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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21
How 10 Learn a Language.

The Volapuk craze seems TO have run
its course and died. and everybody has
made IN his mind that we have not yet
got the world language. II people only
knew how easy it is TO learn French or
German or Italian there would be less Of
these polish attempts TO force an UNI
known tongue upon the world. To get
along 8 well as there is any necessity l..
a foreign country you do not need more
than 1000 or 1900 words. Think
how easy it is TO get these words in
your memory. That means less than
the number Of words in an average
newspaper column, and IL is really the
fact that you a get enough Of French,
say, to get along with as easily as you
can memorize a column in the daily
newspaper. II is so with German and
with Italian. You get the grammatical
construction and then all you have to do
Is TO make yourself a vocabulary.
The trouble is that people imagine
learning q strange tongue is so hard hat
they will not attempt 1t in a common
sense way, but they shrink from the diff
iculties which only exist in their own
im~aginations. Cardinal Mezzofauti
could take a grammar and a dictionary
Of a strange language and hear a comics.
sion from it in three days. l hold that
the average nan al do partly as well
as that, anyhow, il he applies himself in
the right way. There is no reason why
every educated man should not be equip
ped with at least three modern Ian
guages, and six months Of his spare time
of the hours wasted on novels ant
triHes-would do the work.-C. II. d.
Ligne in Chicago News.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21
Saving Thousand. Of Year,.

II is interesting to try and figure the
actual extent Of the advantages reaped
from modern Observation-Disclosures
which some people are bold enough to
call In question. Does rapid transit, for
instance, really save any great amount
Of valuable timer
Take a city like New York, where
there are perhaps $50, 900 people who 20
each day to and from their work. Re
membering the distances Travelled by
some. it will surely be within limits to
suppose that five minutes, on the average,
is saved on each journey by the various
means Of rapid transit Of which most
avail themselves. This would make an
hour on the twelve weekly Journeys,
and lfty-two hours, or say I've working
days, in q year.
For ESQ, 900 people this means a yearly
saving Of 1850, 900 working days, or,
reckoning 800 working days TO the year,
an animal economy Of 4, 160 years.
Time Is money and these are signia-
cant figures. -Golden Argosy.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21
Must Be Better Trained.

We need and must have greater phys
zeal endurance, stronger mental powers,
better executive ability. In the good
old time Of slow communication, q
clever man competed with but a few Of
his immediate neighbors, and easily rose
their superior. Now he finds in any
field he enters thousands who contend
against him; he must, therefore, be bet
ter trained, and intellectually better
armed than his father before him was,
else, 80 far from making progress, he
cannot even hold his own, but must be
crowded out or trampled down In the
fierce contest for supremacy.-Franoes
Fisher Wood.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21
QUIET RESTING PLACES.
Family Graves on an Old Farm tn
Modern Cemetery.


Some Of US, perhaps, may remember
to have seen q cluster OF many family
graves in an uncultivated nook or dell Of
an old farm, where some of the less CON-
mercially valuable, but equally beautiful,
original timber trees have been allowed
TO grow undisturbed, till their very size
makes the few brownstone grave slabs
seem modest and nesting to the ground,
and where, the cattle having been kept
out, the wood violet and other shy wild
plants add their delicate charms, while
they also mark the peaceful seclusion of
the spot. Such simple and yet digniied
rural furnishings are in harmony with
the purpose TO which the place is dedi-
Gated and to the feelings of the sympa-
thetic visitor TO it, and leave the imagina-
ton free to c~onjure up, if it will, roman
tic visions Of the past. In such q spot
the thought might easily occur to one
that here was indeed a restful place in
which to have laid away the mortal re-
mains of q few Of those weary human
beings whose life struggle it was TO sub
due nature to their own aims, and who
yet finally succumbed to her and whose
remains became a part of her.
How much more appropriate 10 their
lives are such graves, with such sur
roundings, than they would have been
in some great cemetery, where their
modest little ~gravestones would have
been put to shame by scores of big, star
ingly white Egyptian obelisks, broken
topped Greek columns, Roman urns,
weeping Italian angels, Renaissance can
opies, Gothic spires, and all the other
kinds of snowy monuments, and where
all restlessness and seclusion are annihi-
lated by rows upon rows and scattering
swarms of factory made, white marble
gravestones, all set up on edge so as to be
as conspicuous as possible and looking as
If they would be heaved out Of plumb by
every frost. Such stones have, in fact,
the very unmonumental quality of being
in a state of unstable equilibrium.
And as If all these white monuments
and gravestones were not enough to
brighten nature into submission, innu-
merable fences are added, mostly of the
sort which may be described as the
'this-is-the-most-show you-can get-for-
your-money' cast iron fence. And, as
iron rusts into q color which is some
what harmonious with nature, such a
catastrophe is carefully avoided by paint.
ing all ironwork n gloomy black, a vivid
white, or by gliding it, like a cresting
over a chrome tea store. The managers
Of cemeteries seem TO be proud Of these
private fights with nature, and do all
they can 10 aid and abet them with their
ribbon gardening and by planting all the
most artificial looking specimens of ''na-
lures bright productions" that skillful
nurserymen can induce TO grow. They
have no limiting rules as 10 showiness,
but are only too glad 10 sell lots to those
who will spend most in making a SHOW
that will advertise the cemetery.-J. C..
Olmstead in Garden and Forest.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21

PRIVATE DISEASES I S!Ssa pG lSin1
gleet, structure, seminal emmissiOns, loss Of sex
ual power. weakness Of the sexual organs, wsnt OF
desire In male or female. whether from imprudent
hsbits OF young and sexual habits In mature Iears
or any cause that debilitates the sectional Fune'
tions, speedily and permanently cured,
Consultation free and strictly confidential
Medicine free from observation TO all parts OF ths
United states. Correspondence receives prompt
attention. No letters answered Mess accom-
panied by four cents In stamps. send stamp fol
pamphlet and list Of questions. Terms strictly
cash.
Cali on our address.
DIR. POWELL REEVES,
Cor. Main ST. and broadway Butte, Mont.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21
french Custom AT B.ptisms.

A modern French custom at baptisms
q that Of presenting all the guests with q
donation OF sugar almonds In a bonbon-
Mere, which has the appearance Of q roll
of parchment. On this roll are inscribed
the names OF the child, OF the parents,
god parents. the date Of the birth and
Christening, and the name Of the church
where the ceremony was performed.-
CHICAGO Herald
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21

II Is good TO put a bother away over
night. It all straightens out In the morn.
ing.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21
DR.. POWELL REEVES
Corner Main 81, and Broad
way, Butte, Mont.
PRIVATE DESPENsARY
Established for the Scientific and speedy
Cure of Chronic, Nervous and

special Diseases.
The Old Reliable specialist of many years exper-
fence treats villa wonderful success al LUNG,
THROAT, CANCERS, PILES, FISrOLA,
RUPTURE, cure without KNlFE0r CAUSTIC.
Treats all forms OF Throat, Lung, Nerve and
Blooddiseases. all Chronic diseases and Deform-
ties far in advance Of any institution IN this eoun.
try. Those who contemplate going 10 Hot springs
forireatment Of any Private or Blood Diseases can
be cured for yneihird the eos at our Private Dis.
peusary, Corner OF Main 1t. and broadway, Butte,
Mont.
RUPTURE cured without pain or hinderance
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-21

h AnlcC by this treatment a pure lovely com
LAUIESplexion, free IRON slOwness ireckles,
blackheads, eruptions, etc, Brilliant Eyes and
| perfect health can be had.
Nv. That tired" feeling and all female weak
ness or mptly cured. Bloal hing Headaches, Ner-
yous Prosiralion, General Debility, sleeplesness,
depression aud Indigestion. Ovarian troubles, In
hamation and Liberation: Falling and Displace.
Change Of Life. Consult the old Doctor.
EYE AND EARmansa1IiiSSu Of Of t%sI Iyslid dsn or
Globe and Tar or near sishtedness, Inversion Ofthe
Lids, scrOfulous Eyes, liberation lnhsmmations,
Abcess .Dimness Of Vision Of one or both eyes, and
Tumors OF Id.
ss-lnnamation OF the Ear, liberation or
Catarrh, Internal orFxternAlD Deafness. or paralysis
"a Th.akan.N nr.u. 49,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-27
can't stand the Nrggcr.

One Of the richest things We have
seen is the card addressed II II, cd
iter OF the Lenoir Topic. published
in its issue 81 tile 18Th inst.. ii /
sigpcd -. P Robbins" hill ~ firm
Boone, y. CT. June Alb. 1853. The
writer claims 10 have been Repub
lic,ln after the mos straitest Sect
that i. when be left Watauga coun-
ty to 20 as a delegate 10 the late
"5lack-and white" convention which
nominated Col. D9ckery for Cover
nor. lie SAYS " Mss out and out
oppost,i TO the prs5ent system Of
county government, rs a matter Of
course, ard really thought the cry Of
mi ger. brought against the Re pub.
licah party was originated by dema
gogues for political purposes. But
that, after attending The convention
and seeing, tnos necessary 70 men
non item No. 2 as inseparable where
the crowd was III OK and the weather
hotl the ofiicisus progressiveness Of
the colofel brothers, not 0nl, to the
extent Of ec.ing ~ secretaries, but
in actually managing the body,
husky chairman once welding the
Speakers gavel, he took on . big dis
gust and resolved ever afterwards 20
sttnd with the Democratic party. He
no longer q es;ions the justice. no.
r. mention propristy III taste, Of
the Eastern counties demanding The
present, or some other form, Of eoun
~ govt rnineEt So q security against
regro control and negro domination.
III declares himself now 10 favor, un.
qnahfiaily. If the present syste.. as
4 means III protection 10 the white
people. lie takes occasion IN he
card 70 formally withdraw from the
Republican party (which i respon-
sibie for an, danger there may be Of
foisting negro rule upon North Caro-
lima" he closes with an appeal ii
The young men 81 The country. warn.
ing them not 70 be carried away ''by
The sJeciUa, and deceptive sophistrY
pf Republican orators lie would
haze ID ~, obe and al white men, 10
do .. be las done IVA ID their hands
liz III connection with such parry.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-27

Atthis junsture all Of TIE electric
lights gent out and The hall vas LETT
in semi darkness. douglass is II !
ia lacr man csti err
lha ahtranc, of Mcki ley Wis
greeted win applause.
vas aid that the t'orventi u
wauhi ad ,urn after one ~ perhaps
two ballots. But dpih't
w I'd came from Conference at
the Grand Pacific lIatel, hat five
States had ielegrapel Sherman
asking him to withdraw Foraker
says Sherman will not withdraw.
Gov. KELLOGG, If Laulsia u, 50 d
II think Mr. Blaine is gling u YET il
great many votes onthe next ballot"
Il vas genera " expected that an
eff TT would We made 10 stampede the
Convention TO Blaine early in the af
tern o.. Some talk of combination
ON AL ison, but Blaine men expect
New York delegation on sixth or
seventh ballot.
Some Of McKinley's friends talk
ut the possible break Of California
to Mckinley. and a stampede to him.
Gov. Foraker saij Ohio would
no. vote solid for Sherman This
afternoon he asked about the 5tam.
peae 10 Blaine, He said, IF they
break q hin,.it is likely 70 ~ %
hiIn' He Is very strong mar =
II is said MCKINLEY and Gresham
are, % be given I chance Def re an
attempt Is made to break 70 Blaine.
Tribune says anti Harrison forces
have combined to prevent his nomi
nation. This morning. after Il ballet
Or two it will adjourn to lutte on
some other candidate.
The Ners says the ticket sill looks
like Blaine aud Harrison, 81 Bal Q
and Alger.
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Interesting staustlcs.

The Boston Herald has furnished
the public with some interesting
| figures in reference TO Presidential
elections. We neyersee the Herald,
but we are indebted TO the Char
Ilotte Chronicle for some Stats
tics compiled from that source show
ing the gains that each party made
during the different Presidential
terms, beginning as far back a. 1868
Using the Herald's figures asa
basis the Chronicle goes on 10 say:
Between 1858 and 1884, the total
vote Of the country increased BY 81
The Democratic party
gained S.OO2.202 and the Republic
can party 2,63i,267.
The Democratic party gained fOl,-
SSl votes on the Republicans be-
tween 1884 and 1858, but lost 457,-
03S between 1868 and 1872. II will
be remembered that in 1872 the
Democratic party completely backed
down and supported Horace Greeley.
a Republican, and lost by is timidi-
lty.
The Democratic party was never
more bold and aggressive than in
1876, and in that election IL candi.
dates made gain on the Republican
candidates, as compared with the
preyions election, Of 9l4,926 votes
In 1862 the Democratic party com.
menced the race with boldness and
enthusiasm, hst fought il out in a
hesitating, timid way and lost, a
compared with the Republican
party, 257,g53 votes. In 1884 each
party did its best and che Demo
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-27
TRE Chisaao convention 4 still in

IBE Chicago convention IS still IN
session to-day, The fifth ballot,
taken Saturday norningshowedt that
no candidate had any immediate
prospect Of i majority. The con-
vention was nom arer a nomination
this morning than it was the first
day it met, Sherman, Of Ohio,
H.lrrisol, 81 Indiana, AMI Algar, Of
Michigan, are in the lead. Sherman
has 224 votes, the highest number,
and lacks 100 votes of a nomination.
There is still a strong feeling for
Blaine although he is not in nom
ination, At one o'clock Sunday
morning several members of the
Ohio delegation had made up their
minds to vote for the 'Plumed
Knight" Foraker being one Of
them. 1t would not surprise us if
the tickets not Blaine and Alger.
But we await to-day's developments.
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cats under the influence Of the
great reform movement gained on
the Republicans 69,70I votes.
It will be seen that the Democrats
have gained in every aggressive
campaign aud lost in every defen-
siye one. In this campa gu the
party takes a more advanced stand
than it ever before occupied and is
fighting with more earnestness and
enthusiasm than was ever before
known.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-27
Ileals the .llltle JOKER,
wnminEtou sisr.

John sherman in 1888, said this in
the Senate.
- = : This tnbacco tax, IF all ot !,
ers. Is the easies. collected, the most
cersai1, increasing constantly from
year % year, dsptnd upon an ap.
petite that y iii be INDUCED no mat.
Ter what may be the tax a tax that
ms been more stable that any docs
not diminish The price 70 the farmer
Who raises il.
But John i dying III Office and
has changed bis tu6e, very much af-
ter tie mapnfr % politicians without
1xel, decided convictions. Two
mOnihs ago John said:
3D. 90 farmers complain III thi.
tax? 1.-THE President thinks they
10 nol b. i greaily mistaken. 49,
The iraditions and ppliT nf orr peo,
lie are agaip ~ ernAl tx Dur.
81 81 SINCE The var they ure d
t,se safy n v. II continued they
]. ~ he pduced: . pecislly Tn tx
y bicc., ~ longer necessary, should
,, 4 niff i
] ~ 6sts,lc "liitle joker = Now
yol so now you don't see.
Y,a ea,', trust such 9 political b lrle.
quin9
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The Cricket m algeria.

The Cricket IN Algeria.
Algeria is now devastated BY a
storm Of insects. That country is
alike tie object Of great curiosity,
and great solicitude.
The locust is familiar figure in
history; 50 also is the grasshopper,
but the present plague in Algeria is
said to be one Of crickct.s Eversince
l49l B. G., when the potent rod OF
Abrams son, in Egypt's evil day,
waved round the coast, up-called a
pitchy cloud Of locusts, varying on
the eastern wind, that Der the realm
of impious Pharoah hung like night,
and darkened all the land Of Nile
ever since B. G. 1491, then, the
locust has played his part upon the
historic stage. In 12S A. D., $780,.
0Oo persons are said to have persisted
because of the putrefaction Of vast
swarms of locusts in Egypt and
Libya. France, Germany, Poland,
Russia, and even England, where a
swarm Of locusts fell near London
in 1857, have been visited by these
nomadic hosts.
Ii reports are notexaggerated, the
present plague in Algeria will prove
as disastrous to vegetable and hui
man life as the famous plaques Of
ancient times. As an army Of
locusts once arrested the march of
the Roman legions and put them to
fight, so these Algerian crickets,
marching in a horde twelve miles
deep, more impentrable than Theban
or Spartan Phalanx, have stopped
the modern bolt Of iron launched BY
steam, and turned back the tide Of
human life and progress.
As has been said, these insects,
although they resemble, are not
identical with either locusts or grass
hoppers. Last year swarms Of
grasshoppers rayaged Algeria. This
year the crickets have taken their
place. They spring like grasshop-
pers, but have more rapid and sus-
tanned flight. They form clouds,
which shut out the light Of the sun.
When they alight on the ground
they destroy every trace of yegeta-
ton. They sometimes fall exhausted
on the ground in such numbers rs
to cover it with a layer Of dead
bodies, from which pestilential ex-
halations arise. The railway trains
have been stopped by the insects be-
tween Constantine and Batna.
The methods still employed to
check the evil in the African pos
sessions Of France is the old and ex-
pensiye one ofdigging long trenches
at right angle to the advancing
swarms, and placing on the most
distant side a sort Of fence, formed
by a web Of cloth. The advancing
insects strike against the cloth, fall
into the pit, and are there covered
with lime or mould. The ALGERIAN
authorities have spent 100000
francs in destroying them, and now
contemplate a further expenditure
Of ! 100000 francs TO complete the
work.
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THE Republican Platform.

+. The kepubilcan Fiatiorih'
Tie political fishermen for Re
publican votes, at Chicago, have
made Of their platform a huge drag
net by which it Is hope to sweep in
the whole earth 1t has something
to say about everything except tax
form. All kinds Of bait are held
forth to catch voters. The most
absurd thing in it is a plank ''un-
eompromisingly in favor of the
American system of protection, and
this is followed by photographic
illumination against Trusts. Such
a congIomeration of clap-trap will
not influence reasonable men. The
platform declares for extreme Pro-
lection, and this is but plan to
promote thenew monopoly of Trusts,
and If the voter viii think Of the
matter for an instant, he will see
that under high protection every bust
ness free from competition would
soon be merged in a Trust" which
would cripple labor BY limiting pro-
duetion and hold control of prices
and supply.
And, as the Philadelphia Times
has said, this platform would not
excite comment but for the contrast
with the compact and straightfor-
ward deliverance at st. Louis. I'm
der all its yerbiage the Republican
declaration is as distinctly in favor
Of a resention Of the present system
Of extrayagantly high taxes as the
other was for revenue revision and
reduction. No allusion Is made tothe
alarming accumulation Of themoney
Of the country in the United States
treasury, but numerous methods are
proposed for increasing the expendi,
tureof the United States, by increased
pensions, subsidies, Internali improve.
ments, free '.inssitutions of learn
ing" cheaper postage, and countless
other schemes for promoting de.
pendenee upon the Federal power,
The whole twenty-five hundred
words might have been boiled down
into a simple expression OF this gen.
eral line Of policy--a paterDal gov.
eminent supported by exorbitani
taxes for the enrichment Of mil.
li0naires. f
The rest is simply general abuse
Of the present administration with
out any special reference to facts.
Where abuse is impossible the policy
Of the administration i simply ig-
norcd. This, however, i Of no i'm.
portance. The country IS aeeus-
toned ID platforms which point with
pride and view with alarm and the
khief fault u the Chicago resolu-
n pas j. that they take 50 much
space to DO the merely regulation
thing. But auY one who has the
patience TO read them, side BY side
with the st. Louis resolutions. will
find that foronce the difference be-
tween party aims aud purposes is
wide and unmistakabie and that Il
goes further tina the tariff only and
concerns the whole idea Of the na-
iure aud functions oI constitutional
government.
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Ben. III. Bum.

Our candidate for Congress, Ben
II. Bum. will address the citizrns of
Durham County At this place tn
9TH Of July. Let eyerybot, turn out
to hear him.
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fooD adulterators should be punish
ed severely; no exceptions should be
made. We note the fact that a
London dealer has been fined Is for
selling American lard adulterated
with cotton seed oil
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-27

WAKE Forest College, that is the
Board of Trustees, have elected b
the chair Of PHYSICS and Applied
Mathematics Prof. Waiter II. Nj.
chael, Of West Virginia.
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JusT think o the state Of the
weather Yesterday and the day be-
fore aud Of the fact that a Mr..
SWEET made aspeeeh 10 the Chicago
Convention. What could have
been more appropriate {?
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-27

Kentucky gave frei Douglsrs one
vote.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14
T,,o Ega,.. cI.ao,e 1yh!ch.


 There are two usual ways of doing what Nature sometimes does incomplete ly, namely, to relieve the bowels. One IS to swallow Q drastic purgatye which evacuates profu5eiy, abruptly and with pain, the other is to take Hostetter's Stomach Blttsrs, the effect of which is not violent, but sufficiently thorough, and which does not gripe the intestines. If the first is selected, the person em- ploying it need not expect permanent benefit, and he cannot nope to escape the facilitating reaction which leaves tho or eans as bad or worse of than before. If, on the other hand, he resorts to the Bit tots, he can rely upon the restoration of 8 regular habit of body, consequent up on 3 renewal of a healthy tone in the in. testinal canal Besides healthfully re- laxing tho bowels, the Bitters arouses a dormant liver, imparts a beneficial i'm petus to the action of the kidneys, and counteracts the early twinges of rheuma- tisn, tendency to gout, and malaria in all it's forms.