Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-25

What Is said of Picquarts personal
habits will not hear printing, except in
French. To Rochefort's brother-in-law is
openly given name openly applied to wo-
mems DULLES. Arthur Meyer is called the
"slop-pail rinser" The photograph of this
latter gentleman-who is no less a person
than the chief editor of the aristocratic
Notwithstanding behind the chair of the
Duchesse d Uzes is one of the most ma
Hcious In the whole collection of the Steele
The Duchesse d'Uzes is after all, great
parsonage. Not only is she one of the first
mobiles of the ole regime. but she is one of
the richest women in France. She was al
ways noted for her good looks and her
dashing ways. Now that she is older and
has grown-up daughters, she remains dash
ing, getting all the good she can out of life.
She is a sculptor. She is a horsewoman.
She stokes her own automobile. She goes
to the theater and eats late suppers. Yet
she has always had the welfare of her
class at heart; and in the time of Bou-
LANCER 1t was her millions. handed out I'M
stintingly to the BRAY general. that kept
his campaign arioat. To photograph her
with the editor of the GauIois standing be-
hind he chair, in the style of old-fashoned
silNer-Wedding portraits is already i'm
pertinence to both: but it is the supposed
conversation that Is terrible. Although the
other cost me rather dear" the duchess
says, i want To Try the thing again. Only
hnd me some one strong and handsome
ike the other, the defunct. the suicide of
IXelles.' Arthur Meyer answers Duchess,
| was thinking of myself Outside of the
bad insinuations. the cruelty is that while
the late lamented Boulanger was a remark
ably handsome man. Arthur Meyers one
and only claim to beauty is found in his
whiskers. The Duchesse d Ties was among
the first to sue the Steele for SANDER Now
that the pictures have been out a week and
more there are as many libel suits as there
are victims.
Seeking Libel Suits.
The Steele courts these libel suits. In
deed. its only possible excuse is ardent
desire to be promptly prosecuted for the
good of the cause. 1t will be remembered
that whent the anti-Dreyfus Jour assured
its readers that it had a photograph of
Colonel Picquart talking treason with
Schwarzkoppen at CarIsruhe it was prompt
ly sought to be prosecuted for libel. Be
fore the JUICE Construction the Jour people
always stoutly maintained that they had
the photograph. They would produce it at
the proper moment-when they pleased.
Meanwhile they refused to give it up or
show it, intrenching themselves behind the
doctrine of the professional secret" which
is carried to such lengths in France. Our
own law admits this plea only for the pro-
lection of society in certain well-defined
confidential relations, between lawyer
and client, doctor and patient. In France
it seems TO be extended to publisher and
photographer. The public prosecutor dis
missed the case Now says the Steele,
I'VE, too, have photographs, or aliege thai
we have them What we publish are mere
ly reproductions Of these photographs. The
photographs themselves We shall refuse to
show to the court. If we are prosecuted
we shall invoke the professional secret.
What the parquet has done for the anti
Dreyfus Jour it will not dare refuse to do
for us The thing is comical, burlesque;
but to such an extent are politics and law