Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Camels and Hard Times. [ARTICLE]

Camels and Hard Times.

Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell and Secretary of Agriculture Morton went to the 200 in Washington the other day. They were particularly Interested in the sacred cattle, Secretary Morton thought the little sacred bull was a beauty and had some points of a prise winner. “But I wonder,” said the secretary musingly, “whatever tnat hump on his shoulders was put there for." “I don’t know,” said Gen. Maxwell, “unlees it Is as they say the camel's hump is, a sort of food reservoir for him to live off of in hard times.” “Well, now, that’s a good scheme,” replied Mr. Morton; “what a pity It is they can’t build people that way.”