Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-10-13

SuSASA uUs sSSSAVVu W. AUaoVst SbHsS
priation In it, hlstory--a total OF sew.
enty.four thousand and one hundred
dollars. The students and graduates
Of this institution are leaders In every
useful calling OF life pursued by col
ored people In the south Ito influence
10 not wholly confined to Texas. ~
II has enrolled pupils from other
states. such 40 Ohio. California. New
Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and
Louisiana. Nor has the state o. Texas
neglected the unfortunates among ne.
gro children. The State Institution
for Deaf. Dumb and Blind at Austin
is one Of the few Of it's kind In the
country and has proved to be bless
ing to afflicted negro children In
Texas.
Religious initiative has not been
wanting In Texas as regards negro
education. At Austin, the American
Missionary association Of the Congre-
gational church of America maintains
Tillotson college; the Freedmen's Aid
society OF the Methodist Episcopal
church supports Wiley university at
Marshall and Samuel Houston college
at Austin; the Colored Methodist
church maintains Texas college, near
Tyler; the African Methodist Episco-
pal church supports Paul Quinn col
lege at Waco; the Negro Baptists OF
Texas support colleges at Fort Worth,
Waco, Seguin and other points; the
Roman Catholics have schools at Gal
weston. Houston, Dallas and San An
tonic; the Baptist Home Mission So
ciety supports Bishop college at
Marshall, and Houston college at Hous-
ton; the Episcopal church supports
an institution at San Antonio: while
the Presbyterians support an excellent
institution for colored girls situated
at Crockett, and known as Mary Allen
seminary.
In all the larger cities and
in many of the lesser cities, as
well as In the rural districts the
colored people have erected houses
Of worship which are neat, commodi-
GUS and creditable to their religious
zeal and self.sacrifice.
AT Houston, Palestine, Waco, Fort
Worth and Dallas successful negro
banks are in operation. Many Texas
negroes are successfully engaged in
the retail grocery business and at
least two are doing a successful
wholesale business There are two
negro dry goods merchants and at
least six we'll conducted negro drug
stores with negro pharmacists IN at
tendance to fill prescriptions. There
is large number OF negro physicians,
some OF whom are held in high esteem
for their ability by the white practi-
TONERS of their respective communi-
ties. In most of the cities negro den
lists are practicing successfully on
the members of their race, doing
practice which the white dentists are
glad to turn over to them. There are
several negro lawyers OF ability. nota-
bly, in Galveston and Houston, Dallas
and San Antonio. Among the negro
clergymen OF Texas are ministers
whose ability eloquence and Christian
character rank them with the best OF
the race in the United States. Negro
real estate dealers operate extensively
in the cities and are doing great work
in getting the homeless OF the race to
own their own homes. A large mum
Der Of negroes are engaged in the life
insurance business, writing Dotn IN
dustrial and regular old line life poll
cies for negroes working for Texas
companies manned by white Texas
CAPITALISTS. The various fraternal or
ders among the negroes OF Texas com
prise approximately one hundred thou
sand members. Notable among these
orders are the Ancient Order OF PHI
grims, the Knights of Tabor and the
| United Brethren Of Friendship, all
orders OF purely negro origin and con
| ception; and the negro Masons. Odd
Fellows and Knights OF Pythias. The
Ancient Order Of Pilgrims Is flour
ishing order, conceived and organized
by Texas negro formerly OF Jamaica
| West Indies, namely, the late PROBES
sor Hardy of Houston. The United
Brothers OF Friendship own brick
building in the Houston business dis
trict worth $4,000, and the negro Ma
! sons own a similar building In Fort
Worth OF equal value.
some of the most successful truck
and melon growers OF Texas are ne
groes. But it is in farming that the
negroes of Texas have achieved their
widest success. Texas negroes oper
| ate farms all the way from the farm
OF 'forty.acres and mule up to plan
lstations of two and three thousand
acres. Many negroes own and operate
gins.
much more might be said. but
enough has been said to prove that We
are glad to have the acknowledged
leader OF the negroes Of the United
| states to visit Texas and witness the
condition OF the negro race In this
state, and to see-
".Texas! vast. bright, imperial land
BY nature lowered with lavish
hand,
Science and Art, they wider. deeper
wealth afford. x
Make thee respondent as the Gar
den of the Lord.
In view OF the coming Of DR.. Wash,
tngton, we bespeak for him at the
hands OF both races in Texas that
cordial reception which we are sure be
deserves and which we are equally
sure he will receive.
.E. l.. BLACKSHEAR. ="
ARITHMETIC.