Show Negro Turning White I There is a negro in New York City who is turning white The transformation t transforma-tion is not due to fright but to perfectly explainable causes according to the physicians who have investigated the case The mans name is Rufus Herbert Her-bert and he is the proprietor of a cigar ci-gar and tobacco store Most of his customers cus-tomers are business men and he lilies T to startle some of them occasionally j by remarking In five years I shall be as white as f you are 1 Then Mr Herbert exhibits a number I of small patches of white on the side of his face and others on his arms The patches are constantly growing in size and in the course of a few years will extend over the mans whole body making him as fair as any Caucasian As his features are not those of the ordinary negro his lips and nostrils being thin like those of a white man it will be impossible to detect the fact that he is African descent As ever schoolboy has read in his physiology the color of a negro comes I from a dark pigment beneath the skin j Like every other part of the body this pigment has to bo replaced from time to time In the case of the man who is turning white this process of replacing the pigment has been stopped so that he is certain to become a white man in the course of time The change is not in any way a disease and does not affect af-fect the mans general health Mr Herbert himself says that the change in color has been going on for j some three or four years past and began be-gan immediately after he had been ill of fever It is probable that he will 1 live to enjoy the hovel experience of having been both a colored and a white man for although he is 65 years old he is strong and vigorous and looks no more than 4n Does the prospect of becoming white please you he was asked recently 0 it doesnt matter much to me he said Ill be the same man wont I whether Im white or black Id just as lief be white though and since I cant help myself Ill try to make the best of it Strangers often visit the cigar shop to gaze at the proprietor as they would at one of the animals in the zoo and I according to Mr Herbert this is the only unpleasant part in the strange experience ex-perience of turning from black to white I |