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X%\U\\\VV\\\\\VV\\\\\\V\N N I RAT CATCHING IN PARIS. | %W\\\N\\\\\N\N\N\\WN**XS Standing on a hand's-breadth of foot- ^ path licked by the swiftly gliding c stream of the great sewarage collector a of the north, I talked with the rat- ^ catcher of Paris. ^ We were deep down below the city. Half an hour before. Victor, the rat- 11 catcher's son, had clanged down on us f the iron manhole far above in the |r street, shutting out the brilliant sun- " shine and leaving us in irky darkness. 8 The air was heavy with decay. From all sides reverberated noisily through ? the obscurity automatic flushings, J1 sweeping me reiuse oui to me seme. ? We were alone in this place of black- a ness, the century-old city of the rata. * Ever since the rats came to Europe 23 with the Crusades, subterranean Paris * has afforded them a home. The e original black rat has been practically replaced by the huge, fierce brown i sewer rat, although black rats are s still found, and a colony of pnre white r rats has existed for the past twenty- 8 five years in a certain part of the J) sewers. A fancy-bred white rat was their founder, and they are fiercer and ^ harder to catch than any other. Only |< half a dozen or so are caught each year, h and they find a ready sale as fashionable a pets. Forty years ago the rats boldly ^ ventured on the boulevards, and there ? were no fewer than twenty-two pro- j fessional ratcatchers under the Empire, j But today, though the rats move in |j legions from one quarter of the city to w another, they seldom emerge farther tl than the cellars. Though there are a number of pro- J1 fessional ratcatchers in the city today, " the greatest of them all is Georges * Menart, who a year ago was appointed ? official ratcatcher to the city of Paris, He holds the secret of attracting the y rats. He never kills them in catching w them. His only weapons are his h adroit hands, scarred with rat bites, h and his feet, quick as lightning, al- 11 though encumbered with huge sewei ^ l. ... ii- ?? . ..- - v uwm. ne nas caugnt 11Y rata in one Q hour; last week he captured 282 in ^ three days, and his bag for 1909 waa h over 20,000. He sells his rata in Paris b and northern France and Belgium, / where ratting with dogs is enormously v popnlar. c Wading through a foot of water, I ^ followed this lissom, swift-footed man ^ through miles of sewers. On his back 8 was strapped a cage with a funnel- p mouth, ending in a cloth spout, which f prevented the captured rats from get- s ting out once they were in the cage, u This, his own invention, took him ^ seven years to elaborate. In his hand ? he carried an acetylene lamp, which he held shaded close to his body. The ^ sewers run beneath every street and u every house has its pipe, giving into a s side channel which leads into the c sewer. This is where the rats assemble t to feed on the remnants of food. We ? descended endless, prepipitous steps a foot broad, down and down, to a nar row sewer so low that me had to bend double to pass. At a crossway the I ratcatcher seized a sluice lever, and a c jet of water poured forth down a p sewer on the left. "Des rats," he t whispered, and with a bound he dived L| down the sewer whence echoed shrill squeakings, mingled with the splash of ^ the water, leaving me in darkness, jj with scuffling squeaking rats all round, y I realized that ratcatching has its dis- e acvantages. When he returned there was a jostling mass of rats in the cage swaying on his back. "No one will ever know how many I' rats there are down here," he said; "there are millions of them. And tney .s are very clever, but no| quite clever ^ enough for me and my little secret, jAh! how they hate me! I always feel j as if they liked biting me when I take them with my hands. But I do not fear them. When my cage is full?it } holds fifty-five rats?I put thsm in my 11 shirt next my body. I have often come 3 home with rats all over me, and when C I have had a good day 1 have a very f heavy burden to carry. Night is my f best time to work, for the rats sleep in ^ the day when the sewers are being ^ flooded and scraped out. I come down c here in the eveningB all alone with my ^ lamp and my cage and my little secret, and I walk for miles. I have often f traveled twenty-five miles in one night. 3 I never get lost. I know the Paris sewers like the palm of my hand. Ah! T yes, it is dangerous, especially in rainy s weather. Only a few years ago a Jvisitro, who was being shown this very a collecteur where we are standing, ^ slipped in, the sewerman tried to save him, and fell in likewise, and in a ^ , Q second they were both swept away by the current. When we hear the sewer watchmen, who look out for the rise of the waters, strike five blows on the iron manholes?and the sound travels for iniles down here ?we rush for the nearest opening. When I set out I send Victor to wait for me at the manhole at which I am going to emerge. He lifts the cover, and when I come out is waiting for me with my pony- J cart, for flfty-five rats is a heavy load *? -- * * - ?u v?nj[. mjf iii.lie secret: it is lear. The rats, when they see me come, know they cannot escape me, and the fear fascinates them, so they just obey my call." "And what do you think of when you walk the sewers at ni^ht?" I asked. "Rats," replied the ratcatcher. SOUTHERN RAILWAY NORTHBOUND. No. 30 10:38 p. m. No. 36 8:50 a. m. No. 28 5:15 p. m. < SOUTHBOUND. | No. 29 4:00 ,&. m. No. 36 6:47|a. m. No. 27 5:15"p. m. | MBn ~Tjrir SMKTJHHHRRSVH ^ % V ' lAPOLEON'S LAST THOUGHT I OF THE ARMY AND~JOSEPHINE I On May 5, 1821, Napoleon fought is last battle and death closed the areer of one of the greatest generis, if not the greatest, the world as ever seen. The last tragedy of is life was enacted on the little isind of St. Helena. He was buried 1 a valley; a simple slab marked tie place of his repose; two weeplg willows waved over it, and an ron railing encircled the spot of round. A few days before his death he woke one morning, saying: "I have list seen my good Josephine, but he would not embrace me. She disppeared at the moment when I tas about to take her in my arms, ihe is not changed. She is still the ame, full of devotion to me. She eld me that we were about to see ach other again, never more to part." The disease progressed rapidly and he dying hour drew near. A violent borm raged with wild fury on that ocky prison isle as the spirit of the Teat Napoleon was freeing itself from s earthly fetters. His few faithful riends who shared his exile stood reeping around his couch. In the olemn silence of that sacred hour his >ved voice was once more faintly eard: "France! Army! Head of the rmy! Josephine!" and the heart of lapoleon ceased to beat. "Isle of ilba! Napoleon!" had been the last rords of the loving and forgiving osephine. "France! The army! osephine!" were the last images that ' ngered in the heart, and the last , rords which trembled on the lips of j he dying emperor. I The heart-melting story of the j ardships to whicn Napoleon had I eon subjected during his captivity | t St. Helena was told over and over j gain to his beloved France, till the ' ation at last rose as one man to do j is memory hono^. Just twenty-five J ears from the time when Napoleon j ras landed a captive upon the island I is remains were brought from their I umble resting place and re-interred I n the magnificent mausoleum pre- ' tared for them ir? the PliiiroVi nf the In 1 alides, Paris. On the anniversary f the great victory of Austerlitz he two funeral frigates entered the arbor of Cherbourg. All the forts, 'atteries and warships fired a salute, ill France flocked to the cities and illages through which the funeral ortege was to pass. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of he 14th of December, 1S40, the otilla arrived at Courbevale, a j mall village four miles from Paris. ) lore the remains were to be trans- j erred from the steamer to the j hore. As the funeral barge sailed j p the Seine a colossal statute of I osephine, which had been erected j n the shore, offered an appropriate | nd fitting welcome. A Grecian temple 100 feet high j ad been constructed on the wharf, j nder which the body was to lie in tate until transferred to the funeral . ar. The funeral car was undoubtedly be most elaborate ever devised. The 1 hurch had been magnificently adorned J or the solemn ceremony. The coffin /as borne into the church on the houlders of Najioleon's Old Guard, receded by the Prince de Joinville. lOuis Phillipe stepped forward to reeive the remains, "Sire," said the rince, "I present to you the body of he Emperor Napoleon." "I receive I," said the king, "in the name of Vance." Then taking from the hand f Marshal Soult the sword of lapoleon and presenting it to Gen. lertrand, he said: "General, I charge ou to place this glorious sword of tne mperor upon his coffin." Political Turncoats. lutherfordton Sun. The Siin^ will be very much arprisea n Mr. S. 25. McNinch, < vho has just accepted the Re- < >ublican nomination for Congress 1 n the Ninth district, realizes his J (xpectations. There was a time vhen turncoats in the Democrat- 1 c party were received in glad irms and crowned in the presence >f the multitude and there was ejoicing in the camp of the aithful. But that trick cannot ' >e turned any more. The chilIren's bread is not given to Samaritans?not even the crumbs hat fall from the table. Instead >f reception there is resentment imong the "pure in heart " Nothing can be said against ' dr. McNinch as a gentleman, o far as we know, but his vision las come to him too late. He is ' ind always has been just a bit oo prominent. He cannot ex- , >ect to reap where he has not own. _______i Mullen's T T /%vv> r% M N<-\4 i iui nci 5 i Liniment For Cramp Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea and Dysentery. And Oother Bowel Complaints. Externally, "As Good as the Best and Better Than the Rest." ar-Sold by all Druggists and Country Merchants. W. N. MULLEN'S SON, Proprietor, No. 313 West Eighth St., Charlotte, N. C. J BEACH-IHRIE'S Q J Attention, Ladies! ? 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