The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-25
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A woman sat by the open basement win
dow of a house in West Tbirty-ffth street,
when a man came along with seven rat
traps and eight mouse traps slung over his
shoulder on a cord. He leaned on the
fence, wiped his perspiring broS with
crippled handkerchief and said;
Madam, no lengthy explanation Is de-
manded- / sm selling mouse and rat traps.
Ny stock is right here. Sell You trap
warranted 20 catch the cutest old rat In
New York city for aquarter. These mouse
traps, warranted 10 entice the most bash
full mouse in the state TO his destruction,
are only fifteen cents. Night make the
two thirty-hv cents to you"
The woman was dsrning a hols IN the
heel of a long handled black stocking. She
darned and looked up, and dArned and
looked down, but she made no reply.
"Of course" said the man. as he detached
one of the traps from the cord and held 10
out, ''if you have no rats here you want no
traps, but take it you have rats. We all
have 'em. That's where the rich can get
no advantage over the poor. / don't say
that it isn't cheaper to lay for rat with a
sled stake, but as a matter Of convenience
the trap is ahead Savey, mA'amp
She looked up again, turned the stock
ing wrong side out and back, and said
nothing.
"a person not in the rat and mouse
business gives little or no thought 70 sta
tistics," continued the man, as he rested
one foot On the fence. Have you any idea
OF the appalling increase Of the rodent
popuiatlOu' Probably not. / have met
poets, editors, Gnanciers aud Statesmen
who had given IL no thought. As q matter
of fact, am, one pair OF rats viii multi
ply themselves 1000 times in two years
One thousand rats will consume an aver
age Of 5000 worth Of provisions per year
One Of my traps viii catch loo rats every
3s5 days. II IS therefore a question of
whether you will invest 25 cents or lose
500. Could anything be palmer, ma 'anP'
By this time she had got through with
the hole in the heel and found one in the
toe Of the stocking. She looked up al hin
as she threaded the dArniDg needle again,
bat was silent.
Mind you." said the man. after looking
up aud down the street, II don't say that
the rat shouldn't have a show. he vas
created for purpose, the same as man,
most inteIligence ~s have 10 right 70 wiDa
him out Of existence VIA: I do contend.
however Is that be must be kept within
certain limits. Whenever. owing 20 nun
bers and rapsCioususss. be becomes a men
ace 70 mans welfare, he must 20 20 the
wall. Il j. with that end IA view that Fss
traps wee invented, and that I have come
down from Tonkers - Ofes these traps ~
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trust that have defined n1y position clear
ly. rBa'ana."
She BIZ OF the yarn elo.e 20 the stocking
turned i right SIDE ont and pzssed her
fingers over the SPOT. bot her eyss we're n0s
even raised % his
Il think see how is is." bs aid. a. be
rsfasssned the trap % the cord AID pre-
pared 70 move On i thlnk ! %. IDE
have not made finance and domestic soon-
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