Show CITY amnDLBKs AND TIIHIR nOKAL PREY traowa occiiiaiiLconaiitrroa I WAiuuuTtxi April 251817 There are thoniandi people whi the In the city by robbing the people In the country With the approval of the editor JI propose to eiplaln tome of there robbing schemes and perhaps blip tome reader te make money by laving It The head otanoterUui patent ruIn ru-In Wuhlngtonbaibeen heard to remark that a tucker li I born every minute and tbat he looks upon the Inventor ai his particular prey Then are on an average about 415 patents granted each week and the name and address of every patentee li published In the Talent Office Gazette Ibis gives the patents patent-s barkiln Washington New York Philadelphia Phila-delphia Chicago Clnclo all and In other dUll and western towns accen to the CAr of the Inventor They lend him circular to cunningly prepared that ho think they hate been written eiprenly fir him and the confirm hit opinion that lie baa a fortune In patent Their proportion li I to tell the patent on cotnmliilon usual 10 per cent but the Inventor must advance from t l to 20 for admitting If the Inventor li green and gullible he will send them money which be would better burn but If tie li evincible be will burn their circular These people never tell patent inter even try to nil them and wether they atrlke you for 2 or JO the bulk of monoy will go Into their pocket Borne of them mar pretend to try to cell the patent In order that If you bring suit aaalnl them they defeat de-feat you by allowing an advertliment Hut do not bedetelved by their p vtenae that they with to work fir atoniuilulon To unmask their game otter them In atead of the money In advance that you will double triple quadruple their com mission or eon give them nlnit > ntne ilollara a hundred and how quickly they will leave you alone Tliii will prove to you concluiixely that three peoplu have no Intention mean or pros peel of wiling jour pitcnt i buff are alter the fee advance only 1 ilo not be pease there lire any honest intent 1 vale ngcnlii no matter what they publish cilm and scar rite men who KU Into that builn i limit JU into It to needy s nmljto get money on fulto pretence Patents are not mild by ugenti or In that way Tho large l majority ot liucn tlona that an Hold are illipoicd of to neighbor trlctnli partners or bickers of the Inventor before patent li gruntxl 1 or whilenppllcatlnn for patent li bendIng bend-Ing Then alter tho grant of patent the Inventor and hliaiilwei lull by territory terri-tory or form companlei manufacture oricll on royalty Hut the largo majority ma-jority of patents granted never bring anything to the Inventor or owner hut are like the large half of all human venlurei fallurei Anothericbema li to urge theiAmerl can patentee to get Kuropean patents and there li i one western firm that pretends pre-tends to bear one halt the expense of HO for procuring a German design patent or Uebrauchimuiter provided they can have the privilege ot telling the foreign patent claiming to have unequaled faclttlei for telling The lUKgeitlon ol gale li only a bait What they call halt expense or J20 li four time at much M the German Oebranehimiiter cost and nine time In ten It li i not worth a Y cent for they will never Mil It or think about It alter they get the 20 Do not be deceived with the references that these people give Tliey will refer you to the commercial agencies Dun and Bradstreet but theie agencies oily affirm that they have a commercial ratIng rat-Ing that they have money they di not tell that they got It by the deception which they are practicing on you Many men with good commercial rating ought to be In the State prison Do not bo deceived by their referenei to distinguished men Senator and Men ben of Congreo It It I well known that some Senator and Congressmen In WaehlnitloD will sign almost any paper that li brought to tnemprovded It li I not a lubocriptlon lilt or a check The number of patents granted In the United States alone numbered on April the 13th 580837 All that were granted grant-ed 17 yean ago ho expired and become public property Not oven the cata combs of ancient cities offer a more suggestive mason to the moralist thaw the archives 01 the U S Patent Office for here aro burled the wildest hopes and itruggoi ol rucl Jpioireilre people Not half ai many patents hare been granted by any other country What dove this mean but that nany useless and worthlon patents have been grant J7 It meant also that American In Tonttve genies to called hat been over atlmulated and lured by offers of prim modal riche and by fictitious tales I about values of patents Very few pat cote and itlll tewerlnventloni bring the wealth They more frequently rain than enrich Ocr government very remiss that It doe not lay Ha powerful hand on theio schemer and stand between ra plcioni swindlers and the Igaorant citizen citi-zen There It a hope that the present i administration will make a record In npprenln fraud A good itart has boon made In placlrg the Dean Brokerage Broker-age lottery on the fraud Hit The appointment ap-pointment ol Hon nutterworth ai head at 1 the Patent Office li understood by many to mean that patent lotteries prliei and sa called sale agenclei matt go Inventor and owners ol patents who have been swindled by patent sharks of any kind tend their complaints direct to the roilmaiter General at Washings ton He will have the cant Inveitlgat ed and lilt can be proved the swindler will be placed on the fraud Hit To sliest top thief I li a duty that everyman every-man owes to hticountry and to hit kind |