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The morning call., 1893-03-12

lion to the statement that considering It's posi-
Giliies aud resources there is not today In the
word country 81 poverty stricken as Ireland
In bis antl-hOiHe rule excursion through the
New England Staies and Canada this year Mr.
l. W. russell, Uutonist member for Tyrone.
pointed 10 Tie linen Industry OF Ulster con-
ciuslFe proof of lreland's prosperity. All state
meuts Of the honorable member OF Parliament in
this con necii0n afe 10 lie consider q wltb a eau
tous regard for truth, for he belongs to the Saun-
derson-J ohnston Orange cabal, who are besotted
with blgOtry and who would rather see Ireland
submerged IN tie sea han have her enjoy legisla.
tive Independence.
The linen industry Of Ulster Is only an oasis In
Tie desert, and even that Industry is supported
and carried on TO considerable extent by Eng
iiSh or Scotch capital or patronage. Although
Tich In minerals there are no mining operations
m Ireland today worthy OF the name She Is
absUut iy without trade or commerce, and al
most every article that she uses from a needle
10 an anchor and from a pin to a plow, Is i'm
ported across lie channel ireland can support
POPULATION OF 5000, 900, whereas she Is scarce
ly supporting half that number to-day, aud the
small ness OF her population is not o be atirb-
uted TO a Illustration of the ends OF marriage
which reyails in many countries, nor 10 a want
OF love uf mOtherland on the part OF her chill
dren, but TO oppressive laws and a hostile Gov
i.ut VIII Mr.. Gladstone's scheme improve
lfeIand's conditions? / am convinced that It
VIII Improve IL vastly. While II is not a rereal
oil Tie Infamous act of union, yet it win be
material and practical nulliiicatiOn OF the same
and we know that before the union, or during
the existence OF the Grattan Parliament
lieland's prosperity was marvellous The bIli
may not be all HAT Irshmen deslle, but they
must remember that II Is all that is Just now
feasible, and believe that It VIII be greatly i'm.
proved when II comes from the committee OF the
whole.
Finally, I regard it as the duty OF Irishmen
throughout he world TO rally together now and
10 give the hereditary and imulacabe foes of
the1f country a political Benburb.
IL IS their duty to assist in the present struggle
by their voices, their pens and their purses and
tAey should be imreiied o action by the grand
spectacle and noble altitude Of the English, the
scotch and tile Welsh masses. who are now
more lush than the Irish themselves"
March II, 1893. T. CARAHER
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ON THE COMSTOCK.
Weekly Bulletins of Work Done in
the Mines

VIRGINIA CITY, March II. - Appended
will be found the official letters of superiu-
tendents of operations in the Comstock
mines:
Cox. CAL. & VA.-11OO level-Have con-
tlnued TO extract ore and old filings in
working upward in the old south slopes
from the tenth to the fourteenth floors
above the Sill floor of this level. 1850 level
Have continued making necessary repairs
TO the drifts on the sill floor OF this level.
We continue to extract some ore from the
Old slopes eight floors up in the upraise 6,
carried up from the main northwest drift.
Also from the old slopes in working north
from the crOsscut run west from the north
west DRIFT The north drift started $50 feet
In from the northwest drift has been ad-
vanced II feet, total length 45 feet in q por-
phyry ana quartz formation OF a very low
assay value. At a point 50 feet down in
the Wine started in the west crnsscut n
south DRIFT has been advanced 2S feet in
porphyIy and quartz formation of very low
assay valge. Have extracted during thu
week from the 1900 level slopes and 1850
northwest drift openings and raised to the
surface 545 cars of ore, making about 540
tons. Shipped to Morgan mill 223 1870 -20OO
tons OF ore. Average assay value per rail-
road car samples S29 -. The Morgan mill
VIII commence to work this ore on Monday
next. Bullion shipped to Carson Mini.
assay value S23 35l So.
OPHIR-500 level-JoIntly with the Mexi-
can Company we are doing some necessary
repair work in the west drift from the
shaft through which the water flows that
drains the upper portion of the NINE The
water from this level is conveyed through
pressure pipes to the 1866 level and with
the use of water-wheels we get power to
drive our ventilating blowers and fans,
1865 level-We have the hosting machinery
iE place at the head of the upraise an d
cages in operation through the upraise to
thn 1868 level. WIN commence sinking the
wlnze from the bottom of the upraise on
Monday OF the coming week.
MEXICAN-On the l465 level west cross
cut from the north drift from the east
crosscut from the bottom of the winze has
been extended IA feet, total length 81 feet,
continuing in porphyry formation showing
clay slips. Jointly with the 0phir COMPANY
on the 800 level from the Ophr shaft we
are doing some necessary repair work to
keep regular flow of water rum ing to the
shaft from which we get power TO drive the
water-whees that run our ventilatiug-fans
on the 1865 level.
SIERRA NEvADA-Have completed. re-
pairs 10 intermediate tunnel ana resumed
The morning call., 1893-03-12
WATER CHARGES.
The Supervisors Trying to
Fix Rates.
A Caucus Without Results - Three
Propositions Under Consideration
in Committee of the Whole.

The members of the Board of Supervisors
have not yet been able to agree upon the ne "
schedule of ates which the Spring Valley
Water Company shall be allowed TO charge
the iEha bitants of San Francisco for water.
The subject for some weeks past has en-
gagged the attention OF the committee OF the
whole. Mr.. Denman is chairman Of the
standing committee on water and supply.
but al the request of that committee all the
Supervisors have taken part In the business
Of endeaVoring to formulate new schedule
It was expected that atsthe regular meet
ing Of the board tomorrow evening, the
committee on water would be prepared to
report schedule which would be accept
able to the majority. The outlook, how
ever. for such a result seemed more remote
than ever when the committee of the whole
rose yesterday and announced that they
were able to report progress only.
That there is TO be some degree Of reduc-
tion from the rates in the present schedule
Is assured. The difficulty, however, is to
secure any general concurrence in the
amount of The reduction to be made. Three
propositions are under consideration, but
none OF them have yet been able to COM
mand the assent Of the majority.
The present revenue Of the Spring Valley
Water Company is about S1.600,OoO per
annum. Mr.. Denman has = schedule which
contemplates cut Of s117. 600. Mr.. Rogers
has proposed one which calls for a redue-
tion Of about $4,000. These may be con-
sidered the limits of the two extremes. a
third schedule. proposed by Supervisor
Day, stands for the conservative idea and
makes cut about halfway between that
proposed by Mr.. Denman and that proposed
by Mr.. Rogers.
Yesterday the board held private
caucus TO see If some kind of an agreement
could not be reached. Nothing, however.
was done.
After the meeting Mr.. Denman stated
that unless a compromise was reached
before Monday night all the schedules
would be reported to the board without
any recommendation. he believes, how
ever, that a compromise will be reached
The proposed reductions it is understood,
affect only domestic consumers, and no
change is contemplated in the rates charged
manufacturing establishments.
The Committee on Water and Water Sup
ply consists of Messrs. Denman, Hinton,
Kennedy, Rogers and DundOn.
The morning call., 1893-03-12
THE FAIRS TIMEBALL.
How 1t viii Be Handled and Controlled
in Its Work.
Boston Transcript.


The fve-foOt timeball to be dropped at the
Worlds Fair will be made of canvas on steel
franc. 1t will be wound up each day to the
height from which 1t is to fall, and 1t will
be set and electrically connected in such
manner that the breaking of the circuit at
L noon will release il.
The cable by which 1t will be controlled
has already been laid, connecting the new
observatory with the entire Western Union
telegraph system, the touch of button at
the Washington end of it instantaneOusly
transmitting notice of the hour over $50, coo
miles of wire.
When that button speaks the whole coun-
try Will listen and the hands of 70.oO0 e!ec-
trie clocks all over the country will point to
the correct minute and second. There are
1000 such clocks In New York City alone
All railways, factories and industries of
every kind pay attention TO the signal.
Three minutes before noon each day all
Western Union lines are cleared of business,
every operator takes his finger from the
key, circuits are opened, and at the instant
when the sun passes over the seyenty-hfth
meridian tue spark of intelligence Is flashed
TO all parts of the country. 1t requires less
than one-ffth of second to reach San
Francisco.
The IL o'clock signal sent from Washing
ton indicates IL A. N. for Chicago, 10 A. NJ.
for Omaha and a. NJ. for the Pacific Coast,
the United States being divided into four
perpendicular strips, and each strip setting
its clocks by the time OF the meridian which
bisects it from north to south. Thus each
strip is only one hour later than the next
strip to the east.
The morning call., 1893-03-12


Mechanical devices in the manufacture Of
shoes are claimed to have reached their
ideal Ingenuity in recently invented con-
trivance for attaching heels to boots and
shoes by driving staples from the inside
through the inner sole. the counter and
outer sole, and nearly through the
heel, the points OF the staples reach
Ing into and nearly through the toe
llft-thus, If desired. leaving the shop
heeled with a blind lift by the first and only
operation of attaching. il it is desired to
slug the heel the apparatus is provided with
mechanism for driving slugs into the top
lit at the instant of attaching the heel TO
the shoe. The staples being thus driven
from the inside, their crowns are left en-
bedded in the inner sole entirely be-
low It's surface, and the inner and outer
soles and the counters are drawn firmly
together, making most perfect heel seat
BY other methods. as is well known, the
heel seat has to be made first so as to insure
tight joint at the point of contact between
the heel and the outer sole, and to provide
The morning call., 1893-03-12
WHO WROTE "DIXIE"p
The Authorship of the Famous Song
Appears to Be in Dispute.

Richmond Dispatch
We mad hoped to be able to present TO-
day all the facts obtainable as to who wrote
Dixie" but we have not yet been able to
secure the statement Of General Longstreet.
wherein he Is said to declare that it was
composed and sung years and years before
the war Southern cadets at the West
Point Military Academy. 1t was but lately
that we first heard of this claim OF author
ship. II General LongstreePs recollection
is confirmed by the recollection of others it
would dispose Of the other claims hereto
fore asserted; but we all know that Mary
land is at best fallble thing.
A decade or more ago the Magazine of
American History undertook k 10 show that
Dixie" was the alleged song of lot of ne
groes from the North who were sold into
the far South in advance of the approaching
wave of abolition sentiment in their old
homes.
Later statements of several persons were
published that Dixie" was written in 1850
by Dan Emmett for Bryant's minstrels as "a
walk-around." The late Mr.. c. l.. Siegel of
Richmond, who was a musician in that
troupe, was one of those who were firmly nf
the opinion that that was the real origin Of
the song.
The present discussion was started by n
newspaper publication that Dan Emmett,
''the author of Dixie is dying in great
poverty" and proposing that the Southern
people should raise a fund for his relief.
1t is to be hoped that the friends OF Mr..
Emmett will not wait until this question is
determined before going TO his aid. Ii they
do he may die OF hunger meanwhile, as the
authorship Of Dixie" may possibly remain
unsettled almost as long as was the ques-
tion who wrote 'Stonewail Jacks0n's
Way and 'All Quiet Along the Potomac
Tonight ?"
We are, however, quite ready TO believe
that Bryants minstrels, who played in New
Orleans and other Southern cities Just be-
fore the war began, gave the song South
ern popularity which caused it to be taken
up in the camps, and to become the ac-
cepted Confederate national air
The morning call., 1893-03-12
Determining the Purity of Metals.


The liquetying Of oxygen proved so fruit
tul and Interesting a topic at Professor
Dewar's wonderful lectures at the ROYAL
Institution, London. which was recently
mentioned in this column, that little time
was lett to discourse on the possibilities
opened out by Professor Dewars investiga-
tlons in the electrical cOnductiyity Of metals
at extraordinary low temperatures. 1t
would appear that the conduetivity Of per-
teetly pure metals increases toward abso-
lutte non-reSistance as the temperature falls,
Ill such wise that all the curves of tempera-
ture resistance would, if produced. pass
through zero of absolute temperature. In
other words, If wire of any pure metal
could be imagined as stretched through in
terstellar space, electricity would pass
through an Infinite length without loss, and
without producing any of the thermal eff
fectS inSeparable from resistance in ordi-
nary conditions. But II there be the small
est impurity, even a slight alloy or some
allied metal, this law of diminishing the re-
sistance does not hold good. A method of
unapproaehable delicaey for determining
the putty of metals is thus provided. For
example, nickel, chemically pure so far as
ordinary tests can discover, does not con-
form to the law. but nickel deposited by the
new Mond process from its combination
with carbon monoXide Obeys the law per
fectly, thus proving that ali other nickel.
however carefully prepared, retains some
traces of impurity.
The morning call., 1893-03-12
COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
Players Who Are Kicking at the
Weather Clerk.

The High School football players are un-
questionably out Of luck so far as the
weather Is concerned.
Last Saturday and the Saturday previous
proved so decidedly unpleasant that the
games scheduled had to be postponed to
future dates.
The season arranged by the football COM
mittee, in which the games according to the
schedule bad to be finished, win end on
Saturday next, and unless future dates will
be arranged for the matches that have been
postponed, the referees viii have no easy
task on their hands to decide satisfactorily
TO all players which of the teams is entitled
to the championship.
In the forenoon of Yesterday the San
Francisco High School and Berkeley High
School teams we're announced to play at
Central Park, and as the kickers from over
the bay failed 10 put in an appearance at
the appointed hour. the San Francisco team
lined up on the field and by scoring touch
down won the game by default 1t was said
that the Berkeley boys had sent word that
they would not put in an appearance.
In the afternoon game between the Oak
lgnd High School and Berkeley Gymnasium
teams WAS to have taken place, but owing
10 the failure of the Berkeleyites TO line up
at P. NJ, the hour called for play, the game
The morning call., 1893-03-12
THE SETTING HEN.
How She Was Persuaded to Go Out
of the Business.

Boston Journal.
A Cape Cod man gives some valuable
hints on the care of poultry.
II have just experimental with setting
hen, and have found way in brea king
them of the habit in the winter at least. l
haven't patented my idea; those who wish
to try it can do so. and welcome. made
half dozen snowballs and soaked them in
water. In the morning they were solid ice.
| shaped them as near like an egg as possi-
BILE and then placed them under tho setting
hen. She smiled.
II stood by and watched her. She cud-
died the ice eggs under her and cIucked
softly to them. In about ten minutes She
appeared to get uneasy. She arose and
scratched the darlings together and shook
herself. then, evidently satisfied, settled
down again. Soon she got up once more,
this time with evident coucern-sometbin 2
was wrong, surely-perhaps the weather
was getting cold. She felt wet and chilly,
but with great perseverance she sat down
again and again got up-this time for good.
She walked out of the box, and then turned
and looked in, but she had had enough.
Il told friend OF mine of this new idea.
My friend, being a large poultryman, i'm
mediately set his four boys to work making
snOWOalls.'
The morning call., 1893-03-12

went 10 the Oakland boys, who were on the
grounds and ready for action.
The park was certainly in no condition
for football OF any kind. but nevertheless
the rules state that the team failing to pui
IN an appearance az the appointed hour
will forfeit to its opponent provided the
latter conform to the rules.
On Saturday next the Oakland High
Schoo and San Francisco High
School teams are scheduled to play in the
forenoon, and in the afternoon the Cogs-
well Polytechnic team and the Berkeley
High School team will try conclusions.
1t Is rumOred THAI the COgswell boys have
become disgusGed with their luck in not
having scored a success this season anl
that their appearance on the field mex
Saturday is decidedly mathematical.
The morning call., 1893-03-12
Long Jumps.

Long jumping must be something worth
looking on at when the winning jump is
thing they have in Norway, as this morn.
ing's news from ChriStiania tells us. The
champion jumper at the great annual meet
ing at Stockholm yesterday made a record
by covering seventy feet, and the other
competltors all managed to come between
forty-four and sixty-six. This is certainly
The morning call., 1893-03-12
Falcons for Carving Messages.

The liability TO destruction of carrier
pigeons from birds OF prey and other sources
OF danger has led to the training of falcons
for the carrying of messages in the Russian
army. A falcon can cover fifteen leagues
an hour for fifteen hours. feat which the
pigeon can rarely accomplish. 1t Is on
record that falcon sent from the Canary
Islands to Spain returned from Andalusia
TO Teneritfe, distance of $50 leagues, in
sixteen hours. The falcon can also support
The morning call., 1893-03-12

something solid to which the heel may be
attached by the points of the nails. The
claim is therefore put forward that in tho
manufacture of boots and shoes, this me-
chanical wonder supplies the place of the
heel-seating machine, the attaching ma
chine and the slugging machine-in fact,
performing the whole work at one opera
tion and simultaneously.
The morning call., 1893-03-12

more exciting than our champion jump of
twenty-three feet and few inches. The
Norwegians, it is true, do not jump as we
do. The iumD-run is down hill 2GO feet
high, in the middle of which a springboard
Is set six feet above the ground. and it is
from this that the Jumps taken. But, aided
or not, hatseventy feet flight through space
is por;entous feat The Norwegian
women, too. tuck up their skirts and 60 at
it; truly a sight fer sons of Vikings!
The morning call., 1893-03-12
Sufficient Evidence.

Were you acquainted with the MANI"
"No."
Then how do YOU know that he was
prominent citizen?"
"Well, don't you see. he died of heart fail
ure."-Chicago News Record.
The morning call., 1893-03-12

heavier dispatch. 1t has been proposed
TO utilize both swallows and bees for carry
ing purposes, but their use is attended with
obvious disadvantages. 1t is interesting to
know that crows were employed in ancient
times for this purpose
The morning call., 1893-03-12

bhen leaving dear old ireland In he month Of June
le birds ere siCeetiy sHgtRg all Nature seed in
dn IflSh girl ccc0Sed me iCih sad tear IN her
Ind she spoke these JCOyd she bitterly did
Kind Sir, ask fGU0T, oh Grant IL 10 pedSe,
2iS much that ask itC set heart
Take these brother Ned, tchos far the
nd don't tell hfIn Sir. that they By
Three teoreS OF shamrock, ne LrfSt7dn's ShdmT0ct
FROM his ring sister her blessing she
Take them 10 brother, for hare other,
4S these the Sham 3ckS his old mothers grave
The morning call., 1893-03-12
Builders Contracts.
Improvements in Shoes.

George NJ. Ahrens with f. Klatt. alterations etc.
on SE corner OF Harrison and First, SO by IL i,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-20
A TRIBUTE TO SENATOR MORRILL,

Senator George F. Hoar of Massa-
chusetts, during debate in the sem
ate on the last day of the regular ses-
sion, paid this graceful tribute and
compliment to Senator Justin S. Nor
rill of Vermont:
''I never look upon my honorable
friend from Vermont, as he sits
there in his seat, the head and leader
of the senate, with his four score and
three years like a crown of glory upon
his head, with his eyes and intellect
undiminished and his natural force
undated, who is the type and embod-
iment of all the qualities which we re-
spect and love, that do not think of
those lines of the great English poet
which we used to love in our youth.
Slow sinks, more lonely ere his race be run,
Along Morea's hills, the setting sun;
Not as in other realms obscure1y bright,
But one uncIouded blaze of living 1ight.'''
This is a worthy tribute to Yer
mont's venerable senator and the
source from which it came must have
rendered the sentiments expressed all
the more grateful to him and his sem
atorial friends. Senator Morrill, has
done yeoman service during the ses-
sion now ending, having taken part
in a considerable number of debates
beside attending to his exacting du-
ties as head of the finance committee
of the senate, and he has exhibited
11ouOb of bic old tipoo uiOO, o,, bril-
liancy. All Vermonters rejoice in the
continued health and usefulness of
Vermont's ''grand old man.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-20
State News Items

Mrs. Polly Kelton Foster of Calais,
died recently at the age of SO years.
The rumsellers at Montpelier have
been taking another dose of state bit
terS
The oldest postal clerk in the en-
ploy of the United States is Charles
Brigham of the Boston post office,
who was appointed 81 years ago. Mr..
Brigham is a native of Bloomington,
this state, and went to Boston when
he was 21 years old.
Senator John A. Mead, elected first
Mayor of the new city Of Rutland, is
great grandson of Col. James Mead,
the first settler, first moderator, and
first selectman and first representa-
tive of Rutland, elected to these po-
sitions at the first town meeting held
on the second Tuesday of October,
1870.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-20
--uz7ze SSlszzarz-
ABOUT THE SCHOOL MONEY.

N1'. Ed6tor,-Some time ago I wrote
some information upon the distribu-
ton Of the school money and receiv-
ed an answer from his clerk, saying
that it unquestionably belonged to the
districts TO do with it as they pleased,
and I notice that you answer some
questions on the same subject in
similar manner, and while [ can not
say that these opinions are not cor
rect, yet | can not reconcile them to
the facts, and am afraid they may
mislead the districts. It seems to me
that the districts have no right to dis
tribute this money among the taxpay-
ers, for part of it is money appropri
ated by the U. S. government, express
ly for the support of schools, and the
balance is appropriated by the state
government for the same purpose, and
it is very evident to me that the wis
dom and virtue of the state forgot this
very important matter, because they
made no provision whatever for it.
even after this year, and I suppose no
one viii claim it can be divided next
year. Some men claim also that the
district can draw and use enough of
this money to pay their debts, and
turn the balance over to the town.
While this seems at first reasonable.
yet upon a closer examination, think
there are some doubts about it. and
it seems to me the towns should have
an opinion from the Supreme Court
upon this question. AS understand
it, this money was intended for the
support of schools in the near future
and not to pay debts contracted for
last years school, and I very much
doubt if our courts would allow the
districts to distribute even what thev
may now have on hand, to say moth
ing of the amount on hand in the sew
eral town treasures.
I write this letter for the purpose of
bringing this question before the peo-
pie of the county, SO that we may get
an opinion that will be acceptable
generally. If an opinion can not be
had from the supreme court, then we