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damage to modern warship as they could to
one of the old-time frigates. III fact they
would do no more harm to vessel like the
Monterey than hunter could with a good
sized fowling-piece. AS weapons of defense or
offense they are not worth 3 cents.
These guns are all of the old-time pattern
cast like a stove-lid by pouring the melted
metal into the mold-and yet they cost the
people of the United States between $4,000 and
$4,000 apiece. The cost of placing them in
position was at least $1,000 apiece, so that the
average price was about $500 for each gun.
There are $50 of these discarded guns at
Benicia. 200 at Alcatraz and the Presidio and
so at Angel Island-in all about 500. At the
cost mentioned, with transportation expenses
and carriages added, the total would be at
least $3, 900 900. Not one of these guns has
ever fired a hostile shot and many have never
had any powder in them. But they have ac-
complished great deal of good in the way of
''persuading" enemies to keep away, so they
have done their duty and earned every cent
that they cost.
The new guns that are intended TO replace
the old ones will represent a cost of at least
$40 900 600
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PERSONAL.

T. J. Field, the banker, OF Monterey is IN the
City.
Oswald Won Biedl of Vienna, Austria. is in
the City.
L. NJ Lasell, business man of Martinez is
in town.
N. D. Wales of Washington, D. c., is among
the arrivals at the Palace.
Sergeant F. G. Martin OF Angel Island Is a
guest at the Cosmopolitan.
Otto Grunsky of Stockton, Clerk of San Joa-
quin County, is at the Grand.
]. D. Heard, owner of large placer mines in
Siskiyou County, is in the City.
E. ]. Cahill, the extensive rancher, arrived
here yesterday aud is at the Grand.
George d. Cagney, well-known stock-raiser
of Hollister, is staying at the Cosmopolitan.
H. A. Jastro, the banker and early resident
of Bakersfield, is on visit to the City and is
at the Grand.
Among the arrivals here yesterday were four
teen Raymond & Whitcomb excursionists
They are at the Palace.
F. c. Parkinson of Franklin, Idaho, and w.
G. Franklin of Preston, in the same State, are
among those who are registered at the Grand.
w. H. H. Lewellyn of New Mexico and w. L.
Dants and Mrs. Dants of New York, with sew.
eral friends, arrived here yesterday and are al
the Palace.
Thomas Crush of Montana, manager of the
extensive gold mines at Coulterville, on which
costly machinery has lately been placed, is at
the Palace.
DR.. R. Beverly Cole, president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, will leave for Atlanta
Ca, where the annual session of that body will
be held on May 5, tonight He will deliver an
address before the State Medical Society in Los
Angeles on the 21st. From the latter place he
will go to New Orleans and Chicago, delivering
addresses in both cities.
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REFORM.

The great and good reformer brought his biggest
searchlight out,
And with firm answering purpose he flashed it all
about;
1t showed up everybody's straight and crooked
ways,
TIL to man the rascals to hide them from the
blaze.
Then presidents. clerks and bank cashiers began
to turn them pale,
And een the guardians of the peace ouailed with
thoughtful quail;
The sugar man and butter man their heads orew
out of sight,
But the dry-goods dealer boldly stood and faced
that searching light.
The railway corporations paused, and ministers
meanwhile
Began to search their souls see if they were free
from guile;
And those who led society of stately pedigree
Trembled at what the curious world in blazonry
might see.
And so this benefactor had of moral fun no end.
In showing up the faults alike of enemy and
friend
Till some one got his breath again and turned the
light about,
And put this great reformer man at once to utte,
rout
M. PHELPS DAWSON In New York Sun.
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cles from the pen of Joseph Asbury Johnson,
one of the brainiest reform writer's on the
coast but our space precludes the publication
of many others which we are anxious our
readers should peruse.
Should THE CALL continue its liberal course
during the present campaign we would advise
PopuIists generally to take that paper in pref
erence to others possessed OF less hberality.
We have not noticed THE WEEKLY CALL TO as
certain whether these articles appear in it or
not. but, if they do, Populists in the country,
who are so situated as to be unable to take
daily paper should give their preference to THE
WEEKLY CALL and thus not only enable them
selves to enjoy the advantages of this depart
ment OF that paper, but to encourage its COM
mendable course
The PEOPLES party is greatly in need of q
newspaper giving all the current news but in
the absence of such paper should take advan-
tage of the next best thing to be had-which is
the old party paper giving their cause the fair
est treatment.
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GROVER AS A HOODOO.

II the members of the communism of pelf go
to Chicago in July to secure the nomination of
Cleveland they will be compelled to camp out
in Lake Park, for there will not be hotel
man in Chicago courageous enough to enter
tain them.
1t was at the swell Riehelieu Hotel that the
members OF the communism of pelf stayed
during the convention of 1892, and there the
schemes were laid by which the Territorial
delegates were bought for Cleveland with
Standard Oil and reform" money. The dele
gates to the convention in 1892 must be re-
minded OF this by the Supreme Court decree
just handed down in the foreclosure proceed
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lngs against the Richelieu Hotel Company
prought by the bondholders. The doors viii
De closed IN ten days and the property sold in
lhree weeks The Richelieu Hotel, like every
thlng else in any way connected with the last
Dtemocratie campaign, has been profoundly
toucned" by the finger of fate. 1t has sue
cumbed to the Cleveland Hoodoo
The Cleveland hoodoo is not joke. 1t is q
grim reality to those who have suffered by it.
zee what 1t has done. Chicago, as the conyeu-
tion city, paid most of the bills OF the conven-
tlon which nominated Cleveland. Chicago
was the first city shaken blythe financial panic
lew months alter he was inaugura ted. 1t was
in Chicago that the first runs upon the banks
occurred. Chicagos Mayor was assassinated
Dy crank, Its treasury became bankrupt.
tnleyes and thugs caused reign of terror and
the Democratic party went to smash. If there
is any way in which Chicago hasn't suffered
since Cleveland was inaugurated there is still
time for new terrors before the 4th of March
brings its four years in purgatory to close.
In New York the Victoria Hotel. where
Cleveland always stopped when in the city
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DISGUSTED DELEGATES.

Well-informed Republicans are not sur.
prised to learn that some of the State Con-
vention delegates elected at the farcical
primaries held on Tuesday may demand
that their names be stricken from the list.
The contest in the State Convention over
the double set of delegates from the Fourth
and Fifth districts will not be pleasant.
1t will be necessary in the interest of
decent politics for the delegates elected
Wednesday at the regular primary to
show how the so-called primary of Tues
day came to be held. This exposure will
uncover rottenness that will grieve high
minded Republicans, but now that the
decks have been cleared for action and
there is firm determination to destroy
corrupt bossism in the Republican party
OF San Francisco. the fight will be made
to the end and the party will emerge all
the better and stronger and cleaner from
the struggle.
1t will have to be shown that two noto-
rious political manipuators. Kelly and
Mahoney, by forgery and trickery secured
an illegal call from minority of the Con-
gressionaI Committee for TUESDAYS prl-
mary; that this gave them semblance of
standing which deceived a considerable
number of voters; that the manipulators
"hxed" the polls and shamelessly stuffed
the boxes; that the large body of Repubr
l1cans who understood the situation and
were IN favor of purging the party of its
shady bosses remained away; that mean
while the rightful majority of the com,
mittee had regularly called a primary for
Wednesday and issued notice that
it was the only auth orized, regular
and legal election; that the Republicans
turned out at this election and, by the
overwhelming force Of mum bers, cast
nearly twice as many votes as were stuffed
into the boxes on Tuesday; that Kelly
and Mahoney recognized the legality of
Wednesdays primary by turning out in
force and making an abortive attempt to
defeat the regular ticket by supporting one
OF their own manufacture.
These will not be pleasant disclosures at
the State Convention, and hence there is
no wonder that the delegates alleged to
have been elected Tuesday are beginning
to appreciate the gravity of their position.
While such secession would give Kelly and
Mahoney an opportunity to furnish substi-
tutes on whom they can depend to do their
bidding, the detection would be seriously
injuring them in a moral sense. This
accounts for the desperate earnestness
with which they are trying to stimulate
the courage of the faltering. All of Tues
days delegates who are not self-confessed
tools of these men and who are not
ashamed to be known as such, and who
desire to see the Republican party purged
of its corrupt elements and decent gov
ernment given to San Francisco should
lose no time in having their names with
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during his campaign, failed last year, and has
been closed The Democratic Manhattan Club.
which entertained him after his Madison
square speech OF acceptance and tangled
Adiars legs with its punch, is all over in debt,
and has lost much of is membership because
Grover made it impossible for many of its
members to meet their dues. Tammany, which
unW1lllngly supported Cleveland, has been
between, spends most of his time in England
because New York is no longer safe or con-
genial.
These are but few of the incidents in the
chapter of calamities which men and things
connected with the last Cleveland campaign
nave suffered, but they are sufficient to show
that the Grover hoodoo is no Joke.
Before Republican President enters the
White House every inch OF the executive man.
sion ought to be rubbed with the foot of a
graveyard rabbit.-WorcesterT Telegram
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FIN DE sIEcIE-E. G. s., Livermore, Cal. Fin
| de steele is from the French and literally
means the end of the century, OF beitting the
| end up-to-date, an expression for that which
| is most progressive, novel IN fashion or adj
vanced in ideas; Its first use in the English
| language is in the following:
mamma" said she, "your love in a cottage idea
is out of style. am thoroughly progressive. up
to-date, fin de siecle"-Julian Ralph in Harper's
Monthly, March, '93
INVENTIONS City. The following is a
list of the prominent inventions and discov-
cries of the nineteenth century: Chronograph,
1s4O; electric clock, 1910; electric light, 1913;
electrotyping, 1897; gas meter, 1915; kaleido-
scope, 1914; phonograph. 1877; photography,
1902; pneumatic railway, 1885; sewing ma
chine, 184l; steamboat, 1907; telegraph
1897; telephone 1877. To this may be added
Koch's germ theory, the cathode ray and the
cable passenger railway. If you have any par
ticular invention or discovery in your mind
we viii endeaVor to give the desired ln1orna-
ton If you will name it or them.
SANAToRIUM-E. F. H., City. sanatarium and
sanitarium enormously used for sana-
torium. The spelling sanitary Is often used in
the same sense as sanatory, but improperly.
Both are derived from the Latin sanare, TO
heal, sanatory properly signifies conducive 10
health, and is applied to curative measures
after health is lost, while sanitary has the more
general sense OF pertaining to health and Is
applied to preventive measures. A sanator1um
is place where people go Tor the sake OF
health or to regain health, usually private
hospital for the treatment OF patients VINO are
not beyond the hope OF cure.
PUBLIC DEBT AND BONDs-Ben jamin Harrison
was inaugurated President March 4, 1885, and
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated the second
time March 4, 1898. The following shows the
amount of the public debt during the term OF
office of each:
1888, December J. amount OF
the debt was. 81 $50, ,e17,7Os %
the debt was .....1.......... ], ,s17, ,S72, ,41e SO
the debt was ......"...... 1,54s, ,2O6, 126 4s
1891, December /, amount OF
the debt was .................. 1,546,961,6 ,6e5 81
1892, December l, amount of
the debt was .................. 1858 612, ASS 63
These figures give a reduction of S117 ,3o5,-
| $50 90.
1892, December l, amount of
the debt 81, ,563, ,3O5 ,456 So
| 1888, November i, amount of
the debt 1,549, ,b56, S53 6s
the debt was .....-..-...... 1926 154, ,637 90
| 1895, November l, amount of
the debt was. ....... 1,T17,4S1,779 30
These figures give an increase in three years
| OF $153, 1868, ,324 27.
Not having the official figures since Noyem.
Der l. 1895, it is impossible to give the precise
| amount at this date, but there must be added
| the recent loan of 800 900 900, which makes
the increase during Cleveland's present term
1888, 1863, 1924 27. During President CleYe-
| lands term there have been three bond issues
| two OF $50, ,000, 900 TO syndicates and the re-
| cent popular loan of 800, 900, 900. The inter-
est on the first loan is per cent and oE the
| second per cent.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Colonel j. B. Lowe, the mine manager and
expert. VINO tor years owned interests at Vir-
ginla City and elsewhere, strolled into the
falace day or two ago, and soon was shaking
nanos ana talking with number of young
and elderly mining men there
The colonel is known as the expert for the
Flooo d O'Brien people. He is also the in.
Ventor OF the streetcar seen here and else
where, which is closed or open, according to
the state of the weather.
He was asked that question which has per.
turoeo the minds of mining men for long
Whlle, VIZ, the best place to go to mine.
"1hey can all do as they please" said the
colonel, "and those who want to go to Cool
gardle, Cripple Creek or Kootenai can do so;
put as for me, think I'll stay right here in
California.
81 sold out all my interests in the Comstock
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The late Mrs. E. Marvin, who recently died
at Kirkwood, Mo-, was an elder sister of the
late ex-President Hayes. When the civil war
broke out she was living with a family OF
Southern sympathizers in Illinois. Rutherford
B. Hayes, as is well known. was a strong Union
man and became successful officer in the
Northern army. His sister did not forgive him
for taking the side of the Government and they
were never reconciled.
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IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME-The 18th inst
the Northern Pacific Railroad inaugurated double
daily passenger service between Portland and St.
Paul, making saving of ten hours between Port
land and Chicago These are the fastest and finest
equipped trains that ever were run out OF the Pa
cIffc Northwest. The superior accommodations in
our passenger equipment recommend our line to
all Ours is the only line that diningcars out
OF Portland. It. Il. STATELER, general agent,
63S Market street. San Francisco
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OF IMPORTANCE TO PoPULIsTs
Tulare County News.

we again desire to call the attention of Pop
ullsts throughout the Pacific Coast to the lib
eral policy presented by the San Francisco
CALL is devoting space to the free expression
OF the views of able reform writers in its COL
umns. While THE CALL is thoroughly Repub-
lican in politics it is not of that marrow.
minded variety so noticeable in other leading
dailies We have published some of these arti-
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Examining the State.


There are more strangers looking over the
country now than at this time year ago and
such state OF affairs is certainly matter 70 l
encouragement and should result in adding to
our population, improvement and wealth, for
to see California is to believe in it, is to be-
come possessed of some of it whenever the
wherewith necessary can be found.
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nearly so years of age, but active and clear
headed. His enormous fortune has been made
in lumber. 1t is said of him that he still takes
pleasure in driving sharp bargain.
Congressman Bailey of Texas dresses very
peculiarly-always in black broadcloth, cut in
the old style, with broad shirt front, a white
tie and broad, black felt hat. He says he
and his wife both like IL, and he thinks grown
men should be independent of fashion.
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CALIFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, n. Y, April 16.-At the Hol-
land, Mr.. and Mrs. C. Bier, F. j. Carolan; Astor,
A. d. Forbes; Grand Union, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
franklin; Coleman, Mr.. and Mrs W. H. Loney
Continental, Mrs. D. Thorne; Barrett, ]. B.
Eldridge; Windsor, Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Stubs
Netherland, Mrs. r. C. Woolworth, Miss Wool
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No SUNDAY picnics taken on the N. P. C. R. R.
via Sausalito ferry, thus affording families and
private parties an opportunity of visiting with
out annoyonce the country, which is now at its
height of beauty
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CARLIsLE's INCONSISTENCIES.

| In his speech at Chicago Thursday even
| ing Secretary Carlisle, while attempting to
prove that the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to would reduce wages. made
series of blunders in reasoning that are
| so palpable as to raise doubts concerning
his sincerity. The address was particu-
larly for working people, whom the astute
Secretary possibly thinks are lacking in
the intelligence needed to expose his fal-
lacies. That he shrewdly scattered his
contradictory arguments instead of placing
them side by side does not lessen the fact
that they are inconsistent. This is how two
OF his assertions look when placed in par
allel columns:
The naked proposi- In the general confu-
ton is that the United sion and disorder re-
States shall coin at hesulting from such q
public expense for the radical change, what
exclusive benefit of the will be the condition
individuals and cor po- of the American labor
ratioEs owning the bull Ter? Will he be beue-
lion all the silver that flied or injured by the
may be presented at treducing by one-haf
the mints into dollars the value of the monev
containing 37114grains in which his wages are
OF pure silver, or 41215 paid, and at the same
grains OF standard sill time increasing the
ver-worth intrinsical- price of the commodi-
ly about 81 or 80 cents ties for which his wages
deliver the coins to are expended?
the depoSitors of the
bullion and compel all
the other people in the
country to receive these
coins at q valuation Of
100 cents each in the
payment OF debts due
them.
That is to say, according to the first of
these assertions the value of silver is to be
raised to that of gold, and according to the
second it will remain at its present bullion
value. These positions are manlfestly
irreconeilable.
The Secretary further argues that the
Tree coinage of silver would contract the
currency by placing a premium on gold
and causing its withdrawal from circula-
ton, reducing it to commodity, and yet
he adds: "All the mints of the United
States, operated to their full capacity and
doing no other work. could not coin into
standard silver dollars two-thirds of the
annual production of silver in our own
| country" To an ordinary person this
| would seem to suggest an enormous in
crease of a circulating medium rather than
any contraction.
For that matter, the Sec7etary's unfair
| ness and partisanship are patent in his
ignoring of simple methods by which free
| coinage would benefit the United States
instead of injurlng it. His arguments are
SO primitive and have been so often met
that it seems a waste of time to pay any
attention to them. Their only significance
lies in the fact that they are addressed to
workingmen. This class of Americans
have eloquent evidence of the Democratic
party's devotion to its interest in tariff
measure that not only reduced wages, but
has actually thrown out of employment
hundreds of thousands of American opera
tivaS
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CORONA Do.-Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft
and mild, and is entirely free from the msts COM
mon further north. Round-trip tickets. by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotel dsi
Coronado, $50; longer stay So so per day. Apply
New MONTGOMERY ST. San Erancisco.
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"Mrs. WinsIow,s soothing sYrnn !,

"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
Has been used over 80 years by millions OF mothers
for their children while Teethng with perfect sue
cess 1t soothes the child, sofens the gums alIays
Pain cures Wind Collie regulates the Bowels and
is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising
from teething other causes For sale by Drug
gists in every part OF the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup 25c bottle.
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Grover Cleveland is one of the greatest all
round statesmen to be found in the world.
His girth now measures 60 inches.-Toledo
Blade.
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Advice to Young Men.
Dixon Tribune

DIXON
Boys, don't fool away your money. young
man who cannot put away little from his
wages when in the prime of youth, with no
family responsibilities, cannot hope to get
ahead in the world in after years, with others
depending upon them.
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To impart strength, purify the blood and to give
a feeling of health and vigor throughout the sys-
tenn, there is nothing equal to Hoods sarsaparilla
Take only Hoods this spring.
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Santa Barbara the beautiful is what we
will have to call her now.
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drawn from the Kelly -Mahoney domina-
tion. Only in this way can they disclaim
fraud and set themselves right with
their fellow-men.
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The way winter fingers on the lap of
spring in the East is clear case of freez-
ing to it.
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Unless CaIifornians take care of Califor-
mia interests who will2
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POLITICAL GOSSIP.

The Democratic party Is not dead; it has
simply been hypnotized by SVengah Grover
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
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CAIuaaS1A glace fruits, SOC lb. Townsend'a.

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 80 Montgomery. "
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California should send to st. Louis a
delegation pledged to any candidate the
convention may nominate.
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While the political pot IS boiling the
Kelly-Mahoney scum comes to the surface
and can be neatly skinned off.
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San Francisco sunshine seems to have
gone down the coast TO attend the fes-
tivals, but we may expect it back any day
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After this there will be no question tha
honest primaries will be supported by tn
people.
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The country will hasten to change its brand
OF prosperity this fall. The Professor Wilson
article isn't even good counterfeit.
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Reed is known to the country as good
counter, but Mckinley is beating him in the
enumeration of delegates.-st. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
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1t is easy to cut a figure in politics, bu
not easy to make the figure count for NOR
than q cipher.
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1t was Pattison who made Cleveland the
Democratic nominee four years ago. Now the
Question arises, Is Grover grateful?-scranton
(Pa.) Tribune,
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1t was TO be expected that the opponents
of pure politics would denounce the result:
of pure primaries.
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GIRLS CAPE.

Cloth is the fabric usually employed in max
ing these pretty, comfortable and stylish wraps.
Plain lady's cloth simply stitched at the edges
with a bright lining for the hood is stylish.
Mixed tweeds with plain silk lining for the