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- CHANGING RIS C LOR.
A GEOBGIA BLACK MAN GRADUALLY
BECOMING WHITE. .
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He Is on Exhibition in Washington and Is |
Attracting a Great Deal of Atten
tion--Nraws Like a Dime
Museum Freak.
From the Washington Post.
“Uncle Tom" Cleveland, an aged col
ored man. who has recently been
brought from the cotton fields of Geor
gia,has not the powers of a chameleon by
which hecan adapt his color to that of
surrounding objects, and such an ex
planation cannot account for his appear
ance on Tuesday evening before the
physiolngical class. The peculiar thing
“"au{ Uncle Tom is that he was once
..k 8s the ace of spades; heis now
white. It was this that called several
medical men togetier to discuss before
the students the character of the phe
nomenon.
The exhibition took place at 7 o'clock
in the lower lecture room of the school
on H street. It had been advertised
among the students, who thronged to
see it with as much eagermess as one
could go to view a dime museum freak.
Dr. J. L. Magruder, the dean of the
medical faculty, told the class that Un
cle Tom was now sixty years old, and
that from the age of forty there was the
best of proof that he had been as white
as a Caucasian. He said that Mr. D. M.
D. Lindsey, a prosecutor of claims in
this city, had brought the man from
Hart county, Georgia, where he had
lived all his life. ‘
He then read a number of sworn testi- l
monials to show that Uncle Tom was
not a “fake.” One of these referred to
Thomas SG. Lawson, member of con
gress, They were signed by F. C. Stev
enson, ordinary, and Horatio J. Goss,
justice of the peace in the county, and |
asserted that Uncle Tom had been
known to them for at least twenty-five
years, and that he was once as black as
any man on the plantation. A letter
was also read from Mr. Thomas W.
Teasley, whrse father had owned Uncle
Tom’s mother as a slave. He declared
that the man was born black and that he
grew up black, butthat he had turned
white,
_‘(‘yncle Tom came in company with the
earned medicos and listening to the
reading of the letiers estabiishing his
identity with indifference. Heis a man
of small stature and would probably be
elassed by the enlightened colored gen
tlemen of the city as ‘‘a cornfield nig
ger.” He appeared en dishabille. Dr.
Magruder told him to mount a chair so
that the spectators could see him better,
and he was disrobed. From the top of‘
his head to the sole of his feet, oxcept
ing small patches on his face, his skin
is as white and clear as that of the pur
es. bionde. His face is piebald. There
are patches of the black still remaining
across the nose and little round spots
upon the ears. His hairis black and
“key, and his eyes retain their normal
African color. |
Dr. S. E. Watkins, of the Emergency
Hospital, was called upon to describe
the case and stated that it was a species
of skin disease which occurred very
rarely. It began in small spots on the
face, the back and the hands, growing
in size until the whole body was cover:
_ed. This was the manner it has pro
ressed in the present case. It was not
“aceompanied with itching or pain, and
* known there was no cure for it. |
Tt#as caused hy the dying out of the
pigment that colored the skin.
This change of color was not uncom
mon among people of different parts of
the world, especially in Turkestan. The
change of pigment occurred also early
in life among the darker races. Dr.
Stiles stated that colored children im
mediately after birth are reddish brown, |
and that shey afterwards became slate
grey. The time when they became
black differed. In Soudan it was at the
age of one year, but in Egypt it was not
nntil the chilid was fonr years old. |
Uncle Tom was then passed around
for the boys to look at, and a right jul]yi
time they had, He was made the center
of an inquisitive group that worried him ‘
with all manner of questions, both 1'(»1-‘
sport and the acquisition cf medical
knowledge. He bore it well for an igno ‘
rant ~olored man, and assured the boys |
that he had not lost his color by .\t:x'\'in;}
out in the rain. He is under the ch:u”_-«-;
of Mr. Lindsey, who was present at thc‘}
~investigation. ‘
Mr Lindsey, after hearing of Uncle
Tom’s exisience, sent his son to ].-.-,kl
into the matter, and brought Uncle]
Tom to Nashington on Saturday. He
says that he is going to exhibit him Dbe
fore every medical school in Washing
ton. Mr. Lindsey does not want to say
much about what he will do with the
man then, but it is\nnt impossible that
he will be shown abQut the country as a
dime museum freakly and that Uncle
Tom will have an oppoßgunity in Jus Ce
clining years to u'avef\
UNCLE SAM’S CASH.
Sight-Seers Look With Yearning On Money
in the Vaults.
There is probably ro more interesting
place in the treasury department at
Washington to sight-seers than the
vaults where so much gold, silver and
United States securities are: stored.
The recent immense travel eastward
from the World's Fair, in addition to
the ordinary number of sight-seers, hls
‘taxed the capacity the treasury guides
‘to the utmost. The most frequent ques~
tions asked of these guides is the
amount of money stored in the vaults.
For a ready answer to these questions
the officers have prepared a brief printed
statement , showing the amount and de
scription Jof the contents of each of the
eight vaults. These are kept by many
of the tourist ag souveniers of their trip
to Washington. The figures presented
show that here are stored in the vaults a
‘ total of $742,193,000, the part consisting
of coin weighing about 5,000 porunds.
Itemized amounts in the vaults are as
follows: Standard silver dollars, $149,-
860,000; gold coin, $11,500,000; fraction
al silver, s333,ooo;national bank notes re
ceived for redemption, $3,500,000; mixed
moneys received daily for redemption,
'$1,000,000; mixed moneys for daily use,
$1,000,000; bonds held as security tor
national bank circulation, $250,000,000;
held as a reserve to replace worn and%
mutilated notes unfit for circulation,
$325,000,000.
Why?
¥rom the Valdosta Times.
Why temporize?
Why tell a lie with the lips and know
the truth in your heart?
Why wear a mask when your neigh
bor recognizes the scalp above and the
body and legs below?
Why deceive, when a lie will find you
out?
Why put on “airs’” when everybody
knows your humble birth, and your
humble station?
Why ride in palace cars when the peo
ple you owe walk, or have to stay at
home, because you do not pay them?
Why not be honest?
Why not be candid?
Why not shame the devil and be a
man?
Why, oh why!
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Keep in good spirits. Don'tjlet de
spondency of any kind ever settle about
your plans. Hopefulness is the half bat
tle. Discouragement is nine-tenths de
feat. Hope and a merry heart are more
invigorating than the apothecary’s
tonic.
“What wore Neverspeak's last words?
Were they—"’
“ITe didn't have any. His wife was
with him to the last moment.”
A Public Spirited Woman. :
Mrs. Matilda Gross MacConnell has
given the city of Pittsburg five squares
of ground for a publie park. She is the
third woman in the city who has given
laund for park purposes: thus helping to
remove from Pittsburg the stigma of
being perhaps the only town in the
country devoid of open squares, plazas
or public lawns. Yet these public spir
ited women cannot vote.—Pittsburg
Letter.
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Rdv. Plink Plunk on Resignation.
Always be prepared for de worst,
deah breddern, an den, if de best is
wot falls to yer loi, ya'll be able to en
joy it doubly. an eben if. yer luck
thanges ya won’t hab dat all gone feel
m dat de man has who expecks ebery
ching an always finds hissclf amongst
de great ahmy ob de left.—New York
Herald.
Like the Celestial City.
St. John’s vision of the celestial city
will almost apply to our great munici
palities in omne’ respect, now that ifie
electric globe is turning night into «i.
‘“And the city had no need of the sulg,
neither of the moon, to shine in it.”’
Boston Transcript.
IT RAINS.
It rains.
And the leaves fall thick and fast,
As the boughs are bent in the autumn blast;
The sparrows hover 'neath sheitering eaves,
And the voice of the wind is like one who
grieves.
It rains.
It rains.
And the team goes not afield
To seed the earth for another yield;
The farmer sits by the kitchen fire
And smokes his pipe to soothe his ire.
It rains.
It rains.
And the fire burns cheerful and bright,
And the heart of the mother is happy tonight,
And she smiles as the lamplight shimmers o’er
Her babes at play with their toys on the floor.
It rains.
It rains.
And with voice with emotion choked,
A mothaer, in garments tattered and soaked,
Drags her weary feet with trembling tread
To beg for her darlings a morsel of bread.
It rains.
It rains.
And the sailor’s wife is sad,
As the wind shrieks by like a demon mad,
And a prayer ascends to the great white throne,
“Oh, Father, leave me not alone!”
It rains.
. It rains.
And the tall trees sadly wave
Their drenched boughs o’er a new madegrave,
And the grief stricken hearts burst forth again,
As they think of the loved one out in the rain.
It rains.
—A. Willis Lightbourn.
AN INGENIOUS DEFENSE.
The Narrow Distinction Between a Special
Providence and Petit Larceny.
Danny Lawton, an unfortunate belong
ing to the genus vagrant, was arraigned in
a Philadelphia court the other day charged
with stealing a blanket. When asked
what he had to say, Danny responded,
drawing his conspicuously lonesome cuff
from his wrist: ‘Your honor, last night in
my cell I prepared my defense. I am, how
ever, a somewhat diffident speaker, and
pot having any paper wrote it on my cuff.”
So saying, the dilapidated defendant
handed the astonished magistrate the cuff,
on which was written, according to The
Times, the following defense: ‘
Your HonNorß—l am a victim of circum
stances and of a belief in special providences.
From my youth circumstances have always
been stumbling blocks to me, and a belief in
special providences was ingrafted on my child-
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ish mind by my sainted mother. If it had not
been for circumstances, I should not have
needed or had the blanket I am accused of
stealing. The circumstance that I was with
out the necessary funds to pay for my lodging
led me to walk along a street, the name of
which I do not know, but which is lined on
each side with small shops, late last night. I
was hungry, cold and sleepy. Suddenly in the
midst of a strong and bitterly cold blast of
wind there descended upon me with a great
flap and flutter the blanket found in my pos
session. It wrapped its great warm, woolly
folds about my head and body and arms.
I released my head and looked about me.
There was no one in sight; no apparent place
from which it could hsave fallen or beea
thrown. I walked along and looked up at the
second story windows, but none of them was
open, and the lights in all the houses were out.
Where the blanket could have come from at
that hour—after midnight—l could not con
ceive. I puzzled my brain to find an explana
tion, but in vain. Suddenly I thought of Elijah,
who was fed by the ravens. ‘“Ah,” I thought,
“this is one of those special providences upon
which dear mother used to insist so strenu
ously.” Reassured by this explanation, your
honor, I wended my way with a thankful
heart to a neighboring hallway and bestowed
myself comfortably in the protecting folds of
my special providence.
The prisoner was discharged, but was
warned never to let such a special provi
dence happen again.
His Wife’s Name.
An old farmer, intent on making his
wiil, was asked by a lawyer the name
of his wife, when he gravely replied:
“Well, indeed, I really don’t recollect
what it is. We've been married for up
ward of 40 years, and I've always called
her my old woman.”” The lawyer left
a blank to be filied up when his old
woman’s name was ascertained.—New
York Mail and Express.
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THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
JOHN WEDDERBURN, Managing Attorney,
P. O. Box 463. Washington, D. C.
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are entitled, if now partiallyor wholly disabled for ordinary manual labor, whether disability
was caused by service or not, and regardless of their pecuniary circumstances. "
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CHILDREN are entitled (if under sixteen years) in almost all cases where there was no
widow, o- she has since died or remarried.
PARENTS are eutitled if soldier left neither widow nor child, provided soldier died in
service, or from effects of service, and they are now dependent upon their own labor for sup
port. It makes mo difference whether soldier served or died in late war or in regular army Or
navy.
3oldiers of the late war, pensioned under one law, may apply for higher rates under other
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Thousands of soldiers drawing from $2 to $lO per month under the old law are entitled to
higher rates under new law, not only on account of disabilities for which now pensioned, but
also for others, whether due to service or not,
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entitled, whether discharged for disability ornot.
Survivors, and their widows, of the Black Hawk, Creek, Cherokee and Seminole or Flor
ida Indian Wars of 1832 to 1842, are entitled under a recent act.
dMexi&:antWar soldiers and their widows alsoentitled, if sixty-two years of age or disabled
or dependent.
O?d claims completed and settlement obtained, whether pension has been granted under
later laws or not.
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