Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-01-08
slabbers in Horses.

Every H0rSeman KNOWS now ulSa-
greeable it is to have horses that slab
Der, aud all horses do that run on pas
ture in summer. The Iowa Register
says that white clover is the worst
agent to cause this injurious trouble
with horses, called slabbers. But
there are several others such as lobe
liza, st. Johns worts, pennyroyal,
etc., and the latter will even cause q
more profuse flow of saliva. Slabbers
is highly injurious to cattle. 1t is
caused by the essential oils in the
grasses or plants, exciting the salivaTy
glands. And do not imagine the
extra flow of saliva is only water and
will do no harm. Saliva when dis
charged from the mouth, instead
of being swallowed to aid dlgestlou,
Is exceedingly weakening to che horse
or cow, as it contains most of the
essential elements for the health and
growth of the animal. 1t is compos-
ed of potash, soda, lime, acid, phos-
phoric acid and organic matter.
There is really but little difference
in the character of saliva and that
of blood, and an unnatural flow Of
saliva from the mouth is nearly as
injurious to the animal as the flow
of that much blood.
But slabbers is easily stopped.
Give the animal small feed Of wheat
bran, cornmealor any other dry food,
which will counteract the irritation
caused by the essential oil of clover,
etc., on the saliyary glands. The
writer was of the impression that
clover alone caused slabbers, until
his horses were affected many years
ago, when there was neither red nor
white clover on the farm. Then we
began experimenting with other
plants, and found the ones above
named were as bad as clover.
This trouble is generally called
slobbers but the correct way Of spell
ing it is "slabbers," but it is pro-
nounced the same.-Rural. World.
THE i'll feeling engendered at Mo-
berly between the Wabash strikers
and those who took their places last
fall and which was supposed to have
long since been forgotten, cropped out
again last Thursday uight when at
precisely 0 O'Clock Bill Radell, a
non-union workman, stepped into
McNinch's saloon where he met Har-
ry Barresford, one Of the locked-out
men and a pronounced advocate OF
what he believed to be just, and
without warning fred at Barresford,
shooting him in the neck. The would
be murderer dashed out Of the saloon
on rnn and going through alleys
and dark places managed to get
several blocks from the business
center but was captured by posse.
The victim is in perilous condition.
He is q clever, jovial fellow who
gained some notorIety here during
the recent strike by his prompt ma
neuvers and who was arrested and
taken to jefferson CitY.-Huntsville
Herald.
4 NEXT to prohibition the grcatesI
craze that affiicts the people
Of Georgia is that which pre-
walls among the negroes, involving
the possibility of being captured by
medical students and sawed up for
scientific purposes. The negroes oi
Rome are now afraid to put their
heads out of the door after dark,
Vague stories are circulated of me-
dical students who go abroad in th'
darkness and the first victim tha
comes along, and, after killing him
carry the body off to the college,
for dissection. It seems TO be .
kind of craze with the negroes Of
Georgia. In Macon few weeks agt
an old woman was mourning th.
loss of a son, whom she alleged hat
fallen n victim to the body snatchers
A similar craze prevailed aroun,
Townsville q month or so ago.-St
Joseph Gazette.
Is Weimer, Germany, it is unlaw,