Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-06-05

which has been consistently attached to him, and that the animal is of Q really gentle and affectionate nature.
 The agricultural department people say this has nothing to do with the case, so far as they are concerned. The wolves "must live, and their pur- suit of food is reported to cost mil lions of dollars to the farmers every year.
 That the contenders for the natural gentleness of the wolf have case seems evident to one who studies it carefully. Cuvier, an avowed enemy to wolves. relates an incident of a wolf taken young and brought up as a dog might have been.
 He became familiar with the house row at his absence, obeyed his voice readily and behaved in every respect like domestieated dog. His master, being obliged to travel, presented the wolf to a menagerie.
 Here he remained for weeks, uneasy and diseontented, pining and refusing food Gradually he became reeonciled to the situation, recovered his health, and attached himself to the keepers.
 After an absence of eighteen months his master returned. At the first sound of his voice the wolf sprang up, frantic with joy, and, being set at liberty, rushed to his master and overwhelmed him with caresses. A second separa- tion was followed by the same symp- toms of grief, which again were allayed by time and by the friendship of a dog which had been given him as a companion.
 Three years passed this time before the master again returned. When he did so, his coming was at night, but again his first word awakened in the wolf the memory of beloved voice, and happy cries came from the cage. When the door was opened the faithful creature rushed forward, placed his feet on his friends shoulders, menacing the keepers who offered to remove him, and giving strong evidence of his joy.
 It is seldom, however, that the wolf has escaped obloquy. Buffon says: "There is nothing good in the wolf. He has a base look, a savage aspect, a terrible voice, nature brutal and fero- eious, body so foul that no animal or reptile will touch his flesh. It is only wolf that can eat wolf"
 The wolf has ever had bad time of it. Every mans hand has been against him. Kings have made him the sub iect of proclamations. His haunt has been the wild; he has had to struggle against beasts bigger and better armed; i; against hunters and the rigours of eli mate, and in this struggle his teeth have become fangs, his wit keen, and his sense of honesty dull.
 Captain Lyon relates that wolf he captured slammed death until, slight movement of his eyelids being observed, it was hung by the heels. Then it be- gan to snap at everything within reach and gnaw the ropes that bound it.
 A French hunter, Houdetot, says that he was once standing on a rock over looking pasture occupied by a flock of sheep, attended by boy and dog Presently he saw skulking out of the woods, first single wolf, then a sec ond.
 Advancing cautiously, they reconnoi- tered and appeared to draw up a plan of operations. Then one wolf sprang out, ran toward the flock, passed di- rectly in front of the shepherd, and, seeming to hesitate, turned and fled. The shepherd jumped to his feet and, followed by his dog, started in pursuit;
 Meanwhile, the sheep stood huddled in terror. Their suspense was short. In. moment the second wolf appeared on the scene, sprang in among them, selected nice fat wether and, dashing away, was soon lost to sight in the GOV ert. There, in some central tryst, it doubtless awaited the mate s return to supper.-New York Herald.