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Show Belling a Rat. You have probably read or heard that the best way to rid a house of rat's Is to cntch ono and fnston n bell about Its neck. A boy In. Dolawaro tried tbo experiment two months ngo. Ho wns badly bitten In making tho bull fast, but he turned thu rut loose and expected the tinkling of that bell would havo great results. It did havo. In the first place, tho rat who wore It was constantly on tho movo all night, and the tinkling bell kupt tho family awake, and In tho next the sounds brought scores of now rats to tho house. Instead of being nfrald ot tho bell, thoy were charmed with tho mil- 1 sic. Had tho boy tied a harmonica I to another rat's tall, tbo rodents would have had a danco every night. i |