Qn the whole business is good and the cotton mills pecially well.
Workers in the mills are well paid and it is no uncommon fight to sco silk-clad labourers ing to work.
That people in Wasih, have money to spend and are spending it, indicated by the greatly. improved appearance of shop build. ings and the greater var of stock carried. Japanese goods do rot lie entirely idle, and seeing new Japanese articles in the houses of one's friends, one frequently hears the Inughing' explanation, "Oh well Chinese merchants pai for it be-the shops, and, despite the peril state of affairs in the surrounding country, the city itself seems happy and prosperous.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.