| to remain in tlie carpets (or nix Month# at a time, wuiieiimes longer, is a dirtier custom at ill, and one which the Japanese do not have.They have law# which arc rigid, and punishments which are severe, bat good men do not fear them. They are bon-1, eat, too. The head of one of the largest house* here in Yokohama told ine that in hia business experience of many years, 1 trading exclusively with the Japanese, 1 he had only known of one failure, amt I that occurred recently, and was caused by the merchant being compelled to receive goods on contract after currency had depreciated, so as to tnake a large Ion to him. Contracts iur many goods have tube made considerably in advance, and the failure was legitimate. They may learu, however, in time, to fail more frequently, and more closely imitate us.1 do not say that thers baa beeu only one failure, but only one in the business ex jierienee of a bouse which has sold many â– pillion dollars' worth of goods.