A NEGRO ARISTOCRACY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 945, 14 September 1901, Page 3

A NEGRO ARISTOCRACY.

An exceptionally bnght number, lull of admirable pictures and lutci citing and \aricd reading, is that with which " I'earscn's " opens the new century. A new feature which promises to be very popular disem-scs a number of " Life's Little Probli in.-." "If you wish ta pass a lady seated in the 11 out nm of the dress circle of a theatre, should you nun your face ot your back to her}" i« i.i.e 01' the, problems propounded,and wittily di-po-cl of. The fiction iu this number ii puiticu'aily strong. A aewseries of short stoi n-~ l.v .Mr. Cutclilfe llyne isstaitcd, eulilh-d " .McTndd io the Arctic," and is likely to prove even more successful than the same am Inn's lam ous " Captain' Kettle " tale-. Mr. Alien Upward begun a heeoud series of hi- p'pu'ar •' Historic Mysteries;" and Mr. W. 1,. Alden's coatributiui, "The Mind-ltelieviug Syndicate," is as witty as anything that has i "me from hi i | en. Among the iiuini runs i-.ilichs wbich nppiar on in ',' r nt, sub.n els of inturcst 11 one drilling with " •i i Nngio of America." Thewirri p.lots out that the negioes form thut'iai.-i ■. in. of the entire population of the I'mie I; I- lis; but although nearly forty yi ;.i- I ;.i. Pa—ed since the Proclamation ol I) nun i| .tin u came into force, only a veri lim'ti d number have succeeded in making m.j soeia .dvmue menl. It is with this liuiiii I " an-ti.r racy " that the article deals. " The journalistic effort- of the .- '• date back to 1827 with the publication ol ■ '■',,:,.. dom's Journal "in New Yoik. liy <'igi. i-s the African I'ress iuorca:-id in |,owcr, until to-day the publication- dexolcd to inee unci ests number over 200, including .-evnal quarterly and monthly mapuzmen. " At the head of the African journalists of to-day is Mr. Thomas Fortune, onetime editor of the "New Yoik (ilobe," and now the editor of the " New York Age." lie linds time to be a regular eo-itiibutui to the most literary newspapers in Auniica, and his efforts have done much towards the accept aoce of the term ' Afru-Aiiiericati ' to describe the people of African exttactioo iu the United States.

" Both an physicians and surgeons theie are many successful representatives ><f the African in the healing art. in spite „i ,„. uumeiable drawbacks and <tirlicuUi«s that have been placed in their path. .Ni-i'ites.for instance, are unable to gain entrance to the general hospitals for practice, and nave had, .therefore, to establish institutions controlled by physicians of their own race. l'i ihups the most neticeable example of ,mri, i„, lir . gery is furnished by Dr. Daniel H. Willi: mof Chicago. Here he has built up a •.p| l -inii.| practice, his patients compiining nil cls-sci of the community. For yeais be iiu» U, ( . n connected with many public institution*, m, 1 during the war with Spain he wa* appoint,*) examining surger- of volunteers, wi'h the rank of ColonrJ " Whatever ma y oesaid against the negro's indolence and incapacity, it cacnot be denied that as a rule he is of moH religious dispus* ition. The African Baptists alone claim a membership of 1,600.000 and propri ly v«lur4 at £2.000,0000. There have been many abl« utgro theoloeiMa,"