S r w 6 e in J 411 rl WHO WILL PAY WAR TAXES Judging from the last report sent out tfrom Washington about the war taxa tion bill the corporations will not es cape as easily as they expected to The -stamp taxes of the civil war period are to be revived almost in their en tirety Everything in the nature of an order to pay money or a promise to pay it is to bear a stamp from two cents up to dollars as was the case formerly and new sources of revenue -are found in the express business where each package handled appears to Tbe scheduled to pay from one cent up Life insurance corporations also are -going to be compelled to contribute to a considerable degree but that will probably be taken lirst of all from the policy holders As th bill is said to stand it imposes a tax of 20 cents on every 1000 of insurance which is like ly to amount to a considerable sum Patent medicine corporations are also coming in again for a considerable tax probably a cent on every twenty five cents worth retail price of nostrums jnit on the market Mineral waters in bottles iu which a large trade is done now are also liable to contrib ute heavily to the expense of the war with Spain Every pint is to pay a cent These taxes will however not fur bish the bulk of the 120000000 or more a year that it is proposed to raise in addition to what the present Dingley law brings in The largest amount to be obtained from a single industry is expected to be secured by increasing -the tax on beer from 1 to 2 a barrel In this way about 40000000 or one third of the whole additional revenue 1s to be raised Tobacco including cigarettes is to furnish another 20 000000 or more It is a satisfaction to know that the Congressmen having the framing of the bill in charge are not yet agreed as to the wisdom of taxing tea and cof lee A duty of 10 cents a pound was at first proposed on the former and a duty of three cents on the latter but the question whether the masses were to be singled out to pay more than their -share of the cost of the war has fright ened the attorneys of the rich who have been running this Congress pretty much as they pleased There is every probability now there fore that the distribution of the burden -of taxation for the conduct of the war will be made on tolerably equitable lines which under the circumstances is something to be devoutly thankful for New -York News An Income Tax Proposed Hon Mr Cox of Tennessee has in troduced into the House of Represent atives a bill to levy an annual tax of two per cent upon all incomes So that the income tax question which the Supreme Court of the United States equally failed to settle has again arisen and stalks abroad like an un--easy ghost It has been usual for the opponents -of the Income Tax to excuse or ac count for its adoption by the Federal Government during the Civil War by -saying that it was then resorted to in a time of public danger as a war power If that were a good excuse in the war with the South it might be claimed to be a good excuse during a war with Spain such as we are now entering upon But nobody we sup pose who advocates the Income Tax hopes to establish it by claiming it as a war power only The Democratic platform of 1S96 calls for the re enactment of an Income Tax and Mr Bryan ran as the cham pion of that demand for the Presidency 5n that year Moreover that platform took a direct issue with the Supreme Court of the United States as then constituted It declared that to defeat the Income Tax the present Judges had overruled the ablest among their pre decessors who had sat on that bench And it pledged the Democratic party to the support of the principle involved to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the Government The Income Tax in the Civil War was enacted by Republicans But Mr Cox is not likely to get many Republican votes in -the House for his new pro- pcsal Passing of Sherman There is pathos in the passing of John Sherman now ex Secretary of State The story of his appointment to a position lie was not capable of filling is an unpleasant page in the history of MeKiuleys administration Througlf this story runs the plot to make Mark Hanna a Senator of the United States McKmley recognized Hanna as the maker of his presidential fortunes and felt under obligations to repay him for services rendered Hanna would not accept a cabinet position but had an jambition to go to the Senate Sher man was persuaded to resign his seat In the upper house and to accept the portfolio of state This made the way open for Hanna and Gov Bushnell of Ohio was forced much against his will to appoint Hanna a Senator to fill out Shermans unexpired term As was suggested at the time when this trade was made Sherman through the infirmities of age was not equal to the task imposed on him So far as Hanna is concerned he has proved his unfitness for a Senators position He has done nothing worthy since he took Shermans place and his election for -another term was one of the greatest -scandals in the history of scandalous proceedings After forty years of pub lic life Sherman retires under the shad ow of failure Its a sad story with an unfortunate ending Chicago Dis patch Government by Injunction In a letter to Mr C Hammond writ ten from Monticello Aug 18 1S21 Jef ferson said It has long been my opinion and I have never shrunk from its expression that the germ of the dis solutiofi of our Federal Government is in the constitution of our Federal judi ciary an irresponsible body for im peachment is scarcely a scarecrow working like gravity by night and by day gaining a little to day and a little to morrow and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over a held of jurisdic tion until all shall be usurped The great mind of this man foresaw in ad vance that the time might come when the enemies of freedom in America would attempt to overthrow as they have done at last by declaring that a Federal judge at his pleasure can abol ish trial by jury and keep an American citizen in jail as long as he pleases without any other form of trial than the mere passing of sentence from the bench the judge on which in every such case is not only the judge but the accuser But the same statesman who pointed out in advance the great Gan gers which have since overtaken us wrote also as the fundamental rule of practical government Trust the peo ple We can afford to wait secure in the belief that no matter how great the wrong it will have an adequate rem edy Popular Government Loans There is a moral and patriotic phrase to a popular loan that makes it worth more than the money consideration The citizen with 30 invested in the nations paper takes on a new dignity and a new feeling of responsibility The early Athenians taught us this When armies were raised and cam paigns fought through popular sub scriptions it was as easy again as when the same results were sought through taxation Let this government take the great commonplace into its confi dence and make them feel as though they were part and parcel of the mo mentous affairs which are now devel oping and which will develop so rapidly in the nearby future Kansas City Journal Trusts Number Two Hundred Novr An expert who has canvassed the growth of trusts finds that fully 200 such organizations are now in exist ence with a total capital in stocks and bonds of 3662000000 This does not include many business and manufac turing combinations in process of for mation for there is scarcely a week that the announcement of a new pool or trust of gigantic proportions is not made The capitalization claimed for existing trusts is equal to 56 per cent of the aggregate capital credited to all manufactures in the United States by the census of 1S00 New York Journal of Commerce Wanamakers Big Job It now seems certain that John Wan amakers second fight against Quay will fail as signally as did his first It appears that the majority of the Re publicans in Pennsylvania are not shocked by the exposure of Quays methods On the contrary they seem to be highly pleased with them The downfall of Quay has been predicted in every contest he has had for years j but he is still the boss of his party in Pennsylvania and he will probably re main so as long as he pleases Atlanta Journal Valor on Many Fields It has been discovered that the south ern troops can stand the climate in Cuba better than the rest of the boys But climate is not all that the south ern troops can stand If the experi ence of the past is worth anything it is certain they can stand a pretty good deal of fighting fur off or close quarters Atlanta Journal Animal Sharpshooters There are several families of very proficient sharp shooters among the lower animals the most expert how ever of them all is to be found in a fam ily of fishes genera of which are found in several localities both in the Old and New World These fishes are wonder ful marksmen and seldom fail to bring down the object at which they aim Their weapons are their long peculiarly-shaped muzzles and their bullets are drops of water The fish after sight ing its quarry slowly swims to a fa vorable position within range it then rises to the surface protrudes its muz zle and taking rapid aim zip fires its water bullet and knocks its prey into the river The struggling insect U gobbled down iustanter and the fish then proceeds in search of other game British Soldiers Uniform The British soldier has not always worn a red uniform White was the prevailing color under Henry Till and dark green or russet in the time of Elizabeth It is a curious fact that the roots and branches of a tree are so alike in their nature that if a tree be uprooted and turned upside down the underground branches will take unto themselves the functions of roots and the exposed roots will in time bud and become veri table branches In Japan children are taught to write with both hands OUR NAVY IN A NUTSHELL Interesting Facts Concerning Uncle Sams 3Iarine Figliting Poweiy The United States is the fifth naval power in the world The navies of Great Britain France Russia and Italy rank ahead in the order named Ger many and the United States are about tied Our present effective fighting force consists of four battle ships of the first class one battle ship of the sec ond class two armored cruisers eigh teen cruisers fifteen gunboats six monitors one ram one dy namite gunboat one dispatch boat one transport and eight torpedo boats The Iowa weighs nearly 12000 tons and as twenty tons is the average load of a freight car and twelve cars is a good load for a locomotive engine it would take fifty locomotives to haul the great steel structure The powder used is brown and in chunks the size of a caramel A charge for the biggest guns weighs 500 pounds and is hoisted to the breech by a der rick the powder being sewed up in burlap bags Armor plates are tested by firing steel projectiles weighing from 100 to 1500 pounds at them from guns charg ed with 500 pounds of powder and at a distance of about a city block The biggest guns in the navy are forty-nine feot long big enough for a man to crawl into four feet in diame ter at their largest part and weigh 135 500 pounds or thereabouts There are six rear admirals in active service The offices of vice admiral and admiral are unfilled so there is no bead of the navy excepting Secretary Long Barnacles form on the hull of a ship impeding its speed A six months cruise will decrease the speed of a ship 15 per cent and it must go into dry dock Sixty one merchant vessels belong to the auxiliary navy These ships are subsidized and by contract must be given to the United States on demand Some of the guns in the navy can fire a shot twelve miles farther than a man can see for- the guns are aimed and sighted by machinery The amount expended by the navy department in 1897 was 345G1546 This is a larger sum than has been ex pended in any year since 18GG In a battle the woodwork and arti cles of wood are either stowed below or thrown overboard lest the men be injured by splinters The origin of the navy department may be said to date from Oct 13 1775 when Congress authorized the equip ment of two cruisers The fastest vessels in the navy are the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont each of which can travel 275 knots an hour Battle ships cost from 2500000 to 3750000 and cruisers from 600000 to 3000000 A good torpedo boat osts over 100000 Battle ships are for the heavy work cruisers are commerce destroyers mon itors are useful only for coast defense The Indiana could lie outside Sandy Hook and throw 1200 pound shots in to New York at the rate of four a min ute Those artists who show smoke In their pictures of naval battles are whol ly wrong Smokeless powder is used All of the cruisers are named in hon or of cities and the battle ships except the Kearsarge in honor of States The grog ration was abolished in 1863 and since then the crew has been forbidden to drink while on duty Marines are the police on board ship Originally they were employed to pre vent mutiny among the sailors The guns of a battle ship can carry from six to twelve mileshurling a shot weighing half a ton Only 60 per cent of the enlisted men are Americans and a smaller percent age 3ret are native born Projectiles thrown by naval guns are shaped much as the bullets shot by the ordinary rifle A big battle ship has on board an electric plant capable of lighting a town of 5000 inhabitants The boilers of the Iowa have a heat ing surface of eight acres and hold thii ty tons of water Great Britain has 294 torpedoes and torpedo boat destroyers Uncle Sam lias only eight Five hundred and twenty six men ind forty officers are required to man ihe cruiser New York Battle ships are covered with arnioV of nickel steel from five to seven inches thick We have four armored battle ships the Indiana Iowa Massachusetts and Texas A submarine torpedo boat to be known as the Plunger is now uutler construction At present the total enlisted force of the naval militia is 3870 officers and men Behind the heavy armor there is a padding of either com pith or cocoa husks It costs 500 every time one of the big guns on board a ship is fired The Brooklyn and the New York are jur armored cruisers Sailors are paid from 950 to 1250 per month and board An act of Congress in 1S72 abolished flogging in the navy The American navy has practically all been built since 1SS3 A captain in the navy ranks with a i olonel in the army The oldest iron vessel is the Michi gan built in 1S44 Five battle ships are now under con struction We have only one ram the ICatah dra The ships are painted white Frank Lee in Chicago Times Herald With a Free Hand Wonderful are the decisions some times made by Mexican justices of the peace most of whom aw menirerlv equipped In knowledge One such ad 1 minlstraitor of the- lawv after a Eton had been tried and found guilty of murder deliverd a long lecture to the murderer upon the- heLnousness of ihis crime and warned liim never to appear in his court again -upon such a charge Then be impressively pronounced sen tencefive dollars and costs and dis missed the court his face beaming with pride and satisfaction over Ms oratorical effort Before another Mex ican justice of the peace there came a Mexican man and maid to be tied in wedlock The judigo looked them over critically and apparently bad doubts about the compatibility of their tem pers for lie put a time limit upon the combination and as be pronounced the words -which made them man and wife he added with emphasis For the space of two years only As they went away be told them if they were disastisfied with their venture before that time to come back and he would divorce thein for the same fee Still another of these wise judges tried a man for some petty offense found him guilty and fined him five dollars and costs But this was too much for the prisoner at the bar wbo declared that be could not pay the fine that he bad not so much money in the world The justice looked him over with fine large contempt for any one so ornery shrugged his shoulders and- turned to the marshal with the nonchalant alter native Very well Then take bim out on the mesa and shoot him Many of these Mexican justices cannot speak Englislh But that is not so much of a disqualification as it might appear for the Territorial law commands all conn proceedings to be carried on in both English and Spanish Every New Mexican court has its official interpre ter and every word spoken in either language by judge lawyers or wit nesses is translated aloud into the oth er tongue jfflltra It is said that Mr Huysmans the au thor of that striking novel En Route is about to enter a monasteiy Miss Florence Marryat is publishing a novel with the title A Soul on Fire It has in it an element of spiritualism A new novel named Poor Max by Mrs Mannington Caffyn Iota is to be issued shortly She is said to surpass in it all her previous novels and to have left he sex problem in the back ground The degree of success which has at tended the publication of Like a Gal lant Lady by Kate M Cleary sister of the late noted dramatic critic E J McPhelim has been such as to induce that lady to begin another story which will shortly be given to the public Frank R Stocktons new novel The Girl at Cobhurst is to be published shortly by the Scribners and will be the fresher for the fact that it has no where apeared serially It is a love story in which a matchmaking crot chety old maid and a French cook at tempt simultaneously to lead the heros affections in different paths with the customary Stocktonian whimsicality of effect Joseph Conrads new story publish ed within the last few weeks in En gland is doing very well there in spite of its ungainly title The Bookman says that Mr Conrad is delighted with the title given to the American edi tion namely The Children of the Sea which fits the book to a nicety whereas The Nigger of the Narcis sus means nothing to the average mind Mr Conrad was stoutly advo cated for the Academy prize which was obtained by Stephen Phillips The enterprising new magazine call ed Success contains an illustrated in terview with Anthony Hope in which the English author lawyer ds quoted as saying that he had the usual experi ence of wasting good stamps on re turned stories before his writings be gan to bring him enough to live on But after I left the law for litera ture he says I wouldnt go back pride alone settled that His idea of the chief thing necessary for a mans success in story writing is the ability to invent plots Its born with a man of course he says Study will devel op and work perfect a style but it wont give a bent to it The ability to invent a plot is a gift I dont believe any one could train his mind to an in ventive state A Little Dutch Garden I passed by a garden a little Dutch gar den Where useful and pretty things grew Heartsease and omatoes And pinks and potatoes And lilies and onions and rue I saw in that garden that little Dutch garden A chubby Dutch man with a spade And a rosy Dutch frau With a shoe like a scow And a flaxen haired little Dutch maid There grew in that garden that little Dutch garden Blue flag flowers Jpvely and tall And early blush roses And little pink posies But Gretchen was fairer than all My hearts in that garden that little Dutch garden It tumbled right in as I passed Mid wildering mazes Of spinach and daisies And Gretchen is holding it fast Boston Budget When There Was Only One Paper In the year 1700 there was only one newspaper in the United States ABUSING AN EDUCATION The Neglect of Self Culture XRmaous AVastcfulnes3 of Advantages In a thoughtful paper on A Waste of Education in the Womans Home Companion Brand Bunner Huddleston speaks of the tendency of women to permit their talents to rust out Mental culture maj be the most costly or the most valuable gift of par ents to their children just as they care for it after they get it It is certain that few would equally neglect a ma terial property of like monetary cost as they often do their educations This too when money Is the very shortest tape line by which a mental gift may be measured Perhaps it is due in part to the mistaken idea that when we have quitted the school room we carry with us a stationary fund of knowledge that will or ought to be sufficient for our future Look at the piles of hard dollars and the illimitable hours of time spent every year in the study and practice of music alone except for the good they are to teachers and to the makers of musical instruments the half might as well be wiped out of existence at one clean sweep A decent little eternity might be made out of the time And this continues to exist and repeat itself generation after generation in the very face of the fact that music is an in comparable addition to home life and on that account if for no more lofty or selfish reason ought to be perfected and never neglected by women How many of your women friends will undertake to entertain even the family circle with a creditible per formance Usually their pianos stand idle from the period immediately suc ceeding their marriage until there are daughters old enough to be put at les sons then the old folly will be repeat ed What folly Not the placing of children to study music or any other accomplishment that is for their good or that the purse will permit Let them have all the advantages within reach but also teach them appreciation the folly consists in fostering through ex ample and by a tacit acceptance of the existing state of things the idea that it can be other than a sinful waste of time to acquire a good thing and then neglect it No one has any business to learn a thing that is not worth remem bering It is foolish from a merely utilitarian point of view Thus it may not be possible or desirable for every mother to teach her own children though some count it a sweet privilege to do so yet it pays them to keep thor oughly posted if only tojudge of the quality of work being done by the teacher and to supply that home co operation which is so needful to the conscientious student and the teacher Enforced the Rule Among the ironclad sleeping car rules long ago adopted and strictly adhered to by the late George M Pullman was the absolute prohibition of card playing of any kind in his cars on the Sabbath day Mr Pullman took the ground from the very start that it -would be an insult to a large part of the intelligent traveling public which does not in dulge in or indorse card playing on Sun day to permit the few who draw no such lines to play on his cars in the presence of tlhe many who would not sanction it on that day All his sleep ing car conductors porters and other employes were given positive instruc tions to prohibit such pastime on Sun lay from morning until midnight And as far as known the rule was always strictly lived up to Another positive rule of Mr Pullman was one refusing admittance to a Pullmam car of any per son known to be under the influence of intoxicating liquors when about to board a car A case of this kind was thoroughly tested some years ago on a road in Iowa A prominent official of another road had been on a pleasure trip and was returning home He had been with some congenial companions and was the worse for the nights out ing He desired to take a midnight train for home and several of his friends escorted him to the train and proceeded with the official to the sleep er The porter promptly met the party at the door with That gentleman cant come in this car In vain was it point ed out that he was an official and his Pullman pass was exhibited but all to no avail Makes no difference gen tlemen if it was Mr Pullman himself no intoxicated man can occupy this car It is against the rules And the intoxi cated official sat up all night in a day coach Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin Titles in Job Lots Heretofore American girls have found it a comparatively simple matter to buy titles but the American men have been compelled to remain plain unadorned citizens without handles to their names All this is to be changed if a bill which the Italian government proposes to submit to parliament be comes a law According to the provi sions of this bill any one desiring to become a prince may secure that title by planking down 8000 Five thou sand dollars will purchase the title of marquis 4000 the title of count while titles of baron will be sold in job lots at 1000 each Here is an opportunity for that class of Americans who pine for the mark of nobility Perhaps however if they wait a little longer other European governments in straitened circum stances will enter into competition with Italy and titles will be sold on bargain counters at big department stores Troy N Y Times No Stones in Manitoba In Manitoba you can turn a furrow many miles long and not encounter a stone as large as your fist The earth for a distance down from three to five feet is a rich black loam made by centuries and centuries 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