The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-28
TIE WOLVES OF CHINA.
They Are Allowed to Prey on Settle.
ments Unmolestsd.
From the North China News.

OLl the NORTH emma News,
The winter this year was exceedingly
mild for China. and was followed by
good deal Of sickness. Wolves abounded
In the matter of wolves Chinese show
great deal of superstition or selfshness.
Thus there are known dens of wolves
which would be the better for a little
brick or mortar applied to the entrance
but which remain in the undsputed pos
session of the enemy OF mankind, either
from religious dread or from the fear the
Inhabitants have Of turning the rage Of
the wolves against themselves, as the
cunning beasts avoid molesting the imme-
ulate neighborhood carrying on their
raids at distance Even they point out
10 you here and there where a new brood
was bred and born into maneaters with
out any attempt having been made to
destroy or dislodge them. Though the
mandarins offer a reward for the head Of
q wolf, there is rarely response, and
that accidentally, when, for instance,
wolf, lured by the bait laid for a fox, has
tempted the gun Of the huntsman. A fox
SKIN fetches more, and government re-
ward Is likely to be considerably pared
down before II reaches the gate Of the
yamen. -
There was peculiar superstition that a
child who finds its way into a wolf-in the
transmiSration OF souis-recusstates an
infant With this end in view dead child
rem are, in the north Of the province, ex-
posed on the tops and sides Of the noun
tains, and here in the plain covered over
with few inches OF earth. 1t is a con-
venient way, also, of disposing OF beggars
and outcasts.
Along town and village bitches the hea-
wing earth denotes where some pennies
wretch has found some temporary resting
place.
The next day a few torn rags and
long, black pigtail attached to a rough
scalp Is all the monument this departed
Celestial has left behind. Wolves thus
have their uses, and the pigtails, too
Wolves have on more than one occasion
favored by obscurity--cone up to the
door of the chapel and behaved very de-
corously while mistaken for dogs, but
scampered off at the mention of the word
laun. It is the - - word taken up on
all sides that clears the plains in daytime
or the Intruder. Like the rest Of thieves
they have great dread OF being found
out.
Chinese say that In carrying off pigs
the wolf seizes the animal by the ear ana
makes him trot on-piggies are huns
across the back-ehildren cling to me
wolf out Of pain. II they can be rescued
before the second bite, they often sur
vive particularly, I should say, II the OF
GRAFTON Of tracheotomy were known 70
the native physicians. often terribly DE-
formed features in a crowd reveal cary
contact with lupine teeth. A wolf a shol'
time ago, walked into the yamen and car
ried off the mandarins puppy.
call TO arms and a discharge OF mus
kerry did not prevent him from making
good his escape. The writer once iol,
lowed couple Of wolves who regulates
their speed by the speed Of the horse am
stopped when he stopped. Dismountht
he stood three yards, face 70 face WIZ
one, pointing a revolver, but all the tWlsl,
Ing and turning in the world could not 3.
II 10 part fire. He followed the wolf up
small hill, but as two we're waiting iy
him on the brow he thought II best WllA
useless weapon TO wish an au revoir