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OPEN LETTER
rvr T„cTVF ITSF OF THE WORD CASiOKlA, AJNi^
EXCLUSIVE UbE U* in „ A3 CUR TRADE MARK.
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,
, r DP SAMUEL PITCHER, of Ilyanms, Massachusetts,
La the originator of “ PITCHER’S CASTOR*^ same
lot has borne and does now ™ r anne«
mr the facsimile signature of W^*** 1 * , 11 '
is he original « PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” whieh has been
led in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
:. a rs. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper ana see that it is
l hind uou have always bought ^. //ttZ-^T* m the
jfTw We signature"/ wrap-
pr> No one has authority from me to use my name ex-
e pl The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
t5f t »7.
Do Not Be Deceived.
) 0 not endanger the life of your child by accepting
cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in-
redients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
THB CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY OTREET. NEW YORK CITY.
No Wonder.
[“Well, little boy what’s your
Lme
on
i u Shadrach Nebuchadnezzer
|ots.”
(“Who gave you that name?”
‘I dont know. But if I find
when I gets older they’ll be
fry for it.”—Punch.
'hen a young man stops tak-
his girl to the theatre, and
B3 to church instead, it’s dollars
[doughnuts they are engaged.
Am Uncertain Disease.
pere is no disease more uncertain in its
lure than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
[symptoms of no two cases agree. It is
refore most difficult to make a correct
jnosis. No matter how severe, or under
itdisguise dyspepsia attacks you. Browns’
pBitters will cure it. Iimiluable in all
tees of the stomach, blood and nerves,
is’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Valuable Advice.
“Do you think that ' stimulants
would hurt me, doctor?”
“Not if you leave them alone.”
—Detroit Free Press.
If You Wish to Be WeU.
You must fortifv your system against
the attack of disease. Your blood
must be kept pure, your stomach and
digestive organs in order, your appetite
good. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the med
icine to build you up, purify and enrich
your blood and give you strength. It
creates an appetite and gives digestive
power.
HOOD’S PILLS are the favorite fam
ily cathartic, easy to take, easy to
operate.
More men have been self-undone
than have been self-made.
Paint Your Metal Roof.
I will furnish material, labor, paint the roof for 50c. a sq. of 100
[feet, and give you a written guarantee that “If the above named
ff leaks or needs painting at any time within ten years from date, I
to do the work needed without any expense to owner of building. ”
Albany, Ga., June 5, 1897.
We know Mr. Harvey English to be a citizen of Dougherty Co.,
I> a property holder therein ; that he has done a large amount of
piling in Albany, Ga. We have heard of no complaints about his
rk. Work entrusted to his hands will be faithfully executed, and
guarantee is good.—J. T. HESTER, Tax Collector; SAM W.
pH, Ordinary; S. W. GUNNISON, Tax Receiver; R. P. HALL,
pH Superior Court; W. T. JONES, Judge County Court; W. E.
'OTEN, Solicitor-General Albany Circuit; ED. L. WIGHT, Mayor
Ubany and Representative Georgia Legislature; B. F. Brim berry,
in Mock, C. B. James, Agent Southern Express Company; N. F.
[h J. C. Tabot. L. E. Welch. A. W. Muse, Y. G. Rust, Postmaster;
Webt °P, S. k Weston.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 25, 1895.
r. Harvey English has stopped a
bad leaking roof for us with his
fhsh Paint. I recommend his paint
Li °ne who is troubled with leaky
Is.
torgia Cotton Oil Co., Albany Mill,
F. WHIRL, Supt.
Albany, Ga., July 13, 1895.
p Harvey English painted the tin
my house which leaked badly
aa cy places. I ara well satisfied
I bis work and the paint used by
JOHN D. POPE,
Attorney at Law.
I Albany, Ga., Nov. 19, 1895.
r e r oof painting done for me by Mr.
I e ’’ English has been and still is
: 01 the most satisfactory jobs of
which I ever had done. lie
PP‘y all leaks in a large tin roof,
there were a great many. His
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whole transaction was fair, business
like and satisfactory.
Respectfully, A. W. MUSE.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 29, 1897.
Having had Mr. Harvey English to
paint several roofs with his incompara
ble preparation for stopping leaks it
affords me pleasure to bear testimony
to his honest workmanship and to the
fact that ‘"English Paint Stops the
Leaks; Yes it Do.”
JOSEPH S. DAVIS,
Cashier First National Bank.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 28, 1897.
Mr. Harvey English has covered the
roof of the engine room of the Albany
Water Works with his roof paint and I
am well satisfied with the work. He
has also done some work for me per
sonally, two years ago, which has
proved satisfactory. C. W. TIFT,
Chief Engineer Albany Water Works.
have no agents, no partners. I do not sell English Paint to
^rs. English Paint is a shining glossy black. English is white,
a ?*hite. I don’t paint shlnglS roofs.
^ HARVEY ENGLISH, Albany, Ga.
^ ENGLISH PAINT STOPS LEAKS; YES, IT DO.
LANGUAGE OF CRIME.
THE ARGOT OF PARIS AND THE “PAT
TER” OF LONDON.
Thieves Hr,ve Special Words to Express
Stealing of Every Kind — Material
Changes Take Place Every Two
Three Ye.irs.
The language of criminals—the argol
of Paris, the “jiattcr” cf London—has
been carefully investigated by nuruer
ous writers, with very variant results.
Its origin is difficult to explain.
Criminals, say many authors, have
found it necessary to adopt a technical
language for their own protection, that
they may be able to converse in public
without being understood. ’‘They have
been forced *0 do this and have made a
language as minister and asvilea.s them
selves.” This theory cannot be admit
ted. Certainly the argot is sinister and
vile and thoroughly representative of
the class that uses it, bat further thar
this we cannot go.
The theory that the use of this dialect
is of any assistance to the criminal is
inadmissible. Most policemen and al
prison officers know this slang, some
times better than the thieves. To speak
it in the hearing of a detective is to in
vite arrest; to speak it in the presence
of the general public would arouse sus
picion and attract attention—two things
which are especially to be avoided.
Why, then, does it exist? Dr. Laurent
of the Sante prison in Paris has given
an explanation which has at least noth
ing to contradict it: The persons en
gaged in every trade form a species cf
dialect or technical phraseology which
is spoken and understood only by them
selves. Criminals, who practice a trade
as old as any, have gradually acquired
a language more adapted to their wants,
more in keeping with their ideas and
thoughts. Miserable, heartless, engaged
in a perpetual struggle against moral
ity, law and decency, they have ac
quired a language of debased words and
cynical metaphors, a language of abbre
viated expressions and obscene syno
nyms.
This dialect has mutilated the mother
tongue. It has also borrowed liberally
from other languages, but without meth
od or etymology. Criminals are no1
grammarians. Neither are they lin
guists, and at first sight it would seem
strange that they should import words
from other countries. We will find,
however, that in any prison the percent
age of inmates of foreign birth will be
large. In America it is about 15 pel
cent. A foreign expression which seems
apt or an improvement on the one in
present nse is rapidly diffused througt
the prison. In cases where it is especial
ly descriptive it may become permanent,
but its life is usually short. The argoi
of the crime class changes materially
every two or three years. It is ephem
eral, as shifting as its users. Victoi
Hugo exaggerates only slightly when he
says, “The argot changes more in ten
years than the language does in ten cen
turies. ” Thus in the last three years
there have been three different terms
for watch—“super,” “thimble” and
“yellow and white”—each of which
was in its turn the only one used.
Every writer on the subject has no
ticed that the argot is rich in expres
sions to denote certain common actions.
This is a pecliarity shared by all primi
tive languages, the only difference being
in the selection of the common acts.
Thus in Sanskrit there are nearly 100
roots which express the idea of killing
or wounding, without counting second
ary derivations. Some of these roots ar€
embodied in our language today. In the
dialect of the thieves there are nearly
100 expressions to signify theft. It wafi
necessary for the pickpocket to describe
the various pockets in a man’s clothing
and in a woman’s dress. The average
man does not often need to specify a
particular pocket. When he does, he
lays his hand on it to assist the poverty
of his language. The thief has a sepa
rate name for each separate pocket.
But in spite of this richness in syn
onyms, which is in itself a marked sign
of degeneracy, for the tendency of a
language is to eliminate its synonyms,
giving to each a different shade of
meaning, the argot is a poor language.
It has not a single expression for ab
stract emotion. To attempt to render a
philosophic thought, a moral emotion, a
synthetic or aesthetic idea into the dia
lect of the thief would be like attempt
ing to translate “electricity” or “steam
engine” into Latin. It is impossible be
cause the words do not exist. They are
not needed. The criminal has no more
conception of abstract emotion than a
blind man has of color.
/» _act which does not seem to ally
the argot to a primitive language is it*
ability to form additional words from
its own resources, a power of self de
velopment which we find in the old
Anglo-Saxon, and especially in the Ger
man of today. This trait is the more
striking as it seems in direct contradic
tion to the impotence of the English
language in this respect. The English
has little formative power. It relies on
the Greek and Latin languages for the
extension .cf its vocabulary.—A. T. B.
Crofton in Popular .Science Monthly.
He Had The Facts.
A North Georgia weekly recent
ly received the following letter:
Mule Skin, ga—Mr editor: You
sa in yore papir thet george Wash
ington never told a lie. Now, he
hez told a whole Lot, ann so hev
you. I rented land frnm him two
veer over on Ground Hog Kreek
and he lied me plum outerr my
fodder ann yam taters. He haini
got no cherry trees on his place
nuther, so you see both of you’ns
hez lyed putty konsidurbil. Atter
thet rent biznus I kaint sa that I
wood believe george Washington
on oath. Yoars, etc., Sid Cook.
—Atlanta Journal.
TO WOMEN FROM
Mrs. Joseph Peterson, Warren, Pa.
Had Experience.
“Colonel, do you think there is
any money in horse racing?”
“Yes, indeed! All mine is.”-
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An Insinuation.
She—“She intends
abroad.”
He—“To complete her musical
education?”
She—“Well—to begin it, I
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womb.
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To Raise the Price of Produce.
Distinguished Statesman—“The
American people, I am afraid, are
losing interest in the tariff and
silver issues. In the next cam
paign we have got to take some
radical and decisive steps in
order to catch the farmers’ vote.”
Another Statesman—“What
would you do to get the farmers’
vote?”
Distinguished Statesma n—
“Well, confidentially, I will tell
you my plans. I am in favor of
coming out emphatically in our
next platform in favor of a general
European war.”—Puck.
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