The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-09-14
Prizes ON Patents.
How to Get twenty-five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has q Clear Gift Of a
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them IN SLlli ,
More.

would you like to make twenty live
Iiiidrcti d"liar,! Il yuu would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
Il way To Ia Il.
The pIcs- Claim, Company devotcs
IHurI attention Ia patents. 1t has han
died thousands vi applications Tor III
yruiiuns, but it would like to h4ndi"
thousands more. iiicro is plenty ul
%invcItiyc talent a. large III THIS country,
needing nothing bat encouragement 10
produce PRACTICAL results. That en-
cUuraScinc It the Press Claims Company
proposes 10 give.
NOT 80 HARD AS IF SEEMS.
A plicnt strikes most people us an APP
paliinSiy formidable thing. The idea is
that the inventor must be IA natural
genius, like Edison OF Bell; that he
hiusi devote years to dClving In cUmpiI-
Gated mechanical problems ana THAI he
must sprud Il fortune on delicate expert
ncntS before he can get Il new device TO
Il p~alrnlublc degree OI perfection. This
dclusiun the company desires TO dispcl.
II desires To get il.to the head OF The
pubIic IA clear comprehension ol the fact
,lal II is not the great, complex, aud
expensive Inventions Thai bring the best
returns To their authors, but Inc little,
simple aud cheap onts-the thin4s
tilat seem st absurdly trivial that
the average citiHin would feel somewhat
ashamed Of bringlng them to the atted-
lion OF the Patent Office.
Edison says That The profits he has re-
celVed iroun the patents oh all his mar
Vicious inventions nave not been suit
cIcnt TO pay the cost OF experiments.
But The man VINO conceived HE idel Oh
fastening Il bit OF rubber cord 10 II ,nild's
bali, 50 thaL IL would come bach ~ ,hu
hand whtn thrown, made IA iortunc
ulI of his scheme. Tue modern sewing
machine Is Il miracle OF Ingenuity --,he
y, uduct OF the oil oil hundreds OF busy
Drains through II hundred auu iii,y
years, but the whole brilliant result rests
upon the simple device OF putting the
eye ot the needle al the point Instead OF
At the other end.
TIIE LITTLE Things n MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
tlrnsVITcs as inventors, but almost
everybody mas becn strrck, ut n time
OF another, with IDEAS that seemed cal
culated To lcdIce some Ui the little me-
tluna vi lie. Usually such Ideas are
dismissed wlthOut Iurlner thought.
"Nhy don't the railroAd company make its
car wlnduwd ~ mat tloy can DC sind up anu
down without nieAAlns tue passengers baeksE'
c~Acltiuns Tue traNcIcr. "a ! were running
t1ie road woi.ld sudkG tilGAn huCn u way"
" hat was llv nM.n thai maue TINS saucepan
tliihkinB ~ gruinDieh tnu sock. lie never
HAD 10 MOIk over "a sluHV, ur nc would have
khuWn ilOw ~ ought 10 iiitr been nAed.'
iianB such u COLLAR DultOn,' srowis the
man Mus ~ late IOr breakfast. III 1 were m
INC business 4 would nnake buttons that would
not siiiI out OF break Oh, or sVuge Oul tlc bicA
vi N. nvCk
Aud tlich The various sufferers forget about
thclf grievances aud Degin 10 THINK aDOdt
sohiuthiiib east, II tiay NUJid slt down AZ ttv
next cohteliieht OppVitunitAi pat tneir ideas
ABDUL Car WINDOWS sRucepans. and collar bat-
tuns into praoticdt shape, and tnep Apply .Or
patents, tliey might hiu lntInseiSes as lnle .
pehIently "eAituy as The man VINO intsntou
ulc 'ruh umbrella Iihg, OF tnu oue wIlO paIenleu
tiv hitecn pnzLic,
A TEMPTING okFER.
10 induce people 10 Keep track of their bright
ideas and see wnat lDerc "a ia lnuiI, Tue Iress
CLAUS Company has resolved 10 ohur u lrize
10 tne person WHO submits ~ II she sinip est
anu nIust prODlsInH Inyon lion, from a cVmIuur-
cial polnt Oi NlgM Tie company WA gave
tweuty -iiyu hundred dollars IA casa. IA adJI-
nun 10 rul unulng tlv Ices lor souurIhg Tue
patent. AZ wnli also advertise thc IHseAuon
Tree OF cliase
ihis Oiiyr IS subject To the following condi-
llOua. livery cuiupulllur must ul,iil d 10 ,tpl,l