A batch of 50 young men, ranging from 16 to 17 years of age, arrived the other day from Hank by the Tatung. to gv to the Shanghai Cotton Cloth Mill, where they are to receive instruction and learn to wunipulate the machinery, During their apprentice period here, each lad is to receive $1.00 perm and as soon they becouie accomplished operatives, they will go to the Wucl Mill, where they will get fom $7 to $10 per mouth, Che thirty nds who came last winter have returned home,
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