The Faithful Chinese Servant
A FRIEND of the Spectator sends him the following little incident, which is derived directly from the wife of the captain concerned, and therefore may be trusted as not apocryphal: "When the Ashuelot went down, off the Chinese coast, the captain had a servant who, while all were rushing on deck, coolly went back to the captain's room, put up two suits of clothing in a bag, came up on deck, tossed the bag down into the last boat, and quietly stood by the captain, who was the last to leave the vessel, and jumped overboard with him as the vessel went down. Captain and servant were taken into the boat and all rowed for the light-house; some of the officers were only in their night-clothes, and all of them saturated to the skin. As they stood round a fire of some sort, the servant quietly stepped up to the captain, and asked, 'Would you not like to put on a dry suit of clothing?' The captain looked up in astonishment, when the boy opened the door of the next room, and the captain saw, to his amazement, two suits of his own clothing spread out upon a bed." And this boy was a "heathen Chinee."—Christian Union.