Show ONE OF PORTERS PORTER S SPEECHES the gera bay says it ii Is amone 4 sov 80 it hut 11 lie true one of the youngest looking men of 0 his years in public life la Is gen horac horace porter our ambassador to france says the philadelphia saturday post in spite of his incessant activity gen porter while the head bead in new york ot at the pullman palace car corn cont pany was among the most accessible of men lie ile always seemed to hare have plenty at 0 leisure time one day a reporter was rent sent to him to collect some after dinner stories bad had never before been printed and never bare have been printed up to the present time the general laid aside bis his correspondence and entered whole beart heartedly edly into his caller a mission I 1 dont know said he that I 1 can tell you any new gory of mine but I 1 will tell you what I 1 regard as my best piece of repartee at least it was th the most enthusiastically received it wa was at a big banquet the chairman ot of which chichas chas was no orator ills introductions w were ere labored and josf TOO of them failed to score when be he introduced me he cald said lou llou all know gen porter with him all you have to do Is to drop a dinner in the slot and up comes a speech loit ou all know the presiding om I 1 retorted and land judging from the sickly to tone toie ie of his speeches all yon you have to do Is to drop one of them la in the slot filot and up comes your dinner prom from that time on I 1 had things my own way WRY at blat dinner |