The following condition of the Colored American opportunities will be of assistance in suggesting fields of leadership: The number of colored men now engaged in business and professions are as follows: Agricultural pursuits 2,143,176 Professional occupations 47,324 Domestic and personal service 1,324,160 Trade and transportation 209,154 Manufacturing and mechanical pursuits 275,149 This is close to 25 percent of the entire colored population of the United States. But this enormous field of opportunity, is not the limit. You have aspirations toward music and the fine arts—singers, painters, sculptors, actors and poets. Here are a few leaders to be followed by you or your children, relatives or friends: MUSIC COMPOSERS AND PIANISTS Harry T. Burleigh, New York, composer of “Jean,” “Perhaps.” Robert Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson, New York, musical setting to Longfellow’s “Hiawatha,” “Idyll for Orchestra,” “Dream Lovers,” (operetta). William H. Tyers, composer of “Trocha,” a Cuban dance and other noted compositions. Will Marion Cook, New York, “The Casino Girl,” “Bandana Land,” etc. De Koven Thompson, Chicago, composer of “Dear Lord, Remember Me,” “If I Forget,” etc. James Reese Europe, founder of the Clef Club Symphony Orchestra. Among pianists is Miss Hazel Harrison, of La Porte, Indiana, who is making her mark as a student of the piano under the celebrated greatest living pianist, Ferrucco Buconi, of Berlin. These and other leaders in their art succeeded many illustrious composers. And you are called upon to prepare to follow the present leaders. VOCAL ARTISTS AND PRIMA DONNAS Remember the Black Swan, that wonderful prima donna whose voice had a range of three octaves and was frequently compared with Jenny Lind at the height of her fame. Madam Marie Selika, of Chicago, achieved enormous success in Europe, a marvelous singer whose voice “trilled like a feathered songster,” and whose “Echo Song” has not yet been surpassed. You have heard the “Black Patti” (Madame Sisseretta Jones) who was a success in Europe, and has her own company of which she is the head, “The Black Patti Troubadours.” There is Mrs. E. Azalia Hackley, of Detroit. This lady has been a prominent singer for years. She studied in Europe, and is the author of “Guide to Voice Culture.” PAINTERS William Edward Scott, of Chicago, should be noted for his extraordinary works in America and Europe. Born in Indianapolis in 1884, he graduated from the high school in 1903. From 1904, when he entered the Chicago Art Institute, until the present time, he has been prolific in paintings, three of which were accepted at the Salon des Beaux Arts at Toquet, and others elsewhere. His work may be seen in three mural paintings which decorate the Felsenthal School in Chicago.