Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — The Ways of Camels. [ARTICLE]

The Ways of Camels.

If any other animal gives out it is still possible to make it travel a few miles by a judicious use of patience and and aClub; but not so with a camel. When he lies down he will get up only when he feels like doing so; you may drag at the string which is fastened to the stick through his nostrils till you tear it out, he will ouly groan and spit. It was my first experience with eamels, and I vowed that it should be my lust: for, taking them altogether, they are the most tiresome and troublesome animals! have ever seen, and are suited only to Asiatics, the most patient and long suffering of human beings.

Besides their infirmities of temper, resulting, I believe, from hereditary dyspepsia, as evidence by such coated tounges. offensiue breath, and gurgling stomachs as I have seen with no other ruminants, they are delicate in the extreme. They can’t work only in winter months, for as soon as their woo! begins to fall, Samson,like their strength abondons them. They can travel only over country where there are no stones, for the pads of their feet wear out and then thoy I have be to patched, a most troubieso me 1 operation. The camel is thrown and a i piece of leather stiehed on over the foot, the stiches being taken through the soft ptrt of it; in this condition it may V-avel till the skin had thickendd. again; or, what is more likely, until it refuses to take a step. 1 At Girard College, in Philadelphia, there are now 1,58C> pupils who are clothed, fed and educated from this income of the Girard estate, half a mil. Hon dollars being expended annual! l&r this purpose.