One visits a mercantile office where a number of men are working at different desks in a large room, and marvels at the quiet and systematic manner in which they perform their tasks; or one goes to a big bank and is amazed at the large number of customers ever going in and coming out.

It is difficult to calculate the enormous amount of business transacted every hour, yet all is done with perfect organization and a proper division of labor, so that any information required is furnished by the manager or by a clerk, at a moment's notice.

I have often been in these places, and the calm, quiet, earnest way in which the employees performed their tasks was beyond praise.

It showed that the heads who organized and were directing the institutions had a firm grasp of multiplex details.
We Chinese have a reputation for being good business men.

When in business on our own account, or in partnership with a few friends, we succeed marvelously well; but we have yet much to learn regarding large concerns such as corporations or joint stock companies.