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Show PASSING OF THE CAMEL Los Angeles Times Tho camel with his humps, his Roman Ro-man nose, his tank stomach and his deposition to tear tho raiment ot his driver when things don't como his way will soon bo a stranger to tho desert of Sahara as a burden carrier car-rier and will bo seen only In zoos nnd circus processions. Corporal Mechanic Me-chanic Cross of the military aviation center at Biskra has Invented a sand sledge which will doprivo camels of their Jobs. Ho lias perfected a vehicle ve-hicle with broad steel-shod runners that will carry three persons and that with a slxty-horso power aeroplane motor, will skim the sand dunes with a gradient of ono In five at a speed of twolvo to twenty miles aiKhour. This machlno will go across tho dunes of tho Grand Erg, which has hitherto been impassable even to tho camol. It will cost no more to run a sand sledgo than an aeroplane, and If you fall off tho sand sledgo you won't fall nearly so far nnd can be picked up with less dimculty. Gratifying ns tho march of sclonco Ib, It shatters our romances. First tho Norweg'on maelstrom d sappear-od sappear-od from our school geographies nnd ceased to sucR ships into its depths. Tbon tho great Amorlcan desert was seized by three overland railways and kicked over two ranges ot mountains Into tho Pacific Ocean. George Washington's Wash-ington's cherry treo was next el'm-lnntcd el'm-lnntcd from our school histories. Now away goes tho camel. Tho noxt thing wo shall hear Is that somo Rlthschlld Is reconstructing Solomon's tcmplo, and that an American syndcato is building a skyscraper hotel against the back ot tho sphinx. , |