The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-10-18
BETTER TIMES FOR INVENTORS.

One of the most pathetic situations
Il literature is that of the unfortu-
late inventor, who has struggled
through the best part of his life to
perfect an idea, who has impover-
shed his family, denied himself every
comfort, incurred the ridicule of his
neigbbors, and finally just at the
moment of success, has seen all the
rewards of his sacrifice gathered
in by some interloping capitalist.
Unhappily this situation is not con-
lined to fiction or the stage. 1t is
too common in real life. The mar
of ideas is not often the one who can
best turn them to practical accoant.
There is q division of faculties here
as in most other directions. The
inventor and money-maker are diff
ferent persons. One man %conceives
an invention and the other coins the
latent in gold.
Fortunately the same principle of
he division Of labor which has
Usually condemned one man to the
hard work of creation, and appointed
mother to collect the returns, can be
made to secure justice instead of an
njustice. The inventor who lacks a
practical business faculty can buy it.
This is M of the triumphs of the
modern social organization.
Under the old system a man would
levote himself for fifteen or twenty
years to the development of his
bought with a single ~thoughted en-
husiasm which left no opportunity
or anything else. Then when his
dea was perfected, and the time had
N to turn it to his own m .terial
,dvantage, he found himself help
lessly confronting a situation with
Which he had never learned to cope,
md the result of his toll would slip
trough his fingers before he had
ime to open his eyes. 1t was uec-
ssary in those times for an inventor
Who wished to make money, to be
lot only a scientist, but an acute
awyer, and a practical business as
veil. Now, all he has to do is to
urn over the description of his in
vention to the Press Claims Company.
A moderate fee buys the highest
egal skill and the most perfect bust
Tess methods. The inventor need
lot waste a thought on the work of
securing his rights. In due time a
patent is delivered to him, perfect in
very detail. He is now in a position
10 deal with capitalists on his own
erms. His rights are absolutely
occurred. Nobody can force him into
! losing bargain. He can put his
patent into his pocket il he chooses,
,nd wait until he finds a satisfactory
customer.
The establishment Of the Press
'Iaims Company will serve an enor-
GUS expenditure Of brain matter to
he man whose ideas keep the world
ioving. There is no branch of the
atent business with which the com
ANY is not thoroughly qualified to
leal. In every direction its COM
plete organization enables it to do
the most perfect work on the lowest
terms. 1t is prepared to take the
ull responsibility for attending to all
letails which an inventor unfamiliar
with patent Office procedure would
inevitably overlook. The advantages
it offers have already been widely
appreciated, and the indications are
that in a few years an inventor would
as soon think Of trying to get along
without the patent Office itself as
The Press Claims Company. Address,
PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
uls = st. N. W., Washington, D. o.
ToHs wIpDERpuRs,
General Manager.