The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-18
GERMAN PAPERS A UNIT IN CONCERNING
 SLAYER'S ACQuITAL
Declare Country Does Not Ap- prove Protection of Un-
 written Law.
High Catholic Clergy Have Placed 'sParsifaP Under
 Their Ban.


 Berlin, March 1S.-Germany is not yet ready to see the 'sunwritten law become a feature of trials of husbands pr wives for killing faith1ess partners. Press comment on the acqutttaf Of Count Mielczynski, who slew his wife and her nephew in the countess bed room, is sympathetic toward the count, but the acQuittal is generally considered a miscarriage of justice
 The Kreuzzeitung even makes 1t 2 text for advocating abolition of the jury system It says also;
 we can understand how the Jurors felt themselves impedIed to acquit if possible From purely hunand- tarian standp oint, one can be glad that they did reach an acquittal Count Mielczynski's holiest rights were transgreased against and his deed testiffes to a feeling of honor and an earnest Appreciation of the married relation (which we could only wish prevailed everywhere among our peo- pie But the basic principle of our justice that the individual shall zob- fafu his rights and revenge through the state, may not for this reason be abandoned.'s
 The Tageszeftung also understands the feeling that prompted acquittal. but declares that it would be 9. grave thing if this feeling prevailed or should come to prevail throughout our folk sS Such acquittSl Is are almost the rule in the Latin countries. especial lily in France, and 1t is a good indication of the sound morau sense of the Germans that the. Latin example has very generally Hound our disaprroval
 A conviction of 1ielczynski, with a finding of extreme mitigating circurn- stances, would have permitted sem tence as low as six months in prison.
 
 The recent death of Baroness Fred nrick Truchessa of Wetzhausen, an eccentric Bayar1an aristocrat, recalls the assistance she rendered. Spain dur ank the war with the United States She was of Spanish stock, and gave practical expression to her sympathy by cash contribution of $66.00O to the Spanish war chest. After the defeat of Spain, she retired entirely from public notice. disappointed and emb7ttered-
 She is best remembered in Germany as an adrnirer of the unfortunatc Mad King Ludwig IT of Bavaria. and for the effort which she made to prevent him from being disposed as insane in 1886.
 She was living at tsHohenschwahga near the Kings palace, when she learned that it had been decided to place him under restraint During the night she went to the palace to warn the king. When refused ad- mission, she raised such a turnult that she was finally allowed to see the king as the only means of quieting her. He prevailed upon her to leave the castle
 She kept & warm place in her Heart for the unfortunata monarch and uTl- til her death laid a wreath upon his tomb at every anniversary of his sui- eide.
 Bavarian statesmen are alarmed over the falling off in revenue from the beer tax. They have made re- peafed demands in parliament for a heavy tax beer substitutes to en- courage the consumption of the real beverage Government Councillor <Epeck, the financial expert of the dom fnant Centre Party, has proposed a flaw against the evils of thinning beer.'
 The receipts from the tax on malt, he points out. have been stea dily fall ing of late years, owing to the de- creasing consumption, but, according to Herr Speaker and other experts, this stands in no proportion to the Temporary falling off in the consump tion of beer, but is rather to the use of less malt per cask in the. originally rich and creamy Bavarian breWs.
 His law, 1t is pointed out, would save the reputation of Munich's fam ed product check the growing defici In the Bavarian budget and help out the Bavarian farmers, who complain of the exceedingly poor market for their barley.
 High Roman Catholic clergy of Bo- hemia and Moravia have placed Wag- ner's opera 'Parsifal'' under ban While bishops from these two coun- tries were holding their recent eucha- ristic congress at Prague Austria, tho National Theatre proposed gala per. formance of "ParsifaF' in honor of ths visiting prelates.
 The latter voted not to accept tn. invitation on the ground that certain scenes in the opera were i'm moral ana offensive to Roman Catholics.