Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1895, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, MAROH 21, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. ¢ SEPSSSOS < } Tewest prices in = s ° [we Pare, Fresh Drugs. iz Quinine Pills,3), e 3100 for 25¢., 2) be * —2 grains each. 3 grains, 35c. per @ * bundred. * < LADY WEBSTER PILLS (after © * dinner), 2c, per hundr e $2-qt. Fount. Syringes,5oc.¢ $3-Tip Atomizers, 50c. 31 =Tip Atomizers, 35c. 225 STH fen are alt wm down over 2 22% worked—can't sleep petite, or Sey Sutering from gene yeral debility, sWine of Coca zAnd Celery “sors BOTTLE, —will ‘prove fnvaluable. It's made of fesh COCA LEAVES, CELERY and “native port wing. Our own preparation, 3 VAND FL <ALL BROS. AND FLETFIER, : Manufucturing Pharmacists, 4TH A si . AND ‘on Orit AD H STS. N. 2 Bitessadssasessbosooeosoes Oppenheimer’s, pel $th N.W., Money Savers, Money Savers. Our New ‘Aajestable Dress Form for dressmaking. Jtegular price, $3. morrow, only 98c. for & full Dress Pattern of 8 yards of double width goods. Actual value, $2. Choice of 20 patterns, Friday's price, ose SHOTED ose SEPSHIHSSSHOSOOOOESESSOSES 98c. g8c. Children's Fine Ribbed Black Hose, ZQC. no seams to hurt the fect. 3 pairs for 2 Worth 1 pair. 2 pairs of Bors’ Tunts, spring weight. OC. axe, aioe 2"pairs: Only 2 pairs to a cus: "6 yards of Test Indigo Blue and other ZOCe new shades of Spring Calico. 6 yards for ate w designs in Stamped Splashers and Tas or oa a 1 in Value 9c. gc. Squares or 9c 12 small size Doyles, new design. © Value 25e. dozen. 2OC. 422, skeine Very Best Oriental Dred QC. wasn Silk. Tomorrow only. 12 skelns for 29¢. Other days, 4c. skein. 290¢. 2 spools of Knitting or Cr t Silk. DE- Regular price, 25e. spool. Friday, 2 ‘Tukish Bath Towels. Worth 29¢c. 6 for 29 gc. gc. gc. fs 2 Rottles of Best Vaseline. Worth 53AC. . bottle, 2 bottles for S%e. oC 534c. 2 bottles of Best Vanilla or Lemon Extract. Worth 10c. bottle. 2 bottles, 534¢. 9c. oc. rydot of Children’s Black Hose. Sized Oileloth Bibs for chil- Rolled Plate Earrings or Breastpins. Regular price, 25e. Ladies’ Ready-made Gingha: rons. Regular price, 20e- Friday ge. Triple-plated Sugar Shel Kearse alae 3 F Shells or Butter Sard, “ew tbe. Vent 7 gc. eflings. Friday, 9c. SPECIALS. yard, Stair Qilcloth. 2 yards Table Oilcioth, yard Shelf Otlcloth. we $e Gozen Sweet Itulian Oranges. 36 29¢. 4c, or ts ee mater edie 534C- can, setoct Tomatoes. 25¢. 7c. 29c 5c. 2 cans Best Peaches. Z5C- 2 cans Columbia River Salmon. 16C, 2 cam Fine Lobster. Regular price, Hundreds of other articles on which we will save you mioney. Our New Family Sewing Machine. Si9. 50 wareted tor de penn pei ts any #5 wing machine sokl by others. OPPENHEIMER, 514 9th St. N.W. oe SPSPPPSIEOTOD IMAJEST COOKING RANGES: Are’ made of STKEL AND MAL+ LFABLE IRON. -Zhey revolutionize things in the kitchen, change worry and waste into comfort and economy. More than one hundred thonsand hovsewives have them. They bake evenly, cook quickly, save fuel’ and never, have to be repaired. Write for “Majestic Ninstrated.” Majestic M’fg Co., St. Louis, Mo. sous oa male F. oo & CO., lyania ave. Sesssess Seese2 TOSOSCOSOOS DOOO0L00 000000 0000006008 096000600 Seoceccoveveccoeooves eooete Soe SSeane aman n ape 4 SOME WASHINGTON PEOPLE TESTIFY WHAT WILLIAMS’ COFIP. 3SARSAPARIL $ HAS DONE. Meesrs. F. S. Williams & Co. Gentlemen: I have now used several bottles @of Willians’ Sarsapavilla, and am very greatly beneflied by its use. I recommend it to my friends whenever % OSOSSEO EF Simey are in need of a good system and Mood @ Stouie. Respectfully, 3 v. K campnent. @ o WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘To whom it may concern: 3 I have used Dr. Williams’ Sarsaparitia ® as a blood purifier and find it does all le claims for it. I have suffered for twelve months with e-zema and skin eruption, and @after taking four bottles of his preparation was entirely well. I cheerfully recommend it to all persons suffering from skin disense. I pronounce it the best and surest remedy on the market, and it affords me pleasure to Ode: testify to the good results of a speedy and prompt cure. Vers respectfully, INO. B. FLOYD. 9S 9000090 I am recommending it strongly to all my @ e 2 SS © $ 100 DOSES, s0CTS. $/$ $ Goods Delivered. a6 + 3 ° > 9 3 : WI LLIAMS’: $ Temple Drug Store. s < It OPEN ALL NIGUT. : SAVE THAT LIBAT. SAVE THAT COAL. Gas Stoves. . A. Muddiman 614 12th St. styles coming in—latest improvements. mb21-12d Bottom prices alwys. 2OGCOe: NP — | Burt's Shoe has temoved to a Selo to .) Ladies’ & Men’s s | we Shoes, 2.°5 ‘ls ADE —not oe to be compared with the gen: erality of shoes sold at this price— they're genuine “Burt"” Shoes—si rect shape—perfect fitting <omfort and DURABILITY. For. We our patrons |- of A SINGLE PROFIT | EXPENSES. ‘Ladies’ in kid, with patent tip and plain—Men’s in’ patent leather, calf ae ‘Russia. Children’s Strees, | | 59C.)85C.. St. 10. Up r Kipsin “SP Lat be SO and: ng to size) HAS NO EQUAL, of strong, durable Kids patent and’ extension soles to . trade grows Jarger | E i. every day. Mothers who buy oS Some again ad sead thelr friends. ‘Burt’s Shoe Store Arthur Burt, ] AAT FSt. SEE EAN CH EOSTS OBR {7 Open Saturdays unt im a To visit our store and examine the | thousands of articles of original design | =-that can be seen | NOWHERE ELSE =-here or abroad. We are ready AT ALL TIFIES toshow | goods, whether you have any idea of buy= ing or not. Call any= time and make your= || self at hhome=--you | are ALWAYS WEL= {| COPE. | Our prices are the VERY LOWES we might truthfully |; say LOWER THAN ELSEWHERE. | GALT & BROTHER, Jewellers, Silversmiths and Stationers, 1107 Penn. 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Embroidered Hand- kerchiefs, slightly soiled. Friday...... One lot Ladies’ 50c. Lisle Thread Hose, boot effects, slightly shopw8rn. Friday. Men's 7Se. Fancy Percale Shirts, laun- dered, new patterns. Friday's price... Children’s 50c. Muslin Drawers, em- Dbroldery-trimmed. Friday's special price. , Gauntlets in black and tan, 17¢. Ladies’ eubrolidered cuffs. Were $2. Friday... SOC+ Velvet Roses and Forget-me-nots. Were 50c. bunch. Friday's price. Ige. One Friday's price... lot Jet Garnirui Steel Trimmings that were $1.25, fine gvols. Red Ticket price Ladies’ 48c. Gray Ribbed Vests, splen- did quality and finish. Friday's price. 25¢. ‘mall lot of Children’s White Merino Vests and Pants, 35c. goods.” Friday's price. warn 8c. jot Cloth-bor 2 mos. Popular One lot Cloth-bound 1: Popul 10Cc. ‘Titles. Were 35 and 50c. Friday's price Baum’s Superfine Box Paper, 2¢ sheets paper, 24 envelopes, ruled. Reg. price, 15. 3 boxes for 2c. y Rum Soap. Reg. price, 10c. Friday Powder Putts Whalebone ings Velveteen Skirt Binding. Velveteea Skirt Binding Garter Elastic Initial and Flower Purses. Metal-top Side Combs. Sct. -18e. +120. THESE ON SALE ONLY BAUM’S. ———we have madea study all our fives of providing folks with ‘Comfortabie” ¢ | Shoes. Special Shoes to-order for from $5 to $10—the same kind your side-street shoe= maker charges you $8 to $15 for. Fit guaranteed. The finest line of Ladies’ Evening Slippers in Wash= ington for ‘Mi-Careme”’ festivities. WILSON, “Shoemaker for Tender Feet,” 929 F St. mb21-26d LLSBURY’S BES iF FLOU “The universal verdict.” All civilized nations use it and pronounce it HighestGrade of FlourMade ————————— Sage er MANNNT HE LENTEN MENU Can be most satisfactorily varied by in- irodne ing our superb quality canned Prices like these are 6a es Shriver’s Corn - 6c. Can Our Finest, Peas, Suing Beans, Lima Beans, 4 cans. Domestic Sardines, 6 cans: Salmon (standard quality), per can Galifornia Fruits, 2 cans ‘Than all Others. cee 25. 25e. Bs 2c, €7 Goods guaranteed satisfactory or money Wholesale Grocer, m! refurded. O’HARE’S, 1420 7th st. 1-204 PSSSPSOEP ESE? 8OSEROOOES ETE mentation—keeps the teeth free from injurious deposits and makes them white — keeps the gums firm and healthy and the breath sweet. (7 ONLY 250. BOTTLE. 703 )OSSSS0909 4: ¢When You Open 3 = Thompson, oan 3 3VYour Mouth Qi: Ry aes rue sey Mo aoe kee the teeth free from de- ntiseptic must be used. $ muor2a Pharmacist. : SLIDSLASIHOSSISOSHSS HE SISOS i No. 1923 Penn. Ave.} TINPER'S DENTIFEICE contains the dest of antiseptics. It prevents fer- I am now fitting up the store located at i it tet att NEStic GROCER to be found io the - warming” will probably occur’ apa a eh ah hh N. H. Duvall. SOD ewww we ewrrww errr yyw | ¥ NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR Electric Fans. SUMMER WILL SOON BE HERE. famishes the coolest, cleanest and cheapest light and a sure, safe and stable power. e., practical | application of Electric rors on large scal o4 ran Art allery. If you want Incandescent or Arc lighting or power telephone us. UNITED STATES ELECTRIC LIGHTING ©O, Tel. No. TT. mb21-20tf 813 14th st. nw. THE DANA LIBEL CASE The Question of Bringing the Ac- cused Here fér Trial. —_+ SOME VIEWS OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS aS Right of Trial in We Community Where the Injury Was Done. 1% NO RIGHTS IN‘. JEOPARDY From the Troy Telegram. A good deal of noige is being made over the artest of Charles A-'Dana of the New York Sun with the intention of taking him to Washington for trial_for libel The newspaper fraternity is generally agreed that the act is an outrage, and pretty veciferous in its condemnation. They in- sist that the trial should take place where the offense was committed, meaning in the county where the newspaper is published. It will be very inconvenient for Mr. Dana, and quite expensive, to summon his wit- nesses to Washington. And the influence of his newspaper there in its effect upon the minds of the judge and jury would be less potential than at home in his own balliwick. These are important considerations. Nevertheless, there is another side. It is a principle of the law of libel that the offense is committed wherever the news- paper publishing it ts circulated. To give the case standing in court it would only be necessary to prove that a copy of the paper containing the offensive article had been received in any: county where the prosecution was brqught. We have known of a case where the publisher of a news- paper printed an attack on a citizen re- siding in another county, sending a few copies of it to his neighbors and friends at home, and then removing the offensive article from the rest of the edition. This may be an extreme case, but it illustrates the principle at stake. If the prosecution had been begun “where the offense was committed,” i. e., where the printing was dene, the prosecutor would have been thrown out of court, for he certainly could not prove that he had suffered injury there. But if the libel had been ‘sent out to the whole list of subscribers in other ccunties and suppressed in the home edi- tion, the plaintiff might have been able to prove damages and collect them in a dozen different courts. Then there is another consideration. The aggrieved party might be poor and unable to gather his witnesses in a remote city, perhaps hundreds of miles away. ,It is true that the presumption of innocence stands till guilt is proved, but this fact should not be permitted to stand in the way of securing ample justice. The prose- cutors of Mr. Dana are being treated by the newspaper press, which is naturally in sympathy with him, as if they were guilty of crime in insisting upon their rights. We are even told that the law must, be changed so as to permit,the trial to take place where the newspaper is printed and nowhere else. Is it not plain that such a law would in this case give Mr. Dana a tremendous advantage? Not only would he have his own witnesses right around him and the witnesses for the prosecu- tion hundreds of miles away, but he would have the powerful Influence of his newspa- per and nearly every 6ther home newspay per on his side. And, in .@ddition to this he might be able to prove that a libel which would inflict serious injury upon the subject at his home “In Washington could do him no harm gt afl in New York, where the public had no interest in hima be- cause he was not known there. It is a rule of law, we believe, that the thief or burgldr is a criminal subject to arrest and prosecution in every county of this state through which he carries his spoil. The libeler has a mych wider range than the escaped thie? or<burglar, for he can, through our mail facilities, carry his litel into every state before he can be de- tected and arrested. Let it-not be under- stood that we are not in sympathy with Mr. Dana or that we do not regret’ the ‘ar- rest. But the present law ja correct. If the parties whom Mr. Dana is charged with libeling can prove that their char- acters have suffered larger injury in Washington where they are known than in New York where they are not known, there is the place for them to engage in the prosecution. It is not Mr. Dana's mis- fortune that the case must go to a federal court. Such a court is universally re- garded as fair and unpurchasable. Where the Injury Was Done. From the New York Evening Post. The journalistic world has been thrown into some agitation by the proposed depor- tation of Charles A. Dana, the editor of the Sun, to Washington, to be tried there on an indictment for criminal Mbel found by the grand jury of that city on the complaint of one of its citizens. The publication of the libel consisted in the sale of the Sun in the same place, and the plaintiff asks for the trial of the editor before a Washington jury. Some nice points of law are, we be- Heve, raised by the case, which will doubt- jess be ably argued this week before Judge Brown of the United States district court. On them we do not profess to have any opinion, but the arguments against Dana's deportation based on justice or expediency seem to us to have but little weight. A per- son libeled has undoubtedly the right in the forum of morals to have the case ex- amined and the libeler punished at the scene of the injury, because the injury con- sists in the presumed loss of the good opinion of his neighbors. If it has not in- jured him in the estimation of his neigh- bors he has really suffered no wrong, and the only good reason for the interference of the public prosecutor is the prevention of a breach of the peace, which fs, in fact, the reason on which the old common law prose- cution for libel was originally based. The conviction of Dana for libel on Mr. Noyes inf a city in which Mr. Noyes is entirely un- known, and in which nobody feels any par- ticular imterest in him, would do him very little good. It.is only in Washington, in all probability, that any one has noticed the MUbel in Dana‘s paper or paid particular at- tention te it. The conduct of the proceed- ings, therefore, two hundred and thirty miles from the libeled man’s -residence would really make them of very little value as a vindication,even if he got a conviction. * * * Another justification for Mr. Noyes’ action is to be found in the strong local in- fluence of Dana's paper. In every. libel suit brought against a newspaper In this city its readers and admirers are remorselessly challenged by the opposing counsel if they appear on the jury panel. This is an ac- knowledgment of the influence of news- papers in perverting men's moral judgment which every lawyer feels bound to make. There is, however, another class which can- not be kept off juries in this way, and that is the people who are terrorized by .ne) papers, who dread the daily editorial ridi- cule and abuse. This is avery large class and an important one for suitors, because it is silent and cannot be identified. Against this class Mr. Noyes wéuld)have to contend if he tried his case here, and also against the disposition of the small fry of the press to stand by a big brother in trouble, in or- der to get a puff from him, or in order to avoid in the future inconveniences similar to those to which Dana is now exposed. There are certain occasions when news- papers stand together like one, howeyer much they may seem to quarrel at other times. -* * * What is most extraordinary, however, in the objection to deportation is that every other criné than libel is triable only in the state or county in which it is committed. The notion that it should be tried where the criminal is caught or where he happens to reside» 1s quite novel. If Dana had assaulted Mr. Noyes in Wash- ington the argument that Mr. Noyes must come on here to get the law of him would excite merriment. In fact, the doctrine that an indictable press offense ought some- how to be treated differently from other in- dictable offenses is a relic of the time when the press was the main defender of public liberties and the government its most dreaded enemy. It is very much out of place now, when a large part of the ac- tivity of the press consists in the harass- ing of individuals and the exploration of private life. Infringement of Constitutional Rights. From the Brooklyn Times. The Times has held off from discussing the Dana-Noyes criminal libel case because it hesitated to enter into a dispute which has disgraced the pages of almost all of the leading papers of the state. The war which has been going on between the No United Press and the Associated Press has been mean in spirit. Papers have filled columns with attacks on one or the other organization. The fight is of no interest to the public and of no influence on the parties attacked. The public does not care from which organization a paper draws its news. ans public simply wants the news well tol As an outcome of this newspaper quarrel has come the Noyes-Dana criminal itbel suit. If Mr. Dana is unable to substantiate. the charge of dishonesty which his paper brought against Mr. Noyes, it certainly is a grave difficulty for Mr. Dana. The Times. does not, however, intend to enter into 4! discussion of that side of the question. The ‘Times wishes to consider whether the case can be carried to Washington or whether it must be fought out in the courts of this state. The Washington Star, with which Mr. Noyes is connected, looks at the remov- al of the case to Washington in this light: “This District is the only part of the re- public in which libel is an offense aguinst the law of the United States, and to no other place than the national capital can the re- moval for trial be sought of a libeler, who has committed from a distance this offense against the local law. As an offset to this peculiar privilege is the unique and ex- clusive disability announced in the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that the District is not a state under the Constitution, whose people can sue in the federal courts, and that its residents stand in this regard in a more unfavorable atti- tude toward the national judiciary than aliens. On the other hand, they are de- barred from seeking as citizens of a state the impartial justice of a United States court elsewhere against the citizen of another state. On the other hand, offenders against the local law, who are found in any of the states, can be brought and are brought frequently to this jurisdiction for trial, and the list of offenses upon which such removals can be sought is broader in the case of the District than in that of any other part of the republic. The law makes both exceptions in the case of the District, the one to its injury, the other to its benefit.” This seems to be a very clear statement of the law that bears on the case. News- papers have gone into editorial hysterics over the fear that if Mr. Dana can be dragged—‘dragged” is the word—to Wash- ington, their editors could be dragged from San Francisco to Florida, or from Maine to New Mexico. Such is not the law. As ap- pears from the above clipping, the law ap- plies only to the District of Columbia. The citizens of Washington suffer another privation as well as not being allowed to bring a case against a citizen of another state in a United States court. The citizens of the District of Columbia cannot vote for presidential electors. This law which the Washington Star states is on the same ine. Do the editors who are shouting so much for fear that a relentless avenging fate may haul them away from their beloved sanc- tums to languish in foreign dungeons fear that because a citizen of Washington can- not vote that their right of suffrage is threatened? Why do we not hear that popular elections are threatened and that liberty has fallen? ‘There is no infringement of constitutional rights in this matter. There is no strained interpretation of the law. Editors need not fear that they will be dragged to Madrid, Spain, and there subjected to the tortures of the Inquisitorial chamber. ‘They need not fear the knout of Siberia. They need only fear to print libelous attacks upon citizens of Washington if they do not wish to have the question settled in the District. The Washington Star criticizes the libel law. It admits that in many ways the libel laws are especially formed for the injury of the newspapers. But the Times recalis that only a short time ago the Sun itself came out in opposition to a bill presented in the state legislature for reforming the libel laws of this state. The Sun has al- ways claimed that if a paper publishes a libel that paper should pay damages. That is right. Then, why does not the Sun, if it has not libeled Mr. Noyes, but has simply told the truth about him, ‘send its editor and business manager to Washington and prove that it has published no libel, or why does it not pay the penalty for that libel? The Times is of the belief that Noyes is @ young man of fire, and should the courts decide that Washington is the wrong juris- diction, Mr. Noyes will undoubtedly bring his suit in some other court. Mr. Noyes, the Times believes, will not hesitate to bring his case to New York. The case promises to te an interesting one and one that will be fought out to the very end. A Contention That Will Hardly Go. From the Chattanooga Times. The Philadelphia Record says of the at- tempt to make Editor Dana answer for libeling Mr. Noyes in Washington: This a@urd contention that an offense originating in one place, where the offender lives, can be duplicated in a hundred thou- sand other places where he does not live, and expose him to a multiplication of pros- ecutions in various jurisdictions, will, of course, be resisted by the veteran editor of the Sun. He has a constitutional right to be tried in New York, where he writes his editorials. “Where the offense originated” is good, very. As for a man being exposed to sundry prosecutions, in all sorts of places, that is nonsense, for no one may be tried a second ume for the same offense. Mr. Dana is no more entitled, in equity and conscience, to be tried in New York for slandering a citizen of Washington im Washington—and there is no denial by the sticklers for the alleged sacred rights of the libeler that he uid just that—than there must be for the slandered to have his as- sailant made to answer where his assault could alone have done’ serious injury. The New York Mail and Express seems to argue that because he is an awfully smart old maa and has an international repute- tion as a great-editor, Mr. Dana ought to be allowed license to vilify, slander and blackguard whom he pleases to thus de- spitefully maltreat; but this contention will hardly go. The majority of the editors of the country are not yet prepared to serve Mr. Dana in the capacity of door mat and spitting target. We observe that a few have volunteered’ to so serve, but we insist that they are not representative of the manhood and self-respect in the profession, As Brond nx It is Long. From the Woonsocket Cull. Editor Dana of the Sun is receiving much sympathy frcm those newspapers which think it fs not right to compel him to an- swer to a charge of Nbel in a Washington court. It looks to us to be about as broad as it is long. Were the case to be tried in New York, Mr. Noyes, the man who claims to have been Mbeled, must travel from Washington to the metropolis to vindicate his good name. As Mr. Dana was the in- stigator of the whcle affair, it would seem. that if any inconvenience is to be suffered it is no more than right that he should be. the sufferer. As to the merits of the charge against the editor of the Sun, we must await the verdict of the court. What Does Fair Play Require? From the Chattanooga Times. * * * For our part we can see.no in- justice In requiring men who libel their fel- lows in a newspaper to answer for the of- fense where the libeled party lives, provid- ed the newspaper containing the libel cir- culated in the “bailiwick” of the injured citizen’s residence. * * * Now, when the Sun is used by tts editor and publisher to inflict irreparable damage on citizens, as- sociations or ccmmunities of citizens, does justice, equity, or fair play require that the injured may nowhere seek redress save on the very dunghill where their assailants perch, and whence they project their mis- siles to wound and slay reputation, and lacerate the sensibilities of any who may incur their displeasure? The Hardship on the Other Side. From the New York Evening Post. In the discussion over the Dana-Noyes affair, public attention has been fixed al- most exclusively on the hardship that would be inflicted on the editor in having to be tried for criminal libel at a distance from his home. But the hardship of the libeled person in having to seek redress at a distance from his home has received but little notice, and yet this is the more im- portant matter. Opinions like Judge Coo- ley’s, quoted by the Herald yesterday, over- look, too, the great changes which have come over the press since the law of libel sprang up and beceme important. In the beginning of the century a New York paper would not circulate fifty miles from New York. It is now read five hundred miles away on the some day. It is delivered in Washington in the same forenoon. More- over, the system of telegraphi@ correspond- ence exposes persons living in any part of the Union to New York libels, it may be of the most dastardly character, such as that which the other day accused the Connecti- cut clergyman’s daughter of eloping. More- over, there has sprung up in the “new journalism™ 4 the e of continuous lbel—that is? of having every day, or very frequently, some piece of scurrility or blackguardism about the same man, cal- culated to make him odious or ridiculous, and the person singled out for this may live in Washington, Priladelphia or Cincinnati. Under the law, as. now laid down by some, the person so pursued would, in order to stop it, even if a person of small means, have to abandon his business, and take his witnesses, it-might be, to a distant city, live for days or weeks at a hotel, and try #0 get justice through a hostile or strange district attorney and in a community which @robably -enjoyéd ‘the daily scarification which he received. To a man of sensitive nature, ‘WhO caréd what “the newspapers said,” this would be a position of positive torture, in which the law of a civilized community ought, not to leaye him. If any traveling 3 to be done in a libel case, the editor, and not the libeled man, ought to do it. ‘This idea, we are glad to say, finds ex- pression ,in penal code of this state, which emboiies the morality as well as the criminal law o1 the state. Section 249 pro- vides that if a newspaper is prosecuted for libel_.on:.a. persen ‘residing elsewhere than in the county of publication, and the de- fendant insists on having it tried In such ceunty, he must file a sufficient bond with two sureties, “‘cotiditicned for the payment, in case the defendant is convicted, of all the complainant's reasonable expenses in going to and from his place of residence to the place of trial and in attendance upon the trial. ‘Was Not Obliged to Say It. From the Boston Traveler. The: indictment in Washington of the editor of the New. York Sun for libel of a citizen of Washingten is being eagerly dis- cussed by some of the newspaper press, the prevailing epinion seeming to be that Mr. Dana should not be dragg2>d away from home, but the indictment, if found at all, should be in New York, where the of- fense was committed. But there is some- thing to be said on the other side. Mr. Dana was not. obliged to say what is com- plained of concerning Mr. Noyes. He did it of his own motion. If it is a hardship on him to go hundreds of miles to defend himself, is it any less a hardship that Mr. Noyes should be forced to go hundreds of miles. to vindicate himself against a gra- tuitous attack? It is no further from New York to Washington than it is from Wash- ington to New York. If anybody is to be thus inconventenced why should it not be the voluntary author of the attack? As to this rule ‘opening the way to many prose- cutions for one act, that is all wrong. It is ene offense, and one conviction or one ac- quittal would end it. Great Principles Involved. From the Detroit Free Press. A short time.since, as readers of The Free Press will recall, there was published in the New York Sun an atrocious attack on Mr. Noyes of The Washington Star, one of the directers Of the Associated Press, the Sun being practically the head oj Tival news gathering association. Swiftly following this announcement came the statement that Mr. Noyes, who resides in Washington, had begun a criminal prose- cution in that city -against Charles A. Dana, proprietor and publisher af the Sun. The Sun-thus far has made no direct allu- sion to the matter, either by way of apol- ogy for the attack or defense of it; but for some days it has been publishing, under the caption, “‘A Great Principle Involved,” certain comments of its contemporaries in different cities upon the alleged injustice of “dragging Mr. Dana to Washington” to answer fer an offense committed, if at all, in New York city. It is perfectly obvious that there is, as the newspaper defendets of Mr. Dana assumed, a principle involved, though it is quite as obvious that Mr. Dana is disposed to have the battle waged for him by his friends over this principle, rath- er than in. the courts over the exact ques- tion whether he has been guilty of an atrocious and baseless attack upon the in- tegrity of a citizen of Washington. * * * This inquiry suggests another of the “great principles” involved in the Dana case. Is it right that a citizen of Washington, in- jured in his own home, if anywhere, among his neighbors and friends, should be com- pelled to seek his assailant in what is to him a foreign jurisdiction? Neither ques- tion is wholly free from doubt on ethical or legal Sa A= the principle just re- ferred to is ua portant as that which Mr. Data's’ frlends have Invoked In his behalf. It is Ukewise just as well worth the consideration of the honorable press, which libels no man intentionally and does not seek to evade any just lability. A Herdic Suggestion. To the Editor of The Evening Star: As the Herdic Company has recently re- duced the fare to 3 cents, the traveling on their -coaches has greatly increased. A coach leaves 10th and C streets southeast, goes to 16th and Boundary and back to the top of the Capitol grounds (drawn by the same team), where it meets an empty coach, and transfers passengers who wish to go northeast, then purusues its course to the stables, from where it started, on a perfectly level stretch. Now, would it not be more humane, more sensible, more everything compatible with the welfare of the poor brutes that have made that long, tiresome, trip, with its numerous halts and strains to start again, to have that same empty coach meet them at the foot instead of the top of the hill, and transfer the northeast passengers thete? It is certainly much easier for that empty coach to roll down the hill than it is for a crowded one to roll up. A number of pitiful sights can constantly be seen on this steep concrete hill, especially on a day; horses slipping and falling, ris- ing but to fall again. Frequently, with a coach packed, with passengers standing, it will be stopped opposite New Jersey ave- nue and take on one or more humans, who well know that a few yards beyond it will stop.on the level plain at the top and a number vacate the vehicle. I have fre- quently seen a coach stalled on this hill, the horses actually unable to move. *" This additional and wholly unnecessary hardship upon the horses could easily and simply be obviated by the company in- structing the drivers not to*stop going up the hill. S. H. JACOBSON. i —— Regular Army and Navy Uaion. ‘National Commander J. Bruce Morton of the Regular Army and Navy Union, ac- companied by Assistant Inspector General Thomas J..Shea of his staff and the offi- cers of Gen. John M. Schofield Garrison, No. 28, R. A. N. U., made an official visi- tation to Gen. Guy V. Henry Gafrison, No. 43, last night. The garrison received the national commander with an address of welcome, delivered by the commander, to which National Commander Morton re- sponded in his usual happy and eloquent manner. National Commander Morton is chief clerk at headquarters of the army in this city, and his comrades here are en- thusiastic over his advancement to the highest place in their organization. At the close of the regular order of business the garrison was placed in charge of Deputy Commander Henry S. Edwards of No. 43, who provided an enjoyable entertainment and collation for the visitors. Addresses were made by Assistant Inspector General Shea, G. W. Giddens, commander of Gen. Schofield Garrison, and others. Many off- cers of the regular army and navy are members of this organization, and the officers in general are manifesting a great interest in its welfare and perpetuity. The next national convention of the order will be held in this city in May, 1896, at which time there will be a grand reunion of the officers, soldiers and sailors of the regular army, navy and marine corps of the United States. ———— Death of James M. Ormes. James M. Ormes of Washington died at Vevay, Switzerland, March 5, the news reaching this city yesterday by mail. For eight years he had suffered ill health, and when he went abroad not long ago his friends hardly expected to see him return alive. He served in company D, second District regiment, and in the War Depart- ment, provost marshal’s office, under Col. Wisewall. In 1878 he organized the South- ern Bell Telephone Company in Richmond, afterward consolidated into the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, which included ll of the southern states except Mississippi and Louisiana. Later he accepted @ position to introduce the Bell telephone throughout Europe, and this he resigned for other enterprises. Mr. Ormes leaves a widow at Brimfield, Mass., the old family home, and his infant daughter, Edith, now in her eighth year; a daughter, Alice Ormes, a young lady of twenty-one, attending a normal school at Chicago, end a son, Arthur E. Ormes, for- Dasrty a student in Columbian College, Dis- trict of Columbia, aged twenty-two years, now in a publishing house in Chicago, Ill. INFORMATION ABOUT GAS, The Roard cf Trade Committee Re- ferred to a Ccngressional Report. The special committee of the board of trade appointed to gather information in regard to the cost, etc., of public lighting has received from the Washington and the Georgetown Gas Light Companies replies tin response to the request for infermation. Charles B. Bailey, the Secretary of the Washington Gas Light Company, writes as follows: “We beg to say that the points named in your letter have all been covered by re- cent congressional reports as the result of the investigation into the cost and manu- facture of gas, etc., in the District of Co- lumbia; and as these reports are easily ac- cessible, and are very full, we beg to refer you to them for the information you desire. We allude to report No. 629, H. R., Fifty- second Congress, second session, and the Senate of this last session, which, however, we have not seen, but presume it is in print by this time.” The reply of Henry C. ‘Winship, the’ pres- ident of the Georgetown Gas Light Com- pany, is substantially to the sume: effect. Mr. Winship says: “If you or the Washing- ton board of trade will avail yourselves of this information, on file with the District of Columbia commilttce of the Senate of the Congress of the United States, you-will Secure everything we can report on with reference to the cost of the manufacture of gas in the District of Columbia.” eee The Manassas Industrial School. Mr. Henry E. Baker, treasurer of the Manassas Industrial School, has acknowl- edge the following contributions, received March 20, 1895, through Mrs. Constance Carey Harrison of New. York, for the school: William Jay Schieffelin, New York. Jobn T. Mason, Baltimore. H. J. Hayden, New York.. Burton N. Harrison, collections. Sarah E. Barney, Hartford. A. P. Avery, Brooklyn. S Mrs. KR. Grinnell, Grecaficid, Mass, John A. McIntosh, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. W. P. Gould, Indianapolis.. Total .. For the Methodist Heme. The board of managers of the Methodist Home of the Aged will be pleased to see their fricnds at a tea given by them in ey Church tomorrow (Friday) eyen- Ing. DORAN—FRANKLIN. 1895, by “Rev Canter. w, “DORAN of ‘malmgton to NINA B. of West Kiver, Md. —_ o+—____ DIED. Suddenly, on March 20, 1895, ‘GENE, son of Paul and Johanna Bach- ged six years and five months. Funeral at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. BURROUGHS. Entered into rest, on the morning of March 20, 1895, at the “residence of her brother, W.' Catesby SARAH, daughter of the date Wim and pod men genes” field Burroug! Mary’s aso ‘Md. Funeral services Friday, the 224, 2 Relatives: ‘and friends invited. " Interment private. Kindly omit flowers. * is vr arte” ga March 20, CARTER. On Tuesday, March 19, 1895, at her residence, 1218 20th street, Alps. CAICTEL, the beloved mother of John ‘Carter. Fureral at Shiloh Chureh, Friday: March 22, at 2 (Detroit, Mich,’ and Alexandria, Va., pe- € copy.) 1895, 688 North Capitel street, Eat 9 o'clock: thence Seti re requiem amass wi «be bald for the repose wl ber soul ae y mornin CREAMER. W. Va., on March 20. 1800, ELIZABETH CREAMER. “dauruter ot fe Wate’ John ‘Mountz and sister of Mrs. Margaret Funeral services af, Osk Hil Chapel * Sa ‘Stara aatives ai pa. friends Fespectfully” invited to attend: DAVIS. Suddenly, Thursday, March 23, 005, at 1250 oleae CARLISLE, beloved of J. Funeral Friday, March 22, at 10 a.m, ° DOUGLAS. | Suddenly, on March 19, 1805, at bie residence, #42 2411 street, GEO. P., husband. o Sarah E. 6, aed a seventy aw years, two ‘months and uineteen Dearest father, = rill. mien you From our home we love so well; But we know your is resting, Up there waere the Is dweil RY fs DALGHTER. Funeral services at the First Baptist Church, a Alexandria, Va., at 3 o'clock Friday, stant. HADLEY. | Departed this life on Wednesday, March 20, 1805, at 2:45, MdAM T. HADLEY, in'the afty-nhuth Sear this age. Foneral_on ‘Thursday, arc 21, at 3 o'clock, from this late residence, street mort 007 'r t northeast. Relatives and friends are respectfully suvited. 2 LINKINS. On March 20, 1895, at 511 8 street northwest, RODNEY 'C., son of Frank and Jernie Linkins, aged ten years and six months. God's will be done. Funeral Friday, March 22, at 11:30 a.m., at Bock ‘Creek cemetery. LOUDON. Suddents, on Thursday, Marc im the forenoon, Mrs: MARY ANN "WCDOR. widow ir. Wm. Henry ‘the resi- dence of Prof. George W. Milford, "No. 490 N street northwest. Notice of funerai hereafter. (Alexandria, pers please copy.) fe LUFF. On March 20, 1685, Mrs. CATHARINE LUFF, avenue southwest, and after 0 brief illness, Prederce Frederick Luff, in the seyenty-ninth year of her. Funeral " From, 2 214 Maple avenue, Le Drolt Park, ren De at dpi Atvlatives sand ferds iavlssd: to attend. * On March 20, 1895, at 1 p.m. after ‘an. illness of re dare ot f pecemonta, | ELNICE of Harry Mary L. McEifres, ‘aged seven years and ‘uix Fenetel from her parests? residence, 31 I strect northeast, Friday, Marth 22, at 4 o'clock p.m. * NALLY. The remains of the late ADA D. NALLY will be taken from the vault at cf 10, 1895, at Foochow, China, Hines, Mer. NATHAN SITES. missionary of the Methodist beloved husband of Mrs. 5. Moore Sites.* TREYNOR. On March 20, 1895, at 2:45 a.m., WILLIAM H. TREYNOR, im the fifty-niuth year of his age. Funeral on ‘Thursday, March 21, at 3 o'clock, from Relatives and friends are rhuret late residence. invited to attend. In Memoriam. ae BRAGG. | In loving memory of my dear mother, SARAH F. BRAGG, who died four years ago te- day, March 21, 1891. ‘The sound of ber voice 1 s sit, But never will be forgot . BY MEE DAUGHTER, In Joving remembrance of our @nrling, our : GEORGE 8. DYSON, who died eight _ Fears’ age todas, March 21, 188; Requleseat in pace. ROLLINS. In loving remembrance of = father, H. BOLLASS, whe diel one year agp t0- an March 21, BY HIS CHILDREN, SAYER. In memory of our dear husband and fatber, ‘CHAS. B. SA’ who ome year ago le Gone, zs ‘but not en. ° By His Wire AND CHILDREN, @ER. In remembrance of my dear grand- ma, Mra. MARY ZIER, who died two years ago today, March 23, 1803. When eae storms are over. And 5 fresh and falr, 3 will meekly ‘Teel beside her grave And plant a ch ° ‘et Hen GHANDDAUGHTEE LOL. Sarees errr SPSS “I use Cleveland's Baking * * Powder in my kitchen and class work."* EMMA P, EWING, Principal Chautauqua Echool of Cookery. PPD erinrconcensnrsrecetentncontenergedno contongenteny