Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-08-10
Prizes on p atents
How to Get Twenty -llye Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.

ne winner has Clear Gilt OF Small
Fortune. and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them II Still
More.
Would you like to make twenty tive
hundred dollars? II you would, read
carefully what follows and you may 20
I way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attentio, to patents. II has ham
died thousands OF applications for in-
veDtlons, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty OF in
ventive talent 1t large in this country,
needing nothing out encouragement 10
couragement the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEKS.
4 pateLt strikes most people as IN
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
" that an inventor must be natural
genius, like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to delving IN COM
plicated mechanical problems and that
he must spend fortnne on delicate
experiment. before he can get o new
device to patentable degree OF per-
fection. This delusion the company
desires to dlspeL 1t desires to get into
the head of the public . clear cOmpre-
hension of the fact that 1t u not the
great. complex. and expensive lnven-
tions tina. bring the best rsturns to their
authors, but the little, simple. and
cneap ones--the things that seem SO
absurdly trivial that the average citizen
wouIt feel somewhat ashamed Of bring
ing them 70 the attention Of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceived from the patents on ali his mar
velous Inventions have not been sufjiCi-
ent to pay the cost of his experiments,
Blu; the man who c0nceivesl the idea Of
fastening q bit OF rubber cord to
child's ball, 90 that it would coma back
to the hand whom thrown, made for-
tune out Of his scheme. The moddrn3
sewing machine 10 . miracle OF ingenus
ity-the proouct OF the toil OF hum
dreds Of busy brains through : hum
dred and 6tty years. but the whole
brilliant result rests upon Inc simple
device Of putting the eye Of the needle
at the point instead Of Ht tho other end !.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, st one time
or another, with ideas that seemed cal
culated 70 reduce some OF the little fric-
tion Of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed Without further thought,
ssWhy don't The railroad company
make It's car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without hreaking
the passenger backsp" exclAisns the
traveller. I'll we're running the road
would make them In such way" +"
sWhat Was the man thai mado this
saucepan thlnking or grumbles the
cook. '.He never had to work over :
stove. or he would have known how 1t
ought to have been fiAed. I"
chang such . collar button ~ growle
the man who 10 late to breakfast. IL /
we're In the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip Tut, or break of, OF
gouge out the back OF my neck. y
And then the various s0ff6rors forgot
their grievances and begin to think OF
something else Ittney would sit down
1t the next convenient opportunity. put
their ideas about car windows, sauce-
pans and collar buttons into practical
shape, and then apply for patents. they
might fiud themselves a. Independently
wealthy a. the man who invented the
iron umbrella ring. or the one who pat
onfx.d tho fffoon n..1oiA