The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07

throngs of them scampering out of the
building to reach place of safety. Joseph
recounts that he never asks for imme-
date remuneration for his work. He says
he is content to wait for his pay till he
thins the rats out.
81 can nearly always get all the rats in
building or in ship collected out of their
several hiding places by the general
sprinkling of my POWDER" said Peoples.
"But there is another way have with OBJ
durate cases, and the way ! do it is this:
If there are ancient rats, cunning. and
with exceeding great knowledge from
many experiences, which refuse to be
lured from their holes, take some of the
tame rats which | always have about me
and daub them over with phosphorus.
You send these phosphorus coated rats
out through building and they CLEAN
through the dark places and different cram
MES like animals made of fire. This j1st
about scares the living lights out OF these
ancient rats and they make haste to get
out of there. Never having seen rats made
of fire before, they are good and well
scared. They get out and up to the sur
face, and that's all want.
II once had a funny experience in
Portland. / had contract with man to
clean out all the rats in building of his
for $40. l went to work and got rid of the
rats and was figuring how would use that
twenty, when l met the man and he took
IS from his pocket and handed me. That's
all I've got,' he said, you see went into
the hands of receiver this morning and
l can't pay any more But learned
afterward the man had plenty of money,
but he wouldn't pay me any more, so l
had to conjure out way of squaring the
matter. have two kinds of powder, both
of which are useful according to circum-
stances l took some of this powder and
sprinkled it about in greater or less guam
titles, putting the greater quantities in
and about the building that l had just
cleared of rats. In q little while / had
called all the rats of the leighborhood to
this building, and they were swarming
everywhere. Just about this time the
boss came down and took look at the
place. thought he would have fit. He
ran his fingers through his hair and was
the picture of anguish. What is this,
Peoples, he said to me, that you have
been doing here? Here is nothing but
rats, rats rats. nothing but rats.
thought you were going TO clean them all
OUT"
$50 did, said, but you didn't pay
me. Give me $40 now, and I'll make
them all disappear again.
HE. hated to do it, but he had to toe
the mark eventually. / got rid OF the
rats, and he paid me the money. l think
l can get some contracts here to clean out
the rats in different places. There are a
great many rats here. 1t is one of the best
towns in that way know.
"For one thing it's great wheat ship
ping port. Wherever you can find q
great port of this kind you find a superior
quality of rats. The rodents travel to and
fro, and visit many lands. They ride on
the ships from here to Liverpool, to Dub
lin, to Havre, London and to all the great
centers of the world. The rats that you
see in San Francisco have not only voy-
aged across the ocean many times, but
have been up the Clyde, the Thames, the
Rhine, the Necker and the Seine. Then
again, they have, like as not, been up the
Danube, the Volga and most anywhere
else you can think OF. Some of them
have toured the Cape, and, presume, not
rat of any particular age who has ever
had taste of life at sea has omitted to
travel around the Horn and see New
York.
"For the reason that the rats Of San
Francisco know so much it takes man
who is we'll up in legerdemain to do any
thing with them. A rat is not to be
taken in by everything and everybody
who comes along"