The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-19
RHOD|UM SCENTED
IT DOES EVERYTHING BUT KILL
RATS.
Proves Pleasant to Rodents, Physic
to Dogs, Harmless to Children, and
a Balm to Jealousy.

The conveniently prepared, widely
distributed, oil of Rhodium scented poi
son, seems to have been effective In
every way except in that of killing
rats. 1t has been used successfully as
axle grease, a tonic and aperient for
cats and dogs which unwittingly ate
it not knowing it was for rats, it hes
healed divisions in families, caused
castor oil and mustard diversions in
cases where children got hold of 1t, led
to the fatuous tearing off of roofs,
confirmed good opinions of rat traps,
and out Of the mouths of a people en-
veloped in the gloom of an epidemic has
brought forth more laughter than has
been heard in a month.
incidentally it may have killed some
rats.
One hundred and twenty-seven dead
rats and one live one had been reported
at l o'clock to the Citizens Sanitary
Committee as the results of the poison
ing crusade.
PHYSIC TO THE DOGS.
Up NuuanuValley it is reported that
in several cases it has been as physic
thrown to the dogs and cats with no
other result then that it's laxative ef-
fects seems to improve the health Of
the dogs and cats.
| Several cases are reported where the
! Sanitary Committees nice blocks of
wood containing the toxic potion were
| temporarily left on tables by the dis
| tributing inspectors and children ate
! the stuff Beyond the excitement ma
/ turally following the discovery and the
prompt administration of Castor oil,
| mustard and other emetics and anti
dotes no i'll effects were observed.
One man who has been troubled with
rats in his attic ard who had supreme
confidence in the sanitary committee
and the rat poison, tore the shingles off
lis roof in order to more easily get at
the dead rats he expected to find and
didn't.
PLENTY OF POISON.
The distribution of the poison was
| thorough and extensive. The committee
and it's inspectors and sub-inspectors
did their work well. There was pro-
badly scarcely a home in Honolulu
where the poison was not set ol,t Sa
turday night and Sunday night. The
public entered into the work heartily.
One inspector distributed $40 blocks oC
the poison. Others distributed proba-
bly, as much. The evidence shows that
there are rats still in Honolulu and
that they have eaten the poison. One
cat isi reported to have died from it.
But the number of rats reported dead
would not be enough to fill the scat
tering" column in the election returns
from Goshen Junction, California, or
Kentland, Indiana.
AS AXLE GREESE.
Kukupo was charged in the police
court this morning with representing
himself as an inspector and going
through Punui gathering up the blocks
of poison to use as axle grease. He
secured a large quantity of it, and
Judge Wilcox sent him to the reef for
a month.
LITTLE WILLIE'S TROUBLES.
Hietrag On
killed a rat and they got scaret and
trowed it into our yard. Insted of let,
ting me show it to the henspector anC
getting fifteen sents My Ant Mary made
, me pore kole oil on it and burned it
That's the kind of ant 1 have got, an
I wisht she had plague or the hedake
WILLIE.
. WHARF RATS ENJOY 1T.
! The rats along the water front ap
2 peared to enjoy the efforts to dose then
with arsenic as much as anywhere else
Large numbers of the blocks of WOO,
containing the supposed deadly mix
p ture were placed on the wharves and IL
all the warehouses on Saturday after
r noon. This morning it was evident II
t many places that the stuff was a sue
4 cess In one particular-tt had beel
e made so that the rodents liked it. Man.
e of the blocks We're good deal chewet
!. up but not dead rat was found A
e the Pacific Mail wharf a lot of the poi
e son was eaten. The mixture thus ser
= we'd to show that there are rats left OF
Y the wharf, which has been supposed t
g be about cleared of them.
y SETTLED THEIR DIFFICULTIES
! ! George w. Smiths rat poison cam
y just in time to a natives house in Pa
y waa on Saturday. No, 1t did not XII
{ a bag of rats; in fact it killed no rat
= al all. But it drove the green monste
!, of jealousy from the household an
n cemented the family bond once agalI
u The young woman who took the poi
:, son from the hand of the inspecto
Il saw in the little blocks a chance t
~ avenge her deep wrongs She believe
II her lord was unfaithful, and that h
was even then calling upon anothe
woman farther down King street. Will
7 revolving these thoughts in her min
she heard his footsteps on the wal
outside. The little blocks were hastil
r. hidden.
/ The husband came in. He was accu.
l. ed of visiting the other fair one an
J. admitted the impeachment "a Assumin
Is a stage attitude and a tragic air tn
Z young wife announced her intention
e killing herself. Drawing the rat poiso
D forth with the expressions T'This wi
IF free us BOTH" she dexterously plunge
lie a finger into the little box and DIRE
[, out the contents. At that instant h'
~ husband grasped both of her arm
" There was a severe struggle durin
ot which the poison was thrown ou
" Neighbors ran in. There was a consu
n, tation, an armistice and then peac
IN The conditions were that he should glV
up the girl down the street and 81
would not take rat poison.
n George w. Smith had killed no ra
le in that house but had triumphed a
- the same.
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