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came known ii instantly aroused the inter-
est of markssmen throughout the country.
A representative of the Dixie Gun Club of
Pensacola took steps looking to the forna-
ton of team to uphold the standard of
Southern craftsmanship, and a challenge
was sent to the Northern team without de-
Law. 4 team was also formed in the West
for a similar purpose, and 1t seemed as
though the Northern men would have
their hands full One of the finest shots
in Illinois, Charles Willard, will be cap
tain of the Western shots. The present
prospect is that the Northerners viii be
met by picked shots ut almost every point
along the line of their tour, and viii have
to contest inch by inch and bird by bird,
with the great gunners South and West
for the championship OF the country at the
traps.
Yesterday I met Mr.. w. Fred Quimby,
and asked him what he thought of the
prospects of his team emerging victorious
from the ordeal they were to encounter.
why" said he, cit seems as though the
whole country were wild on the subject of
trap shooting all of sudden. Wen have
to night our way through, that's all there
is about it. The Southerners have ar
ranged TO meet us at every point, from
the time we leave Chicago at 3 p. m. on
the 9TH OF February. until We come home.
We will arrive in New Orleans on the Sth,
at o'clock, and next day we will shoot
match at live birds against a team of i've
picked men, taking twenty-five birds per
man. All the matches will be under Ameri-
can Shooting Association rules. One of
the features of the shooting will be match
at blue rocks between picked teams of ten
men on each side Then We will leave New
Orleans on Wednesday. first stopping long
enough TO witness the Mardi Gras show, and
will arrive at Mobile on the 18th. We ex-
pect TO have some nne sport at Mobile, and
during our stay viii shoot match at live
birds and one at blue rocks. OF course the
Southerners may change their teams at
every place We visit, so We will have TO en-
counter not one picked team, but large
number of the very best shots in all parts
of the country, all of them shooting on
their own ground, and hence have some
trIiing advantage. Our team, OF course,
will remain unchanged throughout the
tour.
I'VE leave Mobile on the 18th and expect
to reach Pensacola next day, where we will
shoot two matches, just as We did in New
Orleans; and in all PROBABILITY against an
other new team. Our opponents this time
will probably be the Dixie Gun Club, of
Pensacola, which has a famous record for
Workmanship. We leave Pensacola on the
evening of the 18th. Our programme there
after is not yet altogether settled, but In
all likelihood we will run around 10 At
lanta and Birmingham, aud shoot matches
there, one at each city. We expect to ar
rive at Chicago about the 18th OF February,
and hear the sportsmen of that city are
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KICKS AND STONE.
.tioual Convention of the
Builders Association.
|, AND ARBITRATION.
,.y.tions Between Owner, Archi-
s.. and Contractor-Manual
Training Schools.

'<~ YogK. Jan. o. Special correspond
1.-The National Association of Build
skaIds its fifth annual convention in New
4 hsginning February o. The meeting
xsble because of the representative
tho will be called together, the inn
mt ouestions which will be discussed,
AZ widespread interest In the decis-
d be reached.
a as to the men. The association
rranized in 1885. The delegates TO its
s,ntion are elected by building ex-
ksrss. or similar bodies having member
e. the association. Each city is rep
I'D by delegate at large, who is d.
S. Of the association, and by one addi-
~ delegate for every fifty members or
s;on thereof. About forty cities are
ssented.
sbs officers of the association are: John
17uker, Of New York, president; Arthur
Elll;ster, of Cleveland, first vice
sdent; Anthony Ittner, of st. Louis,
"a vice president; William II. Say
4 Of Boston, secretary, and George
user. Of Chicago, treasurer.
Iinong the delegates who will be present
lie following whose names are well
usn in the trade throughout the coun-
o. w. Norcross, Elisha Littlefield,
yoyes Whitcomb, James Smith, of Bos-
George c. Prussing, w. P. Ketcham,
Dph Downey, John Rawle, w. H.
- c. ". Gindele, NJ. B. Madden,
Viesling, +. e. Spooner, w.
ae, D. Y. Purington, j. B. Wight,
chicago; d. w. G. Bellville, Z. d.
ett, N. P. Scully, of Cincinnati; John
aGilvray, +. n. Davis, of Denver; B.
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preparing TO give us royal welcome and a
banquet. | expect to have tho assistance,
during the tour, of Mr.. T. II. kcllar. who
has had large experience in team shoot
ing
All the shooting" continued Mr.
Quimby, twill be done with i2-gauge guns,
except probably in my own case for l pre-
fer To Use l0-gauge gun"
The men who stand out most promi-
nently in this great series of tournaments
at the traps are Messrs. McMurchy and
Quimby, both of whom are veterans of
many a hard-fought and dearly-earned
battle.
There has been thus far no special an
nouncement of the programme of the
Southeners. Mr.. II. w. simmons is the
president of the Pensacola Dixie Gun Club,
a famous Southern organization, which
practically has in charge the arrangements
for ali the Southern states. The Dixie is
by far the strongest and most likely team
in the South. and will give the Northern
ers hard tusslc. Some of its members
have made a hne record at live birds, the
most notable being F. r. Feeberger and l..
T. Tornhili, who will have charge of the
arrangements.
OF course the novelty OF picked team
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The contestant is at liberty to choose his
own position. In singles he is TO shoot at
three or more birds before leaving the
score. provided the traps are in
semi-circle. If two birds are sprung
simultaneously, it is declared ''no
bird" In doubles both traps are
pulled at the same instant, but each man
must shoot at three pairs before leaving
the score; the first pair from trap and 2,
the second from , and and the third from
and g. If only one bird be { rown it
counts as mo bird, - and also if bird be
broken by a trap. If the gun, through de-
feet in itself or in the load, miss ire. or If,
when the shooting is al unknown angles.
he has the last bird from an unknown trap
when lac is entitled TO know which trap IS
10 be sprung, il counts as "no bird" In
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OUR HIRED GIRL.


Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann;
An she can cook best things To eat,
She list puts dough in our pie-pan,
An pours in somepin' ats good and sweet,
An men salts it all on top
With cinnamon; an men shell stop
An stoop, an slide it. list as slow
In tn old cook stove, so'st won slop
An git all spilled; men bakes it-so
It's custard pie, first thing you knowl
An men she II say:
''Ciear out o my way
They's time Ter work, and time Ter play.
Take yer dough an run, child, run;
Er / CAN'T git no eookin' done"
when our hired girl tends like she's mad,
An says folks got 10 walk the chalk
" hen she's around, er wished they had.
] play ont on our porch, an talk
To tn Raggedy Man st mows our lawn;
An he says "Nhew," All men leans on
His old crook -scytke an blinss his eyes
An snifis shifts all round, an says, Il swan!
IF my old nose don't tell me lies,
1t pears Ike ! smell custard pies"
Al uen he'll say:
"Clear out a the wayi
Thcys time fer work, an time Ter play.
Take yer dough ana run, child, run;
Er she CANT git no coosin doDe!'
--YG,nes Whtromb Pt}es
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me builders chance to see the home of
Ile Phiiadeiphia exchange, which IS re-
Saf i,s as very near the ideal of what a
-, othi;lu.ng snouid De. 1t is one of the chief
OBJECTS of the national ASSOCIATION IN en-
courage local exchanges in its membership
10 put up such buildings as that in Pbila.
deiphia. 1t includes, besides the facilities
necessary for the ordinary exchange busi.
ness, permanent exhibition and a man
uai training school These two features.
III lne opinion OF the builders. are OF the
utmost importance. To PhiIadelnhia he
longs the credit of first carving out sue
cessfuily the designs of the association
ine permanent exhibition is intended To
bring peace of the three-eornered warfare
which has always been waged among own
ers builders and architects. 1t is worth
while speaking of it here. because the ;de a.,
is so prominent in the minds of the huiId.
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THE PALLID WREATH.

Somehow I cannot let ii go yet, funereal though
tits,
let il remain back there or its nail suspended,
With PINK, blue yellow, sll blanch'd, and the
white now gray and aShy,
One withered rose put years ago for thee, dear
friend.
But do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
Is the odor eXhaled? Are the eolors, yitalities
deade
No, while memories subtly play. the past vivid
as ever.
For but last night | woke, and in that spectral
ring saw thee.
Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent. loving as
ever.
So let the wreath hang stu awhile within my
eyC-Tcach,
IL is not vet dead % me, nor even pallid.
-H'ds H'biimGn.
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mo BIRDS and another pair is to be shot
at as follows: Six to ten pairs to be de-
cided at three pairs; eleven to twenty
pairs at six pairs, and twenty-one TO fifty
pairs at ten pairs.
No one can compete at the coming
matches unless he be a member of a regu-
larry organized gun club and in possession
of certincate TO show his membership.
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DIAGRAMS REPRESENTING SPECIMENS STONE
WORK. BRICKwoRK, ETc.
Scotchman with plenty of tight in him,
and he objects 10 dictatlon.
The association viii probably recon-
mend some plan of arbitration 10 the
several exchanges. II can do no more,
There is no provision for enforcing action.
Hitherto. however. the orders formulated
in the general convention have had a
widespread and important effect
As TO the proper subjects for arbitration
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II
l swain, David Pullman. w. U. Louvett,
l tain Goss, of Kansas City; George W.
i Wy. E. F. Dobson, of Minneapolis; w.
kness, ir., Stacey Reeves, John S.
Eens, Charles Dillingham;, Murrell
81, kan, Samuel Hart, George Watson, of
hdeIphia; Edward Z. Scribner. J w.
Oat0 kinson, John II. Donohue, OF st. Paul.
!: 80 Ae regular delegates will of course be
1SSmpanied by a host of members from
al III several exchanges. Not less than
6da sand men are expected 10 attend the
HUI 4qaef which will be one of the features
The entertainment offered by the
York Builders Exchange to
guests. Ever since last March
committee appointed by the
90. faange has been considering the
y i.se Fion Of properly receiving what viii
10 aestonably be the largest and most in
! s.c g faslal company of builders ever assem-
AGO The exchange appointed commit
s'es n one hundred for the purpose, which,
4. a. The rule with such bodies, selected an
$500 sse committee to do the active work.
ana insisting of these men: Marc Eidlitz,
fnan; Charles A. Cowen, George
pc Smith, Frank E. Conover, John NJ.
"a Richard Deeves, Otto NJ. Eidlitz,
- n Z. Martin. Henry w. Redfeld,
)Ce aam c. Smith. John J. Tucker,
aen NJ. Wright. Mr.. Tucker is presi-
othe New York exchange and Mr..
htn secretary. The latter, in par
~, has had his hands full making ar
ments for the convention and for the
anment OF the guests.
general programme includes daily
lie OF the convention at Masonic
forenoons and afternoons will be
Ped in this way. On Monday even
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Pure. chaste, rich eut glass is mere aud more
pyiTed for use and FOR ornament DoTEingeTs
American Gu. Glass stands unTiyaieG al home
or abroad Every piece has their trade mark
LABEL Enquire icr II OF dealer.
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DYSPEPSIA.

That nightmare OF mans existence which makes
food mockery and banishes sleep from weary
ewes readily yields TO the potent influence OF Dr.
Henley's English psndelion Tonic. u tones up
the digestive organs. restores the appetite,
makes assimilation OF food possible, and inyig
CRATES the whole system
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-es N.ALLsrER, FIRST vicE PRESIDENT.
y builders Will visit the New York
&Shool at First avenue and Sixty
aFeet There will be general sight
aail available hours on Tuesday.
I,ssest theater party ever given in
FORK will occur on Wednesday even
he committee of arrangements has
bargain for n whole theater-one
brosdway houses-and they will
u 10 suit themselves. The regular at
- Will be given but special gags will
Afodueed, and gag" company
go Preparing them during several
II Is a pity that the general
Wi not be permitted 10 discover
sOn of gag can be turned out by
sues governing hricklaying and
IL Handsomely engraved invita-
na gorgeous souvenir programmes
~ be included in the list of special
) SONS The house will be decorated
occasion.
suay evening will witness the grand
y. 10 Lenox Lyceum. It's spacious
~ tue services Of expert designers
en required TO solve the problem of
N seats enough. On Friday the
Will be taken 10 Philadelphia
So tFain. The trip viii be under
.eoa OF the New Workers. bat the
ss-. 49,. IN the Quaker City viii he
d 80 q the local exchange.
s'0Ssal reason of this visit Is TO give
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here below. Not long ago her friend VIM
ME Davis, daughter of the late Jefferson
Davis, visited Mrs. Dew in her New York
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OK. 7. means Oregon kidney Tea,
The record-union., 1891-02-12
ALILA TRAIN ROBBERS.
Tho Report That Two of Them Wer
Killed Not Believed.

Tho Report That Two of Them Were
Killed Not Believed.
TULARE, Feb. 1.-THE report tele-
graphed to San Francisco that two of the
Alila train robbers were killed by
Sheriff's posse i'll San Luis Obispo is not
believed to be correct. None Of the posse
has returned or even been heard from.
The last heard from Sheriff Kay he was
at Santa Margarita, from which place he
was heading for San Luis.
1t is now ascertained beyond a doubt
that the robbers were in this city on the
tuesday and Wednesday prior to the rob-
perry, leaving here Thursday and going to
Delano.
a third, putting up their horses at a livery
stable.
Accurate descriptions of the men have
been secured and are as follows:
One man fully six feet high, weight
about 100 pounds, very fair complexion,
very small mustache, blue eyes, and was
an expert at poker. He wore new square
toed calf boots and was about 2S years
old; was well built, had a full face and
rode dark bay horse about sixteen hands
nigh and weighing about $50 pounds.
he second man was about five feet ten
inches in hight, dark complexion, small
dark mustache, which looked as if it had
been dyed; full face, weight It's pounds
and about 20 years old. He rode light
bay horse about fourteen hands high and
which would weigh about 900 pounds.
The third man was about q years old,
OF light complexion, no mustache, and
his weight was about l60 pounds.
The record-union., 1891-02-12
FINANCIAL.
Two MASSACHUSETTS Banks Close Their
Doors.


Doors.
BYER (Mass.), Feb. 1.-THE First Ma
tional and North Middlesex Savings
Banks closed their doors to-day. There
are ugly rumors afioat concerning them.
ii. e. Spaulding, Cashier of both insti-
tutions, has been missing from town since
Monday evening, and where he has gone
no one knows. The exact financial con-
dition of the banks is not known. The
books will be examined at once
Last week Spauling ascertained that
the Directors of the North Middlesex
Bank were about to have it examined.
when he left home, not saying when he
would return. Colonel Needham. for
merly the Bank Examiner, has advised
the banks not to pay out any more money
until there has been an official investiga-
ton. He stated that a letter has been
found which indicates that Cashier
Spauidlng has been specializing in stocks.
Investigation tends to show that both
banks are solvent, the North Middlesex
especially so, as none of its funds have
been tampered with. If there is any loss
1t will fall on the national bank.
Spaulding was a regular member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was
considered man Of sterling habits and
upright character.
Commissioner of Savings Banks Locke
said that from a superficial examination
he should think the saving bank all
right. The only chance for discrepancy
III on the pass books of depositors.
Bank Inspector Getchell has arrived to
examine the condition of the National
Bank. The last balance sheet of the
North Middlesex Bank showed assets
and liabilities of Sl9S,000.
The supreme Court this evening issued
an injunction restraining the North Mid
dlesex Savings Bank from paying out
any money until an investigation of the
finances has been made
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RECIPROCITY.
Commercial Agreement to be Made |
With Venezuela.

Commercial Agreement to be Made
With Venezuela.
NEW YORK, Feb. ia Washington
special to the Times says: 1t is UNDER
stood the President is ready for the an
nouncement of proclamation of reci-
procity with Venezuela, similar in terms
to the agreement just reached with Brazil,
and which will take effect about the same
time with this agreement. While the
commerce of Venezuela is not as large as
that of Brazil, the United States for sew
eral years has enjoyed much larger pro-
portion of the importing business than
any other nation dealing with the Venez-
uelans.
The total exports of Venezuela in 1888
We're little more than Sl1 600, 900, and their
imports about S, 100000. OF this amount,
the Venezuelans took from the United
States more than s., ,000,000 in 1856, and in
1888 that country took from the United
States products to the amount of S3,000,-
600. This included about 100000 worth
OF DreadstuffS, principally wheat flour:
about 100000 worth OF cloth, S4O0, 900
worth OF manufactures of iron and steel,
and more than 100000 worth OF provis-
ions and dairy products in 1885 Last
year we imported little more than SlO,-
100000 altogether. While the United
States sends more products to Venezuela
than any other foreign nation, the i'm
ports from the United Kingdom, France
and Germany together are larger than
those of the United States.
The proclamation of the President
would have been made day or two ago,
as it was expected the agreement Of
Nenezeula to the propositions of the
United States would be received by the
last steamer. The papers are on the way.
however, and will arrive by the steamer
due in New York February 18th or there
aboutS.
SAID TO BE INCORRECT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lit is learned
on the highest authority that the state
ment that reciprocity agreement will be
concluded with Venezuela is incorrect.
WILL DEAL ONLY WITH THE REFORM
PARTY.
TORONTO, Feb. 1.-THE TeIeorana. on
what it calls unexceptionally high au-
thorlty, says that Hon. Mr.. Laurier holds
In his pocket a letter from Secretary
Blaine, in which the Secretary distinctly
refuses to negotiate with any party in
Canada but the Reform party, upon the
question OF commercial union.
DENIED BY BLAINE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. = Secretary
Blaine makes a positive denial of the
statement telegraphed from Toronto re-
garding the letter to Laurier. He SAYS he
has not written letter to any Canadian
since he became Secretary of State.
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BANKING SYSTEM IN CHINA.
RUMORs OF CONCESSIONS MADE TO
AN AMERICAN SYNDICATE.
The China Minister Says He is in no
Way Connected With the
Enterprise.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-At various
times since the present Minister from
CHINA, Tsui Kwo Yin, came to this
country, there have been rumors of the
formation of great American syndicate
that was to be given control of the
national banking system of China and
management of the railroad and tele-
graph interests of that country. The
syndicate was said to be formed under
the auspices of the Chinese legation in
this city, and statement was made that
the corporation would receive large
grants and valuable concessions from the
Chinese Government.
These rumors have been denied by
representatives of the Chinese Govern
ment in this city, but have come to life
agalnE every time with unerring regu-
larity.
A month or two ago the Chinese Min
lister went to New Haven ON business
connected with the purchase of a large
amount of small arms for the Chinese
Government. The information was at
once sent that the sale was made through
the influence of this syndicate This was
denied on the following day, but there is
no doubt that the Minister was provoked
about the whole business.
According to statements made at the
legation to-day, one of the promoters of
this syndicate has a Chinese servant who
is on intimate terms with the servants at
the legation, and is thus enabled to keen
his master informed of the movements of
the Minister and of his secretaries. and
1t is complained that as result the Min
lister never takes a trip but he finds this
enterprising individual in the same car
with him, giving people the impression
that the two are on the best intimate bust
ness and social terms.
Before his departure for Peru on Nom
day evening Minister Tsui wrote out a
statement which covers the matter pretty
fully. The statement was in the Minis
ter's own handwriting, and likewise in
the Chinese language. As translated by
his Secretary, the statement is as follows:
THE attache, Tu, has resigned to go
back to China. He is not commissioned
by me to transact any official or other
business at all. Ali rumors about con-
cessions to be had in China for the pur-
pose of constructing railways or opening
national banks, or for other like business
enterprises, and all statements involving
any connection on my part. or any inter
est OF mine in any such enterprises. are
utterly and absolutely false. am under
no instructions from my Government
connecting me with any such schemes. |
have no power in the matter, nor have !
any influence that would ever be used IN
that GlrcctiOn.o
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FREE COINAGE.
Ex-President Cleveland Decidedly OPP
posed to 1t.

Ex-President Cleveland Decidedly OPP
posed to 1t.
NEW YORK, Feb. ll.-Scveral hundred
people assembled ut Cooper Union to-
night to oppose the free silver bill, in
response to call of the Reform Club.
Among the letters Of regret was one
from ex-President Cleveland, III which
he says in part: ''It surely cannot be
necessary for me TO make 4 formal ex-
preston Of my agreement with those who
believe the greatest pcri!s would be initi-
ated by the adoption OF the scheme ell-
braced i'll the measure now pending III
Congress for the unlimited coinage Of
silver at our mints.
IF we have developed an unexpected
capacity for assimilation for Il largely in
creased volume OF currency aud even If
we have demonstrated the uSelessness of
such increase these conditions fall far
short of insuring us against disaster, if in
the present situation we enter upon the
dangerous, reckless experiment of free,
unlimited and independent silver COIN
age"
Resolutions condemning unlimited sill
yer coinage were passed.
EX-Secretary-TreaSu Fairchild was
the chief speaker in opposition to the
pending bill