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pleasant and imusually sunny.

	‘$1 had one very humorous experience three years ago when I wa~ invited

to deliver an address near Mount Olive, N. C., to a convention of yotwg people. Arriving about 10 o ‚ clock that day ‚ I was met by a citizen who told me he was assigned to introduoe n~ that evening. As we rode along, I cautioned him not to boost ~ too highl~ He ~ said little .

	“When the big, and, I may say, expectant audience was seated that nicht,

he arose and seemed im~oh embarrassed, ultimately saying: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I have an unpleasant duty to perform this eventhg . ‚ Then, pointing at ~ ‚ he went on : ‚ I dont t know this man, n»~oh • Fact is ‚ I only kn~ two thin~8 about him. One i~ ‚ he has never been in jail ; and the other is ‚ I never could figure w3:V.t

	~	~“No, I am not related to the late Boberb Bruoe Elliott by ties of consanguinity. lie was successively twice a member of Congreàs from Sowtth Car‘Glina~ and a member and $peaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1876. Perhaps these h6nors came to him because he had a good education before he met the opportunity for service. .

	“When I think of the t6Øt5 _ ‘70‘s period, I am surprised that recent slaves, suddenly placed in administrative ~osiM~ous of honor and tr~b, did as well as they did.

	t, In the seventy-twO years since s 1avery~ I have noted nnich improvement along the road, and I am sure that our nation has far lees discord now, than it had when I ias a small lad. And, when one can note progress ix~ our march toward the lieht, I guess that ought to be sufficient for i~r optimism.W