The age-herald., 1898-11-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

after a case he has in the federal court. "Mr. Burnett will have one distinguishing feature in the house of representatives" said friend as he viewed the Lilliluptian gentleman while he chatted with party of friends in the Morris. There will not be man in congress who will have
 smaller or daintier foot"
 MT. Burnett has dainty foot and he is
 a good judge of pretty footwear. His pedal extremities are encased in not more than No. patent leather shoe, and there are lots of ladies who would envy the new representatives shapely feet
 It has been suggested that MT. Burnett could participate in a church fair without discovery That is in one of those fairs where the young ladies are all stationed behind a curtain with only their feet ex- posed to view, while the more shapely and | dainty pairs are auctioned off at the high est bidder. He might not bring the high est bid, but he would be sure for second money.
 "Of course I am proud of my victory" | said the newly-elected representative. "I am proud of 1t because we lined up the populists, gold bugs and some republicans | in the democratic ranks. The party has been reunited The only thing I have to regret Is that did not carry Cherokee, my home county. The county had been going for the populists, and they only carried it this time over me by a plurality | of eleven votes
 NO, I don't think there will be any con- l test. I have heard nothing of it and I l don't see how there can be a contest. The | district is composed of a white population, l there were both republican and populist l candidate in the race and they were both | beaten badly. And this was done after l they had circulated falsehood after faise- | hood and declined joint debate until the very last day of the campaign" l "The dispensary law in South Carolina is | a good thing for the wholesale liquor men, l said J. T. Waugh, whisky drummer in | the city last night. And then it is good | for the state in several ways. When l was | in the state last payment was just being made by the dispensary department into l the state treasury and $20,0OO of 1t was l turned into the school fund direct. It l amounts to much more than this an- l nually.
 l "The whisky men like the dspensary law 1 for several reasons. The dispensaries do l not buy cheap class of goods as many l suppose. They purchase the very best and | highest priced whiskies. Then it is all | sold in lump a man not having to cir | culate over the state selling to hundreds | of dealers. The money is absolutely sure | and as a method of advertising 1t is one | of the best known"
 It it understood that a member of the l Alabama legislature will introduce dis | pensary bill at the present session of that l body in Montgomery. It is not thought, | however, that such bill will meet with l any degree of favor.
 ''There was time," said gentleman in I the hotel lobby last night, "when nobody cared much about kissing a pretty woman I in public, nor cared to see 1t done; nor did 1 the pretty woman give many opportunities | Stolen kisses-or at least, if not stolen, candestinely acquired ones-were thought | to be the sweetest.
 "Now all is changed and Hero Hobson is | innocently the cause of it all. The public | kiss is now a recognized institution. tis of- | fered and accepted to the great delight, | not only to the fortunate persons in inter- | est, but to all who are within seeing dis | tance. The latest of the fashion is Minnie | Seligman-Cutting, St. Louis actress, who I expects to win 1000 for a worthy charity | with one of her ksses-a public one-at a | Hebrew charity fair. The fair will be held | in St. Louis the latter part of this month, | and the pretty actress wanted to help her | co-regligionists in their work. She was puzzled to know how to do so, but as she pursed up her rosebud lips in petty annoy ment one the managers of the charitable event solved the problem for her. He
 asked if she would give them kiss to put up at auction, and she consented. Miss Arnold, the pretty girl who impulsively kissed Lieutenant .Hobson lives in St.
 Louis, and she will attend the fair. The
 kiss in private has always had it's devotees.
 and it looks like Kiss Public has come
 to stay.
 "I don't know that it matters so much,"
 continued the gentleman. Tt is certainly
 too late to stem the tide The return of
 conquering heroes from conquering war
 has swept the public kiss into such popular
 favor that no one thinks of objectng ex- cept a few ancient spinsters. And perhaps it is just as well. If Minnie Seligman's
 kiss which is to be auctoned off results in
 clothing the ragged, feeding the half-starv-
 ing, warming the shivering and putting the
 roof over the homeless, then who can say
 her nay7 The Hobson kiss pleased the
 young woman who first attempted it, and
 to scores of her imitators. And it certainly
 didn't in any way impair the ieutenant's
 efficiency. It was after he was kissed that
 he raised the Maria Teresa"
 Probate Judge G. c. Allmon, of Franklin
 county, was in the city yesterday. He left
 at night for Montgomery. Judge Allmon is
 one of the substantial and highly respected | citizens of Franklin, He says that Hon. Il John w. Tomlinson will get the full in-
 dorsement from his county for railroad Fl commissioner.
 T. M Jones, of St. Clair county, was at the Morris last night. MT. Jones is a
 prominent democrat, being member of
 the state executive committee and chair
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