Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1920 — STATION AGENT WAS RIGHT [ARTICLE]

STATION AGENT WAS RIGHT

Negro Messenger at Least Learnsd • Something of More or Less Importance to Sehator. A southern senator, whose home is In the country some two miles from the railway, received a telegram which indicated the need for his Immediate presence in a nearby city. The train schedule had been recently changed, and the telephone was not working, so a negro was sent to find out when a train would pass the station. It was three hours later when the negro shambled into the yard. “Where have you been, you black rascal? Does it take three hours to ask when ,a train, will be due?" th® fuming senator demanded. f “Now. Marse Henry,” the negro protested, “yo’ know hit don’ take no three hours ter ax vfhen er train gwine pass by. But, Marse Henry, Ah done hear yo’ say yo’se’f dat dat station agent am a liar an* yo’ can’t take his word for nuffin’, so when b® tol’ me, Ah didn’t pay no ’tention, but des’ stayed to see fer myse’f. An’ for once In his life dat man tol’ de truf —dat ole train sho did come rollin’ by des when he said she would!"