Here are a few of our present leaders, between whom no invidious comparisons can be made, and to whose number may be added a thousand or more working in more or less conspicuous positions to fit their people to become leaders. They are shining examples of success and merely mentioned to show your own opportunities. Look at and study this list earnestly, it concerns you: EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS Rev. S. G. Atkins, President of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina. Dr. E. F. Boyd, physician and surgeon, Nashville, Tenn. Hon. H. P. Cheatham, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. Dr. D. W. Culp, A. M., M. D., author of “Twentieth Century Negro Literature.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor “The Crisis, A Record of the Darker Races.” Bishop G. W. Clinton, A. M. E. Zion Church, Charlotte, N. C. Prof. J. M. Cox, President Philander Smith College, Little Rock. E. E. Cooper, Editor “Colored American.” Prof. A. U. Frierson, Professor of Greek, Biddle University. Prof. N. W. Harllee, Principal High School, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Lawrence Aldridge Lewis is a rising physician of Indiana, who made the highest record in a competitive examination for the city hospital of Indianapolis against 107 applicants. Prof. R. S. Lovinggood, President Samuel Houston College, Austin, Texas. Kelly Miller, Professor Mathematics Howard University. D. W. Onley, D. D., Dentist, Washington, D. C. I. L. Purcell, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Pensacola, Fla. G. T. Robinson, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Nashville, Tenn. Bishop H. M. Turner, D. D., LL. D., A. M. E. Church, Atlanta, Ga. Rev. O. M. Waller, Rector Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C. Prof. H. L. Walker, Principal High School, Augusta, Ga. Prof. Booker T. Washington, President Tuskegee Institute. Prof. N. B. Young, President Florida State Normal and Industrial College. The foregoing are a few leaders in the professions. There are numerous others whose names and deeds have already made history and fame. The present field of leaders in the professions is large, but there are other fields of leadership in the business world. These men are successful and point the way to others to follow, and they must lay down their leadership with the others: Charles Banks, Cashier Bank of Mound Bayou, Mound Bayou, Miss. E. C. Berry, hotel man, Athens, Ohio. Said to keep one of the best hotels in the United States. Rev. R. H. Boyd, President National Doll Company; also of the National Baptist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn. William Washington Brown, Founder of the True Reformers’ Bank, Richmond, Va. Junius G. Groves, “The Potato King.” Edwardsville, Ky. Deal Jackson, Albany, Georgia, the great cotton king. John Merrick, founder of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, the strongest Negro insurance company in the world; North Carolina. W. E. Pettiford, founder of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, Birmingham, Alabama.