Show how rats are treated san francisco examiner Ll alicky icky baldwin had rats in his carrot arret that is to bay say in the garret of hia big hotel Lr large gebron brown rats they were and ill bred too inasmuch as they know better than to wan won der into rooms occupied by ladies at unseasonable hours of the night sometimes Bome timea they would intrude upon a private dinner party and causa cause a lively scattering among the partido P pants lite they had poses eion of the basement bae ement as so veil well as the parrel garret and made themselves at homa home on each of the five floors baldwin was la in despair his ills cro cromien nieto were wont to about rats rate I 1 just for the tun fan of seeing him jump finally be he sent east for far a couple cup of blooded scotch ter riera with pedigrees pedigreed grees as long as one of beairs ePee speeches ches they were installed in the basement where the edibles are ore kept at the end of the tile first day old sius the colored charge daff alres of the culinary department part ment ssie eai t ai as the carcasi of the laet last dead rat dropped into an ash barrel te dogs killed them at t the h e r rate ate of a hundred a day for or a w week e ek then the rats moved from the basement to 0 o the other parts of the hotel it was impassible impossible to keep do dogs ga al all I 1 0 over v er th the e house BO so baldwin b bought ought two ferrets and hired a man to take charge of them the long slender little animals did great service ferrets are the natural enemies of rats rate and can follow them into any hole no matter bow how email the this ferrets method of killing bis his rat is to fight until be gets a bold hold on the rats throat and then dead rat there is an unpleasant feature about it though after killing his rat the ferret bucks the body dry of blood and leaves ic it in the hole the odor became so unbearable that baldwin was forced to banish his ferrets frequently the ferrets became so 80 gorged with blood that they found difficulty in emerging from holes which they e entered with comparative ease alter after the ferrets left the hotel the rats rate commenced to multiply again A brilliant genius who inhabits the tile basement had an idea white rats rate were what he thought of baldwin sent to japan and imported nine of them they were in shape the tile bame same as an ordinary brown rat but they were much larger and pure white wh to in color and they had bad pink eyes T the be genius in the basement knew bow how to handle them he ile put them in a large cage fed them well and made mad e them understand that the cage ws wis their home when he be had made f friends ri ada with all of them he turned them loose the brown rats rate commenced men cod to decrease in numbers at a surprising rate the chaps from japan bossed the roost as they do 10 not say bay in paree they chased the brown rats rate into their holes fought them killed and dragi dragged zed the bodies out for the genius genias to gaze upon lie ile had bad trained them to do that and the result was that no dead rats were left in the tile holes sometimes the white rats would be bibly lacerated but their courage was of the right sor tand they never failed to attack a brown rat on sight eight another good feature of the white rats was that being well fed they never stole food or tried to get away they were at liberty iber to roam at will over the entire building being docile not in the lead leant timid and pretty creatures the ladies aid aud children in the hotel made playthings of them from floor to floor they pursued the brown rats and finally drove them from the hotel altogether now you find a it brawn rat in the hotel if you searched a week one or two of the white rats took wives from among the brown rats and their progeny had bad spats like coach dogs and pink eyes but bat the female white rats made war on their brown sisters and forced them away baldwins baldvins Bald wins brow is free from care and be he talks of starting a white rat farm on bis his ranch near los angeles |