The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-14

house one afternoon, was informed that
andah. My host congratulated me on
having had secured for me the services of
a paragon of body servants. "Samueli"
II never knew whether he had any other
name-it appeared was an elder of this
native congregation, and was guaranteed
by his pastor as a person of the highest
character.
1 stepped out on the verandah. There
salaamed before me an extremely black
individual clad in spotless ''white samite''
from turban to socks. He was quite ga
study In black and white, aud he ex-
hailed an odor of musk, family mingled
with the scent of alcohol.
From the first l cannot say liked him,
because he was too profound sycophant;
but he certainly was dexterous and will
ing servant, although the alcoholic odor
behaved to admiration while | remained
in Calcutta, nor had I any fault to find
with him until reached Durbunsgah, the
center of the system of famine relief.
The people among whom was living
there very frankly told me that "native
Christian and "bad servant" were
synonymous terms, and that none OF
them would have a servant OF that sort if
he volunteered to work without wages.
QlO IlOU see WHY On RcucIdl Il
Christian should be any worse a servant
than heather; indeed, it seemed difficult
to understand why he should not be a
better man. So for quite awhile l con-
tinued to believe in my Samuel, notwlth-
standing sundry suspicious circum
stances. Then | could not help but
slowly find him out; and in course of
time al the glaze and whitewash came
off, and / was forced to own to myself
H. ! H. ,ko1
immaculate and held up to me as COM
pendulum OF all the virtues, was in reality
drunken dog.
SAMUEL S SUNDAY OFF.
Sydney Smith said OF Macauly that he
had occasional CLASHES of silenoe.' My
man Samuel, to give him his due, had
flashes of sobriety. The famine relief
work was at first the reverse of vigorous,
and the starving natives of Tirhoot were
dying so fast that resolved to run down
10 Calcutta to see the viceroy and impress
upon him the urgent need Tor more active
measures of relief.
Reaching, Calcutta on Saturday and
intending TO leeve again on the following
Monday, l gave Samuel the intervening
Sunday all to himself, telling him he
might spend it as he chose SO long as he
turned up sober and punctual on the
Monday morning.
| had never seen a native Christian
congregation, and Sunday forenoon |
attended worship in the Presbyterian
church OF which Samuel had been de-
scribed to me as shining light.
There my man was, in full feather,
wearing an aspect of subdued self-im-
portance as he sat with his brethren in
''the elders pew.' Throughout the long
services his devoutuess was conspicuous,
n f11o Of iaH h
CO. operated in taking up the collection,
was edifying in the extreme.
Early next morning Samuel was duly on
hand, perfectly sober ana beaming radi-
antly. He explained that he had attend
ed no fewer than three services on the
previous day, had participated in a tenn
perance Glove feast, - and had taken TIE
plet g..
" ZEN late on the same day the tram
reached Benares, where | had to transfer.
found Samuel on the floor of third
class carriage, in q state of drunken
stupor.
After this Samuel slid down very fast
he neglected himself and me; he was con-
tinually redolent of the abominable spirit
of the native bazar, compared with which
forty-rod whisk is harmless and even be-
nign; he muddled his accounts, and
when l wanted him, Instead of his
prompt appearance to my Anglo-lndian
shout OF 'tQui Hye," he had to be
searched for, with the result of being
found lying drunk In some sequestered
corner.
Up IN Tirhoot | could not find sub
stitute for him, and had no alternative
but to endure the fellow, although l had
come to loathe him from my heart.
WHY SAMUEL REMAINED BEHIND AT
TIRHooT.
AT last he became so degraded and Of
fensive that one night l told HIM, if /
found him drunk again | would discharge
him on the spot. He abjectly promised
and before he left the room
l ordered him to call me at certain hour
in the morning.
He die not do so; he was nowhere to be
found; and it was not until midday that
he presented himself, unclean, insolent,