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De r,.n.nlre.s "slnetng Man,

Devonshire. Eng, has lost its chief singing man." The singing men oi f)eyonshlre| are those who preserve and chant the old West Country songs and baIlads James Parsons was hedger by profession and musician by na- ture It is due to Parsons that the county still possesses so many of it's old-time airs and verses. He was known throughout the county as "Tha Singing Machine" title due to the fact that some years ago. after an evenings bout. he toek and won a bet that he would go on singing until sun- rise ana never sing the same song 'wlce.
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Did Not Like & ampIea.

4 young man who had spent his early fife in the country, and had never tasted the pleasures of town life, recently came to Memphis to seek his fortune. On the day of his ar rival he went into restaurant where business mems lunches are Gaily served, and ordered dinner. The wait CT brought the dinner, in all those lit tie side dishes sacred to hotel exist. enee, and arranged them in tempting array around the young mans plate For half an hour he sat and looked at his untouched dinner, and then, over come by hunger, he called to the wait CT and said: Look here, fellow, if you don't hurry and bring my dinner I'll eat up your samples! Memphis Sesmitar.
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LOW LIFE IN NAPLES.
Haunts of the Thieves Where Crime
 Is Bred.

Is Bred.
 The haunts of the beggars of Naples are also usually the baunts of thieves kept by some woman, who trades on the vice and misery of her fellow-erea. lures says the Gentleman's Magazine. There the miserable Wretehes slee' by night and assemble by day, teaching children to pick pockets and beg. Thence every morning the blind, the lame and the aged set forth on their rounds in the city. A false monk sets out to visit certain families and shops Gn certain days, giving numbers 10 the lottery and receiving aims. Aa cid woman departs with her pocket fall or sweetmeats, with which she decoys little children into some deserted ecr- ner and robs them of earrings or artl' cies of clothing Others reb the aims boxes hung up in churches or in fronf of shrines on the roads. These kneei before the images in fictitious devotion. | beating their breasts with one hand, while with the other they fish for the money with a thin stick smeared with bird-lime, which they insert III the small oval aperture of the box, draw ing out the coins one at time. One member of the criminal class, got up as a gentleman of fortune, used to Frequent the public billiard saloons, where he soon made friendships with the aristocratic players. attracting them with his charming, ingenious smile, bright blue eyes, and delightful tenor voice, and was often even in- vited to his friends houses and intro dueed to their families. He was no thief; his bgt ness was to inform his criminal associates of the financial state of the families he visited. thus enabling them to make plots of rob. bery ur gambling.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-02
4 Tale of a Turkey.

From the Swea City dowa) Herald: Along In the night large turkey climbed from the ridge of the roof on Ole Peterson's house to the top of the chimney and sat down. so as to get the benefit of the heat from the fire below. Early in the morning Mrs. Peterson and two children sleeping in the room where the hard coal stove was located were discovered to be Seathly sick and the room was full of gas. The turkey was soon discov. cred and driven off, but it took quite while for the sick to recover.
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The noer.s Battlefield xewspap.r.

According 10 Cape paper, the Boers have a newspaper at the front. says a telegram in the paper in question: Last hight the Railway VoIkstem car left the station for Gen. Joubert's laager. 1t consisted of large, well-ftted-up goods van, arranged as printing or- flee, with special arrangements for typesetting and printing, as well aa plenty of space for paper ead a desk for the editor. fixed up with type writer. -ioEeca Globe
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FOURTH IN POPULATION
rieis Is the Standing of the United
 States Among the Nations.


 States Among the Nations.
 There were @, 622, ,250 inhabitants in tho United States ten years ago, ac- cording to the last census. Secretary Cages aetuary of the treasury, who is a close guesser in matters Of popula- tion, computes the present population between Maine and California, Alaska, and Key West, at 76.14S,000. To this must be added the peoples brought un- der the stars and stripes by the war with Spain and by the annexation of Hawaii, to say nothing of Cuba, Porte Rico, and Guam If the Filipinos can oe induced to stand still long enough to be counted they may possibly y1elc 2 million or two more, but unless the actuary has made mistake in addi- rion there will yet remain a wide gap between the actual and the magnificent round number. For decade or two longer, therefore the United States must be content to remain in the fourth place in point of population among the nations of the earth. China despite the eneroachments upon her territory. still holds the lead, with 402 ,6So,000 men, women, and ehil- dren within her borders; the British fmpire comes next. with 531,037 ,674 subjects, including the dusky fanatics of the Soudan; and the Russian en- pire is third, 129, 9,211, ,113 persons owing allegiance to the czar. No other na- ton, however, can show such rapid increase as that of the United States. Geol ge Washington was president of 3 nation numbering fewer than 3,000,- 900 individuals 1t took 20 years for the population to double. Tn 1910 it vas 7,239 ,S8I, Tn 1920 it had reached on1y 9,633, 1922, and 10 years later the tosai 12,866,02g. From this time on it advanced by leaps and bounds. In 1s4O it was 170O9, ,453, in 1850 it was s.33 .191 ,876, in 1860 it had reached 315~ 443,321, and 30 years ago the census showed 8 population of 3S,558,37i. It a:d not pass the 50,000,oOo mark until Nss0, when it was 50,f55, 783, and the 'ast enumeration, 1S90, gave 3 total of e .622. .250-PittsburE Dispatch.
 A BOGUS GHOST IN PARIS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-02
Dining-Room Necessities
are here in great

are hefe m great variety. We have a fine stock of tables. chairs and sideboards. We are making special prices upon a qualtered oak sideboard, be.el- ed glass mirrors By examining our sideboards you will see the bargain we are offering
 Bluff City Furniture Go,
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A BOGUS GHOST IN PARIS.
How He Fr.cked a Merchant Into Giving
 Him Money.

NJ. Cofdier. 3 retired merchant of Paris much given to consulting spirits In emergencies, has been trfeked in a rather amusing manner by an aha5eur ghost, who resided in rooms contig1- ous to those of the ex-business man, says the London Telegraph. The lat Ter lately told friends and acquaint- anees that he had a melancholy mes~ sage fran spiritland to the effect that his son, who traded in Tonquiu, had been murdered by pirates The dis honest neighbor, hearing this, knocked one night at M. Gardier's wall, and an- nounced that he was a spirit who wanted money for masses to be said in a certain church for the repese of the soul of the retired merchants son. A sum of 160 francs was required, and the phantom asked M. Cordier to be good enough to put it under the first chair on the left side Virgins altar in the church of Saint Sulpice It ap- pears that M. Cordier deposited sev- sra1 donations for the ghost under the ShaoA1s u4lAA LtAC lIOA1Cy " 1o 1ES taken away. In the meantime, the son supposed to be dead came home from Toaquin unharmed and unhurt. The young man had, in fact, no adven- ture with pirates. and was engaged in very prosaic business me ters during his stay in the far east. The son laid trap one night for the gSost, who was invited by Cordier senior to walk into his fiat in the dark. No sooner had the spirit entered the room than he received blow on the head from a big stick brandished by the traveller from Tonquin. The guilty phantom fled, but was pursued down the stairs and into the street by father and son. The spirit r"oved to be very slb- stantial adyenturer, who was recog- nized by the police as a person much wanted for acts Of swindling of a di- versifled and in some instances Of a very ingenious sort.
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O,ankn-ls tn l.enn.nn.

The names of habitaal drunkards are posted in public places in kenosha, Wis. and the other day the common council passed an ordinance providing that habitual drunkards who have been posted have tintypes or photographs of themselves attached to the poster. aud that unless the parties so posted gre able to pay for said photographs. shen the relatives he required to stand the expense In case there are no rela- dives, then the city is responsible for the cost
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You Ought to Make Up

your mind right now what you are going to have in your home this summer; then you ought to come right along this way, and look over this stock of ours. Are you going to enter tain your fir ends in the same old chairs. at the same old table, and on the same cid carpets7 Why not have things fresh and newf Needn't buy all at once. Get a piece now and a piece a little lat CT. If you buy here, the first piece will be as good as the last piece.
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CA z 6 r ' 'ORiA
 For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought s'sasss's ssess s1s ss &suzzzz7zzzzzz..z':z:
4 ereatfa1 sfep .lIca n..

A grateful mendicant has died in tba village of Hinsfock, near Newport, England, and his gratitude assumed an exceedingly novel forms-for a beggar. His name was Meeson, he was aged and his generally destitute air and wretch. ed surroundings gave his neighbors the impression that. he had not penny in the world. Out of pure charity they accordingly for many years provided him with food and clothing. Great sur prise was caused among the good sa- maritans when it became known that by his will he had left e2,000 and eer- tain real property for division among those who had assisted him. AS one of them remarked. it was clear case of casting your bread on the water, and seeing it come back after mapy days euttersd on both sides.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
NEW YEARS GIFT TO THE PEOPLE
Johnstown Daily Democrat Reduces It's
Subscription Price.

Johnstown Daily Democrat Reduces It's
Subscription Price.
As New Years gift to the people the
Johnstown Daily Democrat, on the Isl
day of January, l90O-the New Year
announced that on and after that date its
subscription price would be 50 yer year,
or cent per copy.
This is reduction from the rate estab-
lished July l, 1895. when conditions ere
ated by the war with Spain led the man
agement TO fix the subscription price at
s. annually, or cents per copy.
These &C. -ditiOns have not materially
changed. but improvements made within
the last few months and more improV g.
ments TO be made within the next Jew
weeks will give the management of the
Democrat greater facilities for the publi-
cation OF \ daily newspaper on an eco
nomical basis and at the same time in
crease the standard of its news service.
When the subscription price was raised
in July, 1895, it was in the hope that the
increase would not have to be maintained
IoE very long pefiOu OF lifne, ana VIII
in few months following that time plans
were set on foot with the ultimate aim
of restoring the old and popular su bscrip-
tiOn rate. With the fine improvements
installed during the year just closed. and
the improvements TO be made soon, the
conditions created by the war will in a
large measure be overcome, so that the
Democrat may he published profitably at
the low rate of s. per year, or l cent a
cory.
The Democrat has enjoyed a wonderful
growth during the last few years until it
is now regarded as one of the foremost
papers in the State. and it, reputation ex-
tends far beyond The borders of Pennsyl
vanfa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17

The grest nations have been having
bad luck in their wars against inferior
races recently. Italy got badly beaten
by the Abyssinians two or three years
ago, England has met several reverses
10 its fight with the Boers in the past
few weeks, and now FrsEce has been
badly beaten in a battle with the Chi
nese. The United States has Jared bet
ter than any Of the other countries in
its conflict with inferior peoples. 1t
has beaten the Filipinos in every fight
it has had with them, and has scattered
them to such an extent that the war
fare in the islands is now of the guer-
rilla order entirely Uaele Sam is
lucky individual, but he makes a good
deal Of bis luck himself.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
Prays, Then Steals.

YORK, Jan. ll.-A slick swindler, trav-
ing under an assumed name, has been
operating in Manchester townsip, this
county. De visits farms and asks for a
glass of water. He then asks if any are
sick, telling them that he is invested
with healing power.
lie says a few incantations and then
asks the privilege of going to private
room TO pray. In every instance where
he has been given this privilege h.s has
carried away the most valuable article in
the room. Several farmers are now
mourning the loss of gold spectacles.
silverware, etc. He gives his name as
Hartman. 1t is said that ne has done
considerable work in the upper part Of
Mary land.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
Dewey and Els Men.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-The claim of Ad
miral Dewey and the officers and men Of
his squadron for bounty arising out Of
the destruction of MOntejo's fleet in Ma
Mia Bay was argued before the Court Of
Claims to day. Willism b. King and
Herbert and Micon appeared for the
claimants, and Louis A. Pradt, the As
sistant Attorney-General,f for the Govern
ment. The question at issue is the total
amount of the bounty to be paid under
the statute providing payment by the
Government Of 500 head money for
every man aboard vessels destroyed in
the battle where the force of the enemy
is inferior and 500 where the force of
the enemy is superior. The contention of
the claimants was that the force of the
enemy was superior at Manila Bay.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17

THE Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections is expected TO submit lis
report in the Quay case to the Senate
Today. The majority report viii be
signed by three Democrats, one Popu-
list and one Republican, Burrows, Of
Michigan, while the minority report
xill be signed by MRssrs Hoar, Chand-
Ter, Pritehard and Spooner. all Repub-
Iicans. 1t is expected that an agree
ment viii be reached that The time each
day until a vote is taken will be divided
between the Quay case and the Cur
reney Reform bill TIE debate may
last ten dsys or two weeks, afie- which
Senator Quay's friends feel confident
that he will be seated by decisive vote
Of the Senate.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
d.. soh.sF.r and the school Fund.


Ex- Assemblyman c. Tyson Kratz, OF
Norristown, recently addressed a letter to
DIR. Sehaeffer, State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, asking him on what
basis be proposed to distribute the school
appropriation for the two years beginning
on the first Monday of June next
The following IS DR.. Schaeffer's answer.
January ., 1900.
Hon. c. Tyson Krsiz, NorristOwn, Pa;
Dear Sir-T am in receipt Of your letter
Of recent date asking what policy the Su-
perintendent Of Public Instruction will
pursue in the distribution of the annual
school appropriation. In all such mat
tsrs the duties of the Superintendent al
Public instruction are prescribed by law,
and il is my intention 70 administer my
duties IN this ard every other respect as
the law requires.
The Legislature az the last session pass
ed an appropriation of s, 900, ,OG0 annually.
The Governor approved the sppropria-
ton in the sum Of S5,OOO.OOO and disap-
proved $500 600, so that as the law stands
to- day we have an approved annual ap-
preparation Of S5,CO0.OOO. 1t necessarily
follows that the distribution of the school
fund must be made on this basis unless
otherwise ordered by the courts, whose
province it is to determine all disputed
questions of this character.
Very respectfully yours.
(Signed) y. c. SCHAEFFER,
State superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion.
1t is said that Mr.. Kratz is after this de-
cision of Superintendent Schaeffer for the
purpose of making test case in the
courts as to whether OF not the Governor
had the right to cut down the school ap-
preparation from the original sum APPROX
ed by the LEGISLATURE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17

THE Republicans of Philadelphia, in
elecIing an almost solid delegation of
Stalwarts to represent them in the COM
ing State Convention, have set a very
lively psoe for their brethren through
ont The State, bat one that viii be estruck
IN large msiority Of the counties with
oat much difficulty. Tbree-fourths of
the delegates viii be elected within the
next sixty days. and il Will %. interest
ing 10 watch county after county give
che Insurgents, bolters, kiekers and dis
organizers, opponents Of majority rule,
ti.e s.t-o-down" and elect 7. GUAR Re
public2ns, who are adheIents of party
organization and the right of the ma
jorlty 10 govern, 70 represent them in
the nominating convention. The year
lust eIosed was bad ore for IRsur-
gents. bat the present year promises to
be nnch worse.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17

FLORENCE. Ala, January lI.-Thsre is
no evidence as 70 who murdered Probate
Judge Mcclure. of L8uderdale county.
on Tuesday night, by shooting him from
behind. Nothing was knOSn Of the mur-
der until yesterday morning, when a ser
want fousd the body on the pavement.
More than year sgD Roland McFar-
land. a young editor here. took occasion
to asssil in his newspaper the habits,
morals, aud official character of Judge
Mcclure. one night he was found dying
on the sidewalk, with his skull crushed
in. McFarlsnd's family. wh1 are prom
inent people, and perhaps half Of the cit
izens of Florence, charged Judge Mcclure
and his sons with the murder, but no in
dictment was found. The enmiiy OF Nc
Farland's friends has never been appeas-
Ell, and the intense bitterness Of the two
sides has led the public 20 expect another
tragedy sooner or later.
The facts so far developed do not point
10 any particular person As the assassin,
and the probabilities are thai will never
be known who fired the iaial shot.
Judge Mcclure was about fifty = five
years old, and had a family OF grown
children.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
JOS. Horne &Co.
PITTSBURG, PA.
Linens of All Kinds.

Linens for the table, the lavatory and
fancy Linen pieces-marked down from
former low prices for January Clearance
We import direct all our linens, and con-
troll for Western Pennsylvania the sale ol
many famous Irish and Scotch makes.
Send in your order at once to our Mail
Order Department.
S5c yard for &c inch Cream Table
Damask. heavy pure linen, regu-
lar 45c goods.
SOC yard for 60 inch and GO inch
Cream Table Damasks, regular
65c goods.
15c yard for y inch Bleached and
Cream Table Damask-90c goods.
SIOO yard for 72-inch and sI-inch
Bleaehed Table Danask-SL2 25
and Si.35 goods.
Sc a dozen for Bleached Damssk
Napkins. lsxls-sI - value.
l2j a dozen for Bleached Damask
Napkins. 2Ox2O-sl 20 value.
s. 25 n dozsn for Bleached Damask
Napkins, 2Ix2I-regular s. goods
$50 each for Bleached Damas k
Cloths, sizes and yards to p
and 3 yards, 81 50 aud $500 goods.
$500 each for Bleached Damask
Cloths, 2x4 yards TO 2lx4 yards
s. 50 and $3.50 goods.
Sc yard for all linen Bleached Barns
ley Crash.
l0eayard for Bieached Silver Crash.
Sc each for heavy Cream Turkish
Towels
lOc each for Fruit Napkins, colorv,
pink. blue and yellow.
Torchen Lace ScArfs, Center Pieccs
and Table Coyers-HALF PRICE
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
A STANDARD Among Nswspapsr,.

Rejecting in its widening circulation
and increased advertising patronage the
prosperity that marks the opening of the
new year. The Pittsburg Times more
than ever impresses upon its readers the
excellence Of its high standard and the
success of its efforts to make a model
paper for the individual and for the
family. The Times is a newspaper
sparing no pains nor expense TO cover
the world thoroughly every day, that its
current page Of history may be complete,
and in its longer range of overlooking
nothing that occurs at home. 1t is clean,
digniiied and reliable, certain that no
lack of these features can be made up in
offensive sensatiOnalism. II can be taken
into the family circle with confidence
that it, columns are filed with whole
some instruction and entertainment.
Wherever known, the Times is reocg-
uized as the best type of a concise, crisp
ard complete newspaper, and among
newspaper men it is the publication with
which comparisons of excellence are
made. While The Times is Republican
in politics. it realizes that others have a
right 70 be on earth. and that politics are
not everything. When one cent day
viii buy morning paper it is foolish to
be without one. The Times is three dol
lars year or six cents a week. and is
worth the money.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
pass that remarkable majority"
AGAINST QUAY AND FOR BRYAN.

sAes that remarkable majority"
AGAINST QUAY AND FOR BRYAN.
The frequent claims Of the regular
Republican leaders that the Quincy cut
ft I'm Pennsylvania politics, wnlen Is
acting with the Republican insurgents
is a dyed-in-the-wcol Bryanite COM
bine was verified few days ago BY the
action OF State Chairman John 5. kiit-
ing in calling a meeting Of the Demo
cratic state committee. Some weeks
ago il was announced that William
Jennings Bryan proposed to visit Penn
sylyania. Il was not known upon what
date he would arrive After an unsuc-
cessful effort TO find out when the free
silver champion would reach here,
Rijlfna called the state committee 10
meet in this city on the 2fth inst On
the same day Mayor Fritchey received
a telegram from Bryan stating that
he would arrive in Harrisburg on the
25th. This fact was communicated 90
Killing, and he at once changed me
date for the state committee meeting
TO the 25th. and secured the hall OF the
house of representatives instead OF the
senate chamber. so that a large reeep-
ton could be gotten up In Bryan
honor. II is undoubtedly the intention
of Guffey to swing the Pennsylvania
delegation to the Democratic national
convention to Bryan for president. Rlll-
ing and his other lieutenants who have
been cooperating with the Martin
Finn Republicans in the anti-Quay
fight viii now fIave to divide their time
between fighting Quay and booming
Bryan. and they viii have steady en-
pIoyment at both games for some time
to come.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-17
Produced Clark Bribery Money.

WAsHISGroS, D. C.. Jan. II Thirty
SlOo0 bills were produced before the Sen
ate Committee on Privileges and Elec.
tions to-day as an exhibit in the bribery
investigation being made against Senator
Clark. of Montana. This was the money
deposited with State Treasurer Collins by
the Legislative Inves igating Committee,
which had been given the money by
State Senator whiteside. who testified
to-day against Clark.
State Senator Clark told of receiving
$40 600 from United States Senator Clark's
managers with the understanding that
be WAS TO vote for Clark. Fred ID. Cowan,
aconductor, said he was 70 visit Speaker
Sua, and had been told that Clark would
pay Sl5OO0 TO have Stiff refrain from
voting.