The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-05-28

What Came of 1t Ex-Gov-
ernor Russell-The Squire
and Mr.. Horne Other Mat
tiers of Interest. a=.
Correspondence of The Robesonian - -
The rain has come again in due
season, just when we were get
ting a little dry, though nothing
was really suffering unless it was
the small grain crop, and the
young garden plants. Our far
mers have had fine weather for
cotton chopping, and most of
them are about through. Labor
seems to be more plentiful than
it was last year, and there was
no trouble in procuring an abun-
dance of hands.
Mr.. R. D. Hamer, one of our
nearest neighbors and most thrift
ty farmers, is in your town this
week on jury duty. Mr.. Hamer
is a true son of the soil, and be-
lieves in working himself, there
fore he was not especially anxious
to attend court at this busy sea-
son, but his brother came in just
now, and says "All goes well"
over there. The agricultural
crops are not all that is growing
on that farm, not by a long
ways; the home contains ten of
as fine. rosy-cheeked children as
can be found in the State,
ranging from Is years down
to the pretty little dim
pied baby girl of 9 months
and just in sight Of Mr.. Hamer's
is the home of Mr.. DougalC
Stewart, which boasts of seven
stalWart boys, and one girl; SO
in the words Of brother Harker
of The Chief, Watch the Ole
Fork grow"
| read with much interest, in ;
recent Robesonian, a prohibition
article from the pen of Prof. D
P. Allen, of your town, and con
slider it one of the ablest an
most fOrcible production, that
+ have seen on the subject sine
the opening of the campaign.
made me proud to know the
Robson county has within he
u borders a colored man of sue
" wisdom and good judgment, an
:. trust that his influence and e2
IL ample may accomplish gres
IL good.
was sitting on our front pia'
"a the other day, when | sa'
passing by a colored man WI
= was born during slavery on a
adjoining farm to my father
His mother was owned by tin
little Scotch woman of the elias
known as "old maids, and tn
is the way in which she became
slave owner: She carded ar
spun, and wove with her oW
hands $100 worth of home-spr
cloth, which she sold, and CO.
verted the money into a little n
gro girl, aged 6 years, whom 81
, raised to maturity, and wi
eventually became the mother
(. a large family. But the lit
Scotch woman thought too mu'
of them to have them work, al
although she owned good land
they were idle, and shiftless, al
entirely non-supporting, and t
n Scotch owner found she had '';
! elephant" on her hands; but S
would not hire them out to wor
and she was fed by her chart
BILE neighbors, while her color
families worked a little, a
hunted and fshed for the b
ance. But they were kind
their little old Mistress, and t
woman whom she raised W
o. faithful in ministering to her
, a lingering bed of sickness a
death. Many times | was Sc
- when a little girl, by my de
mother to carry basket of fC
to the tiny old lady. I loved
go, because she was so kind, g
always gave me such a wa
welcome. And all these thi1
~ of the long ago were recall
when l recognized the gray h;
A. ed man, who was then a Ii
" boy, and he and one sister
all of the family now in their
Ou neighborhood. | like to meet
with the old time darkey, VIII
'0 always pleasant and polite,
-, tanning much of the manners
III bearing of ante-bellum de
though | regret to say | so