The morning call., 1892-05-21

At length the Deacon trial is over without
any very startling results. Almost iney-
tably in the United States the slayer of NJ.
AbeiIle would have been promptly acquitted
under the expiat0ry plea that as the de-
fender of the honor Of his house be was
justified in shooting down the guilty in
trguer In France Mr.. Deacon finds him
self let eff moderately with Imprisonment
for year, a puniShm which may be re-
duced, and Is, at the NOlst, not rs severe as
might have been expected. OF the facts Of
the case there is nothing to dispute. The
wife diSgraced herself by an adulterOus
association with a common type of French
man found at seaside resorts aud in casinos
during the season. Then cane dis
covery and a tragedy, in which, as COM
monty happens, the equally guilty woman
escapes all consequences except the
scandal, the loss of her lover and the per-
manent arrangement of her husband One
is inclined TO speculate what would hap
pen in law were the iTate husband TO
slay his faiihleSs wife as well a her
paramount There are numerous such cases
that might have arisen in the United
States. 1t is hardly righteous TO put all the
responsibility on one party and give i'm
munity to the ether. But that is the tend
ency Of half killing. Whenever a ease arises
in which both parties are dispatched By the
iufuTiated ayenger Of marital honor, and
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public interest viii be manifested in the
proceedings and the result.
The little incident in the Geological Gar
dens at ST. Petersburg should not be re-
garded as serious. but out of such little
trifes trouble difficult 10 allay has hap
pened before. Tie commemoration in
honor Of ROuget de PIsle has made his inn
mortal composition, the "MarselIaise,"
unusually popular, and what more natural
than that the Russians, who are on very
cordial terms with France, should ask 20
have the air played by a band at a popular
resort. In spirit that may be explained,
bit not justified. the Germans present pro-
tested with boots and groans, and when
provoked by counter demonstrations they
carried The protest much further by storm
ing the bandstand and suppTessing both
music and musicians. All this behavior Is
Of course in wTetched taste. The band
might have been left alone and could have
pT0pitated the Germans aiteTward by play
ing the ''Wacht am Rhein" AS the row
has come of there will be bad feeling. The
Partisan newspapers, having nothing much
more agreeable TO do, will say very savage
things about this ebullition Of intolerance.
aud the "MarseiIlaise" will be endeared
more than ever to the French heart. The
Germans might have remembered that the
"Marseillaise" was not in any special sense
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much more respectable origin than that war
could give it.
The victories of the American hog are
worthy of commendation in a commercial
epic. The national porker has had to fight
its way into some of the European countries
under cloud Of Misrepresentation and dis
elimination, and it has conquered its enc
mics one after another most Satisfactorily
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poTcine race in the world. Both Germany
and France tried to fnd fault with its too
numerous virtues of good meat and numer-
GUS products all cleanlY packed for the con-
sumer, but they have had to yield to the
inevitable logic OF preponderant facts
Spain has now removed its prohibitive bar
riers, and the American hog is free to
60 everywhere unmolested. England has
always taken kindly to the animal as a
great food supply for its teemiDg popula-
ton. This, We may say, is one of the vic
tories OF peace. although the slaughter
houses are very directly concerned in it.
The Golden Gate Park is very attractive
and beautiful, and some OF its grandest
features do not cost a cent, including the
view oceanward and across the Golden Gate
Doubtless there is much to be done to rem
der it the perfect park il should be, perhaps
the finest in the world, but it must occur TO
some of our groaning taxpayers that the
Commissioners need not rush the processes
Of improvement along too rapidly. The es-
innate of the next year takes a jump Of
800 over the last appropriation. the
total only being $500 short of $500 600
That is a tolerably large outlay for park
purposes in city which has only popula-
tion of 300, GOO. and which has fluctuations
of business despondency at intervals like
other populOus centers. The Commission
ers make out their details of the proposed
work, but supposing it is all performed ad-
mirably and economically the total is enor-
nous.
The disasters by hurricane in the Manri-
thus are appalling. Port ST Louis is one
third in ruins, the plantations have been
swept and desolated, the coasts are strewn
with wreckage and, worst of all, 1900 per-
sons have lost their lives, of whom 600 have
perished in the capital. Many storms have
visited the Mauritus before but probably
none has wrought more destruction than
this. England will have to bestir itself to
send relief TO the distressed colonists, and
yet it may be said that the practical sym.
pathy Of the charitable Is sadly more neces-
sary at home. In very few weeks the
ravages Of this tempest will have been
obliterated in a region so favored by ma
ture, but the distress eDgendered by the
gigantic strike Of miners still kept up in the
north Of England will be long felt over a
wide area. The conflict between the cap
italisis ana the employed is one of the most
bitter on record. and unfortunately the ces-
sation of The fuel supply is paralyZing every
form Of industry. Masses OF people are in a
/ ordf atorx for.