The morning call., 1893-07-08

its sanitation and water supply are doubt
less much worse on account OF the IN
creased trend of pilgrimage. Jerusalem
Is becoming altogether too modern to the
reverential heart. A railway now rms
from Joppa to the king city of Palestine.
and trains make hesjourney Of 5419 miles
in 312 hours. The fare is So But there IS
no reason why railway train should
shock the pious any more than donkey
or a camel with prOfane. backsfleesh-
scrambling drivers pricking them on. 1t
is very much otherwise with other signs OF
sophistication around Jerusalem itself.
Places held in the most profound rever-
ence are profaDed without scruple. A
traveller describes the way to the Mount OF
Olives as disfgured with advertisements
of Guinness stout! Unless this is checked
there will be swarm of advertisers of
beer, pills, plasters and corn and bunion
cures. Still worse, a band performs very
secular music daily in the Garden of Geth-
semane. The Turks would have no hest
tatiOn in converting it into beer-garden.
The music is of the ordinary merry kind
to which the dancer may trip. These places
ought to be bought up and preserved from
pollution.
The cyclone in Iowa has wrought dread
full havoc along its track. In the town of
Pomeroy. which appears to have been
caught between two currents. there are
thirty-seven dead. At Fonda, Cherokee
and other places the list of fatalities is
considerably increased. The wounded
are also numerous. Property in houses,
barns, and orchard trees has been
wrecked and carried away with terrific
force. Even churches. which might be
assumed to be very substantial in their
architecture. were bowled over and de-
mOllshed. Such storms are much more
appalling than any experienced at sea. A
seaman can work out of them by watching
the barometer and keeping away from the
center. but on land there is no remedy,
and to save life it is the custom to build
cellars or caves. The terror which such
visitations inspire weighs sadly in detrac-
ton f1om any charms or blessings the
prairie regions possess.
Having got the new Reichstag together.
the Emperor William has submitted.
through Chancellor Caprivi. the army bill
in modified form, with the intimation
that it represents the minimum in men and
money the Government will accept. This
is as good as saying, pass this measure
with reasonable convenience, or will ap-
peal to Germany for another ReichStag."
The forecast now made about the bill and
the success Of the Emperor's movement is
not so prophetic Of failure as before the
election. In fact, the correspondents are
rather forced to the conclusion that the
Emperor holds the winning cards in the
game. Almost the only spondent
who predicted success was a special repre-
sentative Of the Philadelphia Ledger. He
maintained that Harold Frederic and some
other correspondents Of note were erro-
neous in their JUDGMENT because no
longer in touch with Germany. and that
the Emperor is far-Seeing and his Chan
cellor a statesman, conscientious and hard
working. The last Reichsiag was moribund
and had ceased to represent the country.
The change to Mob Hin has materially
bettered the fortunes of the San Francisco
Art Association. At the Hopkins man.
sion there is no need to drum up the city
to visit the exhibition now about to close.
The attendance is large, and SO encourag
ing are the signs that it has been deter
mined to keep the galleries open through
out the year, with fresh collections. THIS
will make the institute the place OF resort
it should be. The city is rich in pictures.
statuary, tapestry and pottery which
might be loaned. little at time. Mr..
Searles is showing a genuine interest in
the adapting Of the mansion and its ac-
cesSory buildings to art. He proposes tC
improve the schnolrooms. and he has pre-
scented veritable Sidney Cooper to the
gallery. Cooper is still living, though past
so. and his brush is still skilful in the de-
piction of cattle ana sheep, mastery, but
too clean.
The Southern Pacific. having a compre-
hensive grasp Of all things, has gone into
the pilot-boat business. at least over in
Oakland. The Rosalie on Thursday even
ing landed her passengers on Broadway
wharf, and polluted Southern Pacific pro-
priptarial rights thereby. 10 keep the
Resale at the distance becoming to good
manners, the company yesterday morning.
in lieu Of nothing better, ran plot-boat
into the vacant berth and held possession
until the Amador arrived and was ac-
commodated. AS Oakland has resumed
the occupation Of its own property II may
SEQ fit to dsconcert these small exhibitions
Of dog-in-the-manger policy.
The Partisan workingman is in brood
ing temper that means dissatisfaction with
everything. His faith in the power of
Government to cure every distemper is
apparently unbounded, his instant remedy
for the ills of existence being the smash
ing of cabinets, parllaments and councils,
and the creation of chimerical healer
which has the merit of being new. The
students row has let loose the masses.
and the mutterings are omiDous. Bnt
what can be done by revolution? Surely
there is nothing to succeed a republic but a
republic. If royalty is not stamped out in
France, the country is wonderfully child
like in temperament.
Snuff has gone out of fashion as pleas
ure excitant and prodder of the brain
through the nose. but it continues to be
manufactured perforce as bye product of
cigars. cigarettes and cake tobacco. In
England the duty is returned on hundreds
of tons which have heretofore been
burned, but now use has been found for
all condemned taddy. 1t is found of value
in gardening as snuff for plants and in
sects, and chemist in London Is pre-
pared to deal with large quantities in the
extraction of nicotine: This hint may be
taken by the American manufacturer.