Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1890 — A Porter Who Sees the Seamy Sidee. [ARTICLE]

A Porter Who Sees the Seamy Sidee.

“It was dat bald-headed ole man wid de ysller chin-whiskers,” said the colored porter of the Pullman 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 ole wretch wot guv me fo’ cents. Hrfs gwine to git off at Ro’way, and I see’d him dallvin’ wid seben quo’ters a few minutes ago and done Rib him a harf-dollar brush. 'Deed I did. Brushed his hat and coat and scratched nine mud spots off his obercoat, and den he pulls out dem fo' cents and says,he: ‘Sorr y, po’ter, I ain’t got no more change. 1 I kin tell you,” added the porter with a soul- • Weary 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 nulf to get it squashed.” And then, says the New York Tribune, with the air of a man whose reward is pot in this world, the saddened porter went back into the car and told a little man with red whiskers to stand up and be brushed.