Foreiga and native cloth are now almost impossible on, the street. have a very fine Tibetan woollen material that comes from the interior, {ts prleo used to be $l a full stretch from finger to finger. about six fect it the prospective buyer stuck out his. chest. Ten national "currency Paper dollars only smile flow at this ehest_ movement and the woollen material will only relax when the dollars number twenty." To suggest that the price of things is now very high ts only inviting trouble, Pu ther if you don't buy then some other body will, 'The Chinese "merchant. tone' of the most amiable human bbelngs of God's earth, now refuses to talk price. The market value has become fixed: take It or leave It.
Naturally the price of labour has followed food-stuffs or the price of food-stuts has followed labour, or: they may be following each othe The price for a two-man chair, known as a hua gan, is §278 for the distance of eight days to Yachow. The fact that the new highway has groatly reduced the distance between the stages makes no difference. The new road has reduced the distance between this elly and Wasi to. wen mulles and from Wasl to Zamka to afteen miles yet they are both sti reckoned as full stages and charged accordingly. A chair coolie declares that he cannot live on The local yak skinners guild is Juxurlating in the present high out E sale of them. The boxes smell for a Sab ry BT tale An egg seller appeared at the back Ripa at ha fea cies a as 2 Seat fern tice
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