The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-02

The story which comes from Letcher, in
the foothills near Fresno. of the attempt of
o boy to kill his stepfather Is one which
may set the psychologists theorizing and
throw the lawyers into tangle about
juvenile depravity and crime. The boy
confesses to a deliberate effort TO poison
his stepfather. He hates him, and ever
sin ce the death of his mother has appar-
entity cogitated the means OF attaining his
atrociouS purpose. But for a too liberal
dose OF strychnine, which gave the rice an
acrid taste, he would have succeeded only
too well. Such child can have no con-
sciousness Of responsibility. He harbors
dislike IL unmtigated intensity still, and
makes no scruple OF conieSsing all, with
he addition of few fibs invented to avert
what he dimy apprehends may come to
him in the shape of punishment. Ev-
IDENTIFY he is a lad that will require looking
after when taken away from his step
fathers guardianship. His impulses need
regulation, or there will be other painful
episodes.
a very interesting book is promised
nothing less than the original journal kept
by Captain Cook. the navigator. 1t never
has been published. What purports to be
his narrative is garbled. in,erpolated and
concocted. DR.. Hawkesworth's works in
journals of Banks and Lolander. and he
added his own reflections, so that it cannot
be accounted n relia BILE production. There
are two copies of Cooks journal eXtant.
One is liz the hands of tie Admiralty. and
the other recently came to light and got
into the possession of Mr.. John Corner,
whose son is about to publish ii. Cooks
narrative will enable the world to make
accurate comparisons between the coud-
tiGn of the races of the South Sea Islands
as the navigator saw them and that which
they are in now. Some of these aborigiues
have disappeared. and probably there will
only be small remnant of the most pro-
gressive two or three generations hence.
The Tasmanians are gone. How many
Hawaiians will there be at the end of the
next century?
English papers occasionally grid at Amer
lean legislators for violence of language
and tempests of personalities. A glance
at proceedings in the British Parliament is
edifying in this regard. There have been
many scenes of late, embittered, offensive
and as near billingsgate as the rules per-
nit. a certain member. who often speaks,
was startled recently by some one calling
out. What the d are you talking
abOutp" The interrupter remained undis-
covered, but his Interruptions set the whole
House Of Commons by the ears. After all,
II was a somewhat pertinent inquiry put in
rough way, as the opposition are lndulg-
| ing in bareiaced prOcrastination. Lord
Randolph Churchill, who is supposed to
have sense of responsibility, having been
| Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of
the House. has BON barded the Government
| with the suhjoined epithets "a worth
less, a detected, An exposed and a convicted
set of servants" Imposing shame. dis
grace and humiliation on the British peo-
! pie" "Bansned all truth, honor and le-
gality." when falseness, dishonor and
treason to the state obtain an internal hold
npon political party. "A gang Of po-
wasting cancer" "In all its naked hid
eousness. in all its squalid and putrid
| horror"
The Southern Pacific proposes to EMU
late the Chicago fier by putting on an
express to make the run to Monterey at
the rate of mile minute part of the
way, and with an average speed of forty
three miles an hour. The journey will be
made with five stops in a little less than
three hours and a half. the start being
made at 2 P. NJ. and the finish at 5:27 p. NJ.
1t is not wonderful speed over what Is
| pronounced good roadbed, but it is bril-
| liant for the Pacific Coast. In the valleys
of California as fast time could be made
as over the prairies of the West. The day
| is approaching when with composition
/ there will be little To complain OF either In
accommodation or charges.
There is bad news about cholera from
| France and also from Persia. The dis
ease has now become epidemic in one of
the departments OF Lower Brittany
Morbihan-and it is altogether too optimis-
tic to proclaim that IL has been stamped
out in Finisterre and Vendee. Brittany is
peculiarly primitive part of France. and
its water supply is generally from wells
| and vitated. The outbreak 10 Persia Is
! ominous. That is the track it usually