Show CAN ALWAYS TRUST custom customs in celestial empire hav have made dishonesty scarce q you soon learn in china that you can trust a chinaman to carry through lb anything he agrees to do for you says samuel merwin in success when I 1 reached T tal at yuan fu I 1 handed 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 Is simply a part of a family the family Is part of 0 a neighborhood the neighborhood Is part of a village or district 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 ha he would have lost his head it if the au les ties had been unable to find john they would have punished his family punishment would surely have fallen on somebody |