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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-22
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-22
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Manufacturers of the Green Mountain
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Shingles, Sheathing, Spruce and Eastwood
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to order. Job work OF all kinds solicited.
W. p. Flint's carriage and repair shop
All work done at lowest prices.
CHADWICK Bros, Randolph, VT.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-22

STATE OF VERMONT, Z In Probate Court held at
Randolph DISTRICT IS Randolph within ana for
said district the 9TH day al ApriA ID. 1897 An In
strument purpOrting 20 he the last will and tesla
ment Of Eruics NJ. Richardson late Of Randolph IN
SAID district ueceasebeing rre,ened 10 The cnnrt by
John w HalCtle executor herein lanief r l'roDalei
II Is ordered by said C0uri that all persons concern
ed therein be notified 10 appear at session thereof,
10 be held at the Probate Office In Randolph
on the Nth day of April A. d.. 1897, and show
cause If any they have, against the probate of said
will; for which purpose il is further ordered that
copy of the record of this order be published three
weeks successfully in the Herald and News, news
paper printed at Randolph In this state previous 10
said time of hearing.
Bv the Court. Attest.
1927 WILLIAM II. NICHOLS. Judge
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-22

DEANS RHEUMATIC PILLS absolutely cures
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-22
We Have
Just Received

some new Parlor Furniture
that we would like to show
you. The prices are quite as
attractive as the new patterns
and designs. We are better
prepared today to supply your
every furniture want than at
established.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02

mines and their working under royalties;
the admission Of the Indians to citizenship
on the expiration Of their tribal existence.
This is the entering wedge that seems
destined to cleave and destroy the whole
tribal system, with community Of lands,
among the Five Tribes. 1t may be a long
time before the Cherokees, the Creeks, and
the Seminoles will follow this lead, the
first.named tribe being especially opposed
to It. Yet the tendency is all that way,
and it becomes manifcstly moro n moro
difficult, as the Indians advance toward
civilization In other respects, to maintain
their present land holding system.
Tho Chickasaws and Choctaws are en-
titled to the credit Of leadership in aban-
doning the old ways for the new, and as the
Chickasaws held back after the Choctaws
had signed the agreement, the latter may
fairly be considered AZ standing first.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
Syfax and CIPHER.

In response to THE Suns inquiry for i'm
formation as to the powerful but mysteri.
Gus verb "to syfax," an esteemed corre-
spondent in Louisville explains that
"syfax" is the twin and synonyme of
"philander," to court. According to this
correspondent the word syfax was evolved
in a moment Of genealogical delirium " by
the late Col. MIKEMCCLUsKEY, some thirty
years & the editor of the Louisville
Ledger. Col. MCCLUsKEY called "his
jovial friend, NIKE CHRIsMAN of Lincoln
county, KY" a "peripatetic syfaxer."
The jovial friend was we'll known all over
the lower Appalachian country, and, being
fond Of recounting his conquests among
the ladies, doubtless gave the word 'syfax'
a permanent vogue" This is very inter.
esting, and there can be no doubt that any
two jovial "MTKEs" are capable of furnish
ing all the language that can be used
in the courts Of love, and of inventing all
the etymology that may be called for.
TIL Louisville account, however, must be
classified, with all due thankfulness and
regard for Col. MIKE McCLusKEy and the
Peripatetic Syfaxer of the lower Appala-
chan country, as mythology and not
etymology. 1t belongs rs an exercise in
the derivation of words with DEAN SwIFT's
Jupiter, Jew PETER" with Nantucket,
i. e., IMAM took it = with that wooden old
terrible example, Mcus a non lucendo. A
noble word like syfax grows and spreads
gradually. and is not thrown out in a mo-
ment chronological delirium. 1t was easy
enough to make syfaxer out of syfax, but
syfax remains unaccounted for. Where
did it come froma Is it a corruption of
some more primitive word, or does 1t still
maintain its original brightness2 Is it in
digenous or importedl What is it's geo.
graphical range2
From Johnstown, hat too.well-watered
city of Pennsylvania, comes a new theory
OF the origin of syfax. Our esteemed con-
temporary, the JOhnstotn Democrat, Is
prompted by the MIKE MCCLUsKEY and
MIKE CHRISTIAN myth to go upon tnis
pathological excursion:
1--WE are inclined to believe his word 'syfax' a cor
ruption OF the Indiana 'cypher.' q term widely used
to denote that interesting and absorbing pastimo
which unimaginative people call counting. Down In
the Wabash country and in the White River bottoms.
where romance has Its home and where CoRYpoSs in
knickerbockers aud PHYILIsES in p~inafores learn to
bill and COO before they learn their letters. cyphering
Is the universal occupation OF youth and beauty
Young men do not go philanderins nor syfaxing; they
do not court nor spark; they do not cast Sleeps eyes
nor A'wooing go. When the sap begins to rise in the
trees and when the lApwing gets himself another crest.
the Hoosier SWANS go forth TO CIPHER; and the HoosieI
girls are never unwilling TO Join In this delicious d.
version"
Clearly the processes of readin', writin',
and cipherin' are much more attractive to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02

The Governor Of Pennsylvania has before
him a bill for as mad class legislation as Texas's
famous Antitrust law, which was decided to be
unconstitutional. This description Of 1t we find
in the Philadelphia Times:
THE bill. in addition to Infringing the right OF con.
tract that Is one OF the most sacred rights OF . citizen,
isclass legislation In Its most Offensive form. Its re-
strictions and penalties apply exclusively to corpora.
ton employers. leaving Individual employers TO mako
contracts which are forbidden to Others. 1t makes It
punishable by fine and imprisonment for any oficer
or agent OF q corporation to discharge an employee
for being a member OF a labor organization. or to seek
to prevent him from Joining and belonging to such
organization. or to accept from any applicant for EN-
ployment an agreement not to become connected
with labor organizations. 1t comedies to one class,
and very much the larger class Of employers. the
right to make contracts in accordance with their own
views. while II denies to other employers the right OF
contract as guaranteed by the fundamental law"
The Governor OF Pennsylvania is the Hon.
DANIEL HARMONY HASTINGS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02

To TIRE EDITOR OF THE suS-Str: It may be well.
owing to the somewhat exaggerated accounts in ono
or more of the city papers. OF difficulties to be met in
securing foundation for the new City Prison. to ex.
plain why there is no ground for any doubt at all.
Five test bortngs have been made on the site Of the
Tombs. all of which show similar material. namely.
q top Milling of broken building material, sand, and
gravel. everything several feet OF black mud the bot
tom Of the old pond. then many feet Of gravel, sand.
and clay. The maximum depth reached was l26 feet
and the minimum SIS feet,
Now with this depth OF material so uniform. there
can be no doubt as to the character OF the support
best suited to the comparatively small concentrated
loads we have to carry. namely. u foundation upon
piles.
1t is popularity supposed that = building unless
founded upon q rock cannot stand: which Is hiblicaly
true. but In III. light OF more recent e1 perience there
is abundant evidence to the contrary. In many OF our
large buildings in the city and elsew here to-day.
A good pile foundation. under certain determined
conditions. is botn the best and least costly that can
he desired,
A proof Of the preservation OF submerged timber IL
At hand in pieces OF the timber crib work forming
the foundation OF the existing Tombs which wore
brought up In the course OF the test bnrings.
These are as fresh and sound rs on the day the tim
beers were put In. years ago.
+. STUART WILLIAMSON. Consulting Engineer.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
Protection and Principle.

The NeU Orleans Picaylne is moved to
high moral reflections by the fact that va
rious Southern Senators, Democratic, Re-
publican, Popocratic, Populist, are seeking
to amend the Tariff bill so as to pile IN
more protection for their constituents.
Each one," says this high moral reflector,
"tries to raise the tariff to the highest rate
he can get it to, and nobody would be able
to distinguish from their acts to what
political party any but the Republicans
actually belong, a fact which shows how
largely policy, and not principle, controls
the political parties to-day" There is no
reason to believe that there il any less prin-
ciple or any more or less policy In political
parties to-day than there was in 1S47
or 1897, or at any other time. AS
to the Southern adherence to protection,
whether as a matter of policy or of prin-
ciplc, there IL much to be said which the
high moral reflector forgets. Since indus
try began to be diversified and manufacture
ing to thrive at the South, that sections
liking for the old doctrine of free trade,
which it inherits from the days of slavery,
when it sold its chief products abroad, has
naturally weakened. Southern men ask
themselves why the protective poiicy, uhucr
which New England and Pennsylvania
have p~rospered, is not a good thing for
West Virginia and Alabama, for example.
The country being committed to the pro-
tective policy. why should not each South.
ern State benefit as much AZ possible by
that policyi Common self-interest prompts
Southerners to ask for protection, and
Southern Senators to try to secure 1t for
articles in which their constituents are in
terested.
When you come to the question of princi'
/ pie in the matter of tariffs, what is to be
said for any party but the Republicans
The Republicans have long believed In
protection and continue to believe. The
Democrats said In 1892 that they believed
In a tariff for revenue only, but as they
went to work and made a protective tariff
1t is evident that either their tariff princi.
pies are very accommodating or that they
! really want q protective tariff and didn't
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02

youthful Hoosiers than to less fortunate
lads and ~lasses, but what has CIPHER to do
with syfax7 Perhaps about as much as
Wabash has to do with Wahabooe. Proba-
bly, the ingenious Col. MIKE MoCLUsKEY
would nave derived "~cypher" from "sigh
for" Possibly CIPHER in the sense Of to
court, to pay ones suit to, may be related
to CIPHER in the sense, mentioned In the
dictionaries, Of to hunt, to pursue, to fol-
low, but 1t would require a violent wrench
to twist CIPHER into syfax. x is not so
common and INEXPENSIVE aletter that 1t can
be assumed at ease. In syfax this ulti-
mate letter, with its sharp clash, is half
the beauty of the word. Allegorically 1t
represents the unknown quantity, the oc-
cult and irresistible force which sets the
world to syfaxing and the Wabash coun-
try and White River bottoms to ciphering.
Is there anything more than a superficial
resemblance between the two verbsf Sy-
fax, cipher; are they related save by that
sort Of errant chronological caprice which
made the medieval chronicler invent
King BRUT as the founder Of Britain 2
1t is not necessary to believe 80 in the alb
sence Of evidence. Syfax is a word of
might and magic, whereas cipher seems
pale, wizened, calculating, cold.
A correspondent in the University of
Michigan, "ORIANA," suggests a classi.
cal origin for syfax. MAY not syfax,'
she writes, "be derived from the name of
the Numidian Prince SYPHAx, who married
SoPHoNIsBA2 (THoMsoN's ~SoPHoNIsBA
you remember the line: %, SoPHoNIsBA,
S%oPHoNIsBA, orr. She was betrothed to
MAsINIssA by her father, the Carthaginian
! General HAsDRUBAL, but he broke the en-.
gaRement and gave her to SYPHAx. who
must have la great powers as a wooer.
1t is true that she had to marry MAsINIssA
after he had defeated SYPHAx, but as she
took poison, I assume that her heart was
true to SYPHAx. I am told that the old
fashioned reading books and school speak
ers' used to have pieces about SYPHAx,
80 that his name must have been familiar
to our grandfathers."
If syfax is derived from the name of the
Numidian King. perhaps its use as a vert
is of Afro-American origin. King JUBA
has been transferred from the north OF
Africa to the southern part of the United
States, and Col. MIKE MCCLUsKEY hello
that Marse," "Massa," was contraction o.
MAsINIssA. Indeed, some philologists hole
that jug" in the sense Of clink. prison
lookup, %calaboose, is a contraction of JU
GURTHA, the grandson of MAsINIssA, who
was starved to death In a Roman Jail. Blu
these genealogical deliriums and philologi
cal somersaults are to be avoided. A thirc
call for information as to the birth ant
bringing up of syfax is hereby issued.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02

Of the United States in the same period had
increased from 100000 900 to 1b2, 900 1000,
while that of Germany had risen from &c.
OOO.O 900 t 100000 tons. With this
daily increasing production of fuel outside
of Great Britain, the immense advantages
which she formerly derived from this all
powerful factor in the economic develop
ment of industries is growing less and less.
1t remains to mention the total figures
for Germany's export trade. In 1885 her
exports of home produce stood at $715 ,0OO,-
0 and 1s,s14,OOO metric tons; in 1895
they had reached 1885, OOO,0 600 and 49,
$4,000 tons, representing increases Of
1920, 900, 900 in value and of 9,515,O00
tons in quantity. Great Britain's exports
Of domestic products n manufacture in
1885 were valued in round numbers at
81, O,O0O,o 900, a falling off of about
$3.50, 600, 900 from 1890, which was the
zenith year in the annals Of Great Britain's
commercial history. We note, finally, that
Great Britain Is herself Germany's best Gus
toner, having taken from her in 1895
commodities valued at nearly $17O,OOO,-
600, or 20 per cent. ofthe total expectation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
SAD INDEED!
Mr.. Sauea Gordon Bennett Writes an Article
Expressive OF His Grievous Pain.
From Yesterdays Herald.


From Yesterday's Herald.
Some thirty, forty. or nifty years ago employees of
all sorts. whether they were editorial writer's, chief
editors. city editors, managing editors, reporters.
actors or others. worked for living wages. We mean
by living wages q fair return for the work they did
that is. living wages for th>r employer. But to-day
all this is changed. An employee. whether he may
he an editor. a writer. an actor. an art critic or q
musical critic. desires his wages in accordance with
his opinion of himself. The trolley car conductor who
sparest two or three lives in a trip of Q few miles by
not killing anybody considers himself worth at least
libel suits two or three times a month by not being
salary.
trades neutrality-suspicious., pressmen. and all
those people who naturally are associated with trades
unions-are not to be considered when compared to
the "brainy reporter, the brainy artist. the brainy
city editor. the brainy managing editor. or the
brainy night editor. Evidently the press OF New
York. and maybe throughout the country. has come
be looked after and should be contracted with. How
many contracts have been made IN the last year
with city editors. with managing editors. editors
of colored supplements. &C.! In fact, there Is only
one thing left-that some proprietor should contract
with another proprietor to reduce the size Of their
papers and increase their price. There would DO
money In that. But until that time arrives It will be
nothing but contracts and contracts-city editors
contracts, night editors contracts. reporters con.
tracts. artists contracts, foreign correspondence con.
tors themselves except to make contracts for the
poorhnusa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
The Terrible Temptation of the Citi'
zcus' Union.

1t Is with a feeling of disenchantment
that the own learns that the Citizens
Union, select and superior as it is, is not
impeccable. Its members have come to look
upon it as the last retreat of civic virtue.
1t seems that even in hat retreat civic vir-
tue is not sure OF itself, but quakes and
trembles in the throes Of temptation. In a
spirit of alarmed kindness the Ne,o York
Times warns the Union to look to its steps,
lest they fall. "The most serious danger
that besets the Citizens Union the Times
declares in its serious manner, sis the en-
ticement to abandon its fundamental prin-
ciple and make up its ticket by a deal"
1t is the mournful fact that many mem
bers of the Union, including even some
of the Werowances of the Executive
Committee. are afraid that the Committee
of Organization is trying to orange a
deal. Hence the cry, echoed in dirge.
like accents by the Times. for immedi.
ate nominations. The danger that civic
virtue will be betrayed " can be averted by
early nominations. Let it the c.. W make
up it's ticket now In honorable indepen-
dence Of political contest, and put itself out
of temptations reach by destroying the pos
SlDlllty OF u uedl. NO Otner means occurs
to the Times of rescuing struggling civic
virtue. Nominate! Nominate! Otherwise
the pledge of keeping out of politics will be
broken, and civic virtue will yield to the
insidious advances of dealers and heelers.
Is there a heart SO flinty as not to be
softened by this tale of virtue in distress
Nominate by all means, and the sooner thu
better. Anything to save civic virtue; any
thing to keep the Citizens Union unsulliec
by deals. Yet can a civic virtue which con
fesses it's weakness 30 early be strong
enough to last until falls 1t is beautiful t.
be select, but it is a trifie dangerous to b.
fragile. 1t is useless to deny that the pub
lie is disappointed by the conduct or wan
of conduct of the Citizens Union. 1t hat
been hoped that this company would b,
able to guar antee civic virtue against deal
for at least three months.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
Japnn's Quarrel with Hawaii.

The refusal Of Hawaii to make any in
demnity for the exclusion Of the lmmt-
grants taken to Honolulu by the steamship
6hinshu Maru, or to make my change
hereafter in the policy adopted In that
affair and in the case OF the Kinai Maru,
forces a direct issue with Japan.
The controversy turns IN q very few
points. Hawaii takes the impregnable
ground, which she finds fortified In actual
practice by the history of our own legisla-
ton, that q country has the right to regu-
late and to restrict immigration. Japan
does not dispute this general principle,
but holds, first, that the actual laws passed
violate Hawaii's treaty with her, and
secondly, that In the instance for which
indemnity was demanded the laws were
enforced with undue h~arshness, amount
ing to injustice, the decision Of the Su.
preme Court at Honolulu being especially
arbitrary. But the executive authority OF
Hawaii cannot be expected to go contrary
to the decisions Of the highest judicial au'
thority, and as to the treaty Hawaii does
not admit that 1t has been contrayened.
What will be tho outcome9 Possibly the
japanese Minister will take himself home
IN uuuSeon. II I1a"oii eeoou oioho 'n'
might quickly be forced to submit, as she
has no navy, while Japan has a strong one.
But probably she relies, and not without
reason, on the fact that she has a hacker in
tho United States, who will not see a ques.
tion of disputed treaty Interpretation de-
cided against her by brute force.
The exact merits Of the case cannot yet
be fully Judged of, perhaps, as the diplo'
matte correspondence has not been made
public. But the controversy suggests the
kind of difficulties that the little island re
public will lave to be prepared for while
she remains in her present political isola
ton. Fortunately that isolation may not
continue very long.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
Twenty Years on the Congo.

A letter from Matadi, on the lower Congo,
that, on April 10 last, the rail
road bridge over the Inkissi afluent of the
great river was completed and the first loco.
motive crossed the stream. Trains are now
running daily to the Inkissi, a distance of
Ill miles from the starting point at Ma
tadi, and the last large stream on the way
to Stanley Pool has been bridged.
Twenty years earlier, lacking four days,
Mr.. STANLEY, on his famous boat journey
down the Congo, discovered the Inkissi.
1t was in that region Of cataracts that he
found his greatest impediments, and 1t
took him five months, from March 10 to
Aug. g., 1877, to cross the difficult region
between Stanley Pool and Bona, fifty miles
from the sea.
Twenty years later, III miles of the jour.
ney he made is covered every day by travel.
lers in a comfortable car and in eight to
ten hours. Next year the railroad will be
completed to Stanley Pool, and then the
entire region where STANLEY toiled for five
months, and where his black comrades
nearly starved to death, may be crossed
almost without fatigue in the sunlit hours
of one day.
ISbiSbE leESbIs, tne BeOBTdpueI, WTOUe a
while ago hat he was amazed whenever he
contemplated the vast work done on the
I Congo in 80 short a time. That work OK
tends to every part of the Congo basin, the
second largest river system in the world. II
is promoted by forty steamers and forty
towboats, carried in small pieces on the
heads of mel 'ound 235 miles OF cataracts
and now al H.; on 1000 miles of uppel
Congo waterways; and that work, marred
though it has been by many instances Of
the cruel and unjust treatment of natives
by men who were not worthy of their trust
will be remembered in history as one of thu
great achievements Of this century.