government ought to see that $ he farmer gets at the lowest pos- r able price." v During the course of his speech i Mr. Smith read some interesting r igures to bear out his contention h hat the protective tariff worked a f inrdship upon the people of the d South, who had to pay most severely ? 'or the prosperity enjoyed by the g nanufacturers. The eleven cotton i (rowing States last year produced ?71 G,.152,265 worth of raw cotton, t to said, and $90,000,000 worth of ft K>tton seed. This cotton they had y o put upon the market at a price (J ixed by Liverpool. That price was t Ixed in Liverpool upon the basis j >f the coat of labor in Flu rope and 0 ho price at which they sold the i lnished product. / "Therefore the whole American n cotton crop is sold upon the basis o if free trade," said Senator Smith t 'so that, iu the cotton growing States, according to the census fig- p ires of 1900, there are engaged in ( igricultural pursuits 4,000,001) peo- v >le, and their average earnings for t he year tiro $13,1. t "Taking the outcome duties on a irtioles imported, such as are used (1 >n the farina, there are consumed t ibout $66,357,000 worth. Taking c he consumption of dr?mnafi/, ........ nuv mail- H >,i factored goo.Ik, the proportionate >art of the South Is $2,880,000,000. h I'ho indirect tax paid on this con- t sumption, duo to protection, is c 58,">0.0 00,000. Now this for the en- a ire South, regardless of the work n mgagod in. Dividing this by the 1) lobulation of the South, the taxation t >er capita duo to these duties paid S ?n domestic and foreign articles is b KM in round numbers. Deducting a his $61 from tho $133 there is loft a I 4# LYNCHED A NEGRO FOR SHOOTING A WHITK MAN A1 FRANKFORT, KY. The Mob IlieukH lkivrn tlio I>oor o tlio .lull and Taken the Trigone Out. John Maxey, a negro, who she B. C. Bowers, a cirrus man, Wednes day night, wan taken from Jail a Frankfort, Ky., early Thursday an lynched. The Jailer showed resit tance to the moli but with little el fort the door wan broken down, th negro taken out and hanged to th Saint. Clair street bridge. 1 The action of the mob created in tense excitment among the lawabid ing citizens of the capital city wh were apprised of the hanging Thurt day morning. H. C. How era, th wounded man, is still in a critics condition at the King's Daughters hospital. The bowels were evidentl penetrated by the shot and Bower is believi d to be fatally injured. Maxey narrowly escaped beln lynclted at the time of the shootin, and a panic among the big crowi In the main tent was narrowly aver ted. The negro was roughly handle* by so in o of the showmen, who ben him over the head with sticks. After the shooting a crowd swarm ed around the negro, shontinj "lynch him!" and in a moment i noose was around the negro's neck Lhe loose end of the rope was throwi >ver a tree and the crowd was ahou lo draw the negro up when two j?o iicemen interfered, took the negn from the mob and hurried him t< he county jail. Hut for cool lo ads in the crowd ii In* main tent there would have been i panic, with perhaps many person: njurod, an u result of the shooting i'hu tent was we!! tilled, all of the white section being taken. Abou .inIf an hour after the performance legun a fusila.de of shots was hoard n the direction of the animal tent \t tirst the crowd thought it wai t clown act. but the circus men b???n to run in the direction or tin >hots. The people rose to their feet and joveral started to leave, but the at aches of the circus rushed amoni lie ptwplo, quieting theru. In a lev minutes the crowd had settled Ir heir seats and the performance con iuued. The shooting was the re suit of the negro's effort to get it he tent under the flap without ; icket. Bowers' homo is in Valdos .a, Ga. IllLL I*ASSK1> FOR 11AH1KH. legislature Goes on llorord as Kav oring Them. Discrimination against babies bj :old-blooded landlords was stopped ?t Chicago., 111., when the I i 11 noi t egislature passed a bill, this week iroviding that no lease for a tial >r apartment shall contain a ciaus* irohiblting children from living n flats or apartments. Gov. Deneen ;ays he will sign the bill. Women, as well as babies, come n for protection from the legisluure, which lias passed the "10lour Jaw," a bill providing that wonen and children shall not be re[uired to labor more than 10 hours n 24. This bill Is a blow aimed >y organized labor at the sweat-s lops. Sometimes a "plrlted' thought bought strikes a happy medium. .7 2, representing the actual value oeelvod by the laborer for his year's rork. Ho could purchase lor $7 1 n Europe, whore the price of the aw material is fixed, what ho would lave to pay $ 1 do for here. Thereore. out of the $800,000,000 prolured l?v the cotton growers of the louth, practically $ 100,000,000 of it ;oos into the coffers of the protected merest.s." Mr. Smith said it was not only rue that the Southern cotton farmer iad to pay about $0 a ton more to produce his cotton for fertiliser in uder to give a little additional profit o an already prosperous protected ndustry, but he must also pay a duty n his hugging and ties in order to mild up a hugging industry on American soil, where no raw jute [tutorial was produced, and on the tlier hand to add to the profits on lie great Steel Trust. Mr. Smith cited the fact that the ecent election of L. W. Parker, of Jreenville, S. C., at Richmond las' voek to he tlie head of the Ma nu fate urors' Association on an anti-prooctive platform for manufactured loods, over I). 11. Thompkin8 for ti uty, was the best possible evidence hat the cotton manufacturers of the ountry wanted no such duty on their ;oods. When Mr. Smith concluded his neeeh he moot vorl thu nnnarratnla. ions of practically nlPof the Demoratlc members of the Senate, who ssured hitn that, what he said was lot only very interesting, but would e#>f great benefit to the tariff queslon generally. Several Republican onators also came across the chamer and congratulated Senator Smith, mong whom were lloveridge, Nelson nd LaFolletto* / r Bank of /JK OONWA ^ Capital Stock I>epONlt.S * /ft Total Asset* *\fL 1)1 UK < j /ft J. A. McDermott, ?t AC T. McNeill, It. G. ( i- i4: tlebaum, Hal. L. 1 t (1 /ft The oldest (tank in ttor j- . ift olina. Associated with. the r iTj the past decade. Our. policy e the "Independent Ilcpuh lie." e 'ft to our customers every . reas /ft tent with Kottntl hanking. We /?> tils, firms and corporations, " I/ft l>. A. SI'IYHY, o I /IV sgi \ ice-l*resident. e i ;| HA IN K OF 8i Conwa < K CAPITA!, STOCK >? SURPLUS L1APILITV OF STOCKHOLDERS ] SECUPJ1V TO DEPOSITORS 1)1 KIX K Ro}>ert B. Scarborough, ;1 11. E. Puck, (leorgo !. Holiday, i Wo (on thine to j uv f) }?) cost iutere t it youraccount uoiikht n. scAhitoitt>i ni?, it J * l< KS11)1. NT. i * w? a 1 I'llOPKNSIGNAVi CAKDS. l 1 ? - ? , ' II. II. WOODWAIIP k I Attorney and Councelor At Lav?. 1 - ? COX WAV, 8. O. 1 I }| C. K. ST. AMAN'l), ' Attorney at Law ' ' Oonway, S. C. ;| ' H. B. 8CA111)HOUGH CONWAY. 8. O. 1 > I 4 Attorney at Uw. j | W. K. MdX)ttU, ftlltr.UON DKNTIHT. j CONWAY, S. C. I Owr Bank of Horry r ? ' I if. If. BritltOtXJHH 1' Physician and itnrgn>B. \\ CONWAY, 8. C. ? I B. WOFFOKB WAIT. Attorney at law. i CONWAY, S. O. I 1 j You ought to have Kodol handy all ; the time. Everybody at some time? 1 i and you cnn't toll when?has poor digestion, duo to many different , | things, but mostly to eating ox<m*ssj Ively or eating wrong kind of food. ; Th?\s?* little attacks of Indigestion : are what bring on other ailments, such as acute Indigestion, chronic dyspepsia, and even more serious ; permanent illness. Kodol Is guar- i anteod to give relief. Try it today, i ! Sold by all druggists. |1 I . Helgian is a pretty thin cloak when it 18 put on only with the Sunday clothes. , Mrs. I'. M. Hra.v, of Columbus, (la., ; says, DeWitt's Kidney and Ttladder | i i'llls cured her of kidney trouble. These pills are nntiscoptie and re- I . ; li? vo pain quickly. Insist upon l)e- , | Witt's. Send your name to E. C. , j DeWitt & Co., Chicago, for a free ( i trial box. Sold by all druggists. > ' He who takes advantage of the 1 weakness of others doubles his own ' strength. 1 i s There Isn't any guess work about . Kodol. We do not say to you, that it may or might cure your dyspepsia we say it will. We know it will, ' because it is made to digest food you ' eat, and when your food digests you < can't have indigestion?that's all- i indigestion is your stomach falts to 1 digest your food. Heartburn, sour 1 risings are all caused by indigestion. > Kodol stops them by digesting all 1 the food you eat. A tablespoonful 1 of Kodol dlgoats 2 1-4 pounds of i food. It. is a pleasant, palatable, 1 liquid combination Jof natural di- i gestive juices and vegetable acids, i Sold by all druggists. < For stealing one kiss, Man oft remains i For the rest of his life |f In Cupid's chains. 1 > Conway % Y. a C. w AA*. $.->0,000.00 ^ 150,000.00 ^ 250,000.00 /K 7TOR8 J ^ <P ? Jno. C. Splvey, I). n\ >ollin?, C. P. Quat- ik iuck, I). A. Splvoy. ^1: ty and a pionoor in KiiMtrrn Cara|dd progress of our County for y ha* Jkm-ii for tho iinhuildiiiii of With this in view we extend ^ 4innl>lu arccMiiiiioilHtloii cousin- 'W solicit tint ai'connls of individi)* /|\ HAL. L. BUCK, ^ Cashfcr. y 11 OKU Y, y. H, C. $ 50 CM >0 10 000 50 000 110 000 noks \V. P. \ .ow in, W. A .!()! nson. W ill A V rt emau. tt OL J f t rlj (Vj < Mtfe, i 1o v. c t f ll<'L Bt'fK, VIM A. Hi F. MM AH V ICR I I. i h 1DKNT. . ( AMflRU WW ?v?s? t I'MWI ^11^?>" mm >priinwfc''?V,m <tn?? HeWitt's Little Marly Risers, t.h?> famous lift I o liver pills, small, gentle and sore. Sold by all druggists. PeVVltt's Kidney and Bladder Pills quickly relievo backache, weak back, pains in the groin, rhGurrratiKjni, urinary disorders, etc. Insist on having lb-Witt's Kidney and Bladder rnis. JSend your name to K. C. I>Witt & Co., Chicago, for fro*- trial box. Sold by all druggists. Industry 1b tho watchdog that keeps the wolf from the door. If you exjn'et to get the original Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, you must be sure It is DoWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salvo. LH Witt's is the original?-others aro imita- \ tions. It is good for cuts, burn* and / bruises, and is especially good loi piles. Refuse substitutes. Soid by all druggists. On the Treatment of IHsfaM.. Some original and striking Htatements with regurd to the attitude of the public, in general, and the medical profession in particular, towards humanity's common enemy, disease, are made by Bornarr Maefadden in the June issue of the Physical Culture magazine. The fol- H lowing quotations will serve to illustrate the standpoint from which \ this writer views the ordinary rneth- tj od of dealing with physical ailments), and many of his beliefs are gaining accceptance in the minds of those who think for themselves the world over: "Practically every advanced student of medicine is prepared to admit that disease germs are innocuous cir harmless to those who possess what might be termed a high degree of vital resistance. Such r. Fv>l sons arc classed as immune, and it has always been an unsolved riddle ^ to me why the germ-seeking Helentlsts do not turn their attention to the study of the how and why of this immunity. They are seeking a method of insuring immunity against disease. Why do they devote no much time to the duty of the minute details of the disease, instead of learning something of the nature of the forces within the body which can render it practically immune l'rorn all disease? "Disease is not an enemy? It Is a friend! It comes as a moans of bringing relief. It is an effort on the part of the body to right a wrong. It shows that the body Is struggling for life and health, and on many occasions of ridding the body >f the vile accumulations of poisons, death would unquestionably ensue. Therefore, disease in many cases actually save life. To be sure, If there is but a small amount of foreign material in the circulation and tissue of the body, the attack^ of the disease will be slight in character." The Greater Show. At a country fair out In Kansas *ayp The Argonaut, a man w?>nt. up to a tent whore some elk were on exhibition anrl stared wistfully up it the sign, "I'd like to go In there," tie said to the keeper, "but it would tie mean to go In without my family, ^ md I cannot afford to pay for my. ivife and seventeen children." The Keeper started at him in astonish- Fl nent, "Are all these your children?" flj tie gasped. "Every one," said the / . man. "You wait a minute," said he keeper, "I'm going to bring the / ?lk out and let them see you all " When a girl is eighteen she imigines that every love letter is the ldvancc agent of a marriage oert.1icate. V t