The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1886-05-08
CHASE OF THE WOLF.
Stories Of tho Post Of tho Rus
sian steppos
rAstsnfs NuJiL Patients The iteast ~
the Novelist aud The Traveller usut
ing Him win Ciab add iAssoa
a right Win Horses.

Ejaculation rs q preventive u hydro.
ph0bia has received another set back IN
~ cabled report II the death of one Of
n Pasieur's patients. Tho victim Of
~ dreaded disease was a Russian mn,
jii, who, with eighteen others. had
been bitten IN the lst II March last by
mad wolves. DR., Pastcur Is Informed
by physicians from Russia that bites
from rabid wolves are very common In
Russia, and that 0j per cent Of thosc
bitten by such brutes die Of hydropho.
bin. This is the first time that the
world has heard anything about mad
wolves, and proofs Of the assertions ot
The Russian physician, will be- awaited
with interest AZ tho inquest held upon
The body Of the haplcHs mujik, however,
an examination revealed the presence
In the mans cheek. bone Of q portion nl
a drcayed tooth that undoubtedly be-.
longcd 10 the wolf by which he had
been bitten. Now, the tooth Of most
1%csh-caling animals ARE poisonous, be-
cause unclean. A wolf does not need
10 be mad for is bite To produce death.
Blo0d-poisoning Is the inevitable result
Of woltwounds when neglected. or
when the blood Of the victim Il 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 Ia 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 a
Russian communal village. and that the
nineteen mujiks. including the priest.
received their wound in attempting To
drive the brutcs away from their quarry.
But that the wolves were mad is qucs.
tionable. They were desperate and
dangerous, but hat 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. The peasants II the interior
districts Of Russia have every winter To
defend their stock from wolves. and
sometimes 70 defend their own live.
Bu, wolves do not attack human beings
a. a rule, and the Russian peasant Is
not particularly afraid Of them True.
be- may be- attacked when coming home
10 his village ON his. sled. but wolye.
can generally get their booty nj an
easier price than by attacking mujiks.
The artist, however. loves TO depic,
scenes where a pack Of wolves i seen
In full pursuit after a sled fnll ~ rras.
ants. The novelist II Siberian e,l.
life delights In dealing with wolf stories
and especially loves to depict the peas.
ant urging his horses 10 their full gait.
aud his wife preparing 10 throw the
baby Out A. a sop To the inhiriatrd
brutes. There j. one picture that \.
well known, since thas been the round.
Of the illustrated press Of the world /,
Is the famous M by S~chrryer. repre-.
seniing a Russian courier In a sled
drawn by six beautiful horses and pur.
sued by wolves This picture A
"reminiscences from the Rus-o-Turki.h
war 81 1880, when the artist spent q
long time in Wallachia. Hungary and
Southern Russia, where be l. said "a
have met the Russian courier whose al.
ventures formed the subject Of hi,
picture.
There j. one thing. however. that the
artist has forgotten in drawing his Al,
magnificent horses. Tha, j. the bells.
These are a very necessary thing IN
Russian or Siberian travel. Their
pleasant Naturalization Is heard or
your sled journey wherever YOU 20.
listened 70 them during a lwenty-eight
days journey across Siberia from Orcn.
burg TO lrkutsk. and again on a -four.
teen days journey northward from III.
capital Of Eastern Siberia 10 Yakutsk
Their cessation. indeed. became A
startling As the sudden stoppage Of tn,
machinery of = transatlantic steamer !,
10 the q yoyager. II usually an
nounced the fact that we had arrived Al
some large town. where the jingling o
bells Is prohibited BY the authorities. On
the stcppes, where there i but littl,
need OF proclaiming your coming 10 N,
wintry wastes. one Is surprised q
IND that the bells generally ilngl,
the londese was surprised 20 learn
indeed. tina, The iingling has i,s use, A
It's generally assumed TO brighten o,
The wolves. The sound seems 10 inspir
them with fear or caution. for the con
tinuous sound q the bells certainly pro
claims the fact that all Is well with m,
traveller. And In all my iourneyings.
must say that ! never heard ola yem
shik being attacked By wolves Will
driving bis sled from one stankia % IN
other. In very severe winters. how
ever. the run from rost-station 20 nos,
station i not always completed vithou
the sscitement Of being chased BY n
ugly brutes.
During my winter journey across 8
IBERIA ] was somewhat disappointed |,
seeing 30 few wolves. In my journe
Of 5000 miles across the s,eppes "a,
only fourteen. eleven In one band. ts
In another. and one solitary brute at
distance proving about on the Ice ,
fernessel. But the sled is a gres
place wherein 10 brood wolf .soriel
When you are lying down under yov
fnrs - night and the sled passing quicl
ossr the frozen roads you imagin'
oe weather Is not extremely col,
~ yoa ran hear the deep fruwiins |,
ns so>vss following your sIed. n a
~ssesr = tsrribly cold you hsar vii
.i.eQne 10 - the short ouick III
9apsesd Vanished brusss a;
Nh . ersadful sosnd Wien n
fk ~ ysu .son learn 70 t5o,
- noi~e. which. ..-i-s~
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