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ANSWERING Odds

4 The Stiles Management Ask ''Did You Know?''
f l. We do know That Judge Greene has one vote in
near ten thousand
That Judge Greene did vote for Judge Stiles in the
Probate Judge
That Judge Greene stated in print that Judge Stiles
had held lucrative office long enoughthats what the Hgdon
supporters say in cartoons and in print
a. That should have perpetual hold office un
der democratic rule
'That the fight between Stiles and Greene between
two office holders Yes, and the people eliminated one
g. That ''the fight is not between you know and
untried We do know that the contest between
who is wealthy exoice holder and of the people who
is in every way worthy of the office
T. That lawyer way better qualified for the office
Of Sheriff than such Higdon with good military
training civilian of high character
Judge Stiles should his fortune and the honors
already given him.
g. A sheriff cannot succeed himself.
TO- All the Odds summed up show by every test of
democracy fitness and fair play between the two candidates
left in the runo that Hgdon clearly entitled to the office
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asks If I have my naturalization papers.
Now, how do you folks get such pro-
nunciation? 1t isn't found In any cyclo-
pedla or gazetteer that l ever saw 1t Is
incorrect and to me sounds stiled. Nor
do your own pronunciations convince me,
Why on earth do you say Quincy, when
that syllable begins with C.. never pro-
nonnced other than s. or X? Why do
YOU say 'Waltham' and 'Wrentham' and
slam out that than SO roundly? Used to
those recommendations and the dwelling on
the last syllable in Newburyport, etc,
once innocently pronounced the name of
that Cape Cod town as 1t is spelled, Barn
stable, thinking stable as good a word
as barn and as well worth dwelling on,
and the office roared at me. Why say
'Wooburn' when you spell 1t Wburn7 But
worst of all is that pretty little Middlesex
town whose name | rather liked until |
heard 1t over and over again blared out
Bill Kicker -
l am afraid my Iowan's case is des-
perate one. But I confess some SYM
pathy for him. don't you?
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HearSts Own Followers Block
His Game
NOMINATE A FULL TICKET
And Eliminate Chance of Fusion With
Democrats or Man In a Monkey
Cage or the Daily
Romances.
BY sEwELL HAeeARp.

New York, September 15.-The big show
In New York this week has been the state
convention of the independence League,
an organization that has sprouted from
William Randolph Hearsts barrel like
Jacks beanstalk The difference is that
Jack reached the giants castle by means
Of his beanstalk and Mr. Hearst is not
likely to get anywhere.
The Independence League has unwilling
ly conspired with the conservative DEM
ocrats as told in this correspondence last
week, to keep Mr.. Hearst from being gov
ernor His plan had been to nominate
himself to head the ticket and have the
other places open so he could dicker with
the democrats for an endorsement when
they meet In Buffalo on September rs.
The Independence League delegates from
up the state had aspirations of their own
and they could not stand 1t to see the
democrats have a finger in the pie SO
they came to town shouting the slogan,
Give a straight ticket" They were
in humor to follow Mr.. Hearsts trust
boss quashing platform to the letter. The
first boss they smashed was Mr.. Hearst
himself, and the fusion programme that
he tried to force upon them was knocked
out.
Hearst has just one chance left of dick
ering with the democrats. 1t has been
reported that the men nominated on the
ticket with him are good natured fellows
who may consent to withdraw in favor of
democratic nominees should the democrats
endorse the head of their ticket If Mr..
Hearst tries to carry out this scheme
there will be a serious split In his indie
pendence League. There has already been
bolt of considerable number of his
followers owing to the machine methods
of his leutenants.
There is much gossip that District At
torney Jerome, having accomplished his
purpose OF destroying all chance of Hearst
being governor will withdraw from the
race 1t Is said that Mr. Jerome is not
anxious to be governor and that he con-
scented to enter the race only to defeat
Hearst So far the republicans have not
settled upon a candidate and they seem
to be as much at sea as the democrats.
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HOW DO YOU SAY THEM?
Names of Cities Pronounced Different.
: ly in Different Locations.
From the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcript
Professor Hart, in his interesting article
on Oklahoma in last Saturdays Tran
script. admonlshed his New England read
ers that It is pronounced Oak. not OKLA
homa Professor Hart did well, as an ed
itorial paragraph of the same issue there
by noted. The same paragraph comment
ed on other pronunctations of places. used
by their residents, that are quite differ
sent from our usage. Now this is a New
York Sun field and the clerk enters upon
1t with some trepdaton, but here goes
3The transcripts editorial notes Iowa, Vir-
i;ginia and Oregon among the other names
mot pronounced here as at home. Then
there is Ohio, which the native jerks out
F'Uhiuh." disregarding our solemn oh
hi-oh" We and the gazetteers say New
1Or-le-ans," accent on the "Or." Down
there they stress the last syllable and
call it "leens" Omaha Is "0mahaw," not
a'Omahah" Los Vegas is Los Vaygs.
Missouri is "Mizzoura" You are more
likely to hear "Coloraydo" than Colo
rahdo" In the state. Spokane is as IL
there was no "e" in It, Manitoba is ac-
cented on the penult, not the ultimate.
Quincy Gid is not "Quinzy." Galveston
stresses the YES rather than the Gal.
f'Terra Hut" the natives call 1t. More
say "Loosiapa' than 'Loueziana."
innate and So on. You have perhaps heard
Of the Frenchman who came to America
TO SEQ the city of Wnona, Mimi, attract.
led by its beautiful name. which he pro-
fnounced 'Weenonah." Landing at New
York, he scarcely gave any attention to
the metropolis but pushed on to the west.
Chicago was seen only In changing cars,
and as the train glded along the Mis-
sssippi and approached what is a beau
tiful city, surrounded by the rich verdure
and romantic bluffs of the Upper Mis-
sissippi, the Frenchman was enchanted
THE train slowed up before stopping at the
kstation, the Frenchman half rose from his
seat in feverish anticipation, when the
brakeman opened the door and yelled
G"Weinonyr' The Frenchman collapsed in
his seat heartbroken. and did not leave
sthe train at Winona.
8 What queer recommendations exclainl
my New England readers. Indeed? Here
] let my neighbor. an Iowa man, take
his pen in hand and put in type the glow
ing words he has often emitted In my
presence. This is what he says:
q yes, / am from Iowa and l. never
heard any other than the pronunciation
fI-o-wa accent on the first syllable) until
] came east. oh, yes; occasionally the
older and more rural people would call
IT T-o-way," which is really the original
Indian pronunciation But this I-oh-a was
unknown to Lowndes or anybody else in
the Hawkeye state. Yet no one here calls
II anything else. When l so to register
and ! am asked where I was born. the
solemn clerk puts 1t down Ireland and
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William to Wilyum, James to Jamz, Ar
thur to Rthur. and SO on through the list.
The last names are also being turned,
twisted and writhed into hideous shapes.
To help the new spelling fad along the
fakirs of Ann street are peddling tons of
simplified spelling books In their hats
they wear large placards bearing the le-
gend, Spell as the President Does" Some
of them were rather limited in education,
but they made that up in vigor of voice.
Say, GULL remarked one attenuated
vendor, do you want to be has-been in
your spelling? OF course you don't. They
are five cents: a complete education for
half dime. Spiel the new spell and asso-
ciate with Carnegie and Brander Mat
thewsl Five cents"
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Dreamed the Safe Combination.

From the iPttsburg Gazette Times.
Charles FarrelPs dreams may not be SO
fantastic as some, but they have been
proved to be accurate at least. One Of
them yesterday opened the old safe, which
has stood for the past sixteen years,
tightly locked and with the combination
forgotten in the mayors office.
Various clerks and messengers in one
administration after another have tried
their hands at the old safe, but they
could never do anything with 1t. 1t was
locked and it stayed locked. The safe is
said to be one of the first fitted with a
combination lock to be installed in the
city and 1t was used for long time
in connection with the police court in the
days when the mayor held the daily
hearings.
Yesterday Farrell entered the office
with the announcement that he had
dreamed the combination. Amid the de-
risive glbes Of others in the office he
tried his "hunch' and greatly to the
establishment of everybody. it worked. the
bolt slid back and the door opened.
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ours in Santo Domingo do not appear to
differ substantially from those on the Ball
tic seacoast. lfhb -
1t is found near Santiago City. ASSOC
ated with Ignite, sandstones and con-
glomerates. These beds probably belong
to the oligocene formation, and are found
containing amber at a number of places
on the north coast, as we'll as on both
TANKS of the Monte Cristi range. 1t also
frequently occurs in the streams flowing
through these beds.
The amber is usually in ovate Jumps,
ranging from the size of pea to a mans
fist, often f1attened, dull on the exterior,
being covered with a. kind of brownish
crust. None of these deposits has been
studied scientifically, although several
abortive attempts have been made to OPP
crate them for commercial purposes.
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Communicated
lIGDON VS.. STILES
.Perpetuity In Office a Subject For
Concern of Voters.

stiles for the young manhood Of this eoun-
~ 10 At them for the obligations and re-
sponsibilltles of life and to guide the af-
fairs Of the county and state, If there Is
no hope of reward2
Why does Mr.. smyer make the COM
parison between Colonel Higdon and
Judge Greene?
Do the old timers claim to belong to the
royal family, and we poor devils subjects
to their will? No! Fellow voters. this
should not be one family matter. Ev-
cry man and every family should have the
right to aspire to office-holdlng
Mr.. Singer may be a good lawyer, but
I think he is mistaken in his premises
when he says, "A man cannot afford to
be guided by sentiment or sympathy in
the election of a candidate to this hon
orable office. No experiment can be safe
ly triedn What vaporings! Don't facts
mark this as Imperialism with a ven
geance? What has Judge stiles ever done
for his country except as an office
holder? Why not let the patient and long
suffering public place back in office a
true and tried ex-officer who met defeat
at the hands of voters, and by and by
Judge stiles may come again to fill the
coveted place and no doubt he will be
ready, If living Our forefathers fought
to rid themselves from the British yoke,
but Jefferson county seems to be wearing
the yoke of perpetual offiee-holdersl Why
not overthrow threatened dynasty by
making Hlgdon sheriff? The time is ripe
for the revolution and the people are
ready for a change, and they will have IT.,
IL they dare to use the courage of their
convictions by pulling away from the
rngsters.
I have no personal grievance against
Judge Stiles l have grievance against
any one family continuing in office from
decade to decade Other honors may await
Judge Stiles. but let him call halt on
his Unsuitable appetite for while and
hunt In other fields and pastures green,
while he passes the bottle around to Col
onel Higdon. w c. McTYEIRE.
BIRMINGHAM Sentenaber IL 1896 ste
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To the Public:

To the Public:
/. The puerile attempt OF Mr.. r. D. Singer.
Judge Stiles campaign manager, to keep
the trend of the votes In the well-worn
rut of perpetual office holding, thereby
establishing oligarehy in free America, Is
too absurd, selfish and unreasonable to
be tolerated by the enlightened voters of
Jefferson county,
Z Why did Mr.. smyer inject Judge Samuel
Greene into this controversy Judge
/ Greene's authorization claim seems good
for the goose but not for the gander at
this time, according to Mr.. Singer. Does
Mr.. Smyer consider the average voter a
lamb ready to be lead to the sacrificial
. altar? Does he expect him to sacrifice
his conviction to family prestige or rota-
.tion in office to crafty the greed for
gain of one man, thereby welding another
link Into the endless ring chain?
Perpetuity in offieel All honor to the
grand old patriots who SO valiantly
guarded the peoples interest almost from
the day Alabama was admitted into the
union. Those were grand old days and
4 those were grand old heroes, whose de-
seendants have been honored. AS one set
died out, another was ready to take It's
place. Look at the court record and see
who have filled the offices of honor, trust
sand pay Look into the court house today
and see who are the incumbents in Of
hce? They are the descendants of office
holders. 1t is a perpetual office-holding
regime on blood lines. They have been
as solid and as immovable as Gibraltar
but the day of their doom is at hand. II
this ring cannot be broken by persuasive
arguments, let it be blown to pieces by
the dynamite of public indignation.
1 Personally every officer in the court
house is my friend, as friendship goes,
but let the old timers take a rest from
ftheir labors, smoke the pipe Of peace, and
say God bless the young blood which
has been infused into the life and veins
tof this county of thrift and permit the
daring and genius of the young come for
ward" Why build colleges and univer-
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Conn ncatedD
COL. {. |. RIGDON, SON OF The PEOPLE
His Relation to Those Who Believe Honesty Justice
and Liberty.

the people will do with their candidate
who relies on the honest voice of the
people as against a perverted idea OF
public economy.
Many stories of lurid color have been
circulated by the supporters of Judge
Stiles as to what Colonel Higdon would
or would not do when elected. Other
stories. badly out OF joint. are being cir
culated as to what he is doing.
Mark this!
Without exception every commission
merchant on Morris avenue, men who
have been doing business with Colonel
Higdon for years. Is enthusiastic in his
behalf. This speaks loud enough for his
honesty and uprightness. by their works
We shall know them
Colonel Higdon is not conducting his
campaign from the bottom of muck
pit.
Any story that Colonel Higdon has APP
pointed or even selected his deputies il
false and without foundation.
Colonel Higdon Is the winner. Be with
him. sss
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Many a slip From the Farmer.

From the Outlook.
Raising wheat is no easy task re-
marked a farmer zone year 1 had 800
acres of as beautiful wheat as ever lay
out of doors; it stood breast high, and 1t
seemed good for forty bushels to the acre
that meant to me profit of $1,000.
II had the teams and harvest hands en-
gagged, and expected to begin cutting on
Monday. On Friday afternoon there came
out of the northwest a greenish gray
cloud. Following a heavy rain, the hail
fell. In ten minutes the wheat was flat
tened to six inches from the ground.
I'VE cut little of 1t for hay; the re-
mainder rotted on the ground. The mort
gage on the farm was foreclosed, and 1
hired out by the day to support my fam
lily. Do you wonder that the wheat far
mer is not boastfu of his crop until he
has 1t in the granary?"
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Politics
AS demonstrated In Birmingham and
Jefferson county for a score of years or
more, politics is a deep well for the sub
merging of the personal ambitions of all
citizens not in the ring. For the ring, it
is the fire by which family ties are welded
into chains that bind office holders to
the treasury of the people.
The arrangement is a windfall-for the
ring; slough of despond for the clean
handed, right-thinking voters and tax
payers.
There is place where all things earth
ly must be written as Fins"
From the ranks of the commercial walks
of life has stepped a scion of the people
who believes In equal privileges to all
as against sugar plums for the few
the few who seem to consider office hold
ing as a divine right for sons and sons
in-law.
The last primary placed this man-Colo-
mel E. L. Higdon-in the run-off with one
of those who for sixteen or more years
has spent his life at the public crib.
Monday, September II, will decide what
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Where De Quincy Went to Church.

From the Westminster Gazette.
st. Peters church, Manchester, which
is shortly to be pulled down and In which
the last services were held yesterday. is
the church which De Quincy attended as
a lad and to which there are some enter
tanning references In THE Confessions OF
an Opium Eater"
The first rector was De Qulncey's tutor
and he possessed apparently a stock OF
$50 sermons which the pupil confessed
became to him "a real instrument of inn
PROVEN emit" He only heard half OF them,
because he only attended the morning
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slna slnn to Go.

Who in this country hasn't heard of
Sing Sing prison which has housed the
most famous criminals in this part of the
world? Sing Sing is one of the Oldest
penal Institutions in this country. Its
construction was begun in May 1926 The
first annex was built ten years later. It's
accommodations are not adequate for 2000
prisoners, the number to be provided for
in the new building.
Many years ago the institution became
obsolete and at last the state has decided
to build new one. A state commission Is
now busy investigating proposed sites for
the new Sing Sing
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AMBER OF sANTo DOMINGO.
Found In Considerable Quantities
Conditions Under Which 1t Occurs.

From Casters Magazine.
1t is an interesting fact that Santo Do
mingo is one of the few places in the
world where amber occurs in any consid-
cradle quantities AS is well known, the
bulk of the supply used in the arts comes
from the neighborhood of Konigsberg, on
the Baltic seacoast.
There it occurs in the lower oligocene,
and appears to have been deposited orig
inally in glauconitc beds of a clayey ma
ture, which was afterward eroded by
wave action and the amber distributed.
though much of 1t Is taken from beds in
which it was originally entombed
Amber Is simply fossilzed rosin. de-
rived apparently from certain eoniferous
trees. The conditions under which 1t oc-
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Those Daily Romances.


New Workers. have romances served up
to them every day hot off the griddle. The
latest concerns a German count, who ac-
-cording to the ''yellows,N has Tilted Il
princess to wed a shop girl. Romance
Stirs Kaiser's Count" is the way one OF
the romance purveyors serves it up.
If we are to believe what the .yellows'
say Count Hans Ferdinand Won Hachberg.
who was heir to the famous castle and
great estate of Rahnstack PLAYMATE and
companion of the. German Crown Prince
Is the person who has just taken a queen
of the ribbon counter to his BOSOM The
prince of the ''yellows" says:
DUTY alone destined Count Ferdinand
Won Hochberg to marry a woman so far
beneath his station in life. Louise Carow
was her name. the daughter of a work.
man, while he was once in daily attend
ance at the imperial palace as an officer
of the First Regiment of German Foot,
the Kaisers personal bodyguard
'The line OF duty that he chose was
beset with many distractions First Of
all there came the disgrace, for at the
time of his decision he was to have mar
ried princess of one of the reigning
| families. Then there was his father 3
threat of disinheritance, later carried out
Lastly there was dismissal from the army.
But he was determined in his decision,
in spite of the supreme sacrifice that
had to be made. And when they sent him
to America hoping that he would forget.
he gave up the remittance that came
monthly and engaged himself as chauf-
feur in Tarrytown. Then he cabled II
Louise Carow. the shopgirl, and begged
her to come out here to be his wife.
HE had married her morganatically in
Germany but that marriage at the re-
quest of his father and his mother. was
set aside by the Kaiser. So he married
her again in the presence of little daugh
ter that had been born to them week be-
fore"
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In Laces
Exceptional Bargains

You probably intend moving or
housekeeping soon. Look at this
and see what you have-they're
beauties-cover the whole floor.
3 yards wide, 4 yards long, In
grain Art Square or Drugget. 1895
3 yards wide, yards long, Ia
pestry Brussels Art Square, cheap
at $500; our price. .$1f.75
3 yards wide, yards long, extra
quality seamless Administer Center
Rug, a $4,000 one for ...r $22.5o
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services; but he says: ''Those same $50
sermons 0asting only through sixteen
minutes each) for me became a perfect
palaestra of intellectual gymnastics, far
better suited to my childish weakness
than could have been the sermons of
Isaac Barrow or Jeremy Taylor" De
Quincy gives his impressions of the
opening of the church. which took place
when he was in his tenth year. That is
now Ill years ago.
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Struck the Wrong Town.

From the Chicago News.
Ambling Andrew-Turn back, pard; turn
back Dis town yer a-comin' to is de
limit.
Chilly Nytes--What's wrong wild it?
Ambling Andrew-W'y, everybody keeps
a dorg an a woodpile, dere's tree cookin
schools, soap factory, an de town S
name is Bath.
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The Phonetic lockers.

The phonetic jokers are making the let
ter carriers suffer these days. Hundreds
of letter writer's are Saving down on
proper names, and the addresses are fire.
ouently puzzles for the men who have to
deliver the letters. Here is the address on
a letter received by Harlem man on Sat
urday
Jon Mathuz. Tu-thurty-sevn hunintn
street, n. Yawk."
Harry is being cut to Harry Paul to Poll
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copperheao $ Preference.

From the New York Sun.
! Put bunch of black ash leaves on one
side of copperhead and fire on the
other. If the snake is compelled to move
it will go through the flame rather than
cross these leaves.
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Great Sacrifice Embroidery
Sale at. Yard. Is Cents.

An opportunity to buy high-class
goods at low price. All broken
match sets of Cambria, Nainsook
and Swiss, values up to $1.00 a
yard. Also a new lot of wide
bands, Corset Covers and Flounc-
ing widths, all for. .......25c yd
In Laces
We are showing a beautiful stock
of all kinds of the newest things in
all the best style effects-the
wanted things. Each price repre-
sents a good value, and the price
range is, per yard, DC and on up
to the finest newest quality.