The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-29
WON ON FOUL
Sanguine Encounter Between a Rat-Trar
Peddler and Detroit CIothier.

Peddler and a Detroit CIothier.
A man with rat and mouse traps
hung all over him turned aside as he
came up Jefferson avenue yesterd az to
speak to a man who stood at the door
of a clothing store.
WANT any traps?" he asked, as he
began to remove part of his load to
the sidewalk. Il was here two years
ago, and | think sold you rat-trap.
Didn't it work as | guaranteed?"
The man at the door looked straight
across the street and was silent.
This trap is something new. 1t is
provided with an everlasting bait, as
you see. As soon as rat is caught
this spring flies loose, the rodent is
knocked in the head and his dead BODY
goes out of this aperture. It's self
batter and self-feeder, and can make
the price thirty cents"
The clothing man seemed unaware
of .he others presence. but the
stranger lifted up a mousse trap and
continued:
Here is something new in mouse
traps, as you may perceive. Hereto
fore no trap has been placed on the
market which has given perfect salts
faction. The mice either refuse to be
caught, or escape after capture.
Please observe the mechanism Of this
trap
The clothier heaved a deep sigh as
he looked up at the heavens, but he
seemed to believe himself alone on
earth.
81 estimate the number of rats and
mice in a shanty like this at 1926.
Some go and some come, but that is
about the average. The damage they
do can not be placed at less than 81 so
per day. You can easily figure what
that is for q month or year. | guar
antee that two traps, costing you only
fifty-fye cents, will clean the place.
Come. now, what do you say?"
He didn't say any thing.
''Will you suffer loss of $500 per
year OF invest the triiling sum of fifty
five cents in trapsP'
No answer.
Business economy replies that you
will take the traps, of course. and here
they are. WANTED to say to you, but
forgot it, that there is nothing compli-
Gated about these traps. Here is the
working princip le-see?"
But he didn't see. 'l
'1t's all in this spring. What the
bait is composed of is a secret, but be-
tween you and me rats and mice cry
for it. don't suppose you have any
conscientious scruples about destroy
ing rats and mice, eh?"
He didn't say.
''Some folks have, but I regard it
moro in the light of a silly supersti-
ton. Where shall 1 put the trapsP
Perhaps you want me to set them for
your"
"My frendt,'' said the other, as he
suddenly turned around. edo you
vhant a new suit of clothes?n
"New clothes-no My object in
coming here was to sell -
Il elf you dot pair of pants for two
dollar, und | warrant him all wool"
"My object in coming here, as l set
out to say, was to-
Cor, if you like coat, you take him
along nit de pants for fife dollar
You get no such bargain in Detroit
81 set out to tell you that my sole
object in"--
"Vhell, take der west, too, und make
der whole suit at der same price. 1t
vhas hardt times NIT me, und [ must
shave down prices.
81 set out to tell -
"Dot vhas sheap. Nobody else
gives sooch prices. Every body tells
how sheap | sells goods.
The rat-trap man picked up his
wares and backed into the middle Of
the street and began:
'As | set out to say, my OBJ
"Vhell, / throw in hat nit der
suitn' interrupted the dealer II hat
too much stock on handt und must re-
duce.'
The two stood and looked at each
other for a momentin silence, and then
the rat-trap man turned away with a
weary air and began his journey anew.
Detroit Free Press.