The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-24
TIL EXODUS o.
COL0RE:D LABOR
Rosy Letters Back Home That
Cause Great Unrest.
WHEN WANDERER RETURNS.
The industrious Home Slayer Has to-
Support Him Until Another Spring
Season Rolls Around School
Supt. for Amelia County.
WHEN WANDERER RETURNS.
Especial Dispa,ch 10 The Times

OLGA VA, April 23.-The good weather
OF late has afforded the farming commu-
nifty an opportunity to catch up with their
work, and right we'll have they awaited
themselves of it Soil for tobacco. the
chief crop, broken; many planting corn.
with chores. such as spring gardening.
mostly over and done.
There would be no complaint il only
labor could be had. This is extremely
scarce, some planter, who usually hire
and work four and five regular hands,
having none at all. The better and ADLER
type of labor are decoyed every spring
up North. After getting to their destl-
nation these write letters back to their
acquaintance that they have bonanza
that each one gets s. or 500 a day, and
that the colony is planted for work either
close to New York city or to Philadel-
phia, that negro run-Inad city OF the
United States.
These rosc-colored letters are read all
over the country. and create 4 commot1on
that the INITIATED are incapable OF ap-
preciatlng.
They have the effect of either causing
hands hired for the year to pull right out
for the happy land, or SO conducting
themselves that the employer is obliged
to discharge them.
These same negroes who write the let
tiers back home and give such trouble
periodically retur.. in the fall of The year
with no money to show for the big wages
they have written about; they return with
simply a good-looking pawn-shop suit Of
clothes on their backs 10 feed and lodge
them for the winter close at hand with
and upon those who have staid at home
on the small wages paid in this section.
1t never fails that the negro who re-
mains upon the farm. poorly paid as Is
alleged. al the end of the year has more
OF both cash and credit than the fellow
who has Travelled, who mas written these
disturbing letters and who has returned
with nothing to show but fashy pawn
brokers' clothes upon his back.
The death Of AR. II. Meade, late super
intendent Of county schools, is greatly
deplored. He was "A high man in head
and heart. The office he filed so well
will have to he appointed to by The State
Beard of Education. There are four or
five persons mentioned for county super
intendent, and possibly all good men, but
with the chances of appointment in favor
of Mr.. c. A. Holman. Mr.. Holman, 1t
seems, was Confederate soldier from
start to finish. beginning in 1851 in the
Forty-fourth Virginia in the West Viz
ginia campaign, and ending at Appomat-
toH, with the remnant of Lees ragged he
1ces, serving as a private through the
whole war.
He was educated at Washington Col
lege. and has, since the war. in the state
OF Missouri at one time, and since in Viz
GINA. been all the: time engaged upon ed
ucational lines, either as u teacher in or
as county superintendent Of the State
public schools. And it is believed such a
record will cause him to distance his
competitors for Mr.. Meade's place, all Of
whom are younger men.