Show TURNING WHITE there is a colored man in paducah who has undergone A complete transformation within five years from a dark copper color to a comp lection fully as w white bite as the average caucasian the flat nose the thick lips and matted hair unmistakably mark him an african and the redness of skin de iotes disease but a casual glance would indicate that he was a white man his name is erasmus corbett and he be is a carpenter he is 66 beia years old and has a wife and two children A reporter met uncle rasmus a da day y or two ago and questioned him concerning the me strange freak 1 I was born in north carolina said uncle rasmus in answer to a ques question tiou on jan 10 1822 and abd I 1 was war the slave of mr lewis corbett Cor beti a cousin of the hon thomas corbett the present register of the laud land office after the war I 1 came to kentucky and worked for a long time in princeton caldwell county I 1 was engage for a long time tit in the woolen mills of miles longshaw Longs baw about live years ago I 1 noticed white spots coming on my bands these spots widened and spread all over my ay body and limbs with great rapidity it has bas left me almost white as you see this place on my arm he rolled up his sleeve and displayed a spot about the size of ones land hand will show my orl original inal color was the change amended ended by sickness 8 or queer feelings the reporter asked aske ed I 1 at first it made me very sick there ww was an itching burning sensation all the cue lime tame attended atten attended ged by severe patois in dabe stomach and bead this lasted lor for two years during the past three yeii i the change has been more gradual j my health has been about as good most men of my age I 1 1 I was never very black as jo 10 i will see from the spot on my arm no was I 1 as light as mulatto I 1 was of 0 i dark copper color how do you yon account lor for ibbe q asked 1 I am an uneducated man u h rasmus replied I 1 land and I 1 cannot eppli A j the cause of the change the polso x in the dyes used in the woolen ml mi poisoned my skin and first started i why it spread I 1 cannot tell corbett is rather an intelligent intelli nent mith though be cannot read and write ii I 1 skin Ys Is gradually assuming a beall ti 4 color and in a short while he will kil a in fact a white man |