, 1876-04-30
A SAINTED HINDOO.
"Reminiscences of His Career.

| Philadelphia RHtktn.
The following memorial comes to us from
writer in the interior Of the State. We do no
| precisely like his u1ethoE OF speaking OF trasi,
| things, but the facts supplied by tha narrativ.
are interesting. it not instructive:
You may have noticed in the papers tha
] Beluchlus misunderstanding Was mortal
| wounded the other day by the Nawab OF Dada il
| Ahmeddnugger.
Aud thus another one of tho earth's great an,
noble ones passes away. I Kuew him we'll;
refer to Boluchus JamButtacheebhoy, Of course
| lie was in some respects q worry remarkable man
| even for a Hindoo. / remember that in bl
| earlier years bis mind assumed somewhat of ,
] devotional cast; and in the first impulse of h
religions fervor be undertook to give lis fool
! 1nss expression by standing upon one leg to1
| sixty-seyen years. After he had held that other
| leg in the alr for about thrty-rwo months, how
ever. hls views underwent change and he con.
cluded to put it down. 1t seems but yesterday
that he cameto me and said that after turning the
Matter over in his mind. it struck him as some
what absurd for mai to hope 20 secure eternal
felicity by holding up his toes, and that he was
now convinced that ii be hoped to get into the
path Of duty he should have to engage in the
work OF pitching babies to rhe sacred croco-
diles.
Z work as Bcluchius did to this. To soc that
saintly Hlndoo tako baby aod chuck at hun
CRY crocodile, Mas to have your respect for mall
Find increased. He vas an unusually couscien-
tious man, and he never caused the animals any
unnecessary annoyance. When one OF them would
prop Its jaws open Beluchius would take any odd
twins that he had in his collection aud heaye them
into the animals mouth with q precision that
was little less than marvellous. He acquired
du1terity BY pracsicing With q rag-baby on q
stuffed alligator, and it was comfort to see the
good man going through his exercise with that
ecrupulous fidelity whlch always distinguished
him.
But he wearied of 1t at last. He told me that
his sou! cravod something which would develop
his higher powers. and 80 he joined tho Thugs.
Here the same lofty devotion to outy character
lied his conduct. He had q way Of ga1roting
man which brought all the instincts Of his better
nature into play, and his friends never could
sufficiently admire the artistic manner in which
he d,Hposed of the various members Of h1s
family. It was not go much that he Drained
boomerang, although that was spoken OF at the
time as something 3 little above the average,
and it Was not that he choked OF his grand
mother by slipping the clothes-lina over her
head and Tightening it BY f1,pg bis grandfather
to the other end and dropping him out OF the
window. But when he pinned bis aunt to tho
cel1ar-door with the toasting fork, and drove the
cook through the roof by putting blasting
powder IN tue stove. people said that the mans
SERVICES we're entitled to some kind OF recogni-
tlon over and above what be deserved for put
ting bis little brothers and sisters in the well
and then dropping gstndatones On them.
There WAS something about the man that
warmed the heart toward him. After he resigned
from the Thugs. he found relef for his yearn-
ing after truth by exercising upon the sacred
swing. Often have seen him run the iron
hook through the small OF his back or through
the calf OF his leg, and go humming round and
round, scolding the man at the crank for turning
10 slow; and then be would come down and run
the car of Juggernaut over the ribs Of 800
Or 400 common people, and scrunch them up,
Ind 60 homo feeling all the time that he hadn't
done anything near his duty, and wasn't half
good enough to associate with thoroughly moral
oeopla.
But it is all over now. The ailigators may 70
hungry now a8 far as he is concerned. Who wlll |
20 prowling around picking up stray babies for |
hem now? Who will butcher superhuous people /
Q the hearty fashion he used to be 80 fond of? |
Who will make slip-nooses OF clothes-liuea and !
uspend old people out of the Windows and
noot unnecessary cooks out through tue shin
ies and up toward the stars? Nobody about t
any WAY. One town can't very |
fel grow more than one such man "a he And
oW that bis simple, and modest, aud unp1etend-
ag life ia ended, I offer him this little teati-
lonlal OF my esteem, and sigh to think what
Inn be would have been to our little community
here tho coroner might have followed him up
nd held about fifteen inauests day, and where
Q would have given the undertaking business
d impulse that won|d have put 1t right upon its
set, aud enabled soma Of Us TO get up corners
coffina.