The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-09

the world forever in this tragic way with the trite expressions:
 "Tenty-three.''
 There are just as many separate
 "lingoes" as there are branches
 crminality, and without attempting to
 separate them into Glasses" I have
 found some words and phrases "tabu-
 lated" by one who has made study
 meaning translated. The Compiler
 or "tabulator' of the table of con
 tents" declares that the list comes
 from an officer of the police system of one of the biggest cities in the country, a man who, as an officer of
 the law, has known and has been thrown in contact with as many crim- inals and crooks, past and present, as any other one man of this generation
 For the benefit of any one who in desperate half-world fashion, I feel sure he will enjoy perusing the amusing list and perhaps "pastet it away safely in his scrapbook for future reference
 Here is the list:
 Habltual drunkard, stewbum; re- volver, rod or gat; knife. a shiy: rail. road train rattler; street car, short car; penitentiary, stir or the big house: prison guard, the screw or the eve; cheap thief, fink; small boy. a purk. lawyer, mouthpiece or big noise; pa- trolmen, flatties or harness bulls: plainclothes detectives, plain bulls or dicks; cheap beggar, moocher; coun tryman. zipp; automobile, gas pucker; overcoat, benny; Jail, hoosgow pr Jughouse; going to jail. taking . fall or tumble; pleading guilty, taking , dive; brakeman, a shack; to elude he brakeman, buzzing the shack; or tered off train, hitting the grit: srowd, jam or tip; woman. a moll. skirt, frail or broad; thief who preys 'n women. moll buzzer; running from police, on the lam; jail breaker, Lam ster; girl, chick moll; well-dresse,1 nan, josser; town dude, city slicker: uitcase or bag, keester; opium smok- 1T, hophead or hopfiend; cocaine user, 'okehead shoot boozer, sleigh rider: morphine user, gunner or hyper; con- ldence man, con man or bunk; shop liter, booster or holster; victim of onfidence man, come-on; safe blower, 'opher; highwayman, rodman; peddle, f cheap stuff at fairs, shiller; to be onest is to be on the square, square 'uy or leveler.
 All this has been suggested to my l nind by the recent terrible "crime rave which has enveloped this entire ountry and the word "burglar'' or or crook" or graft l r" is as much seen in print as that of ]! gentleman" or '1ady" or artist" or seer"
 Along this particular line it may be emarked en passant that Burglars" We all know. are divided Into many lasses thus the afternoon prowler' rho sneaks into the house while the | listress is out-a-visiting or downtown ttending to her shopping
 Then there is the night prowler" the regulation burglar" the one no enters the house while the family
 enjoying its evening meal. or later hen
 Not creature is stirring. not even
 mouse.''
 This sort also robs the henhouse of s game. and is frequently of the husky color" and has grown
 be the subject of many jokes" when . comes to stealing chickens" and 'ns and turkeys and other barnyard Inhabitants.
 And that reminds me of very anus story which very clever friend
 mine told me not long ago on this Ibject
 It seems that the question came up r debate as to whether any one of e twelve disciples" was ebony hued
 not. ,v In debating the question. one man s marked: t Well. it is quite certain that If It ere was an ebony-hued disciple z