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least Grandfather Frog thought so. and
so did Spotty the Turtle. for both dearly
love the sunshine. But still they kept
on. for they felt that they must find the
trouble with the Laughing Brook for IL
they found this they would also find the
trouble with the Smiling Pool.
So Billy Mink ran and jumped and
skipped far ahead: Little Joe Otter ran:
Jerry Muskrat walked, for he soon gets
tired on land; Grandfather Frog hoped
Spotty the Turtle crawled. and way. way
up the blue. blue sky OF Mistah Buzzard
few, all looking for the trouble which
had stopped the laughing Oh the Laugh
Ing Brook and the smiling Of the Smiling
Pool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-24
THE INCOME TAX.
XVI Laws in Other
Countries.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

With fifty-odd countries already having
adopted the income tax as a part of their
permanent system of taxation. 1t is In
teresting to note that in the past quarter
Of century no nation that has adopted
such tax has repealed it. Ten of these
countries have national as well as local
income tax laws. The average date of
the enactment Of such laws is 1881. al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-24
PIG IRON PROPOSAL,
Hobson Bill Provides for Automatic
Action on Price Increase.

Representative Hobson has introduced a
bill to provide that when the price of
pig iron or any structural shape OF iron or
steel exceeds by 80 per cent its price
January 1. 1913. the product shall auto
matically be placed upon the free list,
for the apparent purpose of inducing
lower prices through foreign competition.
The bill Yas referred to the ways and
means COM zttee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-24

Denmark levies an income tax ranging
from l3 per cent up to % per cent Ii
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and gazed speculatively at her father
Importantly at work breaking the hard
soil. Its jest this way" she inwardly
commented. The lease on the farm s
up the comm month. and I'm scared to
death-father's been actin so homesick
iate-t.iat he'll up and say he won't rent
no longer. And IL he goes back there-I
Jest know he's got the W'dder Perkins
bee i'm his hat-she'll get him sure. Sos
I don't know that il amt a good thing to
get him interested in Matte Sharpe's
garden. There amt no danger in that
Quarter-poor, drab Mattie.'
Therefore. on account of the drab-
ness of Matte. Rufus. unmolested by
Mary Ellen. put in the sweet May days
making a garden for the little dress
maker; cor hg in to dinner with an APP
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ingly against the tax to permit OF its a.
ficient enforcement

ingly against the tax to permit OF its e..
icient enforcement. -.
Italy has an income tax law that en-
bodies the features Of stoppoge at the
course and .dR-
Italy Has Trouble ferentiation. but
in Collecting Tax. , ta. are. are v ,ssT
high. so high in fact that the administra-
ton Of the law has largely broken down
in the face Of them. The italian rate II
from four to Ave times an high an the
rates in England and Germany. and yet
the yield is only third as great az that
of England and half as great as that OF
Germany. OF course these two countries
are richer than Itaty. and land incomes
are not taxed in Italy. but even these
things do not explain the great dispropor-
tion. 1t is attributed to fraud. Tax
lodging Is almost universal. The people
regard the law as the code OF financial
torture One writer says that the Ital-
Ian taxpayer Ii the most patient human
animal known to fiscal history, vet even
he cannot stand the burdens OF the In
come tax. The tax goes even as high AZ
ID and 20 per cent. and OF course the
people dodge II. The worst dodgers are
said to be professional men. and Of them
1t has been said that the diversities and
fluctuations OF their consciences attain a
degree OF refinement Of which only the
higher talents are capable. Publicity was
tried as cure for lodging, and IL failed.
IT has been said that the only thing that
would surprise an Italian would be 10
find that his neighbor had returned his
true income, or had been assessed In ar3v
degree comparable thereto. The Italian
tax Is collected I'm a most peculiar way.
the government does not undertake the
collection itself. but for each collection
district submits the privilege OF collecting
the tax to public auction. and the person
or firm or company submitting the low
est DID and proving the necessary re.
sponsibility is awarded the contract In
the district in which Rome is situated
the lowest bid ranges around liz per cent
OF the taxes collected -
Holland has an income tax law Tor
property income and for exertion income
Inc property tax ranges from to 3 p4r
cent on earnings. while the exertion-in-
come tax is somewhat lower this giving
the usual differentiation between the
earned and unearned income. Incomes
below $261 are exempted, and the meager
income the Dutch average citizen ENJOYS
may be gathered from the statement that
only sixteen out of thousand OF the
population are income taxpayers. There
is also an inheritance tax which contains
an interesting sliding scale. Property
that descends to children and their chill
dren is taxed ! per cent: property that
goes back to parents is taxed 3 per cent:
OF couples without children
passing from one to the other is taxed
per cent, and this idea is followed on
out as the relationship grows more re-
mote until 1t rises to the maximum Of 10
per cent.
Denmark
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Penalty Is Heavy
for Tax Dodgers,

$l6O per person living In the country
districts. A further exemption OF SO
Is allowed for each child in family.
About ID per cent OF the Danish people
are income tax payers. IL a tax dodger
succeeds all his life I'm cheating the gov
eminent and the fraudulency of his re-
turns are discovered after his death, his
estate Las to pay the penalty, which ,is
double the amount of the tax lodged.
In Sweden there is also a higher exemp-
ton for people living In the cities than
for those living in the country. and In
comes from property are taxed higher
than Incomes from personal exertion. In
comes up to SIP are exempt: when they
get above xl.6D the rate begins to rise
rapidly until II becomes a rate OF about
4 per cent. In Norway there is a system
OF graduation. SO that the first $255 u
exempt. and from that up the tar rises
as the income expands until IL becomes 3
per cent when the income reaches s.. $50
The student Of the income tax laws OF
the world is impressed with the fact that
In those countries where there 10 an esi-
dent spirit of adjusting taxes In proper.
ton to the ability to pay there IL. al
most without exception, a differentiation
between the income from property and
the income from brain and Drawn. Very
seldom does he find such q country laying
down q hard and fast rate which shall
be assessed on all sizes Of incomes with
out discrimination. Where this In done
the burdensOmeness OF 1t Is relieved by
making the exemption q high one. Some
countries do assume that where there II
an exemption UP TO So 900 or 5000 n
fixed rate can apply above that. But
comparatively few countries assume that.
to assess q higher rate against big I'M;
come than against a small one IL In any
degree matter Of wealth batting. They
regard II merely az an adjustment ac-h
cording to ability to pay.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
POLICE PHONES
ARE NOW IN USE
Desk Sergeant Kept Busy Answer
ing Three instruments at
His Elbow.

The new police phoues recently
installed throughout theEclty by the
Home Telephone Company were all
in working order Wednesday night
and Desk Sergeant Abe Hoagland
was a busy man answering all three
phones at his elbow.
The third phone is the new one
that connects all the police boxes
over the city andeit is over this in
strument that the patrolmen on
the various beats make their hourly
reports Central makes the connec-
tinns with headquarters when the
caller rings in from the box and a
similar transaction takes place when
the bulls eye lights in the box are
Hum mated, signifying that heal
quarters wants the officer to res
pond TO an emergency call.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
STORES CLOSE ON
JEWISH new YEAR
abb Levinger of Paducah Conducts
Services Here in Exchange
With Rabbi Freehof.

Many of the leading retail storeF
the city are closed on account of
he celebration of the Jewish New
FEAR, which began at sundown
Wednesday.
There were services Wednesday
tight and Thursday morning, and
hero will be services tonight at the
revish temple, 1t05 Commercial
venue.
Friday sundown marks the begin
ling of the Sabbath of Repentance
rhe Sabbath of Repentance is in the
MIDST OF the penitential week be
ween the New Year and the day o.
ttonement The keynote of the
sabbath of Repentance is the desire
% return to God after the estrange
nent from Him that is revealed by
she New Year retrospect.
Services here will be conducted by
Rabbi Lee j. Levingcr of Paducah
Rabbi Solomon p. Freehof of Cairo
having changed pulpits for thi:
Sabbath with Rabbi Levinger
Services being promptly at 7:4s
p. N.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
Johnson Should
REPAIR PAVEMENT
ON COMMERCIAL
Danville Contractor Notified by City
to Restore Portion That Eel
to Pieces.
SIMILAR TO ACTION
TAKEN IN RICH CASE

At a meeting of the city commits
sioners yesterday, the city clerk was
given instructions to notify Con-
tractor l.. w. Johnson, of Davnille,
who had the Commercial avenue
paving job, to repair the stretch of
the pavement between Twelfth and
7,fteenth streets that practically
vent to pieces when the big sewer
aved in there.
In event the contractor does not
'estore the pavement, the city win
undertake the job, have IL satisfac-
orily repaired and make charge of
he work to Johnson. Attorney An
;us Leek, contends the city has the
light to demand this service from
he contractor under the terms of
he original contract entered into
'etween Johnson and the city.
The Aetna Indemnity Company
If Hartford Conn, the company
hat acted as bondsman for John
on are likewise to be notified of the
teps to be taken by the city.
This action taken by the commiE.
toner's is similar to that of the for
uer city administration in the case
the Rich Construction company,
st. Louis who had charge of build
ng the big sewer. The Rich com,
amy refused to rebuild the sewer
fter it caved in during the 1911
lood, so therefore the city under
ook the work and when it is en-
trely completed. the bill OF expens.
=gill he banded over TO the Rich peo-
lie for payment.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
PHARMACISTS FOR PEACE.

New York, Oct. 2.-The Dru
Trade conference which opens her
tomorrow at Grand Central Palact
will be one OF the most importar
gatherings of physicians in thi
city in years. The general objec
of the conference is to afford an or
portunity for debate and discussion
in an endcayor to clear away an
prejud ices that may prevail betwee
the practitioners Of medicine an.
pharmacy, to bring about co-opera
tion between these allied profes
sions and foster mutual desire fo
real scientific concert of action. TIL
constituent organizations represent
ed Already number more than thirt,
medical and pharmaceutical organi
cations.
In connection with the confer
ence there will he an ethical exhibi
open to druggists, physicians ant
surgeons only.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03

she was robbed it was before she was
killed. and therefore, her murder
was not necessary for that purpose
when the body was found the
gloves were on her hands. | do not
believe. | cannot believe, that the
murderer first killed her, then re-
moved the ring from her finger and
finally gloved her hands. No mur-
derer would think of that-much
less do it.
"She was murdered for revenge.
and the person who planned the
killing hired some one to do it for
him, IN my opinion"
The captain would not tell the
name of the person whom he sus-
pected of knowing something about
the murder
Threatening Letter Recalled.
Captain IIalpin annatnced that
he had placed four city detectives
at the disposal of Sheriff Kuhn and
that the men will probably go to
Wayne today.
With the new evidence that
Spencer" was known to the Rex
roats Captain Halpin attaches new
importance to the testimony heard
at the coroners inquest that Mrs
Effe Lilly had heard Mrs. Rexroat
speak of q letter from Everett
Threatening her with death. Thi'
testimony had beeng dropped from
serious consideration after ReXroa'
established complete alibi.
But with Captain Halpln's pres
ent theory, that the slayer was hir
ed, it has been decided that ever,
effort must be made to find tho
threatening letter, if such a docu
ment exists.
In view of the new turn of af-
fairs, the Retreats were not ques
toned with as much consideration
for their feelings yesterday as haf
been shown at the inquest, whe'
the husband seemed sincerely grief
stricken,
The murderer Of this woma'
was known to you," States Attorne
Hadley said to the widowed mar
Now unless you tell me everythin
you know | shall prosecute you o.
charges of conspiracy to murder
will give you two hours to ransacl
your memory.
Husband Yields to Demand.
At the end of that allotted tim
the Retreats, father and son, CAV
The information required. The
told ef a Spencer" who had COR
10 the farm as peddier. Of tb
qu'ckness with which he made tn
acquaintance of Mrs. Rexroat Anf
they described him Just as the long
wanted Spencer has been describ
Cd
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
DYNAHITER Tells
Of CRIMES union
WORKERSCONNIT
George E. Davis Confesses to Detec'
tive, duplicating Many Others
in List of 0utrages.
EXPLOITS SAID TO RIVAL
THOSE OF THE M'NAMARAS

Now York, Oct. Dynamite out
RACES that rival those of the McNa-
mara brothers and Ortie T.. McMani-
gal were confessed today by George
L. Davis, union Iron worker
Davis, who was arrested here to-
day, was the George O'Donnel who
figured in the trial at indianapolis
that resulted in the conviction of
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the In
ternational Association of Bridge
hnd Structural Iron Workers and
thirty-seven of his assoc ates His
arrest and its consequences round
up the work of the federal govern
ment started more than two years
ago when the dynamiting of b-idges
and steel frame buildings all over
the country became national
seofdal.
iAll the explosions that Davis said
Nsacaused were touched on and tes-
MI ed to at the dynamiters trial in
Indianapolis, but the fact that Davis
caused them remained unrevealed
yaptil he himself told of it today.
Davis confession resulted today
in the arrest at Indianapolis Of
Harry Jones, secretary and treasurer
of the Iron Workers Union. His
confe sion supplements the evidence
presented at indianapolis trials and
makes fresh charges against some of
the men convicted there and now In
prison.
Davis says he was the man chosen
to kill Walter Drew, attorney for
the National Erectors association
"a December, 1911, after Drew was
charged with kidnapping John j. M
Namara. 1t was suggested also that
he tried to get William J. Burns, tho
detective employed TO unearth .he
dynamite conspiracy. The price on
Drew's head at that time was f5,-
900.
Davis consented to return to In
dianapolis without eXtradition. His
bail was fixed at 100000.
The conspiracy thought to have
been broken up by the conviction of
Ryan and others still exists ac-
cording to Davis. With the exccp-
ton of Harry Jones. the men he
mentions in connection with his
various dynamite Jobs already haze
been arrested, although his conies-
sion indicated the government had
not obtained all tho incriminating
evidence against the defendants
when they were tried at Indianap
oils
The apprehension Of this McMani-
gal Of the cast was duo to Robert
Foster, the Louisville detective
who shadowed the iron worker for
months. Finally several weeks ago
when Davis was displeased by the
treatment from the union. Foster
persuaded him to make a full con
fession.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
SAVING the Public Streets.

According to an excellent custom
in Glasgow, before any street IL pay.
ed or repaved all city departments
that may be likely to open the street
are communicated with so as to give
them an opportunity to examine
their pipes or make necessary repairs,
alterations or renewals before the
paving is laid.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
'UBLISHER CHARGED
WITH MISUSING MAILS

New York, Oct 2.-7Mitchell Ken
erly, book publisher, arrested last
week on complaint of Anthony Com
tock, charged with sending indie
ant literature through the mails,
as arraigned before United States
Commissioner Shields today for a
earring. It is alleged that some of
he books published by Kennerley
re of an unusually vicious charao
er.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
SOCIETY GIRL HUNTS
FIANCE IN HOSPITALS.

st. Louis, Mo, Oct Miss Ger
trude Trecklenberg, a society girl of
Belleyille, ILL.,, toured the st. Louis
hospitals looking for her fiance, Ed
ward Frick also of Belleville. Young
Frick disappeared week before he
was to have been married to Miss
Trccklenburg.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
FARMER DRINKS ACID
BY MISTAKE AND DIES

Laporte, Ind, Oct. BERT Aus
sin a farmer living near New Buff
falo on the Hartford road, drank
tarbolic acid mistaking it for castor
iii, and died within five minutes.
Ie was sixty years old. There was
10 motive indicating suicide.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
RAP Slayer OF
DANCER; EXPECT
HIS ARREST SOON
leriff and City Officials Declare
Mrs. Rexroat Was the Victim
OF An Assassin.
IARCH FOR OTHERS
CONNECTED WITH CASE

Chicago, Oct. "A prolonged
difference last night between Cap
lin of Detectives Halpin and Sher-
Kuhn of Dupage County resulted
the announcement that a vitally
lportant arrest Is expected this
|orning in connection with the
|lrder. of Mildred Allison -Rexroat,
| e tango teacher whose body was
|ft on the railroad tracks near
heaton, H., after she had been
ot TO death.
More than that, ii was clearly in
|nated that the man whose arrest
expected Is believed to be the man
|ho did the killing. But a new and
|artling theory has arisen which in
Gates that the man who actually
Dot the young woman is not the
ply man responsible for her death.
The new belief is that Mrs. Rex
bat was the victim of a hired ass
|sin, that the theft of her jewelry
las only an incidental and not the
sic motive of her murder.
Blackmail il Hinted.
Every detective on the case, every
Iputy sheriff from Kuhn's office.
fery policeman engaged in the
|arch for persons wanted either for
rect completely or for the inciden-
knowledge they were believed
have possessed-all of them main
ned last night mysterious si-
|nce as to the details of the new
|lth into which the Investigation
|lq turned.
One astonishing accusition' arises
(lt Of all tlFalFsys1ery. It is that
l;pencer the xnan hitherto most
|anted for the murder. is known
III to the last husband and to
liam Rexroat, father of the
sband, II is alleged further that
Q Spencer" at one time tried to
|aakmail the Rcxroats. father and
| n, following the departure of Mrs.
|eSroat from her father-in-law s
m near Macomb, Ill. But the
|rlngest and perhaps the most sig
ticent fact Of all, in the opinion OF
g detectives, is the fact that the
|eXroats, knowing Spencer" and
|lowing for what he was wanted.
|lve maintained absolute silence as
heir knowledge of him.
This silence, which appeared in
|thlicahle to the Investigators, led
|st night to hurried summonine
the elder and the younger Rex
pat to appear before States Attor-
r. Hadley of Dupage County. The
|exreats, when questioned closely
a'ed that spencer was a picture
kddler who had met Mrs. Rexroat
the farm, And that Spencer"
said to answer almost exactly to
g most thorough description the
p|ice have yet obtained of the
Spencer" who lured Mrs. Rexroat
1 Wheaton in the night, led her to
lonely spot near the railroad track
I'd killed her.
It was after these revelations that
|aDtain Halpin made his statement
scarding the robbery theory as the
'Hmediate cause of the tragedy.
Robbed and Then Slain.
In fact" he sad. 'I do not be-
eve the woman really was robbed
at least, not after the murder. If
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
STRAIGHT LINE TO SPOKANE

Chicago, Oct. 2.-The new line OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad from Plummer, Idaho,
TO Spokane, Wash, is ready for
operation. This branch of the sys-
TEN, which is forty miles, will en-
able the st. Paul to operate
through cars from Chicago to Spo-
kane.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03
plny Of Eent reIIa a storv.

II is an axiom among business and
professional men, and especially
among newspaper interyiewers, to
watch the face of those with whom
they are talking, But it is still old
or axiom with the examining Judge in
France TO note not only the prisoners
face but his feet play as well.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03

Board of School Commissioners here
has passed a resolution providing
for a general celebration in the pub
lie schools on October z, the birth
day of James Whitcomb Riley. In
addition to the exercises a parade of
all the children will be held.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-03

Joliet. Ill. Oct 2-The body OF a
father and a dog, nearly starved
were found today a mile from the
nearest farmhouse, seven miles
north of here. The dog was almost
at death, as the result Of his lonely
but persistent watch over the body