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WRECK FOUND Of A British Warship Missing Eight Years in THE PACIFIC OCEAN The (\mdor, With a Crow of Ono Hundred aiul Forty Mm, Sailed From Fs<)uimalt and lias Never Been Hoard From Since Sailing 1'ntil Found a Short Time Ajfo. The wreck of the British sloop of war Condor, whose fate and that of the 140 otlicers and men forming her company have been one of the mysteries of the sea since December 3, 11)01, has been located, submerged in comparatively shallow water, about one and a half miles off shore at Long Beach, mid-way between 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 Wreck Bay, which adjoins it. The news of the discovery of tlm long missing sloop of war was brought from the coast by Bonneycastle Dale, an Lnglish naturalist and journalist, who has communicated his discovery to the British Admiralty, lie regards the evidence of identity as incontrovertible, and it is expected that immediate investigations will be made by the adniirality upon his report. The principal obstacle in the way of salvage operations is believed to be the prevailing heavy swell-met within this locality in the calmest weather. A surface wave beyond tin? line of the barrier reel that fronts the bay ..U .. i- - * nun ^ mi- r>jmil H iu'rc me vessel is supposed to lie. A few weeks ago a spar stamped with the admirably mark, with pitches patched with copper In naval style, after being visible four days, lloating attached to the wreck beneath, drifted ashore. Upon the same beach some time ago there drifted a jib boom spar stamped "Coudor," a life buoy similarly markinl and several signal rocket cases marked with the name of the ill-starred 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 ineu of ILls 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 smooth water and at low tide declared that the hulk of the submerged ship Is plainly visible. On the morning of December 3, 1901, the sloop of war Condor, in company with II. M. S. Warship, left Ksquimalt, the former never to re- ' turn. The Condor was bound for Honolulu and Tahiti heavily laden 1 w ith 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 1 gale prevailed and the war ships 1 parted company, the Warspite con- ' tinuing on her way south and the Condor starting to carry out gun jjiacuce at me entrance to the straits prior to making for Honolulu. Whether this gun practice was carried out has never been ascertained. 1 Outside the straits that fateful night ! a terrified storm was raging, which compelled every vessel in the region to tight for life, and in this storm the Condor was seen for a brief j , moment, laboring heavily and flying j signals of distress, by Captain James J 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 waship'was not made out, but there was no doubt of her identity in the minds of Captain Boyd and his ofllcers. They did not go to the supposedly disabled gun boat's assistance. Indeed, they gave her scant thought or attention at the time, as they were having all they could do to save their own ship and their lives. This was the last seen of the Condor or any of her company. The Condor never reached Honolulu and gradually her name passed Into history as identified with one more of the tragic mysteries of the sea. Toward the end of that December a stern suilf and lifebuoy with the name "J!?. M. Condor" on were picked up in the neighborhood of Wreck Bay. Theories are numerous as to the f:it f On. 1 * v.> TVooci uuU IIV! 140 lives she carried. Tho name . night was responsible ' /or nnotner mystery of tho North Pacific. The collier Mattewan left ' Nanalmo for Han Francisco on Do- ' comber 2 and never reached her ' 1 port. Some believe she foundered. | Some say she crashed into the Con- I dor and botl* vessels were sunk. j < The Condor was similar type to the Algerlne and the Shearwater, '< m . gram galore HOW TILK PEOPLE 1IAVB 11KKN IIOHHKD OB MILLIONS. The Astounding R?T?lutio?N Mud? by Senator IkkTeridge About the Stealing of the Tobacco Trust, No revelation of the extra scssiou has been more startling than that which Senator Hoverldge made about the almost unbelievable graft of the Tobacco trust for eight years, says tin- Washington Times. That was a case of legislative partnership with a trust in a project to llecce the people. Somebody must have been / fixed," "Ureased," "oiled." It is inconceivable that congress will plead guilty to such sublime innocence and i f- * ...li i. t .? ? l A\ k I I HO II1 pel tlHt* as ?UUIU Ut) IChllll'"! bj- tho explanation that nobody in j congress saw what was being given to tho Tobacco trust. Here is what happened: When the Spanit-h war taxes were imposed, the internal revenue duty on tobacco went up. Tho 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 Hi-ounce pound; but it. was legal because; of this legislation. Tho tax was t It utfM'a t ried dov/n to the consumer, and nobody particularly felt it. Hut when the war and the need of war taxes passed, what happened? Tho additional tobacco tax was repealed, but the trust's privilege of selling underweight packages was J not stopped. The trust was left collecting the war tax from the people, but pocketing It instead of turning it into the Federal treasury. Hy this process, in eight years, ti e trust has got away with $ 1 84,000,uuo of tho people's money. That money ought either to have been left in the pockets of tin; tobacco user3, 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 reneal the war tax, but to forgot to repeal the shortwelght privilege must have been dltllcuK 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 known, so that he can be duly defeated next election by a betrayed constituency. If he be merely a smart lobbyist, he shouid at least be questioned about tiro methods by which he Induced committees and leaders and organizations to permit such a tremendous steal. Senator Beveridge 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 $1'5,000,000-a-vear largess of the Tobacco trust should tlrst be taken away; then the process by which congress was either befooled or corrupted should be Investigated. It is a wondrous interesting circumstance that the trusts which seem most influential with congress are those which most often appear in the criminal courts as defendants i The Sugar trust has seldom been out of the criminal cohrts in the last Lwo decades, on one charge or another or defrauding the government Its reward is the privilege of taking $G60,000,000 in twelve years from !he people. ? Why should such a special privilege be freely given to a criminal of moat fixed and persistent criminal habits? The American Tobacco Company is now defendant in a great case brought by tin? government under the anti-trust laws, charging it with conspiracy in restrain of trade. That it is actually, if not techinally guilty, is tho common knowledge. Does it not seem strange that it, too, should he able to have conferred upon it a special delegation of the taxing power? * Does congress have any particular preference for tho great criminals? Its distribution of its favors seems to suggest something of the kind. f'yclone Passes Denmark. A small cyclone passed about one mile northwest of Denmark about G o'clock Thursday evening, wrecking the home and stables of Mr. Asa Baxter and a tenant house of Mr. J. W. Baxter. Mr. Asa Baxter's eldest daughter was slightly injured. No one killed. now at Esquimau Station. She had :i I'crv I/in- f 1 * .? .</? i.i ww uunra, and I no theory has been advanced that she shipped a tremendous sea, and before it had time to run through, the scuppers were struck by another, which caused her to founder. Another favored theory is that her coal cargo shifted In the gale, and that she turned turtel. An Investigation of the wreck beneath the waves off Long Heaeh may throw light on the mysterious happening and will doubtless disclose the bodies or many or the bluejackets penned beneath decks when the ships went to their doom. , PlaIN FACTS About the Tariff bill Told by 1 Senator Smith ON FLOOR OF SENATE lie IVoklly Declares That the Whole Tendency of the Present Legislation is to Give the Manufacturer I ndue Advantage Over the Producer and the t'oiisunier. Denouncing the pending tariff bill ns giving the manufacturer an undue advantage over the American farmer work lug mun, Senator Smit h, of Soutli Carolina, unequivocally expressed his faith in si free trade policy in an extended steoch while the cotion schedule was under consider- , ation in the Senate on Tuesday. The following write-up of the speech was j furnished The News and Courier oy j its Washington correspondent: "The whole tendency of this leg- ] i.slation has been to cheapen the raw . material and raise the price of the | finished article," said Mr. Smith, , hereby giving to the protected | manufacturer a double advantage, j lessening the price of what he has to buy ;ind raising the price of what , he has to sell. "1 ;tm not pleading for, nor shsill , I vole for, protection for the raw , material. 1 believe a thing is worth c what it will bring in the open mark- , ets or' the world. What 1 shall vote | against is the iniquitous and inde- j feasible system of legislating a profit ( by artificial methods. 1 believe that American skill and the wonderful t mechanical devices operated by steam, water and electricity, our nearness to the source ol supply for q the raw niiiterial makes it possible v for us to compete with the nations of ^ the world." i Senator Smith said it was abso- j lately idle to talk about the protee- . ti\e tariff being a benefit to the cot- u ton and grain growers of America, j. In sunnort ol Ills nnsitinn Mr Ktnlfti quoted, though not by name, a "leading manufacturer of the South," who, he said, had told hiui that he be- t lieved it was right and just that the t protective feature of the tariff on , cotton goods should be entirely wlp- ^ ed out. The protection of the Gov- t ernment, asserted Mr. Smith, giving such a margin of profit, has invited t and brought into the cotton manufac- t turing business "a lot. of financial ^ buccaneers and plungers, v. ho, by the marvelous profits that could be figured, jMissibly on paper, put on foot impossible schemes, which have resulted disasterouly to the milling ' industry of the country." He said that what is true of the cotton industry is largely true of every other manufacturing industry. c "The monstrous injustice of this a bill is made in two particulars," con- 1 tinued Mr. Smith. "This bill de- 1 claros that It is for the purpose of c encouraging American industries I and guaranteeing to them a reason- * able profit, while on the other hand, K in sharp contrast with it in the bill, Is incorporated a tax on the very ' fertilizing element upon which the * agricultural laborer is dependent for * the enrichment of his soil. This r ammonia, or this nitrogenous ele- <1 merit that is so costly and so essential ' in the production of this crop, must J be taxed because of a few coke and ^ gas companies, who, already protected and making their millions, cannot be denied the privilege of mnk- t tug other millions out of that which the Government, ought to see that 5 the farmer gets at the lowest pos- , sible price." v During the course of his speech i Mr. Smith read some interesting r figures to bear out hiu t. that the protective tariff worked a f hardship upon the people of the <1 South, who had to pay most severely S for the prosperity enjoyed by the g manufacturers. The eleven cotton i growing States last year produced $71 t),3f)2,26G worth of raw cotton, { he said, and $90,000,000 worth of p cotton seed. This cotton they had p to put upon the market at a price 0 fixed by Liverpool. That price was p fixed in Liverpool upon the basis p of the cost of labor in ICurope and 0 the price at which they sold the p finished product. / "Therefore the whole American n cotton crop is sold upon the basis o of free trade," said Senator Smith t "so that, in the cotton growing States, according to the census fig- r ures of 1900, there are engaged in (, agricultural pursuits 4,000,000 pt?r>- v pie, and their average earnings for t the year are $13 3. t "Tuning the outcome duties on g articles imported, such as are used d on the farms, there are consumed t about $00,357,000 worth. Taking c the consumption of domestic man- g ufactured goods, the proportionate part of the South is $2,885,000,000. s The indirect tax paid' on this con- tl sumption, duo to protection, is c $855,000,000. Now this for the on- a tire South, regardless of the work n engaged in. Dividing this by the b population of the South, the taxation tl per capita duo to these duties paid S on domestic and foreign articles is b $0 1 in round numbers. Deducting a this $01 from the $133 there Is left a i LYNCHED A NEGRO KOlfc SHOOTING A WHITK MAN AT FllANKFOHT, KY. The Mob Breaks Dims the Door of the Jail urn] Take* tho Prisoner Out. John Maxey, a aegro, who shot H. C. Howcrs, a circus man, Wednesday night, was' taken from Jail at Frankfort, K>\, early Thursday and lynched. The jailer showed resistance to the mob but with little effort the door was broken down, tho negro taken out and hanged to the Saint Clair street bridge. The action of the mob created intense excitinent among the lawabiding citizens of the capital city who were apprised of the hanging Thursday morning. H. C. Bowers, the wounded man, in still in a critical condition lit the King's Daughters' hospital. The bowels were evidently in-net rated by the shot and Bowers is believed to be fatally injured. Muxey narrowly escaped being lyncheii at the time of the shooting ind a panic among the big crowd n the main tent was narrowly avered. The negro was roughly handled >y some of the showmen, who beat lim over the head with sticks. After the shooting a crowd swarni il around the negro, shouting 'lynch him!" and in a moment a loose was around the negro's neck; lie loose end of the rope was thrown >v< r a tree and the crowd was about o draw the negro up when two poicenicn interfered, look the negro rom the mob and hurried him to lie county jail. But for cool heads in the crowd in lie main tent there would have been panic, with perhaps many persons ujured, as a result of the shooting, 'lie tent was well filled, all of the cliite section being taken. About in If an hour after the performance icgati a fusilade of shots was heard 11 the direction of the animal tent, it lirst tin* crowd thought it was clown act, hut the circus men be;a? to run in the direction or the hots. The people rose to their feet and ever.il started to leave, but the atuches of the circus rushed among he people, quieting them. In a few ninutos the crowd bad settled in heir seats and the performance coninued. Tho shooting wan the reult of the negro's effort to get in he tent under tho flap without a icket. Bowers' homo is in Valdosa, Ga. Ill LI, PASSKD FOll HAIUKS. jOftLslature (iocs oil Kecord as Favoring Them. Discrimination against babies by old-blooded landlords was stopped it Chicago., 111., when the Illinois egislature passed a bill, this week, >rovidlug that no lease for a flat ?r apartment shall contain a clause irohibiting children from living 11 flats or apartments. Gov. Deneen ays he will sign the bill. Women, as well as babies, come n for protection from the leglslaure, which has passed the "10lour law," a bill providing that wonen and children shall not be re[iiired to labor more than 10 hours n 2 4. This bill is a blow aimed >y organized labor at the sweat-s lops. Sometimes a "pirited' thought bought strikes a happy medium. 7 2, representing the actual value eoelved by the laborer for his year's vork. lie could purchase for $7 1 n Kurope, where the price of the aw material is flxed, what he would iuvo to pay $1113 for hore. Thereore. out of the $800,000,000 prouced by the cotton growers of the louth, practically $400,000,000 of it ocs into the coffers of the protected nterests." Mr. Smith said it was not only rue that the Southern cotton farmer ind to pay about $?? a ton more to >roduce his cotton for fertilizer in u'tler to gi\c a little additional profit o an already prosperous protected ndustry, but he must also pay a duty n his bagging and ties in order to mild up a bagging industry on American soil, where no raw jute material was produced, and on the ther hand to add to the profits on he great Steel Trust. Mr. Smith cited the fact that the ecenl election of L, W. 1'arker, of ireenville, S. ('., at Richmond last reek to he the head of the Manufactirers' Association on an anti-proective platform for manufactured oods, over I>. II. Thompkins for a uty, was the best possible evidence hat the cotton manufacturers of tin.' ountry wanted no such duty on their oods. w dcm 5ir. smitn concluded Mis pooch ho received (ho congratulalona of practically all of the Demorat ic members of the Senate, who sail rod him that what he said was ot only very interesting, but would e of great benefit to the tariff queslon generally. " Several Republican enatora also came across the ctaamer and congratulated Senator Smith, niong whom wore Bevoridge, Nelson lid LftFollOtle. ? Bank of (ft 1XJNW/ jP Capital Stock (Ij I>?'|M?MtlN /IV Total Assets ?V? ?1)1 It ft J. A. McDermott, T. McNeill. R. (J. tlebaum, Hal. L. /ft The oldest Bank in Hit ^|V oliua. Associated wit It. the i the past decade. Our. jm>1 i? , *',r "Independent Republic." 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Ch? the Treatment of Disease. Some original and striking state! roents with regard to the attitude [of the public, in general, and the ' medical profession in particular, toj wards humanity's common enemy, i disease, are made by Hornarr Mac.fadden iu the June issue of tbe j Physical Culture magazine. The fol- f lowing quotations will serve to illustrate the standpoint from which this writer views the ordinary mothod of dealing with physical ailments, I and many of his beliefs are gainlDg j aeoeeptance 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 or harmless to those who possess what might be termed a high degree of vital resistance. Such persons are classed as immune, and it has always been an unsolved riddle > to me why the germ-seeking scientists do not turn their attention to tile study of tlie how and whv r.r this immunity. They are seeking a method of insuring immunity against disease. Why do they devote so 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 from all disease? "Disease I.sj not 5?n enemy! It is ;i friend! It comes as 51 means of bringing relief. it is an effort on the part of the body to right a wrong. it shows thi?t the body is struggling for life and health, and on many occasions of ridding the body of the vile accumulations of poisons, death would unquestionably ensue. Therefore, disease in many case" actually save life. To he sure, if there is but a small amount of foreign material in the circulation and tissue of the body, the attack of f }u> /I ...ill ? .... win iiy slight in char- 4 .. 1 ncter. Thy CJreater Show. At a country fair out iu Kansas says The Argonaut, a man wont up to a tent where some elk wore on exhibition and stared wistfully up at the sign, "I'd like to go in there," ho said to the keeper, "but it would be mean to go in without my family, and 1 cannot afford to pay for my wife and seventeen children." The keeper started at him in astonishment, "Are all those your children?" he gasped. "Every one," said the man. "You wait a minute," said f the keeper, "I'm going to bring the elk out and let them see you all." When a girl Is elghtoen she imagines that every love letter is the advance agent of a marriage certificate.