The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1905-03-30

bodiment of an idea of incalculable
proportions; in brief it is my .Lactealo-
graph This machine has the capa-
bility of producing miIk-milk in its
purest and richest lform-from veeeta-
BILE matter. The idea may appear
monstrous to you, but it is in reality,
ridiculously simple.
milk, as we all know, is essentially
produced from herbs and vegetables.
MY analytical study of certain grasses
revealed to me the existence of the
milk-cell, or tactical germs. This cell
contains nucleus or fat-partlcle-
cream-and is independent Of the grass
or vegetable body in which it exists.
Having ascertained this much the rest
was comparatively simple. By crush
ing and dissolving hay, grass or vegeta-
bles into their component parts the
lacteal fluid may easily be extracted.
"Do you realize, my dear Winkle,
what this discovery means to the
world? 1t means ..ie death-at least
as milk producer7-of that big, awk-
ward brute, the cow. Of course, so long
as man will continue to be carnivorous
a few, l presume, will be kept. For a
long time it has been known by the
medical fraternity that the dreaded
disease, tuberculosis, is originally
transmitted to mankind from the cow
through its milk. My lactealograph
will produce milk that is free from
tubercles. Vegetarisns need no longer
have any scruples about using milk
produced by the lactealograph, since it
will contain no part of animal mat
ter. Lactealograph milk will above
all be clean and pure, and free from the
diseased animal particles so COM
mon in the animal production of the
present day. The farmer need feel no
apprehension on account of my inven-
tion; the fact that he is the owner of
the land upon which the milk produc-
ing herbage grows will still leave him
in control of the situation. Besides.
would it not be much nicer for him to
own and operate sactealograph as he
now does the cream separator, than to
be bothered with lot of those filthy.
uncouth beasts, the cowsp Or he
might ship his hay to town, where no
doubt large plants for the expressing
of milk by the process of the lactealo-
graph will soon be installed.
"There are so many good qualities
embodied in my last invention, my
dear Wrinkle, that we cannot yet ap-
preciate them all. After the milk is
taken from the grass the process of
separation does not stop; the nutri-
tious matter is separated from the re-
naming mass, which is then pressed
and dried and may be used for fuel
while the mass containing nutriment
may be fed to man or beast.
81 have told you this much, friend
Wrinkle, that you may, in measure
understand the Importance of my in
vention and handle it accordingly.
Place it carefully in our laboratory and
let no one touch it. When return we
will together put it to work. After
that we shall give it to the world for
the benefit of the sntire human family.
aYours, as ever, for the advance of
science. Voorhek."
Professor Voorhek slept in the
blacksmith shop the following night,
to prevent similar catastrophe as
that which overlook the "Hetrophone"
and the next morning the lactealo-
graph was loaded into the spring
wagon and old Argus placed in the
shafts. The professor mounted the
seat beside Jimmy and followed by
Dewey the party started for town.
The professor was in the gayest kind
of mood. He chatted freely with
Jimmy as old Argus plodded Iaborious-
ly along the uneven road. Suddenly
the professor espied magnificent
butterfly.
"Hey, Jamesl Stop quick!" he cried.
Il must add that insectum lepidoptera
to my collection of specimens"
Jimmy stopped; the professor start
ed in pursuit of the many-colored
butterfly, and disappeared in the forest.
Shortly Jimmy heard him calling:
sCome here James, quickl It's escap-