The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-02

THE SALT LAX e He
rs travelling servants, and when you have
the luck to chance on reasonably sober
fellow, no better servant can be found
anywhere. Being Christian he has no
caste. and has no religious scruples pre-
venting him from wiping your razor after
you have shaved. or from eating his din
ner after your shadow has happened to
fall across the table.
SERVANTS CLUB.
In Bombay there is regular club or
society of those Goanese travelling SER
wants, ana when the transient wayfarer
lands III that city from the Peninsular ard
Oriental mail boat, one of the first things
he is advised to do is to send round to the
Goa club' and desire the secretary to
send him 8 travelling servant.
The RESULT is a lottery. The man ar
rives-mostly good looking fellow, tall
and slight, Of very dark olive complexion,
with smooth, glossy hair, large soft eyes,
and well cut features. He produces a
packet of chafed and dingy testi-
monials of character from previous
employers, all full OF commentator,
and not one of which is worth the
paper it is written on, because the good
SOAD
OF heart to speak his mind on paper. If
by chance stern and ruthless person has
characterized Bartolomeo de Braganza as
drunken, lazy and dishonest, Bartolomeo,
who has learnt to read English, promptly
destroys the ''chit, and the stern man s
object is thus frustrated.
But you must take the Goa man as he
comes, for it is law OF the society that
lis members are offered in strict success
sion, and that no picking and choosing is
to be allowed.
G. p. HENTY's LUCK.
When with the Prince Of Wales, during
his tour in India, the man who fell to me
good, steady, honest Francis-was
simply a dusky jewel. My comrade, Mr..
Henty, the well-known author OF so
me because Domingo, his man. seemed
more spry than did my Francis. But
Francis had often to attend on Henty Us
we'll az on myself, when Domingo the
quick witted was lying blind drunk at
the back of the tent, and once and again
have seen Henty carrying down on his
back to the departing train the uncon-
scious servant on whom at the beginning
he had congratulated himself.
in the summer of 1878 Shere Ali, the old
Ameer of Afghanistan, took it into his
head to pick quarrel with the Viceroy OF
British India. Lord Lytton was always
spelling for fight himself, and thus
IL ere was every prospect OF a lively little
war.
Ii war should occur. it was my duty to
be in the thick OF it, and | reached Bonn
bay well in time 20 see the opening of the
campaign.
Knowing the ropes, within an hour of
landing / sent to the "Goa club'' for a
servant, begging that If possible might
have worthy Francis, who had fully sat
is6ed me during the tour of the prince.
Francis was not available, and there was
sent me q tall, prepossessing- looking
young man who presented himself as
John ASSISTS de Compostella de Crucis, -
but was quite content to answer to the
Hname OF John.
CURED JOHN OF PUDDING.
John seemed capable man, but was
occasionally muzzy. After visiting Silma,
the headquarters of the viceroy, started
for the 1rontier where the army was mus
tering. On the way down l spent a
couple of days at Umballa to buy kit
and saddlery. The train by which / was
going to travel up country was due at
UmbalIa about midnight. | instructed
John to have everything at the depot i'll
good time, and went to dine at the mess
of the carbineers.
In due time / reached the station, ac-
companied by several officers of that fine
regiment. The train was at the platform,
my belongings l found in a cheotie heap,
crowned oy John fast asleep, who, when
awakened, proved to be extremely drunk.
| could not dispense with the man; | had
to cure him. There was but one chance
of doing this. I gave him then and there
a severe beating. A fatigue of carbineers
pitched my kit into the baggage car, and
threw John uafter it.
Next day he was sore but penitent. He
was redeemed without resorting to the
chloride of gold cure, and in his case at
least | was quite as successful pract1-
t1oner as any Doctor Kelley could have
been. John de Compostella. ETC., was a
dead sober man during my subsequent
experiences of him. at least till close on
the time we parted.
JOHN IN THE BLOODY PASSES.
And once cured OF fuddling. he turned
out a most worthy and efficient fellow
He lacked dash, but was as true as
steel In the attack on Ali Music IN
the throat of the Khyber pass, the ma
behind me, became demoraljzed by the
rather heavy fire of big cannon balls
from the fort and skulked to the rear
with the horse. John had no call to come
under fire, since the groom was specially
paid for doing so; but abusing the latter
for a coward in the expressive vernacular
OF India, he laid hold of the reins and
was up rightat my back just as the close
musketry fighting began. He took his
chances through it manfully, had my
pack pony up within half an hour after
the fighting was over, and before the
darkness fell had cooked a capital little
dinner for myself and comrade whose
commissariat had gone astray.
Next morning the fort was found eVac-
uated. / determined TO ride back down
the pass to the feld-telegraph post at its
mouth. The general wrote in my note
book a telegram announcing the good
naNvs to the commander in chief, and