The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-04-18

hint, ana ne mad gwen birth
dustry soon to employ hur
thousands of men and turn OF
duct Of tens of millions of dol
had not acquired wealth, but
his face to the wall and said
happy-others can get rlch."
SIMPSONS HARD srRUCG
About forty years ago a mar
rYpson'in Missouri, discove
80 gsscha was a non. cond
els,fS, and have heard
borrowed money of Amos Ke
maS~ application for a pa
was reJecteuo~er and over,
graph companies fighting b
But he "sand." He ne
ened. 1t was~just after the W
made his last fight. He had
not dollar-but he started
Louis to Washington afoot.
not beg, but he made his way onward
by saving wood, hoeing corn or doing
such wayside jobs as tramps do when
they can't helplt. Sometimes he made
no more than twenty miles a week, but
he pressed on. His shoes gave out.
He worked as a truck driver in Pitts
burg till he earned enough to get them
soled. To his intimate friends he some
times told the story of robbing a scare
crow in Ohio and exchanging hat and
pantaloons. All this time he believed
stubbornly N himself, and he says:
"Wheu l came over the tops of the
Alleghenies l saw the sun rising, and l
knelt down and thanked God for my
life and asked Him to let me get my
patent. He promised me on the spot,
and / never had moments doubt after,
that p
Arriving in Washington he got a
living by working as day. laborer on
the stone foundation of the patent
office, and from that vantage ground
he fought his claim through the office
and the courts and got his patent. The
Western Union Telegraph Company
gave him SIoo,ooo down for the privi-
lege of using it.
GoRDoN'S GRAIN BINDER.
Even more extraordinary was the
career of J. F. Gordon, born about
IS45. Even as boy he was always
fussipg over inventions, and though his
father, farmer near Rochester, n. Y,
was rigid Scotch Presbyterian, hating
everything "new," he worked on the
farm all day and on "models" all night,
his object being an automatic grain
binder. elm worked as teamster-
worked at any job that turned up that
let him time ~foss sents.A He
wen. into blacksm,a s1N
machinist's and workedop a1..s
to acquire facility in the use
Thus he became a mechan'
after year he built his machl
none of them would work. Ye
year passed and he stuck to it.
first model was constructed OF pewter.
He trundled a blacksmith's bellows
across the country and fixed it under
the trees back of his fathers house,
where ne fashioned the different parts
of his strange machine. Everybody
jeered him and laughed at him and
called him fool-everybodv but one.
The nelghbor's daughter, >n h
was to marry, believed in s r.
| came and stood over his Is (,
der the trees and even N 4
She brought her sewing ~ u
and watched his progress i
room which he made h' -
| There they worked and
planned all the winter of ~
and in the spilng he turl
ished machine, ready toy
| grain. In time it was
but it had not been tho e.. r
utes before he saw thai - i.
defective. The year.
Again and again ar.
led the difficulties and tier
heartslck years, in 1874 Z Id NJ
! the problem whic the oldstic E
had declared chimerical ad e. /
The machine did the woE y.
WIFE'S FIDETrl
Then began his fight yrs
who had laughed at him aow
claimed the invention as nere
had been hundreds of fiilne
cereal shore was strewn wks
and nov a rich company fon.
He was poor but plucky.ad
wltnesses-not the least ful
wife. Her the lawyers tried er
and brow beat.
$50 you went and helped ng
man at his home, did you"
eyes; l did all could tolge :
him. 1 generally held the ca
did he come TO your housee Y
you7
Not very much. He had me.
Where you alone with him
Sometimes-yeS sir
You went pretty often, did
Yes; saw this machine ev'ee
almost every day.
Why didn't you two get NAY
Well sir, | told James that "o.
wait for him till he made the ach
work. We were all very po ou-
told him could endure privpnn' m
iety, anything lift would onl,eip;m
along. l would have waiteetor
all my life, sir. mes
That brought down the hose. half
got his patent sustained, andooI IONS
a million dollars out of it. Ge0 Gwas
best friend in this case, l beieV beieosss.
Philip ]. Dodge, brilliant and
full patent attorney. ....s -
PROBLEMS AWAITING SOLUTION. ~
Among the things which inventors
are hunting for now is a contrlvance
for accumulatlng and storing up power
that goes to waste-the plowing winds,
the rising tides, the suns heat and the
change of temperature between night
and day. Over every town is power
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