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12 SIDNEY HERBERT’S LETTER. THE GROIND OF THE COMPLAINT AGAINST SAMPSON. Somr Promotion* of Atlnntn Men In tlie Xv>-A AVet Point Cla That Put n Number of General* In tlie Confederate Service—The First to lise the Title. “Ilnncliter* of tlie Confederacy”—The Author of the Fainon* Hymn "Hattie Above the Cloud*”—One of n Sei le* of “One Rullet Trnu edie*”—Other Matter* of General Interest. Tine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla.. Aug. S.—l have never censured the naval authorities for recognizing Rear Ad miral Sampson as the commander of the naval forces at Santiago. It is a rule in both the army nnd navy to give such credit as was awarded him to the ranking commander. A similar case occurred here in Florida, during the Civil War, at the battle of Olustee or Ocean Fond. Gen. Joseph Finegan, C. S. A., was in comand of the forces, but not on the field, ns I understand. Gen. A. Hi Colquitt and Col. George P. Harrison, Jr., were the heroes of the batle, and yet the Confederate States Congress passed a resolution awarding all the credit to Gen. Fine gan. The blame that rests on Samp son lies in the fact that he, being ab sent. did not give- due credit to Schley, next in rank, who was present and an active participant in the battle. An Atlanta paper is father Jubilant over some promotions of naval offi cers from that city. These promotions are neither "fresh” nor "high,” as gunners rank with, but next to, en signs. The promotions came In regular course a few weeks ago and are in no sense remarkable. As I have before written, Georgia has a fine representa tion in the navy, and several of the younger officers have won deserved commendation. The highest Georgia of ficer is Commander Richard G. Daven port, in charge of the training ship Essex, and the lowest is Boatswain Lee R. Boland, commanding the tug Ac tive at Mare Island, Cal., navy yard. * • * It is a singular fact that the class of 1854 from West Point Milita ry Academy, with Cadet George Wash ington Custis Lee, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, at the head, put a big squad of generals into the Confederate army. Beside Lee there were James Peshler, Ala.; John Pegram of Virginia; J. E. B. Stuart of Virginia, Archibald Gra de of New York; Stpehen D. Lee of South Carolina; William D. Pender of North Carolina; John B. Villepigue of South Carolina; and John T. Mercer of Georgia, who would have been a general had he not fallen In battle. Abner Smead of Georgia was also In this class. Gen. O. O. Howard, U. S. A., was No. 4 in the class. Mrs. L. H. Raines of Savannah, very kindly informs me that Mrs. Cassidy, to whom I referred last Sunday, only claims to be the first to use the name “Daughters of the Confederacy” for a local society in St. Louis. The question as to who brought such local societies Into the United Daughters of the Con federacy, ns one grand organization, she says is still undecided. A commit tee, with no Georgian or Tennesseean on It, is now at work investigating the claims of Mrs. Goodlett of Tennessee, and Mrs. Raines of Georgia, and will report in November to the next gen eral convention of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, to be held at Wilmington, N. C. As I understand It, In the first organization, Mrs. Raines' claim was so far recognized as to make her vice president next to Mrs. Good lett, chosen president. The final decis ion will be awaited with deep interest by the friends of both these patriotic and zealous workers in the cause. Col. Bevereley W. W r renn of the Plant System, who was a Confederate boy hero at the Battle of Lookout Moun tain, says Maj. Gen. M. C. Meigs, tT. S. A. (born in Augusta, Ga., but of Northern parents), was the author of the familiar phrase, "Battle above the clouds.” Two days after the battle he reported, as quartermaster gem Mal, to Secretary Stanton, of the operations around Chattanooga, and thus referred to the Lookout Mountain fight of Nov. 24: “The day had been one of driving mists and rains, and much of Hooker’s battle was fought above the clouds, which concealed him from cur view, but from which his musketry was heard. • • • A brigade sent from Chattanooga crossed Chattanooga creek and opened compiunlcations with Hooker soon after nightfall. • * At daylight on Nov. 25 the Stars and Stripes were discerned on the peak of Lookout. The confederates had evacu ated the mountain.” Hooker had scal ed the slopes of the mountain from Lookout creek and driven the Confed erates around the Point, where he made a stand high up the mountain in full view of Chattanooga. It was not my intention to again mention Gov. Candler’s female aide, but some person—evidently a female— has sent me from Washington, D. C„ a page of the Morning News of July 21, and marked a paragraph headed "Our Lady Military Men,” in the Geor gia news column. On the margin she writes: “Who's wrong, or who's do ing this?” As to who is wrong I can only say that I am not the man. After Adjutant General Robertson said there were no female aides the Governor did admit that Miss Maymie was a sort of social aide. Then, after Mrs. Bowles was reported as a major general, he frankly confessed that under the Geor gia military laws he could not issue any such commissions. He said he simply wrote a letter to Miss Maymie, who now signs herself "Lieut' Colonel and Aide to Gov. Candler” (although residing in another state) that she might be a sort of outside honorary appendage to his masculine staff of aides. As to “Who is doing this?” I cannot reply. But "Yankee Adams,” the comedian, used to say: "Such things have been done and others are doing.” It seems very proper that Secretary Long should stop all discussion on the Sohley-Sampson matter by naval of ficers. Too much has already been published from that source, and I re gret to see that of Admiral Schley’s son. an officer In the regular army, has-had the had taste to inject some very spicy charges into public print. My sympathies are till with Schley, who has been, for some reason, very badly treated, but the whole case Is now in the hands of a court of in quiry and should be left there until a verdict is rendered. The rumor that a court has been "fixed to convict’’ does not surprise me. The same tactics were played in the Fitz John Porter case (as I recently stated, having at tended that court-martial seml-offi cinlly), >'.nd he was convicted before a tangle witness Wad testified. Oapt. Schley. U. S. A., asks a pertinent question, however, when he suggests the inquiry. "In case of defeat would Sampson have claimed what he now assumes?” I think not. Tn the list of cadets Just admitted to West Point Military Academy, in the Morning News of Tuesday. I see the once famliar name of “Charles L Scott of Alabama.” I hope he is the son of my dear old friend ex-Congress mnn MaJ. Charles L. Bcott, "a fine old Virginia gentleman," residing In Wil cox county. Alabama, and whom I knew aus an able and accomplished edi tor while I was a member of the Ala trass Association, During my residence In Atlanta, in 1878, I edited a military department in the Savan nah Weekly News, and the death of a rarely gifted son of Maj. Scott was no ticed by me in that department, the father having been a brave Confeder ate soldier, and crippled for life at the | first Bull Run or Manassas. There lies I before me as I now write a faded let j ter written to me over twenty years | ago by that grief-stricken father, full of "deep and heartfelt thanks’ tor my kindly tribute to his “dear boy,” gone forever from earth. As 1 read the ten der words of this distinguished oi l sol dier and brother journalise, I realize that "kind words are more than coro nets,” and that the "bravest are the tenderest.” If Cadet Scott is the son of this Maj. Scott he ought to make a soldier of the highest type of excel lence. Several times I have mentioned "One Bullet Tragedies,” in which generals or other prominent officers were killed on the battlefield by a single bullet from a sharpshooter's rifle, the case of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton, IT. S. V., in the Philippines being one of the latest and saddest cases. And yet, in battle, it takes a big lot of lead to kill a soldier sometimes. Col. G. N. Saussy, quartermaster general of the Florida Division, U. C. V., in a recent letter to me, touches interestingly upon this subject in a comparison of our present improved firearms with those in use during the Civil War. "On my trip to the Memphis Confederate re union,” he says, “my seat mate from Balnbridge to Montgomery, Ala., was a Capt. Stuart of Thomasville. He man aged during the Confederate war to stop seven bullets (except one didn’t stop, but went clear through his chest and lung). Mr. Harris of Nashville, my seat mate between Tupelo and Mem phis, must have been a champion ball player, he ‘caught out'nine balls —(one for each inning of a modern baseball game). A Mr. Berry of Alabama, a seat mate on my return trip from Mem phis, was also a prize winner, he catch ing nine bullets. Yet all these lived to see thirty-six years of peace after their numerous woundings.” And yet a | dozen heroic generals like James B. i McPherson, U. S. A., and William Henry T. Walker, C. S. A., fell by a sharpshooter’s single well-aimed bul let. The Atlanta papers are saying some nice things about "O. M. Mitchell Post, G. A. R.,” of that city, for its very lib eral donation of SIOO to furnish a room in the Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia. The name “Mitchell,” how ever, is not correct. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, a West Pointer and an emi nent astronomer, as well as noted sol dier, had only one 1 in his name. But the Atlanta Post is not first in this generous work of reconciliation. O. M. Mitchel Post, G. A. R., of Jacksonville, Fla., several years ago, contributed to fit up a room in the Florida Confeder ate Soldiers’ Home, and also attended in a body tire opening dedicatory ser vices. There are some bitter-hearted men still rampant in the G. A. R. and the U. C. V., but as a rule I think the war is over with the veterans of both organizations, Confederate soldiers Patronize Home industry MAGNOLIA SOAP, THE SOAP THAT CLEANS. WHERE IT CAN BE HAD: THOMAS West Broad and River streets. J. F. ENTEL.MAN, 818 Liberty street, east. FRANCIS HARTE, Jefferson and St. Julian streets, HOTCHKISS & NEVILL, Jefferson and Broughton streets. L. B. GREER, Whitaker and Park avenue. McGRATH & RANSFORD, Whitaker street. NICHOLAS LANG, Barnard street. J. T. EVANS & CO., Barnard and Congress streets. BENJ. GAILS, Duffey and Jefferson streets. JOHN STAMMER, Bryan and Ann streets. . P. MEYER, Farm and Bryan streets. GOODMAN BROS., 43 Farm street. F. H. JACHKNS, Ann and Pine streets. HARRY STEFFENS, East Broad and Oglethorpe avenue. DRAYTON GROCERY CO.. 110 Whitaker street. - j HENRY SCHRODER, Broughton and Habersham streets. S. F. SMITH & CO.,' 345 Abercorn street. HARPEE & MARSHALL, Gaston and Drayton streets. JOHN LYONS & CO., Lyons Block. S. W. BRANCH CO., Broughlon and Whitaker streets. THOMAS HICKS, Montgomery and Henry streets. GEO. W r . LEE, Ninth and Burroughs streets. NORTON & RYAN, Price and Broughton streets. JNO. D. BRODMAN, Bolton and Burroughs street*. D. GEFFKEN, Waldburg and Burroughs streets. ALBERT GRIMM. Second and West Broad streets. W. R. FULTON, Duffy lane and West Broad street. L JOHN LYNCH, Taylor and Whitaker streets. R. H. GRIFFITH, Gaston and Jefferson streets. J. H. LANKENAIT, Berrien and Jefferson streets. JAMES O'BYIINE, Montgomery and Bay streets. D. GAMBITTIE, Indian and Farm streets. HENRY FEHRENCAMP, West Boundary and Bay. W. O. CLARY, Pine and Farm s. sets. H. H. BUNGER, Ogeechee road. H. H. GEFFKEN, Price and Broughton streets. ’ J. C. SCHUMAN, East Boundary and Broughton streets. M. A. CLANTON, Harrison and Farm streets. C. H. HEITMAN, President and East Broad streets. PETER ORSINI & BRO., Bay and Houston streets. JOHN GRIMM, Drayton and State streets. RUBEN HORROVITZ, Bryan and Montgomery streets M. EGAN, Huntingdon and East Broad streets. J H. WILDER, Park avenue and Lincoln street. SAM. JENKINS, Price and Gaston streets. ABRAM WAINER, Purse and S’ is streets. A. P. OANNADY, Gucrrard and Sims streets. H. J. BCHNAARS, Wilson and Jones street JOHN D. SIEM. Jones and Purse streets. JOHN T. KAISER, Pull and First streets. SOUTH SIDE CASH GROCERY, Habershrm and Anderson streets. HFNRY GERKIN, Whenton and Liberty streets. ANDREW GASPERNICH, Perry lane and Barnaid Street, ROBERT REMLER. Liberty and Drayton streets. B F, MORSE, Ogeechee road. i HERMAN GHOTHKKR, Park avenue and Cuyler street ; J G. PARDUE, Russell and Cemetery streets. JAMES J. JOYCE, I.tberty and Abercorn. JAMES J JOYCE, East Broad and Oglethorpe avenu* A M&c. W. WEBT, Liberty and Whitaker. C A. MUNSTER. Duffy and Drayton. JOHN SULLIVAN. 15 Congress street, west. MRS. H. SALOSHIN. corner Bay and Habershai K A HARMS. 444 TaltnalU street. GEORGE DERST, 7< West Broad street. S A CRAIG, Bull and Anderson streets, o E STIVARIUS. 2420 Bull street. MBS GEO. CBANE, Toll Gate. White Bluff road, F H. QBANTE, Best and Montgomery streets. ' j. J. BAN NON, 2319 Montgomery street. O W. LEE, Thirty-ninth, west, and Burroughs. KNIGHT & 00., 219 Henry street, east. GEO. H. ELLIS A CO.. Lincoln and Duffy streets. JOHN D. HARMS, 621 Bolton street, cast, P SANDERS, Bull and Forty-second streets. 1 MRS. M. C BENNETT, corner Sims and Lumber streets. W. P. PENNINGTON, Orange street, corner St. Gaul. A. WAINER, Sims and Purse streets. MR£ KATE FOLEY, comer Lorch and Montgomery street*. L BCHINE, Farm and William streets. BEN REMLER. Waters Road and Thunderbolt Road WERNTZ BROTHERS, Huntingdon and Barnard attest* JOHN MEYER, Lovers Lane. JOHN F. MAY, Oglethorpe and Jefferson. (C. A. O BRIEN, -387 West Broad Street, THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 4. IDOL have been buried by G. A. R. veterans, and Union soldiers by Confederate vet erans, with full military honors. On Decoration Day and Memorial Day these veterans decorate alike the graves of the Blue and the Gray with beautiful fragrant flowers. Mr. T. F. Warrick of Claxton, In Tattnall county, Ga., writes me as fol lows: "1 read with interest your his torical letters in the Morning News, and on reading your account of the death of Gen. Polk at Lost Mountain, I have taken the liberty to write a few lines of what I saw of his funeral in Atlanta. I was a lad there from the commencement of the war until Gen. Sherman came in and forced us all to leave.” Mr. Warrick goes on to tell of the humble little Episcopal Church on Walton street, near Forsyth, where the funeral services were held. “The body,” he writes, “came in an army ambulance and was attended by a guard of honor.” Young Warrick passed through the church and viewed the body in an open coffin, dressed in full uniform and wrapped In a Con federate flag. “I did not remain through the funeral services. It was a sad time then, for we could plainly hear the boom of cannon on Lost Mountain.” Mr. W. says there was a large cross of white flowers on the general's breast and the body did not seem disfigured. It was, however bad ly mutiiiated, but this did not show in the coffin. “I do not know,” he adds, “where the burial was.” It was, I think, at old St. Paul's Church in Au gusta, where Mrs. Polk is also buried. The humble little church on Walton street became historic through a very tender war story written by the late Bi.ihop (’has. T. Quintard of Tennessee, entitled "Nellie's Handkerchief,” the principal character b. ing Miss Nellie Peters, now the widow of ex-Congress man George U. Black. I republished the story, with comments, in the Sun day Telegram, of Savannah, some years ago. Before the death of Bishop Beckwith, this little church, so full of war memories of a tender charac ter, became, through the zealous and generous labors of Col. Z. D. Harrison and Col. B. W. Wrenn, the very promi nent St. Luke’s Cathedral of that later day on Peachtree street. But to the actors in the "Nellie's Handker chief” touching narrative, and to many other bereaved hearts that were strick en with sore distress In those perilous war times, that dear little old church, so humble and so long gone, will con tinue to hold a dearer and more sacred place than any grand cathedral in all the wide world. And I write this with eyes blinded with tears of sympathy for those stricken ones. Sidney Herbert. IHU.OO Savannah to Jacksonville anil Itetnrn. Via Seaboard Air Line Railway, Mon day. Aug. 5. Tickets on sale for special train leaving Central depot at 8 a. m., railroad time, and good to return on any regular train up to and including Aug. 8. Separate coaches for white and colored passengers.—ad. GREAT QOOD-BV SALE TO ALL SUMMER GOODS. FOYE & ECKSTEIN An Unparalleled Bargain Opportunity ALL PROFITS AND SOME OF THE COST TAKEN OFF. Shirt Waists, Separate Skirts, Wrappers • A M P- =&- Muslin Underwear Literally Slaughtered. 10,000 Yards White and Colored Lawns, Dimities, Batiste, Pique Madras Cloth, Figured Swisses and Imported Ginghams sold all season at 15c, 20c and 25c yard, i Now on Center Counters, Choice -------- IUI Closing out 15c Ladies’ Corset Covers at 6c Closing out 15c Children’s Lace Trimmed Drawers at 9c Closing’ out 50c Ladies’ Percale Waists at 19c Closing out sl, $1.50 and $2 La dies’ White and Colored Waists at 59c Closing out Ladies’ Fine Waists at about Halt Price Closing out one lot Ladies’ Muslin Underwear (soiled) Half Price Closing out 39c Ladies’ Linen Skirts at 19c Closing out 75c Ladies’ Linen Duck and Pique Skirts at 39c Closing out SI.OO Ladies’ Lawn and Percale Wrappers at 67c BURMAH’S AMERICAN BRIDGE. THIRTY-FIVE YAKKERS WENT HALF WAY AROIND THE WORLD TO BIILD IT. It Crosae* the CoUteik Gorjte find Is the Lonjseiit Rnilrond Bridge In Existence and One of the Hifhet. Venomous Snakes*. Polnoiioun Veg etation* Feverou* Mist* and a Rainy Svnuon That Turned the Solid Earth Into Liquid Mod, Were Some of the Diftiniltien That Beset the Bnilriern, bnt They Completed the Work in Eighth Month*—All the Material Sent Piecemeal in Three Ship* From Thin ConntVy. Biuuput Traveler Ever Made l*ed In the CoiiMtruction. New York, Aug. 2.—A steamship re cently arrived at New York with a lit tle group of men browned to a copper color by exposure to the tropical sun. As they reached the dock, a number of people watting to meet them gave each a hearty handshake and extended congratulations. In the engineering world, this group will be long remem bered as the men who put up the great est railroad bridge in the world In a country none of them had ever seen, amid trials and troubles which might be expected to discourage any one but a Yankee engineer. Two or three years ago the survey ors of a railroad line In Burmah came to a hole In the .ground which was so deep that it seemed as if a balloon would be the only way to cross It. This was the Gokteik Gorge. Two go around it would require twenty or thirty miles more of track, and the question arose whether it could be spanned by a bridge. The general officials of the company thought It could if the right men could be found to undertake the work. Several American firms were In vited to put in bids, and one of them, teh Pennsylvania Steel Company, se cured the job. It was a case of hurry from start to finish, for the work must be done within a year from the time the contract was let. The steel for the towers, girders and other work had to be turned out at the works, shipped to New York, loaded on board vessels, carried to Rangoon, loaded on cars and then transported 450 miles to this hole in the ground. Special machinery had to be built to put the bridge together and to raise the different pieces and ho and them in position. In all, about 5 000 tons of meal alone were required for the work, the bridge itself taking 4,852 tons alone. From one side of the valley to the other was nearly half a mile. For two thirds of this distance the railroad track had to be laid at hights ranging from 100 to 250 feet above the ground. Then came a drop of 320 feet to the top of a bridge nature had thrown across one of the mountain rivers of Southern Asia. Upon this natural bride, just wide enough to form a safe support, heavy steel towers were riv eted together to such a hight that the men working upon them at the top looked like insects to the observer from below. As soon as the cablegram came from the Burmah Railway Company ac cepting the American hid a special force of workmen was selected to turn out the material as rapidly as possible, and the bridge department worked day and night As fast as the columns and girders came from the shops, they were piled In the railroad yards and painted to prevent rusting. Ordinarily when a bridge is transported in sec tions each part Is lettered and num Closing out 7c Huck Towels, good size, at 3c Closing out 15c Large All Linen Towels at 8c Closing out 75c dozen Large All Linen Fringed Doylies at 50c Closing out 69c Table Damask at ..49c Closing out SI.OO Bleached Table Damask at 77c Closing out 85c Black Taffeta Silk at 59c Closing out SI.OO and $1.25 Satin Foulards at 69c Closing out SI.OO White Crochet Quilts at 69c Closing out $1.50 White Ouilts. Marseilles patterns, at .'.97c bered to indicate Its part and position in the structure. But it was borne In upon the com pany that it would have to depend for its labor upon the East Indian coolies, who knew nothing of American letters and numbers—nor probably, of any other kind. But even a coolie can tell colors, so the trusses, girders and col umns were painted in one color, and the pieces used to join them were striped, while the metal work for the bridge construction machinery was painted dead black. Subsequently some trouble developed because two of the native firemen were color-blind, but in general the scheme worked well. To move the mass of material required three different steamships. When the construction gang reached the spot, the first thing they had to encounter was the rainy season. The locality is in the mountains 4,000 feet above sea level, where it is so cold at night that a man shivers under heavy blankets and so hot at mid-day that no man with a white skin can live in the sun-glare. During the rainy season the clouds seem to literally open in this part of the country and the water comes down in torrents from sunrise until afternon, drenching and soaking everything, so that it is impossible to do anything but remain indoors and wait until the rain stops. The work, particularly in its initial stages, was performed amidst various perils. In the depths of the gorge, matted with underbrush and scattered with huge rocks, lurked the deadly snakes of India. Some of the coolies were bitten and died. Poisonous vege tation also affected the men, and va pors arising from the depths of the ravine bred low fever In American bones. There were beasts of prey, too, but although they were seen and heard prowling about the camp at night, the bridge builders suffered nothing from their depredations ex cept the loss of some live stock. The incessant rains turned the ground Into liquid mud, and the masons laying the stone foundations for the towers were held back ten weeks. At last these were completed, and then the “trav eler” was put in position. This was a mechanical giant, the largest by far ever used in bridge con structions. It lifted and lowered the tons of steel and held them in its grip while the men fastened them into place. Although In the photographs of the work the traveler looks to be only 20 or 30 feet in length and to weigh perhaps four or five tons. It extended from Its support on the end of the railroad track a distance of 165 feet over the gorge and contained 00 tons of metal alone. The beams or trusses which formed its lower portion were 219 feet in length, and from its top to the railroad track was 40 feet. To keep this immense weight from top pling over, a counter-weight of 75 tons was loaded upon the rear portion, which was mounted on wheeled trucks so that it could be rolled along as the bridge was erected. The little band of thirty-five Ameri cans put the mammoth bridge together from side to side of the gorge in a lit tle over eight months after the work was commenced. The bridge is so strongly built that it will support a train of loaded freight cars reaching its entire length, in addition to four locomotives weighing 54 tons each. Owing to Its great hight, it must be strongly braced to withstand the force of the gnles which sweep down the valley at a velocity of 60 to 70 miles an hour. The engineers had to cal culate upon these and other delicate points, but tests made after comple tion show' that they calculated to a nicety. It was expected In building the bridge to have the aid of com pressed air in boring holes through the steel and fastening the rivets, but when the 500 natives who were em ployed as laborers heard the hissing and noted ths effect* of the unseen fores, they believed It to t>s something Closing out 10c Ladies' Black Seam less Hose, only three to each cus tomer, at * 5c Closing out 39c Ladies’ Sommer Corsets, one to a customer, each 15c Closing out 25c Ladies’ Black Hose, Heamsdorf dye, 3 pairs for 50c Closing out 15e Ladies’ Ribbed Un dervests. taped neck and sleeves, 6c Closing out 25c Ladies’ Lisle Thread Under vests at 13c Closing out 50c Ladies’ Silk Un dervests, white and colored 25c Closing out 10c Hemstitched and Embroidered Handkerchiefs at.. 5c Closing out 15c and 20c Embroid ered and H. S. Handkerchiefs at 10c Closing out 20c and 25c Japanese Fans at 10c supernatural and not one of them could be induced to touch the compressed air tools. Asa result, all of the bolts and rivets, nearly 200,000, were fasten ed in the old-fashioned way by hand hammers. This delayed the work about one month. The Gokteik Viaduct, as it is known in Asia, is located upon the principal railway between Rangoon and the Chi nese frontier. It is the highest bridge in the world, with tw r o exceptions—the Pecos Viaduct in Texas and the Loa Bridge in South America. It is 100 feet longer than any other railroad bridge in the world and contains 1,500 tons of metal more than any other, the next largest being the new bridge across tlje Kinzua valley in Pennsylvania. The Kinzua is but 2,053 feet in length and is 19 feet lower than the Gokteik. The natural bridge upon which the Gokteik structure rests is one of the wonders of Asia, being an arch 200 feet in thick ness and about 500 feet long. Ages ago the river which flows beneath W'orked its way through the barrier. Photo graphs taken from the bed of the stream when the traveler was complet ing the last towers showed the columns and girders in the bridge structure like delicate lace work, so small did they appear, while the top portion of the traveler was actually Invisible. The work was done under the super vision of J. C. Turk of New York, as engineer for the Pennsylvania Steel Company, under the general direction of Mr. J. V. W. Reynders, general su perintendent of the bridge department, who prepared the drawings for the structure. The bridge cost $700,000 or $3lO a foot. Of the little band of Amer icans w'ho went half W'ay around the world to do this work, every man came back alive and hearty, but with the memory of one of the most trying tasks ever completed by Yankee pluck and ingenuity. Plant System Mileage Book*. Travelers, before taking a trip. It would be well to call on the Plant Sys tem ticket agents for Information as to the use of 1,000-mile books. These books are good from Tampa to Wash ington, also to Montgomery, and will be accepted for passage on all points reached by the Atlantic Coast Line. The Plant System reaches all Import ant points in th 2 state of Florida. Books sold at $26 VO. Call on ticket agents at De Soto Hotel or Plant Sys tem Depot. —ad. Mileage Bonks by the Seaboard Air Line Railway are good Into Washington and also over the Bay Line from Norfolk to Bal timore. They will save you money on your trip North. Ticket office, corner Bull and Bryan streets. ’Phones No. 28. —ad Sommer Rates. The Seaboard Air Line Railway is offering very attractive round-trip rates from all points to Old Point Com fort, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Washington, Baltimore and New York. If you contemplate a trip to any point this summer it will be to your advan tage to call at the Seaboard Air Line Railway ticket office, corner Bull and Bryan streets, ’phone No. 28, for full Information.—ad. To the North and Fast. Two handsomely equipped trains daily via the Southern Railway to Washington, New York and beyond, each carrying through Pullman sleep ers and dining cars. Excellent service, quick time, convenient schedules. For information, apply to E. G. Thomson. C. P. and T. A., 141 Bull street. Phone 860.— *d. Closing out 10c plain and fancy White Goods at 5c Closing out 10c Dress Ginghams and Madras Cloth at 6^c Closing out 7c Soft Bleached Shirt ing at 4^c Closing out Genuine Lonsdale Cam bric at 9c Closing out 20c 10-4 Sheeting at 14c Closing out 20c White India Linen at 12^c Closing out 10 yards Bird-Eye Cotton Diaper, worth 50c, at. .39c Closing out 60c lull size ready made sheets at 43c Closing out 25c Table Oil Cloth, best quality, at 15c THE AMATEUR MAGICIAN. Two Clever Tricks by Which a Boy May Surprise a Company. Tie a piece of cotton thread to the stem of a pear, and by this means sus pend the pear from the chandelier. The thread should nbt be more than four or five inches in lengA, as the pear should hang as high as possible. Un der it place an uncovered table. Fill a glass with water, and move it careful ly and gently up under the pear until the latter is Immersed. Be sure that you do not touch the pear with the side of the glass, for It Is necessary that is should hang perfectly motion less. Having thus immersed the pear, gent ly take away the glass, when the water that clung to the pear will fall to the table in a few drops. These drops will be In a straight line from the cen ter of the pear, and that is the point that you want. Having <\one all this in secret, and put the glass out of sight, call the com pany forward, and tell them that >ou are going to hold a table knife in your hand, and make the pear fall on it in such a way that it will be cut exactly into halves. This will seem to them impossible, for they do not know that the drops of water have marked the place where you are to hold the knife blade. When you are ready, get some one to apply a lighted match to the thread above the pear, and the latter will fall squarely on the knife. You may divide the pear into quar ters by holding two knife blades, cross ed at right angles, over the spot marked by the drop of water. Sharp steel knives are the best to use. Driving a Needle Through a Coin. If you had to drive a fine needle through a nickel or a quarter-dollar, perhaps you would not know how to ro about It. Let us tell you. Thrust the needle through the middle of a cork so that its point can barely be felt at the other end. If part of It projects at the upper end of the cork, clip it oft flush by means of a pair of shears. Now place a nickel or a silver quar ter on two blocks of wood with a little space between them, put the cork on the coin so that the needle point will be over the space, strike the cork a sharp blow with a heavy hammer, and the thing is done. The cork keeps the needle from bend ing, and as it is harder than the metal in the coin, and is bound to move when struck, it will go right through the coin. Change of Sunday Excursion Train Schedule. On and after Sunday, June 2, the Charleston excursion train will leave Savannah at 7 a. m. railroad time. Tickets SI.OO for the round trip. For further Information call on ticket agents. —ad. _ An Excellent Trip. Is via the Seaboard Air Line Railway to Norfolk, thence Norfolk and Wash ington Steamboat Company to Wash ington or the Old Bay Line to Balti more. Call at ticket office, corner Bull and and Bryan streets, and get those round trip rates before deciding on your route. —ad. fS.OO Savannah to Tninpa. Fla., and Retorn. Via Seaboard Air Line Railway, Mon day, Aug. 5. Tickets on sale for special train leaving Central depot at 8 a. m., Railroad time, and good to return on any regular train up to and including Aug. 8. Separate coaches for wmte •nd colored passengers.—ad.