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How to Get Twenty.five Hundred
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The Winner has a clear Cift of a Small
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Would you like to make twenty-five hundred
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The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. It has handled thousands
of applications for inventions, but it would
like to handle thousands more. There Is plenty
of Inventive tallent at large In this country
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company propose to give.
NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an appalling
ly formidable thing. The idea is that an iu
ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or
Bell; that he must devote years to delving In
complicated mechanical problems and that he
must spend a fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get a new device to a patentable
degree of perfection. This delusion the com
pany desires to dispel. It desires to get Into
the head of the public a ciear comprehension
of the fact that it Is not the great, complex, and
expensive Inventions thatbring the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple, and
cheap ones the things that seem so absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvelous Inven
tions ave not been sufficient to mv tne m
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the Idea of fastening a bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, so that it would come
back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-machine
is a miracle of ingenuity the product
a hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril
liant result rests upon the simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point in
stead of at the other end.
of the toll of hundreds of busy brains through
TIIE LITTLE THINGS THE 1UOMT
VALUABLE,
Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors, but almost every body has been
struck, at one time or another, with ideas that
seem calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dis-
missed without further thought.
wny don tthe railroad company make Its car
windows so that they can be slid up and down
without breaking the passengers' back?" ex.
claims the traveler. "If I were running the
road I would make them in such a way."
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thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "Ho never
had to work over a stove, or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed."
Hang such a collar button!" arowla T44n
who is late'for breakfast, "If I were In the
And the various sufferers forgot about their
grievances and began to think of something
else. If they would set down the next con
venient opportunity, put their Ideas about car
windows, saucepans and collar buttons into
practical shape, and then apply for patents
they might find themselves aB Independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron
umbrella ring, or the one who patented
he fifteen puzz le.
A TEMPTING OFFUK.
To Induce the people to keep track.'of their
bright Ideasand see what there in them, the
Press Claims Company has resolved to oiler a
j rize .
To the person wlio submit to II
th simplest and most promising
invention, from a commercial
point of view, the company will
Clve twenty-five hundred dollarx
In caiih,1 in addition to refunding
the fees for securing a patent.
It will alao advertise the inven
tion free of charge.
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tions:
Every competitor must obtain a patent for
his invention through the company. He must
Srstapply for a preliminary search, the cost of
which will be five dollars. Should this
seach show his Invention to be unpatentable.
he can withdraw without further expense.
Otherwise he will be expected to complete his
application and take out a patent in the regu
lar way. The total expense, including the
Government and Bureau fees, will be seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secures a prize
or not, the Inventor will have a patent that
ought to be a valuable property to him. The
prize will be awarded by a jury consisting ol
three reputable patent attorneys of Washihg
ton. Intended competitors should fill out the
following blank, and forward It with their
application:
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competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar
Prize offered by the Press Claims Company."
MO BLANKS IN THIS COM PETION. '
This Is a competition of rather an unusal na
ture. It Is common to offer prizes lor the best
story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the
competitors risking the loss of their labor and
the successful one merely Belling his for the
amoun of the prize. But the Press Claims
Company's offer is something entirely differ
ent. Each person Is asked merely to help him
self, and the one who helps him self to the
best advantage is lobe rewarded by doing JU.
The prize is only a stimulus to do something
that would be well worth doing without it.
The architect whose competitive plan fur a
club house on a certain corner Is not occept
ed has spent his labor on something of very
Utle use to hlra. But the person who patents a
simple and useful device in the Press Claims
Company's competition, need not worry if he
fall to secure a prize. He has a subs tantial
result to show for his work one that wll
command its value in the market at any
time.
The man who uses anv article In his dsllv
work ought to know better now to improve IL
Ihati the mechanical expert who studies ft
ntily from the theoretical point of view, 'let
rid of the idea that an improvement can be too
simple to be worth patenting. The simpler in
better. The person who best succeeds In
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"u. auuecrioers tuat the new eonmia
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4.44UOI lue nurnerous laws enacted for
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PARODOXES OF SCIENCE.
itmnge Conditions Which Kxlst in Com
pound Siilmtitni'its.
The water whio.i drowns us, a fluent
stream, can bo. walki'd upon as ice, says
IJlnckwond's jl:i:-;i.ine. The bullet
which, when ii : -1 f I'Jin n musket, car
rier, death, will b.i linrmlosa if ground
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in its' frajrr.incu a solid at ordinary
temperature, though lvariily volatile
is a com;) nmd suljstanee, containing
exactly the same elements and exactly
the same proportions as the tfas with
which we li'.it our streets. The tea
whieli we daily driril: with (jrc-at bene
lit and pleasure, proiluees palpitations,
nervous tvom,' ':i aud even 1'avalysis,
if taken in oy.vs:.; yet tiio peculiar or
(fiinic a'.-ent ea:l"d theine, to which tea
owes it's (ualities, may lie taken by
Itself (as t'ic ine, not as tea) without
any up :revh.lile cifect. The water
which v's'.l ;:M..y our burni::.'' thirst nug
mcnts it v, h "i con;: ah-1 into snow; so
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er taa.i .ilLeerit ti remove it by eatinrj
snow." Yet. if the snow be mi lted, it
becomes dri'i!,-:;ble w.ter. Neverthe
less, althinr-li if mU !tl IHiifc it cuVts
the month it a:,su:":' .. t'.ir.t li!;e other
Water, when melt. ,1 i i the urni'i it has
the opposite i ..' 'i t. T i rendi-r I par
idox more s'n i'; :"-, ue have c, re
Tiet.'ib"'. t'a.t i e. .'!iieh meli., i.u.re
dov. I ; i e. r.e mouth, is very eiiicieut in
llluyin' thirst.
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20, 1893.
Highest of all in Leavening
HEROIC 3IKASUKE8.
How the Spall Was R iT.ovcd from
Undo BlUy'3 Horses.
Gross superstition
gnorance. The p'iit
pencrnl y allied to
who seriously be
1! i-ilvor buiieis is
ieves in wilchrvn't 1.1
likely to contend Unit th
volve every tve:ity-fmr
Joes not empty Did mir
J vovld ca.i not i o
''!r. ! ' "w.e it
TT , , .1.
' li :1 nf , I , ...,.11
4414.. o uiny, lis an old pnuir'T vu, w.i- 0f
van lamiuariy ternuvl, ,vus 0110 f this
Jlass. He linen-there was such bum on as
witches old women win, imu nidi o a
-eaguewit.lt tlieiii-vil-bi-omife ho hud li
souiesuu expern ores iii l..s
"You sec," s;i, u l u.-.o 11.
uiKiior nuya.
, I uiu't a
: .'ii .inol a
' Id write
Ban of laming 1 im i,-,
lay in my life I don't, know
-ny name or even read n v.-onl .r ,,i-i
out, for all that, I knows us much about
witches, andean tell vou aa much 4iiii
'em, as the next.
"I settled out West here after the Iuilns
aad all been druv off, ami so mo and mv
wife hadn't not hing to fear from them ; hut
.here was other critters about in i hesu h ra
4.KB...Sa niKn us uau, as I ui a if wine to tell
rou t'bout.
"You must know that after I'd got thliiKs
Ixed up to suit me, Ituk to raising hosses,
mving a naterol Incline for that ere animal
i've knowed a hoss ever seneo 1 was old
snough to know any thing. Nobody couldn't
tool me in a hoss. A fter t wo or three years
i got things a jogjog in tho right kind of
ityle, and was doing a party decent busi
less for a man of my means and edicatioa
liut then come my fust trouble An old
JVoman, called the Widilcr Groat, living
ibout two miles off, come over to my house
me day to borrow a neck of Iniin m...i it..
wife she let her have it, and tho old witch
die went oft good-mitei-'d enough. A week
.vent by, and she didn't fetch it back, but
:ome agin for another neelr. t,,in,r .
find of a story about being disnppnited and
to on. Howsomever. mv ivifn i, ,i,,i..,t ,,
ieve her, and wouldn't, let, hn i.o
nore till she paid up, and this time she went
'", "mu. B11U Sid' that rich peoplo that
wouldn't help poor folks wouldn't git along
lonetoo well, and that we might look out
io see the Lord nay us off for diifh..,,,,...
to see after my bosses and found live or 'em
sick in a way I'd never seed hosses afore;
ind the minute I looked at 'em 1 knowed
Mother Uroat had begun her de'llish work,
ind I didn't have much hope to cure 'em,
though I went in f ..r trying what 1 thought
was best. It didn't do no good, though
they all died in great distress and then
some more of 'em was tuk in the same way,
I got a hoBS-doctor to come and seo 'em, but
Be couldn't tell what ailed 'em, no more'n
me, and they died, too. But when the third
lot was tuk I thought it high time to try
so'thlng else; and, backing my saddle-hoss,
I rid thirty miles to see a woman that told
fortius and sieh. She was a big, fat thing,
with a purty sharp eye, and knowed a
beap.
You've come on important business r
says she, as I leaped down from my pant-
lug hoss, and hurried Into her House.
I has,' said I; 'what Is itf
So'thinh-'s happened to you of late
that's kind of awful and mysterious 1' she
said.
Yes,' said I, 'that's true,' wondering
all the time how she could know.
You've lost,' said she: and there she
stopped, and looked right curious into my
eyes.
" 'I havo; but can yon tell me whatl'
"I did that jest to try her, like.
" 'I can tell you,' suid sho, 'but it might
take mo some little time to git at all the
particulars, and every minuto is so precious
to the sui'cess of what you're after.'
'H is,' said I; and 1 went on to toll her
all about tho hosses.
They're bewitched!' she said, rlghtoff,
Without stopping to think a minute.
That's it !' 1 cried. 'I knowed It.'
'There's an old woman in the scrape 1'
she suid. . :
'"Exactly I' I replied.
'"Let me Bee I' sho sort o' mused; 'her
name IB'
" 'Groat 1' I said.
" Tho very same,' said she; "and I'm glad
you know it yourself, for now you'll be ready
to act as I tell you.'
"It's wonderful, sir, what that 'ar fortin-
teller knowed. Kho catched at the name
of Groat the minute I spoke it; jest as if
she'd knowed the old-witch all her life,
ind I s'pect she'd never sot eyes on her .
nuttier.
"Well, she told mo to go and git some
tansy, some dogwood rootB, und mix 'em
Titb. some yarbs sho giv me, and put 'em in
A pot, along with a lot of pins and needles
and bile 'em all together for two hours, cuil
lag out the nume of the witeii every initial'
or so, and I'd Und it 'ud make her sick, or a
least put her into a great distress, evei
though sho mightn't let on; and If thai
didirt take tho spell off of my hosses, u
oome back to hor, and she'd tell mo so'thini
else as would. I wanted her to tell mo tht
other thing then bekase thirty mile wus ni
small bit to ride but she Baid us how it 'm
break the spell to tell mo tho second afort
the fust was tried ; and so 1 had to go honn
with whut'd I'd got, which I paid her flv.
dollars for.
"Well, sir, I rodo homo, and tried thi
yarb spell as soon as I could git all tie
things together, which was the next day
and after I'd done bo I sturted over to tin
Widder Groat's, on pretense to ask he.
about her health and the corn meal; mr.
really, you see, sir, to find out how th
thing worked. The old wnmar lived in I
wig nut uoout a mue on; ana wnen i go
there I saw ut once aB how the charm wai
doing the. business beautiful. Things dldn'I
look thrifty round about, and the shunt;
wus kind of shut up like. I knocked on thi
door, jest for form's sake, and a faint voic
told mo to come in. I went In, and then
lay tho old woman, stretched out on hei
bed, grunting with pain.
" 'Oh,' sho sniveled out, as soon as sht
saw me; "It's you, are it, Uncle Billy? Va
glad to seo anybody, for I'a feared I'd dii
tierc all alone'
"What's the matter, Mother Groat)' 1
asked, jest as if I didn't know.
j "Tin nearly dead with tho rheumutict
I and starvation,' said sho, with anothet
grunt, 'I huin't hud a mouthful to cat sinct
vtturerdav murnhiir. pidu't vou fotcti uii
Dni&feJ Baking
ABSOLUTELY PURE
The man ho doesn t advertise, doein't
get tiie cash.
WEEKLY WO. Kti.l
SEMI-WEEKLY NO. 172. j
Power. - Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
over so'itmiff to eat?' she asked.
'"Nary thing,' 1 answered; 'I've hat
enough to do to tend to my hosses that's i
dying with your bewitchment'
" What do you mean V she asked.
" 'Oh, you don't know, in course,' said I
in rourse you don't know nothing about it 1
" 'No,' she said, 'in course I don't. What'i
the matter with 'em I'
"I were too mad to tell her at fust am
more, ami s 1 a.aou er now long an "o
been sick.
" 'Two or three
days,' she says with an
other grunt.
I knew she lied, for It hadn't been but u
few hours senco i d got the spell put on
her; but I wasn't disapo'inted ; I 'speeted
her to he; tho fort in toller had said she
might not let on. and she didn't, you see'
"Well, after I'd riven hor si nio,., r
mind on her wicked dointrs. I nor nt . ..
She fairly begged mo to fetch her so'thint
to eat, or tell somebody else to. n ..?
dying, which I promised I'd do as soon as
my hosses got well, if she'd agree never tr
witch 'em ag'in.
"'You're an old fool!' sho n-io.i.
the curse of Heaven be on you ami youi
family.' '
'Which It won't be none the mnr.f.
your wishing It,' said I, as I walked awav
and left her.
"She was a terrible wicked old witch sir.
that same Mother Groat, I tell you. Aftei
all I'd saidand done to her, she wouldn't le'
upon the critters, which kept on dying til1
I' s afeard I'd lose the hull of 'em. So 1
started off ag'in to the fortin-teller's, ano
toldherallabour.lt
i see wo ve got to try so'thlng severer,
she said. 'If the old witch can't be sails
nedwith the punishment we've given her
f?f4rf'?,n?Way but t0 t0 extremes, even
if it kills her. Now you go home,' said she
and pound up some silver Into bullets, put
one on 'em Into your gun and goout into tin
woods and draw her face on a stump ot
tree, and then shoot into it.'
" 'But i can't draw her face,' I said, 'be
kase I aint no drawer.'
" 'Oh, make a round mark for the face
and then make marks for the eyes, nose and
mouth, calling her by name all the time
that'll do est as well.'
" 'And will that kill her!' I asked
wll hurt her a good deal,' she said,
Don fiSfs ffift.ihtT"inte-ritiul mrrvtimbt r
dead, one after t' Cher, ana so Keep on
shooting all as gits sick.'
"Well, sir, I come home ag'iiiund set to
work on the new spell. I cut and pounded
up two silver spoons and some pieces ol
money into bullets aud went out into the
woods with my gun, drawed the old witch
on a stump, and let her have one on 'em
right through her head. The next day J
went over to see what had come on't and
found old Mother Groat Btiff and dead In
her bed. Yes, sir, the bullet had done for
her, and I s'pect Satan had got her soul, ac
cording to his barg'in with her."
A suggestion that she might have died of
starvation and disease was treated by the
luperstitious Uncle Billy with scorn and
contempt. It was astonishing how ignorant
people were on the subject of witches. She
was not the only one who had been put out
of the world In that way; he had heard of
many others, and had some other expe
riences himself.
"But what about the horses!"
"Well, I only had to shoot four of 'em
after the old witch died," he said, "and then
the rest of 'em got along right nice."
You might bavo made Uncle Billy be
lieve the milky-way was painted, because
that looked reasonable, but not that the
earth turned round, or that there was no
such thing as witchcraft. He was only one
of a large class, however, whoso ignorance
is a sad aid to their credulity. N. Y.
Ledger.
THE MODERN BASE-BALL. ...
How It la Mails by tlie Pretty Olrll at
r4ftick, Mass.
The base-ball of to-day, as produced at
Natick, is made by hand, writes a Boston
correspondent. Tho laborers employed in
the work are nearly all girls.
Tho spherical core, of best rubber, is first
carefully wrapped with a given amount of
the most costly yarn.
When the ball has thus grown to about
two-thirds of the size it is to be a leather
cover is stitched on with a needle and
waxed thread.
This cover has the effect of keeping the
ball compact and in shape, aud of regulat
ing its elasticity.
Then more yarn is wound upon it, until It
is found to turn tho scales at precisely tht
right point.
Finally tho outer cover of horschido Is
sewn on, and tho ball, after being stamped
and again weighed to make sure that It is
just flvo ounces, is wrapped in tin foil, put
into a box with live more like it, aud de
clared ready for sale.
The cover, as an examination of a base
ball will show you, Is stamped out of the
leather in but two curiously shaped pieces,
which, sewn on tho bull, together exactly
30ver it.
This device was not Invented until lSHTi.
The cheaper grades of base-balls are made
3f poorer yarn and rubber scraps, the lat
ter pressed into a pulp by powerful m
jlilnery. .
The less expensive tho ball the less yarn
ind more scraps will be used in its manu
facture, until, when you get to the "Small
Hoy's Own," price five cents, there is nota
tig to be found inside tbe flimsy cover but
netted remnants of rubber shoes,
A Koyal Train.
The imperial railway train that has
just been made to order for the German
emperor has cost the Prussian ex
chequer nearly one million dollars. It
is composed of eleven carriages con
nected by corridors, and all constructed
on a stylo of unparalleled luxury and
magnificence. Ono carriage, which is
designed to bo the kaiser's study, is
hung with real Gobelin tapestry from
Charlottenberg, and tho salon carriage
is upholstered in white satin. The re
maining cars comprise a nursery, a re
ception room adorned with marble
statuary, an oak dining-room, a kitchen,
and bedrooms for several guest
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