The Seymour News (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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GEO. P. BA*BER,
Edltoi and Proprietor.
BBYMOUI^ - - TEXAS
suor.
Slang was entertainly cUsonssed
[before the Contributors' dkib «f
the woman's -college by Miss Oaf*
olioa Lambert -Sparrow, Olaes of
1900, of fiichmond; Miss Mary
KLONDIKE EASLEY,
THE BARBER,
...... And Manufacturer of....
Easily'* Kt0I><Uke Halr Grower,
Is etill doing business at the old
(Cutaredat the poatofhoe, at Saymear. Texas
-*eoond-oiassinHil matter.
TEAMS OF 8UBSOR1PTON.
Oaecoj>y,oneyear |1.M
One copy, oix months, .. . . x It.
©naoopy.threonaontha 40.
tW Invariably in advance.
If not paid «t.rictJy la advance, $2.00 tor oar
Stir will be charged. .
Member N. W. T. f. tod N.E. I Ex. Com
Fin DAY, FEB. 16, 1899.
I Charlotte Orotbers, 1901, ofCrofch-i stand on the north side of the
era, Penn., and Miss Annette square opposite court house.
Brown Hopkins, 1901, Baltimore. Seymour, : 3 ; Texas.
Miss Sparrow said.: "YV« must
admit that slnug usually is convict* |
ing evidence of a defeotivevocaba*
lary. The makers of slang are not|
as a rnle, the users of dictionar-
ies. Slang in its essential nature |
is spontaneous. That which con-
sists of true vulgarisms deserves !
to die. At first sight slang seems
so meaningless and silly that the!
wonder is it ever came to life at all. J
And yet it is in ftorne sense tbej
Comparisons
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The intelligent to
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National Bank
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SEYMOUR.
; j A General Banking Business Transacted.
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H. V. BRANHAM, President
JO WOODYEAR, Vice-President O. 8. PLANT8, Cashier.
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Lookout for the
fiem-Photograph « Gallspy
• • We are prepared to do all kinds of work.
Photos 50 cents to $3.50 Pep Dozen.
Buttons, Pius, etc. All work guaranteed.
J. A. HAMMOCK. Seymour, Texas.
<*oi?elusioi)5
Valuation and Tax Levy* I voice of ttie people. It has work-
The commissioners court will its way from some vulgar slum
next week, beside auditing tbejhuman metropolis that the
books said reports for the' past j dainty stepping literature has j por Colorado, California and
year, appoint tbe road overseers j,,ever trod. It does not always J Great North-west, investigate
| schedules, connections, rates
train equipment of
the
the
and
(Fort Worth & Denver City Railway.)
never trod. It
and make tax levy for the year, j g 'n ® in the house of repre*
Their ss some little difference of|8®n^'ve words, yet sooner or
opinion jusi what mode should bej'tt^er Cfy ^or resignation will be
adopted in reducing the county J heard. A Howells, a Bret Harte,
mm piaio tax for the coming year.Jor a Kipling, will step down and
It has always been the policy of!explore the region whence it came
western counties to reduce values interpret the inarticulate
to th !#' minimum and levy the!80 that all will understand.
maximum amount for county par- J " Pau out, i® a metaphor j Solid and Fast Through Trains,
poses, in order to supply sufficient draw" fr°m the naiuingj Pullman Drawing room Sleepers,
local funds, and at the same time|oaiBP 'to go off half cocked' is anj q&t gerrjce> .
'keep from being taxed too Jbeavy Admirable simile from the gunj. Close Connections,
ior state purposes. This is usually roo®> back number* from the! Scenery Unequaled.
the best mode of regulating tax j tt,a8s of periodical literature. 'To J For full information and magnifi-
umtters in sparsely settled western hand' is a little more | oently illustrated literature, write to
counties, ttf hold their own agaiunt doubtful. It may mean either to
the thickly settled counties of tbejrun ahead of tfie procession or
state getting large amounts of slats] to outsouud the fife and dram.
funds,— Hall County Herald. | At all events, it is an intensive
much resembling that older bit
Millions for Murder. J 0f fi]ang drawn from the Elizabe-
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W. F. STEKLEV, A. G. F. & P. A.,
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D. B. KEELER, Traffic Manager, t
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A. A. GLISSON, Gen Agt Pass Dept.
Fort Worth & Denver City By.
Fort Worth, Texas.
England will spend $300,000,• than stage, To out-Herod Herod.'
000 to destroy (he Tranvaal "To give a gift or compliment
Republic. Thfs sum would pro- 'with a string to it' is a metaphor
vide every , poor family in the drown from a common trick of the I so much a kind of word as a
British Isles with a comfortableI street gamin. Who does uot re* phrase iu the development of
home and good schools for the eall April Fool's day, a sidewalk, words. Before it takes pnblio
children of the masses. And yet a delusive penny, and a shout of place among the people it is not
•meu prate about Christian civitiza- derisive laughter! There is much slang; after it keeps that place for
tioil and look, upon Joseph Cham- virtue packed into that piece of a time it ceases to be slang and
beriain as an enlightened states- slang—ther# are so many gifts of passes into idiomatic English,
mitu and Ceoil Rhodes as a patriot, friends and fortune offered us with Slang is language in the tadpole
Civilization, whit crimes are per- strings to them. Dewey's bouse, stage, and the best that we wish
petrated iu thy name,* and what he may well complain, was so for it is that it will cease to be
pigmies strut about the human presented, and was not Hamlet's slang. And since it is hard to say
stage in the garb of intelligent genious, that gift of the gods, tied just when this comes to pass, we
gtauls! Millions^ murder Chris* with jus! such a string to indecis- can only bid those who hesitate
iiitng in South AJritiS; not a cent ion that it might slip through his where to put the weight of their
to feed tbe'-starviug millions in I fingers when he tried to grasp it authority to bekr in mind the
Initial Nero fiddled while Rome for his use? 'Don't monkey with words of Bacon: 'It is as well to
whs burning, and Nero was not a a buzz-saw' is more than a meta- create a good precedent as to fol
whit niore savage than some of the phor; it is a whole Aesop's fable low it.' "
Reynolds Presbyterian Academy,
AUBflJiY, TEXkS.
This institution is modern in every particular, with steam heat, eleotric
lights and many other up-to-date conveniences and attractions, The
curriculum is complete and includes piano, violin, voice culture,
'' etc. Faculty as good as any in the state.
TRUSTEES:
GEORGE T. RFYNOLDS. President.
N. L. BARTHOLOMEW, Secretary and Treasurer.
J. A. MATTHEWS, W. D. REYNOLDS, D. C. CAMPBELL,
REV. FRENCH MoAFEE, S.WEBB.
WILL ROBEltSON. Pbohjiktob.
Successor to A. G. Johnson. Keeps on hand
Pure Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Mineral
Water, Ale Porter,
And all kinds of goods belonging to our line.
Our special brands of
Long Horn Club and Dripping Spring?
Whiskey can't be excelled. When in need
of anything io,our line call at the old stand*
North side square, Seymour, Texas.
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alleged Christian, statesmen of this condenced into a bit of
era.—Cameron Enquirer. que advice.
'•Slang is often used
pictures*
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euphemis-
. A New Scheme.
A new scheme of advertising
Some time: ago several hundred I is a"n "effort tVescape Iwas re80rted 10 ^ a Pro8re88lve
dpllars were subscribed for a tele- c^fing a t|,iug by it8 rlght Damt, business firm in a prosperous city
pboue line from here to Paducah | as • ^ naming money 'rocks,'I in the Sooth,. The junior partner
'tin,' oi 'spondulicks' a man might |0f the firm swore out a warrant for
and Dickens City. The matter
was then allowed to drop and
prooably nothing more would
have been said about it but for the
. unpleasant fact that Seymour has
gone to work and Js inj
money among ;her merchants to
put iu a line to Dickens City.
What that means to our town it is
needless to sfty. v The Mangum
and Orowell lines are bringing in
no end Of reveiktV to the* whole-
sale merchants and the'tterchaptN
at Guthrie, Dickens and other
points will of course order _ their
goods from where they can gSt
them quickest and easiest; they
have ipo sentiment about it. Quan-
ah nihil can build this line if she
wants . fif.Q.^0 it sahead of
Se,\ mour.. All utja need to dp is to
go to work atonce and see .that
one of the bt^f slices of%oar terri-
tory is ni.t lost .by our indiffer-
eness.br parsimony.—Qnunali Tri-
buue.; .
escape from all its responsibilities,
whether in the forai of wealth or
poverty. So, when for death we
.have the phrases to 'pass in your
n£ UPI shecks,"to kick the bucket,' to
'join the majority,' it is as if the
common mind sought to hide from
Take .'von*' hides. 'f urs, bonef.
pecans and hog* to 11;. G> Bennett
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who w,ill b
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itself the mysteyy and horror of
death, to roof in with fevities the
abysm of the supernatural. But
metaphors such as these are the
neftdB of rhetoric. They are hardy
and grow of their accord in com-
moli'speech, and abything surely
is better than what Lowell called
'.potted literature.'
"The newness of slang gives it
fascination—there are such possi-
bilities about an untried piece of
slang. Kipling, perhaps, has best
realized its patelitiaiities. ' He
Aeemed to know just how far it
would curry atid how 'tnuoh . it
would scatter into connotation. It
is his nUtui^il speech; ail his writ- /
ings uie brimful of it, and even a
the nttitie of oiie of his volumes
lies on ll s debatable lant) between
slang atfcl wmih!rrrVI ifb'8 Hand!
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the. arrest of the senior partner on
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the ground that ho was selling
goods below cost and the firm wat
thereby losing money.
. The case came up In court and
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counsel for the senior partner
asked for a postponement in order
to have inore time to prepare, his
$ase. The judge granted his re-
quest, bail was given and the sen-
ior member released. As he left
the court room the junior partner
arose and exclaimed: "If be is
leieased the sacrifice will go on!"
The news soon spread and the firm
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did a better business. When the
case catn^up again no plaintiff
Appeared and the charge was dis-
missed. The firm bad succeeded in
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their object—advertising.—Phila-
delphia Call.
I have bought Dickson Bros, livery stock and rigs, also a lot of
new buggies, and *will be found at the Rock Stable
near the Washington Hotel.
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DieKsoi? Bros. & ^rpett,
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Seymour, - - ■ - - - Texas
JOE WHEAT. .
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Notary Public.
All business entrusted to my care
will receive prompt, and careful at-
tention. Office in court house.
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Seymour, - * - - Texas.
" O. D. GOOSTREE
Proprietor <■
City Barber Shoft.
1 have n good shop with first-cine# workmen
Come and see me, No.96, Washingto. street.
Hot or cold bathe at • all hoar*.
M. CHAMBERS,
—Dealer in t .
Fine Wmes, Liquors,
and Cigars
In new bnilding first dooi p«nth of the 6 o
Qninn old stand Wanhington Street, Seym on
Tezoa> . * .
Henry Schuster,
BARBER.
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Has the finest parlors i n thooity, McLainatraa
northsidesgaare rfoymour.Texas «
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Business Cards.
For up-to-date business cards
in aluminum case, call at the
kws office and see samples and
ake orders. Something new
nd cheap.
|ttinefal Wells
Texas,
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Rapidly becoming the greatest
Watering place in the South,is
reached only via the
merai f.
western Ry.
Excursion tickets on sale with all
the principal roads of the state. All
•Santa Fe and Texas Pacific trains
make connection at Weatherford,
Texas, for Mineral Wells. For fur-
bher particulars, address,
W. 0. FORBESS, ^ '
G. P. A., Weatherford, Tex
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Barber, George P. The Seymour News (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1900, newspaper, February 16, 1900; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235243/m1/2/: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.