Story Of A Mad-stone

W. E. Sonnor, oí Fort Worth, Tok., has a mad-stone that has bii;n Daftd uver ono hundrod times and with suc[css. It haahmtory. In 1818 Captain Wilson, of Alabam, killed a wliito deer, and, knowing tbo Indian thcory, looküd in its stomach, and tliero found a stone as large as a goose egg tliat roscrablod a, petritiud spougo. This was the mad-tone. The Indian theory is that the white doer is more suscptil)Ia to vegetable poisons taken into tho stumach whtiu caten with grana than, other animáis. To preserve the life oí (he animal naturu has placed in tho Btomach this porous stone, which absorbs the poison, neutralics it, and aves the decr's lifo. The stone, apilil to a bile iuto which poison has been injectcd, it once draws it out, and when its pores are lilled drops off. Ueingsoaked in milk, the stone is made pure ajrain. and ready for