Show EQUAL TO AMERICANS itow now servants Ber rante in the XIon non collan empire aleke make extra money tho the chenow squeeze ie Is not exactly tho the hug of affection nor tho the close grasp of hands joined in friendship it ie is a commercial term torm nad and refers to a pressure exerted upon money in any form by tho the fingol of every man through whose hands it may pass a and to whom it does not belong bolong a pressure pros suro which causes a portion of tho the money to remain in hia his possession it la is tho the x in tho the alge algebraic brato formula of every purchase you mako make tho the value of which you can never discover dieco vcr tho be problem ie Is something liko thie this if my cook buys ten pounds of beef and charges me 22 12 cents a pound for it I 1 iw much olm it cost him and what Is tho the amount of hie his squeeze or perhaps it toko anothy form somewhat lilo the following if I 1 go to a batore aud and buy ton ten yarda yards of bilk ellic which I 1 bring homo home under my coat when whon my ray butler discovers tho the fact of tho me purchase so and goes to tho the storo store how largo large a squeeze dood dora ho he extort from iho tho merchant again perhaps it takes another form and reads as follows 1 I seat 0 5 tho the other day to a chinese woman who ie is very poor how much did old tho the servant who carried my ray gift actually hand to her and how much did ho he keep as a squeeze tho the sufferers by this system call it stealing whilo while those who practice it regard it as a sort of commission tho the chinese in their dea dealing linge with ono another all buffer suffer from it and all practice it tho the system is as old as the emr empire re and is bald said to bevo had ito its origin ill fit an ancient custo which household servants were paid no regu lar ages but received food ono ault suit of clothes a ear and in addition a sum of money raised in this a from tho the price paid for every article orti cio of whatever eort sort used in tho the family tho the gato keeper or porter retains ono one piece of I 1 cash in overy every fifty at the end of each year tho the sum was distributed among tho the servants in proportion to too their positions in ia tho the service of tho the family |