Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1900 — Rule Worked Both Ways. [ARTICLE]

Rule Worked Both Ways.

A commercial traveler who was detained the other night at a little wayside Welsh junction had gone into the waiting room and was enjoying a cigar, when a porter entered, relates the Cardiff Western Mail. The traveler pointed to a printed notice overhead, “Smoking Is Strictly Prohibited,” remarked insinuatingly: “1 ’spose this rule is not strictly enforced?” “Oh, no, sir,” was the confidential response, “nor the one underneath.” The commercial man looked where the porter pointed and read: “Railway servants are not allowed to receive gratuities.”’