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supplies are seriously diminished because generals compel farmers to grow opium for the resulting revenue; secondly, perhaps some would pat it' first, national prestige; and thirdly a test case of military or civil power. Before these questions are thrashed out a good many reputations are likely to suffer considerably. Meanwhile the indignation felt by the Chinese community is a very healthy sign.
Taxes in the Interior respectful on the part of the writer. Anything that can walk nine dv 200 years of age is deserving of commendation Tennessee and Tails The fundamental calm which has brooded over Tennessee since, in the dingy court-room, counsel thrashed fut the to be or not to be" of evolution in state schools, has been rudely shaken by the birth to a of a daughter with would almost seem us if nature herself had centered the witness box on behalf of the losing side—a little belatedly, perhaps, but exhibiting seven inches of evidence so important that it has set all the local scientists eluck-
In a telegram published in these columns yesterday it was shown that unless there is 2 guarantee the abolition of likin, Manchester very much afraid" that illegal taxes in the interior, plas China's tant, will restrict foreign tude to small stretches of country near the coast. How well tha fear is Justifed may be seen. from instance which has just come to Tight regarding the taxes. levied between here and Chungking, which aided $0 per cent. to the cost of the foods in the latter port. The case point is a shipment of wines and spirits, to Chungking, ita total Malte being $1402.30.""Here is the Taxation to which it was subjected before arriving at its destinati ing Tike #0 many hens over a particularly fruitful worm-cast. Let Tennessee debate the merits of this Chungking luxury tax testimony while ce touch tenderly upon the concluding paragraph of the message published yesterday: "The mother has declined to. have anything further to do with the father." Here is throbbing domest tragedy—n happy home broken up by fan appendage, Tes, of course, typical of the sex to blame the male, Tt may be instinct ib certainly is not logic, which telis the mother that. the father is responsible for this addition to the latest addition to. the family. Violently he may have Aserted his innocence, inadvertence, oversight, but to one argument, if she used i, he can huve had' no reply:—*T told you so, if you would keep aping your betters Totat This, of course, was over and above the import duty which had been paid on the invoice price on importation of the goods into Shanghai Which amounted to 5 per cent. as per tariff, 24 per cent. surtax, and per cent, luxury tax. When the new tariff comes into force, instead of & total import duty of 10 per. cent. as in this case, it will pro-ably be 272 per cent, and, so far as can be seen, the Government hi no power at its disposal to prevent the other 80 por cent. being added en route as in the Just cited. And so trade The Opium Case
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