The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-08
u. Returning Tell Harrow
A ing Stories
"A. vAsy They We're Treated in
Logging Camps
Womep Made to Do Mems
,r.,t, No Matter What Their
Physical Conditional A
Negress' Yarn.

. ths Atlanta constitutional
II 81 MsELF-AssERTIvE yellow
negress with a black shad-
ow Of a husband sat in the
T1 colored waiting room atthe
upion depot shortly before
noon yesterday waiting for
ade Aliens train" She
was surrounded by q group |
'''..of her own race, drinking
a ooep mouths and white ex-
q IL. sy.s j narrowing tale she was
n .,.s I concerning the experiences Of
''.1 IN .nd husband in Southern Ar
..s where they had spent the past
4, months. induced to emigrate
g "A claimed, by George Daniels,
',.,sd i be an agent Of Peg Leg"
s,,...s The woman was very much
WV WA INA several times rose TO her
.tspd pointed across Wall street 70
(. ,sllow signs in front Of the famous
|ro emigration agents Office shout
lsra,s his place dat Peg Leg Will
II whot totes po' niggahs out ter
Soods in Arkansaw an sells UNI
x slay,ry wussern dat in Georgy foh
s,h,.Iiyol black folks heah knowd
Haows you'd make him elm
fsah, ilAe bees white:
# asl,s was Mary scOtt, wife cf
N Scott, and the woe-begone pair
III enroute to their former nome
sr Athens, dependent on the scant
mfibutions of the charitable OF their
aotior railroad transportation from
Dun to town. A collection was taken
lfe depot.
AAagro preacher who was intsrest-
k|mseIi Ain the case steered 9 Com
IIlii6n reporter into the waiting
n and Mary Scott went into details
\ haf experience in Arkansas TOR the
|lsspaper mans benefit. Her story 10
II true, in showing the
isa aaonditions that await many Geor-
4 blacks lured West BY the glib
azaes and extravagant promises OF
laia and printed matter sent into
|llny counties of the state.
The woman said she and her husband
sss comfortably situated before
isdfge Daniels, negro Of wonderful
slsuasive powers, came from Atlanta
Aiturned their heads with prosperity
i6sies about Arkansas. He worked
Hiesly, she said, among the negroe.
Pound Athens, reading glowing cir
Am To them in their cabins at nigh
liilng forth the advantages to q pool
Of d residence west Of the Mis-
zippi. He told them any likely maj
E1lld earn $3.50 or s2 per day IN ths
ggirg camps or on the plantations
lllha 3 cabin and garden furnished b.
Aaboss free, while a woman could earl
'aln $40 to $50 a month cooking o.
sashlng. Any Industrious black man
y declared, could own his own farm II
Roor three years and spend the bal
saee oi his life in ease and plenty
4alelss according to Mary SCOTS sto
n aid Peg Leg" Williams would SCI
" desirable negro through without
.spt ot money, the trip costing no ON
lqt the head Of the family anything
laa be was to pay oil in easy install
nsne after he was prOitably employe
" hls new home.
A. cases where these alluring prom
.sss we're not sufficient to cause th
sAofsnt negroes to pack their bundle
q Arkansas, the woman charges tha
asnlels told some startli ng storis
'egut laws having been passed by cor
s.s's compelling the negroes Of Geo
Y 2 enigrate West, and said II the
g not 60 on William 5 excursions, Il
.ealars would be sent to drive the
~ g the state. There were Otht
neg stories about a white uprisir
l'ament against the blacks Of Geo
lhat the able-bodied negro me
Y s..'e oe conscripted and sent to IL
1.1lppines to be killed, and the ma
:. superstition OF the race was q
I p'.lea 70 by the solemn assertion tn
e. nag mysteriously revealed his wi
ne negroes leave the old stat
3 ne land Of promise.
alels' wiles were successful ia /
go negroes to leave on u
a ssas carried Mary Scott 10 A
She says that after the nj
pl river had been crossed a mI
' shrough the train and tagged Il
sanls as II they were 80 MAJ
y. s.'ss and barrels ana that At every 81
'stween Memphis and Pine BIZ
.2 sna women were taken from d
+. p white men who acted IS
Here constables arresting erin
She and her husband we're Civ
1. 'nslgeo of a mill boss At 9 stati
re twenty miles below Pine Bin
With q score Of other negro'