The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-24

certain amount Of pigment in the skin OF
even fair people-that is, of the black
ana yellow kinds found IN their HAIRCUT
not enough to prevent the blood in the
vessels, which do not come nearer the sur
face than the true skin showing through
the semi-transparent layers of the epi-
dermis. Bronzing through exposure 10 the
sun is due to an increased blood supply
and a corresponding development freckles
and pgmented spots, similar in structure
TO the general skins of darker races,
while dark-complexioned individuals
among us have, in addition to the ordl-
nary pigments, a trace of the black color
of the negro more commonly present IN
our hair There is not, however. enough
to destroy the racial fairness of our skin,
though in exceptional situations. such as
in the arm-pits, its presence may be very
evident.
Semitism and AnRIO-saxOnism.
Three stages of mankind's color evolu.
ton, from the black, through the yellog
to the white, have theoretically been -
cepted by a number of European anti O.
biologists, one of whom explains theref ON
the closer proximity, relationship ara in
termixture of the Semitic peoples with
the African blacks. 1t will be remem-
bered that during the civil war the Yam
KEGS attitude toward the colored race and
the slavery problem was by some ethnolo-
gist deduced from the alleged fact that
most of the slave traders and, when that
business did no longer pay later abolI-
tionists were members of Anglo-Saxon
families who belonged to the lost tribes
of Israel, that is, the Semitic race, de-
scendence from which is. indeed claimed
by thousands Of both English and Scotch
parentage.
A UN1IPoDean ca 70 nc
10 explain the present imperiahstic policy
from this theory, asserting that its chief
promoters and the leaders in the black
expansion movement are nothing less or
more than sprigs of that same stock. He
even attempts to prove it by their very
names. McKinley's name, for instance,
offers no difficulty for this pathological
benious. Mac IS nothing but the Scotica-
ton of the Hebrew word Ben son.
Kinley, originally "Konley," is a com
pound Of the Hebrew Cohen" priest, and
Levi" the Levite. Alger. whose names
first syllable is recognized by any one that
ever looked into his dictionary for the in
depreciation of term of Arabic Or Yin,
probably belongs 10 the Ger-ShormlJes.
one of the chief branches of the Levites,
part of whom were dispersed with the lost
tribes of Israel. Mark Hanna's surname,
we are assured, is entirely Semitic. The
an atavistic excrescence of Semitic senti-
mentally represented by men ana women
who may or may not be of the belief that
the ancient Anglo-Saxons were really the
northernmost refugees of the jewish das-
pora, a view shared by many scholars of
past and present reputation.
Color and Disposition.
DIR. Akopenko, Russian physicians, has
just Closed a number of experiments test
ing the impression of various colors on the
psychological condition and feeling of ger
sons exposed to their prolonged influences.
He confined them in rooms furnished with
colored window glass. Red, yellow, green
and violet were the colors tested. In red
and orange-colored rooms the individuals
subjected TO the experiment felt pretty
wei and comfortable, less so in green
apartments while the violet or purple col
or caused a feeling OF fatigue, drowsiness,
headache, apathy, etc. Dr. Akopenko be-
lieves he discovered in this effects of rays
of colored Hight valuable suggestions for
the treatment of nervous ailments that re-
quire either excitation or checking of GER
tain phychic functions.