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The Winner has a clear Cift of a Small
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follows and you may see a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to pateuts. 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. Thatencouragementthe Press
Claims Company propose to give.
HOT SO HAKD AS ITKEEHS.
A patent strikes most people as an appalling
ly formidable thing. The idea is that an in
ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or
Bell; that be must devote years to delving iu
complicated mechauical proiems aud 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 cieur comprehension
of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and
expensive Inventions that bring the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple, and
cheap ones the thiugs that seem so absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of briugiug them to the
attention of the Patent Office.
Kdison says that the profits he has received
Irom tbe patents on all his marvelous inven
tions ave not been sulficlent to pav tne cost
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 haud 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 Ihe simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at tbe point In
stead of at the other eud.
of the toll of hundreds of busy brains through
THE UTTLE THINGS THE HI O.ST
VAl.l aiu.i:.
Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors, but almost every body has been
struck, atone time or another, with ideas that
seem calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such Ideas arc dis
missed without further thought.
"Whydon'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 thein in such a way."
"What was the man who made the saucepan
thinking of?" grumbles the oook. "He never
had to work over a stove, or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed."
"Hang such a collar button!" growls aman
who is latetfor breakfast. "If I were in the
business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip
out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my
neck
auu tne 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 as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron
umbrella rinir. or the one whn Tmieniori
he fifteen puzz le.
A TEMPTING OFFEIt.
To induce the people to keen tracklof their
bright ideas and see what thuro In them, the
Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a
inze.
To the person who submits to it
lie simplest and moat promising
invention, from a commercial
point of view, the company will
give twenty-five hundred dollar
In cash, in addition to refunding
the fees for securing; a patent.
It will also advertise the inven.
lion free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condi
tions:
Every competitor must obtain a patent for
bis invention through the company. He must
flrstapply 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 till out tne
following blank, and forward it with their
application:
I submit the within described invention iu
competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar
Prize offered by the Press Claim Company."
MO Kt.ANKS IN Till fJO.H PKTIOIV.
This Is a competltiou of rather an Uliusul na
ture. It ts common to offer prizes for the best
story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the
competitors risking the loss of their labor and
the successful onemerely selling his for the
amouu of the prize. Sut the Press Claims
Company's offer is something entirely differ
ent. Each person Is asked merely to help him
self, andthe one who helps biin self to the
best advantage Is to be rewarded by doing ,it.
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 nut occcpt-
ed has spent his labor ou something of very
ittle use to him. 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 substantial
result to show for his work one that wll
commaud Its value in the murket at any
time.
The man who uses anv article In his dollv
work ought to know better now to Improve It
than the mechanical expert who studies ft
only from the theoretical point of view, flpt
rid of the Idea that an improvement can be too
simple to be worth patenting. The simplerlht
better. The person who best snccee Is l'i
combining simplicity and popularity, will get
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, The responsibility of this company may bn
judged from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred ofthe leading newspapers
of the United States.
Address the Press Claims Company, Joss
Wodderburn, managing attorney, 61S F street
n. W Washington, 1). C.
ii. A. K. NO II UK.
We take this opportunity of infjrmiag
our subscribers that the new commis
sion or of pensions has been aponinted
He is an old soldier, and we telifive
that soldiers and their heirs will re
oeive justice at his hands. We da not
anticipate that there will be any rudinal
changes id the administration of ponsioi
anairs under tbe new regime.
We would advise, however, that U. 8,
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take
stops to make application at onoe, if
they have not already done so, in order
to eeoure tbe benefit of the early filing
of their claims in case there should bn
any future pension legislation. Snoh
legislation is seldom retroaotive. lucre
fore it is of great importance that ap
plications be filed in the department af
the earliest possible date.
It the U. S. soldiers, sailors, or their
widows, children or parents desire in
formation iu regard to pension matters,
they Bhoald write to tbe Press Claims
Company, ut Washington, B. C, and
tbey will prepare and send tbe neoessary
application, if they find them entitled
under the numerous laws enacted for
their beneflt. Address
PKK3S CLAIMS COMPANY,
John WeddkhburnI Managing Attor
ney, Washington, D. 0., P. O. Box 385
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The Lady in the Moon.
It is left to our four hundredth cen
tennial to celebrate a charming dis
covery. It seems not to be generally
known that the regal "man in the
moon," who for uges or cons has been
looked upon as the sole ruler of his
planet, shares his throne and divides
his honors with the loveliest semblance
of woman. Would you see her at her
best let it bo on' a cloudless night
as near the full of the moon as
possible. Use a good opera or field
glass. Be patient; some fail to find her
at first. The face is in profile and looks
toward your left as you gaze, "eupying
half the surfaee of the mooi . the hair
dark and coiled rather high; her throat
and neck are radiantly beautiful. Be
yond her profile is seen the dark face of
a man looking straight forward.
Bakin
Powder:
Highest of all in Leavening
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ABSOLlifECT PURE
MAMNG NEW OASES.
The t rench Turning Another Desert IrM
Into a Fertile Keg-loo.
The French arc at work asrain malt.
ing new oases in the Sahara desert, aava
the New York Sun. They believe that
a largo region around El Golea, in the
desert south of the western part of Al
geria, can be restored to fertility. At
oresent nn little nncin ic icnini v
' ., " ..reu u.y
many miles of sand from any other fer
tile area. The place has no commercial
importance, but the French have estab
lished a military post there because
they intend to make El Golea the start
ing point for all their movements in
the directions of Tuat and the other
oases south of 1.1 (Jolea, which are now
in the hands of the murderers Tuaregs
and other desert nomads. The French
purpose to reduce the bandits to sub
mission, and enable merchants to ex
tend commerce to and beyond the re
gions in the Sahara whore caravans can
venture now only at the peril of being
plundered and destroyed. Mr. Kolland
has made a study of the geology and
hydrology of tho El Uolea re
gion. He says there is plenty of
water under the sand, and that it
can be brought easily to the. surface.
His purpose is t tan the subtcrraneun
supplies and lead tho water along the
uneu-up bod of the Wady Seggeur.
From the main i!it:-h side ditches are to
be extended, and i i that way the en
gineers expect to fcr:r:i::c- a number of
thousands of acres of laud. Mr. Rol.
land hays there In no expectation that
the new basin enn be developed to as
great an extent as lh;t of the Wady
Kir, where hu-lw'-. r.l thousands of
date palms arc 11 mH .!.! n?. although the
place hud only d.a-rt sands a few years
ago; but he es-p---, Meet t:: restore
the plain of El (r-'e:t i' , ancient pros
perity, for there i.i n- d.nibt that a large
oasis was there on: c. imd that it has
gradually diminished i i nine owing to
the encroaching de w I . which has been
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rying the sand toward the Mediterran
ean, destroying all vegetation, and mak
ing a desert, where verd'ire had existed.
The revivified oasis will at least be
largo enougii to nourish a garrison.
France expects tn keep a large force at
El (Jolea, because military operations
against the tribes further southward
will have to be on an important scale.
It will, therefore, bo a great point
gained to obviatu the necessity of bring
ing big supplies of provisions to El
Golea for tho purpose of revietualing
the garrison there.
HEALTH OF ITALIAN CITIES.
The Government Tallin H.lnltiiry Meas
ures Tvihr!il I'evi'r I i Florence.
Naples and liotne owe their evil repu
tation to a state of things which no
longer exists. Until a few years ago
Naples drew all its water from wells,
and typhoid fever was virtually epi
demic in the city. Since the introduc
tion of the Serino water and the closing
of the wells the disease lias almost dis
appeared. In Koine before it became
the capital the drainage was bad and
In spite of the numerous aqueducts a
large number of wells were in use. The
Itulian government has thoroughly
drained the city, and when the cholera
last appeared in Italy the government
closed the wells, which still remain
closexl. The result has been to reduce
the deaths from t yphold fever to less
than three per week in a population of
415,000.
There is another popular superstition
that Kome is unhealthy in summer. As
it happens, the death rate is much
lower in summer than in winter. It is
lowest in Mav and June, when it is
eighteen and nineteen per thousand,
and highest in February and March,
when, owing to the prevalence of dis
eases of tho throat and lunirs. it
reaches thirty and thirty-two per thou
sand. It is higher in July or August
for the reason that the peasants who
are harvesting on the Campagna are
often smitten with fever and are
brought into the hospitals. Hut even
then it is much lower than it is in the
winter mouths. The deaths from
malarial fevers in Kome average a
little more than five per week, anil a
very large proportion of these deaths
are those of peasants and inhabitants
of unhealthy villages who are brought
from the surrounding country to the
Roman hospitals.
The prevalence of typhoid fever in
Florence cannot be denied. It is due to
bad drainage and the use of well water.
The municipality is, however, deter
mined to rectify thissluteof thiugs with
out delay, and if the measures recom
mended by Sir I)ouglas(i:ilton in the re
port he has made to the syndic are
carried out, as there is little doubt that
they will be, Florence will become as
healthy as Home or Nut .Ins.
THE WAVERLEY OAKS.
Ancient True of IV., nlotn Itcauty In the
htnte of Mart .ucliuselts.
The great oalrs nt Waverley, Mass.,
are survivals of nnonk forest that must
have existed In that region, according
to the geologists nnd students of trees,
as far back as the tent h century. They
bear every evidence of great ago, and
an elm tree In tho neighborhood, now rm of imagination but sensitive of car,
almost dismantled, with its great limbs proposed that tho oft-rupcated word
lying on the ground and nearly all of "say" be made the first syllable of tho
its branches decayed, is the most vener- name and that villo be added as the
able object In the line of trees that can second syllable. The idea took, and,
probably be displayed in any part of 8uys the legend, then and there the set
New England. It Is well worth a visit tlement was christened Sayville.
to Waverley just to see this venerablo
elm. It Is Immense in the size of its" The Stndebaker wagon heads them all
trunk, and Its dignity in decav Is verv For sale at Gilliam k liiibee'a. g
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bwder
impresaive. i lie aiizva oan trees in the
neighborhood are of the sort that at
tain a very great ag-e, and that main
tain their virility unimpaired. .. We
know of only one other oak tree In
New England, says the Boston Herald,
that can be compared with them. That
is located In Ipswich, and Is larger and
more venerable, annarentlv. thnn nr
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" avt-m-v onus, ana tnat ana the
Waverley oaks, we are triad to U
have been inspected by the state park
commissioners nnd are likely to be pre
served. It is worth one's while to see
and study these majestic oaks. They
are seen to great advantage in the win
ter, when their rugged limbs are bare
and their immense strength is revealed,
and in summer, when they are covered
with foliage, they are abjects of won
derful beauty. The state of Massachu
setts has a duty to enfranchise these
trees and make them public property.
They are the glory of the state, and al
most as much an object of interest as
the old state house, or the venerable
st.-ucture called the Old South Meeting
house. SAVED A DOZEN LIVES.
Presence of Mind nnd Coiumendabls
Pluck of a Colorado Mine Owner.
"I have heard of some rare cases of
presence of mind," said a traveler to a
reporter for the St, Louis Ulobe-Demo-crat,
"but I saw a case a few days ago
that struck me as among the rare ones.
We were coming south on the Santa Fe
from Denver a few nights before Christ
mas. At alout two o'clock in the morn
ing, somewhere north of Colorado
Springs, we went over an embankment,
The papers were full of it and I won't
go into details, but nobody knows how
a millionaire saved the lives of a dozen
people that awful morning. As soon as
we came to our senses wo all tried to
get out of the sleeping e;ir. When we
did we found that, the forward end was
afire. J jst ther, Tin --
aire uunC-owner, who has property all
over the state of Colorado, grabbed up
an armful of blankets, and, jumping
across the flames, landed in a deep
snowdrift. He was barefooted and clad
only in his underclothes, but he didn't
Beem to mind that a bit. lie spread out
a blanket, piled it full with snow and
threw it over the flames. This he did
time and time again until he had tho
blaze completely smothered. There
wasn't another man in the car who
would have thought of that hut Yan
kee, and 1 tell you it was a plucky thing
to do. I don't know whether I'd like to
freeze or roust to death. It looked as
though it would have to be one or the
other there for a while, but Yankee's
nerve saved us."
GLADSTONE
AS
A READER.
It la the
rentier's llnhlt Never to
Lose
a Minute's Time.
It is rather discouraging to know that
if one should read more hours a day
than the average American is able to
spend away from business, he would be
able to read only a few of the works
that are really worth reading.
Mr. Gladstone, however, is not to be
discouraged by this knowledge. He
goes upon the principle that the only
way to get any reading done is to read.
In a volume of conversations, recently
translated, Dr. Dullinger said: "I think
it was in the year 1871 that 1 remember
his (Gladstone's) paying me a visit at
six o'clock in the evening. We began
talking on political anil theological sub
jects, and both became so engrossed
with the conversation that It was two
in the morning when I loft the room to
fetch a book from my library bearing
on the matter in bund. I returned with
it in a few minutes and found Mr.
Gladstone deep In a volume he had
drawn out of his pocket, true to his
principle of never losing time during
my momentary absence. And this at
the small hours of the morning."
Ths Andes Mlnklng.
The startling announcement is made
that the whole range of tho Andes is
slowly Binking into the earth's crest.
As proof of this La Gazette Geograph
Ique says that Quito was 9,590 feet above
the level of the sea in the year 1745; iu
1800 it was only 0,570; hi 1831, 9,667,
having sunk 28 feet in the 55 years fol
lowing 1745, and but three feet during
the 31 years which intervened between
1800 and 1831. In 1808 the city's level
had been reduced to 9,520 feet above
the level of the Pacific ocean. To sum
up the total, we find that Ecuador's
capital has sunk 7 feet in 12a years.
Antisana's farm, the highest inhabited
spot on tho Andes (1,000 feet higher
than Quito itself, which is the highest
real city on the globe), is said by tho
same authority to be 218 feet lower than
it was in 1745.
C'hrlsteiilus; m Town.
" According to a local tradition, proba
bly invented, Sayville, L. I., received
its name In a peculiar fashion. The
settlers were gathered in debate upon
the shore trying to agree upon a name
for the place, and one after another
proposed his suggestion with "Say,
now 11 this do?" After many Bugges-
tlons had been rejected, some one, bar-