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SUPPLY AND DEMAND. ONE OF THE DRAWBACKS OF EXCEPTIONAL PROSPERITY. NbIm In Struct oral Steal ami Iron aa lllaatratlna or tha Phaaomeaal Condition* Attending the Rnetoratlon of a Protective Tariff. TV famine in structural steel and Iron Is perhaps the most striking Among the phenomena attendant upon McKinley prosperity. Nothing like It w«s ever before known In this coun try, and certainly not In any other country. Here we have every Iron and Steel producing plant In the United States working to It* utmost capacity, and yet there is a big shortage in the supply, so great Is the demand in many lines of construction. Because of the Inability of the mills to All orders, or even to meet the time requirement* of contracts already entered into, we are told by the New York Herald that in New York the structural work upon many big office buildings Is at a stand still, and public schools that were to have been opened for the fall term will remain uncompleted; In Philadelphia work upon warships for foreign pow ers is at a halt; in the West the agri cultural implement makers are at tbeir wits' ends for material and are renew ing their demands for steel for next year's delivery, and from every section contractors and builders are calling tor impossible thirty and sixty day de liveries of mill products. The shortage in structural material, says the Herald, Is so serious that eon trmetors are vainly offering bonuses to the manufacturers to push their work. It Is but a short time since Structural iron and steel were ad vanced $5 a ton. and It la predicted that Ahere will be another Increase within S few days. According to the experts, the railroads are the most seriously affected by this remarkable state of the iron and steel market, and already American agents are at work in the English market obtaining options upon Scotch steel. The demand for mill products Is Increasing daily, and those who are responsible for the supply frankly admit that they are unable to cope with the abnormal situation. Contractors and builders are growing desperate and are daily begging those who hold them in bond to release them from obligations the fulfillment of which has been made impossible by conditions for which they are not re sponsible. From Chicago It is reported that railroad tonnage is on a scale never before equaled, and is still mounting higher. As for the Iron and steel trade, the exports for June actually fell off owing to the great home de mand. The domestic requirement was so enormous mat material could not be spared for foreign shipment. The demand has caused the resur 1 rection of mills believed to be dead. Old plants that have been idle for years, chiefly from competitive causes, have been reopened and put In opera tion. If a manufacturer wants material three months hence he must buy now and pay the prices that are current. The clamor for materials Is In no way relieved. There have been large sales of pig Iron for delivery in 1900. Iron bars cannot be bought under four months' delivery from the mill. Vessel owners of Chicago having suitable bottoms for the transportation of iron and steel cannot All orders. Two years ago prices were forty-five to fifty cents a ton for the haul from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. Now the rate for ore from Duluth to lake Erie Is $1.30 a ton. and will go higher. In Philadelphia the big shipyards, notwithstanding the boom in their in dustry, have been compelled to lay off hundreds of men because of delay In the arrival of material. Extensive building operations have been halted and others almndoned. Charles Mc Csul aald: "To my knowledge certain big building concerns within the last few days have tried to contract with local companies for structural steel, to be delivered a year from now at pre vailing prices. The proposals were re fused." The Phoenix Bridge Company is lia ble to a penalty of #50 per day for fail ure to complete the big bridge over the Schuylkill river at dray's Kerry. The delay la due to the steel famine. The director of public works has derided not to enforce the penalty. Pittsburg manufacturers of Iron and •feel say they see no relief for New York contractors. The demand la so far ahead of the output that it will take many months for ths trade to catch up. The Carnegie Steel Com pany, It la aald. will not taha orders for structural steel for delivery un der twelve months last week #U a ton was paid for blllata. Two yean •go the price was #it. Tne pig iron manufacturers will nut quote prices tor dsllvery this year. Ths torn sad steel Industry, It will he remembered, la protection a biggest [ gad brsltbtest child. It Is sa Industry which free traders tweaiy-ffve or thirty j year* ugo declared could not he built up by a protective tariff Yet tuday Iba railed fftaiee leads the world la j the product loa of Iroa and at eel Hig | ga the Industry has become it |g got | able la supply the require masts at lbs great home marked In thee# llama of McKinley prosperity tv sa lades of 1 tbs peaersl ruadlttwae I bat have grown out ef lbs readwratioa of I be Amertrea policy I be Iron sad steel sltuattua la I misreading sad instructive It In reported from (Ninth ibat tbs j retail buetsea* ef ibat slip la double j what M was a tear ago fbts stale ml ’ affect has been brtmgbi about .sieg> ffy Iba largely |g. resael |i■ Isas made by tbe femmes ef wage aanmn Tbee« baa wss mesh a growth ef Is dtisrry in That vicinity that there is ealcl to be more work to be done tban there are laborers to do it, and the In dications are that this condition of things will ixmtinue for some time. | With such a demand for labor, wages are neceasarily high. The high wages mean liberal purchases on the part of the laboring men and their famlliee, and the retailers profit by It. They In their turn make large sales for the wholesalers and the increaajd demewde on the wholesalers make more busi ness for the manufacturers, and so the wheel of prosperity goes around. 1 be description of the state of affairs in IXuIuth reveals only a few links in the "endless chain" by which the pro tective tariff brings prosperity to the whole American people. A Convert to Protection. The latest and most prominent con vert to the doctrine of a protective tariff is Hon. William R. Grace, former mayor of New York and a leading Democrat of national reputation. Mr. Grace was for years one of the strong est free traders, atanding In close sym pathy with Cleveland and Wilson. Mr. Grace says; "I am not ashamed now to say that In the light of recent events I have completely changed those views and now see, as I believe, clearly that the amazing growth in all that makes for permanently prosperous conditions and In all Influences that have ao recently established the United States as a first power among the nations of the world, not only politically, but financially and commercially, Is due in great measure to the policy of protection.” Mr. Grace says "facts are stronger than theories;" and the facts of the past two years under the Dlngley law, as compared with those under the Wil son law, are enough to overturn ary theory and convince Mr. Grace or any other free trade Democrat.—Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. No Ciutt tor 41 rumbling:. First Farmer—Help was never so scarce before nor wages so high. If that’s the result of "McKinley pros perity,” I don’t want any more of it. Second Farmer—Oh, I don’t know. Everybody ’round here has paid off hie farm mortgages, and I noticed you got a new piano over at your house last week. Don’t seem to me you've got any kick cornin’. The Cotton Mill* and Protection. A year or two ago there were many complaints of the declining cotton manufacturing industry of New Eng land. but we are glad to learn from the Springfield Republican that there is now a complete change for the better; that the mills everywhere are actively employed; that prices are firm; that the export demand Is good; that the home market is strong, and that the business is generally profitable. Mills which had suspended dividends are re suming a distribution of profits, and many others are increasing dividends. The Amoakeag's current semi-annual dividend Is 5 per cent, against 4 per rent paid six months ago and 2 per cent in the first half of 1898. The Republican does not tell us that this recovery of prosperity on the part of the New England cotton mills is due to Republican protection, as that would be too frank an admission for a Clevelsnd mugwump to make; but as the cotton mill prosperity has come along with all the other indus trial prosperity since the triumph of Republicanism in 1896 and the enact ment of the Dlngley law In 1897. it is a fair Inference that the adoption of the protective policy by the nation has something to do with It.—Minneapolis Tribune. Keoooiole. Not Fell Ileal. The assumption that prominent members of the Republican party are more identified with trusts than the lealers of the Democratic party le con trary to fact. The corporate Intereeu of Meears. Croker sod W. C. Whitney have no parallel In the Republican ranks. Senator llanna, who is the butt of all Democratic shafts against capital. Is a mere dabbler In specula tlog compered to Messrs Whltaev and Croker. who. many hold, will dictate the neit Democratic nominee for the president y When Ike public grows familiar with the subject It will learn that trusts are eatlrely sn et-momic and not tn the least a political issue They ran fatten on free trade as well ss protection They need only the rich i anil ef good times Cincinnati Times- I Mar **■ 71 iammmm a N ml I* its* U lot* Th# origtssluy aad bold sees of the lues Item <rratle cuaveatioa are sit >en la the asti trust plash. The rented* foe trusts Is the "repeal af the prater Uve tariff ef the ehule tariff as ■sorely of the dalles »a trust cua trailed (■■•d* This sluae isdleatsa with whst j dell beret tue aad t boat hi fa issue the platform was frnmad Is there a Deal arret »t« really baMevas that foes all *«♦» *«*»•* s peute-M** tariff and I be ytnhttMi ad the Philippine*1 The platform aas drawn sad adapted bp are aba beau list teey bed noth tag Id teas Cbletffe ff*ea'a* l*set Merit Will He Rrrognlsed. The imitation of the most famous of foreign brands in many lines of man ufacture by American producers Is con ducted on as large or larger a scale to day than ever before. There are, how ever, some notable exceptions to this rule. For example, It Is a fact now generally recognised that the beet cut glaa* in the world 1a the American; but In some other lines of manufacture the sentiment of the Kuromaniacs ia still very strong. To illustrate; In many lines of silks and woolens made by American man ufacturers foreign brands are still used very largely. A representative of the American Economist met one of our largest manufacturers a few days since, who was about to Introduce a new line of dress goods, and said tbat it would be necessary to introduce this as a foreign manufacture to begin with. “Why?" was asked. "Because If I at tempted to introduce this dress goods as American the people who are seek ing foreign goods constantly would claim that my product should be sold a; 20 per cent lest than I can sell these same goods to a foreign importing house. Consequently I will Introduce these goods through an Importing house, and after ward I will bring out the trademark or dpslgn." In time the American people will be educated up to the fact of the dis tinctive merit of the products of their own country—the silks, the woolens, the dress goods, the wines, cigars, min eral waters, et-t.—and It will no longer be necessary to sell such products un der foreign brands or labels. I.ook tn RmuIIi. When a policy has been in operation so long as that of the protective tariff it is only rational to look to results al ready achieved rather than to the orig inal theories in estimating its eco nomic valtieM. That is what ex-Mayor Grace has done. He has glanced about him in commercial ranks and he has everywhere observed substantial evi dence of healthy growth. He has seen the exports from the American facto ries, for which the tariff tonic was de signed, more than doubled during the period of which he speaks. He has found every commercial gauge regis tering high-water mark, and he has come to the natural conclusion that it was because of the tariff and not in spite of it that the country has pros pered. That is the logical conclusion and it Is not at all improbable that other Democrats have reached it, but lack the moral courage to go on record tc that effect, as Mr. Grace has done. If they haven’t yet read the lesson, they have been given eyes with which to see and brains with which to think in vain. Either their intelligence or their courage to express conviction will have to be discounted.—Sioux City (Iowa) Journal. _ -i 1 A Significant Increase. Uncle Sam continue!) to reap a double profit from the Dingley law—a direct profit through the increased custom* receipts and an indirect profit through the prosperity of the people in general. The receipts for the fifty largest post offices for the month of July, 1899, show an increase over the receipts for July, 1898, of 1177,969, this Increase be ing equal to 6.1 per cent. This means that more letters have been written. People writs oftener to friends and relatives when they have a prosperous, cheerful tale to tell. It means more money orders and registered letters sent, both for the purchase of goods and as gifts to those dear to the sender. It means that more birthday and anni versary remembrances have been sent to the absent. In short, the increased postal receipts tell to the thinking mind s story of prosperity, generosity and contentment, a story made possi ble by the restoration of the industry creating, work giving, wage raising policy of protection. New Imliastrlee. The newspapers have been pretty busy recording the number of instances of the increase of wages and of the reopening of factories since the pas sage of the Dingley law. They have had a hard task to keep track of them all, but there is a harder task before them. They will be obliged now. and in a constantly Increasing number of rases In the future, to turn their at tention to another phase of the pros perous times which have come to the country—vis., the building of new mllln and the establishment of new In dustries. One commercial paper pub llshed In n single Issue recently, in ad dition to Its numerous reports of in creased prosperity In dtffereut cnees o' Industries already established, the announcement of a new pulp mill of mammoth sis* in Wisconsin, n new wall paper plant in Massachusetts and a nsw fertiliser fa. lory In Georgia. Whet Mlaht Its Itsss Another vindication of n high pro tective tariff ha* been fouad by a Pennsylvania pnwfaettr a* la wall kauwa. we maintain a tariff on aar dine* for lb* beaeftt of tb* New Bag land heirias* out of which our "aar dine* are mads and how ihia profs* ser aaauuacws that stand asphalt eaa he made taut of herriaga With the nthisieaaacs of that tariff a few rear* Ion gov it would not he surprising If w* could Utah* altar of rase* and ctoa-tiH I saws uul of berriags leauisvt||g Osar* I Isr Journal W a can still da* bolter than that Wt ran sub* tramps out of uor mechanic* and laboring men bp a return It* tbs |i*d old dare of tie Wilson Gorman tariff measure We ran da still atom We eaa Issue #«»ij bads to carry oa the garters meet and bring Idleness sad waut and bund*' Into almost every borne la Uto load dhall w* dw ItP Pevria till i Jewry'* TALMAGES SERMON. • ... EASY DIVORCES. LAST SUN DAYS SUBJECT. *Wk»t Therefor* Cad Hath Joined To gether l,#t Nat M*u Pat Aiaeder" Matt. IV: •—Skeleton* All Over th* B*ae* a* Wall ae la tb* Clout. « That there are hundred* and thou aanda of infelicitous home in America no one will doubt. If there were only one skeleton In the closet, that might be locked up and abandoned; but In many a home there Is a skeleton In the hallway and a skeleton la all the apartments. "Unhappily married" are two words descriptive of many a home stead. It needs no orthodox minister to prove to a badly mated pair that there Is a bell; they are there now. Sometimes a grand and gracious wom an will be thus incarcerated, end her life will be a crucifixion, ae was the case with Mrs. Sigourney, the great poetess and the great soul. Sometimes a consecrated man will be united to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a vixen, as was John Milton. Some times, and generally, both parties are to blame, and Tbomaa Carlyle Is an Intolerable grumbler, and his wife has % pungent retort always ready, and Froude, the historian, pledged to tell the plain truth, baa to pull aside the curtain from the lifelong squabble at Cralgenputtock and 6 Cheyne row. Some say that for the alleviation of all these domestic disorders of which we bear, easy divorce Is a good pre scription. God sometimes authorises divorce as certainly as he authorises marriage. 1 have Just as much regard (or one lawfully divorced as 1 have for one lawfully married. But you know and 1 know that wholesale divorce Is one of our national scourges. 1 am not purprised at this when 1 think of the influences which have been abroad militating against the marriage rela tion. For many yearB the platforms of the country rang with talk about a free-love millennium. There were meetings of this kind held in the Acad emy of Music, Brooklyn; Cooper insti tute, New Vork; Tremont temple, Bos ton, and all over the land. Some of the women who were most prominent in that movement have since been distin guished for great promiscuity of affec tion. Popular themes for such occa sion?} were th( tyranny of man, the op pression of the marriage relation, women’s rights, and the affinities. Prominent speakers were women with short curls and short dress and very long tongue, everlastingly at war with God because they were created women; while on the platform sat meek men with soft accent and cowed demeanor, apologetic for masculinity, and hold ing the parasols while the termagant orators went on preaching the gospel of free love. That campaign of about twenty years set more devils into the marriage relation than will be exor cised in the next fifty. Men and wom en went home from such meetings so permanently confused as to who were their wives and husbands that they never got out of the perplexity, and the criminal and the civil courts tried to disentangle the Iliad of woes, and this one got alimony, and that one got a limited divorce, and this mother kept the children on condition that the fa ther could sometimes come and look at them, and these went Into poorhouses, and those went Into Insane asylums, and those went Into dissolute public Hfe, and all went to destruction. The mightiest war ever made against the marriage Institution was that free-love campaign, sometimes under one name and sometimes under another. Another Influence that has warred upon the marriage relation has been polygamy In Utah. That is a stereo typed caricature of the marriage rela tion, and has poisoned the whole land. You might as well think that you can have an arm in a state of mortification and yst the whole body not be sick ened, as to have any territories or states polygamlced and yet the body or the nation not feel the putrefaction. Hear It, good men and women of America, that so long ago as 1862 a law was passed by congress forbidding polygamy In the territories and In all the places where they had jurisdiction. Thirty-seven years have passed along and nine administrations. Yet not un til the passage of the Edmunds law In 1882 was any active policy of polygamic suppression adopted. Armed with all the power of government, and havlug an army at their disposal, the first brick bad not till then been knocked from that fortreaa of libertinism Every new preatdent In hie Inaugural tickled that monater with the etraw of condemnation, and every congreae stultified Itself In proposing eume plan that would not work. Polygamy stood la Utah and In other of the territories, more entrenched, more brasen, more puleaaat. more bragart and more In ternal (hau si any lime la Us history, James Uurban**, s much abused man of bla day, did more fur the estlrpa tlun of this villainy thaa all the mbs* quest administrations dared M do up to I HI. Mr. Uucbaaaa seat mt an army, sad although It was halted la Its work. Still he accomplished mure than the subsequent administrations which did nothing but tnik. lath. talk. Kssn nl this lets day and with the Kdmnnda act In fores the evil has sot been wholly eatlrpoled Polygamy In tub. though outlawed Is still pear tlrsd In secret |t bee warred agalaet tbe marriage relation throughout tbs land It Is Impossible to have such sa awful sswer of Iniquity sending up lie miasma, which Is wafted hr • *» wings north. south to’ sad west wlthunt the whole lead being affected by It A aether inffwente I her bos warred •gainst the werrUge retaUua la this • ouatry has beea a poet etwee litera ture. with lie millions of sheets .«•»» week choked with at nr lee of -tomcat t. wrongs end lolMelittee. and masse* tea. I sad outrages until it M n nuader to ( me that there are any decencies or any common sense left on the subject of marriage. One-half of the news stands of our great cities reek with the filth. “Now," say some, "we admit all these evils, and the only way to clear them out or to correct them Is by easy divorce." Well, before we yield to that cry, let us find out how easy It Is now. 1 have looked over the laws of all the states, and I find that while In some states it Is easier than In others, In every state it la easy. The state of Illinois, through Its legislature, recites a long list of proper causes for dtvoroe, and then closes up by giving to the courts the right to make a decree of divorce In any case where they deem It expeii.ent. After that you are not sur prised at the announcement that in one county of the state of Illinois, in one year, there were 833 divorces. If you want to know bow easy It Is. you have only to look over the records of the states. In Massachusetts. 600 divorcee In one year; In Maine, 478 In one year; In Connecticut, 401 divorces in one year; In the city of San Francisco, 333 divorces In one year; In New England. In one year, 2,113 divorces, and In twenty years In New England. 20,000. Is that not easy enough? If the same ratio continue, the ratio of multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of di vorce, we are not far from the time when our courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will have to prove against a man will be that be left his slippers In the mid dle of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a woman will be that her husband's overcoat was buttonless. Causes of divorce doubled In a few years, doubled In France, doubled In England, and doubled in the United States. To show how very easy It is, I have to tell you that In Western Re serve, Ohio, me proportion of divorces to marriages celebrated was In one year one to eleven; In Rhode Island, one to thirteen; in Vermont, one to fourteen. Is not that easy enough? I want you to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dissoluteness of society. Rome for 500 years bad not one case of divorce. Those were her days of glory and virtue. Then the reign of vice began, and divorce became epidemic. If you want to know how rapidly the empire went down, ask Gibbon. Do you know how the Reign of Terror was intro duced in France? By 20,000 cases of divorce in one year in Paris. What wo want In this country, and in all lands, is that divorce be made more and more difficult. Then people before they enter that relation will be persuaded that there will probably be no escape from it, except through the door of the sep ulchre. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation, until they are fully satisfied that it is best, and that it is right, and that it is happiest. Then we shall have no more marriages In fun. Then men and women will not enter the relation with the idea it is only a trial trip, and it they do not like 1* they can get out at the first land ing. Then this whole question will be tasen out of the frivolous into the tre mendous, and there will be no more joking about the blosoms in a bride's hair than about the cypress on a coffin. What we want, is that the congress of the United States move for the changing the national constitution so that a law can be passed which shall be uniform all over the country, and what shall be right in one state shall be right in all the states, and what Is wrong In one state will be wrong in all the stat3s. How is It now? If a party In the marriage relation geta dissatis fied, it is only necessary to move to another state to achieve liberation from the domestic tie, and divorce is effected so easily that the first one party knows of It is by seeing it in tbe newspaper that Rev. Dr. Somebody a few days or weeks afterward Intro duced Into a new marriage relation a member of the household who went off on a pleasure excursion to Newport or a business excursion to Chicago. Mar ried at the bride's house. No cards. There are states of ths union which practically put a premium upon the disintegration of the marriage relation, while there are other states, like the state of New York, which has the pre eminent idiocy of making marriage lawful at 12 and 14 years of age. The congi tss of the United States needs to move for a change of tbe na tional constitution, and then to ap point a committee—not made up of single gentlemen, but of men of fami lies, and their families In Washington —who shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, comprehensive uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hook to Oolden Oats. That will put an end to brokerages la marriage. That will send divorce lawyers Into & decent buslnesa. That will set peo ple agitated for meny yeare on the question of how they shall get away from each other to planning how they can adjust tbemselvea to the mure or leee unfavorable circumstances More dlAcult divorce will put aa eatoppal to a great eitent upon mar rings ee a financial speculation, i urn are men who go lato the reletioa Just as they go lato Wall stroet to purchase share* The female to he invited Into the partnership of wedloch la utterly unattractive, and la dlepoalttoa a sup preaeed Vesuvius Everybody haow* It. hut this maaculiae candidate for matrimonial order*, through the com mot rial ageacy or through the country record* Made oat how much eotate Is to he Inherited, sad he calculates li He Ihlnhe out how long It will be be fore the old men will die. and whether he ran stand the refractory temper eaill he does die. and thea he eaters the reletioa, fur he seye, "If | raaaot •lead It. thea through the divorce law I oil! hash out " That prove** la going aa all the llaie and men eater late the reletioa elihool ear morel pete etpte althout ear affertioa, sad It Is ed much e matter of etwvh •peculation ee aaythlag Ihet eu treeearteg yes • #»■!*> la t'atoa l*ne|g*. Wehaeh. end Delaware aid l<erkaonaaa Now, sap- . pose a man understood, as he ought to understand, that If he goes !nto that relation there is no possibility of bio getting out, or no probability, he wouUI be more slow to put his neck in the yoke. He should say to himself, "Rather than a Caribbean whirlwind with a whole fleet of shipping in Ite arms, give me a zephyr off fields of sunshine and gardens of peace.” Rigorous divorce law will also hinder women from the fatal mistake of mar rying men to reform them. If a yonng man, by 26 years of age or 30 years of age, have the habit of strong drink fixed on him, be le as certainly bound for a drunkard's grave as that a train starting out from Grand Central depot at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning la bound for Albany. The train may not reach Albany, for It may be thrown from the track. The young man may not reach a drunkard’s grave, for something may throw him off the Iron track of evil habit, but the probability Is that the train that starts tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will get there, and the probability Is that < the young man who has the habit of ! strong drink fixed on him before 36 or 30 years of age will arrive at a drunk ard's grave. 8he knows he drinks, al though he tries to hide it by chewing cloves. Everybody knows he drinks. Parenta warn, neighbors and friends warn. She will marry him; she will reform him. If she Is unsuccessful In the experiment, why then the dlvorcw law will emancipate her, because habit ual drunkenness is a cause for dlvorcw In Indiana. Kentucky, Florida, Con-1 nectlcut and nearly all the states. Bo the poor thing goes to the altar of , sacrifice. If you will show me the pov^ erty-struck streets In any city, I will show you the homes of the women who married men to reform them. In onw case out of ten thousand It may be a successful experiment. I never saw the successful experiment. Hut have a rigorous divorce law and that woman will say; “If I am affianced to that man It Is for life, and If now in the ardor of his young love, and 1 the prize to be won, he will not give up hla cups, when he has won the prize surely be will not give up his cups." And so that woman will say to the man; “Nor sir, you are already married to the club, and you are married to that evil habit, and so you are married twice, and you are a bigamist. Go!” — UNIQUE SCHEME. Hjr Wklcli • Clnw Man Made • Udaf by Eating Oysters. New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat: “I used to know a young man here who made a living by eating oysters,” said one of a little group about tbe coun ter of the Grunewald. “Ate them on* a wager, eh?” asked an Englishman in the party. "No,” replied the first speaker, “he bad a much better schema than that He would stroll into an oyster bar—you know how many there are In New Orleans—and order a dosen on tbe deep shell, always selecting a time when several customers were present. After swallowing two or three he”— “Two or three custom ers?” interrupted the Englishman. “Naw!” said the story-teller, frowning, “two or three oysters. After he put them away he would stop all of a sud den and feel in his mouth. ‘Look herel’ he would sing out to tbe bartender, ‘what kind of things do you keep la your oysters, anyhow? I've nearlyl broken a tooth!’ With tbat be wouldi take a beautiful big pearl from between bis lipe. Of course, there was no ques tioning the genuineness of a gem in tbat way, and everybody in the crowd would look envious. Some one wan morally certain to make a guees as to Its value. ‘Oh, well,’ the oyster-eater would say, '1 don’t knew anything about pearls, and I’d be glad to sell thin one for |6.‘ I don’t think he ever failed to make a trade on tbe spot, and as soon as he got tbe five in bis Inside pocket be would saunter out and work another bar. He used to find about) four pearls a week, and as long as ho kept It down to that game was per fectly safe. But be grew avaricious at last, and found so many that folks got suspicious and he considered it healthy to leave for another fishery. He bought the pearls by the gross from a house in New Jersey. They were very pretty pearls, and cost him about 6Vfc cents apiece net. I have one In a scarf-pin now. - wiUSlV - I Haw Tliay Hawardad Madam* »t»rU«f. Mad an* Antoinette Bterllng. tbs contralto alnger and evangelist. bad aa experience In tbe Bombay presidency, India, which Is aa quaint aa any af Kipling's tales of tbe hllla. flhe was campaigning with Pundlta Ramabal, and through her magnificent voice was drawing thousands of nattvee to her meetings. They had never teen that kind of a mlaaiunery before, sad bad never heard a voice like hern They were so pleased with her work that they eald to themselves "This la a foreign woman guru, and for fear of giving offense to us she has omitted to put her begging-bowl outside of her door for ua to put In the customary contributions ' la India, every guru or holy person carries a brans, wood or clay begging-bowl into which the de vout put mas email sum of money. Madame Marling walked out upon the veranda of her bungalow one morning sad there, to her a state men I, found two begging howto One, a Utils eng silk a law annas is It Islanded fur tfeft Pundlta and one aa saormuus affair, containing g handsome sum of an and and rupees far herself The saly •• p least Ion she could ever attract trues the servant sae this "Utils bowl— llille muney tor the little Pundlta with little cuke Big howl big money tor Mg Mtosshib with Mg votes ' Madsens dtsrllng sae use ef the yrmiyal speakers among the Aatert-aa women at the Internal Ion*, i couaetl recently beid to l-oodon The shift lees mna accuses * ~ring> as being Mind.