Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-12
Prizes on patenys.
How to Get Twenty ave Hundred
Dollars for Nothing,


Tho Winner has Clear Git Of Small
Fortune. and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them IN Still
More.
Would you like TO make twenty-five
hundred dollarsf II you would read
carefully what follows and you may see
. way to do it..
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. It hes ham
died thousands Of applications for in
ventlons, but it would like 70 handle
thousands more. There h pi1nty of Ia.
veutive talent 6 hree IN thiS country.
needing nothing but encouragement 70
produce practical results. That en-
couragament the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS II SEEMS.
patent strikes most people ~ IN
appaliingly formidable thing. The idea
10 that an inventor must De natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years 70 delving IN COM
plscated mechanical problems and that
he must spend f0rtune ON deliuAte
experiment. before he can get new
device to q patentable degree OF per-
lection. This delusion the cumpany
desires to dispel. It desires to get into
the head OF the public clear compso-
hension Of the fact that 1t ls not ttGe
great. complex, and expensive inTeI-
tions thai bring the besk returns v thar
authors. but the iiftles simple, np6
cneap ones--the things that ssem o.
absurdly trivial that the avsragc citaxenl
would feel somewhAt ashamed of brlne-
ing them 70 the attention Of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he ~
ceiged from the patents on iii his uar-
vei0ns Inventions have not been suflot-
ent 70 pay the cost OF his experimenta,
Bu; the man who conceived th6 idea OF
fastening bit Of rubber cord to ;
Child's ball, 20 that Il would come back
to the kand whom thrown, made for.
tune ont Of his scheme. Tue modsrn
sewing machine is . miracle Of ingsnus
ity-the pr0duct OF the soil OF hum
dreds Of busy brains through hun-
dred aad 6fty years. but the whole
brilliant result rests upon the sinlple
device q putting ~ eye ~ ~ needlle
THE LITTLE THINGS 1uu uoDE VAEU-.
ADLB.Ss., ,...
Comparatively fsw psopls regard
themselves - inveptors, bat almrst
everybody haa been struck, at ono tine
OF anOthers with ideas that seemed CAL
culated 70 reduce some OF the little fric-
tion Of life. Usually such ideas Are
dismissed without further thought,
"Why don't the railroad cNmpany
make it. car Windows % that they can
Be slid up and down without breaking
the passenger backse'' exclalms the
traveller. ssIf wsre running the road
would make them In such . way"
"What wAs the man tina. made thls
saucepan thinklng or grumbles the
ss0ok. ''He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how It
ought to have been fixed."
'sHAug such collar buttonl" growls
the man who 10 late TO breakfast. III
were 10 the business Id make buttons
that wouldn't slip .ut, or break Of, or
gouge out the back OF my neck. -
And then the vArious sUfferers forget
their grievances and begin to think OF
something else Ifthey would cit down
1t the next convenient opportunity, put
their ideas about car Window, sauco-
pans and COLLAR buttons Into practicsl
shape, and then apply for patents. they
might Ind themselves - asindepepdently
wealthy - tho man who invented the
iron umbrella ring. the one who pat
entSd the fifteen puzzle.