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Show LITTLE TOWN HAS NO POOR PEOPLE Paris. March J? From times to which the memory of man runneth not hack. th6 pretty town of Stein on the Rhine has had no taxes. The com mon Ian. Is belonging to the towushlp yielded revenues sufficient to pay all publb expenses and they were 'et to the people .ii prices so moderate that not a poor family was to be found in Stein. The local authorities overspent last year and are now Irving Irv-ing to lay a tax of one-half of 1 per cent on the property holders. They all refuse to pay, and there seems to be no way of making them |