davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

to be British, and Palmyra was formally
annexed to Great Britain about 1889.
It is asserted, however, that native Ha-
waiians visited Palmyra seven years ear.
lier, in 1882. and raised their flag over
It.; and that, although they abandoned
It, tho occupation is regarded by Hawaii as
giving her a permanent title. Be this as
It may, with the rich and extensive Ha.
waiian group In our possession, It would
be of minor Importance to us to own this
little islet in another group, Of which some
or all Of the surrounding members are
admittedly British. II ours had been the
general policy Of grabbing whatever We
could get in the Pacific, we might have
taken scores Of such islands. and not only
uninhabited rocks like Palmyra, but moro
valuable islands where our missionaries
and merchants have been pioneers.
1t is inconceivable, in short, that this
matter car have any important relation to
our annexation Of Hawaii.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
Judicial Incitement to Disorder.

GO to your homes and stay therel This
is a white mans country and you negroes
may as well understand thisa and keep your
place."
Such was the admonition which Judge
JAMES j. BANKS saw fit to address to the
negroes who crowded his courtroom in De-
catur, Ca, on Tuesday morning, upon the
occasion of the arraignment Of three per-
sons Of their race who were indicted for an
assault upon q young white girl. The au-
thorities had experienced much difficulty
in preventing the prisoners from being
lynched; and the Judge, assuming that the
audience in the courtroom had gathered to
afford them further protection, told the ne
groes that they would be sent for II they
were needed for that purpose, and directed
them to go home and behave themselves,
concluding his remarks with the declara-
ton which we ave quoted, to the effect
that this was a white mans country.
We suppose the Judge meant we'll, but
his command to the negroes to go home and
stay there was plainly unlawful, and his
statement that this was a white mans
country had a tendency to arouse the very
spirit of disorder which he should have
striven to the utmost to repress.
What would be thought in Georgia Of a
command from the bench to the white per-
sons attending court to go to their homes
and stay there2 Would such judicial
tyranny be tolerated for a day2 We think
not. Yet Judge BANKs had no more legal
right thus to order home the negroes in his
courtroom than he would lave had to order
home the whites. Before the law both races
stand equal, and each is entitled to the
same measure of justice from the judiciary.
In coupling with his command the
declaration that this was a white mans
country, Judge BANKS plainly intended to
have the negroes understand that they were
subordinate to the whites, even in the exer-
else Of their legal rights. If such be the
actual condition of things in Georgia, a con.
scientious Judge, instead of exultingly pro.
claiming the fact, should be devoting his
days and nights to securing for the colored
people that equality before the Law which
is guaranteed to them by the Constitution
and which it is a burning shame and dis.
grace to any State to deny them.
This is a white mans country, and you
negroes may as we'll understand this and
keep your place"
At all events, they must have understood
one thing, and that was that one of the
White proprietors of the country was max
ing a lamentable exhibition of himself on
the bench.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

Impressive proof that Chicago has not yet
annexed the State OF Illinois has come from the
new Chicago tax on wheels. to go into effect on
Aug. /. 1t will be, annually, for bicycles, 81; for
one-horso vehicles, 81; two.horso, IS; three
horse, $3.50; four-horse, 81; six-horse. $1,000;
eight-horso or moro, $13. In Illinois, though,
there arc what are known as suburbs" of
Chicago and they arc wrathtul at the determine
ton Of Chicago's tax gathercrs to tax suburban
wheels that enter the city. Among the suburbs
the town OF Cicero leads in retaliation by adopt
ing a tax OF 81 a year on bicycles and all other
vehicles. Clcoro's idea Of It Is that many moro
Chicago whoelmen will como to Cicero on Sum
days and got taxed than whoelmen OF Cicero
will 60 to Chicago during tho week. And back
OF 1t is the hope that it's effect will be to render
the enforcement Of tho tax in Chicago impossi-
bio. To show that 1t is really peaceablo. Cicero
will not enforce It's tax until Chicago ~cnforces
its tax. Go II, Ciceroi
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

The end Of the rainy season, If the rainy
season has in good faith suspended business,
must bring an especial satisfaction to the Hon.
JERRY SIMPSON. That active Populist bicycler
has been planning to surprise Medicine Lodge
and the other towns which are lucky enough to
be in his Congress district. While he has been
amusing them with his efforts TO suppress the
tyranny OF the Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED.
and has let them see him in the act of holding
the Constitution on his unaided head, his serious
purpose has been ripening. Some persons have
supposed that he was only an economist Of the
ocala school, only one more statesman in a State
Of statesmen. only one more movement in the
Populist machine. He is all these things and
much more. He Is an artist. He has a passion
for the becoming and the seemly. He has been
a missionary Of the higher aesthetics in Wash
ington. He has gone back to Kansas. resolved
to mako 1t a picture, not to say a panorama. II
the weather is fair to-day, Mr.. SIMPSON will ex-
hibit his wardrobe to his constituents. Whether
the weather is fair or foul tonight, he will de-
liver n lecture on what to Wear; or, Clothes
and the Hour The Jerry Simpson Clothing
Reform and Cravat Improvement Club of Medi-
cine Lodge already numbers twenty-seven men,
bers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

Putting together the following senti-
ments, which accompanied the recent Presiden-
tial message asking Congress to provide for the
appointment of n currency commission, 1t is not
difficult to understand the practical result:
"The soundness of our currency Is nowhere ques-
toned ,"-President MCKINLEY. IN the message.
"Iknow there are men who maintain that there 10
something necessary TO DO done in relation to our
financial system; aud It Is a fact that the man who
believes himself sick is just as much in need OF treat
ment rs the one who Is actually sick. The hypochon.
driac is just as wretched as the confirmed invalid
Hon. CHARLES w. STONE, father OF the Currencv Com.
mfssion bin tohtch passed tho House.
THAT the bill which passed the House failed of
recognition in tho Senate is not u matter for d.scour.
agement. What might have been accomplished
through q commission may be achieved without one."
Secretary GAGE. to tho business men OF Boston.
with this degree Of fervor for the currency
commission on tho part OF its leading pro-
rioters, 1t is not surprising that the Senate let
tho matter drop. Finally. tho necdlessncss of
Congressional a ction anyway is shown by this
golden-hued news from the Philadelphia Record:
Although President McKISLEY's recommendation
OF . currency commission has failed by non-concur-
renee OF the Senate, there will be a report on the sub
Ject by tho reassembllng of Congress In December
next. Chairman HU0H II. HANNA OF the Busiuoa.
Mems Monetary Convention, which was held In In.
dianapols in January last, states that he will call the
Executive together within a week. and
that tho committee viii appoint q commission to
frame a currency bill for presentation to Congress at
the opening OF tho next session. A report from such
. commission. representing the business interests OF
the country. will doubtless prove moro satisfactory
than anything that could have emanAted from tho
mixed commission by the President
What well ends. we'll is.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
CLEO DE MERoDE,s AMER1oAHrnr
The Poor Thing Couldn't AGord TO 1--we In Pari,
Any Longer on o Francs . Month.

|
The Poor Thing Couldn't AfrOrd TO Lave In Paris
Any Longer on 300 Francs . Month.
From Le Figaro.
As We announced yesterday. Mile. cleo do Merode
Is about to leave us. Life In Paris had become impos-
sible for her. In spite of prodigies Of economy and
though aided by tho prudent advice OF her mother,
she could no longer manage to mako both ends meet
On the 200 francs o month which the Opera gives
her she had TO keep u carriage and horses. . little
palace and open table for her friends. and to DO from
head to foot one of the most elegant little dolls in Paris.
Two hundred francs is not much for all that, and I'M
der such circumstances even q ballet dancer hardly
knows on which foot TO hop.
Or. rather, she does, she knows It only too well, and
more than one in similar cases has gone to tho bad.
In the dressing room of the ballet names OF parsons
are mentioned whose misconduct seems, unfortu-
nately, to be undeniable. and whose antics arc not
entirely photographic. We should praise all the
more those who. like Mile. Cleo de Merode, try to live
exclusively by their lAbors, and ask Of art alone the
requisites for existence.
Our amiable dancer will receive in America IS, 600
francs q month. With q little care. therefore. she and
her mother will be able to live very respectfully. In
Paris that would not have been possible for them;
talent is, indeed. appreciated there as much as It Is
in America. but It is not so well rewarded. Mile.
CLEO de Merode is held in high esteem at the Opera,
but several years would have passed before she re-.
ceived $4,000 francs q month. What was she to do
Was slie to slide into the downwar path like her
young companions2 Mile. cleo de M6rode. who.
luckily for her. still has her mother by hor side, re-
fused to do this. and very bravely Ia going to start for
America. We must congratulate her. In Paris, In
the long run. abe might have fallen
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
A Great American University.

The plan Of the University of California
to erect new buildings for its accommoda-
ton on n scale of unexcelled il not unap-
preached magnidcence is full of impress
siveness. Their scheme for an interna-
tional competition of architects In the
making of designs for the proposed struc-
ture Is also liberal, and indicative of a laud-
able desire to make the architecture Of the
university commensurate in its dignity,
fitness, and artistic eminence with the
great importance they forcsce for that great
seat of learning on the Pacific.
The real greatness of a university, how
ever, depends rather on the intellectual
force 1t carries within 1t than upon the
mere material habitation it occupies. Great
men in its halls rather thar magnificent
buildings are its first requisite. An infe-
rior man may be made to seem all the more
inferior because of the grandeur of the
abode he erects for himself. He may be SO
far homogeneous with his material surround
ings in his own dignity and consequence
that they will simply increase the impress
sion OF his insigni1cance. He may be
dwarfed by the very grandeur In which he
lives. Everything else may be In tasteful
harmony, and only his own individuality
out OF place and discordant amid 1t all.
We do not say this in disparagement of
the California University, which has rap
idly achieved a place of eminence among
American schools of learning. but simply
to put the scheme to magnify its architec.
tural importance into its true relative place
as of little significance comparatively with
the intellectual development necessary to
wnaI.o "A .s;4. mi 80
strength, the usefulness of n school Of learn
Ing is in its corps of instruction, selected in
due accordance with the elevation and the
comprchcnsiycness of It's scheme of cduca-
tion. A great university might exist in tho
least attractive and imposing of ediices for
Its accommodation; n the grandeur of its
material residence might only serve to
make the more conspicuous the intellectual
poverty of a merely nominal university.
The shell Is requisite. but the living and
propagating germ is in the kernel.
A university should be adapted to the
civilization about 1t, for only by such
adaptation can 1t assist In cultivatirg and
stimulating a demand for Its complete de-
Yelopment. 1t cannot be IN exotic trans
planted from another civilization, but must
be an Indigenous plant growing spontane-
ously In the soil where 1t exists. An
American university, accordingly, must be
inspired with the American spirit and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

Mr.. RICHARD LIE GALLIENNE in ono Of
the quatrains of the translation or traduction Of
OMAR KHAYYAM. which he has been good
enough to publish for the benefit Of persons dis
satisfied with F~IrzoERALD's version, makes
these ingenious inquiries:
"This is no way my learned life to useP
Tell me q better. then, that I may choose.
Shall I for some remote imagined gain
Ny precious little hour of living lose ?"
1t Is clear that making translations of OMAR
KHAYYAM from the original or tho French or
what not Is no way for Mr.. LIE GALIIENNE to
use his learned life. 1t may seem impolite for
strangers to suggest a better way to him.. but as
he calls for help he shall have It. Any respect
able way would be much better for him and for
other folks. He might count the words In tho
dictionary or continue the lamented PIcKwIcK's
speculations upon tho theory of tittlebats, or
translate Sir LEWIS MORRIS from Jubilesque into
Welsh, or study Chinese. or take up perpetual mo-
ton, or compile a photography Of his own works,
or just brood for a year and a day and never
write q word. Still. It is right to say that tho
Ill feeling caused by Mr.. LIE GALLIENNE's quat-
rains is probably not so great, at least in tho
United States, as TO endanger his precious little
life. Nobody will treat him a. he has treated
the Tent Maker.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
Britiah treatment or ..nigreru.p

FSom the Rhodcsfdn Times and FvnanotoI Meas.
On Sunday night Mr.. Lamprecht fred tvico
at a native who was attempting to steal his cat.
tie. but did not. succeed In stopping him. The
any one was awake. On Wednesday night Q
native policeman fired three times at a native
The boy when noticed could not DO fred at,
owing to tho danger Of shooting through the
window. and when he retreated round the cor
In spite Of the shots, however. all three escaped.
Another reform is much needed In Beira.
whose employer does not pay his wages or
strikes him can go TO the police ofice. lodge .
man can be dismissed. and his only method OF
appeal is by the elaborate circumlocution of the
Portuguese Government. tribunal. Again, the
practice still exists of locking up Europeans and
niggers in tho Same room for the night. This %
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
Palmyra Island.

Various London dispatches take the
trouble to announce the already well-known
fact that Palmyra Island was annexed by
England, not recently, as a foolish story
had 1t, but years ago. In any case, 1t is
hard to see how this matter could compli-
cate our annexation of Hawaii.
1t has been alleged that President DoLE's
Government lays claim to this island
as an outpost and dependency of the
Hawaiian group; and that, IL 80, 1t becomes
the duty of our Government, which expects
soon to succeed to Hawaii's territorial rights,
to sec whether the claim to this island is
well founded.
A single glance at the map shows that,
whatever Hawaiis claims on other grounds,
Palmyra is not geographically part of
the Hawaiian archipelago. 1t is, In fact,
abouta thousand miles distant therefrom, to
the southwest, and is a member of a wholly
different group, comprising Tanning,
Washington, Christmas, Danger or King.
man, Samarang or Prospect, and some
other ~neighboring islands. Many of these
are small, rocky islets, some of which in past
years have been occupied by our country
men, who gathered up their stores of guano
and then abandoned them.
Very likely II our policy had been to
seize and hold everything we could In the
Pacific, the Stars and Stripes would be wav-
ing over those islands. But we left this to
others, and most or all of the islets in that
quarter have been, in fact, gobbled up by
England. flaming, Christmas, and Wash
ington or New York islands are admitted
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
Toads vgayIay Bees.
Nrom the Bufralo Courier. Record.


DUNKIRK, July 2O.-"I found out something
last night that makes me teel silly. and I'v0
learned a little lesson in natural history that I
shall not soon forget" said s, v, Hall: Every
have gone out about shutdown to shut
the hen house, I have noticed a large
hives of bees, tho one nearest tho walk,
and was careful not to modest him because I
have always protected toads on my place ON 40.
count, OF their usefulness in destroying trouble
some INSECTS. / stopped TO watch and I soon
learned all about It. The hive, under which
they burrowed in cool retirement in tho daytime
and IN front Of which they took up sentinel poai:
tions in the early evening. stood on the ground
will only a board between Il and the sod. The
inches, 80 as to afford the bees a conyenient
place for alighting.. While I watched the bees
arriving homo last night, heavily laden with
honey, I saw those two toads shoot out their long,
aim. Shiny. tongues and capture. every bee. ]
did not walt to see them cat many before I killed
them both; disseSted one and found bis stom.
stages Of digestion. estimated that those
winking, blinking toads have boon devouring
nifty or sixty a day. had supposed the bees
stings would protect them from such o fate"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
The Revenue and the Pensions.

The preliminary report Of the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue for the fiscal
year that ended with last month shows a
total of receipts by the Government from
It's various internal taxes amounting to
only $146,619,5Os
The total of the appropriation for pen
sions during the same fiscal year was
$141, 1925, $50. We have not yet the fig
ures of actual expenditure, but recent ex-
p%erience shows that they will not vary
much from those of the appropriation.
Therefore, the Governments pension ex-
penditurc, mostly on account Of the civil
war that ended thirty-two years ago, alb.
sorbed within about So, 1000, 900 of the
whole internal revenue.
The actual pension expenditure for the
fiscal year ending on jun 80, 1896, as
reported by the Secretary Of the Treasury,
was $139,434,O 600. The internal revenue
receipts for that year were $146, 1852, S64
30 That after paying the regular annual
pension bills there remained of the internal
revenue only about 81, 1000 900 available
for all other purposes.
The year before that, the internal revenue
receipts were $143, 421, 672, and the ex-
penditure for pensions was $141, 1895, 22s.
All but about So, 900 900 of the internal
revenue was used up that year in provid.
ing for the pensions.
Go back one year more. The pension ex-
penditure during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1894, was $141, 1T, 2s4, while the in.
ternal revenue taxes yielded $147, ILL.,.
232; 30 that n little less than SO. 900, 900 of
the internal reyenue was left for the oen.
eral expenses Of the Government.
TIC be exact. let us tabulate the four
years. remembering that the pension fig.
ures for 1897 are those of the ~appropria-
tions, not Of the expenditure:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

From tho 81. Louis Republic.

At the annual meeting OF the Texas Cotton Chop
pera' Association. in the magnolia scented and roman
tic city OF itasca, Ex-Governor Hogs, the ora.
tor OF the day. made a swipe at 4 molasses h haired
baby. and kissed II on the head with a smack that
sounded like a Missouri mule pulling his foot out Of
the mud. Tho child glared q: him and passed on.
when tho Hilst orc Military Band discoursed some
excellent music. . . . A young lady presented
him n hand painted hoe. = . . He grabbed the
young lady and kissed her full IN the mouth, while
the great crowd applauded wildly.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
II Innocence Of accusation makes n nv

II Innocence of accusation makes a man
great. the greatest man In tho United States
is tho Hon. 8. d. MCENERY. junior Senator of
Louisiana. the only Democrat In his part OF
Congress to vote for the tariff bill. For this act
all the old humbugs that have shouted for q
tariff for only as the Democratic prlncl.
pie have denounced Senator McENERY as a trail.
tor to the faith of his party. Yet Senator MoEN-
ERY. as a politician. had as clear a moral right
to vote for the Dlngley tariff as any Republican.
The first thing that the Democratic party did
after obtaining office on the pledge TO make a
revenue-only tariff. was TO betray their promise
and pass q tariff for protection. When Mr.. No
ENERY, was chosen Senator he said In 90 many
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
sPALN'S DEAD IN OUBA.
The Losses or the Spanish Army Computed ~
the Figures or tho Civil war.

The Losses or the Spanish Army Computed ~
the Figures OF the Civil war
TIC THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: The loss
Of the Union armies by death during the war Of
the rebellion is officially reported to have been
in round number 100000 men. There 10, how
over. no doubt that this number IL below tho
actual loss. which probably will never be ascer-
tanned. OF these, in round numbers, there were
killed In action $1,000, or ono in 8 37-10o Of
those who died; the number Of those who died of
wounds received in action was 49, or ono in
8 37-1OO Of the men who died.
These ratios applied to tho number of tho
Spanish army reported by THE SUN lately as
having been killed in action in Cuba-27. 900
men-would give as having died Of wounds,
diseases. and other causes III. 900 men. or killed
in action. died of wounds and diseases IA 800;
or II the number reported by THE Sun includes
those who died of wounds, tho figures would
show SO. 800 who died Of diseases and O total Of
115. 900 men who lost their lives.
And yet Spain says Cuba is paciled and there
has been no war. J. L NJ.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 20, 1897.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30

h two great sources of money with
which to meet the current expenses of the
Government, disregarding the Cleveland
method of borrowing and paying interest,
are the customs revenue and the internal
revenue. If we consider the internal rev.
enue as a thing set apart for the purpose of
paying pensions, we find that, according to
the Treasury Departments bookkeeping, 1t
has sufliced to meet the o pension
expenditure during the past four years,
with just about $40, 600, 900 to spare. But,
In fact, 1t may not have done quite so we'll
as that, inasmuch as . deficiency appro.
p~riation of about SD. OOO, 600, technically
charged to the expenses of 1893, actually
came out of he revenue of the period
beginning with 1894. So that it is fair to
say, in a general way, that pensions have
been eating up nearly the whole of the In
ternal revenue.
II we take the other view Of the matter
and consider the entire internal revenue as
available for the general expenses of the
Government, the legislative, executive,
and judicial establishments, foreign inter.
course, the army and the navy, public
works, interest on the debt, and SO on,
n charge pensions to the customs rev.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
Report on Negro Mill Hands.

FFoM The ChdTlesfon NetrS and Courier.
The owners of the Charleston Cotton Mil preferred
white labor. They could not get one. fifth Of the white
labor they needed in or about Charleston.
The white labor they brought in from elsewhere
was very unsatisfactory, but they kept It for ten
years.
During those years tho mill steadily sunk money.
and was this year rcorganiEed aud capitalized.
Ten years ago the then Presi lent OF the company. q
southerner and eI.Confederate soldier. urged the
directory to allow him to outfit the mill with negro
help, and II is now only from necessity that negroes
are used.
The negro hands arc proving entirely satisfactory.
and no change will DO made so long us they continue
to be.