T;naiT in pictures; ILLUSTRATIONS SHOWING WHO PAYS THE INIQUITOUS TAX. An Eauy I.emoil on the Ona Sliloil O per it tlon of th IlrptilillrBin' Pet II obb j The Conolunlona of n Bennlble Old Fanner Who DDI III Own Thinking. For liinuv veara the furmptu nt America hnve been dimly conscious that mere was something wrong in crar eco nomic system. They knew that their profits were growing less every year, but they could not tell what was the matter. They bent themselves to their garden str.ff and other" thinjrTT hava raised. ' "Didn't we eat itf" "Why, bless yon, child, we could not nave eaten one thousandth part of it." "Did anybody steal it?" "Now, child, you ought to be ashamed of your self. You know all our neighbors are honest. No one ever stole a cent from me, (Right here the old farmer was wrong.) The old man wnrriod Ahnn f I What had become of hiartrnnii. Thtnnr he thought about it the more he felt snre no naa no consumed tnem. One day he said to his wife: "Mother, do you know where the t& receipt are?" "In the cupboard drawer." "Are you snre that they are there?" "I am sure. There is not annthnr nn about the house," toil with renewed energy. They tried the eight hour system that is, eight hours in the forenoon and eight honrs in the afternoon. But it was no good. The nrofits irrew still less and ltwa. Final lv one old mv hnlrml fallnnr ant. down and went to thinking, and this is wnat ne tnougut: "I have worked hard all my life. I have raised thousands of bushels of wheat and corn, of oats and rye, of po- I want to look tatoes, apples and beans, and hundreds tu ueau oi norses, catue, sneep, bogs, chickens, ducks and creese, and mv tam. ily has consumed but a very small part . i ... . , . vt uw, w nai pecame or tne remain der? I have given away a little to the church and charity, but it was very little; I wish it had been more. But what has become of the rest? I know we never ate a hundredth part of the wneai, corn ana oats, or or tne beef and pork, or wore out In clothes a tenth of the wool. Where did it all go to? Who not it?" Then he thought and thought, and at o ne saia: "I know where part of it went I pud some of it out for taxes. I wonder turn much?" Then he went to the cupboard and nam a drawer ne took out a bundle of papers, some of them yellow with age. l iy jpi . iii JflT mm Snm i ' iii They were his tai receints. TT lm.iiwi np an old stump of a pencil and called mimaugiuer Mary, who had been going to the district school, and said to her- "I want to call off these figures, and juu ski em uown ana add 'em up. I want to see what thev all come to." He had his tax reneinta for turn vmira and when Mary had added them up and -prcveu- me sum, as she had been "Bring them here. over them." The trood old wife broncht them. TTn spread- them out on the table and looked inein over, Tney were all there, for every year, for twenty years. Still the old man worried and wondered about wnat naa become of his crops. At last he said: 'Mother, how much do von' RnrnvuiA wo have given to the preacher for the missionaries ana - V-: v e nave nev er paid him," she replied, "but five have civ-en him in all about fifty or sixty dollars, and I nave Kent an account or what, w hm donated to the church. I will see." In a few moments the old hiAv r. . - .. turned ana said: "We have paid to the church, the mis- .sionary societies " O tand thinu-a lilr that 1237.50. It isn't much more thun ten dollars a year. Do you think it is too much?" "No. no. moth er,"hereplied,-"it is little enough, the Lord knows But it don't ac count for it. It don't account for it.' "Don't account for what?" as1rl mother. "What in the world are you talking about?" "Whv. all the wheat and and pork, horses and cattle, sheen ami nogs, cnickens and turkeys, and everything else I have raised on this farm. I would like to know who got it." "The storekeeper trot some. remarked the wife. I wish I knew how much." said the old man The good wife furnished him the fig ures, mey were KtKHj. Still the old man was not satinfipd. It did not account for it, he said. He was gathering np his receipts when mother asked him what kind of taxes those re ceipts had been given for "State and L county taxes," he sain. Where are the receints for the irn eral iruvernment taxes?" she asked. . l never had to nay anv government tuxes," ne said, lint a moment after ward he dronned the receints and ant uown in a cnair and thought for awhile. At last no said I don't ever remember havincr naid any government taxes. I must have for gotten it, but I can't for the life of me remember any thing about it. I suppose 1 must, mother. Did you ever seo any gov ernment tax re ceipts about the house? 'What do thev look like 'I don't know, j but I must have paid some gov- every article the farmer buys, and when he buys the article a part of the price he pays is the tax tho gov ernment has lev ied upon it. As soon as the farm er is born the government be gins to tax him. .. If the baby has the colic and his mother gives him a dose of pare goric the govern ment taxes it 40 tier oent . on! If never lets p on the taxing afterward i .i.ii- .i . .... - . wiiuo mere is a cent in nis pocket. Most farmers and workingmen wear flannel smrrs ror a large jwrt of the year. "At 5 o clock he gets out of bed and Hit ou a flannel shirt that is taxed 100 per cent. This costly garment, for wuicu no paid twice what it ffould have been sold for at a fair profit, having been buttoned np with buttons tax ed 150 per cent., he proceeds to put on a pair of trousers. Thev are mada nf muma heavy cloth, and the tux is mndn i-nr. respondingly heavy, so they cost him luu ner cent, more man tnev otherwise WOUld. 110 un a IIS ttimil ovpr his ahnnl. ders with snsnpiidpra turod TJ! nor noi.f and proceeds to put his feet into a pair oi socks taxed lu per cent. "He wears coarse, hpnvv vta nnl ha must pay about four times the tax the ncn man uoes lor elegant, thin light ones. He then thrusts his feet into a meekly nair of iars cowhid kWvs w1ii have been taxed 25 per cent., after which ne puts on u coat taxed DO per cent He Wakes nn his wlfo nnd erne rait intn !. kitchen and starts a fire with coal taxed seventy-fcve cents on a ton, and the smoke goes np a brick chimney taxed 43 per cent. "Then he goes to give hay to the cattle with a fork taxed 45 per cent in a rack taxed 40 per cent, and feeds them salt taxed 44 per cent out of a barrel taxed 40 per cent "After giving slop to his pigs oat of barrel bound with iron hoops taxed 85 per cent, lie goes intn tha afnhla taxed 40 ner cent., to feed his horses ont of troughs taxed 40 per cent "Meanwhile his good wife has arisen and cooked his bacon, which he had cured with salt per taxed 44 cent, (no rebate) on a stove taxed 45 per cent The old farmer come to the house, and taking a pail taxed 20 cent, went fetch a nail water (not taxed yet), which he got from a pump taxed 85 per cent He closed the door taxed 20 per cent., which was hung hinges taxed ner cent. was held fast by a lock taxed per to of on 85 and 1 45 taught in school, und she was sure she wan ngiit, bug said that tho sum of all the tigurea amounted to $110.57. But tne old man tiiook his head and said: "It don't account for it all; it don't ccount for it all." "Don't account for what, papa?" asked "Why, ali the cotton and wheat and ..ad l'ykand wool and beans and eminent taxes, and if 1 did I would take a receipt. But I ;au't remember any thing about it." A knock was heard at the door, and a neighbor cauie in. 'I inn awful clad you came." said the old man. '-I want to ask you about the government taxes. I can't remember about paying them, but 1 must have done so, I know. When do we pay them?" "Every day and , every hour from tho cradle to the grave, and they levy them on us afterwnnvoilpnd and if we don't leave any money behind us our friendu pay them for us." now is that?" the old man asked. "I he government nuts a tariff nn rwr rnnt Than Via washed his hands in n tin basin tund 53 per cent., with soan taxed 20 cent., and wiped them on a brown linen towel taxed 85 ner cent.- H the dining room covered with an oil cloth carnet taxed 40 ner cent., and out down in a chair taxed 83 per cent. His wife nulled out it table taxad 2f) cent, and spread upon it a tablecloth taxed 40 per cent. She put on it some earthenware taxed 40 ner cent and white plates taxed CO per cent. The knives und forks were also taxed 50 per cunt. The idans tumblers out of which they drunk milk were taxed 180 per cent., and the roof under which they but was taxed 20 per cent. 'I he irood wife nonred coTun nut. nf u coiTeepot taxed 55 per cent., and stirred it up with a fcpooti taxed 43 per cent. The bill of fare was not liihnrniA It consisted of coffee taken out of a can taxed 53 .ner cent., bacon cured with salt taxed 41 per cent., bread nuide ct Hour taken from a bag taxed 85 per cent., and tho butter seasoned with taxed salt. After break fast the farmer put on a hat taxed 05 per cent., walked over a taxed carpet which covered a taxed iloor, out of a taxed door hung on taxed " hi iges and fas tened with a taxed lock, into God's air, not taxed yet. He then got some wire nails taxed 150 per cent, and taking a hammer tnned 50 per cent, and a saw and a tu.ifd r3 per ceut. he repaired a pijpon with lumber taxed yo per cent. "After he had iinished that job ho went Into the stable and put a bridle uud har ried onto his horses, taxed 83 per cent., led them out from the taxed stable to n A Woman's Pack. It is the mainspring of her life. What can she do, where can she go, so long as that deadly backache saps every particle of her strength and ambition ? She cannot walk, she cannot stand ; her housework is a bur den ; the hours behind the counter or in the factory are crushing ; she is miserable. The cause is some derange ment of the uterus or womb. The backache is the sure symptom. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the one unfailing remedy. A woman discovered it and gave it to women. A woman reads your letter and irivea vou a woman's svmnnthw D J J 1 ' and help. Thousands send letters grate ful for physical salvation. 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