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Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah...
...With the sudden eclipse of Jones, the galleries dwindled. Chandler Egan of Medford, Ore., designer of the Pebble Beach course, National Amateur Champion in 1904 and 1905, drew a few spectators as he eliminated two formidable contenders, the West's George Von Elm and the East's Jess Sweetser. But hardly anyone watched homely, courteous Francis Ouimet, National Champion in 1913 and 1914, beat Lawson Little. Only the stancher spirits and the prolix newspapermen witnessed the semi-finals in which Dr. Oscar F. Willing, deliberate dentist of Portland, Ore., downed courageous Oldster Egan, and Harrison ("Jimmy") Johnston kindly but firmly...
First rejoicing at the sudden aloneness, then mortified, he wept while the futility of the whole affair made him laugh...
...show a German naval commander drearily betrayed by his wife. The triangle is grafted on Jutland by connecting scenes with British extras made up as sailors but looking more like members of an amateur dramatic club in a benefit performance of Pinafore. Best shot: a British warship taking the sudden, hardly perceptible list which means that she is going to sink...
...Sudden arrest, a fine of 1,000 rupees and a jail sentence of three months was the punishment, last week, of an Indian publisher and an Indian printer who dared to put forth at Calcutta last year a chunky, controversial book by a snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield...