ted in and connected with
the various enterprises whose aim has been the improvement
and elevation of the Colored people. For five years he was
secretary of the Capital Savings Bank of Washington and a
member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Building
and Savings Company. For three consecutive years Prof.
Storum was president of the Bethel Literary and Historical
Society, the most prominent association of its kind in the
country. Through his influence and by his energy the library
and reading room were established and are now the most
interesting and prominent features of the society.

In addition to his many and exacting duties, Prof. Storum
has written and lectured on a great variety of subjects,
religious, political, educational and financial.

He was happily married in 1872 to Mrs. Carrie Garrett
Browne, a teacher in the public schools of Washington. There
are three surviving children. Their domestic life has had
its sunshine and its shadow. The darkest cloud that has
overhung their household was the death of their oldest son,
who died eight years ago at the age of eighteen, and who had
given promise of being an unusually brilliant and useful
man.

The excuse for presenting this article is the oft repeated declaration
that there should be one kind of education for the more favored class
and another kind of education for the less favored class of our
citizens. This declaration was never mooted until these latter years.
The following incident will serve to illustrate the position taken by
the advocates of this subject: A young man of more than ordinary
ability, having a fine mind, and exceedingly apt and ambitious to
learn, came to one of the schools in the South supported by Northern
friends. He had had some advantages and had proved his capabilities to
learn. He was giving great satisfaction to his teachers. He was
prepared to take up one of the advanced studies, and did so and wrote
to his friend telling him of the studies he was pursuing and the
progress he was making. His friend, a would-be philanthropist, replied
that he would not assist him if he pursued such studies. "You only
need to learn to read, write, and cipher a little to teach your
people." Yet this same man thought it necessary to take the common
school course, a college course, and a professional course to teach
his people. What cla