Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-05-30
STORY OF THE PATENT RIGHT
MAN.

opened a place III the city in which to
i offer my patent for sale, pale, sol
emn looking man came in, and look
Ing aI 1t Win Tic greatest apparent
interest, said, Splendid thing YOU
have there. Got territory for sale -
Told him l had territory. Showed
him how much a nan could make by
buying State and then peddling out
the counties. If hadn't money enough
to by State, let him invest in a
county right and sell townships.
You want to make a good thing
out of this patent, don't you?' he
asked:
'Certai ,ly,' 1 sad, yet 1 have
good margin for investors
well, then, said he, taking Il news
paper out Of his pocket and unfold
ing it, you should advertise in this
paper which l represent. We have
over 300, 900 circulation, and the pa
per goes from Maine to California.
from Canda to Tcrre del Fuegc. An
advertisement will cost you the merest
trliie, comparatively, while the adj
vaEtages You will reap will be i'm
mensc.'
Told linn | had INFESTED all my
money III the patent, and | couldn't
afford to advertise ut present. Must
realize something first. lie held on
about hour, and failing to talk me
over, went away. Immediately en-
tered another man, a jolly. good-hu- |
mored looking chap, who said Good |
morning i'll the pleasantest kind of
way. Said he, Il learned, sccident- /
ally, that you are sclring territory for
valuable patent right.
That's what I'm here for | re-
piled.
We'll, now, tell me all about it.
said the jolly chap, who looked rs i'll
he had money to invest and was ready
to invest it, should the thing appear
feasible. Then gave him about an
hour and Il half Of the best patent
ri iUht tall. ever did in way ifo-
told him all about the invention, its
uses and application, and then enter
ed into a minute biography of the in
ventor. | described what it had done
in the past, and what it was expected
20 do IN the future. lie listened with
the utmost interest, and seemed alb
s0rbed i'll every word | said. At
times he interrupted me to make little
memoranda in a note book he carried.
Again he would ask me to 20 back
and repeat that last statement again,
and say it slow. | felt that | had
made an impression. / was certain
he would take at least two of the
largest States in the Union, and was
not sure but that | should be asked
to turn over the whole Southern and
Western territory to him. Finally
when had quite cXhaused myself on
the theme, hc grasped me warmly by
the hand, and said, My friend, it
seems almost 4 providence that |
dropped in just as | did. You have
the greatest invention of the age :
You have only to make it properly
known-to advertise it-and there's
millions in it. am agent for one of
the best papers in the West. Our
circulation is rising of 600, 600, and {
increasing every day. Now, if you
will give me your advertisement for
one year, and l will throw off my
own commission entirely, and give
You rates that no other of like circu-
lation can possibly offer
| was sick, | can tell you.
thought surely had Il customer, and
here was only another advel tising So
licitor. He hung on to me, offered
to swear to his Giro ulation, and even
bring the editor, pressman, mailer
and postmaster to support his state
mcnt by alli,lpvits, and it was only
when told him that | never advcr-
tised in my life, and never paid n
cent when did, that he let go and
took his departure.
stepped out doors to take air
after this experience, and found an
elderly man looking in at the window
at model of my patent that was ex-
hibited there. 'Wondarfuln he eX-
claimed in the greatest admiration.
DO YOU know said he, turning to
me, that the idea of such Il machine
occurred dimly to Inc, years ago:
Never followed it up, however, eg-
lected to pursue the thought, and
now some more energetic man has
knocked the underpinning clean out
of under me. l might have been an
other Edison, if / had only applied
myself.
sgsDo you take an interest in new in
ventions?' l asked.
sOh, immensely he said, i never
sec cne but that want TO hunt up
the man who has it, and ask him all
about it. adore anything new in
the patent line, and always ready to
help man bring it before the world.
Then he told me how many patent
rights he had assisted In making
known, and how many fortunes he
had made for inventors who had per-
mitted him TO assist them. Here,
thought 1, is wealthy but eccentric
person who takes pleasure in assist