Next they jumped upon certain 20-cent pieces, and one had to examine each coin to see if it had or had not a minute additional click on one of the Chinese characters. Clicks, too, went out of fashion after a while, but the company was not long in finding something else with which to cause annoyance. A ban was placed on certain 10-cent and 20-cent pieces. The 10-cent pieces fare easily identified; all bearing the effigy of Yuan Shih-kai are rejected, What is wrong with the longer coins no one knows, outside the Tramw: Company. Their conductors, asa matter of habit, refuse nine out of every ten, with no further explain tion than that they are "bless, which they are not. Like the flag coppers, loth the i0-cent and 20- cent pieces are acceptable anywhere! else, and by companies which do not pay anything like a 12 per cent. dividend. On the trams, one is) only safe in tendering paper money, in which case the traveller, loses considerably on exchange, and it is safe suggestion that the notes are not turned in to the Company by the conductors, nor the small silver either. If so, one wonders why they ave never given in change, why' they are always most carefully tucked away in inner pockets, and conductors make frenzied exchange shops]
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