The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-29

The war clouds that are hanging over Europe are clouds that will not mater ialze into the storm and stress of war. The Emperor William Is a grandstand player. and France is also pretty good in that away.
 The Crane company has an opportunity in this district to gain control in the south of the sale and manufacture of furnace and milling supplies. May it go in and win.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is los ing confidence in the secretipeness of his department. It leaks when it should be as sound as a kettle
 Engineer wallaces favorite ditch is to cost $24O,OoooOO, and it will take twelve years to deliver 1t. But he Is no longer digging ditehes.
 
 Loomis will not exhibit the presidential and departmental reproof he received as he travels in Europe as official inspector of the world.
 
 A St. Louis couple were married on a merry-go-round while 1t was in operation. They must think that life is one grand urdy-gurdy.
 Alabama as whole may need rain, t,+ .l,;s dis+r;nt ,,aads .n,, oi+bar ar, the surface or down in it's numerous sub-cellars. Mir. Morton should stop long enough to let the policy holders know whether he is still paying Chauncey M. Depew s2o- GOO a year.
 A grand duke should be sent to Lodz to negotiate a peace, but he should wear coat of armour as thick as that of a battleship.
 
 China does not propose to have her high caste people insnlted in this country and at the same time go on buying our | cotton.
 
 Sweden Is bluffing for the purpose of getting better terms of separation, for there are many details yet to be ad- iusted.
  The tramps turned the Mentor switch 1t is said. because they were jealous of the trains that carried millonaires.
  Loomis should not teach the legations he inspects how to make money out of their positions It isn't a bit nice. When the Equitable officials are made to disgorge, the money market in the Equitable building will be easy.
  General Kitchener is itching to assail Russia also It is not flair to strike a nation when it is down.
 
 All the other presidential aspirants think Secretary Taft would make a splendid chief justice.
 The whitewash brush has been over worked in Washington and 1t should be laid aside out of reach. | 1 After all, 1t was Tom Lawson who first uncovered the Equitable scandals. Give the devil his due. 1 oyama is not bit bothered by the proposed armistice. It is the rainfall that bothers him.
 Loomis may prove persona non grata to some of the over-scrupulous courts of Europe. i Pittsburg's civic ambition has been prcked by the supreme court of the state l Spain and Russia cannot rebuild their navies. They are too damp for that pro- cess. 1 John Wesley Gaines Is a fighter whether he is in Congress or in a laun- dry. | China begins to feel her new strength, | and Japan Is standing close behind her. l l President Newman of the New York | Central railroad has regained his nerve. | -------e------
 Governor Folk is still trying to show l what Reform with a big really is. | l The misdeeds of the Equitable Life are l simply too numerous to mention. Minister Rockhill at Pekin should begin to earn his salary. | The Cossack is the curse of modern | democratic Russia