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Show .CAN ALWAY8 TRUST CHINAMEN. Customa In Celtttlal Empire Have Made Dlahonesty Scarce, iljH "You soon learn In China that you can trust a Chinaman to carry through anything he agrees to do for you," says Samuel Morwln In Success. "When I reached T'al Yuan-fu t handed my Interprotor n Chlnote H draft for 1200 (Mexican), payablo to bearer, and told him to go to the bank and bring back tho monoy. I had known John a llttlo moro than a week, yot any ono who knows China will understand that I was running no appreciable risk. Tho individual Chinaman la simply a part of a family, tho family Is part of a neighborhood, tho neighborhood la part of a village or district, and so on. If John had disappeared with my monoy after HH cashing tho draft and attorward been v HH caught, punishment would havo ben "v-ewjfl swift and sevore. Very llkoly ho ' would havo lost his head. If tha au-thorttlcs au-thorttlcs had been unnblo to And John they would havo punished his HH family. Punlshmont would surely 'Bfl havo fallen on somebody." HH |