Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28


 Wsllachia to seek work and there he mar ried. He lived there some time, but after wards came back to Pindus. Six years he was absent, and he brought back four or five children. Then he died and left his wife and children to the 'five roads" G. c. |, to fortune.) The woman saw no way of keeping her children in Castanis, so she distributed them among her neighbo.s End went back to her own country. But one of them ran away from the person with whom he was left, and has lived in this part of the forest for four years. r lives, even as you saw him, without clothes. In summer he lives well and drinks our buttermilk daily. In winter he lies in the caves and lives on roots and nuts. He has learned no form of speech, neither has he name.' The forest warden determined not to leave him to endure another winter on the mountain; so he bade the shep- herds to catch and bind the boy, and fas- tened rope to him and took him back to TrikalB, where he clothed him, and has done what he can to civilizs him. He al- ways keeps him with himself, or under the care of some one who can talk, be- cause he seems unable to learn to speak any word, though he initiates the voices of many wild creatures. Nor does he learn to understand the names of things out 6ouuub uc we'll, ana 0G has learned to ride. As his real name is not known his guardian has called him Sciron."
 Relapsed man is found in three forms one, the most marked and least human, is that which ensues when he has, as & child, been carried of and kept-often for seye ral years-by wild animal. This is the acuoe form of relapse, and exhibits all the sy mptoms of the Pindus boy, with several others, among them a wholly carnivorous appetite, the voice of wild beast, ex- treme ferocity and a temper quite impossi- ble to humanize. The second and milder form occurs when young child has run wild or been deserted md manages to keep itself alive without human aid, to which form the case of the Greek boy belongs. The wild boy of Hanover, found in the last century, was similar instance. He ran on all-fours, ate nothing but roots and nuts, and was without speech. The third form, now very rare in Europe, but not uncommon in the Ardennes, and other districts where the wolf still lives, is clear ly the result of the mental malsdy of ly- canthropy, sufferers from which are year ly brought to be touched by the Holy Stole of St. Hubert, who, if less potent than his votaries imagine to drive the latent poison of hydrophobia from the tainted blood, can still minister to mind diseased, and with mystic and consoling rites cures sui ferers who exhibit beyond a doubt all the worst traits by which relapsed man is marked in the completest form of retro gression. What these characteristics are may be judged from the curious and com plete instances of the capture of children living in wolves den in the province of Dude, collected, it is believed, by Colonel Sleeman, the able officer who took lead ing part in the suppression of the Thugs of India. In the first case, which oc- cured near the Goomtee river, in dis trict where wolves abound and are never killed by the natives from fear of the ill., luck which their death will bring upon the village, native trooper saw large she-wolf leave her den, followed by three whelps and little boy.
 The boy seemed on the best possible terms with the old dam and the three whelps, and the mother-wolf seemed to guard all four with equal care. They all went down to the river and drank, after which they were chased by the trooper; but they escaped over rough ground into the den, the boy running on ll-fours quite as fast as the young wolves. The man then got assistance and dug the whole party out the wolves and boy bolted to- gether, and the boy was caught, fastened to Iopc anu lcQ to tue NlllhSt. ne COulQ not speak, but growled and snarled like a young wolf, and tried to bolt into every hole or shelter that was passed. After four days he was sent to an English o1 cer, Captain Nicholetts. Though kindly treated, he never learned to speak, ran away from grown-up people, flew at chil- dren and tried to bite them, and ran to eat his food on all-fours But he was friendly with pariah-dog, and would let it ehare his food. He would suck up a whole pitcher of buttermilk without draw ing breath apparently. He never laughed or smiled, and destroyed all clothes given him. Two and & half years after his cap ture he died, and just before his death spoke once or twice, saying his head ached, and pronouncing the word for water. An other child caught in a wolf's den in the same neighborhood was even more savage. He would only eat raw flesh, on which he put his hands as dog puts his fore-feet. He drank in the manner mention before, and habitually ran on all -fours, from which his knees and knuckles were quite hard Though reclaimed by his mother, he was quite untamable, and at last lived in the village streets like psrish-dog, going eve " night into the jungle. A third boy, caught near Hasanpur, could walk upright, preferred to go on all-fours. and ran so fast in that position that no one could catch him. He could not talk, but was induced to wear clothes. But he still re- mained so inhuman that few people would keep him for any time; and for three nights in succession wolves were seen to come up and awake him. In each case the boy played with the wolves, who capered round him and licked him.