The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-02

We will have to get along three months without the tailing effort of Dear Bill, who is about to sail away in grand style at government expense to the Philippines
 Engineer Stevens is to do enpinear,ns, only, leaving shonts the monarch of inc canal zone, subject, of course. to occa- sional orders from Dear Bill.
 r----~.--- hiihu Root is said to be slated for Sec retary of State. Dear Bill cannot take ii. because he is needed as digger of the esteemed Panama canal.
 -------------- Aeronaut Knabenshue of Toledo sails iree'y Tn the air against the wind. but he uses gasbag. and no passenger will trust himself to that. The Waliace-Taft squabble is A temnest full of fury signifying nothing. Wallace was not peon and Dear Bill has found another engineer.
  An armistice of six weeks would tide the armies in Manchuria over the rainy season. In the meanwhile they could gather recruits.
  Colonel Guffy can immortalize himself by overthrowing the Standard Oils monopoly of the south. The fight Is on. The Japanese doctors are trying to put Rojestvenslxy in fighting condition again, but his ships are beyond recuperation. John M. Patterson proposes to be the next governor of Ohio despite the ma- chine and Herricks slush fund.
  Pennsylvania had F good governor whose name was Patterson, and Ohio thinks she will follow suit The Chinese exclusion act is fitted to American pockets, and California politi- clans brought it upon us.
 
 Georgia is receiving the confederation of the rest of the country, because her legislature is in session.
  Chaffeurs who run over and kill boys now lose their jobs, which is some pun ishment at any rate.
  The burnt district of Baltimore no longer exists as a waste, and only ex- perts can locate it.
  The new s20 bill issued by the govern ment is difficult to initiate. and also to acquire.
 When Secretary Taft sails away the administration will be without mouth piece.
  The Czar don't know which he dislikes the most-the red fias or the Japanese flag.
 The Crane company went west fifty years ago and grew up with the country.
  Who can blame the Czar for not de- string to have a Congress on his hands. 
  Poland is looking towards Norway and Is studying the steps the latter took.
  Governor HerriclS begins to think he will not have wallxover this year.
 --->-----.,- Vladivostoks begins to see spooks and ships in the offing every dark night.
  A few young Moros have been left to grow up with the colony.
  All that is left of John Paul Jones is coming home at last No one has yet explained why women are afraid of mice Harmonious digging at Panama seems to be impossible.
 The Panama air promotes the resigna- tion habit.
  The scrapping at Panama outranks the digging. China is becoming chestier every day.  The dove of peace does not wear spurs. -------------------------- Poland is no quieter than Chicago. ----.~-------- SOME RICH SLOW TO PAY. Cleveland Moffett in Success. It is notorious that the rich are often scandalously slow in paying their bills. 1 I recall one instance where the wife of multi-mlllonaire (she was afterwards divorced), took no notice, month after month, of bill amounting to over $20,OOO for her daughters wedding trous- seau, and only then because resource full collector 'held up the multi-mll- lionaire himself in the street one day,