Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — Henry George and the Porter. [ARTICLE]

Henry George and the Porter.

Henry George was traveling once on a sleeping car. The porter came to brush the dust off him and “work” him for the customary quarter. There were but few passengers. George reflected on the fact that Pullman paid his poor black hireling little or naught, and relied on his ability to brush aud gouge the public instead, and he determined to give him all the change he found in his pocket. He thought there might be about 60 cents, but there actually was $3 in quarters, halves and dimes. He gave it all to the darky, who dropped bis broom and stared at the tip and then at George. “This all fo’ me, boss?” he grasped. "“It’s all for you,” replied George. The darky looked at the little, rusty, modest man and again at his handful of silver. “Wow!” he ejaculated; “it’s true as de Good Book puts it, you nevah cain tell how fah a toad kin Jump twell you sees him hop.”