Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-06

The Winner has Clear 0ift Of ! Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
ThemlH 6tiGl
More.

nemtH Still
More.
Would you like TO make twenty.hv,
hundred dOllarsP II you would read
carefully what follows and yo1 nay set
| = way to do it.
! The Press Claims Company devotel
much attention 10 patents. Il has han.
died thousands Of aDplicatioDs for IN
yeptions. but it you'd like TO handle
thousands more. There Is plenty OF il,-
ventive talept at large IN this country.
needing no'h;ng but encouragement to
| produce practical results. fhut en-
couragementth the Press Claims Company
proposes to give
NOT 50 HARD AS 1T SEEMS
pateLt strikes most people IS An
appailingIy formidable thing. The idea
v that An inventor must be natural
genius. like Edison or Bell; that BE
must devote years 70 delvlng ID conn
pI,cated mechanical problems aud that
be must spend = forluae on delicate
experiment. before be can get new
device TO pAten.sbie degree ot per-
lection. This delusi0n The company
desires to dispel. 1t desires 10 ~ int2
the head of the pubic clear con1nre-
hension of the fact thst II is nor lhe
great. complex, and expensive rnven-
tons tha. bring the beat returns 10 their
ruthors. but Tie little. simple. aud
eueap ones---ihe things that seem 10
apsufdiS trivial that the average cltlzen
wpalc feei snmew has ashamed. .6f briig-
ine them, % Inc attention. uf the Patent
Oilice.
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceived from the patents on ali his mar
yrloas inventions have not been sufiici-
ent 10 pay the cost OF his experiments
hui the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening bit of rubber cord 10 4
cniid's ball, 50 that 1t would come back
70 the Laad WHOM thrown. made for-
tune oat OF his scheme the modern
sewing machine Is miracle OF ingenus
ity--the product of the lollnof hun
dleds Of busy brains through i hum
dred and hity yeals, but the whole
brilliant result resLs upon the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle
~ The point instead Of at the other end
fHE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Cemparatlvely lew people regard
themselves as Inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, ut one time
OF another, with ideas that seemed cal
culsted to reduce some Of the little fric-
ton Of iife. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
"Wny don't The railroad comrany
make It's car windows SO that they scaa
DC slid up snd down without breaking
The passenger backsP" exelaials the
traveller. III were running the load
would make them In such way. y
NV hae Was the man tina. made this
sancepan thiakhg or grumbies the
s'ook. ''tie never had to work over a
stove, or be would have known how 1t
ought fo have been fiNed.r
Hang snch collar button - growls
tbs nan who - iate tot breakfast. .sIf /
we're 10 the business I'D maze buttons
.has wouldn't ship 1ut, or break off, or
guuge uut the back of my nses. -
Add then The various sufferers forget
their grivssncss sud begin 10 lhink of
somefn,ng else lttney would sit down
- he next eonscnlent opportunity. pus
thuir ideas ABOUT car windows. sance-
pans aud eolias battoas sutss practical
shape. snd thoa sppiy for patant<. they
night find themselves A. independently
wealthy - ihs maa who ,esrnsed the
iron umbrella ring. or The one who nat
ealed she aiteen puxxle.
tsMfatxe ofFkR.
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their bfsNht sis.@ snd 80 what there n
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mmplest and ness prosni~inx lave.sspa.
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