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Trade and commerce--The only strictly Roumanian shops belong to Princes--No English shops, though they would be welcomed--English catalogues unintelligible--An English firm and its “standard” colour--A successful English factory--The labour question, saints’ days and names-days--German factories--Beer taxed in the interests of wine--Sugar and cheese factories--Sheep-milking--Petroleum wells in Roumania--An influx of Americans--Rockefeller’s agent, Mr Chamberlain, and his family--How a man of gipsy origin “struck oil” and became a millionaire--Paper-mills and coal-mines.