Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-19
WILD in THE FOREST.
Strange Family in the Blue Ridge
Two Sisters and Brother Con-
siitute the Circle.
Their Home is n Gave, Their Food the anne
They XIII, Their Language VornRc-
luar of Their Own.
Chicago Herald.

CultdkO AlGEdlCs
HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. l5.-About
thirty-ave miles east of the capital OF
Pennsylvania, upon the mountain fast
nesses of the Blue Ridge, the Herald cor
respondent found family of wild people.
Within dozen miles from the village of
Myerstown, Lebanon county, these un-
civilized persons make their home Their
name is Lqub, two sisters and brother.
The latter is probably fifty years old, and
the women, Hannah, fifty-hve and Mary.
forty seven. They all appear shy, and
whenever any person nears their retreat
they hide among the bushes or seek oh
scuration In their cave. Uneducated and
uncultured, they are mild and harmless
The man is tall and heavily set His ewes
bulge out like bulldogs, and his re-
treating forehead indicates the idiot he is
His face Is flAbby and sparcely covered
with whlskers, and his hair is always In a
Whlrlwind OF confusion. His skin in
every part of the exposed body is tiuged
with the lie color of the hardy noun
tsineer' Tine clothes he wears are of that
peculiar kind which startled Rip Van
Wrinkle when he awakened from his
l uii GU, sleep His hunting piece is an
Wv uAul-lOChs
Inc women are not unlike their brother.
hannah hair Is OF raven darkness, and
stanus straight on end when alarmed or
eAclIeu' Her complexion is sallow, with
neck tulted with large brown colored
golters. Mary, the Youngest of the tr,o
has light hair, which is strangely matted
overcast with q mixture of tints-hroyn'
gray, and yellow-caused by the ravs ~
the sun. Her eyes are blue and deenIn
retired, giving the expression Of
haunted, frightened, and saddened sopi
me Two sisters are generally clad In main
sklrls OF coarse material and rudely mt
tosetner. Their heads and feet are al
NAYS pare IN summer time, and in winter
their shoes are made out OF hides OF AMI.
n.a sueh as the brother can kill or tran
their arms are bare and brown and hands
Soarse-Velned, with flnger-nails nrotrndl
ing IKE claws of wild beasts
ms family consisted of i've narsons
w iather and mother and these tbrea
cniuren. The early history of Inc fsmiIs
VIII always remain secret M resiSnrt
IA ~ the neighborhood appears 10 know NM
sn'ns concerning the tribe beyond re-
present generation. There is no noss;.ne
way 10 ascertain what caused the fan'ii0
70 rendezvous in this isolated region i,
aeauily perceived that no man or
woman would ever have come ont q,
S Sn,n a condition TO at once ceterioTate
T i.so suen oarbarous state as that Of the I
c ci1Ss o,sn unless driven 10 1t by an afro.
has, niams, Neither one Of the three 1
s nas y memory beyond their daily wants
ana YET with enough Pennsyiysnia n NM,
lnterspersed to understand ire haa ,Hssn /
% inelr answers. When spoken to 49, 1
answers cone in doleful tones, ana t sher
syss are cast 10 the ground. They hsrs
s 10 ~, h,nowiedge u the most ordipary thru
~ mss' and are o1lE able 10 ten their
~ ns .,s Is the nalne OF the man. ana
' sne sisters manifest mich love ana e 1nu
,s ssn .or sneir brother The same aifsc,
$500 $500 bearing comes over All when
'FV~sn " % tneir dead parents. The