Show DIGNITY DOWNED the deserved of a barlor car porter it was on the houston texas central railroad a few days ago says the st louis globe democrat when at vile the little town of richardson on the up upper er end of the line two ladies boarded boarded the train and by some mistake were ushered into the pullman car that they were ladies their neat and quiet apparel with their modest refined I 1 faces clearly showed though their old fashioned inexpensive indeed cheap style of dress indicated that they were in indigent circumstances my lord in the brass buttons sallied up to them and finding out the mistake that led to their being in that instead of the day coach begun began to show off his majestic powers of insolence ile he did not notice a gentleman who had boarded the train at the same station and who stood quietly observing the scene from the door of the car this gentleman now advanced saying ile be seated ladies until we reach the next town when you can easily enter the other car then beckoning to the conductor lie he added stop step the train L here captain asked the conductor yes here there was a pull of the bell rope the train stopped and the porter was ejected from the car the captain saying to him now walk the fifteen miles to dallas and study politeness as you yon trudge along you are ara no longer in our employ 11 there w were ere a r hower shower of ex postulations pleas for pardon and a shake or two of the fist at the fast vanishing train but it vanished for all that the gentleman who had set him the lesson was a high official of the road |