Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — Four-Footed Smokers. [ARTICLE]

Four-Footed Smokers.

The camel, say men of eastern ex» perlence, has the most disconcerting mouth in the world until you are used to him- You think you will direct him, say, to the right by pulling a rein that way. But the consequence Is that a great face with large eyes and larger lips turns back over its own neck and looks you in the eyes. But the direction of the camel’s progress 'meanwhile continues unaltered. Never a companionable beast, he has at least one human weakness—an insatiable love for tobacco. One of the methods used by Arabs in taming wild camels is to fix a kind of cigar holder in the animal’s mouth and sert a huge, loosely-rolled cigar. As soon as the camel starts to draw, it becomes remarkably docile, and quickly learns to inhale the smoke and emit it through the nostrils. The one drawback of the system is that the knowing brute becomes a confirmed smoker and refuses to budge without his d« gar.