Show Sage Rats of Hawaii Become CoH Coffee e Addicts Addict Thousands and perhaps millions of sage rats in the Kona district of the Hawaiian 1 islands lands have become coffee topers They subsist wholly upon the ripe coffee berries and cause big losses to the growers annually it is stated Although the rats rata matte mal coffee coee their sole diet the rodents do not seem to tobe tobe be any the worse off by reason thereof there there- J of so far as their ph physical condition Is concerned The They r are sleek and fat fat and scamper about with an undue pla playfulness their unusual activity beIng being be be- I ing due to the stimulating ng character of the food lood it is supposed I Coffee Corre growers have so far been unable unable un un- Unable able to cope wIt with 1 the rat pest The little animals swarm into the bushes when the tile berries begin to turn and eat and destroy enormous quantities of ot the product It Is asserted It was not until some time after the growing of ot coffee in the Kona Koua district was started that the sage rats learned to like the taste of the berries Gradually Gradual Gradual- ly the addicts increased until now practically every ever rodent young oung and old will wUl not eat anything else They The even store away aWRY large quantities q of ot the Ule ripe berries In the same manner as 18 squirrels |