Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — Selling Money a Business In China. [ARTICLE]

Selling Money a Business In China.

In China dealing in money is a business, one of the flourishing industries of the country, says World Outlook. There are shops that deal in nothing e l se —money exchange shops. You will find one in nearly every twisted little street In every city, often merely little holes in the wall, where a skull-capped proprietor sits behind a brass railing with little piles of money on each side of him and swiftly fingers his counting board. Here you go shopping for money, just as you go for white flannel, suits, eggs, green jade djpd Canton silk—and you bargain J ust g s I ® n « and just as hard in the oblique and devious ways of the Orient A, na " tional currency system there is not The coins, like the dialects, change as you go from city to city.