The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-08-28

it himself at the close Of SATURDAYS work.
spending the following day at his favorite
sport, and back on the job early MONDAY
morning; tanned as brown as berry and
fit to look after the ssgoat.
Over five thousand three hundred ma
chimes have been shipped this season up-to-
date. The shipping department proved
its efficiency by keeping close to the orders
and, when it is considered besides, that
there is big call for extra parts to be
shipped to agencies all over the state, too
much credit cannot be given for the work
performed. OF course, mistakes will hap
pen, but even so, our organization in this
department is so complete that we pos
sess what is termed the Coffee goat
and all mistakes are directly charged to
it. It's name? Oh, we'll, say sMack"
for short.
"This, ladies and gentlemen" exclaims
our gentlemanly usher while showing a
party OF visitors through the department,
which by its contour many of you might
mistake for an aeroplane, is the Justly cele-
brated Minnesota binder, of which no
doubt you have all heard. 1t is completely
manufactured and set up in this institution
by the inmates under the expert supervision
of competent mechanics. Observe, ladies
and gentlemen, the graceful outlines of its
general makeup, and the business like
look OF its many component parts. Those
long, hall-llke narrow strips of wood which
overhang in front are the beaters, which,
as the machine advances in cutting the grain,
helps the grain up to this platform here,
and thence it continues up this elevator to
this platform, where it is tied and bundled
into compact sheaf by this ingenious
piece of mechanism, and it is then deposit
ed on this contraption, which is called a
sheaf carrier, to be dropped into symetri-
cal piles on the ground
MY, N.Y., speaks up fair visitor,
"why, it is almost human-like.
Yes m continues our gentlemanly
usher. 1t can almost talk, and in fact,
our clever superintendent is now expert
menting with the view of introducing a
human feature into the machine. He fig
ures on placing photographic continuance
right here, alongside this Irvine can and,
as the parts are put in motion, the phono-
graph will play the most popular airs of
the day, as we'll as utter d;scourses upon
the right and wrong way of gathering
crops, running the machine-yes indeed. :"
"And to think again interrupts the
fair visitor; edo you mean to say that this
is the product of these poor men confined
in here? Why, l had no idea so many
clever men were confined in prison.
ooh, yes nam, answers our G. w.,
"why, we have some of the cleverest men
on earth right in here. Of course, it is
strictly against the rules to point out pris-
oners to the visitors, but, did l dare to do
so, could, within the radius of my vision,
point out to you, for instance, a chap
from Washington who is the inventor of the
only bottle without a bottom. A very clever
chap, nam; but the patent was refused ow..
ing to the protest filled by the w. c. T..
u, who feared the potential evil in the in
vention. You see, they were afraid that a
person slave to drink, with such bottle,
would never reach the bottom. Then also,
could show you a man who has been
known to buy more automobiles than a
cart full of millionaires, and pay for them,
too, only that the clearing houses refused
to clear his checks
And, as the bunch passed out towards
the front, one long, slim gent in the group,
with fringe of hay under his chin, was
heard to remark:
"Gosh! But there be sickers in place
like this be-