Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-05
HER BuRDEAsoME BIRTHRARK.
A WOMAN WHO BEARS \ TERRI
BILE AFFLIcTIoN.
Wbinnie. Like n Horse and Eats
and Drinks In Like Mnnner-niind
ana Mutc--Her Mother n Circus
nidcr-strange story.

san Francisco, Dec. Airs. Weaver
matron Of the aimshouse. is making an
effort to secure admission into the
Home for the Feeble Minded Of Sarah
Luiz--tlie most remarkable OF her
charges
Properly she belongs there" said
Mrs. Weaver yesterday. but because
she is blind they say they will not
receive her. have tried TO have her
transferred to the Asylum for the
blind, but they will not admit her
there, because. they say. she Is feeble
minded. And this (the almshouse) is
not the place for her. am equally
sure, although il seems to be the only
place whore there are no limitations"
Sarah Lutz is marked with the
horse" they say at the almshouse,
Here Is a most remarkable case FOR
the study OF the Psychologist. Marked
with the horse" she unquestionably
seems to be- marked at her birth.
She is 10 years old. with a fair, fnc
complexion and bright red cheeks,
light hair. which Is clipped short, rath-
or over than under the medium height
for woman, strong frame and all
the evidences Of perfect physical
health, though her limbs aud body are
somewhat uniformed. Her hands are
notable. They are long and slim and
white, Most people who see them at
once pronounce them beautiful. The
export In palmlstry delights IN them to
illustrate, by their absence Of strong
lines, the mental weakness that is so
apparent IN their most unhappy own
err and AN untroubled life" Think
of it-nn untrOublcd life.
if IL ia an untroubled life to sit for
ever In the dark and 10 hear only dim
sounds from the outer world; 10 have
n constant craving FOR some sign Of
fellowship that can only reach the
darkencd mind through some kindly
touch upon the check, seldom to be
given save by the poor creatures by
whom she IL surrounded; VI IL Is 10 be
forever crying out with a voice that IS
not human, voice that sometimes
rises In the stiffness Of the night Ike
the awful scream OF a wild animal,
freezing the marrow in those who hear
with the horrible agony OF yelrniug or
fear that is In II ana tligt will not be
stilled until she feels the kindly rcus-
surfing Of tho hnud upon the hair again.
IL Il ia TO be always strlining sightcss
cye8 in cropping with these delicate
white hands until they feel and clutch
tile watcher who must lie always near;
If by an untraublcd life " meant to be
dependent upon others for everything
even TO the matter of feeding and
dressing -thcn this expert IN palmistry
has hit II exactly.
Twenty years aEo there was q IA
nous woman circus rider known IN
great red and blue letters ON the dead
walls u San Francisco as lfle1, What
her real name was has not been hand
ed down, She was n great part OF the
fame, indeed, or W llson's uupitheH-
ter and circus, which showed up and
down the coast and at regular inter-
walls on the circus lot on Suttcr street.
Wilson'S was to the coast In those
days what Barnum and Forepaugh
have since been 10 the East, all the
conditions being considered.
With It's glldcd wagons. its horses,
clowns. cqullibrista aerial artists, tum-
blers, bare back rldcra and I<leo. VIII
sons one day took ship and sailed
away 10 Australia.
No competitor arose 20 M the place
I LEFT FOR u couple OF years vacant, and
Ia the course Of time the dcndwalls
famed with the announcement or the
triumphant return ~ the now world
famous Wilson'S circus, with All Ts
uprOar ana tlnscl and hippudrlminr.
back riding, hg clowns aud Eiep
the Fr'nt nmpithchter was built Tor
. permanent display at NeW N..t-
H4nery uud Mission 9Lrnats aud lt5
/ OPENING was nothing lees than holt
Jay
on Tho long Journey across the sca
lNieo hnd TALON In love with the mate
uf tue ship, one John Lutx, and be
lpre the ship sailed away again they
| were married.
Every nisht while his ship remained
In port Lutz occupied the best seat Ina
the 0mpitheatcr 10 see his wife In hcr
| daring bare back fcats, Standing up-
| right as her own beautiful horse which
aho had trained and To which she uns
| pnsonately devoted, flow around the
sawdust track, leaping over hurdlea
| while sue sprang through paper colorcd
I rings or down to the sawdust and hack
/ 10 the horse again, going at fun speed
\ anu az last standing upon one foot
IN graceful abandon, urging the horse
ing their delight
Mute Luts considered himself a tri-
| umph at these times. no doubt ana en-.
] 1oyed tho eNhilaiatlon OF the moment
"a much az did his wife And all went
| we'll
But sailors must sail the soa and
| circus riders must remain with the
! NlicuN' ~, Mtt1' Tow weeks or
/ months n may have been John I.uta
/ sailed away with his ship, and uirht
/ after night Kleo, In pink tights and
! apanglcs, with not the interruptlon OF
I one performance because OF her bus-
/ banda departure, her feet In tiny slim
! pers and n pretty little riding whip
/ IN hand, daehed round the saNlust
track lcOped through the paner-cov-
erred hoops while the clowns nii.nlclxed
| ana made merry and the audience
| yelled Hsclf hoarse-night after nignt
| for months
But there came a time when the ring
: master was called upon 10 stand IN
on his high stool, his long whip IN
hand, and VITA t,iat voice that every
man aud child wo has ever been 10 a
/ circus may hear rs he rcuds this an
nounccd TO the audience that the grace
ful and daring Kleo would not appsar
that night,
Klco never did appear again. A little
girl baby was born to her and Kleo
! died.
When John 1utE returned the star or
tho eircur and tho sailors star. his
wife had long been buried, btu her lit
tie daughter WAS In the careful Keen
Ing OF good friends NJ the woman.
His great sorrow. for he deeply loved
the woman, was augmented by the rev
claton that the child was blind. lie
made provision for Il and went TO sea