Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1895, Page 19

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Never vainly repining, Nor begging, nor whining; The morning star twinkles On no heart that’s lighter ‘As she makes the world whiter And smoothes vut its So long life to Kate! May her heirs have to wait Till they’re gray in attendancey And her flatiron press on Still teaching its lesson : Of brave independence, H —_—-e+_____. The Spare Room { Yrom the Atchison Giobe. Of course, we don't know what it is to peas @ night In the tomb, but we have ep’ A SURGEONS KNIFE Recommended by a Philadelphia Specialist, & Simple Remedy Averted an Opera- tion, (Philadelphia, Penn., Item.) A healthier, heartier, happier man than John J, lll, of 2437 North Sth street, Philadelphia, could t be found in a day's search. 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EXTRACT OF THB HEART OF THE OX. f-eott .|FRENCH FINANCES An Immense Debt Owed by the Richest People. THE TAXES AND HOW THEY ARE RAISED The Lottery Feature in Floating a Popular Loan. STRANGE BONDHOLDERS ._—— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, February 12, 1895. HETHER THE FI- nanciering of the French government and the city of Paris be admirable or not, it works, it is prac- tical. It has the vir- tue of taking the bull by the horns. An im- mense amount of money is needed. The national government and the city divide the right of main- taining, for the glory of the patrie and the beauty of its capital, its one and only city. They do not seek to disguise the process. The tourist, even in his first sight-seeing week, feels pressing on his shoulder the hand of the taxcollector. It is not so much the customs examination at the fron- tier, although that is fairly searching. France is even more protectionist than the ‘What Will the Voters Say to It? United States. The feeling that the au- thorities are after your pocketbook comes rather through a series of petty annoy- ances and half pleasing, half displeasing curiosities when you are once inside the country. Your hotel bill comes to you re- ceipted—and stamped. You cash a check or draft with a banker. “Will you please write your name again, here, across the revenue stamp.” Why are they so careful with the lumps of sugar in the restaurants and cafes? There is a special tax upon the sweet commodity. And why do they always give us sulphur matches? Because matches are dear, being manyfactured only by the government. Do you desire to play a game of cards? You may, for nothing, in the brasserie where you take your evening beer. The waiter brings the cards. “But they are dirty. Bring us a clean pack.” Then you will have to buy them, and the cheapest kind costs fifty cents. There is a special tax on playing cards. It is not only a tax, ranging from fifteen to twenty cents a pack, but the mantUfacture of all playing cards is under rigorous state supervision, as to quality, colors and designs, the lat- ter with an idea to possible political dis- turbances. Billiard tables are taxed, doors and windows are taxed, bicycles are taxed, and as for cigars and tobacco—but every tourist has his first experience with that state manufacture. : Where the state leaves off, then the city begins, and you are taxed from early morn till dewy eve. The city’s chiefest hold upon the stranger is its “‘octroi,” a set of high municipal customs duties on all food, drink and fuel. But the city shares with the state in most of the little perquisites al- ready mentioned, in the profits of the ex- clusive government pawn shops, the ex- clusive funeral service, the tax on theater tickets, and the tax on dogs, even though it were the dog of a tourist, or, so to speak, a tourist dog. These are the taxes which the tourist feels. But the native, the citizen of Paris, could tell him, “There are others.” Taxes in France are called “contribu- tions,” and they are (1) direct and (2) in- direct. The latter are by far the greater, reaching the average sUm of 2,495,000,000 of francs yearly, as against the direct taxes of 553,000,000 of francs. This inequality has struck the socialists, and at about the same time asthe deficit in the budget called loudly for the attention of the legis- lature. The question of an income tax is now being fought over, not only an income tax, but a progressive income tax, which would indeed strike a hard blow at “the dirty bourgeoisie’ and the “exploiters of the proletariat.” The figures above given are lower than those in the present inflated budget for 18¥5, against which there is a considerable uproar. In theory the direct taxes are fixed and invariable: but it is in the power of the chamber of deputies to augment or decrease them by means of the device called the “centimes additional,” or “‘ad- ditional pennies.”” They are of two kinds: Those voted by the deputies, to be at the disposal of the general government, to meet special and varying expenses, like primary instruction, aid to farmers when their crops have suffered from hail storms, fire cr flood, the reduction of other taxes, losses, deductions and deficits and the costs of collecting all other taxes; and those yoted by the departments (counties) and towns and cities, within fixed limits, for their ordinary and extraordinary ex- penses. In the budget for 1895 the fixed portion of the direct taxation was put at 469,000,000 francs. But the “addftional pen- nies” had brought the total up to 834,000,- 000. Of these direct taxes there are four, the fonciere, or tax on real estate; the person- nelle-mobiliere, or tax on personal prop- erty; the portes-et-fenetres, or taxes on doors and windows, and the patentes, or commercial licenses. The only thing peculiarly interesting to Americans in the French real estate tax is the principle that when a house or even a part of a house (an apartment or flat) has been empty for a year it pays no tax that year. This principle, which is favor- able to capitalists, is one often attacked by THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. the socialists. The personal property tax is composed of two elements, a poll tax and a tax on one’s presumed wealth in household furniture gauged by the amount of rent one paya. It is due from every in- habitant, French or foreign, ‘‘enjdying his rights” and not reputed indigent. It in- cludes widows, minor children who have means sufficient for their support whether from investments or from the work of their hands, and even such higher domestic servants, as “companions,” valets, govern- esses, concierges and guards. Actyal do- mestic servants are exempted. The poll tax may not be lower than ten cents a head nor greater than thirty cents. The tax. on furniture varies in the different cities. It is in the law that towns having an octroi may pay the whole of this fur- niture tax out of its proceeds if they be sufficient. Most cities relieve themselves in this way, especially Paris, which collects immense municipal duties (thirty millions of dollars a year), on all food, drink and fuel products entering its gates, with one hand, and hands a Coe proportion of the money back to its citizens again in a par- tially remitted tax on furniture. Thus the floating population of sight-seers who flock to the gay capital by the hundreds of thou- ‘sands, and who must eat and drink in or- der to be merry, are squeezed for the good of the householder, as well as for that of the city. Actually all householders paying less than $100 a year rent are completely exempt from this furniture tax, and the others go by a progressive scale of from 6 to 12 per cent. A very rich man pays in furniture tax an amount equivalent to 12 per cent of his house rent. The tax on doors and windows is a mece addition to the real estate tax. In Paris it averages 14 cents apiece for every door and window in the house. It is paid by the owner, but leases stipulate for its payment by the tenant. In Paris the commercial license tax varies from $80 a year to 36 a year. Everybody pays it, no matter what his trade or profession, with the following exceptions: Government and municipal clerks, artists and professors, midwives, farm hands and fishermen, day laborers and flower and fruit sellers exercising their profession on the open streets. - And Yet I Pay Tax on It? I have said that these direct taxes are almost insignificant when compared with the “contributions indirecte: amounting, on the average, to only 553 millions of francs, as against 2,495 millions of franes. This indirect taxation has not, as with us, its principal source in customs duties. In France these only amount to 500 millions of francs. The coyntry is violently pro- tectionist and this is a heavy sum, and yet it looks moderate when set beside tke four other sources of indirect revenue, reg- istration and stamps, 700 millions; internal revenue from wines and Hauors, 500 mil- lions; the sugar tax. 145 millions, and the income from the state monopolies of so- bacco, matches, gunpowder and playing cards, 650 millions. As to the stamped paper, it is here as it was in the United States during and im- mediately succeeding the war. Scarcely any paper is valid without its stamp. The liquor tax is managed differently from our own. There is no special formality of ob- taining a liquor license; any one with a shopkeeper‘s license may freely sell it. It is the manufacture of wine and liquor which is so heavily taxed. On this head there is an agitation going forward with great force at the present moment to 7 duce or altogether do away with the reve- nue from “hygienic drinks,” such as wines and beers, and for having the state take into its hands, as another monopoly, the whole manufacture, but not the retail selling, of strong drink. This is on the ground not only of obtaining an increased revenue (the only basis for the match, to- bacco and gunpowder monopolies), but of safe-guarding the public health. As things now go in Paris, the people are being ruin- ed by bad alcohol. You would think that in the great, rich cafes of the Boulevard you might be sure to get a petit verre of real brandy, honest- ly distilled from wine. Yet only last week a celebrated doctor made the tour, asking for the best “fine champagne” at the high price of 20 cents a tiny glass. He went in and out of all the Boulevard cafes, not omitting the Grand, the Cafe de la Paix, the Cafe Riche and others with great names. He put each glass in a separate vial, labeling them. He took the so-called brandies home and analyzed them. He discovered that all were fabrications, all excepting one—and that was a sample ob- tained from a marchand de vins, the hum- blest kind of saloon proprietor! As to the match and tobacco monopoli. their result is dear tobacco and matches of extremely average quality. Frenchmen en- dure both with the patience of patriotism, for without them where could be obtained the 650 millions of francs yearly, which is almost exactly the price France pays to maintain her standing army? The stand- ing army, next to the interest on the pub- lic debt, is the greatest expense of the French government. This Costs. The 3,400,000,000 of francs thus collected yearly by the central government of France (as against the 2,000,000,000 of the United States and the 2,200,000,000 of Great Britain) are expended as follows: Expenses of the mo- nopolies, tax collect- ing, postal and tele- graph service, collect- ing of customs, super- vision of forests and the qurestes- ees Interest on public debt. Chamber, senate, presi- 350,000,000 francs 1,300,000,000 francs dent + 13,000,000 francs Justice . 35,000,000 francs Religion 43,000,000 francs Foreign affairs. Interior . 15,000,000 francs - , 65,000,000 francs Finance 19,000,000 francs War 645,000,000 francs Navy 225,000,000 francs Colonies 73,000,000 francs + 200,000,000 francs 8,000,000 francs Public instruction. Art g 20,000,000 francs Commerce and industry Agriculture 4 _ 29,000,000 francs Public works. - 200,000,000 francs The public debt of’ France is by far the greatest in the world. Here. is a nation with only 38,000,000 of inhabitants, with a debt of over 35,000,000,000 of francs. Rus- sia has four times as many inhabitants and not half the debt. The United States of America have 67,000,000 of inhabitants and not 9,000,000,000 of francs of debt. And yet the French people have just taken up a Russian loan that no one else would have, and may be soon lending millions. to our own precious government. The secret is that while France as a state is more heavily indebted than any other in the world, her people, as a population, are the richest, the English only excepted. And the distribution of this wealth is in- finitely more equal in France than in the British Isles. The country long ago achieved for itself the enviable name of “pays de petits rentiers,” the land of little capitalists. The French have a gigantic debt—but they owe it to themselves; it is not borrowed abroad; it is held at home. In France you see the apotheosis of the popular loan. Cast your eye over the list of the Credit Foncier. In 1879 there was an issue of communal bonds of $100 each. There was another such issue in 1880. In 1891 com- PERFECTION. IN AROMA, FLAVOR, _OHNESS AND DIGESPBIL. munai bonds of $80 apiece were issued. Bonds as low as $20 apiece have been is- sued by the French government. And what the general government does the munici- palities do as well. Who buy these ‘“‘popu- Jar loan” bonds? Servant girls, cabmen, workingmen and even little girls and boys invest, although the bonds only bear 3 bear 2% per cent tery attachment to tractive, as the habi' ized brokers in diff were charged with rest, and with a-lot- ke them more at- regularly is. Author- ent parts of the city the ‘selling of ‘these berds. The public Te advised that at 9 a.m. on a certain day they might subscribe, first come, first served. At 10 o’clock at night—the night before—each broker’s office had a string of several hundred men, wo- men and boys of all descriptions waiting patiently in the calm moonlight with their breakfasts in their pockets, waiting pa- tiently until the sun should rise, until the clock hands crawled around to 9 a.m. It was 2 sight to give instruction to the world at large. The only other annual expenses of the French government which may be strange or interesting to Americans are those for religion and art. The eight millions of franes for art seem small when seen in the budget, huddled between the immense costs of public- instruction and public works. Yet eight millions of francs a year is no small sum; and may be made to do much. Imagine Con- gress voting $1,600,000 yearly for art! In France this yearly expenditure makes_. the government | a buyer of pictures and statues for the na- tional and provincial museums; it sends meritorious students of the government art schools abroad to study; it supports the art schools them- Selves, besides guar- anteeing the existence of the Grand Opera and the Theater Francais. If you should de- sire? to see the result of this policy, I beg of you to obtain permission to visit the collection of any rich picture buyer in your city to whom you gan gain access. You will find his walls are hung with the work of French artists. The hundreds of thou- sands of dollars which he managed to get hold of and send out of the country for the gratification of his love of art, where have they gone? To France. On the side of religion the annual ex~ penses of the French government, if not satisfactory, are, to say the least, fully as curious. The state pays 43,000,000 of francs a year for religion, that being $8,600,000, quite a tidy sum. Salvation is really free in Prance, and that, be it remembered, un- der a real or so-called atheistica] regime. All religions recognized by the state, in- cluding the Protestant and Jewish, have their priests and ministers paid, and their church buildings are state property. A bishop receives about $2,000 a year; a common parish priest rarely has more than $200, except in the case of ministers who are married. As to the church build- ings, neither priest nor minister can touch his finger to them for the most necessary repairs. All these have to be decided on by some government functionary, who is a practical politician. A good part of the ex- penses of the budget which are credited to religion really goes, therefore, to pay these gentlemen, who keep the accounts and have the solicitude of all the churches. Hunters Are Taxed Als2. To conclude, I have saved up one of the most chic phases of the minute financiering of the French government for the last. In a land where boys ahd girls pay poll tax it may well be imagined that nothing that might be thought of has been forgotten. It is a matter of 30,000,000 of francs only, and is usually lumped in the budget under the head of direct taxation. The sum re- sults from certain “special taxes for the profit of the state.” First comes 7,000,000 of francs annually wrested from “the dead kand,’’ the Mortmain of the old English jaw, and, in actual French Mainmorte, “les biens de Mainmorte.”” It is a special tax on the real estate of corporations’ of all classes, and is intended to approximate the profit the state would derive from collateral inheritance taxes, forfeitures, legal charges for deeds, mortgages and wills, were the real estate held by private individuals in- stead of soulless corporations who do not die and seldom sell. A tax on carriages and horses brings 15,000,000 francs. The tax on billiard tables brings 1,000,000 francs. ‘The tax on bicycles brings 2,000,000 francs.A military tax brings 3,000,000. The charges which the government makes to all trades- men for ‘‘verifying” the correctness of their weights and measures add up 5,000,- 000. A special tax on mines brings 3,000,000 more, and, lastly, there comes an annual sum of 15,000,000 of francs from the special tax on clubs and societies. As will be seen, the financiering of the French government ces on the principle; first, that if you take care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves, and, secondly, that one should never let a chance go by. STERLING HEILIG. —— es Electrical Currents in a Man's Mouth, From Industries and Iron. A curious case has just been recorded, in which an electric current was found to be generated by a plate of artificlal teeth. A patient consulted his doctor on account of a severe pain in his tongue. 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It’ is by the Judiclous use of sucl articles of diet that a constitution may be grad- ually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak spot. We may any. Yatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure ‘and a properly nourished frame.”— vil Service Gazette. Made simply with hoiling water or milk. Sold gulg jn half-pound tins by’ grocers. labeled thus: JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd. UWomeopathic Chem- ‘London, England. ‘s&| Sloping at a medium angle. GOOD POINTS OF A HORSE. The Eye and the Hend Show the Animals Nature. From the Century. And this brings us to consider what are the marks of a good, serviceable horse, such as most people want to buy. The chief points are the eyes and head; for, whether on the score of safety or of pleas- ure in ownership, the essential thing is to have a horse that is intelligent and gentle, or one that is intelligent and vicious, rather than stupid, for stupid horses are the most dangerous of all. Every horse shows his character in his head, and chiefly in the eye, just as certainly as a man shows his character in his face; although, as in the case of men, it is not always easy to read what is written in the equine features. But as to horses of positive character, posi tively good or positively bad, there need be no mistake. I once bought a mare of a dealer, for a woman’s use, without even taking her owt of the stable. She scemed to be sound, and I felt sure from her eye that she was unusually gentle and safe, and so she proved to be. On the other hand, out of six or eight horses shown to me at a sale stable, on another occasion, I rejected one—the best in the lot otherwise— because his eye, though not absolutely bad, was such as to arouse suspicion, and the owner afterward admitted to me that the animal was different from the rest in being a little “mean.' I mention these instances to show that any person of average intelligence can learn, by taking pains, to read the equine character. Horse dealers and trainers sel- dom make a study of this matter, because they do not care about it. What you should look for is a large, clear, luminous eye, a protruding eye, a sunken eye, an eye that shows the white, glanc- ing backward, which indicates bad tem- per; and above all a glassy, tremu- jJous eye, which indicates stupidity. It is hard to describe, but iy ized. There shuuld be a considerable space be- tween the eyes. The ears and the carriage of them are hardly less significant. Well- cut eare that move continually with a gen- eral tendency to be pricked forward indi- cate a good and lively disposition. Large ears, if weil shaped, are better than very small, or “mouse,” ears. Lop ears, Coarse ears, ears planted either very far apart er very close together, are to be viewed with great distrust. Next in importance to the head comes the feet. They Rae beret phere = ts like a mule’s, nor neither steep ‘8, thn beat foot are “cup-shaped,” that is, so formed that when you pick them up they will hold water. As to the other points of a horse, I shall not attempt to go into details, because I fear that they would convey information only to those who do not need it. But this may be said generally, by the way of ad- vice: Avoid a long-backed or thin-waisted, still more a long-legged, horse. Look for a compact, rather low-standing beast, with a good head, good eyes, and well-shaped ears, and you cannot go far wrong. —.ee_____—_— Clothing the Famtly. 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The sense of rellef 1s so great that after twenty-four hours’ use the sufferer gladly continues the meeeys feeling and realizing that only perseverance It possesses wonder- vocal power of needed to restore to health. ful power in restoring the public speakers. S FOR SALE BY E. P. MERTZ, COR. 11TH AND F STS, WASHINGTON, D.G. fe21-5ée021t&2tawl3t 4 VALUABLE PINHOLE. A Law Suit Which Turned on Its Lo- cation. From the Savannah News. A queer case is before Judge Speer, where a pinhole will decide the disposition of $3,000. The case is against the Royal Insurance Company for the amount of a $8,000 policy, together with damages and attorney's fees. As a part of the evidence, the letter of Messrs. Wilson & Grady noti- fying Col. Way of the cancellation of the policy, and the letter book of Messrs. Wil- son & Grady,‘in which the letter was cecpied, were taken up at the morning ses- sion of the court, with a view to deter- mining, as far as possible, whether the check for the return premium, amounting to 36.15, had been placed in the letter re- ceived by Col. Way, as claimed by Mr. Wilson, or not, as claimed by Col. Way. With regard to this Mr. Wilson stated that he had pinned the check to the back of the letter before it was copied in the letter book. When the letter was sent he stated also that the letters of Messrs. Bar- bee & Castleman instructing him to with- draw the insurance was pinned to it. This accounted, in part, for the pinholes in the ecrner of the letter received by Col. Way. ‘The question was whether the check was also pinned to the back of the letter as had been stated. For the purpose of look- ing into this matter, Judge Speer sent out and had a microscope brought into the court room. He then took the letter book in which the letter was copied and exam- ined the page for the impression of the pin which held the check when the copy was taken: He could find no such impression, and asked Mr. Wilson to take the micro- scope and see if he could discover any. Mr, Wilson, after examining the page, admitted that he could find no such ti pression upon it as would probably have been made by such a pin. Judge Speer then had copied in an ordinary letter booi a letter sheet with a check or similar piece of paper pinned to the back of it. It was shown from this test that the pin holding such a check would not only make a strong impression, but that the pinhead would cut through the thin tissue copying sheet. Mr. Wilson had also stated that the impression of the check was made on the letter. 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