Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

appear, ana
IN al properly
be termed the
Schronic form. -
In the first stage of the disease the
brain is not affected. The primary af
lection is of the membranes of the stom-
ach. The brain is involved by diStension
caused by a superabundance of blood
flowing to that organ caused by the irri-
tation of the stomach. In the more adj
yanced stages, after the brain has been
highly infiamed, serum is deposited in the
brain cavity and partial paralysis ensues.
The disease in its inception is easily
cured. In its more advanced stage, or
when the animal appears most violently
affected, it yields to treatment. In the
third or morbid stage an entire recovery
seldom, if ever, takes place. Originally
it was thought that the disease was
caused by poisoning from eating one or
other of the species of 'rattleweed -
Now, it is well established that the dis
ease is frequently caused from eating
species of willow, some kinds of clover
hay and from gathering sand and gravel
i'll eating seed from ranges where seed
forms the food.
l have been breeder in California for
thirty-eight years, and have had much
veterinary, nor am familiar with scien-
tific terms. The disease of the COWS 1
have known for over forty years rs
mad-itch. - Mad-itch is nearly the
same disease as loco, and is originated in
the manifolds of the first stomach.
Where cattle are fed stalk fodder and
hogs allowed to run on the same ground,
the malady is nearly certain to appear.
Hogs chew the stalks finely, suck the
juice out of it and spit it out
in guilds, somewhat after the fashion
of tobacco chewers. These guilds are soon
dried i'll the sun and become very light,
but the same time hard, almost as glass,
that is the fibers In gathering food cat
tie use their tongues, and these flbers are
gathered by the tongue and carried to the
stomach, where they work back into the
acute angles of the folds, become imled-
ded in the mucous membrane and thereby
produce inflammation which soon pro-
duces blood poison and death if the ami
NAL Ire not relieved. This disease is fire.
quently cured even in its advanced
A San Francisco paper tells this: A
party of men were talking in the Palace
hotel court last evening about liars they
had known. Mr.. More of Pasadena
said he knew the most picturesqe preYar-
icator on the Pacific slope.
ellis name is Martin Wobbly-j jaw
Martin, - said Mr.. More, "and he
works on my ranch. He d lie about the
size of half-dollar, and there never
were any black crows where he came
from.
"Where e that?'' asked Senator Fair,
who has reputation of his own to sus-
tain
"TeXas, and that's where Martin had
most of his astounding adventures. He
has told one story of a seance with
Texas steer until think he has forgotten
that it is a lie. He says he was working
in a packing house ut Bryan, and had
charge of the cattle that came to the kill
ing house. One day, according to this
weird romancer, steer fell down about
hundred yards from the house, and
seemed to be too badly injured to move
another step. Martin grabbed an axe
and went out to kill the animal. When
he was ten feet from the steer, it
jumped up and made rush for
the boss liar of the boundless
west, and hooked him. One long horn
went through his clothing, grazed his
back, and passed out under his collar ut
the back of his neck. Martin says he
had on new suit of olskins; and that
he was carried 800 yards on the steers
head, shouting for the people to get out
of his way and brandishing dhe axe.
"The crazy steer bolted IN among the
other cattle, stampeded the herd, and
beloved in Il way that nobody but this
dandy liar ever heard before. Suddenly
the oilskins gave way, and Martin, the
monumental, came to the ground, but he
hi h, fnll IA1
steer with one blow. He wasn't hurt
bit, and when the boys ran up TO him he
calmly said:
"'You bet 1 AIM no slouch.' Now
that man is the best all-round liar l ever
knew. Show Il better and | II treat
''Did he mention the name of the man
for whom he worked at Bryan?'' asked
one of the party.
eyes he did. He always gives names,
places and dates as straight as a string
Let me see. The man S name was Alex
ander, think
"wen, gentlemen,'' said Mr.. G. W.
Alexander, the one who had asked the
question, ''I'm the man for whom Mar
tin was working, and he tells the affair
exactly rs it happened. l remember it
very well, and If ever a man escaped
certain death i'll this world, Martin did
that day. -
"I'lI do as agreed, =" said Mr.. None
"Come in, gentlemen, and have some
wine with me. -
An unusual number of cattle will be
corn-fed in this section the ensuing win
ter upon which fact we are to be con-
graduated, says the Vinha, 1. T., Chief
tain. Corn fed TO good steer, with d
hog or two following him, will bring sSsn
February, fully twice as much Us thg0gh
sold now by the bushel. The profit is
not only the increase in weight 4 but
the value of the entire, animas4sisT
raised about 9 cents per pound :,
Besides that, two lots of hogs can bed
turned off while the steer is fatteniEg.
In addition to the cattle being full FED,
number of stockmen are coughing "a
lot of steers through the winter, intend
ing TO have them ready for an early mar
ket next year. On the whole, the APP
pearances are that there viii be good
deal of mighty nice beef here the coming
winter and spring.
q
The steckmen of the southern part Of
New Mexico have been greatly ann9Eed7
by the operations of horse thieves, who
have carried on their stealings withoFLR