Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-03-27
CHANGING COLoA
BLACK MAN BECOMES Ar.
MOST PERFECTLY WHITE.

remarkable and Rare Instano.
" ieucoderma-Cause of the Ex
'raordinary Transformation.
~ A black man rapidly turning white ;s
n .ne marvel l, to select few of the promi.
"ens p physicians of Columbus, Ohio
black as the blackest'' could VOL,
uave been applied to him at one time
NOW he is becoming perfectly white
, ure arms and limbs, together with the
sreater part of his body, being pink.
s sh, and in most parts where the
mango has taken place quite as fair as
'he 1airest and plumpest of women
IL is tne most remarkable case of leuco-
derma that has yet been BROUGHT to the
attention &c, OF the medical profession.
Inc man who is undergoing this sinpu-
.ar transformation is Henry Harvard. He
Is onlced States prisoner at the Ohio
penltentiary, where he is serving a sen.
tence with two Georgia moonshipers
Last September Henry and his two com.
panions were arrested not great dis
lance from Macon. United States Revenue
olncsIs had swooped down upon his
son9anlons, catching them manufactur-
ing Illicit liquor. Harvard was with tbe
men at the time, though it was never
proved that he had hand in manufac-
turing the stuff. When the officers made
the capture, he pulled a revolver from his
pocket and gave every evidence of de-
sire TO use the weapon. He is a power
lully built fellow, and it took several
blows before he was felled to the ground
lie was placed under arrest, and, charged
with resisting government officers, was
given two years in the Ohio Penitentiary.
Received in the early part of last septem-
Der, with good time off, he still has about
a year longer to serve behind the bars of
the "Pen.n
When he arrived at the Penitentiary
the attendants who took charge of him
were somewhat surprised at the spotted
condition of his face. When he Invested
himself Of his clothing preparatory to
prison bath they discovered his body
about evenly divided as between white
and black.
1t was the impression of some of the
attendants at the time that he was very
dirty white man. They could not satisfy
their minds with this reasoning, however,
after giving him thorough bath, as no
change in his color was apparent. Com
pletely puzzled, the attendants applied
for information to the two prisoners who
had accompanied Harvard to the Peni-
Tertiary. To their astonishment one of
these, fellow named May, told them
that . Georgia physician had examined
Harvard and had pronounced him
afflicted with leprosy. He was at once
placed in an unoccupied shed under
guard to await an examination by the
physicians of the Penitentiary ON the fol-
owing morning, it then being too late
IN the evening to do any thing in that
inc.
Early the next morning the strange
,ase was called to the attention of DR.. c.
llleyne Howell, the assistant physician
g the Penitentiary. He made complete
hmination, and at the conclusion pro-
Jed that Harvard's condition was
to leprosy. The prisoner was en-
from any faint he discovered.
an 4h-t A~--14cvc-utiurfts;,--
they need entertain no fears of
& disease through coming in
hth Harvard. The doctor had
I'm interesting discovery. 1t was
the prisoner from Georgia was
Anging his color. 1t was some days
iterward before he fully satisfied him
elf as to this. The outer skin was peel
ng off. That was plain. Information
egarding this wonderful specimen of an
operation of the system rarely ever wit
lessed was at once impaired to four or
I've OF the leading doctors of this city.
Harvard was brought before them, and
hey pronounced his case the most re-
of any Of the very few similar
mes known to the profession. Together
hey have quietly watched developments,
md have during the past four months
|een Harvard almost entirely shed his
black skin and assume that color of his
more fortunate fellow-being, the white
man.
A more perfect specimen of physical
development could scarce be imagined.
BE is over six feet, and weighs about 212
pounds. Stripped to the skin, his huge
muscles play like those of the trained
athlete, his limbs being well moulded,
ind his form Of excellent build. 1t pre-
Ients sight, too, that will cause the
most learned of physicians to gaze in
The feet are perfectly
white and so are the hands. 1t is not OF
The darlxish white, either, so common
with those through whose veins courses
colored blood. The calves of the legs a
distance above the knees are also white.
Part of the hips are black, and then
around the body, the back, stomach and
chest are white with that pinkish, soft
tint of the maiden. The arms are white
and fair to a short distance above the
elbows. The tips of his shoulders are
black, and their tops, as though he wore
epaulets, are white. Across the shoulder
blades is the black stripe, jutting up to
the hair upon his head in two streaks,
lust back Of the ears, and running up In
q tiny streak to the base Of and in front
of each ear. The back part of the neck
is white. So is the under part OF the
Jaw and greater part of the skin about
the throat.
It is the face, however, that presents
the strangest spectacle. About the eyes,
down over the cheek bones to the strong
laws. and on each side of the forehead, Is
skin as white as that Of any man in full
~ Alo +l,a foY, of each eve and