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Show FRIGHTENS HIS BROTHER RAT8. Rodenta Will Not Associate With Belled Companion. Ono of tho old school-book stories of another generation told about the ruso of a porter, who caught a rat and fastened a boll to Its neck. When It was turned looso again and ran through the building all other rots left In fright at tho strango member of their species that was trying to assoclato with thom. Tho Janitor of a bank In Clovelanr" followed tho Idea In this old story, and It works out Just as tho school books say It did. Traps sot overy night woro filled with tho rodents, and yet there seemed to bo no end to tholr ravages. Ono morning tho Jant tor chloroformed a big fellow and fns tcnod a wire loop securely to Its neck To this loop woro attached three tiny tinkling bells. Mr. Rat wits re vlved by being placed beforo an electric elec-tric fan and then allowed to go again, His bells havo slnco been hoard tinkling tink-ling behind tho walls, but ho Is n lono-somo lono-somo wanderer through what was onco a populous rat city. All the rats havo loft this building and ho Is monarch mon-arch ot nil ho sujeyB. Probably he would prefer to "dwell In the mldBt of alarms" again rather than "reign In this dcsolnto placo." |
