6 NOW FOR WAR TAXES POINTS ASOUT THE N.F-W REV- ENUE MEASURE. Beer, Ciglll-H, TohttCCO an<l Telephone* Among fllo Article-, Selected lo Con k trlbnte to tbo l.overnuient-WUI Qe t Into Effect on July 1. ~ New York, June 15.—Many Inquirers beset the internal revenue cilices at No. 114 Nassau street yesterday seeking in formation regarding the workings of the internal revenue office in collecting the additional revenue tax made nec essary by the war. As is well k.;o\vn, • many of the increased rates taxa tion became operative yesterday. The tax on beer ar.d ale, fixed at $2 a bar rel; tobacco, fixed at 12 cents a pound: cigars, fixed at $3.50 a thousand; ciga rettes, at $1.50 a thousand, went Into effect yesterday. Only the stocks al ready In the hands of retailers, or sa loon keepers, escapes the tax, and the brewery that began operations yester day without a barrel of beer, having lpaded the cellars and store rooms of Its customers to their utmost capacity to effect this, will esrape taxation on Its manufactured product, and will on ly have to pay upon that yet to be pro duced. Stamp Taxes. The stamp taxes will go Info effect on July 1, and it will be necessary to stamp each bank check, manifests of express packages, telegraph messages, indemnifying bond, life insurance, policy benefit insurance, fire Insurance, lease, mortgage, passage to foreign countries, patent medicine, perfumery and wtine. The internal revenue office has large quantities of beer and to bacco stamps on hand, and they will be used before any call is made for new stamps. Over each of the new printed stamps will be stamped in red ink a distinguishing mark to show it has been bought under the increased price. After all that are now on hand have been used up a new series will be furnished by the treasury depart ment, probably distinguished as "the series of 1898." Cigar and tobacco dealers who called at the revenue offices yesterday were informed that their stock on hand would be taxed at half the rate fixed by law for cigars and tobacco. This, of course, is in accordance with the law. Collecting Taxes. The chief deputy, David S. Wendell, answered questions yesterday in the absence of the collector, John A. Ma son. He said that he had no knowl edge of what increased force weald be necessary to collect the Lutes. No preparations had been made as yet, be said, and nothing would be done un til a schedule of regulations was re ceived from Washington. Copies of this will be placed in the hands of di vision superintendents, and they will notify the different persons and firms affected by the tax. It is presumed that dealers in articles upon which the tax goes into effect immediately will read of Its provisions in the papers and that they will prepare an inven tory cf their stocks. As soon as the collector's force has been increased suf . flcienlly to allow of his notifying the dealers. It will be done. This will be the official notification, but the tax will be reckoned from yesterday wheth er the taxpayer was officially notified yesterday or not. Upon receiving the dealer's inventory the deputy collector will investigate its correctness and af fix the amount of tax. Telephone Taxes. Just how the telephone tax Is to be collected puzzles the office, which has not gone very deeply into the subject anyway, as such details of administra tion will be settled by the schedule of regulations expected from Washington. It Is presumed that the sworn state ment of the telephone companies wili be accepted, and that messages cost ing fifteen cents now, will, after July t, cost sixteen cents, the company sim ply adding the one cent tax to be paid by thecustomer, Thus, it is thought, the companies will have no object in submitting other than a correct state ment of its messages. bltW - ■ ■ Request-, of Elijah A. Morse. Boston. June 15. —Kx-Representatlvo Tilijah A. Morse's will a num-' aer of public bequests, amounting to 210,00') in all. They were as follows: American Missionary Association. $5.- 500; American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. $5,030; Mount Holyoke Female St miliary and College of South Hadley, the Income to be used for the education of indigent, worthy, and deserving young women, $5,000; Massachusetts Horn. Missionary Soci ety, $5,000; Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, $5,000, trustees of the Con sumptives' Home, founded by Dr. Chas. •Cullls, Boston, $5,000; F,vangelieal Con gregational church of Canton, the in come only to be used in the support of preaching, $5,000: First Baptist church of Canton, Income ontv to be used in support of church, $5,000. The rest of his property, real and personal, is left to his wife, his thre sons, his brother and nieces and neph ews. Lieut. Col. Hawaii ill New York. New York, June 15.—Lieutenant Cel. rnel Andrew S. Rowan Is at the Wind tor hotel awaiting orders which will send him to the rda:. in his regiment wh'lch his courage won him. It was only a month ago that Lieutenant Ro wan, then a first lieutenant ill the Nineteenth Infantry, escaped front Cu ba in an open boat after conducting negotiations with '.lie insurgents which paved the way for the present prepa rations to occupy the Island. He risk ed his life during every moment of his hazardous trip, and now he is enjoy _ng the reward of his bravery. The regiment to which Lieutenant Colonel Rowan will be attached is the Sixth United Stat-.3 volunteers and Is now being raised in Tennessee and ilentucky. Toil Purchased In Canidi. Montreal. June !s.—Practically the whole surplus stock of teas In the hands of Toronto wholesalers has been bought up by United States firms, and rhtpped across the line, in order to avoid the ten cents a pound war tax levied bv the United States govern ment. Colonel Sewell, the United States consul at Toronto, during two or three days passed bills of lading showing 2.100 packages, valued at $23,940. AFTER THE BONDa A Crowil Hi the Sul-treatury To rfn y. New York, .Tuna 1*. —Persona anxloue to invest their savings in the new issue of government bonds—clerks, store keepers, small speculators, laborers and women even—crowded the office of Deputy Assistant United States Treasurer Muhlman in the sub-treas ury yesterday seeking information as to how they could loan money to this government blanks for applications were handed to hundreds of persons, and the clerks In the office were kept continually busy giving out informa tion to an anxious public. Though the application for blanks was so large that they had to be given out sparingly, few persons made an actual purchase, evidently wishing "to go home and think the matter over first. Up to noon less than twenty bonds of denominations of SSOO or less were bought and paid for. To guard against speculators and to give the public every possible chance to invest, no person Is allowed to invest more than SSOO, applicants at the sub treasury for bonds of larger denomina tions being advised that their applica tions must be sent to the treasurer of the United States at Washington. Circulars were distributed to the postoffice and its branches and to ex press offices, where persons anxious to subscribe may do so any day or even ing up to eight o'clock, until the sub scription closes at 3 o'clock in the af ternoon on July 14 next. How Tliey Are to He Issued. The bonds will be issued in both cou pon and registered form, the coupon bonds in denominations of S2O, SIOO, SSOO and SI,OOO, and the registered bonds in denominations of S2O, 100, 500, SI,OOO, $5,- 000 and SIO,OOO. They will be dated Au gust 1. 1898, and by their terms will be redeemable In coin at the pleasure of the United States after ten years from the date of their issue, and due ar.d payable August 1, 1918. The bonds will bear interest at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. The law, authorizing this issue of bonds provides that in alloting them t.u several subscriptions of indivldua's shall be first accepted, and the sub scriptions of the lowest amounts w..l be first allotted. All individual sub scriptions for 500 or less will be allotted in full as they are received, and such subscriptions must be paid in full at the time the subscription is made. If the total sum subscribed for in amounts of SSOO or less should exceed $200,000,000 the allotments will be made according to the priority of the receipt of the subscriptions. Allotments on subscriptions for more than SSOO will not be made until after the subscription closes, July 14. and will then be made inversely according to the size of the subscriptions, the smallest subscriptions being first allot ed and so on. Persons subscribing for more than SSOO must send cash or cer tified checks to the amount of two per cent, of the sum subscribed for, such deposit to constitute a partial payment, fo be forfeited to the United States in the event of failure to make full pay ment for his subscription. The allot ment to subscribers for more than SSOO will be made as soon as possible after the subscription dotes. MAY ATTACK SPAIN'S COAST. A New Squadron to He Formed Under Commodore Srlitey. Newport News, Va., June 15.—The most significant news here 4s the state ment by a naval officer that one of the most daring movements in the history of naval warfare, with Commodore Schley to put it Into effect, Is a strong probability of the near future. His venture 4s the sending of a new flying squadron to Spanish waters to locate Spain's reserve fleet. Should the fleet remain In Cadiz har bor the plan of the navy department it is said contemplates the dispatch of a second or reinforcing squadron to Span ish waters and the capture or annihila tion of the Cadiz fleet. The second fleet would probably con sist of two battleships, several cruis ers and a number of colliers. There Is no doubt that a new squad ron will be formed in Hampton Roads and all Indications point to the fact that it will be sent across the Atlantic if the Spanish reserve fleet docs not make a quick move for Cuba or Porto Rico. This step may not be inaugurated, however, until Admiral Cervera's fleet Is either captured or destroyed. It is said that the new squadron will be composed of the cruisers Brooklyn (Commodore Schley's flagship), New York, Minneapolis, Columbia, St. Paul, Yale, St. Louis and Harvard. Three :>f these ships are now here or in Hamp ton Roads. All have a speed of more than twenty-one knots, and they would form as fleet and strong a flying squad ron as could be organized from the American navv. Their coal carrying capacity ranges from 2,000 to 4,000 tons. The Cincinnati and Newark, now at Norfolk, would hardly Join the new squadron because of their small coal capacity. The Harvard's gun mounts have been placed in position and eight 5-inch guns were hoisted aboard yesterday. lfrtbrt Won AhroHd. Liverpool, June lo. —The lawn tennis championship contest opened yesterday at the Liverpool cricket grounds, Alg burth. The entries were good, all the best English players being engaged ex cept the brothers Badclev, whose ab sence was due to the illness of Mr. Wilfred Baddeiey. In the preliminary round for the gentlemen's singles, Mr. Clarence Ho bart of the United States beat Mr. Wolff of Liverpool. The other con tests were uninteresting. Internationul Missionary Union. Clifton Springs, June 13.—At the close of the meetings of the Interna tional Missionary Union the following candidates, accepted for the foreign field, were presented by Mrs. White Miss Grace Soper, Miss Glenck and Miss Matthews. The Misses Wyckoff, who have spent several years in China, spoke In Chinese. Saturday evening's meetings were devoted to the interests of higher education and the place of schools In the mission fields of a direct evangelical character. This has been a question wnlch has called out a varie ty of opinions among the missionaries. A number spoke on the subject. Dr. C. W. P. Merrltt of China presided. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. FRANCIS JOSEPH. A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRO-HUNGARY*S LIFE. Ills Assurances of Anxiet) for the Crown of Spain and iht <,'nl>letl Kumomof Ills Kf forts to Knlso Europe Against Us Makes Ills Majesty Interesting to Our People. The assurances of anxiety on the part of the Emperor Francis Joseph in the Crown of Spain and the cabled rumors of his efforts to raise Europe against the United States make the polyglot empire of his majesty a mat ter of direct interest to our people. We have paid but little attention to the beer garden scenes lately in the Austrian Reichstag, and neither the discontent of the Magyars nor the po litical demands of the young Czechs, have much concerned the people of the United States, since the exile and death of Louis Kossuth. When the great Hungarian patriot came to this country the people of the United States gave him funds, a warm welcome in the name of freedom and the privileges usually accorded to a distinguished stranger In Washington. Mr. Seward and the late "Sunset" Cox and many others made warm speeches appealing to Magyars and to all American patrl- 1 ots alike to stand by the Hungarian cause. There is not any apology due Francis Joseph for our action in 1870. Though one portion of the dual Em pire would probably reciprocate by now discountenancing acts of hostility against the United Statee on the part of the head of the state, it Is neverthe less a fact that beyond wishing well to freedom everywhere we have not as a people taken any particular Interest In Austro-Hungarian affairs for many years. We may do so again because It is almost impossible to doubt that the head of the House of Hapsburg has dis played both In his own person and in the case of his Majesty's Premier, Golu chowski, a tone of bitter unfriendli ness to the people and institutions of the United States. Count Goluehow ski has gone so far as to publicly urge upon Europe the necessity of combin ing against us commercially, and his august master has followed up this step by repeated invitations to Euro pean Courts to Intervene in our con test with Spain in the common interest of the lame, crippled, humpbacked, be wigged and wrinkled monarchies of Europe. With the affairs of that con tinent we have no concern. It is not the intention of the United States to interfere In the domestic affairs of any foreign people. But our espousal of the case of Kossuth helped to create the autonomy of Hungary and as we have in this country many o' the for mer subjects of the Austrian kaiser, the political condition of the people of central Europe can hardly be a matter of indifference to Americans. The people of the United States may therefore be compelled to renew their former interest In the Emperor Francis Joseph and his affairs, apart entirely r'rcnj the fact that he may at any time spring into notice as the author of a European concert against the new for ward policy of this country. Of course we have no fear of any such concert And if all Europe would be so mad as to regard these United States as all Europe once regarded the First Napo leon, thi3 country has enough of the Termer subjects of these European countries to stand between us and an American Waterloo, even if all the na tive Americans kept saying nothing but sawing wood. Wo need not raise a hand should such an issue be thrust upon U3. Indeed the somewhat rickety throne of Austria would hardly bear such a strain just now as partici pation in a European concert would put upon it. And the opinion prevails in more centres than America that it is the tact and urbanity of the Emperor alone which makes the House of Haps burg a factor at all in Europe; and that when Francis Joseph dies as many lines of cleavage are likely to set In through his mosaic empire as mani fested themselves In the once proud Empire of Charlemagne, of which there is now no trace. The present Emperor was hardly seated on the throne in 1848 when he saw the expulsion of Louis Philippe engender a revolution among hlB sub jects, and it Is not unlikely that to the fear of seeing the throne of the Bour bons fall in Spain, and thus the con tagion spread from Madrid to Vienna, Is due much of that Bolieltious Interest in us now shown by the Emperor of Austro-Hungary. It is not our fault but Spain's misfortune that the proud and pedigreed race over which his ma jesty's niece is Queen Regent, should so conduct Itself In Cuba as to make American Intervention a humane neces sity as was that of Austria in Bosnia and Herzegovnia In 1870. It may therefore so happen that Francis Joseph would court the fates and that the close of his reign would see the renewal of those aspirations for liberty which in 1848 drove Prince Metternich from the Austrian Capiuu, and gave a free constitution to Ute Austrian people. The present Emperor ought not to forget that it was the ab dication of his uncle Ferdinand which kept the Hapsburg dynasty from fall ing In 1848. In order to qualify him for reigning In this crisis, Francis Joseph, then a minor, was declared of age so as to give his ascent of the throne the legal sanction of the con stitution In the eyes of the people. It was only through the assistance of wiser councils that those who now sur round him, that the young Emperor was proclaimed, and it was through the military aid of Russia and by rather clever manipulation of the popular forces that a peace was maintained which aeoured the succession. Nor can we forget that the practice of petty Intrigues such as is now attrib uted to him well becomes the Empero/ and nis ramny. For a tnuusanu year, the House of Hapsburg has maintained Itself by crimes that call for the con demnation of the decalogue. It was by arts that the dukes of Austrli pushed that Insignificant state Into tha proportions of an Empire. It was a duke of Austria that betrayed Richard Plantnganet to the Saracens. It was a duke of Austria that held Richard Coeur de Leon for twelve years In a Danublan castle; and another of the race that did all manner of hideous things In order to incorporate the crowns of Bohemia, Transylvania and Austria. The character of his ances tors also well befits the present Em peror. In the dispute between Eng land and Prance in 1854 the aim of the Emperor of Astrla was to trim between the contending powers. Calling him self an ally of the Western powers he came out of the scramble protector of Moldavia and Wallachia, and so be came one of the contracting parties of the peace of Paris in 1856. Ha thus vastly solidified himself In the seat into which adventitious circumstances had thrust him. He was also successful in the attempt to maintain for a long time the predominance of Austria over Prussia In the Germanic Diet; and no one will deny that the ill-starrad at tept of his brother Maximilian to sub vert the Monroe Doctrine had the full and unconditional approval of the whole Austrian Court. He was then the enemy of America as he Is to-day. Therefore there are many probabilities as well as some powerful dynastic reasons why the cables from Paris which speak of the pernicious activity of Austria do no injustice to the Aus trian Emperor, whose family masked In piety have ever been the unscrupu lous foes of liberty, and of whom a caustic writer has well said that "they gave Idiots to Spain In the guise of Kings, harlots to France In the guise of Queens, tyrants to the Netherlands In the guise of regents, monsters to the new world in the gulße of warriors and empty-headed bigots to lord It over the brave people of the Holy Roman Em pire." This is a crushing Indictment and It Is perhaps one of the retribu tions of avenging time that the man who is now conspiring against us 1 as no direct heir for the throne his fathers had stolen and is likely to be succeeded by a madman who is never likely to reign and who is one of the wickedest men on earth. THE AMERICAN PRIVATEER. A Private Ship of War Bent on Doing Its Dam to Help the Couutry. When the American privateer came to the front In the war of 1812 It did not come as a pirate. It came as a private ship of war bent on doing its beßt to help the country, which had only a small naval force. These vessels and their services to the Republic were admirably Illustrat ed in the case of the General Arm strong, a small ship mounting only seven guns and carrying ninety men. The General Armstrong sailed from New York and captured many British prizes In the first two years of the war. In September, 1814, she was lying In the harbor of Fayal, Azores Islands, when a British squadron of several ships sailed in. This squadron was on Its way to Ja maica, where a great fleet was being assombled by the English to capture New Orleans. On seeing the General Armstrong, which was under command of Capt. Samuel C. Reid, the British prepared to attack her. The principal English vessels in the squadron were the ship Plantagenet, of 74 guns, the frigate- Rota, 44, and the brig Carnation, of 18. Commodore Lloyd gave orders to capture the Yankee so that she could be used In the expedition against New Orleans. All were sailing ships in those days, and the first attack on the 'Yankee" was made by a boat party of 150 men. These were repulsed with terrible loss, and a second attack was made with 500 men, which met with a simi lar fate. Amazed at the fighting qualities of the American privateer Commodore Lloyd then ordered one of the big ships to be "worn" into position so that she could get her big guns to bear on the Genera! Armstrong. Before this could be done Capt. Reld scuttled his ship and landed with his men. The little company took refuge in an old stone convent on a high hill and defied the enemy. The official report of the British Con sul shows that the losses on that side In killed and wounded was 300 men, while the American had only 2 killed and 7 wounded. By this gallant fight of Capt. Reid and his men New Orleans was saved. The British squadron did not reach Jamaica In time t co-operate in the attack, and when they finally reached there Gen. Jackßon had the city in a condition to repel their attack. This wonderful exploit of the Gen eral Armstrong is not referred to in any of the regular histories of the American Navy, though it certainly de serves a place there. The privateers of those days, so far as this country was concerned, were the volunteer navy of the Republic. They struck out boldly for the enemy's country and were ready for a fight at a moment's notice. The volunteer navy of to-day would do the same thing if given the oppor tunity. For Proflr nd Ploaiturr. In Paris the thousands of sardine and other tin boxes that are thrown away every month are stamped by machinery into tin soldiers, and sold so cheaply that the poorest children can buy them, wh'le the manufacturer makes a fair profit. V RERFECT rOOD—aa Wholesome as it is x WALTER BAKER & CO.'S O 1 COCOA 8 V fw •• Has stood the test of more than 100 years' use among all X () fcjj classes, and tor purity and honest worth is unequalled." J# S\ H ' iPIHI Costs less than ONE CENT a Cup. X KM I M l Trade-Mark on Every Package. X X WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD., X /X TRAOI-MMK. Established I 780. DORCHESTER, MASS. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. 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