One invention promises great usefulness to most cities, villages, and farmers, one great aid to agriculture. One, greater safety and cheapness to rail-road conveyance, one a great saving of expense, time and toil in education & c.
They require means to bring them into use If many will furnish each a little the burden will be light - the sucess almost certain, and the advantage the greater; and this advantage the inventors will gladly share with the helpers. Incurring much expense, and risking much themselves, it can not be presuming to much to trust, tahat an intteligent public will see it to be liberal, and wise to risk a little and invest the small sum proposed on the terms here offered.
It is little any can lose if he were to get no return, while we must lose far more, even for advertising, if none accept our offers. But hey will have some return, and may much gain. Let then each send us his name and $2, or 25 cents weekly for ten weeks, and secure the advantages of these inventions.
We add one other consideration. Had Fitch, who first applied steam to propel a boat, and eas the real first inventor of steam boats, recieved a little aid, steam boats would have been in operation more than 50 years ago, and our country would have had the undisputed honor of the invention. But he exhausted his means - none would help - and though he knew it was worth millions, he died in poverty, and our country was the loser for half a centry.