Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-09-03 | Page 7 | Clear Title

I Clear Title. I Uncle Mose aspired to the electiva office of justice of the peace in tho "black bottom" part of town. One bar there was to his preferment. Ha could neither read nor write. His master advised him to go to the commissioner com-missioner of elections and ask whether he was eligible. Mose went and returned. "What did he tell you. Mose?" inquired in-quired the master. "It's all right, sun," answered Moso; "dat gen'lemun suttinly was kind, yas, suh. He tole me Ah was illegible fo" dat office."