| Show 1 a Camels Are the Freight Cars of Bagdad d I I I u ual al Some ASHINGTON Some Some-of of the weekly WASHINGTON Some YV consular and trade reports received received re re- in Washington from tram representatives representatives representatives represent represent- of the United tates tales in foreign lands tell of or interesting things in other countries Among those recently recent recent- ly received was a report on the use of camels as freighters According to this report nearly camels are ure used used In the mayet of Bagdad as beasts of bin burden den and with donkeys I they form t the e only means menns of carrying goods to the inland points Camel Came caravans go in I strings seven camels to the string with two men In charge for Tor a n camel pounds Is a good load I the nack being divided into halves A burdened camel travels two miles an hour on long trips across the desert 12 miles milesa I a day is an average march though swift messengers like the mounted dromedary posts from Bagdad to Mos Mos- soul and Damascus make forty fifty and even more miles at a stretch Freight between Bagdad and inland points in Mesopotamia 1 is commonly packed in pairs of bales each bale Dont Smoke Moral in Monkeys Monkeys' s' s Death I I 0 o NUN NUNice ice t c f HICO the smoking cigarette-smoking s which died on the United States cruiser Wilmington from the tobacco heart is held by Yeoman Yeoman Yeoman Yeo Yeo- man Harvey L. L Miller of the navy department department department de de- to be the nearest almost human creature he has seen In his wide travels In the navy Chico was four months old and stood two feet nine in his bare feet as all true soldiers are measured when he came into the navy He was purchased by Yeoman Miller at Tama- Tama tave Madagascar for two francs The small animal looked and acted intelligent intelligent intelli intelli- gent from the beginning and soon had captivated the sailors and men of wars war's by his funny actions Chicos end was due to tobacco One of the greatest pleasures of at the sailors is to smoke and it is said the ones that do not ar are are either saving up to buy a f or else it is a case of at my wife wont won't let me Chico soon formed the habit of snuggling up against Yeoman Miller when he was reading or smoking The monkey e S go I A YOUTH in Washington is carryIng carrying carrying carry carry- ing around in his inside pocket a apiece apiece apiece piece of paper upon which this Is In Inscribed Inscribed In- In scribed For taxicab hire The youth is the son of well of-well well of course the conven conventions ons prohibit the use use of names names but but he is the son of a aman aman man useful to the nation in these I parts The useful father has just about enough funds decently to keep up his end The son perforce insists upon extending his allowance He has to come come- cometo to dad every so often occasioning much heartache and worry to his parent I The other night the son was c caught in the rain He had taken a young woman and her mother to the theater and they were hastening to a street car The rain became a downpour Ill call a cab said the young oung man W ov rr r 1 a DEAR i 11 J t UNCLE SAM now has bas a wash day It Isn't a l laundry for soiled clothing i but lint for good United States paper I I money When some of the bills find their way back to the bureau of engraving engraving engraving en en- I graving and printing In Washington whence they came bright crisp and new a a. a credit I to the engraving art they are truly In the filth filthy lucre cl class ss Now y your ur w wise old Uncle Samuel proposes proposes' to wash wash vash the bills and use them over again instead of destroying them as has be been the the- custom Director J. J D. D Ralph Is on tho the Job jab watching with interest tho the r renovator novator of dirty bills do its dut duty The mathine ma- ma I thine hinc on trial Is one invented by B B. B Churchill and was submit submit- weighing about pounds for the convenience of ot camel drivers in load load- Ing lag The rhe rates charged for carrying freight across the desert vary with conditions being lowest when camels are cheap labor and pasture plentiful and freight offerings none too numer umer- n ous For a common burden camel 30 is a fair price though the trotters or orI I swift messenger camels are worth more more A young camel can sometimes be had about Bagdad for as little as three or four dollars Besides DeRides Its use for riding and carrying carrying car ear purposes the Mesopotamian Arabs depend on the tho camel for milk Shoes are made from its tough calloused calloused calloused cal cal- loused hide and in times of famine its brittle strong tasting flesh Is eaten Con milk made by boiling fresh camel milk until evaporation leaves only a hard chalky substance Is prized among the desert nomads By Dy rubbing this substance between the hands it t Deduces to powder and when mixed with warm warm water It makes a refreshing drink highly e esteemed es e- i teemed among the desert folk Camel calves are weaned in their eleventh or twelfth month When a camel caravan is on the march the very young camels are often tied upon the bacI back of the mother animals since they cannot endure the fatigue of a along along along long march Valuable dogs and and Arab desert hounds called also ride in th the same way I would move right into the clouds of smoke and would sniff with evident relish One da day Yeoman Miller was writing a letter and had just lighted his pipe The bugle called collision quarters and he dropped his pipe and started to the station on the run Miller returning returning returning re re- re- re turning to his ditty box which had been doing duty as a writing desk was surprised to find the pipe almost empty It was full when hen he went to quarters He took a look about and saw sawall all the men had their pipes When he looked at the monkey it did not look at him in the eye as It usually did but turned its head In a guilty manner Yeoman Miller examined the pipe and found the marks of little sharp teeth on the reed stem Next day after catching the monkey smoking his pipe again Yeoman MIller Miller Miller Mil MIl- ler decided that Chico had to have havea a pipe and and- so he made him one from froman an ivory nut with a reed stem Some of the young apprentices thought it was cute to see Chico smoke cigarettes and they taught him the use of the coffin nail nall Fr From m then until his death he was rarely seen without one Be careful young man said the recruiting officer as he espied a new recruit con concealing a made home behind behind be be- hind his chair after hearing the tale of Chico or 01 you OU will meet the same fate as he Youth Suffers From Too Much Credit I The cab took them home Just charge it to me said the the careless youth Identification card sir said the chauffeur i that Our OUI company always ys issues Identification Identification identification cards to Its patrons Well I haven't one Come to the theoffice theoffice theoffice office office tomorrow and Ill I'll pay you The youth scraped together the necessary 70 cents before the chauffeur chaut- chaut chauffeur appeared next day By Dy the way he said after he had paid tell your people to send me one of those identification cards will wUl you In due time the card came Bills Dills were to be rendered at the end of each month according to the polite note which accompanied the card Forthwith the street cars lost one who had been a regular patron Hence Bence the piece of paper with the For taxicab hire It Is more than likely that walking will be good for him for some time timeto to come and It Is more than likely too that one of those who Idly fish In the Potomac may drag up on his bis hook a certain card of identification I Laundry Day for Uncle Sams Sam's Money I ted b by him along with others of different dif different df ferent makes for trial It is now be ing demonstrated in the bureau The machine now in use takes bills anti and Spreads them on a screen This screen is revolved rapidly through a solution of soap and water which takes off the grime The Tho next disc takes them through a strong solution of a It disinfectant which removes tho the germs germs A third 1 disc removes the traces of the other two waters and andI I sends the bill out onto a plat ready for forthe forthe forthe the plater The Tho plater Is the same roller used to press new money It is this machine that gives new money Its crispness After the washed out bills are run through the plater they are comparatively new the new the Ink colors having been brought out again and the tho dirt removed It Is Mr Ralphs Ralph's idea that the life lire of ofa ofa a banknote will bo be extended about sixty per cent by the new method The machine which he wants will cost between and 1000 It will save from to annu an an- annually nu llY |
