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Show SHOWS THE WORLD'S PROGRESS. Labor-Saving Devices That Would Astonish As-tonish Our Forefathers. When McCormtck built his first hundred hun-dred reapers In 184G he' paid 4H cents for bolts. That was In the mythical age of hand labor. To-day CO bolts are made for a cent. So with guard-fingers; guard-fingers; McCormtck paid 24 cents each when James K. Polk was in the White House. Now thero Is a ferocious machine, ma-chine, which, with the least possible assistance from ono man, cuts out 1,300 guard-lingers In ten hours, at a labor cost of one cent for six. Also, while exploring ono of the Chicago factories, I came upon a herd of cud-chewlng'machlnes cud-chewlng'machlnes that were crunching crunch-ing out chain links at the rate of GO,. 000,000 a year. Near by were four smaller and more Irritable automata, which were biting oft pieces of wire and chewing them Into linchpins at a speed of 400,000 bites a day. "Take out your watch and time this man," said Superintendent Drooks of the McCormlck plant. "See how long he is In boring five holes In that great casting." "Exactly six minutes," I answered. "Well, that's progress," observed Drooks. "Before wo bought that machine ma-chine It was a matter of four hours to bore those holes." In one of Its Ave twine mills a monstrous bedlam of noise and a wilderness wil-derness of fuzz, which Is by far the largest of Its sort In the world there Is enough twine twisted In a single day to make a girdle around the earth. Everybody's Magaztne. |