The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-16
BLACK MEN MADE wHITE.
A Kentuckisn Claims to Change the
Ethiopisn's Skin.

A Kentuckisn Claims to Change che
Ethiopian's Skin.
From the Baltimore Herald
DR.. 81. G. Smith of Princeton, KY, hsi
made an important medical discovery.
He has in his possession a secret recipe foi
oring substance from a negroes blood aut
make his skin as white as Caucasian's.
How the discovery was made is told be
low in DR.. Smiths own words. His story il
backed by the statements of numerous citi-
zens of the town where he lived and expert.
mented.
DIR. Smith is now located In Baltimore,
and is making an effort to organize a stoel
company in order to secure funds to carry
on business on large scale. He has in hi
employ Sully Mcleod win, the first mar
upon whom he operated.
DR.. Smiths story will give the salient
points Of his former patients biography
1t was told to Herald man in the doctor
office, at % CORTLAND street, and is as fol
lows:
sin my town in Kentucky" said DR.
Smith, elves a man named Charlie Louder
He was a sort OF a local Joe Mulhatton, and
managed to palm off some right good yarn
on the newspapers. One of his tales wal
copied all over the country, and Its appear
ance first started me in the direction OF the
secret / afterward found. Louder's story
told how an old, bald-headed man, living
out north of town, had started home one
night just little more than half shot
'ln passing along the road at the side OF
pond the old fellows horse SHE'D and
threw his rider headforemost into the mud
at the edge OF the water. He then started
for home, leaving his owner behind. Toe
drunk to be sobered by the fall and not hav.
ing enough sense to know just how to steer
for home, the man lay down in a fencC
corner nearby aud went to sleep.
"When he swoke in the morning the mud
had dried on his head aud when he reached
home he washed and took peep at himself
in a mirror. What he saw took his breath
away. His pate WAS covered with brown.
ish growth OF down. He hurried back tc
the pond and plastered his head again with
the mud. For four days he kept 1t there,
and ct the end Of that time had heavy
suit of soft. silky hair.
THAT was Louder's story, and ib brought
dozens Of letters to him in every mail.
There were letters of inquiry from bald
headed men in almost every state in the
union. When / read the lie it set me to
thinking. | was druggist, and had sold a
number of different hair restorers, but had
often wondered why none OF the men who
prepared them had ever found a fluid thai
would kill the hair.
~ knew that lime would burn 1t of, but
l also knew the roots were not damaged
unless enough lime was put on TO eat
through the skin. | determined to prepare
fluid Of my own making, lime to be the
body of my mixture.
II added alcohol, and then there was a
strong liquor made from boiling tobacco
and iron weed. tried the mixture as Il
stood, pouring it on my arm where the
hair grew thickest. All the hair was taken
off, but in a few days it began TO grow out
and saw that my mixture wasn't worth q
cent. The lime alone would have done O.
well.
Then l tried to remedy the faults OF nov
recipe. l experimental with 126 differapt
chemicals and forty-seven varieties Of
herbs.
II accomplished nothing. One day met
Phil FoerR, Princeton man who has made
a great deal of money out Of a medicine be
prepares from herb roots. He suggested
that l dry the root Of a certain plant thai
he had come across in his experiments. /
sent out to Lake Rabid, two miles from
Princeton, where there is a good bed of the
stuff. and secured nine pounds of roots.
"McGoodwin is the man who dug Che
roots for me, and he became interested in
my experiments. He suggested that try
the mixture on him. His hair grew an inch
to try and prevent it from creeping any
further along his spinal column.
"Well, the liquid was applied and it pro-
duced a strange effect.
"Sully's skin turned white-white as the
driven snow or whittier.
~ was badly frightened, I'll admit but l
hoped to see the cuticle change back to its
Il A. !
somebody would see the white and tell Sully,
SO cautioned him against exposing the skin
to the air. put bandaRe around his neck
and he went home.
"The bandage stayed on for few days
and then l put on another. A few days
more and the bandage was again changed.
'tThe skin was still white, and the hair
was coming back as strong as ever.
"Well, to make a long story short, in six
lair had come back as strong and thick as
ever, but as straight as Chinaman'S
II broke the news to Sully.
HE was too badly worried to get mad,
but when l suggested that he let me cover
his head with the mixture he objected.
81 blended and argued, but he refused
until offered him $25 for the privilege Of
experimenting on his cuttcle. Then he agreed
TO battle In the fluid. l couldn't allow that,
with brush I applied the mixture
You see the result His complexion is
good, and his hair is as straight as any
white mans.
During the time Of the experiments Sully
remained in a room over my store and no
one knew of the change. When / was
ready to announce my discovery l started
for Baltimore. taking Sully with me.
IA certain friend of mine who lives in
this city had agreed to put up some money
If he was satisfied with the results l brought
about, aud when he saw the photographs
have OF Sully before the fluid was applied,
aud then saw him as he Is now, be said: 4
am willing to risk every cent have in putt
ting the stuR on the market
my friend Is a man of means and TO-
gether we have succeeded in selling most of
our stock. My partner, or, rather, CO.
worker. is a real estate man, but prefers TO
keep his identity IN the background"
McGoodwin corroborated DR.. Smiths
story, but wanted to spend all Of his time
talking of ''what the people of Princeton
would say" when be returned home.
AN ENaL1sH PAPER says there ia 10 a work
house in that country genuine horned man
He is a Turk. whose home is a mountain vii.