stic service, the Negro cannot be
excelled. He is not treacherous. He forms no plots and schemes to
entrap his master. He resorts to no violent incendiary measures of
avenging himself against his master, but he humbly and tamely submits
to the conditions, ever looking for betterment through superhuman
agencies. If the South would only look this matter squarely in the
face, it would admit that it has the best service on earth, and would
vote liberal appropriations for the development of Negro education of
every character.

It may seem to persons not informed incredible, but it is no less a
fact that where racial prejudice runs highest in the South and the
demarcation between the races is most distinct along social lines,
there the Negro is most prosperous, and, strange to say, advances most
rapidly in material wealth. Self-help, self-dependence, faith in self,
seem to spur to success as nothing else does. The drug store is the
creature of Anglo-Saxon prejudice in denying Negroes accommodations at
the soda-water fountains run by white men. In a score of channels the
Negro is pushed on to success by Anglo-Saxon discrimination. What
seems a curse is in reality a blessing to the race. Anglo-Saxon
prejudice forces the Negro to take advantage of his great opportunity
to get rich.

TOPIC XXII.

WHAT IS THE NEGRO TEACHER DOING IN THE MATTER OF UPLIFTING HIS RACE?

BY PROF. A. ST. GEORGE RICHARDSON.

[Illustration: Prof. Arthur Richardson.]

PROF. ARTHUR ST. GEORGE RICHARDSON.

Far out in mid-Atlantic ocean about 700 miles east of New
York lies the group of sunny isles known as the Bermudas. On
one of these beautiful coral formations called St. Georges
was born, July 5, 1863, the subject of this writing. Arthur
was sent to Canada in 1878 to attend the public schools of
St. Johns, N. B. Being an apt pupil he soon finished the
curriculum of studies of the grammar schools and in 1880
entered the high school from which in three years' time he
was graduated.

Not considering his education complete at this point, Arthur
matriculated at the University of New Brunswick at
Fredericton, in the fall of the same year, being the first
and only colored young man to enter this institution of
higher learning. As in the high school so now in college
young Arthur distinguished himself among his classmates by
winning a scholarship and at