The age-herald., 1900-02-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE

aaOHe OI lIlt OuHSCt passengers who arrived from San Francisco last night and put rp at the St. Charles hotel was L. F. Lucke, a native of Birmingham. Ala, who has been serving on the United States transport Benmohr,'' says the New Orleans Picayune of the 24th instant. 1.-The Ben mohr is an English craft. by the way, under special charter by the United States gov ernment. She reached San Francisco in time for Nr. Luckie to catch the Limited. He was serving as quartermaster on the vessel. The main thing out there.' said MT. Luckie to a Pfcayune reporter, lis, where is Agulnaldo? Is he in Japan, or in the southern provinces? If the chief is in Japan then the war is practically at an end, and cannot hold out. I am told the anti-expanslor1 doctrine circulated over the country is in the hands of the insurgents, and is causing them to take courage and hold out more than anything else.' !" John D. Roquemore, of Montgomery, who ds a candidate for the United States sen ate Is reported to be recovering from his recent paralytic stroke, and his friends now have hopes that he will in a short time be entirely wem. MT. Roquemore is recognized as one of the ablest men at the Montgom- cry bar. and has friends all over the state who will be glad to hear that he is recov- ering from his illness.
 A story is told on one of the candidates in the recent Walker county primary that well Illustrates the troubles that beset pol iticians in a great many communities in the state., The story, as told by Walker county man, Is follows: ''Mr. Bland was a candida ate-for what office I will not state. A week or two before the primary election Snoddy gave friend of<his in one
 aeatss $15 in cash and seven gallons i, of whisky to work for him. He was given every assurance that the beat would give him majority, and received frequent fla vorable reports from his friend, but when the votes had all been counted he showed up without single vote, even the sup posed friend who had taken his money and his whisky not voting for him.
 
 O. E. Ansley, of Anniston, who has been engaged in the shoe business in that city for a number of years, will, it is stated by one of the Anniston papers, soon come to Birmingham to open up a wholesale shoe store. MT. Ansley is a very successful business man and If he engages in the wholesale trade here will, no doubt, make a success of it.
 Major Willis J. Milner has returned from the Gulf coast whither he went the first of the year with his son. Key Milner. The latter has been in bad health for several months and went to the coast in the hope that the change would benefit him. Major Milner reports him as much improved, and states that he will return to the city the latter part of this week.
 T. c. Thompson is spending a few days | in the city. MT. Thompson has the con- | tract for building a large cotton mill at | Columbia, s. C.. which will take him the balance of the year to complete. He is looking well and seems to be enjoying the best of health. He speaks in glowing terms of the business outlook and thinks the pres ent prosperity will continue for long | time
 R. B. Jones, until recently manager of I the Huntsville hotel. spent several days in Birmingham last week. There is a proba- bility of his locating. MT. Jones is one of the most agreeable men in Alabama and as
 
 class.
 "A bartender learns to read men," said | Lucian McMurray, one of the dispensers I of liquors at the Morris hotel. 'I come n contact with all sorts of men, and see many I amusing characters. An outsider would be surprised to know how many eccentric 1 drinkers there are. A bar doing a large business will serve Hundreds of peculiar l customers in the course of year. I have | in mind now good customer who, after l ordering his drink, invariably changes his | mind before he gets 1t. He rarely ever | drinks the same thing twice in succession. 1 On the other hand, many of our custmers are so regular that they never change their | tipple. l know before they order just what | they want Indeed, there are few regu- lars who never order drinks. I hand them what they come for. I serve a man about | three times a week who invariably takes 1 a certain brand of whisky with milk on 1 the side. He never opens his mouth to | order this drink-not word is ever spo- | ken. Some men are naturally quiet and ] those who never order, but at the same time are particular to get what they de- | sire, are generally very reserved. Railroad men, as rule, are quiet drinkers and also very modest drinkers. A bartender, I say. learns to read men-learns to know human 1 nature about as we'll as the next" | MACARTHUR'S SURPRISE PARTY | From the Philadelphia Post
 Alexander MacArthur, author of a suc-