Garland Globe | 1906-03-17 | Page 7 | Many Years of Labor Lost

MANY YEARS OF LABOR L08T Odd Experience of a Mjn Who Onet Wrote a Book, "I havo been told," said a man ol experiences, "that It Is not unusual for men to spend much thought nnd toll over Inventions of one sort nnd another, only to find when they took theso things to Washington to bo pot cnted that the same Ideas had long beforo been worked out by somcbod) else nnd Unit patents had alrcad) been Issued on them. 1 had that ex perlcnce, once, with a book. "I spent fourteen years, once, writ tng u book and I had It nil but com plotcd. And then one day, stopping nt n second-hand book stall, I picked up from ntnong a lot of books offered at five cents each one that boro a title In the very words that I had decided upon for the title of my book; and the opening sentence In this book was al most Identical with that In my own. "Somebody clso had had the same Idea that I had worked over so long, and had written nnd published a book about It fifty years before."