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Show KEPT HIS PRESENCE OF MIND Colored Man Believed in and Practised Making the Most of Adversity. A group of men were discussing tin-man tin-man nature and the dilliculty of look- lug always on the bright ;nid glitt.er-I glitt.er-I Ing side of things when the dliiRy, dark blown side is uppermost and seems destined to remain uppermost. "It's a great thing to cultivate a disposition to make the most of things in this life." reuiail.d one of the group. "The most striking illustration illustra-tion I ever hud of that was in a big horse race at a county fair down the state about ten .vi.:'.-s ago. The man driving alongside of me let his horse Ewerve on the back stretch and my sulky was upset. That caused a general gen-eral mixup and a colored driver right behind me got unloaded and his sulky broken to pieces. Well, I lay there for a minute and then-as I didn't seem to be much hurt, I started to get up. " 'Hey, bras, don' you go gittin' up,' yelled the colored driver at me, excitedly. ex-citedly. "'Why?' I asked him, somewhat puzzled. 'Cause,' he answered, 'y' all lay right what' yo' is. and in a minute they'll sen' roun' hyah and haul us back pas' the gran' stan' in a caih-hiage.' caih-hiage.' "Sure enough, they did," says Albright. Al-bright. "And when we drove up that home stretch In the open hack they sent after us, that colored man was the happiest pertop I ever saw. Now, that's what I call making the most of things." |