Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-06-08
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How to Get Twenty I'VE Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.

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/ Fortune, and the Losers Have
/ Patents that may Bring
!! Them In Still
More.
Would you like to make twenty -flve
hundred dollars? II you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
q way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention 10 patents. Il has ham
died thousands 0, applications for in
ventlons, but Vt wouid ike 70 handle
thousands more. There is plenty OF in-
ventive talent at large IN this country,
needing nothing but encouragement u
produce practical results. I'haL en-
couragement the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS
a patent strikes most people As an
appallingiy formidable thing. The idea
IL that an inventor must he natural
genius, like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to delying in COM
pllcated mechanical problems and that
ne must spend fortune on delicate
experiment before be can get new
device to q paten.able degree OF per-
| fection. This delusiOn the company
desires to dlspel. 1t desires to get into
the head OF the public D. clear compre-
| hension of the fact that It is not the
great. complex, and expensive lnven-
lions thu. brisg he best returns to their
authors, but The little, simple, and
| 10
absurdly trivial that the average citlzen
would feel somewhat ashamed Of bring
ing them 70 Lne attention Uf the Patent
| Office.
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceiged from the patents on ali his mar
velous Inventions have not been sufiici-
ent 10 pay the cost of his experiments,
| Blu; the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening bit of rubber cord TO q
cnilds ball, So that it would come back
| to the hand when thrown, made for
tune out of his scheme. The modern
sewing machine is miracle OF ingenus
ity-the product of the toll of hum
dreds Of busy brains through hun-
dred aad fifty Years, but the whole
| briliiant result rests upon. The simple
device of putting the eye of the needle
at the point instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
Everybody has been struck, at one time
or another, with ideas that seemed CAL
culated to reduce some Of the little fric-
tion Of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought,
"Why don't The railroad company
make its car windows 80 that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passenger backs?" exclailns the
traveller. ''If were running the road
would make them in such way. y
| "What was the man thai made this
saucepan thinklng or grumbles the
cook. ''He never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how il
ought to have been fixed"
| ..Hang such a collar button - growle
the nan who is late to breakfast. If
were in the business I'd MAKE buttons
That wouldn't slip cut, or break off, or
gouge out the back OF my ntck-
| Aud then the various sufferers forget
their grievaaces and begin to think .oi
something else. Iftney would sit down
at the next convenient opportunity, put
their ideas about car windows, sauce
pans and collar buttons into practical
shape, and then apply for patents. thsy
might ind themselves rs independently
wealthy as the man who invented the
tiron umbrella ring. or the one who pat
enled the fifteen puzzle.
| TEMPTING OFFER.