Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — Boots and Shoes from Negroes Hide. [ARTICLE]

Boots and Shoes from Negroes Hide.

Rochester Democrat. The Penny Prea» says that Dr. Schneider haß taken the skin of a negro, which he has dissected, to the tannery situated on .Franklin street, just out of Columbus, where it Is now being made into leather. A reporter who examined the piece of skin found it extremely tough and liable to do good service if put into gaiters. It seems strange use to make or humanity’s remains, though. The tanner stroked and twitched it, and dilated upon its good qualities. The process of tanning is to rub it with a mixture of alum, salt and eggs, which draws out all the oil from the skin and saves months of time. Perhans a new industry is opening in the eity, and perhaps some of those who are perfectly worthless in life may be made to do dutj after they have quit. Imagine the sensation, however, of a dainty lady caressingly putting on a glove made from the skin of a darkey she wouldn’t have touched without a shudder while in life, or of the tho’ts that must come to-a maid when she takes off her gaiters at night with the knowledge that even so small a part of a man is alone with her. Ugh!

The Tipton Times puts it this way: “Oh. yes. We had forgotten. But while we are thinking about it, how does it come that a rebel officer has been employed by Hayes to codify the army regulations? Why is a keeper of Andersonville prison employed by our purely Republican government in the treasury department? Why is Louis Schade. the volunteer advocate of Wirtz, who was hung for starving Federal soldiers, drawing Government pay? Why is the rebel general, Keyes, postmaster? Why—? But there are so many questions of this sort to ask, and only one answer to give. The Radicals are obliged to lean on the South for brains to carry them through.” Artificial ice in Florida costs about 70 cents a ton.