The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-10-18
AN HONEST PORTER.
He Heiped Himself 20 n TIP Of Ten
Dollars for Being Aecommoda-
ting and Honest,

'P-eNae'ihs iniii''nn cur Por-
'ers are the recipients OF a good
many KNOCKS from press ana pnDnc'
ou' .ney are not the. worst IN tne
world remarked a eominerciai traV-
's 10 washington star man
ihey may have pretty herce way
Oh urlIling tor tips put when u comes
70 the mhtter OF honesty l kiow one
ol them mats there with the goods'
as the saying goes.
u left San Francisco, or, rather
on The Santa re line tor
Chicago at o'clock in the evening
a couple OF weeks ago last sunday.
The gang that | met IN Frisco had
been rather too enthusiastic IN glv-'
ing me a good time OF 1t out there
on the day of my departure, so that
when ] woke up on the train along
toward 7 o'clock the next morning
the sleeper bunk felt pretty warm
and my eoppers whole lot warmer.
The nearest. in facts the first stop
at which would have chance to NIX
those hot coppers out was Mojaye,
and so ! hustled into my clothes 70
be ready to hop off the train during
the stop at Mojaye Tor one Of those
katzenjammer allevintors.
Il asked the Pullman conductor
how long the train would stop at
Mojave, and he replied that the stop
would last ten minutes. ] raced into
the station cafe when the train
pulled into Mojave, and instructed
the man in charge OF the bar to rig
me up one of those long. long damp
things. He went at the job In pref
ty scientific manner, and the piece OF
wet work that he set before me was
a rare thing to find right alongside
of the California desert. 1t was such
a fine and effective creation, in fact.
that asked him 10 frame up an
other one, and got away with this
with equal joy. Then leisurely
strolled to the door to take look
at my train-and saw the END OF "
curling away in the raretied distance
on its way toward the land OF the
rising sun. 1t had pulled out without
notifying me. hustied mtg .ne
ticket Office to ask the man IN the
window when ia pc able 70 corral
another eastbound tram, ana ne said
that It 'ud pc along AZ Q O'Clock 'ne
next mornlng-tne mate 10 tne Tram
that had departed without me- lhere
vas c'' lone OF the overland eN-
re rs = diem. so mere saw my
sel st n MoJave, 'ai.' the most
mi y little sand d'fne on the
& :. a full twentv-1onr hours
at wasn't the worst OF ~,
! 70 i'ft my GLADSTONE Dag Wiut
n ny bunk with my wearing
thrown around the section
e. shich way, ana IN the oag !
Z ced, on the hlgn. 'eioie. Psoo
com, me STUN peihs ~
e.. 70 carry aIouiiu ~ my p''As e
vi ny comfort.
We got chance OF getting tRe
bai Jack, said TO myself ,but Wha1
TIL lack porter'H do TO those S1Vu
in ~ money VIII be somethlng
sv -pDingly scandaiQns.
had no idea son earth that "a
e r see dollar Of that money.
f lred it all out that the porter
sid corral the money any tnsh
uf, my wearing apparel into the
'% and hand u over 70 Ihe cohu"ct-
:. ] knew then | wouldn't De aDie
20 prove any such fact that ! mac
200 in gold money IN the Dag. ana
! gave it up for gone. l told me
station agent at MolaVe ABOUT INC
ag, and ne Immediately telegrapnen
to the next station 70 pc MADE by
my lost train along the Inc. q pace
called Barstow, y. Mex. directine
that the bag be shlpped pack 10 MO-
jave on the west-bound overland.
''The bag was returned to Moiave
on the west-bound late that night
and / eagerly opened it up to see
what l had left in the bag Every
thing was there, including the stack
of gold money. | counted the gold
roll, and it amounted to an even Sl9O
The porter, felt certain, had appro'
priated Just one OF the $40 gold pieces
to compensate him for his trouble
in packing the bag, and ! afterward
found out that ! was right in this
supposition.
at caught the train east on the fol.
lowing morning, and when got to
Kansas City I got off to take BIZ
o; a resM at hotel. AS I was get.
t fnat S had left t' l it without me- i,