Show FUN FOR THE cias CATS A trained company that rat hunting every night llor how tile tie watchman or of a earl t factory Toa ellier it tY ally of lilam dred W kil killed skilled la H lew thoro there Is a bit big carpet factory at tho f foot ot 0 t west forty filid treet sit vs s tile tho new nf V york bun uti tile cirni has bas plenty 0 of f brains to know what it needs tina anil 11 plenty 0 money to procure it is ono thing tile members 0 i tile tho 11 glnn ru cant do in spite of nil all their brains and money they cant keep rats out of their wool and choir failure in fit this ro 10 sect costs then them many thousands of dollars they rhey have two big storehouses that were built with an to protection aga against hit rats tile foundations run down many feet tile floors aro of solid cc Loin 1 and alla tile walls are of brick tho the va value of tile wool stored in cheso two buildings is sometimes is as much its as much inch of it is tho finest that cui call lie ho got tho the rat aits dont know ono one hind from another por perhaps haps hut but it nearly alwa always y s that eliat as of tills helectra wool ool la Is mined ci every cry night as of tho lila cheaper cli CApor kind when thick walls walla and many watch tilen man failed to to d daf defeat at tile rats it was doat aidea to see hoc wh ahat an all anny of eat cata would a do 0 C cats ats wiro were invited to tile factory art aid iy ay means of itally pounds of fresl fresh I 1 meat set out as ai fr broo lundli everyday very day 1110 alio invitation it soon 0 on became known torill to all fit alio cats in ill the neighborhood they all but the firm hoon red thit that they needed training for tho the moi finont t alio llio 1 0 li billiel lliel was vas over thuy tr ottell deniu demurely rely away and were soon seen no more 11 until tit tile next day tho watch watchman niall who Is on oil duly at ill night flit begaii cIng ft lends uc of them tilon ji and ana pretty soon hoon he w ats as a at t to approach ally of the ill without foal fear of getting or of frightening ti klicin ill nay away when lion tills baago was reached tile big floors doors of tho the f factory said were closed onu one d day ay and tile tho cats amro ere prisoners they liko life it very cr much but their embarrassment disappeared under tho the tender of tile watchman and they soon became recon clied to tho sit situation cioll it is for tile tho watchman to malco mako a 1 tour of all tile buildings it at short during dining tho night and not the ob lica J jact was to got the cats to search tile tho buildings before lie ho entered and aila frightened tile rodents by liis his trend tread it talce tako much pr tico before tile tho cats understood der stood that 1 a I rapid journey tile buildings buil hul dinga laings at night light was pretty suro sure to result in an it entertaining scrap with homo big rat and as tile time for foi tile journey was about tho time who when thoy they were ero re ivady a dy for something more inoru tu to e eat 1 t dicy entered into tile tho thing with gra great spirit the alion it it happened that as aa soon as night camo callo and tile fio many hundreds of employed emp loyes had trooped out and till watch watchman niall began rigging up tip lits his lantern for tile tho nights vigil tile tho cats would gather about him hill in a great moving tind and jumping up tip eagerly A at present aro are about two tio 11 bundled dred cats 0 on 11 july duty it in tile factory lac tory bild it Is a thing to seo see tile va tell illa tort from tile anleo dor door and stride don owl into tile blade black cavern of the yard aid biti v etli tile cats streaming out behind ill bilm 11 liko the outstretched tall tail of a horse filose nearest hilli jumping about 11 hla a legs and rubbing their bodies gd against 1 I III him when tile wat watchman batchin chin tit reaches leaches tile booi leading into alio llast factory and ly begins grins tumbling fumbling with ills his I 1 ling ing of ked acly 3 till cats surround liim blin arid and till moment tile door swings nack hack they dulst into tho building liko a great wao that has burst its dati dam arid and run over thu the whole building as noiselessly and swiftly as water runs tile stands iio below in ill tile doorway doom ay awal awaiting tinEr tile them in Oc emion all y lio lie bears a sudden rubb a feve 1 grves a frigli toned or two to and then ile ho knows th that it tho the cats hao found it a victim it sometimes happens that a rat weighing as much as avo alve 1 pounds is Icil kilko led of course coin so ono one cat cou bant master a big follow fellow liko to tills and ana his death proves that tile tho cats are arc on oil good terms lei ins and that they stick together in fit a fight those these big fI fellows lovs aro are dock rats clio como come up from tile tho water in search of a change or of food when a cat runs rull S 1 a I rat into a holu hole tho the other cats spread out liko like sentinels and guard all tit atio pass sages leading from it then tho the watchman either turns tile halo balo oer ocr or pokes tho the rat out with a stick slick and tile tho moment lie ho malies makes a break tor fur liberty that moment 0 lio lie is gobbled up hut but in ill spite of all tills vigilance and care acry e cry morning tho workmen find wool spread over thu the floor door that lias bas be barn it torn from tho bales liy by the rats and that thai much is dragged out of the building there can bo be no doubt it may bo be that in time the cats will succeed in killing hitting all the rats or in frightening them mbeni oll As it is many aro are killed but their places seem scorn to bo be taken by others just now tho the watchman is grieving over tile the loss of ono one big cat that was a killer ot rats and usually led cd the chargo charge against tile very big follows ito ifo was troubled with fleas and tho watchman Mal climan to him of tile sprinkled him witt with noa flea powder tile tho cit cat t woo liko to ho be in a soiled stilo st ilo and so removed tile alio powder in tho the way vay usual to cats and died |