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Show JOKE ON SWEET CHARITY. I And the Colored Porter, He Thorough- R ly Enjoyed It. The other day a colored porter from H one of the hotels was sent to buy some I tin cups. After binklng tho purehnso 1 ho started bark to the hotel and met 1 one of the hostlery's best pclrons a commercial traveler and the latter aaked the negro to carry hla sample case to a Washington street store. A few minutes later the negro, sum- nln case and tin runs, were In front of the (tore. The traveling man was In the store. While waiting for htm. the negro snt down on the sample rate, and In lota than a Jiffy fell asleep. One of tho tin cups was In his hand, ' and' It fell forward, as does the cup held hy a blind man. Perhaps you won't believe II, but that negro collected 43 cents white ho slumbered, rassorshy thought him a hllnd mendicant. And maybe that por ter didn't enjoy the Jokel lie did 'deed be did ItidlnnapnliH Newa. I |