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29 SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1901 THE PITTSBURG PRESS i i i i AMERICANS AS BOOK BUYERS. WAXTED. WASTED. WANTED. WASTED.

I WA1VTED Emplgjmrnt-Fruinlr. Male Help. Male Hely. I Male Ilelv- Etc. STAR EMPLOYMENT.

BUREAU. LARGEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL THE STATE. Stenographers, $75; office assistant, f40; lectors, $15; salesmen, $73; order clerks. HUMAN GOD. A Young Man ot Otherwise It marl -able Impersonates Diety.

No stranger story has been told of late than "that of an English traveler who has just discovered in one of the most primitive regions of the Chinese empire a human, being who is worshiped as a deity by milions of people. Known far and wide as the "Living God," he is to the uncounted milions of Chinese and Mongolian Buddhists what the famous Lama of Tibet is to those of Central Asia. This remarkable religious personalty makes his home at Urga, the remote Mongolian town lying just on the fringe of civilization, at the end of the old Asiatic highway across the Gobi desert, and It was while the English traveler was returning overland from China, to Europe that he witnessed the strango rites connected with the worship of the "Laving God." In a letter to the Standard this description of him is given: "In the flesh he is a young man under 30, and lives in a house which Is an exact replica of the Russian consulate general. His personification of a deity is chiefly confined to religious occasions and his public life. In private, he is of the world, worldly, and has some amiable weak- Hooiuiua tea.

WANTED Your.g man roommate for pleasant front room in private houe; centrally located East End; references exchanged. Apply 714 Penn ave. 1222wp WANTED Respectable roommate, mechanio pref.red: room warm ami elegantly furnished. Address 14 ave. 1222wj Minccllttueoaa.

WANTED The public to come an purcha (heir liquors from us an-l receive a hsnd some water b-itlle filled with tine table wins, free, ltom now on until after tho holioais. with every purchase of or uver. Kobt. Sr 14 Smithtieid st. 1215lhjki' WANTED pay cash for household goods, carpets, grocery stocks, send us postal ctating what vou have to veil, and vr will call at one.

WelU I'u3 Iaberty at. WA NTED A handsome water bcttle filled Vitlj tine and delicious wine, given nway free with every purchase of liquor of fl.no or over from now on. llobt. Lcwln 14 SmKhlicld t. 1215fhj 4 Vv AN i Ir.D JEWELRY.

Indies' solid pilver watches, with solid pin or chain to match. Emanuel DeRaS Son. tW.i Smithiield tL, near Seventh ave. WANTED A free gift for wife or friend 14 given away at our stoi rrom now on It i3 every pui-coaye or liquor, Sl.oo or over, at lt Lewin It Smithtieid city. 121flfh.t! WANTED JEWELRY.

Solid 14-k gold initial ring. $2. PS. EmamieJ DeRoy 4i Son, 041 Smithiield near ave. WE buy and sell for cash all household goods! do moving, storing, shipping, exchange wort; for goods.

Ellison Furniture Exchange. Beaver ave. 11221 CASH paid fcr old furniture; gnu and cm heating stoves arid ranges bought or x. changed; new furniture exchanged for oil fur. niture.

Call, or write postal to 141 Franks town E. E. 12Spt WANTED Keep away a cold. You can do s4 with whisky. Receive a handsome wate( bottle filled with fine table wine with a pur chase of liquor of Jl.OO or over from now on, Iiobt.

Lewin 14 Smithfield Bt. WANTED To buy a tjood hand typ-. writer: tale make and price. Write Press oWce 1222 I WANTED Two overcoats for boys, good condition; cheap. Write, Tress oltloo.

WANTED Upright 1 from 3 to 8 hor: power. Win. I'rager, 110 Market st. 1222wfh WANTED Second-hand school and miscel'a. neous books.

Mounts'. K02 Penn ave. 1222wl WANTED Butcher's ice box. or entire shon. outfit.

Wiite S. H. E. l'ress ofilce. 1222p! WANTED Dynamo.

25 light: must be chesp." r.2l Pennsylvania Allegheny. 1222p WANTED A second-hand Jewett or Smith typewriter; cheap. Box city. 3222w GENTS' line shoe repairing; full guaranteed. P.

Cutler. Third ave. 1222wr SEE Uncle ir Bonn ave. 1220kf TO LET. City and Su lu rlinn lloueea.

DEATH AND ACCIDENT On step hlllFldes on trolley lines are almost ft daily occurrence; by moving to Hazelwood or Glenwood you avoid that dunger. H. O. Horn-berger. Second Hazelwood, has 10O tit with modern conveniences, to rent, from to 22: don't Take enre of tiie lamiiy by locating them in a fafo place.

TO LET. $li, butcher shop, Shndyside. frame house rooms and bath, ide. E. C.

WE FINOS. Walnut East End. Shady. J222u 2f; 'J'O LET ri-room trani M. KENNEDY A- Federal st AllKhny.

1222p CITY PROPERTY TO "LET. To till April 1 la the monthly payment: a lovely home for sal aA $3. 7 jo. See Owner's'" ad. today.

12Hfika TO LET A fine r.cw frnme house, ft rooms and bath: only J'0 per in nth. J. II. O'Donnell. Fourth ave.

1222p TO LET Eight-roomed house: can be had at onc e. II. 11. Love fc clj irst A pinwall. 1221 ft TO LET House, looms, gas and water: Inrgm yard; no.

Webster ave. 122ov. IZant Kixl Houses. PRUDENTIAL. TRUST CO.

-712-714 N. Atlantic, 5-room frame house; porches; lame lot. -Pert land nea- Hays. Nineteenth ward, 1-rooni brick, all modern conveniences; new. -Lake st.

and Lincoln 0-room brick; modern. Homer rooms, new brick Btrlct'y, modern; large lot. Homer 10 rooms, new brick; modern; large lot. -Clearvlew 10 rooms ern. See the new brick; mod PRUDENTIAL TRUST Penn and Centre East End.

Allegheny Houses. TO LET Five-room house, all Improvements. Inquire Washington Allegheny, 1221 we Vlnts. TO LET The finest fiat in the East End for the money; 5, rooms and all modern conveniences. Lang near Bennett only 11.

O'Donnell. Fourth ave. 1222p TO LET F'nt, first floor: all conveniences. 1214 Sherman Allegheny; lent $13.00. 1221 Offices.

TO LET Desk room, with roll-top desk, chairs, heat light, telephone service; central location, record floor; rent $10. iil.Is CAVANAOH 6KI Wood st. Farms. TO LET Form of 30 acres; suitable for fard-ening or milk dHiry; two miles from Lincoln ave. Addiess Robert Marshal, Nadine.

Pa. 121Hikfr Iiaslnena Stands. TO LET. Nice, large store room. 10x40; good cellar snd 5 dwelling rooms, bath, gases, good location on front street; In district where three huu- dred new houses are being built.

SAMUEL W. BLACK 318 Fourth ST. Branch Office 4S02 Second Hazelwood. opposite Flowers ave. 1214a TO LET Splendid little temperance and fam-t ily hotel; best residence and business comer, Allegheny, opposite park; eight minutes Pittsburg postoffioe by electric lines; three 4 rooms each: will rent furnished for $40 each monthly; splendid location for table board-j em.

Write 112, Pr'ss office 1222wp TO LET Fine location for bakery in thrlvinT town of DuBois; oven already in and heated by naturae gas; cheaper than com; rent SI2 V. I 1 1 1 lliuillll A-OCO f.jo., iui.uin, I 1 TO LET Licensed snloon and dwelling, corner Second ave and Brady has had rtsJl liquor license for years. Inquire Mrs. IF. Hanley, MiM Second ave.

1221 we TO LET--A fine storeroom in Swissvale, for drugs. S. Hicks, IMK) Wood Wilkinsburg. Stables. TO LET RTA RLE-Rear of 1S21 Center sve.

two story brick stable; rtnt possession at once. BARR BROS. 122or 412 GRANT BT. Rooms. TO LET Rooms, with or without board; also board by day or meal: all first clans.

Call1' at Mrs. Stewart's. 67i-5 Thomas 1st st. below Point Breeze Church. 1220r TO LET Wilkinsburg, near station A nest and pleasant furnished room: ell conveniences; private family; $7 a month.

Write 110. Press oflice. 1222wp TO LET A larrre furnished or unfurnished front room: also other rooms suitable fort young men; all conveniences. S0 Sandusky, Alleghenv. 1222p TO LET Two furnished rooms for light" houKe-v 1 hnormoHn Sale of Various Pnblica tions During- the Current Year.

Probably over o.frtn.O'iO novels. o.OOO.ftOO educational works and nursery-books have been sold to the American people during the present year, and although no one of their 50,000,000 readers may be the better, each one of those 15 000,000 volumes has cost from 10 to 20 cents in hard cash for its material and workmanship, and distributed 2.0O0.000 or 3.OUO.O00 solid dollars to the support of paper mills, printing plants, binderies and wagon drivers; while the profit on each, of a double sum, has paid the salaries of. thousands of educated clerks, bookkeepers, artists, authors and salesmen. The fact of the matter is. then, not that publishing is an immaterial and haphazard industry, but one of the very greatest and most definite industries of the age: and nowhere more thriving, probably In no country (except China really-greater, than it is in the United States.

The leading features in the American publishing business are undoubtedly fiction, school text books and colored juveniles. It Germany, scholarship and philosophy lead; in France, belles leKres and political brochures; in England, travel and history bulk largely; but in America at present, where the brilliant, elastic and lucrative journalism of the daily press absorbs greedily, and lavishly exude every literary expression of novelty or important, fiction is supreme in the book market. In England, a sale of OuO copies makes a novel a success, and a sale of 50,000 copies is quite phenomenal; but in America we do not consider sales phenomenal below six figures, and scores of books sell upward of 20,000 almost without being heard of. The sales of educational books, first and second standard readers, geographies, arithmetics, are alo enormous, and these figrues would fill the man in the street with amazed incredulity; but that goes without saying in a population which is advancing by leaps and bounds toward the mark, and consumed with a thirst for primary education unexampled in the history of any other country. It is the sales of fiction which are sensational.

Brooklyn Eagle. A Good Coogh Medicine. (From the Gazette. Toowoornba, Australia.) I find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is an excellent medicine. I have been suffering from a severe cough for the last two months, and It has effected a cure.

I have great pleasure in recommending it. C. Wockner. This is the opinion of one of our oldest and most respected residents, and has been voluntarily given in good faith that others may try the remedy and be benefited, as was Mr. Wockner.

lltiu Have you visited the magnificent house fitted up by the Electric Machine 43 Penn avenue, where they give you the Electric Sweet Robe treatment? Cures rheumatism paralysis, nervousness, obesity, insomnia, etc. Expert masseur always in attendance. kfe DIED. BRICK LEY At the family residence, 24 Third avenue, on Thursday. December 19.

lftOl. at 4 p. Catherine M. Brickley, in her ooth year. Funeral on Monday morning at o'clock Services at St.

Mary's of Mercy Church, Third avenue and Ferry street, at 9 a. m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. BURGH ART On Saturday, December 21, 1901, John Burghart, aged 20 years 5 months days, at his late residence. 1617 Oreenwood street, Allegheny.

Notice of funeral later. Bt'RK Suddenly, on Friday, December 20, 1901, at p. at her residence, 814 Randuskv street. Allegheny. Louise wife of John Burk, in her 64th year.

Funeral services at her late residence Sunday, December 2 at p. m. Interment Monday morning private. BAXTER On Saturday. December 21.

1901, at 3:10 p. Mary, daughter of the 1 late James W. and Mary A. Baxter, at the residence, South avenue, Alle gheny. Notice of funeral later.

BLUM On Thursday, December 19, 1901, at 3 a Margaret Blum (nee Shannon), beloved wife of Fred L. Blum, in her 27th year. Funeral from the family residence, SI2 Klla street, on Monday morning at 8M0 o'clock. Services at St. Joseph's Church.

Bloorr-field, at 9 a. m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. FRAZIER Philip Frazier, a veteran of the Civil War, late of the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves, died on Saturday morning, aged years, a member of the Veteran Legion Ko. 1.

Funeral from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Davis, at Ingram, at 2 o'clock p. Sunday. (Ohio papers please copy.) LEASE On Friday. December 204, 1901, at p.

at Wilkinsburg, Margaret wife of Levi S. Lease, daughter of the late Thomas and Jane Barkley, in her 32d year. Funeral services at the residence of her husband. No. 225 Meadow street, Wilkinsburg.

on Monday, December 2-1, 1901, at 2 p. m. LEOPOLD On Thursday morning. December 19, 1901. at 3 a.

Mrs Elizabeth Leopold, beloved wife of Henry Leo- nold. In her b4th year. Funeral services at the residence, 121 Forty-first street, on Sunday, December af a Friends of the familv are respectfully invited to attend. Interment private later. McMINN-On Thursday, December 19.

1901, at 7:23 a. Samuel H. McMinn. Funeral services from his late residence, 110 Eighth street. Braddock.

on Sunday. December 22. at 2 p. m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend MEGILL On Saturday, December 21, Ifiol, at 3 o'clock p.

Nancy E. Megill. aged 73 years and 7 months. Funeral from the residence of her son, Warren Megill. Torley street, near Pearl, Sixteenth ward, Tuesday at 2 o'clock p.

m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. (Mirhisan and Youngstown papers please copy.) PHILLIPS On Thursday evening, December 19, 1901, Leslie W. Phillips, aged 10 years. Funeral on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.

from his parents' residence. 831 Perry street. Allegheny. Friends of the family are invited. SCHEFFEL On Friday, December 2o.

JOOl, at 10:15 p. George, at the residence of his son. Christ Scheffel, Lowrie's Run. Ohio township, aged 82 years. Funeral Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Services will be held at Perrysville Lutheran Church, at 2:30 p. m. Friends of the familv are Invited. Carriages will leave Ley Geiselharfs, Sltt East Ohio street. Allegheny, at 10:30 a.

m. WEBER On Friday. December 20, 1901, at 6:05 o'clock p. Elizabeth, daughter of the late Rachel and Jacob Weber, aged 09 years. Funeral from the residence of her sister, Mrs.

Hanna Hamilton, 2S10 Edwards alley. South Side, on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. WHITE At Crafton, on Friday. December 20, 1901, at 10:40 p.

Rebecca Jane, wife of Georg; White, in her 04th year. Funeral services at First United Presbyterian Church. Ingram, at 2 p. Sundav. Take Crafton and Ingram car at Fifth and Market street, and go to end of line.

Interment private. Busy man you'll nave more business yet be less busy if you have the help of a Bell desk phone! THE D. A P. TEL. CO.

TeL Grant 1170 or 1700. Telephone Building, Seventh Ave. 1222fje TOO "LATE TO CLASSIFY. PERSONAL- Private party is compelled to-, separate or together) new upright Gran.T ano. with new portable automatic riano-play to match; awarded gold medal at Pan-Ameri- can Exposition; copt- JioO cash, but will reject no reasonable offer; terms cash or long time; would make an extremely handsome and appropriate Christmas present.

Call at once, day or evening, or address No. 620t Penn. room 20S, East End. 1222wp I WANTED Position by young lady as stenographer and make general useful about office in the Fast End preferred; will work for modest salary. Address 7o5 Belief on te st.

1218ife! WA NTED Position as housekeeper by widow lady capable of taking full charge; references exchanged. Mrs. Saunders, general delivery. Pittsburg. 1222wp WANTED Positions for 1,500 cooks and 75 chambermaids, 2S general housework girls.

A. Lewis' Employment Agency, li South Highland ave. 1222p! WANTED Situation by a colored girl for general housework; 12 Loy Place, city not afraid to work. Write 1222wp WANTED A position by a young girl, 18 years old. as office assistant.

Write 123. Press office. 1222wp WANTED Situation for German girl: two years' reference. Matrons' Domestics Bureau, 410 Penn. 1222 v.

WANTED Situation for neat German girl. ref- erences. National Bureau, 403 Federal Allegheny. WANTED Situation by a woman at any kind of work in country- Call 1108 Bedford city. 1222wp WANTED Situation; dressmaker: 75c per day.

Write 12, Allegheny Press office. 1221e Employment Male. WANTED A position as steam engineer; have had 14 years' experience in power and light and blooming mill and locomotive engines; can do all necessary repairs; can furnish good reference. Write Press office. 1222wp WANTED Situation by competent electrician: industrious habits; references; transient and Christmas work accepted.

D. W. Beebout. 933 Vickroy st. P.

A A. telephone Main 2277. 1222wp WANTED Position by young German as foreman in hotel, or any kind of outside work. Apply 1V Southern Knoxville, Pa. 1222p? WANTED Situation as watchman by a.

middle-aged, temperate, honest and tnoroughly reliable man. Write 188, Press office. 1222wp WANTED Employment by carpenter, In hotel or dry goons: reasonable wages. write at 10fi, Press office. 1221 we WANTED Position as machinist or electrician; best of references.

Address R. 7GOS Penn ave. 1221r! Kni ploy men Male and Female. WANTED Position by man and wife, as coach-' man and cook: or Inside work. Write A 7.

E. E. Press office. 1222p! Female Help. WANTED A young lady, graduate of High School or some business college; one who can fuinish typewriter and can operate it; Hate salary expected; position permanent.

Ad-diess in own handwriting, 103, Press office. 1220r WANTED Women of ambition to study a good paying profession in large demand; diplomas. School 'jf Remedial Physical Culture Massage, 562S Penn ave. Dr. Osbaldeston, Principal.

1212wjlgikfht WANTED Hotel and family cooks, hundreds general work girls, chambermaids, nurses, colored girls. hotel and restaurant help. Schwartz. 128 Seventh st. 1222a WANTED Laundress, hotel, $4 week; cooks, private family, chambermaids, waitress, dishwashers; both in and out city.

City Employment, 411 Seventh ave. 1222wp WANTED Experienced housekeeper; must understand how to wait on tables; high wages; no Sunday work; references required. Apply Monday. S72 Liberty ave. 1222wp WANTED Three ladies not under 18, to learn the journal business; must start at the bottom; salary $6 at start.

After 9:30. M. Franz, Empire Building. 1222wp AV ANTED Girl that can cook. 104O Fifth Pittsburg.

for general housework; one in a family of two. Inquire at third floor, or 543 Sixth 1222wp WANTED 1,000 cooks, 73 chambermaids, 250 housework girls: wages $4 and $8. A. Lewis' Employment Agency, 100 South Highland ave. 1222p! WANTED Business women of tact and ability can find employment with liberal income by applying at 413 Ferguson Building.

1222wp WANTED Nursing in confinement by middle aged person: good references. Address L. 14: Swissvale Wilkinsburg. 1222 we WANTED Ironers and starchers; also girls for mangle. White Cloud Laundry.

11:1 Park Way, lie hen 1222wp A TONIC Juvenalia Hair Food restores natural color, prevents graynes3. thinning; $1 size. 50c. At Kaufmann's. lOHis WANTED A competent teacher in several English branches, to give private lessons.

Write 148. Ptess office. 1222wp WANTED Girl, housework. East End. immediately; at fSo for general Sheridan 1222 we WANTED Experienced waitresses.

Inquire Monday 9 a. Kaufmann's Restaurant, 3d floor. 1222wp WANTED Chambermaid; references East corner Fifth and Aiken aves. side. desired.

WANTED SMrt and waist hands. Monday, Wyckoff, Whitfield Call early Baum st. 1222P! WANTED Girl that can cook. for general housework; one 220 Ophelia Oakland. 1221 we WANTED Experienced female feeder; salary f7.

Waverly Printing 2il8 Smithfield st. 1222wp WANTED Girl for general housework; must fuinish references. Call 5742 Center E. 1221r WANTED Shirt makers and seamstresses. Eclipse Laundry, Stevenson and Forbes sts.

1222wr WANTED A few good female stogie Western Cigar 1006 Penn ave. WANTED Cooks, chambermaids and girls. Mrs. Matter. 7 Oakland ave.

rollers. 1220wr WANTED-packers. WANTED-day. 921 Experienced strippers and 5S Marion st. stogy 1222p Good laundress, Bellefonte st.

Monday or Tues- 1222w to book 1222wp WANTED Young girls, accustomed binding. 5625 Penn ave. WANTED-errands. A voung girl to 5628 Penn ave. attend door and go 1222wp WANTED Laundress, best of wages paid.

919 Federal Allegheny. 1222p WANTED Housework girl; two in family; $4 weekly. 440 Penn. 1222 we Male Help. WANTED Six first-class plumbers.

L. A. Buerkle. 325 Second ave. 1222wp WANTED Plumber.

Homewood ave. II. Robinson, 1222wp WANTED 30 men. day, 6:30 p. m.

Aivin stage entrance. Mon-1222 we A NTED Porter Market st. and waiter. Apply at 200 1222wo WANTED Barber. 6340 Penn E.

E. 1222e! CASH or Per Vcck MUSIC BOXES LARGEST STOCK. LOWEST PRICES. HENRY BRAUN, 500 Federal Street, All'y. 2d Floor, cor.

Park Way. ASH or Sifl .00 Per Week mum WANTED Agents and eclicitors for our $1,000 "New Accident Insurance Policy," including key registration and Identification features; the best policy ever offered for per year: everything new; liberal commissions: agents are making $2." tr $50 weekly. It you are l'xik-ing for a good thing that sells itself, address Standard Registry 25 Broadway, N. Y. 1222wp AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN AND CITT OF IMPORTANCE IN PEN'NA.

FOIt PATENTED ARTICLE. SELLS TO STORES AND MANUFACTURING PLACES. Goon MONEY. ADDRESS BOX. NO.

32... SCR ANTON, FA. 1222vp Partner. WANTED Partner who csn furnish cash, to Jr.ke control of a business that will make him in ti months; must be sober and honest snd of goed address; uo agents need answer. Lock Box 144t.

city. 1222p WANTED Partner: small capital require one of the best paying new and second-hand furniture store In Western Pennsylvania: reason, sickness. Call or address 1010 Man Rraddeck, Pa. 1222vp WANTED Partner lady or gentleman, hp.v-ing capital, for first class musical comedy; city bookings. Write quitk, 14'.

o'hee. 1222wp WANTED Partner you want to buy or sell an in any kind of business, see CAVAmaOH St 516 Wood st. 627f Pniiils. THE MARTIN SHORTHAND SCHOOL. Penn ave oldest, largest, best: established 19 years; day and evening sessions.

Send for catalogue. I217. PRACTICAL instructions civrn on violin, pi-1 ani, mandolin and guitar; cuick reuKs. I Stormier Studio, lOli Sixth st. Phone 2'is.

1222wp I WANTED Pupils, ladies, learn dressmaking, i cutting, fitting, sewing and ladies' tailoring. MeCormao. 12 Federal Allegheny. 1222b I FREE Banjos, mandolins, guitars. to new- pupils.

Henderson's Studio, 534 Smithtieid st. 12.Hwfb Offices. WANTED Downtown office for Mt. Washir.tr-ton and Duquesne Heights express. 'Write 10i.

Press office. 122 1 we Uaalaeii Cbanrei. WANTED Ambitious young man who is tired of hard. work, and who can turnish to join advertiser in a matter and profitable; requires no business experience or education; exceptional opportunity for right rarty. Address P.

O. Box 51.1, Pittsborg. 1 WA NTED Thorough business men with means to equip and maintain a laboratory; have paying inventions on the market: Inventor Is thoroughly exiorinoed. mechanically, electrically and chemically; have laboratory partly equippea; uo not answer unless you mean business. Write 4, E.

E. Press office. 1222p! A NTED An idea. Write the Patent Record. tilt! Washington.

D. for prize offer, swarded monthly for bet invention submitted. Sample copy or the Patent Record, an illustrated journal devoted to r-cience and industry, and list of inventions wanted, sent free. 1222wp WANTED Young mnn, 22 to 30 years of age. to take worth of stork in new real estate and mortgage company, and to act as secretary; one who has knowledge of real estate business preferred.

This is worth investigating. Write 114. Press oflice. 1221e WANTED Reliable man to take half Interest In a business that will pay large yearly Income: must devote whole time; small amount of capital required; experience unnecesnarv. Write 1.17, Press office.

1222wp SALARIED position and one-third interest in my business for yours woman with $7oo to invest. Room 120 Sheridan ft. Call fter-noon. 122ovr Mortxngeii ual Loans. MORTGAGES WANTED.

We have four choire purchase money mirt- gages FOR SALE Ranging from Sl.HiMt to J2.X00. per cent interest; houses all occupied by jurchasrrs as homes: first class sectiritieH. D. BE HEN SON. J2 hi Penn ave.

1222; WANTED To borrow" Sl.non.OO on good firrt mortgage, on improved Pittsburg reel eytate; first-class Write Press ofee. 1221a WANTED To borrow $5 for six months: lo Write 1 1222wp per cnt; security double. Press office. Houxe. WANTED To buy small house; old or r.ew: give exact location; lowest price and, turns.

Address P. O. Box Pittsburg. 1222i WANTED To huy residence in Murray Hill district: give nrice; description, etc. Write I ltd, Press office 1222p WANTED To buy small hou.ae and bit.

not over SMXj; rive price aim location. rpo II loi. Press ofTlee. 1222wn Fitrno. WANTED To buy smail farms.

10 to .10 acres, near Coraopolis. L. E. R. will pay spot cash: give full particulars.

Address Invalid, P. O. Box W.i. Pittsburg. 1218ijkin Hoarders.

WANTED Boarders, also mealers: terms reasonable. 1214 Monterey st. Allegheny. 1221 wr WANTED board, oil i 'oarders Union first class loom and Allegheny. 1222p WANTED Boarders and mealers.

407 South Fa. 1222rV? st. -Boarders, gentlemen or ladies. 222 121f.wb llooms. WANTED Room or rooms, furnished or unfurnished, in private residence or Hat.

with modem conveniences, in desirable location. East End, Pittsburg, with small, refined Protestant family, where there are no either roomers, by tingle professional gentlemii a resident of Pittsburg, with well-known references. Write F125. Press office. 1222ve WANTED One large room, furnished, loth gases, cor.taininc two beds; for gentleman, wife and three children: ali-o board; must bo within walkir-r distance of Pittsbuig i ost- oflice; Allegheny preferred.

Write II 127, Press office. 1222w WANTED Kurni'jhed or unfurnished room for lighfhonsekeping; not over four blocks from corner of Liberty and Sixth st. YVrite 11X. Press office. 1222wp WANTED Y'oung man would like to have room In refined private family; locatioi.

slate terms. Write 11., Press 1222wp WANTED Downtown permanent If suitable, office. rocm for gentleman; Write Press 1222wp Unfurnished Itooms. WANTED Flat Man and wife; no children: location central 'Allegheny or would take throe or four unfurnished room; must have ail conveniences. Write 104, Press office.

122owr WANTED Three to five rooms; unfurnished, with sink and ranee, in Oakland or Eaut End; first or second floor; family of thrte; state particulars. Write 140. Press office. 1222wp WANTED Three rooms, unfurnished; must be natural ga. within 10 minutes' walk of pot-offiee.

city; state terms and conveniences: first floor preferred. Write 121, Press office. 1222wp WANTED By younr couple. 3 or 4 unfurnished rooms in a deplrsble locality; rent must be molerate. YVrite 12), l'ress office.

1222wp YV ANTED Part of house, three or four rooms. unfurnished, by young couple. Write 177. East End Press office. 1 WANTED By gentleman and wife; three unfurnished rooms; state rent.

YVrite A 115, Press onicf WANTED Three or. with conveniences. four unfurnished rooms. Write 150, Press -frice. 1222wp Ocrnpvnln for Roonu.

WANTED Occupants for rooms in private family, use of bath; $7 per month. three "unfurnished and fine location; 1206 Chislett st. 1221e! Room and Board. WANTED Room and board; rrivate family; Hill Top; five minutes to Twelfth st. with use of piano, by two young men with references.

Write 103, Press office. 1222wp WANTED Room snd boar-dins in private family by lady, where home comforts will be given; reference; foot of Center ave. pre-ferred. Yt'rite 141. Press off.ee.

1222wp WANTED Room and board hy young man and wife in respectable neighborhood; state rstea. Write 13Q. Pryg office. 1 222 YVANTED Furnished room with board in private family by married couple pre-ferred). Write 124.

Press office. 1222wp YVANTED Man and wife to room and board; woman to work for her board. ne I i 1 1 i i 1 i MERCANTILE PURSAl', 1 PENN AVE. PITTSBI-RG LEADING AGENCY. OUR METHODS OF SECURING POSITIONS FOR OFR APPLICANTS IS THE OUTCOME OF YEARS OF PRACTiCAL EXPERIENCE IN THIS BUSINESS.

INFORMATION FREELY GIVEN. WE handle MEN ONLY, and make a specialty of MERCANTILE and first class MECHANICAL HELP. Having a lareer list of natron seenr'ner mure i orders, and placing more men in suitable oosi- tions than any other ofS'-e. FOOKS OPEN for ivsprrTinv Hundreds of letters or. file from the LARGEST FIRMS in WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

THE MERCANTILE Wants. At Once, Bookkeeper, stenographer, collector, drauerts-men. salesman, grocery. dryg-oiKls. shoe, hardware, clothing and furnishing clerks: steam shovel engineers, also cranemen; dinkev and hoisting engineers, firemen; contract foreman, machinists, carpenters, lathe and planer hands, fitters, tool blacksmith, boilermakers.

12 laborers for house mover, good pay, steady work, R. R. fare paid. THE MERCANTILE r.UREAU. C.H5 PENN AVE.

1222p WANTED Extra errand bovs for Monday and Tuesday; will be paid at the rate of $1.00 per day. Apply tith floor office, Kaufmann Bros. 1222p WANTED Two drivers, 7 salesmen, 5 machinists, 25 cat penters, 4 collectors, 10 riveters, 8 helpeis. tfoo Aineiican laborers, 15 warehousemen. 4 butchers.

:5 sausageme.kers. Is ornamental iron and wire workers. 4 blacksmiths, lO coremak-ers, buffers, 7 molac-is, 2 chippers. 1 porter, a drill pressmen, lo axle grinders, and other positions fqr men without trades: l.Hno positions now open. (Who saiJ wo have hard times?) If you want work and are in honest search for it, call on us; with 7,000 firms whom we receive orders from, we are able to place vou at once; (references from men we have placed): information free.

Call at once. NATIONAL BI'REAU OF EMPLOYMENT, OFFICES 4Kt FEDERAL ALL EG HEN 1222 WANTED Mechanics tiualified for advancement; our free booklet, "Are Ycur Hands Tied?" tell3 how thousands have doubled or largely increased their earning capacity through our spare time instruction by mail. 1 Write to the International Correspondence Schools, Box 102,. Scranton, or call day or i evening at Pittsburg office. Room Park rvuuaing.

1222p CIVIL service government positions. appointments made last year. Probably this year. Only common school education required for examination. Catalogue of information free.

COLUMBIAN CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE, Washington, D. C. 1222wfe DRAUGHTSMEN We have large line of newly imported drawing instruments and utensiis, drawing tables and board of special design. Elliott Electric Blue Print 5th floor, LiberU' Pittsburg. Both 'phones.

Elevator. 1216wb WANTED Two city and work to start and al dress Manager, 111. traveling men able to leave in Pennsylvania; $18 weekly I expenses; rrood route. Aii-il'O Caxton Building, Chicaao, 1222p WANTED Gentlemen; a few wanted for a special canvass of a Fnecial work among a special class on a special plan; liberal weekly salary. Balch Bios.

Room D13. Bijou Bids, after o'clock. I2lMvb WANTED Experienced drivers: men acquainted with both cities and depois: apply ti o'clock in mornins. 840 West North Allegheny, or Sixteenth st. and Liberty Pittsburg II Ins WANTED Printer to take charge of suburban paper; experienced soliciting job work, a subscribers, can write locals, etc.

Good position; jive reference. YVrite 144, Press office. I222wp WANTED Men of good address with business acquaintance desirous of engaging in permanent and remunerative employment, will find same by applying lo 415 Irerguson p.ti'ld- 1222--p WANTED Office boy; high school graduate preferred: to bfgin at the bottom in large accounting department; good change for advancement. Write 12ii, Press oifice. 1222vp FOR SAMPLES of all kinds, put your name in greatest agents" directory; goes to manufacturers, publishers evervwhere: send dime.

Directory Exchange, Box 2S01, Boston Mass. 1222wp WANTED First-class bookkeeper and office man; one acquainted with the Iron business preferred. Address McKeefrey Leetonia, stating age, references and salary expected 122-ir WANTED Bookkeejr and collector for music store; one who plays piano preferred; bond required. Address, s'ating oxiieriencc, salarv expected, to Box tuny Pittsburg. lU22p WHY remain idle when we have over 5oo different positions ready? Call on us: we can help you; information free; courtesy to all; positions guaranteed or money refunded Old Keystone Bureau.

1122 Penn ave. 122wm WANTED Stenographer and typewriter; one capable of taking dictation rapidly and handling typewriter cuickly, Monday 9 a. S12 Lowell East End. 1 222wp WANTED Man in Oreensburg and to represent hardwood mantel manufacturer small capital required. Write Box 347.

Mc-Kees Rocks. Pa. 1222wp WANTED Night fireman to fire boiler for green houses Apply John L. Wyland, Allison Park Station, Pittsburg, on Western railroad. 1222wr WANTED Six competent miners, living in Homewood or East Liberty.

Apply Sunday, 122 Dcnnison or Monday. Penn Oakherst Coal Co. 1222p! WANTED A boy with three years' experience in the plumbing trade; also lov to learn the trade. 1710 Fifth ave. 1222wp WANTED Competent men with experience in car record work; also two young men, energetic, to act as yard cierks.

Write Press office. 122or WANTED Man of some knowledge of boiler and engine; state wages. Applv to John Walters, llo Twenty-third Sharpsburg. i222p WANTED Good coachman; must know both cities: good wages. Charles Williams, Elmer near Maryland East End.

1222wp WANTED Bricklayers to form a New Union in Pittsburg. Write for full particulars to N. C. box P. O.

1221we WANTED Laundry driver; good salary and commission to right man. White Cloud Laundry. 113 Park Way. Allegheny. 1222wp WANTED Detectives Every locality; good salary; experience unnecessary.

International Detective Agency, Milwaukee, Wis. 1222wp WANTED One good moulding for general work: steady job. Mill, Penn Wilkinsburg. machine hand Hill Planing WANTED Tool and pattern makers; automatic screw machine hands. Address Hough Mfg.

Franklin. Pa. 1220r WANTED Stenographer, A No. 1, and used to Remington machine; $5J per month. Write 135, Presti office.

1222e WANTED At once, good furniture finisher; must understand quartered oak; work permanent. 207 Market st. 1222wp WANTED First class wagon blacksmith. Ao-ply F. H.

Hieber, McKees Rocks. Steady work to right man. 1222we WANTED Two young men as helpers on ornamental iron work. Watt Mfs. HVi Water st.

1222wp WANTED Two plumbers. Heating Plumbing Keesport. Apply to Chisholm 530 Sinclair Mc-1222r WANTED 2S bellboys, wages $1 per month. A. Lewis' Employment Agency, 100 So.

Highland ave. 1222p! WANTED Machinists to sell my calipers, etc. liberal inducements. E. G.

Smith, Columbia, P. 1213wfb WANTED Coachman A reliable, acquainted with the city. Apply Eober man 400S Forbes 1222p WA NTED Drivers. Allegheny ave. and Cunningham Transfer, Juniata Allegberiv.

1222wp WANTED Sorter at once. Duquesne Steam Laundry. Apply Duquesne. at the Pa. 1222p WANTED Two driers.

Transfer Storage Apply Shanahan 1034 Locust citv. 1222p helrer for horseshoe- A.Mtp toreman ana hetrer for Ing. at once. Eagle Transfer Co. 1220wr WANTED Two intelligent men salary J12.

310 Hamilton Bldg. at once 1222wp I i I I and grocery. drygoods, hardware, furniture i-shoe clerks. H.T0 to ST.V ianitors. SS0: enci- neers, firenea machinists and other mechanics, warehousemen, porters, packers, to $15; shipping clerk, $65: bill clerk.

$o0; stablernan, $10; drivers, $12; wagon blacksmith, $12; electrician, $00; ice cream maker, $12; farm, dairy hands and men of every class furnished free to employers; telephone or telegraph orders at our expense; men seeking employment call; oldest office in Pittsburg; men only; managed by practical men of 2S years' experience; 0,000 customers; 25 to I0 orders daily to choose from. STAR EMPLOYMENT BUREAU 120 SIXTH STREET. 1222; drivers. WANTED Horseshoer and helper, 5 lo coal miners. 10 laborers, nisrht waiter.

coachman, bar porter, SH; bellooy, yardman, two machinists, cook, 12; bookkeeper, office boy, engineer, five rough carpenters, liveryman, eight errand boys. City Employment, 411 Seventh ave. 1222wp Male and Female Help. WANTED Chef. $12 per week; houseman.

kilchenman, boy lor hotel, porter, lo married couples, coloreo boy for gentleman's place, dishwasher, houegirls, family cocks, 2) waitresses, $4 and per week; So colored cooks and maids, nuries, housekeepers, young girls to assist With housework, highest wages paid to all help. Meehan's, 5-U Grant st. Hoth 'phones. 1222wp WANTED Parents to give their sons ami daughters Christmas scholarships. These Schoiui snips suaianicc a useful euucatlon and honoiable positions.

Day and night sessions ail year. Actual Business College, corner Wood st. and Sith Pittsburg. Established la.su. WANTED Pot washer for hotel, second hand baker for hotel, boss boys, yardman, C.alry and farm hands, chef and wife for hotel.

Schwartz, 12s Seventh st. 1222p WANTED Man and wife for small farm. Citv Kmployinent, 411 Seventh ave. 1222wp Agents, Cum viiKsera, Kir. A bonanza for hustllr.g agents.

$5 capital an! a few Lours' work wr dav will make tne largest income you ever had, hustlers will mak week. Something absolutely and entirely new. j-ells at sight. Exclusive territory N. 121.wte WANTED Agents for McKlnley Memorial pictures, greatest feller of the day for agents; lithographed, on heavy caraboard and draped with American fiaj in its respective colors; sample, postpaid.

i cents. Write today for prices and territory. NATIONAL MEMORIAL l.J.J Hobbie Dept. 44, Chicago, 111. 1222 AGENTS and streetmen; everybody buys our burglar alarm; no batteries, bells nor wires; explodes blank cartridge: wakes people; scares burglar away; neat, unbreakable; 2 i per cent protir; ooc sample postpaid gpt catalogue.

V. Sims Trcmont, New York. 12iiwp LADIES, something new; making sofa pillows at home; -7 to 12 weekly; materials furnished; no canvassing: experience uniiccessuiy steady eir.pl ij nfnt: snd stamped addressed envelope. Household Mfg. Erie Chicago.

1222wp TO 15 weekly working at heme; no canvassing; if now employed, an hour or two evenings will add 3 to to your weekly in-camc: enclose stamp; work mailed on application. Address Twentieth Century Mfg. Toledo, O. 1222wn WANTED Industrial insurance agents will find our combination sick and death benefit pol-cies, also medical attendance, the most attractive a money maker. Geo.

W. Mai-on, Broadway, N. Y. 121wfib AN income of $13 week can be earned in spate time evening by any person able to write: proof sent free anywhere to those sending addressed envelope to Giannan Box 227. Brooklyn.

New York. 1222wp WANTEli Young men. any distance: copy letters home eveuHvss and return to us; we pay per thousand, tend addressed envelope, particular? and copy. F. M.

C. Dept. 2.t. Box 1411, Philadelphia, 1222wp ONE DOLLAR in cash will enable you to start a practical money-making business at home; good for weekly: failure impossible; send Si. Oil today.

Pearl Specialty Box 1 Cleveland. O. 1222wp WANTED Salesman To act as local repre-t sentative Bonil and references requiied. Knauih Surgeons' Instruments: Physi-I cians Sur.lies. West Twenty-ninth New YorkCity.

V222fe AGENTS Investigate our new system of making money at home; succes. assured. Full particulars ami prospectus free. Address Nat. Mail Ord-r Ill Bell Clock, Cincinnati.

O. 1222 AGENTS Hustlers Pest lin goods, tricks, juzzi's, self-threading needles, ciiiaret joll-ers. iilustiateV catalogue, sample lOc. Union Agents' Supply Haworth, N. .1.

1222wp J170 a month for a general agent to travel and appoint agents for a line of hygienic specialties Li hero 1 commission and salary, Tlobitron Toledo. O. 1215fir WANTED Younir ladies, any distance, copy letters home evenings and return to us; we pay per thousand; send addressed envelope, particulars and copy. F. M.

C. Dept. 2::. Box 1411. Philadelphia.

1222wp AGENTS mr.kc to a day selling our hi-ead boards; everv lady buys one; send for samnle, 10 by 22. and terms. FOREST NOVE LTY WORKS. Forest. Ohio.

1 222 WANTED Ladies and gentlemen everywhere to copy letters, evenings; good pay: steady work. Add; ess lenclosing stamp). Manager Box 1 14. Cleveland, O. 1222wp A gentleman of indomitable energy and push, good opportunity lor right man to represent a corporation.

Address i. Person, Parrott San Francisco, Cal. 1222wp LADIES to do piecework at their homes; we furnish material and psy to weekly; send stamped envelope. Royal Monroe Chicago. 111.

1222wp TRUST WO 1 1 YMAN for route7nPr nsy 1 -vania; $13 weekly and expenses to start; references; steady work. Address Travelers J.4 Dearborn, Chicago. 1222wp AGENTS Mendesi does it. No book or extinct business; $2 to '4 ptr day; steady work. Send tor circulars.

Mendesi, "117 Buhl Block. Detroit. Mich. 1222vp WANTED Everywhere, hustlers to tack signs, distribute circulars, samples, no canvassing, good pay. Sun Advertising Bureau, Chicago.

1222wp AGENTS Do you want something more profitable and easier to sell than books or insurance? Address F. Person, Parrott San Franciro. Cal. 1222wp WANTED Six lady or gentlemen solicitors for country towns: also city: big money. Apply or address Room 20, McCance Block, cltv.

1222wp. Monthly copying letters at home; either sex; inclose two stamps with application. Laka Shore Mercantile Dept. 5, Chicago. 1222wfhjr BUILDING and loan agents can secure good contracts and definite territory in Ohio.

The Southern Ohio Loan Trust Cincinnati, 1215wfb AGENTS Eyeglasses made like new using Electro Polishing Cloth; ample 10c. W. J. Atkinson, Optician, 1425 Larimer Denver, Colo. 12l5wfr WANTED Local and traveling canvassers; we can Interest successful workers.

Western New-York Nursery Rochester. N. Y. 127weo WANTED Ladies to rerure our broadcloth dress patterns for five yards, double width: no free samples. Quaker Supply 243 N.

Eighth Philadelphia. 1222wp WANTED Agents Mail order buyers, write for our free catalogue circulars of householl goods. A. I. Boch Corning.

Ohio. 1222wp SALESMEN Five to contract for 1902: wln-ning proposition; big sales: big money. Address Big Money. Box 528, Chicago. 1222wp AGENTS Dundee Mfg.

10 A Park" sq Boston. M.iss. Manufactures specialties in agents' supplies. Send for booklet. 1222wp SALESMEN Salary and expenses paid weekly: experience unnecessary.

Thomas Bowman A Son, Rochester, N. Y. 1222wp AGENTS and mail order men; send, for our cheap jewelry circulars. Colonial Jewelrv Providence. R.

I. 1222wp WANTED Lady canvassers; salary $1.00 day, fare and commission- Call Penn ave. 1222 wr WANTED Agents. 117 Twelfth South Side South Side. Portrait Co.

1222wp i ETTLINGER'S MANY CLIMBS. In Ten Years He Would Have Been 2I Miles Hish. To those who love to dabble and delve in figures and statistics some facts in connection with the life of B. jtttHnRer, the keeper of the Washington monument, who was found asphyxiated In hi office one Thursday morning, may proves interesting, although a plain, ordinary mind will probably be appalled by the array of numbers and turn to something less exhausting in sheer bewilderment and weariness. Everybody doubtless read the account of Mr.

Ettling-i-rs' death, but how many paused to think what the past ten years of his life meant to him in certain directions, and what demands they made upon his endurance and vitality. Mr. Ettlinger was appointed custodian of the great pile to the memory the. Father of His Country In April, ISftl. Among his many duties was the lighting each morning of, the winding stairway bv which the ton of the monument is reached.

Thus each day he ascended at least once to the gallery beneath the statue, and In doing so mounted 2S3 Steps. The monument being closed on Sunday, he made the ascent six time a week, or 312 times a year, a total of 3,120 times during his ten years' incumbency. The base of the monument is twenty-four feet high, and the Doric column measures ltvi feet, so that each time Mr. Ettlinger made the ascent he attained an altitude of lvs feet. Now, let it be supposed that instead, of returning to the grbund each day Mr.

Ettlinger had kept on a sr a tiding twice 188 feet each day. allowance being made for the descent as well. In a week, of six days he would have climbed feet; in a month of four weeks he would have reached ant altitude of feet; in a year of fifty-two weeks he could have looked down upon the from an elevation of 110.812 feet, or about twenty-one -and one-third miles, and in the ten years he would have been above the earth 1.1GS.12S feet, or somewhat over 213 miles, a height attained only by the adventrous travelers who had themselves inclosed in a huge shell and fired up to the moon. Again, to reach the summit of the monument Mr. Ettlinger climbed 22.S steps and descended as many each day, a total of 2.

Toll steps a week, or 142.272 steps a year, or, in the ten years of his incumbency, the oprresslve grand total of 1.422,72 steps. Mr. Ettlinger weighed about 175 pounds. Each time he ascended a step he lifted that weigh with the muscles of nis legs. Now, suppose that the energy expended in climbing these steps he accumulated; tne result would be a lifting power of pounds, sufficient to raise from their foundations thirty-four monuments the size and weight of the Washington monument.

Mr. H. Oinwiddie, manager of tho George A. Fuller Construction with offices in the Maryland building, estimates the weight of the Washington monument at tons, of pounds. There are ten gas jets which light the winding stairway of the monument, one at each turn of the steps.

These were lighted by Mr. Ettlinger each morning. In other words, in a year of 312 working days he lighted 3.12rt gas jets, and in ten years. gas jets. Baltimore San.

PUBLICITY IN yHITE HOUSE. 'Ifec Trouble Ktertcncel I- Statesmen in GettiiiT President" Ilnr: i Judsing from the complaints of almost everybody seeking ofR-iil interviews with President Roosevelt, he applies "publicity" his remedy for trusts to -all the applications made before him on the subject of his appointments and other official action. His reception room and all the conferences within its walls are as open as a town meeting'. I A senator, a member of the lower house, or any other man visiting him to talk about an appointment or about a matter of policy has no chance for a private con- versation There are no whispered con-' Tabulations. He will not get "chummy" with callers on public business even if they are intimate friends in private life.

A case is stated in which a member of the Fr.ited States S-aprerrr? Court called on the President, and, catching him by the sleeve, Oretv him aside to tell him i.i low tones the substance of his request. In a voice as loud as if he was shouting to a companion in a moose hunt the President said: "I am sorry, but it cannot be done; till must by The nature of the sly request made by 1 the groat jurist may be imagined. Other similar cases are described. Our Unci Shelby Culloni complains of "publicity" when he seeks a quiet talk with the President about Illinois appointments. He recently said the President's ear Is like opening a window and shouting at the wide, world.

He talks too loud." And there was a plaintive tone in the voice of our. venerated statesman as he described this unusual feature of "oontl-Oential" conferences with the President. Fo they all say. As far as privacy is concerned they might as well announce on a billboard the objects of their visits to the White House, to attempt to make it a matter of private conversation 'with the President. Chicago Chronicle.

The Drutality of Itandits. The unfortunate Miss Stone, has not yet "been set nt liberty, says the Tatler. "but her captors have so far departed from their usual "habit of expeditir.g the payment of rr.nsom by sending portions of their prisoners, such as a nope, or an ear, or a hand. One dav. when Stambou-Joff was In power in Bulgaria, his ame damnee.

Major Panitza, brought him an ear which had been sent by a Greek brigand narr- rryas from over the border in Macedonia. The ear belonged to. cne of StawbuoiofTs agents whom Dryas had captured, and the brigand threatened to. the rest in the form of a corpse unless he received 20 Turkish pounds. "Money:" cried Stambuoloff.

"Battenberg hasn't any. All I can do is to send IJryaa Ir. exchange the nose of his own son whom we caught the other day." The nose was duly dispatched the same evening, and the brigand, evidently recognizing that he had met his match and that sickly sentimentality about an agent was not likely to prevail with Stam-bouloSf. settled the matter amicably by an exchange of what remained of the two captives. i i I nesses.

One of these renders him an ob-! ject of much importance in Urga Itself apart from his religious circle. It Is tha not uncomon craving to possess -a. duplicate of anything which takes his fancy. In the extrcise of this indulgence he has at various times become the possessor of some curious reproductions. To it he owes his present most incongruous habitation: and, at another time, the possession of an elephant, said to have cost him G.tmo rubles.

He has also acquired many other curiosities, the procuring of which offers to the Russian at Urga a not unprofitable means of livelihood "I was fortunate enough to se this extraordinary personage under conditions not easily forgotten. Outside one of the beautiful Btiddhist temples, in a carefully guarded Enclosure, was pitched a semicircle of tents. The central ones. resplendent with yellow silks and and gold embroidery, with huge yellow silk umbrellas and cushions to match, contained the throne of the "Living God." On either hand and surrounding him were crowds of Lamas, priests, Mongol princes and Ambans. Tn front of the tents was an open space.

to SO yards across, where hundrtds of Mongols, standing, kneeling and fitting, all deeply interested, gazed upon the wrestling matches which were going on in pairs all over the ring. The combatants are picked champions from various tribes and families. "They are striped naked, with the exception of their leather riding boots and a garment rather more scanty than a man's bathing dress. Upon entering the ring, each pair of wrestlers prance up with curious movements of the arms and legs, to the immediate presence of the "Living God." before whom they kowtow, falling on their knees and striking the ground repeatedly with their foreheads. These obeisances over, each man is placed in position by his own second, usually an elderly Mongol, one of whom gives the signal for the bout to begin.

The wrestling itself was good. A fall is the signal for the opponents to stop. The winner at once begins prancing and dancing about in an even more wonderful manner than at first, again presenting himself before 'the god with many groveling obeisances. After this he quits the ring, to be received by a crowd of admiring friends, another pair being introduced. At one time there might hate been from l.

to 20 persons wrestli.ng. These, with the cries of the onlookers, the coloring of their bright clothes, the mass of gold and yellow in the magnificent tent, and the quaint and picturesque roefs of the beautiful colored temples, rising above made up a scene to be long remembered. London Cor. Philadelphia Press. LEWIS AND CLARK BULLET.

Klred One Hundred Years Ago, Jnst Recovered. When the Lewis and Clark expedition passed through the valley of the Biack-foot nearly loo years ago a member of the party fired an ounce musket ball Into a sapling. That ball, for the first time in all the years since, has just been brought to light. A carpenter found the ball imbedded in a piece of lumber he was sawing near Warm Springs, Mont. It was an ordinary piece on which he was working when his saw struck a strange substance that looked at first like a knot, so rich was the pitch settled about it.

But when the saw had bitten its way through it was seen that the object was a leaden bullet, almost perfectly round, showing that it had met with little resistance in entering the wood. A little calculation on the rings found in the wood showed that the tree from which it came was about three feet in diameter, while the old ball was lodged about three, inches from the heart of the tree. Crude though these -estimates may be. they are sufficient to show that the hall must have been in the wood from 75 to lt years. There is no record of other parties bearing firearms through this region at that period except the Lewis and Clark expedition.

All those who have examined the bullet in its shell of pitch and wood are firm in the belief that it is a relic of that expedition. The lumber in which the ball was found came from a mill which gets its timber from among the very route pursued by the early explorers. Tha bullet is just the sort of ounce bullets used in army muskets in the first part of the nineteenth century- Some of them were in use as late as the early days of the Civil War in the cartridge then Is--sued for the army musket. Helena. Mont.

Correspondent St. Louis Post-Dispatch. HOLIDAY KXCVRSIOS Mill Be Ran Via Lines. Pennsylvania December 24th. 2.1th, 31st and January 1st excursion tickets will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines for Holiday trips.

Tickets may be obtained at special fares from all ticket offlces on the Pennsylvania Lines. This means a chance for cheap tickets from Pittsburg to Cleveland, Erie, New Castle, Youngstown. Chicago. Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville, Dayton. Cincinnati, Wheeling and other points in territory.

The return limit on all low fare tickets via Pennsvlvania Ijnes for the Holidays will be January 2nd. 142. Press office 1222wp keeping; $15; one room furnished, $8. In- 1.