Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — A Porter Who Sees the Seamy Side. [ARTICLE]

A Porter Who Sees the Seamy Side.

“It was dat bald-headed ole man wid de yaller chin-whiskers,” said the colored porter of the i’ullman car with regretful cadence as he leaned against the water cooler and fanned his heated brow with a soiled towel. “What was?” asked a sympathetic passenger. “De ol« wretch wot guv me fo 1 cents. He’s gwine to git off at Ro’way, and I see’d him dally in’ wid seben quo’ters a few minutes ago and done gib him a harf-dollar brush. ’Deed I did. Brushed his hat and coat and scratched nine mud spots off his oberooat, and den he pulls out dem fo’ cents and says he: ‘Sorry, po’ter, I ain’t got no more change.’ I kin tell you,” added the porter with a soulweary look, “dey talk about de po’ters, but we all cert’nally sees de seamy side. Yo’ git yo’ hope ’way up and youse gwine shore nut! to get it squashed.” And then, says the New York Tribune, with the air of a man whose reward is uot in this world, the saddened porter went back Into the ear and told a little mar , 1 whV.rers t'jtLv.u.; tip and be v 18$. • »