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A Rat's Rations Our knowledge of the rat's habits has been much enlarged by forced ;tssociation with him in the trenches. It is safe to say millions of persons jliave seen and watched^rats during :'our years past who never saw one before except When it was dead in a trap. And, what is more, among these observers are some whose observations are of value to science. The .rats fondness for man's food has recently been remarked upon in an aKicle quoted in these columns. It fV*of Krirttrs him to .!?? ' luai 1VUUHCOC W.uv VA ...... __ fcr houses, and it was that which elided him to overrun the trenches. Itknz, a writer quoted in recent issfce of Good Health, ascribes this flridness to the fact that the i at does nfct lay up stores of food like his cousin the squirrel. Even when he carries off more than he can eat at a jmal, he is apt to befoul it so that he cannot use what is left. We quote from Good Health: "An adult brown rat eats two ounces of food a day, and will eat forty-five to fifty pounds of grain in4 * a year. "It also devours poultry, and eggs, game, vegetables, fruit, coffee, dates, oranges, cocoa; it gnaws vines, clothing, textiles, leather- covered books; it is fond of glue and attacks harness, especially when worn, and cur tains, whether of silic cotton, ortapefctry. The rat attacks anything its _ testh can take hold on; it is , infact, a terrible spoiler, gnawing incessantly and indiscriminated any object its fcbth can make an impression on. J "The marked identity of menu in the food of men and of rats is curioi:s enough between two species Whose dental type is so different Qdt the rat differs from man in the i a]>solute necessity it is subject to of eitiing often and enormously. '" It is this need of abundantnour- ! ishment which makes cannibals of _ rats. Some soldiers experimented with rats, putting eight in a cage together. Eight days later only one was there and it was seriously wounded. "However, a precise statement of ( the alimentary regiment of rats is more difficult than it would appear, : since individuals vary in their tastes, i Experiments made by myself, in col lnboration with Dr. Laurens, prove tiiiat, contrary to accepted opinion, the brown rat has a very restricted diet, being comparatively fastidious. Thus it eats the crumb but not the era** of bread, unless urged by extreme hunger. Some rats have actually died with crusts still in their larder, v Both black and brown rats lice cooked rice, potatoes, carrots, and fish, as well as cheese and certain uncooked fruits and salads. They roll devour the flesh of a melon but laave the rind. They like lard, pas1 ?' ?"" ? xlivnlgfo nc wpll aj? IliJf OU5?U) CU1U VMWV?ww7 ?w .. xaeat (principally cooked), though the latter seems scarcely consonant with their dentition. They sometimes / eat raw meat, but this is by neces irity and not by choice. "They neglect turnips, radishes, and dandelion; they will eat oats, but will perish if confined to this food. When tainted meat is given Iftem, they eat only the sound portions. They will not touch barley. "A rat fed only on fruit will die of starvation in a few days. If fed only on those stuffs which it eargerly nmowc- olflth loottinr WrtAfJ pt/V. it dies as soon as if entirely deprived of food. Experiment proved, rather to our astonishment, that the rat is not graminivorous; it eats wheat only in default of other food. The trenches abound with tales of the rat's greed for soap and candles, but when these were placed in their cages, they were eaten only in default of other food. The rat is known tcf attack cadavers, but this is by necessity rather than choice. "One cause of the rat's addiction to man's diet is that it neither hibernates nor -lays up stores for winter, as do other rodents, the marmot and the squirrel, respectively. "Rats are not only voracious dui they defile food. If they devour nearly three times their weight of food, then they destroy two or three times as much more. Whenever they find a fragment of food not too heavy for them to carry, they drag it near their holes, eat a part, and soil the rest. This behavior is very remarkable in caged animals. When they are given, by the way of experiment, limited and insufficient rations, they spoil half of it, thus dying of starvation with food which they have destroyed beside them. In captivity, they always foul even their drinking water." NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given thatany and all parties indebted to the estate of the late W. J. Morris are ordered to come forward and settle the same with the undersigned executor, and all parties having claims against said estate are directed to present same duly authenticated for settlement. W. J. B. MORRIS, ^ hM *r amv wirrc i j^l For a Side MANY SECRET ORDERS ORGANIZE FOR THRIFT More Than 8ixteen Hundred Lodges With Thousands of Members Work* ing to Make Thrift a Happy Habit Thrift, as a niovemnet of the United States Treasury Department, has been indorsed by more than sixteen hundred lodges of fraternal orders in the Fifth Federal Reserve District. According to figures given out today by the War Loan Organisation of the District, theae lodges have more than see hundred and thirty-six thousand members, and not only are all these members urged to join War Savings Societies, bat many lodgss are invest' tog their Treasury funds in Wsr Savings Stamps. Some three hundred lodges, with a membership exceeding thirty-fovr thousand, are forming societies in Maryland. Among the orders represented there are the Knights of Pythias. Shield of Honor, Maccabees. Red Men. Knights of the Golden Eagle. Woodmen of the World and Knights'of Colombo*. ' In Virginia the Woodmen of America ore heartily co-operating in the thrift tmorement. Their two hundred and ten lodges with a membership of seven thousand four hundred and thirty-Are, are organising War Sayings Societies. In North Carolina neaity seren hundred lodges are aettrsty supporting the campaign. These total a membership of about sixty-nine thousand, representing the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, the independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Valuable aid le being lent in South Carolina by the Knights of Pythias, the Red Men sad the Odd Fellows, the thTee orders having more than three hundred lodges In the State, with a membership in excess of twelve thousand. Cooperation of aH lodges in the district Is urged. Since many of the most prominent and Influential men in every oomm unity are lodge member*, it is parte*lnrty desired to have the fraternal Orders behind the saving movement FARMERS TURN SALES . WTO SAVWG STAMPS Odd Crop* of Great AM to Thrifty TMIers of Soil In Thfa Diotrict. Farmers who are making; a habit of rotting a few Thrift Stamps orrery toil they market anything from thsir farms are finding that thoy are Me to eave regvlaly and that they do sot idles the email amounts Inrested. The average farmer in this section of the country depends largely on his "money" crop, which he harrests once a year. Almost every one of them, however, grows something else which he markets at odd times. An occasional load of hay may be taken into town and sold. The thrifty farmers also plant peas, beans, okra, lettuce, beets or some of the other vegetables whisk thrive in the South and for which (here is a ready market. Butter and eggs form staple articles to be marketed between seasons. By buying Just a few Thrill (Stamps each time the farm wagon makes a haul to town, the farmer or his wife is provldng a fund wbieh they i will be able to turn to good account latsr on, for when these Thrift Stamps are sashanged for War Savings Stamp, they increase in value automatically, and may always be turned into cash on ton days' written notice to the postmaster, although the j longer they are kept the more they earn. Wealth Is seldom the result of laek but of system. Sbto regularly. Buy W. 8. 8. Tlwt your pocket book with the as consideration as you would your (Met Maud. lawsetmeot in War wm lugs 6taanpa UMlf the Us The eereerstene of toootrow*s cmoeee la founded ayee today's thrift Any postman can lay tbe oornerstone lor yon irfth War Strings Stamps. Tot nor or miss the Arst dollar out of your pocketbook. Keep It for yourself. Boy Thrift Stomps. ere yon bought r<mr Thrift Stamp PocketbooK tudictv unnccwicc IIIIUIII 111/UJL.niI L. MAY HAVE LUXURIES War Savings Stamps Furnish An Easy Way to Obtain Monty for Conveniences. (Although a family may not ba ! wealthy, enough for the "lady of tht , house' 'to have all the little conveniences she wants, through Thrift and War Savings Stamps the government has provided a way for the housewife to fit up her kitchen, paint the house; furnish her spare room or embellish the parlor. Theee women who were so wise aa to begin saving systematically early in 1918 have nioe little sums invested In War Savings Stamps t>y tnis time. Eleven War Savings Stamps, soma of which cost as little as $4.12 apieee, will boy a first-class kitchen cabinet. In many Instances, the housewife would not hare saved anything fie speak of, had It not been for the War Savings Stamp*. Women are Quick to grasp the benefits from habits of thrift. Numerous reports have been received at district headquarters of the War Loan Organisation of the Fifth Federal Reserve District of women who have started in by putting quarters in Tbrft Stamps and who have been enabled to buy deal red article* to brighten their homes. As soon as a War Savings Stamp ia bought, it begins earning mora money. War Savings Stamps are practically randy money. They are redeemable with accrued interest at the post offlee on tee days' notice, M the longer they are held, the more i money they make for their holders. EASY START TOWARD SUCCESS FURNISHED When a man gets 11,000 saved up there are always opportunities for a food invectmeDt It is hard to plane much leas than that. That Is what healthy men who are seH-caade advise young men to begin early and save the first thousand. Until we went to war, it was hard lo get started toward that 91,000 unless at leant one dollar could be put away at a time. Small change was restless and acrobatic and kept jetnj? teg out of our pockets Into someone else's. Now, however, there Is an easy way to get that first thousand. The J answer le Thrift Stamps. They coat only a Quarter apiece and ean be converted into War Savlnsrs StamDs. The gcmreminent of the United States backs these Whr Savings Stamps with a guarantee of 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly. Save and ettoceed. AS PERMANENT INVESTMENT Secretary of Treasury Class Moves Values of War Savings and Asks for Co-operation. Secretary Glass, In a recant intu* view given at Washington, discussed War Stamps as a permanent Investment aa follows: "WAR Savings Stamps afford an excellent vehicle for increasing capital and earning power. Many persona have not taken the War Saving! Stamps seriously aa an investment but the fleet that they may be bought in as large a quantity aa $1,000 face value during 1919, at such favorable interest return, makes them most deI -i? kl. #A? tks avoMaen man AT famlW ! imuiv 1V1 UJV ?IV4 ??5V wa I ,v , | "DeflnKe pi am for the eontlm?noe of the issue In coming jmh of im&fl Governmeot securities are being worked oat "Although War Saviagi Stamps alee this year do not approach the high marks made wider stimulation at war need last year, Ibelr absorption by the pabUe thas tar has been satisfactory. Barings in ah channels shrank daring the early months of the year, and it ts expected that War Savings Stamp alee, along with postal savings and savings bank deposits, will grow steadily through* at the year. 'K)o-operation is sought earnestly in the matter of keeping Thrift and War Savings Stamps oa sale, so that no one so inclined may fail to have opportunity to Invest his money wisely." Today le that tomorrow you thought about yesterday?Buy W. 8. fl. newN _ ^ Spend wisely?invest judiciously?^ T9-61 NCHSTawa sjoods so saim aNMoe 9 jlxods ao aavH , -spdadsAp-pp* jo jjojaoanp ?qj mojj jaipj juTOTOjd y "Xvpoj jjojmoo uoijsaSip o; pi? jua sqj sniow-uj p?w^p-pp* SI qovwojs JBOX JI 'jkojjom -09 man Ajap (Xap-o| jjo jnd 09 3SIMND SJJ Discharged Soldiers List of . Williamsburg men discharged from the army since last issue of the County Record: Henry D. Singletary, (col) Vox; Nathaniel Brown (col) Kingstree; Alex Ravenill, (col) Earnest Gribb, Jas. S. Lovett, Kingstree; David M. Coker, Cooper; Elmore Harrington, Kingstree; Lemmon Davis, Hemingway; James Brown, Hemingway; Hazel E. Strong, Harry Britton, Shelton C. Kaddy, John B. Goud, Kenneth E. Creel, Granthim Green, Kingstree; Arthur P. Surles, Benson; Frank Patterson, Greelyville; Wallace Mong, Johnsonville; Phillip Graham, Kingstree; David Owens, (col) Hemingway; Curtis R. Davis, Excel ton; Geo. J. 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