Show CAN ALWAYS TRUST 1 customs in celestial empire have made dishonesty scarce 4 you soon boon learn in china that you jean can trust a chinaman to carry through anything he arraes to do for ayou you says samuel merwin in success when I 1 reached tal ani yuan fu I 1 handed my interpreter a chinese draft for ZOO Alex mexican ican payable to jbea and told him to go to the bank and bring back the money I 1 iad had known john a little more than a wook yet any one who knows china will understand that I 1 was running no appreciable risk the individual il Chi la Is simply a part of a family tho aho family is part of a neighborhood the neighborhood Is part of a village or district and so on if john hail had disappeared with my money mancy after cashing the draft and afterward been caught punishment would have been swift and severe very likely h he would havo have lost ills his head it if tho the au all leB les had been unable to find john they would have punished hla his fa family nilly punishment surely havo have fallen on somebody |