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7 for saving life at sea. I’ARIS EXHIBIT THE RESULT OP sinking of buhgqyjie. A .lory of All Xlltlons Trie* to Decide Wliieli Is tbe Best Life SavinK Ser vice—A Twenty Thousand Dollar Prize Still to Be Won—The Jnry Deriilea Thnt the Problem of Life Saving! at Sea Is Vet to Be Solved. Great Proress Has Been Made, However. By Valerian Gribayedoff. (Copyright, 1900, by V. Grlbayeloff.) Paris. Aug. 21.—'It's an ill wind that blows nobody good,” or, as some otlvr proverb-maker expresses it, "from great calamities oft issue public advantage." When on the fourth of July, 1818, the French soamship La Burgoyne went down with all on beard off the Newfound land coast, the world was honitied by the disaster, and the newspapers of different countries renewed the discussion of meas ures to prevent such wholesale lose ot life. Among the passengers on the way from the United States to France, who were lost on the Burgogne, were Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Pollok of Washington, D. C. More keenly and personally afflicted by tbe calamity than the general pub ic, the heirs of Mr. and Mrs. Pollok decided to found a memorial prize to be awarded for the b>st meihod or device for saving hu man life in shipwrecks. To this end the (State set aside the sum of S2O 000 to be styled the Anthony Pollok prize, and ask ed the concurrence of the United States and French governments in whatever measures should be deemed the most prac tical for the furtherance of the project. Both governments promptly acceded to the request, and it Some of the Inflatable Systems Thrown Out by the Jury was decided to make the competitive display of inventions for saving life at sea a part of the Paris exhibition of 1900. The general character of the Pollok prize, and the conditions attaching to its award, were widely advertised in all the countries of the world, so that through the utmost publicity every man or set of men in the universe who had an idea of interest or value In the premises, would be Induced to compete for the prize, and to disclose his theories in the interest of humanity. Appreciatingthe vast philanthropic scope of the undertaking, the exhibition author ities set apart for the purpose a long, ca pacious gallery in the building known as the Palace of Navigation and Commerce, where all designs submitted should be ex hibited; and with the approval of the Pol lok heirs, placed the whole subject in the hands of a Jury of well known experts in all naval and maritime matrers. The high and cosmopolitan character of this Jury makes their Judgment authoritative. This expert commission has virtually terminated its labors this week, three steady months of tireless devotion to the examination of all the inventions submit ted, whether in the form of miniature models or simply written documents ex- isgqf** "^^mf'*'i^' T 1. Life Raft Being Launched from the Top of Deck-House.':. Life Raft, Equipped After Leaving the Wreck. plaining the devices or method*. The duty "as a moat exacting one, for the collec tion of life-saving Inventions is enormous. They were sent from all parts of the world and many of them evidently represent years of care and preparation. in such a big exhibit of "ideas” there / ere naturally many things of an eccentric I character. plainly the handiwork of j ‘'cranks;" but, on the other hand, many thoroughly practical devices are submitte l I whose application hereafter will surely i t-'nd to minimize the loss of life by tied- > dents at sea. . .J .f j The Problem Still Unsolved. The Jury, however, regard the great ; problem of life-saving in shipwrecks as i siill unsolved. While admitting the Inesti- | mable \alue of some of the inventions, i they consider that none of them quite ful- | fills the specific object of the founder of the Pollok prize. 6ome of the devices, say the Jury, would vastly lessen the chance of accident on vessels, but such accident* may occur, for which no sure means of saving life by the wholesale, as it were, has been provided. For ttiis rea son the Jury ore of Ihe opinion that the sum of 120,000 should not be awarded in It* entirety to any exhibitor, but that n cer tain part of It should be awarded to the Inventor of the best method or methods proposed, while the balance of the prise should he set apart as an incentive for f iriher competition* of the same kind, to be held during ihe next two or three years. If the group Jury approve* Inis de, Itlon of the elate Jury, perhaps only two or three of all the exhibitors repre sented et Parle will com*' In for u ensre nf the pi it*. The utmost secrecy It preserved by Ihe commission as to the inventions that hove V*n u-em*d of the highest merit, forjl is not expected that the names of the win ner or winners will be announced within a month. Your correspondent learns, how ever, that it was partically decided to tule out all inventions whose life-saving qualities depended either upon any inflat ed belts, germants, or equipments, or which employed any material whose effi cacy could be destroyed by perforation. This decision very materially lessens the range of likely winners, for the greater part of the devices exhibited rely entirely upon the buoyancy they imparl to a hu man being, thus providing against death by drowning. Variety of Inventions. Inventions of this sort extend over an Infinite range of ingenuity. If protection against drowning were the only condition to be fulfilled to win the Pollok prize, any one of these inflatable devices could lay a strong claim to the award. The old-fashioned life-belt Idea is work ed out in a bewildering variety of meth ods, from the simplest to the most com plicated system. One exhibitor contem plates the presentation of a little pad of rubber about as big as a card-case to every passenger who mounts the gang plank. “All a passenger has to do,” says the inventor, "is to hang the pad around his neck. If by any chance he finds him self in the sea, the pad will swell until it is buoyant enough to float an ele phant.” Another competitor for the prize ex hibits a set of life-saving pajamas which “are just like any other garment until the wearer falls into the water; then they inflate themselves and It would take fif teen horse-power to pull them under." A French rubber manufacturer exhib its an admirable system of air pads that could be worn constantly at sea, and which require only about thirty seconds' blowing to distend them from a perfectly flat state to the shape of toy balloons capable of sustaining the weight of two men in the water. Still another inventor submits a species of automatically Inflating life belt, the principle of which Is based on the ex panding Influence of water on acetylene gas, with which the belts are charged. Many of these ingenious devices are per feet in theory, but they apply a remedy only to the cases of ptrson* who have e- I eaped from the damaged ship to the rag- I ing sea outside. Most of them woull ba ! useless, and some of them suicidal, if I worn by passengers on a ship aflie, for the elements of a number of the devices are so explosive that they would blow the j unthinkng wearer into sml hehreens in an instant. Another inventor submits a model mat tress on which a passenger may s> p blissfully in hours of repose, or float dis dainfully in hours of danger; but the time required to transform the couch into a life saver is Just about eight times as much as is often needed for a hurried trip Into eternity. Some methods of life preservers are submitted to which the Jury's objection about inflatable substances do not app y. One of these. Invented by an old Eng lish sea captain, ha= the merit of serving a double purpose equally practicably. If everything is going all right aboard ship, tho thing looks Just what it is, a comfort able arm rhalr The seat of the chair is formed by two transvtrse straps of wi'e leather. II any sudden exigency neccssi- I tates the passenger going overboard, he 1 unstraps the leathed band, pulls the framewoik of tha chair up under his arm. and attaches It there by fastening the straps over his shoulders. The thing Is light enough for a child to handle, for be side the woodwork, the only other things about the chair are two large tubes of aluminum, charged with air. A projecting nail, or sharp corner, or collision with a pointed object in the water, inflicts little damage on this life saving apparatus. The exhibit of life rafts is vast and varied. They are made of every possible sort of substance, and of every possible shape and slxe. One is built on the archi tectural lines of n string of linked sau sages; most of them are "doubled bar reled.” and two or three have three or more air chambers. The Catamaran Ida is worked out in extreme. For all of these rafts the same pre-eminent virtuo is claimed unslnkableness. In most cases this merit was demonstrated by the expert tests, but other .qualities were re quired. too, the chief of which was their portability und gei-at-ablenei*. Some of the Inventors seemed to have forgotton ait about this qunitty. or to have assumed, perhaps that steamship lines would keep a supplv of the rafts floating about the •cean. after ordering the captains never to get shipwrecked unless a life raft was near. One of the most amusing samples of thin sort of absent-mindedness on Ihe part of Inventors is the model of a so called life raft submitted by a Hun garian ship carpenter. It Is shaped like a gigantic, pegr, and the Interior la ar ranged In fvur stories. The lowest, a curt of sub-c'dlar, la laden with ballast weigh ing an any ion*, so disposed •* to keep “rsor" upright. Above that art- the adore - room* for tho provisions and general supplies On th* nevt floor ars the sleep THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 26. 1900. 50 Per Cent. Discount On lots of desir able things. 25 Off On lots of other lines. ing quarters and hospital, and above that the dining and living room. Asa design for a floating model, the plan was excellent, but it was somewhat impractical as a life raft. "Where would you put it aboard ship?” one of the Jury asked the inventor. "I hadn't thought of that," replied the Hungarian. "Why, on the deck of courae." suggest ed another Juror, winking to his compan ion. "Ya-as, dat's so,” assented the inventor. "Put id on de deck.” "But you would have to build a ship around It," said the chairman of the Jury; "and It would have to be four times wider than any ship ever built.” So the Hungarian's design did not get even honorable mention. Yet there was an idea in his head and that idea was ad mirably worked out in other exhibits. Thus, a French shipbuilding firm sub mitted a model of a big trans-Atlantic liner, which carried an enormous lifeboat equipped throughout and stored with pro visions, etc., for Instant use. The uniqueness of this invention consists in the fact that the lifeboat ip not visible at all under normal conditions. It ie imbedded In the forward part of the ship, and a passenger might walk over it a hundred times without suspecting its existence. But in case the big ship should be in danger of shipwreck. Ihe captain has the deck board covering the lifeboat Instantly re moved, and orders the passengers to crawl down Into their places. There the passen gers wait. If the huge vessel is destined to sink the occupants of the lifeboat are safe When the ship keels over and dis appears beneath the waves, the lifeboat Is released automatically, and Issues out of the foundering carcass like a phoenix from the ashes. Air chambers make the lifeboat unslnkable, and a clever device la provided which enables the lifeboat to resist the auction from Ihe sinking ship. A nearby exhibit from another French Arm of Shipbuilders shows an automati cally detachable deck which separates ll self from a foundering sesm*h4p, and as sure* a safe asylum to a hundred per sons. "Poper's Inventions for Raving Life at Sea" I* the inscription on one of th* walls of the long gallery. The exhibit of this English manufacturing establishment, that I* famous for that branch of indus try Is the largest and are of the most complete In all th* exblb'tlon. Each de v|,e i* d*mon*trat#d by working mod els shown in a big tank tilled with water One of th# most practical and effective of the R.yper Invention is a t*ei iif* raft bulk In cellular compartments for sir chambers. On* <*eWeo employ* this r*ft The End Of the BIG VALUE for NO PRICE season, is in the neighborhood. At no part of the year can Such Bargains Be possible as for the next few weeks--- not in one line or department, bat THROUGHOUT. We seldom carry over anything. We WON T carry for ward ANYTHING THAT ANY BODY IS DISPOSED TO BUY. We have nothing that you need feel afriad to invest in for FUTURE use. MEN, WOMEN, Boys’, Girls’ and Children’s SUITS, UNDERWEAR and FURNISHINGS, Straw, Soft and Stiff Hats and NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, Are just like Government Bonds in QUALITY and VALUE. B. H.Levy&Bro. as the captain's bridge on an ocean steamer. Another shows It stowed on top of the deck house. For both of these me!hods a thoroughly practical apparatus with which the ship Is equipped enables two persons to launch the raft, right side up, with the utmost speed. When this appaartus, hastily sprung Into position by turning a crank, is in place, the raft glides smoothly to the sea surface, even If loaded to its maximum capacity. Oars or sails may be employed as a motor for the raft. Other practical Inventions of the same exhibitor are a series of patent davits, infinitely simplifying the usual methods of shipping lifeboats. By the use of these davits, worked by powerful winches operated by two men, a boat with her full complement of passengers and stores al ready aboard can be lowered In less than one minute, how'ever rough the sea. An Improved releasing gear, operated by one person, disengages both ends of the boat simultaneously, doing away with the dan gerous "hanging up" of lifeboats, so of ten responsible for great loss of life. A potent procsss for closing bulkhead doors Is ar.o her practl al British exhib it The invention is made appllcabe equal ly by electricity, by hydraulic or steam pressure, or au omatically. By the simply turning of a lever, requiring no expendi ture of force whatever, all the bulkhead doors of a ship may be closed simultan eously from' the captain's bridge or the chart house Expert* consider this a most valuable contribution to the means of preventing wholesale loss of life at sea. An inventor of New York city sends a model oil rock, t design to spiead oil on the troubled waters, in Its most literal seme, which ha* been of en ; roven to be an effective means of preventing disaster at S'a. The mortar or canton shoo s a metal proje ti e a dis an e of a couple of hundred yards. The, projectile 1 loaded with ell, which is automatics ly released from the flac n by the Impact of the fall ing object against the water. The class Jury were much Impressed by this inven tl n Another American lrwentloa of a s artling character is the model of a ship sent by a New York-r, who has patented a projecting rubber bet, fitted on rubber springs, covering the entire circumfer ence of ihe vessel. The purpose of this armor is to serve as a buffer In case of collision, the Inventor considering that the elasticity of the rubber would send two colliding ships bounding back again like billiard balls. In fact, It would take a book to de scribe al lthe. clever, quaint, interesting, ecctntric things tent to the show. Even if ihe general result and and no. warrant the award of the entire prize, it is the unani mous opinion of the evp rt Jury that the exhibition has been a great step toward tha deveio- ment of improved methods ot life saving at sea. A Delicious Smoke. The Herbert Bpencer Is an elegant cigar and is truly a delightful enjoyment to Inhale the fumes of this fine tobacco; it is evhilarating and delicious. Bee that the name of Herbert Spencer is on every wrapper of every cigar, with out which none are genuine. The Herbert Bpencer cigars are only sold by the box of 80. Conchas at *3.50, and Perfectos, $4.50 at Lippman Bros., whole sale druggists. Barnard and Congress street*, of this city.-ad. “Anew line of eegant fire proof safes from the largest manufacturers | n the United States can be ten at Lippman Bros, wholesale druggists In this city. Price and qua lty will be of Interest.” —ad. e*ll Cored Me.** "Oraybeard broke up rheumatism on me," says Mr. Chas Thomas, ths Jew eler on Whitaker atreet. "And put me In better health than I have enjoyed In a long time,” Take Oraybeard Pill* for that dlisy feeling—Boat *rpt|le, and follow It up with • bottl* of Oreybeard l< I* all you need, R<*p*rs Drui Cos., sole props., Savannah, Oa.-ad. CURIOUS AMERICAN EXPORTS. REINDEER H trUKG AMERICAN MA CHINERY OVER SNOW. Ilagduil la Invndeil ly the Yankee I,limp, India by lee Maehlnes and Sodn Fountains, Igipl by Merry- Go-llouudi, China by l.aundry Ma chines, nnil Muscovy by American Burlier Chairs and Shaving Appli ances. New York, Aug. 24.—There Is no civil ized land in the world and few savage ones where evidences of American in genuity and skill do not confront the traveler on every side. Up In the north of Sweden trains of reindeer are drawing American wood-cutting machinery to points not far distant from the North Cape. The machinery has to be hauled hundreds of miles over the plains of snotv, but the shrewd Swedish lumbermen have found that its use almost doubles their profits. Again Puntas Neras In Tierra del Fuego is the most southerly conttnen tiaj spot on the globe. The important lighthouse there is equipped with elec tric machinery manufactured within a few hundred mile* of New York city. Some, of the schemes devised by the enterprising Yankees arc so daring that they might have been almost eacrtllgious in a less practical age. A large consign ment of steam pumps was lately shipped to the east. Their destination was the Jordan. Formerly pilgrims with an eye to the main chance had found it profit able to secure calabashes of water from the sacred river and sell their contents to churches and convents, to be used as holy water. A wide-awake American saw his opportunity. He devised a steam pump of convenient size, a number of which were set up at suitable points along the banke of the Jordan. The result was a profitable business in retailing to the churches all over Europe. Again, American devices are finding their way inio the Vatican Itself. The sovereign pontiff has recently been our customer for a flashlight apparatus, which stand* by his couch and can be ignited at any moment during the night by pressing a button. Tradition has assigned to Bagdad the honor of producing the most celebrated of lamps. But a New York house has superseded Aladdin and his genii. The lamps are of fanciful pattern, and are decorated with devices ofien more pleas ing to the eye of the Oriental than the morals of the ascetic. They are of sim ple design, operating without a chimney, on the principle of the blast furnace. They are conveyed to a point on Ihe Persian Gulf, from whence they are hauled over some 300 miles of desert on camel hack. They are then transferred to rafts and towed a hundred miles up the Euphrates, where they are again loaded on camels, which convey them to their destination. 200 miles from the river. These lamps are quite the thing In the Orient. Among the residences that they decorate are the palaces of the Sultan of Morocco, the Prince of Slam and several rajahs In Brit ish India. They are also populur In Je rusalem. In India, too, It looks ns though at no distant date the punka will be a thing of the past, and the punka walla seeking anew Job. A demand for lectrlc funs of American manufacture has arisen among the more up-to-date of the natlye prlnees, a little- Sultan In Borneo In par ticular having laid til a considerable sup ply. The torrid climate of Indlu opens up a number of possibilities lo the enter prising trader, A few sola fountains have recently heen shipped to Calcutta experi mentally, and it Is thougnt a considera ble trade In this typically American arti cle may ensue. Ice plants, too, have been shipped to various parts of tlie- country, and there |s n call for mote Another ar ticle con-id-red Indispensable In many parts of Mils country, mosquito curtains, is becoming |e,pulsr In Ihe East, and a large consignment has recently Item ship ped to Hyrla Nor doe* the ancient land of Laypl tutu OUR Windows Lend an idea of the beauty and true value of some of our summer-end SLAUGHTERS. COMPARE With other visible alleged BARGAINS (?) up its nose at our new fangled contriv anc e-t. The supply cf Image* In the pyra mid* having run ra h r low, owing to ihe depredations of curio hunteig, an Ameri can firm has been filling up the vacancies with most interesting and antique api car ing Util* statute. Asa matter of fact, they arc manufactured by anew patent process from various condiments, but >hey look >o like ancient stone that they would deceive any but an expert. Egypt appears to be getting frisky In Its old age An American tr.erty-go-round of the Coney Island type has recently been set up at Cairo. It Is latgply patronized by the Arabs, who cut a line figure In Ihilr snowy burnoo cs bestriding the gr*n ad gold tigets and el phants. It is driven by i team, end its music is the same old American rag-time. Another coun ry, on y less venerable, which has become a cus tomer for American merry-go-rounds Is Spain. But unquestionably our mos‘ important cus omer in the east Is China The grea <r part of the railroad equipment, engines, rolling stock, rails, all a subject of the deepest annoyance to Ihe Boxers, come fr.,m this country. And In this connection it may be observed that one of the prin cipal reasons that the Chinese show su h a violent hatred of railroads Is that they are afraid that the gravts of their ances tors, which are scattered pretty freely over the country and not confined to grave yards, may he disturbed by the fixing of ihe ties. An Important and novel recent shipment to China is the machinery for waterworks *o be set tip In the northern part of the emi Ire and operated by native labor. I his will be a remarkable Innova tion in a country whose people have hith etto eontmtod llnmm.lves with wells and not boh red about typhoid germ*. Manchuria is one of the most fertile countries In Ihe world. Seven crops of wheat can be raised in the year at cer tain parts, yet flour for the Russian troops Is being Imported. The cause of this Is a complete absence of modern flour mills, the Chinese still clinging to the old, slow and Wasteful processes which they employed 2,000 year* ago. However, an up-to-date flour mill has Just been erected In the Inferior, the machinery of which Is American. Others are lo fol low. and there is no question but that at no distant date Manchuria will feed Its own teeming population and Ihe legions of the Czar, with a considerable surplus for export. But the most remarkable testimony lo our mechanical ability comes In the form of an acknowledgment that we arc su perior even In matters of wnshep-washee to those whom we are accustomed to re gard as the apostles and high priests of the science. An American Arm has ship ped to China the machinery of a monster laundry plant, on which Chinamen arc to be exclusively employed, where there Is no hand labor, and from which 5,000 olecos are turned out dally at a cost of 1 cent a piece, whether It be large or small, complicated or simple. The coat of the machinery Is $40,000. Next lo China In importance as a mar ket for American goods corny* Japan, but the cleverness Of the Japanese Is an ob stacle to extended trade. As Imitators they have no equal, and It Is their cus tom 4o buy a few American samplea and reproduce them In large quantities. In spite of the abuse that ha* been poured forth on our beer and the unfav orable comparisons that have been Insti tuted bc'ween It and Ihe foreign product, he foreigners apparently see something in our method*. It Is not so long since Mr. Allsopp, the famous brewer of Blor ton-on-Trent. England, started a large lager beer brewery. In which American methods and American machinery were exclusively employed and even Germany herself, whose beer Is usually considered without rival, ha* recently been Import ing American brewing apparatus and adopting the ny*tem of Milwaukee Germany, thoroughly wide awake aa she Is In mailer* commercial, ha not heen blind lo the merit* of American method* and wares. A great deal of Ihe caviare which Is served at the table* of our ho tel* and private houee*. nod fetch** a high price, owing lo the belief that li I* man ufactured abroad, really ha* Its birth with in ihe coniine* of ihe United Slates, and having been shipped to Germany, la i ehlpped hither under a German label. (Jar- Many, too, a* wU a* France and Italy. is one of our customers for colored glass. which is manufactured hero by a patent process, and almost equals In beauty of coloring lhot which adorns the old rathe dials of Europe. Many c.t the new Eu ropean churches are equipped with this Amerean glass. In nutters of the toilet, too, we havo strode to the front. Even the Musco vite. who. if we. are to believe the pic tures, should not have much call for shaving appliances, is a good customer of ours for barbers’ chairs and toilet dip pers. France, too, Is buying our dress shields and our hoot polish, luxuries which she herself was the first to devise and of which for many years she held the monopoly. Finally Australia, which baa long been our customer for axes to chop its plentiful timber, has at last turned to / America even for articles of wood, and is j buying plentifully of our wooden handles ' for tools, clothespins and golf clubs. And if further proof of our skill in the manu factuie of articles of sport were needed than the last article all Europe recognizes that American clay pigeons have no equal. T. G. Knox. A PORTO RICA* PROVERB. “Stubborn n* the Man Who Would < limb the Tree.” From the Youth's Companion. Our new fellow-citizens to be, the na tives of Porto Rico, are a iolite people. They have many courteous proverbs de rived from the sententious Spanish, and many circumlocutions and phrases of com parison-allusions to local events or to personages of more or less remote epochs. Some of these phrases are equivalent, for instance, to our ’‘Hobson’s choice.” You will, perhaps, hear one Porto Rican reprove another for persistence In en deavoring to perform impossibilities. “You aro as stubborn us the man who would climb the tree,” he will say; for the Por to Rican la too polite to compare a hu man being to a mule. Many natives could not explain what this meant, as many of Us could not tell much about the origin of ’ Hobson’s choice.” But an old woman was found In one of the interior villages who could tell the story of the stubborn tree climber. This Is it: Once upon a time a planter was telling a thrilling story to his friends of how be had been chased a mile or two by an angry bull. He told them that he barely es caped with his life, thanks to his fleetnes* of foot. “I don’t think so much of that feat,” said one of the listeners. • No'” said the planter. “No,” said the man. "What would you have done?” asked the planter. ”1,” said the man, “would have climbed a tree.” "Rut, my dear sir, how could I climb n tree when there was none with branches strong enough to support my weight?” ”1 don’t care,” answered the man. “I know that I would have climbed a tree.” "Rut I have Just told you there were only saplings about me. You certainly weigh even more than 1 do.” ”1 don't know whether I weigh more or less than you, but I am sure,” said the inan, doggedly, “that I would have climb ed a tree.” The planter was losing his patience. Ho mastered his feelings by a strong effort, and asked; "Supposing you found yourself In a. prairie, miles and miles in extent, with nothing in sight save the blue aky above you and the green sod all about you—-no shelter of any kind whatsoever, no house*, no bowlders, no rocks, no trees, no fences, no fallen trunks, no brush, no bushes, nothing at all except the boundless, level prairie—and of a sudden you saw rushing toward you an infuriated bull, bellowing terrifically, with horns lowered to gore you, what would you do?" This was a serious problem. The m*n thought and thought, with his forehead *ll wrinkled up, because he wanted to be sure he had grasped the question entirely At length his brow cleared and his eye* brightened. "I think," he said, "that I would ellmb a tree." "But," said the planter, "I have told you that there was no tree In sight; the nearest one was hundreds—thousands— million*—of mile* away. There was not even a small bush, no growing thing save the little blades of grass. I repeat, thore waa no tree—nothing but the grass-cover ed prairie and the blue sky. and the charging, bellowing bull and you—nothing else, absolutely nothing else. What would you do?" Again the man pluitged into a profound meditation. He seemed to be going over Ihe question once more. The planter and his friends hegan to think that he had htt Upon some Ingenious plan for escaping * terrible death, when he lifted his head and looking straight Into the planter'* eye*, said determinedly: “I would climb a tree, anyhow!" CAGLE A GREAT FIELDER. Swoop* Info Danbury nnd Cntche* s Dropped Rabbit on the Fly. From the New York World. Danbury. Conn., Aug. 23—Elke light ning from a cloud a monster bald-headed eagle flashed down in a crowded street of Danbury yesterday and, seizing within two yard* of the ground a rabbit that had fallen from Us talons high In air, soared into the sky again, before Ihe hundreds who taw could realize what had happen “persons on White street, one of the principal business thoroughfares, got their first warning of Ihe fierce bird * nearnes* by hearing a shrill cry above them *nd then the whirr of wings. Looking up, they saw a whi*e rabbit a hundred feet or to from the. earth, falling through the lr. Above it, with wings half drawn In, cut ting tli* air like a knife, came the eag.e after It* prey, which had slipped from Us claws. . . .. . Tho rabbit had slmo*t reached _ **>• ground when the eagle overtook II t*nd.£- scribing a sharp circle and crying In tri umph. mourned into th* air with the rab bit last in its talons. REES I’INCTI RED PEACHES. Ho Brother William fined Brother Jeffrey for SIOO. From the New York World. Chester, N. Y., Aug. 23. -William H. Utter, a farmer of Amity, Orange coun ty, grows peaches, his brother, Jeffrey W. Utter, rabies bees. . , William allege* that hi* brother* bee*, in seeking moterial for honey, have punc tuted and sucked the substance from hi* peaches, to his serious loss. He wa brought suit against Jeffrey to recover 1100 damages. . , William place* his loos at 100 basket* of peaches, and demand* pay at $1 t basket. Th beekeeper baa employed one of the leading lawyer* of the county and will defend the. suit, his chief defense being that If the damage was done by bee* the plaintiff-oannot prove that It was th* defendoms bees that did It. Both litigants are rich. BLACK VELVET RIBBONS, All width*, at The Bee Hive, St. Julian and Whitaker ata.