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Augustus M. Hodges is the sou of Willis A. Hodges, one of the early pioneer Afro-American journalists, and evidently inherits his father's journalistic taste. He was born in Williamsburg, Va., March 18, 1854, and attended the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, from which he graduated in 1874.

Mr. Hodges is one of the prominent young men of the race. He has few superiors in the journalistic field. He was a trusted and ready writer on The New York Globe, and, more recently, on The Indianapolis Freeman. Lately, he has issued a journal of his own, called The Brooklyn Sentinel, which is meeting with much favor. The New York Press of September 15, 1889, pays him this tribute: "He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1876, but was counted out by the Democrats. He was connected with The New York Globe a few years later, and is at present upon the staff of The Indianapolis Freeman, the leading colored paper of the United States. He was a candidate for the position of minister to Hayti, receiving the indorsement of 509 leading Republicans of the United States. He is a French student, a poet, and writer. He stands head and shoulders above many colored men who have received more reward. As a political leader, he has few equals; as a colored journalist, none."

Richard A. Jones was born July 16, 1847, in Randolph County, Georgia. At the age of twelve he was taken to Rochester, Minnesota, and being very apt with books, was sent to the public school at Rochester, where he received a