Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-31

scarcely produces the cain winch Is
supposed to sleep upon the pool OF
Bethesda.
The process of riding camel pro-
duces grievous and sundry vexations
even for expert equestrians. In the
first place, the animal must be com
| PEELED to lie down. He is provided
with peg in his nose, the peg Is at
tached to string, and when the string
| is pulled he is supposed to 60 down
upon his bended knees. He does not
| 90 down, however, without protest
On the contrary, he snarls in sounds
that can be heard half mile off; if
there is anybody within biteable dis
tance he will bite; and if there is any,
thing objectionablet to him within reach
| of his gaunt, sprawly hind-legs he will
| kick out with an earnestness worthy of
a better cause. The bite of MIR. Camel
| is nothing to be triiled with. His jaws
have horizontal action, working from
side to side, and the lower maxillary
churns above the upper maxillary with
a grit and grind that would make any
| person with delicate nerves shiver with
the devotion of an aspen to its peculiar
business of shivering, Not once nor
twice, but often has the camel lifted
off at one fell bite the Uranium of some
| Arab or Hindoo who had reposed so
much confidence in his good intentions
/ as to stand beneath his nOstrils and
smoke villanously strong tobacco.
| As for the kick of the camel, it is
what might be described in a certain
vernacular as '.holy terror" As far
reaching as sheriff's warrant, it has
at the same time the force of Krupp
cannon. When an excited billiardist
whirls around cue with which to an
initiate the man who has Just beaten
him, the cue resembles the camel's
kicking leg. 1t gyrates, it seems to
flash, and then it floors most absolutely.
In Arabia there is legend that the
camel of the Prophet lifted one of its
legs with such effect that a wicked gen.
tleman was summarily imbedded in a
rock exactly five miles away from the
spot where the camel performed his
saltatory feat. Whether or not the
camel knows his powers, his kicking
possibilities are greater than those Of a
disgruntled politician. His kick has
a far-reaching, corkscrewical effect
which is difficult to describe. With its
old-fashiOned, sponge foot camel can
knock even the cheek off Ninth Ward
politician, for even triple brass cannot
avail against its intensity of applica-
ton.
There is one thing pleasant about the
camel. That is the lustre of his eve.
Juno was called the "ox-eyed" from
the rich resemblances of Ler eyes to
those of a placid COW, but richer in
subdued lustre than the eyes of the OK
or the gazelle is the eye of the camel.
Nevertheless, it is the kind of wicked
optic described by Longfellow and
plainly hangs out the signal Of .be-
ware!" Gazing into the eve of camel
is like looking down into the depths OF
clear well dark. glittering, profound,
and containing light which gradually
fades away into ineffable dark-browr
shadows. Nevertheless, the romance
is taken out of the beautiful, mild eye
of the camel by the knowledge thai
there skulks beneath it bite of terri
BILE proportions and behind it kicE
that would seem to make dynamite s
superfuous luxury of civilization.
As for the ..ship of the desert" being
all that fancy paints it, the experience
of Tommy Atkins in the Soudan ex
presses Just about the truth of the
matter. First rock forward, then {
jolt backward, and suddenly catct
up in the middle, which makes the YER
tebre quiver ike blanc mango in the
hands of careless waiter, are JUS
about the general characteristics o.
camel-riding. Attached to all thi:
there are physical pains which. to ust
the singularly expressive language o
the cablegrams permitted to be dissem.
mated by Gen. hord Wolseley, make
the British troops prefer walking tC
camel-riding." An experienced mahou'
upon the neck of Jungle" elephant
in the ravines of Kinchunjunga could
not possibly be more deplorablt
wreck of humanity than an English in.
fantry soldier perched with all his ac'
coutrements upon the back of Sou,
dan camel. To him an equinoctia
storm in the Mediterranean would, in
comparison, be pleasurable expert
ence; he would probably prefer an
earthquake, a volcano, thunderbolt
or anything else that would suddenly
put him out of extreme torment
In short, the camel is very much over
rated animal. He is growler, q
grumbler, and misanthropically vicious
his sole virtues lie in padded feet, g
capacious' stomach, and suspendable
power of chymification, Qualification
and deglutition, and a familiarity with
the peculiarities of the trackless ways
of the desert. Hence it is easy to un
derstand Gen. Lord Wolse!ey's intima
ton to the world that the Gubat troops
perfer marching to camel-riding, In.
deed. it probably conceals particulars
about unnumbered pains suffered by
the unsophisticated British camelry in
their retreat from Gubat to the concen.