Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . his indifferent shopkeeper is notshrewd at a bargain. American though you may be, withgenerations of bargaining blood in your veins, he is a matchfor you. Look out for him if you have any transactions tomake, for his code of morals does not demand any fine de-gree of scrupulosity. He will not cheat you very much, buta little sharp practice he will regard quite within the estab-lished limits of legitimate trade. In fact, petty peculation issuch a recognized custom, that if a servant does not steal
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . his indifferent shopkeeper is notshrewd at a bargain. American though you may be, withgenerations of bargaining blood in your veins, he is a matchfor you. Look out for him if you have any transactions tomake, for his code of morals does not demand any fine de-gree of scrupulosity. He will not cheat you very much, buta little sharp practice he will regard quite within the estab-lished limits of legitimate trade. In fact, petty peculation issuch a recognized custom, that if a servant does not stealmore than a certain per cent, of his masters substance, heis never even threatened with the law. A NOVEL PLEA. 263 I was told that a certain master, new to the country,having detected his servant in a small dishonesty, broughthim before the court. Whereupon the servant admitted hisguilt but claimed and proved that his peculations had notamounted to more than fifteen per cent, of his wages. Uponthis astounding plea of comparative innocence, the judgefully acquitted him without even a A CHINESE KICE MILL. As we continue our walk through Shanghai, we come toa millers establishment next door to our provision are a dozen men working in a treadmill, which raises,as thev tread their monotonous round, a row of hu^e mal-lets. These mallets, poised high in air, descend into a stonewell, partly filled with unhusked rice or paddy. After beingpounded by these mallets for a sufficient time, the grain isseparated from the chaff and is then taken out and winnowedby hand. There are other kinds of rice mills, but even the 264 HOW PAPER IS MADE IN CHINA. commonest processes are yet very primitive in this greatempire of the East. All China seems to furnish an example of arrested devel-opment. Before any other nation, doubtless, China usedpaper and gunpowder, movable types, and the marinerscompass, but she has never improved upon her first roughdraughts. As she made these ar
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