The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-09
OWN STORY
By DON MARQUIS
Copyright. 1e12,
 by Doubleday. Page C. Go.

But he tells me he has jest struck an idea fur a big scheme. No little schemes go fur him any more, he says. He wants money, real money.
 We left the restaurant and went along the brag street of that town, which it is awful proud of, past where the stores. stops and the houses begins We come to a fine looking house on corner.
 '"This,'' says Dr. Kirby as we walk ed by, 'is the house that Jackson built. Dr. Julius Jackson, old Dr. Jack son, the man with an idea. The idea made all the money you smell around here.r
 'sWhat idea?''
 'eThe idea, the glorious humanitarian and philanthropic idea, of taking the kinks and curls out of the hair of the Afro-American brother says Dr. Kir- by, ''at so much per hnk."
 This pr. Jackson, he says, sells what he calls Anti-Curl to the niggers- It is to strafghten out their hair so 1t will look like white peoples hair. They is millions and millions of niggers. and every n1gger has millions and millions of kinks, and so Dr. Jackson has got rich. He must be worth $2,oo0,OO0 or $3, 900, GOO, pr. Kirby says. and still A-makdng it, with more niggers grow ing up all the time fur to have their hair unkinked, especially mulattoes and yaller niggers- pr. Kirby says thinking what a great idea that Anti Curl was give him his own great idea. They is a gold mine there, he says, and Dr. Julius Jackson has only scratched little off the top of 1t, but he is going to dig, deeper
 'sWhy is 1t that the Afro-American brother buys Anti-Curl?'' he asts.
 'sWhy?'' asts.
 ''Because,'' he says, tshe wants to be as much like a white man as he possi- b1y can. He strives to burst his births fnvidious bar, Danny. They talk about progress and education for the Afro American brother and uplift and ad- vancement and industrial education and manual training and all that sort of thing, especially we northerners. But what the Afro-American brother thinks about and dHeams about and longs for and pnys to be-when he thinks at all-is to be white. wen put up and sell preparation to turn the negroes whItey'
 That was his great idea. He was hore excited over 1t than ever seen him before about anything.
 It sounded like so easy a way to get rich it made me wonder why no one had ever done it before, if 1t could real ly be worked. didn't believe much it could be worked
 But Dr. Kirby. he. says he has begun his experiments already with arsenic. Arsenic, be says, will bleach anything Only he is kind of afraid of arsenic too. If he could only get hold of some thing that didn't cost much and that would wblten them up fur a little while, he says, it wouldn't make no difference if they did get black agin- This here Anti-Curl stuff works like that-it takes the kinks out fur a little while, and they come back agfn. But that don't seem to hurt the sale none It only calls fur more of Dr. Jackson's medicine
 The doctor takes me around to the place he boards at and shows me a nigger waiter he has been experiment. ing on. He had paid the nigger's fine in a police court fur slashing another nigger some with knife and kept him from going into the Achain gang So the nigger agreed he could use his hide to try different kinds of medicines on He was 8 velvety looking. chocolate co1ored kind of nigger to start with, and the best pr. Kirby had been able to do so fur was to make a few little liver colored spots come on to him. But it was making the nigger sick, and the doctor was afraid to go too fur with it, fur Sam might die and we would be at the expense of another nigger. Peroxide of hidergin hadn't even phased him. Nor a lot of other things we tried on to him.
 Which he finally struck it. [ don't exactly know what she had in her, but she was a mixture of some kind. The only trouble with her was she didn't t work equal and even-left SamHs face looking peeled and spotty in places. But still in them spots Sam was six shades lighter. The doctor says that is jest what he wants-that there pass ng-on-to-the-next cage we have the spotted -girocutus-l look, as he calls 1t. The chocolate brown and the lighter spots side by side. he says. made a regular Before and After out of Sam's face, and was the best advertisement you could have.
 Then we goes and has talk with Dr. Jackson himself. Dr. Kirby has the idea mebby he will put some mon en into it. pr. Jackson he looks Sam over very thougHeEuI. and he says:
 .Yes, it win do the work well enough. I can see that But will it sel1?''
 Doctor Kirby makes him quite a speech. I never hearn him make a better one. Dr. Jackson, he listens very calm, with his thumbs in the arm holes of his vest and moving his eye brows up and down like he enjoyed it. But he don't get excited none. Final ly Dr. Kirby says he will undertake to show that it will sell-me and him will make a trip down into the black coun- try ourselves and show what can be done with it and take Sam along fur an object lesson.
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