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Show Buying Up World's Treasures. Tho fad of American steel and other millionaires for pearl necklaces and tho scarcity of choice examples bring out tho fact that a largo part of tho present supply comes from tho hoards of oriental rulers. A dealer predicts tho approach of tho tlmo "when oven tho Indian rajah and tho Chinese mandarin man-darin will havo no moro pearls to offer." of-fer." In tho search for objects of "bigotry and vlrtuo" In which to Invest In-vest his superfluous millions, tho American collector has now progressed well-nigh around tho globe. Ho has ransacked Europe for artistic plunder, picking up old furniture nnd old folios nnd old portraits in England, old silver sil-ver nnd old Sevres and crown Jewels In Frnnce, old masters and old manuscripts man-uscripts in itnly, marbles In Oreeco nnd carpets worth a 1,000-sharo profit In Union Pacific from tho harems of sultans. Ho has now gone further afield as a bidder for the heirlooms of raj nh h |