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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 II 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.”- The Sketch. New Route to Health. Little fragrant, palatable tablets, in a dainty enambled metal box, just right for the vest pocket or the lady's purse. On the tablets are stamped the letters, “C. C. C.” Cascaret, Candy Cathartic. Eat one like candy and the little tab let at once purifies and destroys disease germs m the mouth and throat, stops souring of undigested food in the stom ach, stirs up the liver, tones and strengthens the bowels, making them act healthily and naturally. They are well and widely advertised m the press, but the best advertisement for Casca- rets is their wonderful mild yet posi itive action, which makes a cascaret convert of every one who tries them. We recommend them to all our readers. All druggists sell Dr. Miles* Pain Pills. to go An Insinuation. She—“She intends abroad.” He—“To complete her musical education?” She—“Well—to begin it, I think.”—Puck. Ayer’s Cfcrr, PccNrd promptly relieves the cough, stops the tickling in the throat, and in duces quiet and refreshing sleep. % size sprite. DESK SPACE FOR RENT In nice office; reasonable terms. Apply at this office. “ I have suffered with womb trouble over fifteen years. I had inflammation, enlargement, and displacement of the womb. “ The doctor wanted me to take treat ments, but I had just begun taking Mrs. Pinkham’s Compound, and my husband said I had better wait and see how much good that would do me. I was so sick when I began with her medi cine, I could hardly be on my feet. 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