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GIVEN A TOUCH OF CAMP LIFE. the newspaper hen dived n\ THIRD GEORGIA OFFICERS. Third Battalion of the Georgia Rrg. intent Hat* Some Interesting; Guests —Postmaster General Smith Aiidrrweil the Soldiers unil \en paper Ren—Gen. Shatter Visits the Regiment and Made Some Interest ing Remarks on Cuba—Col.Berner Will Not Resign. The officers of the Third battalion, Third Georgia Regiment, and a number of their associates in that command, yes terday afternoon, tendered an informal and elegant ditiner to the newspaper cor respondents who are accompanying the presidential party. The dinner was given under a large spreading tent, put up for the occasion by a number of the men of Maj. "Jack” Cohen’s battalion, the officers of this bat talion acting as the host. A long table upon which the covering was one im mense sheet of national colors, was filled with delicacies, and the guests sat down to a hearty repast. The tent poles, too, were draped with the Stars and Stripes, and the air of a camp ground feast was predominant. The guests of these officers were Post master General Charles Emory Smith, Messrs. J. K. Ohl of the Atlanta Consti tution, Harry West, Washington Post; William E. Curtis, Chicago Record; John S. Shriver, New York Mail and Express; Louis Garthe, Baltimore American; W. W. Price, Washington Star; Henry G. Kemp, Baltimore Sun; W. A. M. Goode, Associated Press; C. R. Berrien, New York Sun; J. H. Marshall, Charleston News and Courier; Col. P. A. Stovall, Savannah Press; Col. J. H. Estill,, Sa vannah Morning News; Lieut. Col. R. M. Hull, W. A. Chapin of Atlanta, F. C. Bat tey, and J. F Lewis These gentlemen were given a jolly Bohemian time by Col. R. L. Berner, Lieut. Col. B. L. Spence, Maj. L. B. Grand}’, Maj. J. S. Cohen, Capts. W. W. Davies, A. J. Burr, H. J. Stewart, Amos Baker, J. X. Gilbert, C. E. Gilbert, Lieuts, S. G. Orr, W. O. D. Rockwell, R. H. Pate, J. M. Kimbrough, Jr., B. T. Brock, C. L. Elliott, J. B. McDuffie, F. L. Crook, M. C. Snead, Tilden Adamson and Harri son. Oysters and "fish were served in sev eral styles, and Jolly good cheer was the order of the afternoon. In a few brief and well chosen remarks, Col. Berner introduced Postmaster Gen eral Smith, just at the close of the repast. The Postmaster General said that he al ways enjoyed being with the newspaper men. He was also here, he said, as a hero of the war—in fact, he was. the first and chief hero of the war for a short time, being promoted after the declaration of war from a high private in the rear ranks to the position of general. He was glad to sit at a table, he said, covered by United States flags. He spoke very pleas antly of Maj. Cohen, who, from a news paper man, has become a soldier, and said that in the profession of the journalist was found the true training of the sol dier, for it is necessary that he have courage, loyalty, devotion and determi nation to get there. Maj. Cohen made a brief and appro priate reply, saying that it did not become a soldier to talk, but to act. Ho called on Mr. Harry West, tno famous Washington correspondent who has had the confidence of three presidents and their cabinets. Mr. West thanked the officers heartily for the hospitality which had been extended him and his brother newspaper correspondents. "When I think of the hospitality of Sa vannah." he said, "I am convinced that there is no wonder that Sherman fought all the way from Atlanta 10 get here. 1 have just learned that Savannah ships more rosin and turpentine than any other port in the world, and though I didn’t know it, I didn’t wonder at it, for the town is full of hot stuff.” Mr. West was eloquent in his reference to the accomplishments of the United States in the war with Spain, and in con clusion tendered to the officers the sincere thanks of the Washington correspondents. Short speeches were made by Mr. William E. Curtis of the Chicago Record and Mr. W. A. M. Goode of the Associated Press. Lieut. Col. Spence, in responding, said that he believed with Mr. Cohen that a soldier should act and not talk, and hold ing his glass to his lips, all drank the toast with him. Col. Berner made a few remarks. In which he heartily thanked the gentlemen of the press for their presence, for he was thankful to them for the service that had been rendered the Third Georgia Regi ment. He was glad to be in the army, he said, and would gladly go wherever he might be sent. "Savannah has reason to congratulate herself above all cities,” he said in re ferring to the fact that she has entertain ed Gen. Washington and President McKin ley. President McKinley is welcomed as a great peacemaker, he said. He was glad, he said, to be in command of a reg iment composed of the sons and grandsons of Confederate veterans. Where the flag has been planted, Col. Berner believed, that it should always remain. In con clusion, Col. Berner introduced Col. J. H. Estill of the Morning News. Col. Estill thanked Col. Berner and the other speakers for the kind rentalks they had made about Savannah, he said, he loved the city. He said Savannah is u cosmopolitan city, composed of people of many languages, and people from many surrounding states. It is not the Sa vannah of twenty-five yais ago, he said, and it is due to these people, these adopted children, that it is as hospitable and pa triotic as it is to-day. Col. I>. A. Stovall of the Savannah Press made an eloquent speech in response to calls, In which he spoke most pleasant ly of Col. Bi-rner and Maj. Cohen. An adjournment was then had to Col. Berner’s headquarters, where several visitors were teceived and some time was spent in con versation. Gen. William R. Shatter, in company with Col. H. P. Smart, visited the Third Georgia Regiment in the afternoon, and Gen. Shatter had quite a conversation with Col. Berner and a number or the officers of the regiment. Fully a hundred men and officers were gathered around at the time, and a<;ir ly withii hearing r-'s tance were several Savannah ladies. Tin conversation drifted upon the Santi ago campaign. Gen. Shaftor spoke vveil ' of the volunteers, who came directly from civil life, bui he did not appear to think much of those from the national guard commands. “I don't think as some others do,” Gen. Shafter said, among other things, "about ’nose Cubans. I am afraid we may yet Five Spain's fight on our hands.”, ”1 trust we won't have any more fight ing ” Col. Berner said; "hut if we do, I ■ o;e it will be done a* quickly ami as well as was that at Santiago.” Gen. Shafter thanked him for the re-| n -iik, and In speaking of the Cubans said; ; 'The country la no more fit for self-gov. ' rtirnc-nt than h—l Is for powder.” a blunt \ ‘ mark which evoked a hearty laugh from • il around. 1 hope we’ll get back safe,” Gen. Shaf- j A Boon in Convalescence Dr. F. A. Hodgdon, of Malden, Mass., writes: “ Johann Hoff's Malt Extract has been one of my favorite preparations when an agent is needed to build up tissue in convalescence follow ing fever, pneumonia, etc. A True Tissue Builder Johann Hoffs Malt Extract ter remarked, when he got into the buggy with Col. Smart. “There's something over 500 pounds in here.” It is understood that President McKin ley and Secretary Alger have both assured Col. Berner that the Third Georgia will see service, and that the regiment will go to Cuba Just as soon as transportation can be provided for it. That will probably be within the next two weeks, it is said. Col. Berner was asked yesterday about the report in a Macon paper that he in tended to resign his command. "It is absolutely false,” he said. “I cannot imagine where such a report could have originated. I Intend to remain with my men as long as they remain in the service.” MILITARY POSTOFFICES IN' CUBA. Four of Them Established for Han. filing Soldiers* Mail. Postmaster General Smith has Issued an order establishing four military postal stations in Cuba in connection with the postoffice at New York, with facilities for the transaction of money order and reg istry business, the sale of postal supplies, and the receipt and dispatch of mails, designated and located as follows: Military Station No. 10, Havana. Military Station No. 11, Puerto Principe. Military Station No. 12, Nuevitas. Military Station No. 13, Cienfuegos. The establishing of these stations will be a matter of great convenience to the sol diers and in the transaction of business with the army in Cuba. IN THE RAILROAD WORLD. Matters of Interest In Savannah and Elsewhere. The earnings of the Central of Georgia Railroad during the first week in Decem ber were $133,839, against $133,088 during the same week last year. The total earn ings since Jan. 1 were $5,185,262, against $4,977,188 during the corresponding period last year. SERVICE MEN OF SPANISH WAR. Cnmp to Re Established in Americas. Col, Pew. A’isits Savannah. Americus, Ga., Dec. 18.—A movement has been started in Americus among men en listed in the late war to establish a camp of "service men of the Spanish war,” and already a goodly number of names to the charter list has been obtained. This will be the second camp established in Geor gia, and all soldiers who took up arms against Spain are eligible to membership. The soldiers of the brigade quartered here for the winter, the Eighth Massa chusetts and Twelfth New York Regi ments, are as orderly and well behaved as any in the army, and so far from hav ing given trouble of any kind, their pres ence here is a source of pleasure and sat isfaction to all Americus. There is no drunkenness or disorder among them, and of 600 men permitted to leave camp yes terday and come to the city to make Christmas purchases, less than a half doz en were arrested by the provost guard, and most of these for not having passes. Col. W. A. Pew of the Eighth Massa chusetts, with a dozen officers of his regi ment, went to Savannab yesterday to wit ness the demonstration in honor of Presi dent McKinley, and pending the arrival of the new commander here. Brig. Gen. Ernst, Col. R. W. Leonard of the Twelfth New York is in command at Camp Gil man. Ger.. Ernst is expeced to reach here to-morrow. POItUS PLASTERS AS PURSES. A isltor to the City Adopted a Novel Way to Preserve His Money. From the Chicago Chronicle. James Wood came to towfl last Wednes day night. Wood lives out in Montana, where the cold waves come from, when he is at home. He is what is known in that country as a "rancher.” Wood has been so successful at rartehing that he had a pretty good pile of money in his old leather wallet when he arrived in Chi cago, and as he thought he might need some of it to get home on, he determined not to part with all of it at once. He had heard of the ways of city folk. He knew that a rancher and his money are soon parted unless the rancher takes prop er precautionary measures for caring for his wealth, and he hit upon a decidedly novel plan for concealing the fact that he had money. He did not obey the injunction he found on the printed card on the inside of his hotel room door, ‘‘Deposit money and val uables in the safe in the office.” Not for James. He saw the hotel clerk's diamond and shrewdly suspected that some trust ing ’.odger of the dim past might have paid for it unwittingly. As soon as he had stowed away his grip in a corner of the room he hied himself to a drug store and approached the clerk in a confiding way. “Gimme half a dozen porous plasters,” he haid, as if he were ordering an ice cream soda. ■■A what?” gasped the clerk. ”1 want half a dozen porous plasters,” said Rancher Wood, as he laid down a $lO gold piece to prove his ability to pay for them. v The drug clerk went back of the pre scription case and slowly brought out the desired articles. “You’re sure you want a half a dozen of these?” he inquired. “That’s what I do,” said Mr. Wood. "Going to take them back home with vou. I suppose?” ventured the drugrnan. "Oh, I'm going to use ’em all right,” said the man from Montana, knowingly. Then he took up the package and wan dered bark to the hotel. In the privacy of his apartment he removed the clothing from the upper part of his body and Hun drew forth' the bag which contained his Jingling pile of gold. Heating the first plaster over the gas Jet, he spread a thick layer of gold pieces over the surface, where It stuck, as all good porous plasters are warranted lo do. "There, I’d like to see any tarnation bunco man get at them," soliloquized Mr. Wood, as he gazed down in admiration at his iiersonally conducted safe. IT king up another plaster, he tenderly applied an- I other coating of gold pieces, and, with a ' dreamy motion, transferred the platter and THE JHOKNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, IS9S, Us precious freight to a position of honor on the small of his back “I guess,” he observed to himself with a sly smile of triumph, “that will hold for a while, as the fellow said at the Palace Theater out home. If I lose that money now I'll go home skinned.” But there was still a glittering pile of gold to be placed out of harm's way, and the rancher had a lot of porous plasters left. So he deftly went on with his gold grafting operation. He placed one lot of money and plaster under each of his arms, extending along the graceful curve of his waist, and by virtue of vigorous gyra tions succeeded in attaching another safe ty deposit vault to the broad space be tween his sholders. And then he had $l2O in front of him on the bed where he had dumped his wealth. “Well, I 'low to use some o’ that, seein’ the town," he said to himself, "an I s’pose I can take care o’ that much for a white.” -The $l2O was therefore slipped into his pocket for current expenses, and that night when he turned in fye was rolling in riciies, which made things uncomfortably warm. But Rancher Wood was willing to stand for that while he had the blissful con sciousness that no con man could get to his hardearned. All went well until the next night, when James started out to see some of the things which are not to be seen in Mon tana. He picked out" State street for his promenade, which was unwise on his part, as the particular portion of the street in which he chose to circulate is largely pop - ulated with young women wfith manners which appeal to ranchers from Montana and who have very taking ways. Wood had not gone far before he met Emma Ford, and in a short time he agreed lo view the strange sights of the great city with the strange guide. But Emma’s in formation seemed to peter out before they had gone far, and she suggested a "gen tleman friend” of hers be consulted, as he was very knowledgous in city affairs, and therefore John Hinch came into the party. The rest of the story Wood does not re member exactly. In short, the couple got his $l2O, he told the police, and he was not aware of the circumstances until some time later. But his improvised safety de posit system worked like a charm. The gold pieces and the plasters stuck to him cheerfully, and he found he was not equal to the task of ungullding himself when he wanted to. His hotel bill was due and his little adventure on State street had left him without pocket money. “What are you going to do about this bill?” asked the hotel man. “Why, I've got lots of motley,” replied Mr. Wood. “Where?” demanded the hotel keeper. “Xlnder these porous plasters,” replied Woods, with a superior sort of smite. “Well, you’ll have to go in soak for your hotel bill, that’s all,” said the hotel keeper and he called for the hot water. Two bell boys and a porter started to work on one of the porous plasters with hot water and a sponge, and after half an hour’s labor succeeded in bringing to light a lot of gold, which once more established Mr. Wood on a sound financial basis and made him strong with the hotel man. The rest of the money will stay where it is until such t ime as the plasters peel off, and Mr. Wood has already observed with some pain that they work white he sleeps. The people who got the $l2O were held to the grand jury by Justice Martin, and that is the last Wood will ever hear of it unless he stays in town about six months to prosecute them. IN THE ANTARCTIC. One Portion of the Globe That Is Still Unknown. From the London Spectator. Persistently, as becomes men convinced of the ultimate success of their efforts, a sanguine band of savants and explorers have beset successive governments with appeals to take up Antarctic exploration again. Their perseverance has so far been unavailing, although it is not easy to understand why, or to assign any defi nite reason for such strange unwilling ness. Remembering how rich were the results garnered from the labors of Sir James Clarke Ross and his gallant coad jutors in the stanch, bit,', undoubtedly clumsy, old Erebus and Terror, and how vast was the field opened up for subse quent workers, the fact that from then until now no attempt has been made to follow up this great work becomes utterly inexplicable. Yet, believing, doubtless, •That alt things come to those who will but wait,” for half a century all those who waited, searceiy ever relaxing their ef forts to awaken the powers that be to some recognition of the pressing claims of science to be heard in this matter. Beyond all question, the present time is peculiarly opportune for the prosecution of Antartic research. For it must be borne in mind that in that vast and almost un known area, more than twice the size of Europe, one expedition, however well equipped, cannot in the nature of things hope to do more than settle a portion of the problems that silently await solution. What is undoubtedly indicated as the ideal treatment of the Antartic question is the establishment of an international polar commission, such as attacked Arctic prob lems in 1882. A cordon of expeditioAs sur rounding the southern polar regions, rep resentative of all the great civilized pow ers, und working In harmony upon precon ceived lines toward definite ends, would add more in one season to the needed data for the solution of the world problems involved than isolated efforts could do in a great many. But since there are now two separate parties at work in the An arctlc, and a third will, it is hoped, short ly be on Its way thither, there must he much valuable collaboration, as well as many thousands of simultaneous obser vations taken at far distant points. This might have been the case at the time of Capt. Rose’ voyages, when the French and American expeditions were both in high southern latitudes. But the opportu nity was missed. Since then science has made such gigantic strides in the direc tion of instrumental equipment for such work, to say nothing of the Invaluable ad junct of steam, that even with only four larties attacking the problem on differing meridians, the most momentous results may tie expected. After all, this planet of ours under the distance-destroying touch of these latter days has dwindled Into a very small place. And it seems preposterous that a region like the Antarctic should have been al lowed to retain so long the secrets it un doubtedly holds. The illimitable sea of stormy waters that rolls Its unhindered way right around our globe, where no busy keel ruffles the wave or smoke or panting steamship "mingle s with the pure, kten air—how strange that it should for so long have been allowed to maintain its primitive seclusion! Those appalling barriers fo apparently eternal ice, along which Ross sai.ed for hundred of miles, watching with an indescribable fascina tion the baffled billows hurl themselves against the glittering cliffs that rose sheer front tile sea for hundreds of feet—what lies behind them? Those burning moun tains flaming high amki their frozen fast nesses, and ashling up the gloomy sky for many leagues throughout the long, long winter night, have they no story to tell? And. in spite of ail belief to Ihe con trary, it may be that a land fauna will be found, that some animals may have been fitted to live in that wonderful country, which, as far as is yet known, is abso lutely steri.e. Many firmly believe that a warm polar region exists at .the southern end of the earth's axis, but with recent light upon the theory of a warm Arctic sea, within the encircling barrier of ice, there can be little expectation that any such mhrvel will be found in the Antarctic. The ex plorers will be fired with the thought that whatever their hardships, a virgin field lies before them if by any means they can get behind the ley barrier that seems to shut off Antarctica from a prying world, and that alone, apart from any discover ies they may make,is sufficient inducement to adventurous men to make them face any hardship. To stand where human foot has never before trodden, to come with the torch of science into the very penetra lia of nature, for this men in all times have risked all that life held dear, and In so doing have rendered incalculable serv ices to their kind. One by one, the closed doors have been flung wi<le open, the se crets have been made manifest, and now at the close of the nineteenth century only this one remains. What should encourage aTI those who hope for great things from Antarctic re searches is the fact that the earliest ex plorers were able to reach such high lati tudes in small, weak sailing vessels. Wed dell’s voyage was made in a brig, the Jane, of 160 tons; ami he was accompan ied by a cutter, the Beaufoy, of 65 tons He was totally unequipped for conflict with the ice, unprovidid with Instruments for taking observations; he was Just a humble sealer earning a precarious liveli hood. Yet he reached a latitude (71 15 S) only about one hundred mites short of that attained by the well-found ami specially sent expedition under Ross and Crozier I'or both Weddell and Ross were depend ent uport the wind entirely for propulsion, ami consequently dared not risk wh it even a low-powered steamship might do with Impunity. Besides this, thujr inability to get swiftly from place to place hindered them from finding any sheltered nook where they might have laid their vessels up for the winter in case they had wished to do so in order to begin their labors as early In the ensuing spring as possible. But it Is hardly necessary to enlarge upon the immense advantages latter-day ex plorers possess in steam; they are guill cieutly obvious. So, too, with all the other accessories which science has provided for her servants, most of the suffering ami hardship attendant upon all these conflicts with the primeval forces of nature has been greatly mitigated where not alto gether removed. SNAKES, AND NOTHING ELSE. Sole Product of Llnkvllle, Near the Southern Houndnry of Oregon. From the San Francisco Chronicle. “Linkvilie,” or "Klamath Falls,” is situ ated in an obscure corner of the California border line in Gregoh.'hnd may he reach ed in twenty-four hours’ travel from San Francisco. You have only to take the northern-bound train for Ager, thence a stage fine of aobut twenty miles conducts you to your destination. It is impossible to associate "snakes” with the beautiful and varying scenery through which you pass as far as Kla math Hot Springs. Trees and streams and all the glories of mountain scenery greet you on every hand. You drive through a luxurious growth of ever greens and shrubbery; you cross and re cross numerous streams; you breathe the soft air of Shasta and Siskiyou. But when you have left Klamath Hot Springs a few miles behind there is am appreciable dif ference in the landscape. Sparsity of vege tation is the first observable change. At every turn of the road the aspect becomes more barren, more forlorn and more deso late. Finally, you seek in vain for a tne or a shrub, and at last, dust-covered and weary, you pull up nt a dry, withered billage that produces nothing on Its hard, rocky soil, but revolting snakes. You hav reached Linkvilie, the haunting retreat of serpents. There Is a bridge in Linkviile that spans Klamath river. From this bridge, which is a vantage point as far as view la con cerned, a most ejyraordinary sight meets the eyes. Along the river banks, at Ir regular intervals of a few yards are seen dark balls ranging from a foot to three feet In diameter. They are stationary and as passive as a boulder, which they re semble in color. But if a stone is hurled at any of these strange spheres, to your horror snakes will crawl off in every di rection, and the ball will melt away as lard melts in a frying pan. The repulsive creatures that have thus been colled up in a perfect sphere glide away under rocks, and one minute later not a snake is to be seen in that particular spot. But the other balls of snakes in the vicinity are little disturbed by the stone. A close inspection will reveal only a moving head or twitching tail in the mass that liefore looked like an Immovable boulder. Those that were scattered, however, may later seek the neighboring spheres or in a few minutes slink out of their hiding places and reassemble themselves in bails. As has been said, Linkvilie is in a very barren district. Nothing whatever grows upon the rocky soil, not even sagebrush. And so the river banks, which are a mass of driftwood and rocks, seem a befitting place for snakes. But It is'surprising that they should develop in such great num bers. When not rolled in balls they may be seen slipping in and out among the rub bish. and the ground for yards will be a squirming, wriggling mass. These snakes are perfectly harmless. Indeed, if it were not for this fact, Link vilie would not be habitable, for, while the immediate neighborhood of the river is their favorite haunt, they roam for many hundreds of yards away, and may be seen along the roadways ami around the houses and creeping over the porches. They possess a marked degree of tame ness. You may pick them up with im punity, and children play with them on the doorsteps. The Linkvilie snakes are dark in color, with two yellowish stripes on their backs! The average size is alsout an Inch and a half in diameter arid a yard In length, though many are smaller, and some at tain much greater proportions. —"Talking about the play of ‘Hamlet’ with Hamlet left out,” soliloquized the melancholy looking Individual, "there am times when the omission would be a de cided boon." He had Jusl attended an amateur per formunce.—Puck. —"ls literature a business or a profes sion ?’’ "A profession when you are writing, and a business when you are trying to .|| i what you have written.”—l'hJJadelpbia j North American. i Make it back 2 grocer who will give you Pearl- That’s the only way to t|o n they send you an imitation. The popularity of Pearline be gets the habit of calling anything that’s washing-powder, “ Pearl- Those who notice the difference me, think perhaps “ it’s about the thing.” It isn’t. Nothing else tls Pearline, the original and rd washing compound. srs THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA. TUB DAILY POPULATION OF THE ATI, IYI U . About 150,000 Persons Afloat Dally last A var—Curious Statistics Coin piled by u German. From the Philadelphia Times. An ingenious German named Boysen, who seems to have plenty ot time on his hands, has been engaging in very curious investigations, the results of which ap pear in a pamphlet he has published in Berlin. It occurred to him to regard the thousands ot vessels that throng the At lantic as so many inhabited oases in the vast desert of waters, and the novel problem he set himself to solve was the average density of liunian population on the Atlantic ocean. So he went to work with all a Ger man’s patience and industry to study this interesting question. First he spent a long time collecting statistics from every port showing the number of ships plying be tween the various Ailantle ports, the num ber of persons on board of them, and Hie number of days spent at sea. He gather ed all obtainable data on these points cov eting an entire year and by skillful combi nation of his facts he was able to reach some interesting conclusions, though, In the nature of things, he could not attain a high degree of exactitude. He was un able, for instance, to obtain satisfactory data concerning warships and the fishing fleets on the Atlantic, and so he left them entirely out of hi* caleulaiions. * Herr Boysen found lliat for the year un der Investigation there was a dally aver age of 3,651 sailing vessels at sta, with 44,- 899 men in their crews. Every day, also, 1,504 steamships, with crews numbering 53,268 men and 32,565 pasengers were afloat on the Atlantic. This made a daily aver age for Ihe year of 5,155 vessels and 130,- 727 persons spread over the whole Atlantic surface. Herr Boysen had no easy nut to crunk when he attempted to work out from these statistics and the manifold paths of all these vessels in the sea the density of pop ulation throughout the Atlantic. In fact, he found no density of impressive propor tions. Of course, there are wide areas of the ocean which are seldom visited by ves sels, and for the entire Atlantic Herr Boysen found that the average density of population, for the year he investigated, was only 0.002 per square kilometer, which is comi>arable with the extremely small density of population among the hunter and fisher folk of fhe northern half of 'North America, The density was more considerable, of course, along the well traveled ocean routes, and Boysen found that between the British coasts and North America the mean density of this fluctuat ing population was 0.01 per square kilom eter, which is about equal to the density of population along the Aretlo coast of Siberia, where there are a good many Ya kuts and Chukchee*; and uix>n the route from England to Gibraltar the density was 0.025 per square kilometer, as in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. The most thickly populated part of the sea, the English channel, where the average den sity is 0.07, Is comparable with (he popu lation scattered over the province of Ya kutsk, Siberia. The color scheme on Herr Boysen'* map to show the various densities will he like ly to deepen Its lints if the immense changes In transportation continue. With in the past fifteen years ocean carriage has been practically revolutionized in point of cheapness and speed. East year two shipments of lace on the steamers St. Louis and St. Paul, from Southampton, were placed on the shelves of merchants in New York and Chicago within eight and ten and a half days from the time they left Calais. A bale of sea island cot ton is now put down at Liverpool or Man chester at a little more than the cost of delivering it at Nev/ York. Many facts of this nature Induce British manufacturers to regard the Culled States as economi cally nearer to Great Britain by sea than Glasgow is to London by rail. It costs the Germans only $1.67 to move a ton of wheat several hundred miles on their river routes, but thousands of tons of wheat have Been transported from New York to Hamburg for $1.43 a ton. No wonder that German farmers find It almost im possible to compete with American glaln. The enormous decrease In ocean freight charges is one of the mo3t potent causes of agricultural distress in Europe. In 1879 the cost of carrying a ton or wheat from New York to Havre was $lO.Bl. T,en years later the cost per ton was $1.94. Our industries and arts are not embar rassed by the fact that the home supply of sulphur is inadequate to their needs when San Francisco can draw directly upon the boundless supplies of Sicily, shipped around Cape Ho'n at a freightage cost of only $3.60 per ton. Surprising as these low figures of freight carriage seem, there is one phase of our inland transportation that is cheaper still. The Ohio and Mississippi rivers can safely boast the cheapest carriage Id the world. This is accomplished by the system oftows, flaiboats lashed together and propelled by stern-wheel steamers. One such tow, con sisting of thiriy-eight fiatboats, has been sent down from I-ouisville to New Orleans hauled by a single steamer; and a great deal of coal Is carried in this way from Pittsburg to New Orleans, 2,000 mites, at Op cents a ton. The marvelous cheapness of this flatboat transportation is the reason why the amount of freight moved on steamers in the Mississippi valley has de creased fully one-halt in the past twenty years, while the amount moved on fi.it boots by the tow system has increased about threefold in the same time. Returning to ocean transportation, we (ind that the remarkable decrease in freight charges within twenty years is al most wholly due tc Inventions and Im provements in machinery. Improvements in steam engines now enable vessels bound for the Orient to go from Great Britain and the continent direct to the Suez canal Without coaling at any intermediate port. Technical progress now make* one pound of coal furnish as much steam as three ponds twenty years ago. toother words, {he cost of stiarn power, owing to improve ments if engine*, boifers and grates, has been reduced fully two-thirds Le* time is now required to build freight steamer* Ilian form-rly; their carrying rapacity is much greater, they travel faster, aial the sinks Of Mean traffic have ten much re duced. The largest freighter In the world, the steamer Pennsylvania, built in 1897. has a carrying capacity of 14,000 tons, a re markably small coal consumption for so large a vessel, and nil average speed of thirteen knots. Other mammoih vessels are building for the Hamburg, White Star and other lines, and they wtW Illustrate the ln* ot th< new era in fri mat trans portation. All the transatlantic vessels, until within a few years past, were built with a view to the ever-increasing emigration to the United States, without which they could not be made to pay, on account of their large consumption of coal and snrnll frelgnt capacity. Freight earning was subordin ated to steerage passenger earnings. But to day emigration to the United States has largely fallen ofT. and the new typo of freighters is built to consume a minimum amount of coal and carry a minimum amount of freight. When the White Star Line puts Hie Oceanic on the sea next spring she will lie even larger ikan the Pennsylvania and ihc Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. The era of cheap freights makes It pos sible to transport heavy and bulky goods of comparatively small value for long dis tances. Within the past four years a large amount of liinils r lias been carried from Puget sound lo Kimberley, a thousand miles in the interior of South Africa. An Immense amount of building stone, particu larly granite, is used in the Netherlands, and the entire supply Is drawn from for eign countries. Norway furnishes most of it and our consuls in Holland have been calling' attention to the fact that with the prevailing cheap freight • rates our great Maine quarries, contiguous to Atlantic ports, may deliver building stone In Hol land as cheaply as the quurrymen of Nor way and Germany. The world would have opened its eyes In wonder twenty years ago at the amount .of perishable freight that Is now carried wilhout deterioration half or two-thirds around the world. Previous to the late unpleasantness tho United States had lor some years been importing from Spain immense quantities of onions. The ship ments to Great Britain of tomatoes grown in Spain amounted, in 1893, to 500,000 bush els. Last year Great Britain consumed the carcasses of 1,500,000 shpep, which had been sent 12,000 miles from New Zealand in a frozen condition, and the meat was sold to British markets at only a little over half the price of home grown mut ton, The quality, to lie sure, 1b much In ferior to the famous mutton which Eng land produces, but none the less the Im ported article has become an important mainstay of life to the laboring classes of the United Kingdom. Those countries which. Ilk© the United Stales and Russia, have not the advantage of great fleets of merchant marine owned by themselves, are not always able to avail themselves of the prevailing cheap rates. We deiiend almost wholly upon foreigners lo carry our goods, and these steamship owners, not always as enter prising us they might possibly be, have not established lines of direct communica tion between our leading ports and some promising centers of foreign trade. We have no direct lines of communication wiih Russia nor wilh most Mediterranean ports, nor wilh a large part of the Afri can, South African and Asiatic coasts. All goods passing between the United States and Constantinople, for Instance, have to tie,trans-shipped, at considerable loss of time, heavy rates of freight and some damage to the goods. Before we can do any trade wilh a Greek port our goods, whether shipped to England, France, Ger many or Italy, have to be trans-shipped always onre, and sometimes twice. It now takes from eight to ten weeks for goods from the United States to reach Russia. It is gratifying to hear that the largest shipping firm in Copenhagen! is about to try the experiment of putting on a direct line of steamships between New York and St. Petersburg. The greatest reason why we have no ocean marine, compared with the fleets of foreign countries, is because we have been so busily engaged for many years supplying the varied needs of our own rapidly Increasing population that we had little time to think of extending our trade Into foreign parts. The result is that we have had none of the valuable advertising which our own merchant marine would give to our commerce. Not a ship under tlie United States flag passed through the Suez canal last year. Of 1,700 vessels that entered the ports of Japan only thirty-two carried cur (lag. Over 500 merchant siram ( rs and ships entered the port of Rungkok the capital of Siam, but not one was American. Asiatic people are Impressed by the lack or American shipping and often remark that We are not a commer cial nation. We have imported large ship ments of bananas from the coast of Nica ragua In Norwegian vessels chartered at $W to $lOO a day, when not a single Amer ican vessel was engaged In that friut trade. But we now have fully entered the lists for competition in the trade of rhe world and there is no doubt that wiihin the next few years we shall witness a great revival of our merchant marine, for, without it we can never enjoy the full measure of international trade to which our unequal ed resources and energy entitle us. t aught a Jug ol Medicine While Oyster Tonglng, From the Baltimore Sun. St. Michael’s, Md„ Dec. 7.—While long ing for oysters one day last week an oys terman caught a gallon demijohn filled with whisky. The covering of willow wick er around the Jug had decayed and five large oysters were found growing upon R. The oysterman and some of his compan ions tasted the liquor and said it was good. How long it had been in the water is unknown, but It must have been there for years. A most singular story in con nection with the lucky find is that tin* oysterman had a severe cough, ~n <j one of his companions, who was longing near him, suggested that a little whisky an a ‘ glycerine would help him. The oysterman replied that he couej readily get ,j| e „j cerine, l.ut did not know where to get the whisky. He moved away from those with whom he had been conversing, and had Just commenced longing when he brought up the gallon demijohn of whis ky. , —Unappreciated—"My iittie man, aren't you pleased to have u new baby brother, ot did you want h Hub Sjieer'f" "If 4t w M> ail the same to the Lotd, 1 preferred a gout," —fieri oner'*. Ocean Steamship Cos. -FOR— New York, Boston -AND the east. Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All ♦he comfort* of a modern hotel. Electrio lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets Include meals and berth aboard ship. Passenger Fares From Savanaii TO NEW YORK—Cabin, $2O; Excursion, $32. intermediate, $l5. Excursion, $114; Steerage, $lO.OO. TO BOSTON—Cabin, $22; Excursion, $36; Intermediate, $l7; Excursion, $2B; Steer age. $11.75. The express steamships of this line era appointed to sail from Savannah, Central (90thj meridian time, as follows: ■avahnah to new fork. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, MON DAY, Dee. 19, at 10:00 p. in. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Asklna, TUES DAY, Dec. 20, at 11:00 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett. THURSDAY, Dec. 22, at 12:00 m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, SATUR. DAY, Dec. 24, at 3:30 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt, Burg, MONDAY, Dec. 26, at 4:00 p. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, TUESDAY, Dec. 27, at 5:00 p. m. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asklns, THURS DAY, Dec. 29, at 6:00 p, m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, SATURDAY, Deo. 31. at 7:00 p. m. SAVANNAH TO BOSTON. VIA DIRECT SHIP. GATE CITY, Capt. Googlns, FRIDAY. Dec. 23, at 1:30 p. m. CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewis, TUESDAY, Dec. 27, at 4:00 a. m. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI. DAY, Dec. 30, at 6:00 a. m. Steamers leave New York for Bavannah S p. in. dally, except Sundays and Mon days, and leave Boston for Savannah every Wedrteaduy at 12 noon. Saturdays at 3 p. m. W. O. Brewer, Ticket Agent, 3> Bull street, Savannah, Ga. E. W. Smith, Con’t Fr. Agt. Sav., Ga. H. a. Trezevant, Agt., Savannah, Ga. E. H. Hinton, Traffic Manager. John M. Egan, vice president. MERCHANTS AND MINERS' % TRANSPORTATION CO. Tickets on sale at company's offioa to the following points at very low rates: ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. BALTIMORE. MU. BUFFALO, N. Y. BOSTON, MASS. CHICAGO, ILL. . CLEVELAND, O. ERIE, I’A. HAGERSTOWN. MD. HARRISBURG. I’A. HALIFAX, N. 8. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y NEW YORK, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA, PA. PITTSBURG, PA. PROVIDENCE, R. I. ROCHESTER, N. Y. TRENTON, N. J. WILMINOTON, DEL. WASHINGTON, D. C. First-class tickets Include meals anA state room berth, Savannah to Baltimore, Accommodation and Cuisine Unequaled. Freight capacity unlimited; careful han dling and quick dispatch. The steamships of this company are ap pointed to sail from Savannah to Balti more as follows (standard time): WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. WillU, MON DAY. Dec. 19, at 11:00 a. m. ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, WEDNES DAY, Dec. 21, at 1:00 p. m. ITASCA, Copt. James, SATURDAY, Dea 24, at 4:00 p. m. STATE OF TEXAS, Capt. Avery, MON DAY,Dec. 26, at 5 a. m. •Steamship Wm. Lawrence doea not carry passengers. And from Baltimore every MONDAY. WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 4:00 p. ra. J. J. CAUOLAN, Agent, Savannah, Ga W F. TURNER, G. P. A. A. D. 3TEBBIN3. A. T. M. J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager. General Offices, Baltimore, Md. \ For Bluffton and Beaufort, S. C, Steamer Jloretta wiil leave wharf foot of Abereorn (Ethel's wharf) street at 3 p. in. for Bluffton ylaily except Sunday and Thursday. Wednesday's trip extended to Beaufort, leaving Bluffton Thursdays at g a. m. Returning sum© day. For Port Royal and Beaufort, S. C. Steamer Clifton leaves from foot Bull street on Sunday 12 a. m., Tuesday and Friday at 10 a. m., city time. 11. S. WESTCOTT, Agent. Samoa mmtioii am isie of nous fi’y end City and suburban fry. I CHE DU LB For Vsl© of Hope and Montgomery. Sundays excepted. Lv city for Isle HopejLv Isle Hope for city *6 00 am from Bolton; 6 ) urn for Bolton t 7 00 am from Bolton| 7 10 am for Bolton 9 00 am from 2d ave| 8 10 am for 2d ave 10 37 am from Bolton: 9 45 am for Bolton 2 30 pm from 2d ave] 1 00 pm for 2d ave 4 00 pm from Bollon| 4 00 pm for Bolton 5 30 pm from 2d ave; 5 00 pm for 2d ave 6 3o pm from Bolton, 7 30 pm for Bolton 7 so pm from Boltoni 6 30 pm for Bolton 9 00 pm from 2d ave|lo 00 pm for 2d ave t.v city for Mon'g'ry Lv Mont'g'ry for city 9 00 am from 2d ave| 7 30 am for 2d ave~ 10 37 am from Boltonll2 20 pm for 2d ave 2 30 pm from 2d ave] 4 20 pm for 2d ave 6 30 pm from 2d avej ~To tuke effect Nov. 14, 1898. H. C. BENAGH, Bupt THE MARSHALL HOUSE, " Broughton and Drayton its. Under new management Thoroughly renovated and refurnished. Electric lights throughout. Hot and cold water on each floor. Table cuisine unexcelled.. Rates $3 to $2 50. Cars pass the door. BOYCE * CATHARINE, ,4'roprmor* 5