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Show THE WORLD'S MARKET. As the Israditei wnt down into Kgy pt a fter com when famine stalked abroad in all other laud?, so in these days of bloodshed and destruction nf property people from remote corners of th earih :re coming to the Fnited States in obtain their supplies. A year or more ago, at the tinip when business busi-ness w as more or led pn ralyzed in all the smaller count lies, a esse I loaded with the i-cantv products ,nf Greenland a rri ved in New York. The G r'enland-eri r'enland-eri had no money h nd t raded thdr products for wheat and flour under the barter svsteui of bvgone eeritnries. The si nnt ion iu nmdi countries hs changed for the better im e that time and the people of the frozen north are prospering prosper-ing as never before. Th- other day an Icelander vese nr-rived nr-rived in the prt of New York, said to be one of the first of su'h fdups lo i-it the j-liores of this countrv sincp the clay nf Fief Hip ,nc!-.y. who i-. thought to have landed at ( ape 'od about t lie ear limn. I'll like the ( I een landerH who came down to t rade heir products for when t nnd Mour, the Icelanders were provided wilh uionev wbh which to buy gnoiU in t lie Anietican inaikets. There were twenty-right twenty-right iiiej. liants aboard the vessel when .he docked, and the captain iu column colu-mn ml told th' -tory of the remarkable I ro pc i ity I hat has come to I ''e hind inc.- the outbreak of the l-hiropran war, aina.iiiglv hi(;h prices being re reived for the produel-i id' the bland, whuh now boasts of in i 1 1 Hum i e and ta 1 1 or union1;. A n nt h r r c vi donee of civilization civil-ization was a -drike of the I 'pdir rnia n 'h union, whi'di lasted all siiiniuei. Thr. leelaiideri have been finding with I i ' n ma i lv for juanv eenfurii's, luit tin' e-,-r now in port c,vircs to p;iej another ship from Keijavik on the return re-turn trip! The latter vessel is said to be loaded with fish, and it is i-nid , to be tho intention of the dwellers in the far north to establish a regular trade with the United States. The trade of Iceland mny.be a comparatively comparative-ly small matter in these dfvys of huge contracts for munitions of war, but ! nevertheless it is worth looking after, j I The struggle in Europe will not last j j forever and we should strengthen the j i commercial bonds with all lit tie conn- ' i tries while we have the opurtunity. W'c : can hold a fair share' of the trade of I the world if we set about it in the right manner and protect our home industries in-dustries at the same time. |