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Show DREAMS ANb3vydt5riONB. H rorsoaa Who novo lUeoued Tholr Toloohlo tdeoa la Sleep- "It Is wonderful how many persons J got their first Ideas of what afterward J proved to be valuable Inventions while asleep or dreaming," observed a patent H orTlce examiner to a Waablngton Star H reporter. "Others after working for jH weeks or months on Inventions during (aaaflal tbelr waking hours have had the whole! IsaUxB thing come clear to them during a MaH dream. On tbe other hand, I havo EaaaK known ot Inventors who saw In their HB dreams tho Impracticability ot their B Inventions on which they had obtained H patents and changed them so that tbey1 H would be practical. In withdrawing M-xH their applications for amendment or sgwaaaal Imivovement there are number ot In- H stances where Inventors admit that H they got the better Idea during a H dream. Some of the most successful H money making patents were In thl0 H way dreamed rather than worked out H It may be tbat tbe ordinary Inventor H Is more ot a dreamer than anything H else Certain It Is that nine-tenths ol H the patents Issued do not pay enough H to cover even their own expenses, and H there Is not ono In a thousand that H pays anything like big money to the H Inventor or any one else. There are a H very large number of lnstancca whora H Inventors havo been granted all tbe H way from five to forty patents, not H ono ot which has paid Its expenaei or H Is ever likely to do so. Llko In every- H thing else, there seems to be less re- H cesslty or opportunity for Invention H as tlmo passes along, though thero U H aa much room and sale for "good M things" In this line as there ever was. M Capital U alwaya ready to pick up and H advance a valuable Invention, though H It takes but llttlo stock In any Inven- 1 lion unless thero la something more, H solid about It than a dream, The mere H fact that tho dream Is endorsed by tho M official patent plays no part with It, un- M less the patent Itself la ot value. Capt- M tal doesn't Invest much In dreams of M any kind." H |