Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-09

WOULDN'T Int GO TfLH KILIMD--rIiK
UTILITY oF MAD-sroNes A MArrKR ov
MooNsHlNE.
On the goth OF August last James whit.
ley, young man about twenty years old,
while sleeping on the poriico OF his
fathers residence, near Keller, In this
county, was attacked and bitten br
polecat The vicious animal inserted TN
teeth In the bridge OF the nose Of its un-
conscious victim, and though he strove
witha desperate energy TO tear /, loose,
all his efforts We're nnavailing. The cas
chung on with desth.like tenacity. A
cousin, sleeping neM him, was awakened
/ by his struggles, and, coming 90 his res.
cue, finally succeeded In freeing hinfirom
the skunk, but not until he had
cHoKKD IN TO DxArn.
Yesterday GAzKr1R reporter saw
y0ung Whitley In the Office OF County
Treasurer Boyd. The upper part Of his
nose for about an inch had reddlsh-lcolS
OF Inflammation, and Just above his fore
head was beginning to swell, as " from
the effects Of blow.
He said, eyes, that 10 where l was
bitten by the cat few days afterwar,i
the wound healed up with scarcely sign
of a scar left homo few days ago for
our ranch In Clay county, and had nearly
forgotten all about my adventure with
the skunk. Only day before yesterday
did this lntiRmed place make
It's appearance, aud my father becoming
alarmed sent me back down here to see
the family DOCTOR"
"Did you treat the wound,in any way1n
asked the reporter.
al went TO Denton to see the Widow
Stepp, who owns famous maidstone,
and applied II without any good. II
would't adhere. Several others also
failed to stick"
Young Whitley didn't seem IN the lea II
bit troubled. He talked about the matter
as coolly as II II were pin scratch, and
, said II his father had not insisted he
should not have left the ranch, Yet there
Is enough In his situation
TO APpALL TIfR arOUrEsp HEART.
Why2 Simply because the bite OF the
detested little brute has In Numerous In.
stances produced hydrophobia and death,
with all the agones that death under aucl
conditions always means. Not that they
are always affected with rabies when they
, bite people, for In some instances no un
! pleasant consequences have resulted L
parties bitten by them.
Treasurer Boyd, who was present, said
"You know there are two kinds OF pole
cats, as they are commonly called In thi
= section, and indeed common In nearl
y eyery part of Texas. One sort IL the III
y tie striped cat that bit our young tricn
q here. They are the Vicious kind. The
I there's another species, about twice q
l. large, with one black and one whit
g stripe running from head TO tail, | neye
~ heard OF them attacking anyone. Bot
y kinds, however, are possessed 9
10 perfume that--well II doesn'
!. remind one Of roses very forclby. VIVA
. about hydrophobiap Yes, the bite OF tn
" smaller species does sometimes nroduc
y lt--not always. Some years ago | wa
u called TO see two negroes that skun
L had bitten, near Wheeler's mills. bom
J. simple remedy was given, and they r.
g covered readily. DO think there IL en-
y virtue IN madstonesY Frankly, ] don't
u no more than there Is In any kind OF
~ stone. ! am familiar with the history {
d a number Of so-called madstones In thl
o section, fol which great claims have bee
y made. | never knew one that
y EFFRCrKD SINGLE CURE"
D. 1About sixteen years ago. went o
~ Mr.. BOYD, ia relative Of mine was bite
~ by mad dog, and went 10 sec u
Is owners OF half n dozen MAJ
10 stones In Denton and Parker counte
- Not one adhered 10 the wounded part
~ However, no symptoms OF rabies ever a
fectod him. About the same time mn
named Jack Russell, living In the neig
borhood Of johnson Station, was bite
a On the hand by n rabid dog. lie had o.
~ piled the very same stones that we're use
~ on my kinsman. On the thirteenth di
OF after he was bitten commissions set In An
ID he died In short time, suffering horn
bly,"
40 allow do you account for the wid
IS spread faith In themf"
nBecause all superstition has not y
vanished from the world, and because
have had no pasteurs 10 set about findii
out remedy based on an intelligent ~
rs scientific mode OF treatment"