Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-27
THE WERE WOLF.


ments; he penetrated further into the
arcana of philosophy than any man
OF his generation; but he was totally
destitute of personal ambition, and
never could be induced to put his dis.
coveries aud speculations into literary
form. Hence his name is unknown,
and, save TO the private friends with
whom he conversed. not few of
whom have acquired great reputation
by the towering in them of germs
that he planted in their. minds, his gi-
ant intellectual stature is as though it
had never been. A giant he was.
physically as well as mentally; a
brave, well balanced nature. sunny
and clear as the day; a great, Jove like
head, with close curling beard and
hair. With ambition added. he would
have stood a head aud shouldersabove
the makers of history-a king OF the
world.
Ny mother was of another stamp.
She was beautiful, dark and passion
ate; as fierce in her loving as in her
hating. / have seen her throw her
self upon my fathers herculean
breast, her syarthy cheek against his
fair and ru ID y one, her Jet black hair
upon his Y, low beard, her wild black
eyes gazing into the steady blue of his;
clinging there like a snake, and kiss.
ing him as the adder strikes poison
into its victim. But her hate-that is
scarcely 10 be described. Had destiny
made her ruler of nations, like Semi
ramis or Cleopatra, she would have
made their revenges look pale by con-
trast with hers; her cruelty towards
those who had kindled her resentment
was as raging and implacable as fire.
Not the agony, not the death of her
enemies would satisfy her, she must
annihilate them, body and soul; and
yet would have them exist through an
eternity Of torture. But enough such
We're my parents.
| was their only child, aud l in
herited from both. My fathers brain
dwelt in the nature of my mother; but
the two influences counteracted each
other. had not his careless serenity,
nor her concentration and vividness
OF emotional manifestation. | appear
ed cold aud ascetic; my passions were
intense, but they were silent and hid
den. The only fire which | permitted
TO reveal itself was that which famed
in the furnace of my intellect-the
devouring resolve to know and fathom
all things, And, indeed. | absorbed
knowledge with an ease and swiftness
that astonished every one. Before
was 90 ! knew all that the universities
can teach, and could have acted as
professor in any branch of either clas-
sical or scientific study. But all this
was 10 Inc but as the lowest rung of
the ladder on which | purposed TO as
cend beyond the clouds. Ny ambi-
ton transcended the limits of human
achievement in the past, and contem-
plated conquests Of domains which
heretofore the eye Of man had not
been opened even To contemplate.
Master Of life and death, of space and
time, of matter and spirit-not less
than this was my aspiration. | be-
lieved in my unequaled destiny, and
was deeply determined to fulfill it.
One faculty | possessed that neither
my father nor my mother ever mani
fested-that unexplained power Of the
soul 10 he free, at will, from the pref
udice of time and space and the wells
Of physical substance. This endowed
me with a singular control over the
thoughts and impressions Of Others,
and showed me upon how simple a
foundation the magic exploits OF the
wizards of all epochs are based. But
magic is only seeming-a specious IL
fusion wrought on sense. My aim was
TO make the seeming an actuality. /
wished TO create and 10 annihilate,
not to trifle with phantoms and Jug.
gleries.
/ kept a gray Russian wolf in my
garden-one of the most savage of its
species. lie was chained TO a tree; 7;
not that | feared him, but that /
wished his savageness 10 remain una
bated. Daily visited him, stared into
his mad eyes, and studied his nature.
The wolf. the widest and most relent-
less of all savage beasts, is the most
closely allied of all 70 the foundations
of human nature. After contempla-
ting him for awhile / would feel my
self entering into his instincts and
cravings, aye, and outdoing him in
ferocity and brutal bloodthirstiness.
My comprehension of him cowed him
he would crouch and howl and strive
TO break his chain, lest l should spring
upon him and rend him. That which
In man we call love Is in the wolf
the undeveloped man-fear and ha.
tred. He feared and hated me, and
] loved him for his fear and hatred.
The scent Of his hot breath and shaggy
fur sootlled and pleased me, the glare
q his yellow eyes moved me 10 laugh.
ter, and his snarling and whining
tickled my very heart. From such
oommunions returned refreshed and
stipulated; they appsassd me, and
lsfS me kindly and genial Man, liks
fool, would ever keep himself within
his own narrow castle. Let him
smsrge and invite 70 himself the wild
ioross Of nature, which. indeed, u but
NJ inchoate self, and the springs ol
he life will become - the exhAus&leu
walls Of Artesia, which are fed from
~ hidden reserveirD Of the plansl