Circling round a few blocks and regaining the main street a little below the hotel, he entered the telegraph office.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The triumphant smile on the visiting churchman's face relaxed into an expression of combined amazement and dismay when, upon regaining the paper, he learned that Mr. English had reconstructed the first line, so that it read: Elisha English and Son $50.00 This column will serve two purposes-to illustrate the truly American spirit of levity in which Eugene Field regarded politics and politicians, and also the extent and general character of his daily "wood sawing" for nearly twelve years.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
While it held as a matter of abstract political ethics that a nation subjugated against its will by another nation is justified in regaining its independence, if it can do so, by any means at its disposal, including force, yet as a matter of practical Irish politics it renounced the use of force unequivocally.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry