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CHASE OF THE WOLF.
Stories Of the Pest of the Rus
sian Steppes.
Pasteur's Mujns Patients-The Beast Of
the Novelist and the Traveler-Huut-
ing Him With Club and LsssO-
Fight With Horses.

incubation as preventive Of hydro
phobia has received another setback in
the cabled report of the death of one of
NJ. Pasteur's patients. The victim of
the dreaded disease was q Russian mu-
jik, who, with eighteen others, had
been bitten on the LIST of March last by
''mad'' wolves. DIR. Pasteur is informed
by physicians from Russia that bites
from rabid wolves are very common in
Russia, and that 80 per cent of those
bitten by such brutes die of hydropho-
bia. This is the first time that the
world has heard anything about mad
wolves, and proofs of the assertions of
the Russian physicians will be awaited
with interest. At the inquest held upon
the body of the hapless mujik, however,
an examination revealed the presence
in the mans cheek-bone of a portion of
a decayed tooth that undoubtedly be-
longed to the wolf by which he had
been bitten. Now, the tooth of most
hesh-eating animals are poisonous, be-
cause unclean. A wolf does not need
to be mad for its bite to produce DEATH
Blood-poisoning is the inevitable result
of wolf-wounds when neglected, or
when the blood of the victim is in an
impure state, There are hundreds and
hundreds of villages in Russia where
the entire population of peasants are
afflicted with hereditary disease and on
whom the bite of any wolf, mad or not
mad, is liable to prove fatal.
That wolves do attack the Russian
mujiks occasionally may be accepted as
the fact In the present case we have
to imagine that the wolves, driven by
hunger, attacked the live stock of q
Russian communal village, and that the
nineteen muiiks, including the priest,
received Their wound in attempting tC
drive the brutes away from their quarry
But that the wolves were mad is ques
tionable. They were desperate anC
dangerous, but that they had rabies has
yet to be proved. There are thousands
of people who have been attacked by
wolves in Russia who have recovered
without showing any signs of hydro
phobia. Tbe peasants of the interior
districts OF Russia have every winter tt
defend their stock from wolves, anC
sometimes to defend their own lives
But wolves do not attack human being
as a rule, and the Russian peasant Il
not particularly afraid of them. True
he may be attacked when coming home
to his village on his sled, but wolves
can generally get their booty at ar
easier price than by attacking mujiks
The artist however, loves to depic
scenes where a pack of wolves is seer
in full pursuit after sled full of peas
ants. The novelist of Siberian .xil
life delights in dealing with wolf stories
and especially loves to depict the peas
ant urging his horses to their full gait
and his wife preparing to throw thu
baby out as sop to the infuriatet
brutes. There is one picture that /
well known, since ithas been the round
of the illustrated press of the world. ]
is the famous one by Schreyer, repre-
senting a Russian courier in a sic,
drawn by six beautiful horses and pun
sued by wolves. This picture is
"Reminiscences from the Russo-Turkis
war of 1885, when the artist spent
long time in Wallachia, Hungary an
Southern Russia, where he is said t
have met the Russian courier whose &C
ventures formed the subject of hi
picture.
There is one thing, however, that tn
artist has forgotten in drawing his 81
magnificent horses. That is the bell:
These are a very necessary thing
Russian or Siberian travel. The
pleasant Standardization is heard o
your sled journey wherever you 60,
listened 70 them during a twenty-eigl
days journey across Siberia from Orel
burg to Irkutsk, and again on fo9
teen days' iONrney nOrthward from Il