CANADA'S WAR BUDGET "70 RAISE $30,000.00 'alt to be introduced. A . By Taxts on Wines, Patent wary of the ACW taxes I as toltoms: . Upon the note circulation of all Medicines, Ete. A GENERAL INCREASE , i tome derived dy Canada of every trust and loan eompany, 1 per cent; OF 7% PER CENT. ONTHE OLD TARIFF, upon net pre the at insurance companies other than life, fraternal, Postcards And Letters Will Require An Additional Cent--The Sum of benefit and marine insurance, 1 pst cent.; upon every cable and tel». graph company in Canad, ome per cent per message for Which fifteen cents is charged, tax to be collected trom sender; upon railway or steam- ip tickets purchased in . Canada or land, the West India eolonies or the $110,000,000 Is Added to The United States; five cents for every National Debt, « Ottawa, Feb. 12.~Hon. W. 7. te, Canada's minister of finande, spoken. The government will im- Pose a war stamp tax om all pro- istary medicines, perfumes, wines, notes, ipsurance premiums, ruil and steamer tickets and motiey or- , and increase She pontage rate by ticket costing a dollar up to five dol. one vent on cards a tters. 's and five cents for each tional five dollars upon every berth The budget imposes 74 per cent. general tariff increase and 5 per cent in a sleéping car tem cénts; upon every seat in a parlor.car five cent: the railway or steamship company selling the tickets to collect the Lil were the methods announced in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon by the finance minister as taxes from purchaser: upon person, firm. or company carr ng having been decided upon in order iis being revenue up to nor- Passengers or vessels outside of Canada, Newfoundland, the Britisa West Indies and the United States ong. dollar for each passenger buy- Janada's mal, as the national deficit is $180,- 000,900 due to war espenses and do greased revenue. pn ticket up to ten dollars, three ollars over t ollars, five dol- lars over His Ty , In addition the following stamp taxes were imposed upon ail cheques, receipts to banks by depositors ahd upon bills of exchange, 2 cents; up- on all excess and post office money orders, one cent; upon letter and postal cards posted in Canada, 1 per cent; upon bills of lading, two cents; upon- proprietary or patent medi- eines and perfumery, one cent for bottle or package costing ten cents or less and one cent for every addi- tional ten cents, The wine taxes are five cents per Quart or less upon non-gparkling wine sold in Canada and five cenls for each additional quart;, twenty- five cents for eviry pint of cham- bagne and sparkling wine and twen- ty-five cents for each additional pint. The wine taxes to' ome effectual | at ounce and ' the other levies to he fixed later. Mr. White said he ex- pected to raise about #8,000,000 upon those special taxes. & The finance minister announced that there would be no income tax and gave a number of reasons for this de- cision, Financial Conditions. Mr. White prefaced his tariff and other changes with a comprebensive 3 ia. The General Increase. The tariff taxation outlined by Mr. White consisted of a horizontal in- .| crease in the customs duties upon all s and commodities with certain | eXceptions imported into or taken out of bonded warehouses. The list includes 'aN articles hitherto dutiable or on the free list and whether . raw | material or finished or partly finish- ¥eview of the general financial condi. od Products. The increase 'is soven tion of country. He said that snd a half per 'cent. ad valorem to for the ten months of the current fis: the general - and i cal year rovenus of the coudtry and five per cent. had fallen from $19,000,000 to $100, . Beibish preferen 500, , 8 decline of nearly thirty . 3 mil ions. customs alove the The exewntions include arficles speci. Joss of revenue had been nearly twen- fied in the convention with 1 millions. | France and agreements with certain finance minister estimated that West Indian colonies and silk fabrics, even with new duties to be ji posed wheat, flour, tea, fish from the loss of revenue to the end of the Newfoundland, anthracite coal. fisher- fiscal year, March 3st, would be thir. men's necessities, agricultural imple- ty-three millions; | ments, sugar, tobacco, printing mas Turning to expenditure the minister 'chinery and gooeesories, newsprint, of the current and settlers' effects. fi minister oxpected to these custom am from twenty to twenty-five Placing the million dollars, revenue obtain. the year at ¥180,- ed will be separately shown in the t to be met on. trades and navigation returns of the tions will bo approxi. department of customs. ' ,000 on current account ap re---------- entire. amount 'of capital sud SEIZING ALL BLANKETS, : expenditures 1$60,000,000). Sr vi «The increase in' the national debt German Government's Order In Bet. for the year would probably aggre-| . lin and Brandenburg. Fated gate $110,000,000. ; Now Jork,. Feb. 1. Besides seiz- 2 Shtt------ ng al stores, the German gov- Imperial Arrangement. ernment has decided to seize all blan- Mr. White informed the house that kets and has already issued an order meet the requirements of since thé outbreak of the {10 that effect for all stores seil- t ing- hiankets in Berlin and the War an arrangement was made with province of Brandenburg, accord- the imperial government for advances | ing to the Frankfurter Zeitung from September Ist to March 1st of sixty millions of dollars, of which of January 13th. The decree of sei 5 t sures covers "all woollen, wool mix- "lorty millions had been received. For dominion purposes dominion notes ed, half wool and cotton blankets and (el bank," and forbide § The Frankfurter Zeitung obje parliament had been authorized. 1 is action woul have to te con- HON. W, T, WHITE Who announced 'the imposition of further war taxes the sweeping language of the EE em Miah ae BR al The result and confusion, it adds. tends to | and need addi-| stesd every . | yaller wins the day" -- an old-time and is tae WENELANR AYE I} TUE LAR OF) Tha gable | voneatiy ; face is pot as t ! One of Country's Most Beautitul Mas Turned Over to Them as Restencé ~German Priest Loudon, Feb. 12.--The Daily Mail government, at a 000, has converted Don: ieestershire, one of the il old halls in d, lish. hearty as it omee wa Time though of course i 1088 aes. me ies ith 1a ¢ a Fv ot Duties of marmalade and an ¢ i i s 2 says the as any point in Canada, Newfound-| from ward with 8 dants. Elecs has been iastalied, and alt foes aba from whic soners .can wines an ts of all: the prineip Fy will be he 5 sk erman barbers, s Of course, Would [and served With food by German heavy for her on par-| walters, eupturcd, in the German teular morning, she, her Busband, or | ranks. : her serving maid, would prepare for Alongside the hall is an old chap a most mild and soothing drink, | o1 with: stained-glass windows, in Which was a tankird of small beer | which a German priest will conduct touched by the flavor of. services. Beneath the window 1s That was about the limit 4s a molly- the test of 'Pe parth, goodwill coodle breakfast drink. Then, instead | \oward mens oe 0 CAH, € of doast ah bullet, thefe might be a The Daily Mail says eynically: buttock of beet and venison pasties, | ic, sus SuPBoNe (hat the War Of. ith lage Suaulities 8 Joucy, and reforming the Prussian officers, and From memoranda. which have sur- by Jetiing Shem soak: in the ld tion o auly and peace, show ng vived since the fifteenth century. it is them the difference between the clear that 6 o'clock was the break 1 J Kultur' 'that watched Louvain burn fast hour in the highest class English and the culture inspired by & sunset families, 5! " It was during the Elizabethan | in the valley of the Trent. period that tea and coffee came into JAPAN LOOKS TO U. 8, fashion in Epgland as the breakfast rivals of strong ale, and a little later -- Says Baron Chinda for Solution of "All Troubles." chocolate came upon the breakfast table. Eggs began to be understood, and in their natural combination with J bacon or broiled ham, began to sup- Washington, Feb. 12. --Baron Chinda, plant boar's head, barons of beef and Japauese ambassador to.the United . States, declared last night, at a dinner given by Secretary Daniels, in honor of Admiral Déwa, Japanese venison pasties. representative to the Panama-Phcitic {ixposition, that Japan wes looking to America with strong confidence for the solution of "all troubles." His remarks were interpreted by the other diners as applying to the Buro- pean war. Secretary Laniels introduced Admir- al Dewa with an address in which be declared the United: States, as al- a" Rood meighhor aod Hiemi® Aqren: pass all the others, while the crowd [2 Kr. shouted, 'The boy in yaller wins the | al Dewa, Speaking through his aide, day.' If there's & jockey in] yaller on replied to past expresiious, da y , I" "a bit senna ® ay: Ned pate on hin all citizens ' and every ollicer of the .« Ned again Mdvissd her 2 Jen 2 still tongue, but \ 4 iw during the y canter | person that the jockey riding Doncaster was in yellow--Mr. Mer:y's colors--so he put all the money he had ( frail 'and delicate, that the ous A Sixty-Pound Dream. On Sunday morning. before the Derby of 1873 a coster named Timson was awakened by his wife singing out lustily in her sleep. "The boy in popular song. Timson gave Sal = thump and told her to shut up, and. both being now wide awake, asked what all the row meant. "I dreamt I was on Epsom Downs," she said, "and saw a jockey in yaller 7 ; dei EF 'It was the making of him. He | and hones bought a new horse and. cart and christened the former Yellow Boy, while Sal had reason to exult about her dream. ' ELE r ring 1" cried. "1 have declared "that | never be Four wifer] vhing to return everythi fa your /Posseasion that be ® James, i the | y . bro she pho oy no doubt w ® venir". Sd Provided. ol ial brands. able, upon by Gérman| cobneetion with an alleged 2 espionage; that certain letters had Aecretly opened by. the of the G: P.. 0. and their hed belo: the thet which iy ' only the rg 4 ts who are employed in S85 real Sevens. 18 : the contents when th further operation is' deemed des Ordinary envelopes are opened vy being. over a jet of supe Waid i m. After , el ed are reburn ing the ehvélopes two or three tim backwards and forwards between hob rs. ait little time back, however, the Beads of the German Secret. Ser- vice in Berlin seem te have suspec that their correspondence with th agénts in Britain was being tampered with, for they started to use a spp- cial kind of thick, roughened paper which would not stand steam. The pogtoffice got over the difficul- ty by clamping each envelope separ- ately in a flat steel vice, so construct~ ed that the bottom edge projects about one-twentieth of an inch. First j this edge is fattened, then roughened, and afterwards slit by a very fine and exceedingly sharp = "'ribbon kaife," worked by a tiny motor and adjust to the hundredth part of an o After the contents have been a stracted and photographed, they are, of course, returned to the envelope, | which ,is then closed again with a hair-line of very fine gum It is sald to be abselutely impossible for evén the sharpest eye to detect anything amiss with a letter so treated. Contrary to what might be expect- ed, envelopes which are closed with seals made from sealing wax are the , Gasiest of all to open. All that is np- cessury is to take an impression of the seals before they are broken. They can then, of course, he easily duplicated when the time comes fér the letter to be resealed. 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