The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-28
FOR IS YEARS
Color of His Skin Not
His Heart.
Mr.. James Weaver, of Johnston Coun-
ty Had Nitrate OF Silver Admin
istered IS Year Ago and Has
Been ''Huckicberry Blue"
Ever Since.
Ever Since.

What chool boy has not prided
himself upon being able to name the
five %colors, or races, of men-white,
yellow, brown, red and black? These
were ell the color ascribed to men
in the Biographies that were studied
by the men of today, and the school
boys of the present are still saying:
The five races of men are the white,
or Caucasian; the yellow. or m%ongoli-
an; the brown, or Malay; the red, or
indian; the black, or negro. And
insofar as it pertains to races this is
correct. But the catalogue will have
to be revised to make 1t correct as
to coIors. Another color must be
added.
Johnston county can Justly lay claim
to the distinction of having perhaps
the only decidedly blue man living.
And while he is, as one expressed it,
"a perfect "huckleberry blue he is
really blue only as TO color. He was
seen in Raleigh yesterday, and far
from showing q disposition to bemOan
his fate or to sUccumb to dependency
or melancholy, he was cheerful and APP
p%arently happy and was not at all re-
tiCent when questioned by the curious.
In fact he seems to thoroughly ap-
p~reciate the fact that his remarkable
REGULARITY of color is calculated to
excite the curiosity of those who see
him for the first time. There is no
thing blue about him but the color
of his skin. But this is decidedly blue.
The remarkable man is Mr.. James
Weaver. who resides in Bentonville
township. near the Sampson line. in
Johnston county. He has been here
this week attending the Federal court
as a witness and returned home yes
terday. Co-incidentany, his former
physician, DR.. r. H. Mclean, of Dunn,
r. r. D. No. g., was here yesterday
also. From them the wonderful story
of the man was gathered, and the
case of his remarkable color was
learned. 1t is no freak of nature.
Mr.. Weaver is now about forty-one
years of age. Until he vas eighteen
years old his color was natural. But
for twelve years prior to that time he
had been subject TO epileptic fits. Sew
eral hundred dollars had been spent
In efforts to obtain relief, but in vain.
DR.. Mclean took the case in charge
and told him he thought a cure could
be effected but that the means would
probably result in q change OF the
color of his skin. Mr.. Weaver con-
scented and the physician put him on
a curse &C treatment that did the
work. Nitrate of silver was prescribed
and used. Mr.. Weaver said Yesterday
that he had never had a return of the
trouble since the second application.
and though it rendered his skin per-
fectly blue. he said, Il you'd not be
in the condition T was in before for
five thousand dollars. And the treat
ment cost me only sixteen dollars.
Some have said they had rather have
the cts than to AVE my color. but they
don know. The color of a mans
skin IS no disgrace. It is the color
of his heart that cunts"
DR.. Mclean said that he had never
known the treatment to fail 70 cure
epileptic fits. but it usually turns the
skin dark. However. he said 1T sell
dom renders + so dark as in this case.