Show CAN ALWAYS TRUST customs in celestial empire have made dishonesty scarce you soon learn in china that you can trust a chinaman to carry through anything he agrees to do for you says samuel merwin in success when I 1 reached at yuan fu I 1 handed my interpreter a chinese draft for mexican payable to bearer and told him to eo to the bank and bring back the money I 1 had known john a little more than a week ye any one who knows china will understand that I 1 was running no appreciable ilsk the individual chinaman Is simply a part of a family the family Is part of a neighborhood the neighborhood Is part of a tillage or district and so on it john bad disappeared with my money after cashing the draft and afterward been caught punishment would have been swift an I 1 severe very likely he would have lost his head if the au lea had been unable to fand john they would have hi family punishment would surely have fallen on somebody |