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THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEEt SEPTEMBER 30, 1006.
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FORTUNE WON BY ACCIDENT
Tickle Dame 8milfi on Ardsit Wooers at
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VALUE OF THINKING ' AND WORKING
'A lastrwetlve aad tag geetlve Review
Aeeldeat gtertes at Bae
eeesfal laveatare.
It nays to think even about trMes. Not
long ago a young man who was visiting
In a strange cltr had that experience known
to ao many when riding on atreet car., He
wanted to get oft at a -certain street, the
nam of which he knew, but the locality
of which he waa In Ignorance. The oar
wm crowded. He had told the conductor
the name of the atreet, but la not un
nsualir the caae, the conductor used In
pronouncing the name of the streets wns
en the order of the "all aboard for Chi
bospalewawk" that eo frequently con.
founda the railway traveler when the tralne
are "called" In stations., .
"Tour street's two blocka back," aald the
conductor auarely when the young man
asked him If he had arrived yet. More or
leas angrily, the youth said:
'It's a wonder somebody wouldn't think
of something that would tell a passenger
when he got to his atreet."
."Well, why don't iron invent somethlngT"
- asked the conductor. I
The rr.ung man got to thinking. and to
working. The other day he refused Z,V0
for a street car device that could h utilised
to show the names of . the streets auto-
tnatically. He thinks it la worth mora. The
man or woman who conceives an Idea that
la patentable almost Invariably has visions
of Immense wealth, but how often the
drearn la realised may be found by consult
Ing the patent office authorities, the men
who handle thousands and thousands of
these ""children of the brain" that never
bring to their inventors even the amount
of money necessary for getting them pat
ented.'. But, on the other hand, there are
a great many patents that have made their
originators Immensely wealthy, and famous
aa welL
One would naturally suppose that the
greateet' returns would be from the large
affairs, such as the electric railroad, the
telephone, and the telegraph, but such Is
not the case, for the small household In
ventions, mechanical toys, and putties have
given quicker returns and greater profits
for the money expended than -any of the
larger affairs.
At some time or other in life everybody
baa turned hla mind to getting a patont,
and the usual cry has been, when one man
aucceesed In amaaelng a fortune, that he
bad luck. Luck never enters Into the patent1
business, except In so far as one invents
something at the time that that something
Is wanted by the buying publlo. The man
who Invented "Pigs In plover" happened
to strike the publlo fancy, and millions of
' people all over the country were chasing
the little marbles Into the middle pen. The
man made' millions on his simple pusilo
because he launched It at the right time.
The rewarda gained by Inventors In the
past fifty years havs been far In excess of
those that ruecrued to tire earlier Inventor,
although the 'general publl has" believed
that the great majority of inventors either
die in the poorhouse or the Insane asylum.
This Impression was due -partly to the fact
that Whitney, who invented the cotton gin;
Ooodyear, who first vulcanised rubber, and
Morse, the father of telegraphy, all died
poor, ; and derived no benefits from their
inventions.
Portsmca for Little Thlags.
Naturally, when a great invention Is put
Upon the market the Inventor Is exploited
.in all the newspapers and magaxlnca, but
when some little trifle Is brought out thtre
Is hardly any notice taken of the man him
self er what be has given to the world, but
It la just such little things that hart been.
if hot the source, the start of great for
tunes.-
J. .W. Mcdill la 1867 Invented the little
metM' taper, fastener without which no of
fice Is now considered complete, and though
but a trifle It made wealth for Its inventor.
Bueh. a little thing as the rubber tip on a
pencil brought 1200,000 to its inventor, Hy
men L. Ltpmaa, an A that small piece of
metal which you wear on the beet of your
shoe to protect It, has mad p te lttf over
COOO.OOO for Its projector.
A man named Canfleld first hit upon the
notion vt making arm-pit ehlelde seamless,
with a sheet of eloth-oovered .rubber, and It
brought him an Income of many thousands
a year The men who invented the metal
fastenings for buttons must have been a
bachelor, for It did awfcy With sewing, but
It made him a millionaire.
The barbed wire fence, about which
many have aald unkind things as they dis
entangled, themselves, was worth over
tl ,6o0O In -royalties to the originator. A
countryman, whose lost from eggs' being
broken on their way to market was a se
rious thing, evolved the Idea of packing
them In separate compartments, and this
simple devloe is now used altogether, and
the countryman is not obliged to toll for
his dally bread. '
It must not be thought from this that
the field of Invention U' occupied entirely
by man, for it Is not. Woman has en
tared . Into competition With him lit this
field also, and soma of her patents have
been aa useful and as good money makers
aa thoee belonging te the sterner sex. In
ventions, by women .cover alL the branches
of life, and, strange to aay, quite aa many
patents are granted ; them for Improved
machinery aa for artioles of women's
wear.
The first patent ever granted to a woman
lit-the United States waa for a machine
for the weaving of straw with silk or
thread, and this waa patented In 180$ by
Mary Kles. . Mary Jane Montgomery In
vented the tnowlng machine, and in 186
he took out a , patent on a machine for
punching holes In corrugated metal. ' Her
many Inventions netted her a considerable
fortune, aa fortunes went . In those days.
A woman In California made over $50,000
front bar Invention ' of the ibaby - carriage,
and a' woman in Washington, Mrs. John
son, made a good thing out of the Inven
tion of the Ice cream freeter, for before
that' time all cream was stirred with a
spoon until It waa frosen. '
Criminals have played kn Important part
In" aome of the world's greatest Inven
tion, and some have made small fortunes
out ' Of their discoveries. Charles Filer,
who .'devised the new lock-stitch sewliig
maehlne, was serving hla fourth term for
burglary when the idea was perfected.
When he was released his Idea was backed
by aome capitalists and he waa given a
salary of 16,000 a year .to superintend the
construction of . the ' machines. In addition
to a royalty. At the same time he sold his
English rights for 160, OCO cash and U6.000
worth of stofk of the English company.
: Four governments of the bid world are
now using a coin maker that was designed
by a countorfeltsr, and It was only from
the fact that his coins were so perfectly
made that he was discovered. The atten
tion ' of Scotland Yard was called to the
almost perfect coins that were being circu
lated, with the result that Henry Harvey
waa lodged in jail .as a counterfeiter. The
government recognised that here waa a
machine far In advance of What It war
using, and, as there was no patent on It,
appropriated It.;
. The discovery of thermite has helped
science ahd mechanics to such an extent
that .Ohe. steel manufacturer remarked that
It would,, when in general use, decrease the
cost, of steel ships one-third, yet the In
ventor .waa Frits ' van Schmidt,'-known to
the European police at '.'Count Ether," be
cause he was-a scientist who, when wantod
for a burglary, always vanished as quickly
as that .volatile spirit. . Von Bchmidt war
discovered by Nils efforts to patent hie in
vention. He explained to' a patent agent in
Berlin what hla patent would do, and of
fered' 16 make his way Into the attorney's
safe, but the attorney called up the police
Instead. . " , -
Acetylene gaii, an ot the most Important
industrial! Inventions ; of' the last decade,
was stumbled upon, .by Occident by a roan
named 'Wilson, who had an -electrical fur
nace In North Carolina for metallurgical
purposes. From time to time he used a
great deal of rock salt in his furnace stock,
and also limestone as a flux. Whenever
these two materials were--fused- together,
aa hs noticed after a while, the slag pro
duced by the intense rleetrle-M beat in
eluded a dirty grayish substance wholly un
like anything he had ever seen.
Hovt Carboraadani "Was Found.
. Fot weeks he noticed this substance with.
Out giving more than a passing thought to
It and ontlhoed to dump It Into the river
upon the banka of which he had built Ms
furnace. Soon the pile of slag waa so high
that the top reached above the water, and
then a curious thing occurred. The water
would slttlo and steam -as the sing waa
dumped In, but this day, as the last of the
slatf wa poured onto the little Island, both
of It remained red hot. Suddenly there waa
a brilliant burst of flame, so prolonged and
so hot(that there waa danger of the furnace
catching fire.
Then Wilson began to think. The next
day he took aome of the curious looking
substance and wet It with water, but, much
to his surprise, nothing came of It. Then
he struck a match and bald It near the
mixture, and Immediately a bright flame
was produced, and Wilson knew that he
had discovered something valuable. HIS
discovery Was acetylene g.ia, and he made
a fortune out ot It. '
Another substance that la now used en
tirely in all places where grinding baa to
be done la .carborundum, the discovery of
which was also purely accidental ' The pro
prietor of some Iron works In. Pittsburg had
Installed a furnace which burned natural
gas, and after a time It waa discovered that
a sort of slag formed on the inside of the
furnace, finally taking up so much room
that the fires had to be drawn and the fur
naces cleaned. There then arose a new
complication, for nothing that they could
do would remove this hard substance; cold
ehlsels had no effect on It, and finally tho
furnace had to be torn down.
The proprietor, as well aa many others.
waa naturally curious as to what this sub
stance could be, and one man took some of
the crystals and ground them Into a fine
powder, treated the dust with some ad
hesive preparations, and pressed it Into
blocks, and the result waa carborundum,
the hardest grinding- substance known.
A German manufacturer of nitroglycerin
waa the Inventor of dynamite, but waa not
seeking for tt at the time he received preof
of Its explosive qualities. Nitroglycerin is
a llqulgl which Will not explode, but Will
burn with a steady flame when fire Is ap
plied. One day the manufacturer spilled
some of the stuff on the floor, and a little
later dropped a lighted match in the aame
place. The explosion which followed was
astonishing, and quite a little dltconcertlng,
but he had discovered dynamite, and his
fortune was made. While nitroglycerin will
not explode while In liquid form, It becomes
explosive the Instant the particles are sepa
rated so that each haa sufficient air about
It. . This fluid vaporises whenever eufflci.
4ntly shocked, and Is then so Inflammable
that the mere heat of the shock sets tt off.
Ths name of the German who spilled his
nitroglycerin was Nobel, and he patented
the combination and became lmmeusly
wealthy. ... , .
Edison asd the fhoaagraph.
The greatest of our own Inventors,
Thomas A. Edison, owes bis Invention of
the phonograph partly to an accident. Edl
ton had been working night and day to
perfect the telephone, and had constructed
a number of small sheepskin drumheads, to
test their value aa dlaphragma as compared
with metal and other substances. To some
of theas sheepskin diaphragms he had at
tache a magnetic needle which was In
tended to project toward the magnet and
assist in conveying the vibration caused by
the human voice. "
These ' did not fulfill Edison's expecta
tions, and. were discarded as useleea. His
assistants soon, discovered that by holding
the drumheads close to the mouth, and
making a aort of guttural sound, a noise
anproachlnf murto could be secured, much
the same as When a piece Of paper Is
wrapped around a comb.- In attempting to
playfully stop one of the men from playing
on It,- Edison touched the little needle, but
ho' tfboner had he done so than he gave one
of his. characteristic starts and requested
the operator to repeat the performance. . It
waa .repeated, and agalrt he touched the
needle," with evident delight. He went
among 'his katsstanta asking them to hum,
stng, and talk against the little drumhead.
he keeping his finger ever so lightly on the
little needle.
"I have It!" he suddenly exclaimed, and
retreated to ills office and commenced
drawing "diagrams for new machinery.
Which -his assistants speedily made, and a
few days later the first phonograph was
put together. It waa a crude affair, ths
pin making an impression on Wax. It
talked Imperfectly, but it showed .Edison
that he was on the right track; and he
rapidly Improved It Until now it is almost
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Prom a view of our list of Rubber Goods on vouldt surmise that oura waa an' exclusive Rubber Goods
tor. While this ia not the case, yet it l true that our line of "Medical Robber Goods" has ao enlarged that
we seldom receive a call for anything we do not have In stock. - We buy direct from factories and warrant
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sizes from l to 4
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Pa!e.it Medicinas
' AT CUT PRICES
We fell every patent medicine or
toilet article ' for which any demind
exists, and always at 'a price which
shews a substantial saving over that
ef most other drug stores. . Try u on
some article yea have been unable to
procure elsewhere. . We . probably
have it. -!;:.,.
Rubber Gloves
: Our Rubber Glovea are oew and
will Fear. Just now we are mak
ing apecial drive on a regular
11.00 quality glove at 49c. ,
, .Prepaid, by mall, 60c ,.
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. Wa can ckiM you. j kinds In stock.
. Wo 11 a good Bulb Syringe far iCc:
by mail 40c. Write for catalogue.
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, Votigu Sts., Otuiha.
For men and women In stsea from
Hom Inches, H W to 16.09.
Write fur catalogue. .
for Maa and Women
t6o Williams' Shaving tck,.,v lBo
He 4711 White Rose 8oap..., uo
Ke Mistletoe Cream or...., 100
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J dos. MaJto-Orapo . Qreps Juice
for : tj.a
(The value of the above Grape Juice la
WtQ wholesals.)
Clood (-Quart Fountain Syringe. ...tOo
Qood -euart Water Ba- iOo
H O Pinkos ', .Compound so
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Oood Atomisers. 35 and S&e
Victor s Flea Killer, tto and .60c
I dpi. Cucumber Castile TolUit Soap.X
Fiolshl prepaid to any part of
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order or over.
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Trusses for Men,;:
Women and Children
We can fit anybody who wears a
TYuss, as our stock comprises 100
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Writs or call for catalogue.
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Omaka. National Bank
of Omaha, Nebraska
Statement Made to the Comptroller
ot the Currency, Sept. 4, 906
RESOURCES
Loons and Discounts $8,930,037.73
Overdrafts 9,368.85
U. S. Bonds for Circulation. 624,000.00
Stocks and Bonds ...... ; 547,314.52
Banking Hons sad Bafcfty Deposit Vaults.. v 200,000.00
U. 8. Bonds for Deposits $ 418,000.00 '
Approved Reserved Affents. .. .1,450,103.46
Due from Other Banks. ; 1,641,634.83
Cash on Hand 1,502,703.71
Dnt from U. B. Treasuror. - 30,000.00 5,040,452.03
$13,351,220.63
LIABILITIES
Capital ...a........ $ 1000,000.00
Surplus rond..... ' 200,000.00
Undivided Profits'. 62,422.32
Circulation '. 600,000.00
Deposits m 11,468,798.31
$13, 351220.63
nPHE bank's depoilts repro
sent active, live accounts.
A record of over 40 years of suc
cessful commercial banking,
'v Depository of the United
States,. State of Nebraska
- County of Douglas, and City of
Omaha,
Oilicers and Directors:
J. XI. 2XILLARD, Pres.
WH WALLACE, V-Pres.
O. T. MoOREW, V-Pres.
W. XI. BUOHOLZ, Cash.
PRANK BOYD, Afi't. Cash.
W. 1M. Burgess A J. Simpson
Guy 0. Barton 0. H. Brown
L W. Carpenter J. E. Baum
Safety Deposit Vsnlti, 210
So. TMrteciilb St
Thirteenth Street Between Farnam and Douglas
perfection. The phonograph waa at first
regarded as a mere tor. but later It waa
sold for 11.000.000.
The Inventor ot the air brake. Osorgs'
Westinghouse, la one of the best known
Inventors of the present day, but It waa
a long time before he oould get moneyed
men Interested enough in his air brake to
back him. Perhaps the oae thing In his
life that McKee Rankin regretted waa that'
when Westinghouse ottered him a half in
terest In the air brake far 1600 be did not
accept it This, Invention netted Mr.
Westinghouse : many mllllens of dollars,
and brought him world wide fane.
George Barley, a foundrrman. was Of
fered 110,000,000 for hla patent on making
malleable iron direct from the molds after
ie had proved that It would do all that be
claimed for It. This Is probably the largest
sum ever offered for an invention before It
had been placed upon' the market.
. In this field there are large awards
awaiting the successful, and It Is a mis
take to imagine for a minute that the
whole field has been culled. The! greatest
Inventions are now being brought out, an
there seems no limit to human genius
There Is no such thing as a halting poln
In ' invention, as the progress la constants
and unremitting. It is eternal evolution,
and ths than who collects his thoughts and
tries to make "two blades ef grafts grow
where one grew before" Is certainly as
praiseworthy now as when those words
were uttered 1010 years ago. Chicago Inter-Ocean,
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SOME TRICKS IN TRADE
terr of Ceaablae Walek Taraed
the Tables aa Traat
v Bastere.
T. Burr Thrlst, president of the Na
tional Amateur Press association, talked at
the annual convention In Philadelphia
about the trust evil.
"Trusts, combinations." said Mr. TbrisL
"nave many striking advantages, particu
larly If they keep their operations secret
This fact was Impressed on me In my
boyhood by an Incident that I saw in ths
streets ef Cleveland.
"As I was Idling In the streets one aft- 1
ernoon a hawker's erles assailed my ear.
The mn had a truck filled with paper
and envelopes, and lu a loud voice he
yelled:
" 'Here yare! Box o' paper an' twenty
five envelopes on'y ons dime!'
"But suddenly bis yells were drowned
by louder ones, and another hawker,
crowding the first out of the way, Jostling
him rudsly, shouted, as be pushed along
a bigger truck: ,
" 'Jive cents on'y a nickel bos o paper
an1 twenty-five . envelopes 1 . On'y one
nlckeir -..
"The truck earns near colliding. . The
two men glJl at wb.ih othsr. The spirit
of competition And r alry ran high, and
the people, dru the shouts, hurrisd
frcm their houses,
"And, finding that the two kinds of paper
were identical, the people bought up the
cheaper sort hungrily. X was mased to
see ths business that the felckel man did,
As for the dime man, poor fellow, he
shouted on lustily, but tt semed that the
louder he shouted, ths more of his rival's
stock the people bought
"Finally the sales ceased, "everybody
had bought enough paper to last a yoar.
Ths dime man departed first and then the
nickel maa left a few minutes later. I
followed to see a repetition of the rival
salea In the nest street
"The dime man, to my amassment was
waiting around the corner, and, as he
piled a lot of his stock on the other'e
hearby empty truck, I beard hint say with
a chuckle:
"It works fine, BUI. don't ItT" New
Tork Tribune.
Maxims af a Raaevte.
Hitch your hotel stories to a star: yo
may get passes.
It's an HI wind that doesn't blow ths
bricks from somebody's chimney.
Remembir that where there Is smoke
there is "a conflagration that well nigh
proved disastrous." eta.
A weather prophet Is. without honor In a
newspaper etfloe.
It's a wise politician that knows his own
Interview after tbs' club reporter gets
through with i
A fake In time saves a good deal of
trouble.
A fool and bis opinions) are soon In type.
Take care ef the cigarettes and the stories
will take care ef themselves. Puck.
ICTEII DRAKE, FRATO T. tUMLTCT, : F. P. EAKH.TCV B. L KEILE,
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UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY,
Capital and Surplus -Deposits
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$5,750,000
DIRECTORS!
LUTHER L)RAKE. FRANK T. HAMILTON, J031 F. C0AD
G. S. ROGERS. G. L PRITCRETT. i
)NG CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTION
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The Capital and Surplus Offer
Ample Protection to Depositors.
PARTICULAR ATTENTION. PAID TO , COM
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