The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-01

there will be a fresh outbreak next year
after the temporary cessation which winter
generally insures.
The disease has now got we'll scattered in
isolated cases at numerous points in Great
Britain, and it will almost be beyond the
power Of administrative vigilance to keep it
out of the United States. The arrival of the
Moravia at New Y FORK after a voyage from
Hamburg, during which twenty-five deaths
occurred, is a startling warning Of what
NAV be expected. The ships surgeon pro-
nounces the malady cholerine, but the port
medical advisers are doubtless right in con-
GLIDING that il is Asiatic cholera alone
which could account for such rush of
mortality on short voyage. Nowhere in
America, therefore, should any precautions
be neglected which would tend to ward off
the pestilepce. Never was the command,
Put your house in order" more impera-
tive than at this moment. Let US hope no
one will pay the smallest attention to the
twaddle uttered by an Oakland doctor, that
choleraic germs cannot thrive in California.
They have thrved, and have carried off
thousands. That is sufficient refutation.
The hornet has to be reckoned with on
Journey to the Yosemite. His Is a very
irresponsible existence, and in a family
cloud he is capable of taking terrible re-
yenge on any animal that offends his sense
of the prophecies. The accident at Yo-
semitic Is thrilling experience that will
never he forgotten by those who shared III
the tumble over the cliff. II was one of
those disasters TO guard against which no
h uman pTecaution ayailS. Horses stung by
hornets are not concerned about q leap of
1000 feet down q preclplce. The insect
world has never been harmonious with the
rest of animated nature on the evolution
theory. It's, as it were, a world Of life by
c, xfxfal rl,aniG frotf n for
world of life. Hornets and: wasps, as far
as mans views extend, might well have
been suppressed, but they are useful as a
study OF community life.
: THAT Pennsylvania farmer of humane
motives. who saved tie Chicago express
from wreck by removing distinctions from
the line, proves to be a transparent fraud.
: II placed the distractions there himself in
the hope of extracting reward from the
company. He also seems to have spoiled a
hat by sending bullet throughit, and rs a
further evidence of daring he barked his
shin with another shot To think that all
this ingenuity should fail ! As an agricul-
tarist lie ismore likely to succeed with nom
eStplowing.
The men who attempted to rob the Cayu-
cos bank in San Luis Obispo County seem
10 have had detective among them who
gave tllnely information 10 the dutDoFlLleS.
They gained nothing by their crime and
have to reckon the loss Of one Of their COM
rades. 1t is quite probable too, that if
caught they will be convicted. In spite of
all these warnings robberes do not dimin-
ish. But the exposure of how the Evans
and Sontag gang of tTain-robbers were
tracked may tend to diminish that kind of
enterprise. The read agents cannot have
much confidence in their pc from justice
If the suspicion that one of their number is
an tffieer hauntS them. How far officers are
justified in entering into these conspracies
for the sake of trapping outlaws is ques-
ton OF ethics which need not at present be
discussed Cases of capture are very few.
1t is suggested that proceedings in some
form should be commenced against the
Southern Pacific Company to wiring from
it the unjust and illegal charges it has
levied upon merchants under the title OF
harbor tolls. While the company has paid
five cents per ton to the Harbor Commits
sioners it has squeezed the merchants to the
tune of five cents for every consignment
and thus has poeketed many thousands,
if not millions, 10y base trick. The COM
pauy, however, has a knack of keeping all
the money It gets into its hands. A test
suit would be interesting.