The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-11
TRuTa AND FICTION
Eow Novslist's Romance Wa Re-
produced in Zeal Life.

Nz---= : g. --co-St. o125ls pas a.
= ron 1--c- Hardy has some
genus Conceived thoroughly or.s-na.
z-sC- .1z- - E-sst mother comes
4i--g AID So 50 Is il y turning re-
-z-Ce 5--o --= 1-.l prose q fact Her
. latest s2plC.. .. Us scr, has Just &C
cured IL E.e-1z- d A-ch5Gad u.
SLeE5=.E : q American citizen l2te.E
res Ge-- -1s-e ~ his young vie.
Tz-ls1 apparently : Caucasian, he has
negro l.uCL = Is VEINS OZ.y his
-os- intimate friends knew @ the fact
Whether Ms v.te shared he secret
does Lo- zrr=z-. 4, a. events every
tzz-g seems 10 lave go-s We. until Inc
birth Of e son &C Ire young couple-an
uLu5staks5le -sE-o Pickslil1y. This
unexpected app--.t.on 50 frightened the
supers !tiOus -C-ss hat she ran from
the house il horror and alarm, pro-
claiming that TIE Prince OF Darkness
had become i1carnate. Negroes are
practically unknown IL Vienna. The
news spread everywhere. Curious
crowds hocked 10 the house TO get a
glimpse OF the black crown Prince"
as the newspapers dubbed him. The
situation finally became so unbeara bic
that he family we're forced TO leave
Vienna
Now, the novel from which this cpl
scde in real life is stolen is entitled
g. lr. and Mrs. George Morton" by
Howard Williams, and was published
some half dozen years ago. Henry
Morton. the hero. is a young lawyer,
apparently a magnificent specimen OF
the Caucasian race the adopted son OF
4 20 NH
had never revealed 10 him anything
definite about his paTentage. He mar
lies. and, IL due course, CONSERVATION
Is thrown into the family circle by the
birth Of a negro infant.
The nurse is the least disturbed OF
al. She jaUlL'y attributes the phe-
uoMenOn TO The fathers long sOiourn
among the negroes in the ancestral
lsne in Virginia. She does not con-
= the fact nearly so remarkable as
case Of hers. in which the baby had
d claw ike a lols,er's, caused. she ex-
planned, by its mother having been
bitten by a lobster eleven years before
t.e birth Of he. child But the physic-
ian mas a more scientific theory. He
d.yiIes that some one of Mr.. Morton's
ancestors, either Ia the direct or col
lateral line. was OF African origin.
1t &c al example" he continues. of
thai eXtraoE binary law Of inheritance.
known as atayism, by which a child
does not resemble either Of its parents,
but reyeIts to some ancestor more or
less remote
Il see il ALL" cries the unhappy IA
Their. Il must be a white child born
Of negro parents. That explains it all.
Ny parents are black and | resemble
some white ancestor"
This was near lae truth, yet not ex-
actly true in the view Of the adaptive
father OF Mr. Morton.
Mr. M0rtoA's family" he explained
when appealed 70, is one Of those pc
cu!iar ones Of pure African blood in
which white children. called Albinos,
are often born. Thomas Jefferson in
his Notes on Virginia mentions seven
instances in which d white child was
born OF negro parents. Three or four
Of these cases he says came under his
personal observation, and he describes
them at considerable length, though
quantity enough, under the head of in
digeLOus animals. Among other writ
ers / can recall a certain Dr.. PriJchard
VINO mentions the case of a negro man
VINO was the father OF white child &c
negro mother. This negro when
questioned in regard to the color oil
his child, said that his own father wa,
white, although born Of black parents
in d district Of the country where white
men were never seen"
By a wise provision of the novelist
the baby dies after few weeks exist.
ence, the secret never becoming public