ability are of mixed breed; and that this assertion we wish our readers to bear in mind. Also the further fact that the most progressive people in the world have always been more or less of mixed stock-that progress and commingling go hand in hand.

SOME SMART NEGROES.-We wish we could give several hundred names, emphasizing the foregoing facts, but we can only give the names of a small number of men and women here, owing to space. Our readers will kindly remember that we give the below names merely as illustrations, and that there are hundreds of others equally as worthy of a place among the noted men and women of mixed blood in the

race.

Honorable Frederick Douglass was considered the most noted Negro in America. Onehalf Caucasian. Great orator, anti-slavery editor, marshal of the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds of Columbia, a leading Republican. Born about 1817, in Maryland. His second wife was a white woman.

Professor Booker T. Washington, one of the foremost educators in America. One-half or more Caucasian. President of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial school; champion of Negro industrial education, noted orator and successful financier and teacher. He was born.

at Hale's Ford Post-office, Franklin county, Virginia, April 18, 1856. His mother was the cook on the slave plantation, and named Jane Furguson. His owner was James Borroughs.

Honorable P. B. S. Pinchback, successful Negro politician. Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, United States senator, lawyer, prominent Republican, man of wealth. His mother was known as a mulatto who may have had some Indian blood. His father, Major Pinchback, a Mississippian, was the owner of his mother, by whom he had ten children. In 1836 Major Pinchback went to Philadelphia with his slave wife and manumitted her. She remained with him after her freedom.

Honorable Theophile T. Allain, State's senator of Louisiana, agitator of educational measures and internal improvements in his state. Politician and business man. Born October 1st, 1845, on the Australian plantation; his mother being a pretty brown woman, his father, her owner, was Sosthene Allain, a millionaire of great culture. This gentleman set aside the custom of the land and treated his little brown wife with the greatest respect, surrounding her with all the comforts and pleasures at his command. He loved his son Theophile so intensely that he often refused to dine without him at the table, and when traveling abroad he accompanied him.

Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, D. D. LL.D., bishop of the A. M. E. Church. Philosopher, politician, orator, eminent lecturer, author, intense race man, United States chaplain, etc. He was born near Newsberry Court-House, South Carolina, February 1st, 1833. He is the oldest child of Howard and Sarah Turner. His father's ancestry was but little known to him as his mother was a German white woman, but on his mother's side it is well known, she being the youngest daughter of an African king's lineage.

Rev. Lemuel Hayes, A. M., who was born in 1753 of an African father and white mother, and who was a distinguished theologian-the first titled man of Negro blood in America-should not be forgotten by his people or the white race as a remarkable man of mixed African and Caucasian blood. A historian speaks of this early admixture of the two races as follows: "A native African and a white woman! 'Holy horror!' cries somebody. 'How curious they did not hang him.' They were honorably married and he was popular. The black face was a thing of beauty to his wife, who saw a man with an intellectual soul and loved him. Love laughs at locks and bars, and even the color of a man's skin. Both parties will cross the line."

Honorable Josiah T. Settle, A.B., A.M., LL.B. An able lawyer, eloquent orator, legis

lator. Was assistant attorney-general of Shelby county, Tennessee, etc. He was born September 30, 1850, on Cumberland Mountains, while his father and mother were en route from North Carolina to Mississippi. His parents were named Josiah and Nancy Settle, Nancy being the slave wife of Mr. Settle, who belonged to the famous Settle family of Rockingham, North Carolina. He had no white wife at the time he began to raise a family with his slave. After a few years residence in Mississippi, he manumitted his children and their mother. But he was informed that he could not remain in Mississippi, as the laws of that state forbade "free niggers" to reside therein. In March, 1856, he carried them to Hamilton, Ohio, where he bought them a house and located them, spending his summers with them and his winters on his southern plantation. Then another difficulty arose. His northern neighbors informed him that he could not continue his relations with the woman unless he married her. He answered: "That is what I have always desired to do." In 1858 the mother of his children became his lawful wife in the presence of their children, and by that act also legitimate. He espoused the Union cause when the war broke out, and remained with his colored wife until his death in 1869. This is one of the most beautiful ex