Politeness Pays

Henry Carey, one of the very best of the many good servants employed by the Pennsylvania railroad, died about two years ago, lamentetf and respected by every officer of the road whom he came in contact with, says the Philadelphia Times. Carey was one of those ideal servants who was never around except when he was wanted, and then he was sure to be in evidence. He had that happy faculty of just knowing what was the right thing to do at the right moment,and if he was not wanted you would think the earth had swallowed him up, and in the moment he was wanted he appeared t.o descend from the clouds. A little incident in his life before he got in the employ oí the railroad company is worth relating. At that time he was a porter of one of the Pullman cars and one day just as they were leaving the station in Chicago he was going through the cars, when one of the passengers asked him for some slight information. He said he didn't know, but he would find out and bring back the answer, which he did in a few minutes. The passenger then asked him to be good enougb. to hand him a drink of water. He said certainly in a most polite way and brought him the glass of water. The passenger was quite taken wlth the kindly face of Carey, and said to him that he was not very well and that he might get worse on the journey and asked him if he wouldn't be good enough to pay him some little attention on the way. Carey then told him that that was not his car, that his car was in front and that he could give him but very little attention there. He then asked if he might not be removed to the front car. Carey said he woultl have to consult the conductor, which he did. The conductor agreed to the transfer and he was moved into Carey's car. For the first eight or ten hours the man was rather under the weather, but Carey gave him every attention in his power, and from that on he rather improved, but Carey still kept up his kind attention, bringing him everything that he thought he might like, and doiag everything that he wanted. When he arrived in Philadelphia Carey took his valise out to the platform. When the passenger, watching his opportunity, saw the porter of the other car that he had left come up to talk with Carey, the passenger put his hand into his vest pocket, took out a hundred-dollar note and handed it to Carey, saying: "I want to thank you for your attention to me on the journey here, and I also want to reward you for your kindness to me. Goodday, I hope you may have a prosperous time." To say that the porter whose car the passenger had left dropped dead, is to moderate depict his feelings.