Show CAN ALWAYS TRUST customs in celestial empire have made dishonesty scarce you soon learn in china that you car trust a chinaman to carry through anything he agrees to do for you says saya samuel merwin in success when I 1 reached tal yuan fu I 1 banded my interpreter a chinese draft for mexican payable to bearer and told him to go to the bank and bring back the money I 1 had known john a little more than a week yet any one who knows china will understand that I 1 was running no appreciable risk the individual chinaman la Is simply a part of a family the family la Is part of a neighborhood the neighborhood la Is part of a village or district aud and so on it if john had disappeared with my money after cashing the draft and afterward been caught punishment would have been swift and severe very likely lie he would have lost his head if the authorities thorl ties had been unable to find john they would have punished his bis family punishment would surely have bavo fallen on somebody |