Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — About Camels. [ARTICLE]

About Camels.

Wk leave the poor out of our calculations until all others have been provided for, and the result is too often, as your case, that they must go emptyL: ■ ’ed. What a mockery it is to say, “('• >1 pity the poor,” as I have heard t sa <l. when my spirit burned within me to r. taliate, “God, pity them yourself.” —The Advance. The simple truth is that Judge Lvnoh is not, after all a reformer. He Is not even a revolutionist, any mere t. ;i’i he is ’ house breaker or highway robber. He is a lawless murderer, pure and simple; and he confesses the fact b usually seeking the night season for his •rime" and concealing his identity under a disguise.— New York Independent Yr was hie first letter home feoc boarding-school, and it read as follows : Dear Father—l write you before I write ma becoz I know you like to see ma mad. I think I will get along with my lessons first-rate. The garden here is full of chickens, which makes the Walking bad. In history I’ve got as far as Alexander the Great. He carried a |word to cut knots with. There is an apple orchard ludf a mile oil. The boys play ball in it; after that there ain’t Emch apples. The minister's son was eked this morning for going a fishing on Sunday. He caught lots of fish, and •ays he is going again jiext Sunday. 1 think I like the minister’s boy a good deal. Send me sqjne marbles as soon ar you can, also a jack-knife and a top. Two of us boys left & piece of wet soap at the head of the stairs just before daybreak, and by the time the cook got to the bottom she was too sick to get breakfast. We have prayers reg’lar every day, •nd the teacher reads out of the Bible, but I don’t think it’s so bully as playing tag in a hay loft". From your affectionate son, Samuei* '-~lirooklyn Eagle.

A writer says: “The camel is the most perfect, machine on four legs that Ve have any knowledge of.” A sacred treasure, indeed, to the Arab is this “pudding-footed pride of the desert.” The expression on the face of a camel is f>ather pathetic. His eyes are large and liquid,«and above them are deep cavities large enough to hold a hen’s egg. The aquiline nose, with long, slanting nostrils that he can close tightly against the sand storms and hot, burning winds of the desert, give a very sorrowful expression to the face. Th« under lip is pouting and puckering, and you are not at all surprised when the poor beast bursts into tears and cries long and loud like a vexed child. The feet of the camel are of very singular construction, with a tough, elastic sole, soft and spongy as they fall noiselessly au the earth and spread out under his tottering weight. This form of the foot prevents the animal from sinking in the sand, and he is very sure-looted on all sorts of ground. The average rate of travel for a caravan is between two and three mises an hour; and the camel jogs on, hoitr after hour, at the same pace, and seems to be almost sis fresh at night as in the morning when he started on his travels. The Arabians say of the camel: “Job’s beast is a monument of God’s mercy.” The camel sheds his hair regularly «nce a year, and carpets and tent-cloths *re made from it; it is also woven into doth. Some of it is exceedingly fine <frd soft, though it is usually coarse and rough, and is used for making coats the shepherds and camel-drivers; «?bd huge water bottles, leather sacks, jflso sandals, ropes, and thonga are ■Shade of its skin.

IHE fiigu, stin oacKCT* soias ms gone entirely out of fashion. They are now made with soft, curving, comfortable backs. The handsomest sofas are covered with plush in artistic blues and reds, and are made either of ebony or rosewood. Black kid gloves are sometimes a source of annoyance on account of little white streaks at the seams. This trouble may be diminished by coloring b 11 tie salad oil with black ink, then rub this over white places with a feather ; dry quickly outside the window. A Great return for a small investment is r alized by purchasing a small soldering outfit for a boy. He becomes at o ce a useful member of the family; old basins and pans become as new after the transforming touch of his soldering iron, and there are great posibilities in tin cans, and small pieces of tin; sugar sifters and funnels are among them.

When using lemons for any purpose, *’• will be found an economical plan to grate the ’•’allow rind off, mix it v ith an equal quantity of sugar, and put it up in an empty box with a tight cover. "Tun will be delicious for flavoring custards, molasses-cake and anything else where lemon extract is used. It retains the strength of the lemon while cooking aud is much more delicate to the taste than the oil or extract of lemon. A small, economy, but one not to b< despiaed, especially in large families, » to save bits of toilet soap when they begin to waste. W lien a pint or even half a pint is collected, put in a bowl, add boiling water and stir. Set away, And. as it evaporates add a little boiling v*ater and stir well. Do this every day till all the lumps h tve disappeared. I Then add a few drops of oil of cinna ' mon or oil of cologne. Wet a deer, narrow pan in cold wab v pour in t : soap and leave it to mold. After 1 or three d‘y- turn it, out and L dry. The result wiP bean u-c-n‘ ; a patch oi sowed corn tG »>«-• '.e.j I green, if needed, will help to bridge over a season of scarcity. - Few far mi can afford to go without this protection against scarcity in summer food for aniuah. _ 1 • ' i ' & a