Arizona republican., 1893-06-23
Special Washington Letter,

The Hen Pcrsuader.
 Special Washington Letter!
 There is wit and wisdom, fun and ,thos, everywhere in the model room inc patent office. Every visit re- .,s some wonderful thought made Sjblc, but heretofore unseen. The S,t models do not adequately express Mintricacics M of the reasoning which
 Sr arc intended to convoy; and scl-
 an do they perfectly make manifest
 s, conclusions reached by their au-
 %rs The solid thoughts of solid
 .,r. wrought into valuable machinery !, trade and commerce or terrible en- .,ery for war, arc not moro interest .- than the freaks of ingenuity dis ,1ycd on every hand. The patent s,e museum is place of interest for p pphilosopher as well as tho careless s,htseer. The amusement and enter anmcnt of this wonderful place has l,, since passed for me; and it was Tth the plodding thoughtfulness of a Ilcsopher that l went through the
 s.snt office with some friends this aft moon, While they chatted and chat
 yed about the peculiar things before
 hem. my mind was dwelling upon tho
 at that this place was q chamber of
 krOrS
 These devices for flying machines,
 b,perpetual b, motion, for aerial naviga-
 s9a upon many plans, and for other
 shemcS impractical for the present, are
 -,eresting, it is true, so long as one
 }ss not look away beyond them and
 s. in dark and dingy room, the in-
 r,tor himself. But, when we remcm-
 r that these curious devices cmanated
 w from untraincd, uneducatcd brains,
 ri from strong and ambitious intel
 hts, we can faintly imagine the disap-
 rntmCnts and sorrows of the uusuc-
 sssful inventors. Some of them lived in
 racs in crowded cities, with little raj
 se1t, and sometimes without food.
 They could sec before them nothing but 1erS, and consequent wealth Their rragyS faded away, alas, and in the slr and yellow leaf of life they either vent over the hills to the poorhouse or tund final rest, after lifc's iitful fever, ihe pottcr's field, unloved, unnoted, hr from home and the loves of early rt with unknown" marked upon a ,re slab headstone.
 0ucpoor inventor, however, found ann ,e ,u.ycsS in after life; but not from his mention. Had he depended upon that ue thing, and founded his hopes of life g.ly upon that creation of his brain. E0 many inventors do, his life would E7c been a failure. But, after placing Emodyl on file, he turned his mind to ac.on,inuance of his profession and ksaae q great lawyer. Tho model is ra r.aSs case along with other devices Vhi.a represent lifc's failure for many pr people. It is like an accordion. Gi wa, intended to be attached to the EI,o. river craft to enable their nay i.at F, tp float them over shoal places, rr.raSr them when stranded. These ycrrlions were intended to be irn- 1elst air bags, to be inflated in case of ,ns,i.y, and used as buoys. Their in U1,9r signed his name Abraham Lin 0.2;' and he aftcrward became prcsi- lat of the United States. His name B household word in this land and Tlalways be familiar to the school aL4rCn of America. But, as an in- Ultor, he is wholly unknown.
 One of the peculiar devices for navi- s,ing the waters is boat to be pro- piled by gigantic windmill, but little smaller than the boat itself. It never lobaOly occurred to the inventor that ia.m at sea would render his wind nil device q dclusion and q fatal snare . the vessel using it, and to the passcn- l2rs travelling by that method of pro- Elsioa. Another inventor, however, hlcy.ug in the windmill theory, made n improvement @ upon it, by provid- l2 a lrcadmill on deck, to be worked G horse power to make the windmill N7olvc. This invention with its i'm E0Tcmcnt probably represents the Ta1,cd efforts of two ambitious lives, ala aUrgcst5 again the chamber of hor- oN It is rivaled by another model Which provided in the hold of vessel . sry@t engine which is intended to p1p water into the bow of the boat, '" pour it upon water wheel -1c. at Inc stern of the vessel, the ob- &lclag to force the boat along by