Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — THE CAMEL'S REVENGE. [ARTICLE]

THE CAMEL'S REVENGE.

A Strange Story of a Stnptd Beast** Anger. The camel is stupid save when angry, and then seems to become suddenly possessed with an intelligence almost preternatural In carrying out Its vengeful designs. P&lgrave relates the following story of a camel’s revenge, which serves to illustrate this point: A lad of 14 had conducted a large camel, laden with wood from one village to another, at a half-hour’s distance. As the animal loitered, or turned out of the way, Its conductor struck it repeatedly, and harder than it seemed to have thought he had a right to do. But not finding the occasion favorable for taking immediate quits, It bode its time. That time was not long In coming. A few days later the same lad had to recouduct the beast, but unladen, to his own village. When they were about half way on the road, and at some distance from any habitation, the camel suddenly stopped, looked deliberately round in every direction to assure itself that no one was Within sight, and, finding the road far and near clear of passers-by. made a step forward, seized the unlucky boy’s head in its monstrous mouth and. lifting him up in the air, flung him down again on tlie earth with the upper part of his skull completely torn off and his brains scattered on the ground. Having thus satisfied its revenge, the brute quietly resumed its pace toward the village as though nothing were the matter, till some men, who had observed the whole, though unfortunately at too great a distance to be able to afford timely help, came up and killed it.—St. Paul’s. Prince Albert, Sask., August 17, 1898. William McCreary, Esq., Immigration Commissioner, Winnipeg, Man.: Sir—We, the undersigned delegates from Kansas and Nebraska, U. S. A., In reporting the results 6t our trip to Dauphin, and subsequently to Regina, Prince Albert and the middle Saskatchewan country, beg to say that our tickets were limited to twenty-one days, and as we had other large regions to visit, we could only spend a short time in he Dauphin country. We examined, however, the principal cultivated areas in the southern parts of township 25, range 19, the great wheat fields of Wishart, Buchanan, Owen, Smith, Ross, Sinclair, the Whitmores, Driukwaters, etc., and, subsequently, others to the north, and never, In our experience, have we seen finer grain. The whole country is watered by numerous streams flowing from the slopes of Riding Mountain, and excellent well water is found everywhere, at from nine to eighteen feet. Extensive forests of spruce and tamarack cover the northern parts of the mountains, from which timber is manufactured in Dauphin and elsewhere, and sold at from sl2 a thousand at the mills. Wild hops and wild fruits are abundant, and ripen in the open air.. Vegetation throughout Is surprisingly luxuriant and, without hesitation, we would rank the whole region among the best graingrowing areas of the continent. The output of wheat last year was about 75,000 bushels, but this year it is estimated at over a million. Westward lie the homestead lands which now, and when fresh surveys are completed, will afford comfortable, homes to thousands of diligent families. The great Gilbert Plains also we were unable to visit, where graingrowing has been conducted with the best results for years, and which will become a vast wheat field as soon as a branch railway reaches there. Settlement is speeding in all these regions, reminding us indeed of the early days In our own States; and as we have examined, since our visit to Dauphin, a portion of the great country lying south and east of Prince Albert we can readily Imagine the tide of immigration which will soon flow into the Canadian West (Signed.) GEORGE S. BENNETT, Hall’s Summit Kan. B. W. BENNETT, Hall’s Summit, Kan. B. F. BROOKS, Westphalia, Kan. JOHN FLANNERY, Stuart, Neb.