Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-01
TIVE CAN'T.
Not . Patient or Usefu1 o. fsadiSia
Would Have Tie Believe.

Not - Patient or Usefui O. rradieiea
wouid Have Us Believe.
eur correspondent with the soudaA
expedition sends the following refiec.
tons on the camel:
The camel. be 1t at once said. Il an
overrated beast. There Is great deal
Of him. but he Is not for his size nearly
90 strong as the useful. unprctcutlous
donkey. Then. too, his anatomy IL 20
strangely conceived. His legs are at.
tached to his great unwieldy carcass
with seemingly so little consideration
for the uses to which merely Viewed
az legs he might be expected to pot
them. And his neck and tail are %
obviously disproportionate to the resf
Of him, and both 80 useless, that the
camel IL somehow Incomplete, or. Ow.
ing to some p,istake. was never Nm.
ished on AT all.
Even the qualities he possesses tend
to strengthen one In this bewllderins
suspicion. For instance. he can kick
himself violently In the-let rs say the
front Of the back-with his foreleg. He
does II constantly. Time and again
have I devoted long hours (fruitlessly,
must admit to an attempt to win the
confidence Of my favorite camel-my
favoritc because he II less cruel to me
than the others. have wooed him
with the soft notes Of my kourbnsh,
have tempted him with the thorfiest
Of Mimosa branches. have puf7ed to.
bacco smoke into his supercilious nos.
trils. And then, Just as have fancied
I saw the light Of sympathy dawnlne
in his long dashed eye. lie has risen oil
Of one movement to his feet, grinned al
me In a friehtful manner. disclosing
n forest Of green and broken teeth
and gazing at me full. with more vim
dictivc contempt than have ever
marked In any human eye, has kicked
himself violently In the stomach aud
lay down again, as who should say
snow, 60 away and don't bother. like
o good boy"
Then he can enaw his own tail-hil
absurd useless little rag Of tail thai
isn't even worth biting. But Is tina
IN object worth living for? Or agair
i
which, vain beast. he Is so inordinatel,
proud (as though he had anything I,
do with it) that he Is constantly fetch
Ing up one Of them to show you ant
blows It out from his great ugly throa
In horrtd. glittcrlns, transpar rem
bulb. for you to admire. A more nau
seating practice could hardly be con
ccived. but the low brute will do II
One accomplishment, indeed. cat
give him credit for. He can kick n a!
from tho top Of his head with his him
toe. Now this. In the age We live In
might. were he luck.cr beast. hav
served him In good s:ead. But q
things are. I fear he will mako no,hin
Of It. His shape Is fatally against hin
and he will never become fashionabl
as a step dancer.
But with all his faults. defects an
disabilities the camel has. SO far a
this country Ia concerned. not yet bee
superseded by any more practical II
vcntlon, and despite the fact that hi
temper Ii bad. his appetite vast and sol
did. his capacity for prolonged cxis
T. encc without water gitdy fiction. hi
carrying capabilities mean and his LOCI
> motive powers cxaspera tingly mcage
Z yet lie Is oil we have aud on him "
must largely depend throughout TIN
+ DongOin expedition. DIR. Conan Doyl
who Is one Of our party, believes, ate
week or so Of acquaintance with hin
that he has discovered In his ridin
. camel great delicacy OF sentiment an
much dignity OF demeanor. But thel
n DIR. Conan Doyle II a man Of NO wide
a charity that he actually believes In an
n even admires-wcll, no, I will not ~
a who II In. Let everyone guess for hin
|. self. But II that person, why not Il
Il camel? Why not. Indeed? Perhaps
: may have some day something pleasaI
D TO say about my camels. Time mu
q decide. Ii 1t long.lived beast, wo
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