The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-20
WEARING HAIR FROM LEPERs
LocrOR SOUNDS WARNING NOTE
IN WOMEN OF THE LAND.
Declares That Danger Is Serious

Main Sold in the United States Comes
From Heads of DepOrted Indians
ond Chinese, and Spreads Disease.
One of the Greatest Dangers.
mich space has been devoted to
Aha following article in the state
nrass and is causing widespread
eminent. The article is from the
nan Of DR.. w. F. Cole of Waco, Tex:
"A few days since the papers were
living considerable space to the mys-
+orious appearance of human hair be-
mo waited hither and thither about
certain freight yard in Chicago.
The mystery was solved by the dis
covprv of a carload of human hair
with no one to claim it. The police
took possession and carted it away
for safe-keeping. A certain party in
. nearby town in Texas bought bill
of several hundred dollars worth OF
hair from one of the largest mer-
camille firms in Chicago a few weeks
since. but before the goods arrived
he received a telegram advising him
not to open the goods, as q letter of
exclamation would follow. The let
Ter came in due time, advising him
10 burn all hair at the expense Of
the Chicago firm, as it had been
learned that the hair had been taken
from the heads of leperS,
Since this incident occurred it is
'reported that fourteen girls from this
lChicago firm had been attacked with
Ileprosy. In the April number of
|Pearson's magazine there is an arti-
Gle in which it is stated that all the
CHEAP hair comes from the heads of
dead Chinese and Indian women. 1t
also states that half of the false hair
comes from China and some comes
from a leper island in the Caribbean
sea. where Cuba has a large leper
colony This article also states that
la short time since the head of the
glove department in New York
Istore purchased a switch from the
|hair department. Two weeks after
ward the upper part of her body was
attacked with a skin disease which
the doctors pronounced leprosy.
lido not think it would require the
wits of a Sherlock Holmes to clear up
the mystery of the Chicago car of
false hair.
With this prelude to the subject
Il desire to address the people on this,
Ito my mind, the greatest danger
(which has ever menaced the public
health of our people. The nation and
the state quarantine against the in
PRODUCTION of the plague known as
cholera and also against the intro
duction of other epidemic diseases,
and it is due to this and to medical
science that the population has not
been decimated in civilized countries
during the last century, as was the
ease before. AS I am writing this
article for the public I will address
fhe public and not the doctors. 1t
IS the oldest disease that is known
Bnd described historically. 1t is fully
described in the thirteenth and four
teenth chapters of Leviticus, which
to the scientific student is to be one
Of the most interesting passages in
ancient history. Here you will find
minute descriptions of the symp-
toms and diagnosis of leprosy, with
directions for disinfection and isola-
ton of infected persons to prevent
infection by contamination In the
same connection is given minute d.
rections for publication, which
sounds to us as the veriest voodoism,
but let us bear in mind that this oc-
Cured fifteen centuries before
Christ. Leprosy is due to a specific
germ, the bacillus lepra of Neiser,
but so far no cure has been discov-
|ered, though at the present time some
|of the brightest minds in the world
are seeking a cure, and it is only a
question: of time when such will he