CAN BLEACH NEGROES

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 351, 29 January 1903, Page 6

CAN BLEACH NEGROES

Kaa#u Professor Dfecoren Badl- , lu« That Make* Albinos. * ~ ■ laeemlatloa witn leism •€ a Baaea leas Dlaeaae Blanches tfcs SsUa— SJUasretar Fact Concerning; Albino*. That they anight be rid of their color has been the dream of the black race since their emancipation, and at last it appears that the negro's dream is about to be realized. Prof. Marshall Johnston, of the University of Kansas school of medicine, has discovered a means whereby he claims to be able to make the negro white, reports the New York Journal. Briefly set forth, Prof. Johnston's method consists in inoculating the negro -with the aerum of leucitis or Albinism, a harmless disease which produces those strange oddities of nature known as Albino*. The fact that albinism is the result, of a disease is a discovery in itself, the credit of which belongs to the professor. Albinocs have been regarded for centuries simply as anomalies of nature, but it has remained for Prof. Johnston to discover that their condition is the result of a disease—the white blood disease or leucitis, as the professor has named the affection. Leucitis is a disease only in that it is not a normal condition. As diseases go, the affection could hardly be called one. It resembles baldness somewhat, being only e> local condition and in nowise affecting the general health. Transmitted to a white skinned persou, leucitis checks the deposition oi •lark pigmentary matter in the cuticle and gives to the skin a pale and sickly hue, while the eyes assume a pinkish color. But upon the darker and thicket skin of the negro leucitis operates with great difficulty, and while e colorless skin is the result of its wori in a light-skinned person, its effect upon the negro is to bleach the skin only to a healthy "flesh color." The odd -whitish aspect of <foe Albino's skin is due, according**) the professor, to a deficiency of pigmentary matter, or coloring substance. 'For a long- tune, however, it was supposed that this lack of coloring matter was merely one of the vagaries of nature. By chance one day while examining under the microscope a sample of the blood of an Albino who was detained : n the university hospital with a severe :ase of typhus fever, Prof. Johnston discovered that in addition to the typhus bacilli in the blood there were specimens of a strange bacillus, the like of which he had never seen before. The discovery set Prof. Johnston to wondering what the bacillus might be, »nd when the Albino had recovered 'mm the fever he secured another -•ample of blood. There were none oi the typhus bacilli in this sample, but the specimens- of the strange bacillus were still there. A number were take/n from the blood and placed in a gelatine culture and incubated. The colony multiplied, and in a few days a young guinea pig was inoculated with a serum made from he bacilli. There was no change is the general health of the animal, but : nside of a imortth its .pink rosy skin tad turned white and its eyes had aken on a decided pink hue. The conclusions were easily drawn, ■ind the professor announced to hii colleagues, who had been watching he experiments with great interest) that the bacillus which had produced this condition in the pig was the csua« of ilte Albino's color. Tb» next subject was a pa/kieoi in the hospital, an Irish mechanic named Wilder, who was dying of an incurable disease. It took two months to affect Wilder, but within 90 days arte* inoculation the man had become so Albino with pink eyes, whits hair end colorless skin.

A negro was the nest to osier hfcaself for experimental purposes. Ht was inoculated, but the-doctor* found that 4he leucitis bacilli had a very different effect upon him. His kinky head covering was unattested. Thi*i howerer. was not wondered at, as aha negro's hair is in reality entirely different in structure from that otf %a« Caucasian. But the negro's ejes> did not change color, and although his akia bleached oui it did ao* assume the pais color «f th* Albino. When it had bleached to a color which fc» s white person would ben light brunette it held thai* color, and a heavy postinoculation of the serum produced n« efleot. The deep pigmentation of th« Mftjrot sfefck is held ea«»UgS&N> to this by the VKrfeMc*. •-«&£» a&,

u. Peaeient to De*4 iHtfWMh r Pedro Qoncalei was a pious men who believed in the gospel Cf peace. He noticed one day that ■l-priest in bis train carried © Short aword under Us cloak. The oardiaal r*pror*d him, saying- that a eteri* ihould no* carry arm*. | answered the £•&**, Imu» bly, "but I oarry tha weapon Only to defend myaali should I fee attaefced by a dog." "In that inaa,- eadd eb* oaadsnai "and if I aaw a day rousing towaad me, I thould begin ta reette the Oocpal of John." "That/* returned the p***a%, "would ba a wi*e thing sndaed, bu* may it not be that there are loma dogs that do not understand Latiat*-»y<tffrti Companion. i«*»sa^teg &*I never get angry with- »*&&*«»» parked a man who vested to Wttffi hie antagonist. % >^ "That, 7 ' rejoined Wt Mttat, »%» count* for your atoeje being OS g&ft ♦arm* <rit> &d& tfewe. -iii^