A Freedmen's Bureau official traveling through the desolate back country furnishes a description which might have applied to two hundred counties, a third of the South: "It is a common, an every-day sight in Randolph County, that of women and children, most of whom were formerly in good circumstances, begging for bread from door to door.

Meat of any kind has been a stranger to many of their mouths for months.

The drought cut off what little crops they hoped to save, and they must have immediate help or perish.

By far the greater suffering exists among the whites.

Their scanty supplies have been exhausted, and now they look to the Government alone for support.