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CURSING AND SWEARING.
REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON
THE HABlf OF PROFANITY.
There Is No Excuse for It When We
Have Such a Magnificent Language.
It Comes from Infirmity of Tempe
and the Profuse Use of Bynonla.
BROOKLYN. April '8. One of the
hymns sung at the Tabernacle this morn
ing begins with the words:
So let our lips and lives express
The Holy Gospel we profess.
After reading appropriate passages of
Scripture, the Rev. T. De Witt Talniage,
D.D., preached on the habit of cursing
and swearing. His text was from the
Book of Job ii, 7, 8 and 9: "So
went Satan fortli from the presence
of the Lord, and smote Job with sore
boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown. And he took liim a potsherd to
scrape himself withal and he sat down
among the ashes. Then said his wife
unto him, Dost thou still retain thine in
tegrity Curse God, and die."
A story oriental and marvelous. Job
was the richest man in all the East. He
had camels and oxen and asses and sheep,
and, what would have made him rich
without anything else, seven sons and
three daughters. It was the habit of
these children to gather together for fam
ily reunion. One day, Job is thinking of
his children as gathered together at a
banquet at the elder brother's house.
While the old man is seated at his tent
door, he sees some one running, evident
ly from his manner bringing bad news.
What is the matter now? "Oh,''says
the messenger, "a foraging party of
Sabeans has fallen upon the oxen and
the asses, and destro3'ed them, and butch
ered all the servants except myself."
Stand aside. Another messenger run
ning. What is the matter now "Oh,"
says the man, "the lightning has struck
the sheep and the shepherds, and all the
shepherds are destroyed except myself."
Stand aside. Another messenger run
ning. What is the matter now? "Oh,"
he says, "the Chaldeans have captured
the camels, and slain all the camel driv
ers except myself." Stand aside. An
other messenger running. What is the
matter now? "Oh," he says, "a hurri
cane struck the four corners of the tent
where your children were assembled at
the banquet, and they are all dead."
But the chapter of calamity has not
ended. Job was smitten with elephanti
asis, or black leprosy. Tumors from
head to foot—forehead ridged with
tubercles—eyelashes fall out- nostrils ex
coriated—voice destroyed intolerable
exhalations from the entire body, until
with none to dress his sores, he sits down
in the ashes with nothing but pieces of
broken pottery to use in the surgery fof
his wounds. At this moment, when he
needed all encouragement, and all con
bolation, his wife comes in, in a fret and
a rage, and says: "This is intolerable.
Our property gone, our children slain,
and now you covered up with this loath
some and disgusting disease. Why don't
you swear? Curse God. and die
Ah. Job knew right well that swearing
would not cure one of the tumors of his
agonized bod v. would not bring back one
of his destroyed camels, would not re
store one of his dead children. lie knew
that profanity would only make the pain
more unbearable and the poverty more
distressing and the bereavement more
excruciating. But judging from the
profanity abroad in our day. you might
come to the conclusion that there was
some great advantage to be reaped from
profanity.
Blasphemy is all abroad. You hoar it
in every direction. The drayman swear
ing at his cart, the sewing girl imprecat
ing the tangled skein, the accountant
cursing the long line of troublesome fig
ures. Swearing at the store, swearing in
the loft, swearing in the cellar, swearing
on the street, swearing in the factory.
Children swear. Men swear. Women
swear. Swearing from the rough calling
on the Almighty in the' low restaurant
clear lip to the reckless "Oh, Lord!" of a
glittering drawing room and the one is
as much blasphemy as the other.
There are times when we must cry out
to the Lord by reason of our physical
agony or our mental distress, and that is
only throwing out our weak hand toward
the strong arm of a father. It was no
profanity when James A. Garfield, shot
in the Washington depot, cried out:
"My God. what does this mean?" There
is no profanity in calling out upon God
in the day of trouble, in tl(e day of dark
ness, in the day of physical anguish, in
the day of bereavement: but I am speak
ing now of the triviality and of the reck
lessness with which the name of God is
sometimes managed. The whole land is
cursed with it.
A gentleman coming from the far west
sat in the car day after day behind two
persons who were indulging in profanity,
and he made up his mind tliat he would
make a record of their profanities, and at
the end of two days several sheets of
paper were covered with these impreca
tions, and at the close of the journey he
handed the manuscript to one of the per
sons in front of him. "Is it possible,"
said the man, "that we have uttered so
many profanities the last few days?" "It
is," replied the gentleman. "Then,"
said the man who had taken the manu
script, "I will never swear again."
But it is a fcomparatively unimportant
thing if a man makes record of our im
proprieties of speech. The more memor
able consideration is that every improper
word, every oath uttered, has a record in
the book of God's remembrance, and
that the day will come when all our
primes of speech, if unrepented of, will
be our condemnation. I shall not today
deal in abstractions. I hate abstractions.
I am going to have a plain talk with you,
my brother, about a habit that you admit
to be wrong.
The habit grows in the community in
the fact that young people think it manly
to swear. Little children, hardly able to
walk straight on the street, yet have
enough distinctness of utterance to let
you know that they are damning their
own souls, or damning the souls of others.
It is an awful thing the first time the
little feet are lifted to have them set
down on the burning pavement of hell!
Between 1C and 20 years of age there
is apt to come a time when a young man
is as much ashamed of not lieing able to
swear gracefully as he is of the dizziness
et kw first cigar. He has his hat, his
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boot and his coat of the right pattern,
and now, if he can only swear without
awkwardness, and as well as his com
rades, he believes he is in the fashion.
There are young men who walk in an at
mosphere of imprecation—oaths on their
lijjs, under their tongues, nesting in their
shock of hair. They abstain from it in
the elegant drawing room, but the street
The crime is also fostered by master
mechanics, boas carpenters, those who
are at the head of men in hat factories,
and in dock yards, and at the head of
great business establishments.. When
you go down to look at the work of the
scaffolding, and you find it is not done
right, what do you say? It is not pray
ing, is it? The employer swears—his em
ploye is tempted to swear. The man says:
"I don't kuow why my employer, worth
$50,000 or $100,000, should have any
luxury I should be denied simply because
I am poor. Because I am poor and de
pendent on a day's wages, haven't I as
much right to swear as he has with his
large income?" Employers swear, and
that makes so many employes swear.
The habit also comes from infirmity of
temper. There area good many people
who, when they are at peace, have
righteousness of speech, but when an
gered they blaze with imprecation. Per
haps all the rest of the year they talk in
right language, but now they pour out
the fury of a whole year in one red hot
paragraph of five minutes. I knew of a
man who excused himself for the habit,
saying: "I only swear once in a great
while. I must do that just to clear my
self out."
The habit comes also from the pro
fuse use of bywords. The transition
from a byword which may be perfectly
liarmless to imprecation and profanity, is
not a very large transition. It is "my
stars!" and "mercy on me!' and "good
gracious!" and "by George!" and "by
Jove!" and you go on with that a little
while, and then you swear. These
words, perfectly harmless in themselves,
are next door to imprecation and blas
phemy. A profuse use of bywords
always ends in profanity. The habit is
creeping up into the highest styles of
society. Women have no patience with
flat and unvarnished prpfenity. They
will order a man out of the parlor indulg
ing in blasphemy, and yet you will some
times find them with fairy fan to the lip,
and under chandeliers which bring no
blush to their cheek, taking on their lips
the holiest of names in utter triviality.
Why. my friends, the English language
is comprehensive and capable of express
ing all shapes of feeling and every de
gree of energy. Are you happy, Noah
Webster will give you ten thousand words
with winch to express your exhilaration.
Arc you righteously indignant, there are
whole armies in the vocabulary, righte
ous vocabulary—whole armies of de
nunciation and scorn, and sarcasm and
irony, and caricature and wrath. You
express yourself against some meanness,
ir hypocrisy, in all the oaths that ever
smoked up from the pit, and I will come
right on after you and give a thousand
fold more emphasis of denunciation to
the same meanness and the same hypoc
risy in words across which no slime hds
ever trailed and into which the finis of
hell have never shot their forked tongues
—the pure, the innocent. God honored
Anglo-Saxon in which Milton sang, and
John Bunyan dreamed, and Sliakspeare
dramatized.
There is no excuse for profanity when
we have such a magnificent language—
such a flow of good words, potent words,
mighty words, words just to suit every
crisis and every case. Whatever be the
cause of it, profanity is on the increase,
and if you do not know it, it is because
your ears have been hardened by the din
of imprecations so that you are not
stirred and moved as you ought to be by
profanities in these cities which are
enough to bring a hurricane of fire like
that which consumed Sodom.
Do you know that this trivial use of
God's name results in perjury? Do you
know that people who take the name of
God on their lips in recklessness and
thoughtlessness are fostering the crime
of perjury? Make the name of God a
foot ball in the community, and it has no
power when in court room and in legis
lative assembly it is employed in solemn
adjuration! See the way sometimes they
administer the oath: "S'help you God—
kiss the book!" Smuggling,* which is
always a violation of the oath, becomes
in some circles a grand joke. You say
to a man: "How is it possible for you to
sell these goods so very cheap? I can't
understand it." "Ah!" he replies, with
a twinkle of the eye, "the custom house
tariff of these goods isn't as much as it
might be." An oath does not mean as
much as it would were the name of God
used in reverence and in solemnity.
Why i3 it that so often jurors render un
accountable verdicts, and judges give un
accountable charges, and useless railroad
schemes pass in our state capitols, and
there are most unjust changes made in
the tariffs—tariff lifted from one thing
and put upon another?
What is an oath? Anything solemn?
Anything that calls upon the Almighty?
Anything that marks an event in a man's
history? Oh, no! It is kissing the book!
There is no habit, I tell you plainly—and
I talk to hundreds and thousands of men
to-day who will thank me for my utter
ance—I tell you, my brother—I talk to
you not professionally but just as one
brother talks to another on some very
important theme—I tell you there is no
habit that so depletes a man's nature aa
the habit of profanity. You might as
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house ring with their pro­
fanities. They have no regard for God,
although they have great respect for the
ladies! My young brother, there is no
manliness in that. The most ungentle
manly thing a man can do is to swear.
Fathers foster this great crime. There
are parents who are very cautious not to
swear in the presence of their children
in a moment of sudden anger they lode
around to see if the children are present
when they indulge in this habit. Do you
not know, oh father, that your child is
aware of the fact that you swear? He
overheard you in the next room,'or
someone has informed him of your habit.
He is practicing now. In ten years he
will swear as well as you do. Do not, oh
father, be under the delusion that you
may swear and your son not know it It
is an awful thing to start the habit in
a family—the father to be profane, and
then to have the echo of his example
come back from other generations so
that generations after generations curse
the Lord.
well try to raise vineyards and orchard*
on the sides of belching Stromboli as to
raise anything good on a heart from
which there pours out the scoria of' pro
fanity. You may swear yourself down
you cannot swear yourself up. When
the Mohammedan finds a piece of
paper lie cannot read, he puts
it aside very cautiously, for fear
the name of Goil may be on it. That is
one extreme. We go the other. Now,
what is the cure of this habit? It is'a'
mighty habit. Men have struggled for
years to get over it. There are men in
this house of God who would give half
their fortune to get rid of it. An aged man
was in the delirium of a fever. He had
for many years lived a most upright life
and was honored in all the community
but when he came into the delirium of
this feypr he was full of imprecation and
profanity, and they could not under
stand it. After he came to his right
reason he explained it. He said: "When
I was a young man I was very profane.
I conquered the habit, but I had to strug
gle all through life. You haven't for
forty years heard me say an improper
word, but it has been an awful struggle.
The tiger is chained, but he is alive yet."
If you would get rid of this habit, I
want you, my friends, to dwell upon the
uselessness of it. Did a volley of oaths
ever start*
a heavy load? Did they ever
extirpate meanness from a customer?
Did they ever collect a bad debt?
Did they ever cure a toothache? Did
they ever stop the twinge of the rheu
matism? Did they ever help you for
ward one step in the right direction?
Come now, tell me, ye who have had the
moet experience in this habit, how much
have you made out of it? Five
thousand dollars in all your life? No.
One thousand? No. One hundred?
No. One dollar? No. Ono cent? No.
If the habit be so utterly useless,
away with it.
But you say: "I have struggled to
overcome the habit a long while, and I
have'not been successful." You strug
gled in your own strength, my brother.
If ever a man wants God, it is in such a
crisis of his history. God alone by his
grace can emancipate you from that
trouble. Call upon him day and night
that you may be delivered from this
crime. Remember also in the cure of
this habit that it arouses God's indigna
tion. The Bible reiterates, from chapter
to chapter, and verse after verse, the fact
that it is accursed for this life and that
it makes a man miserable for eternity.
There is not a sin in all the catalogue that
is so often peremptorily and sud
denly punished in this world as
the sin of profanity. There is not a city
or a village but can give an illustration
of a man struck down at the moment of
imprecation. A couple of years ago,
briefly referring to this in a sermon, I
gave some instances in which God had
struck swearers dead at the moment of
their profanity. That sermon brought to
me from many parts of this land and
other lands statements of similar cases of
instantaneous visitation, from God upon
blasphemers. My opinion is that such
cases occur somewhere every day, but
for various reasons they are not reported.
In Scotland a club assembled every
week for purposes of wickedness, and
there was a competition as to which
could use the most horrid oath, and the
man who succeeded was to be president of
the club. The competition went on. A
man uttered an oath which confounded
all his comrades, and he was made presi
dent of the club. His tongue began to
swell, and it protruded from the mouth,
and he could not draw it in, and he died,
and the physicians said: "This is the
strangest thing we ever saw we never
saw any account in the books like unto
it we can't understand it. I under
stand it. He cursed God and died.
At Catskill, N. Y.. a group of men
stood in a blacksmith's shop during a
violent thunder storm. There came a
crash of thunder and some of the men
trembled. One man said: "Why, I
don't see what you are afraid of. am
not afraid to go out in frout of the shop
and defy the Almighty. I am not afraid
of lightning." And he laid a wager on
the subject, and he went out, and lie
shook his fist at the heavens, crying:
"Strike, if you dare!" and instantly, iie
fell under a bolt. What destroyed him?
Any mystery about it? Oh, no. He
cursed God and died.
Oh, my brother, God will not allow
this sin to go unpunished. There are
styles of writing with manifold sheets,
so that a man writing on one leaf writes
clear through ten, fifteen or twenty
sheets, and so every profanity we utter
goes right down through the leaves of
the book of (joil's remembrance. It is
no exceptional .sin. Do you suppose you
could count the profanities of last week
—the profanities of office, store, shop,
factory? They cursed God, they cursed
his word, they cursed his only begotten
son.
One morning, on Fulton street, as I
was passing along, 1 heard man swear
by the name of Jesus. My hair lifted.
My blood ran cold. My breath caught.
My foot halted. Do you not suppose that
God is aggravated? Do you not suppose
that God knows about it? Dionysins used
to have a cave in which his cnlpviis were
incarcerated, and lie listened at the top
of that cave, and he could hear every
groan, he could hear every sigh, and he
could hear every whisper of those who
were imprisoned. He was a tyrant. God
is not a tyrant but he bends over this
world and he hears everything—every
voice of praise—every voice of impre
cation. He hears it ail. The oaths seem
to die on the air, but they have eternal
echo. They come back from the ages to
come..
Listen! Listen! "All blasphemers
shall have their place in the lake which
burneth with lire and brimstone, which
is the second death." And if, according
to the theory of some, a man commits in
the next world the sins which he com
mitted in this world—if unpardoned, un
regenerated—think of a man's going on
cursing in the name of God to all eter
nity!
The habit grows. You start with a
small oath, you will come to the large
oath. I saw a man die with an oath be
tween his teeth. Voltaire only gradually
came to his tremendous imprecation but
the habit grew on him until in the last
moment, supposing Christ stood at the
bed, he exclaimed: "Crush that wretch!
Crush that wretch!" Oh, my brother,
you begin to swear and there is nothing
impossible for you in the wrong direc
tion.
Who is this God whose name, you are
using in swearing? Who is he? Is he a
tyrant? Has he pursued you all your
life long? Has he starved you, frozen
you, tyrannized over you? No. Ho has
loved you, he has sheltered you, he
watched you last night, he will watch
you to-night. He wants to love you,
wants to help you, wants to save you,
wants to comfort you. He was your
father's God and your mother's God. He
has housed them from the blast, and he
wants to shelter you. Will you spit in
Hk face by an imprecation? Will you
ever thrust him back by an oath?
Who is this Jesus whose name I heard
in the imprecation? Has he pursued you
aHyour life long? What vile thing has
he done to you that you should so dis
honor his name? Why, he was the lamb
whose blood simmered. fn the fires of
sacrifice fotyou, .He is the brother that
took off lug crown that you (bight put it
on. He had pursued you idl-your life
long with mercy. He wants you to love
him, wants you to serve him. He comes
'with streaming eyes and broken heart
and blistered feet to save you. On the
craft of our doomed humanity he pushed
out into the sea to take you off the
wreck.
Where is the hand that will ever be
lifted in imprecation again? Let that
hand, now blood tipped, bo lifted that I
may see it. Not one. Where is the
voice that will ever be uttered in dis
honoring the name of that Christ? Let
it speak now. Not one. Not one. Oh.
I am'glad to know that all these vices of
the community, and these crimes of our
city will l)e gone. Society is going to be
bettered. The world by the power of
Christ's gospel is going to be saved, and
this crime, this iniquity, and all the
other iniquities will vanish before the ris
ing of the sun of righteousness upon the
nation.
There was one day in New England
memorable for storm and darkness. I
hardly ever saw such an evening. The
clouds which had been gathering all day
unliinbered their batteries. The Ilousa
tonic, which flows quietly, save as the
paddles of pleasure parties rattle the oar
locks, was lashed into foam, and the
waves hardly knew where to lay them
selves.
Oh, what a time it wu^ The hills
jarred under the rumbling of God's
chariots. Blinding sheets of rain drove
the cattle to the bars, or beat against the
window pane as though to dash it in.
The grain fields threw their crowns of
gold at the feet of the storm king. When
night came in it was a double night. Its
mantle was torn with the lightnings, and
into its locks were twisted the leaves of
uprooted oaks and the shreds of canvas
torn from the masts of the beached ship
ping. It was such a night as makes you
thank God for shelter, and open the door
to let in the spaniel howling outside with
terror.
We went to sleep under the full blast
of heaven's great orchestra, the forests
with uplifted voices, in chorus that filled
the mountains, praising the Lord. We
woke not until the fingers of.the sunny
morn touched our eyelids. We looked
out the window, and the llousatonic
slept as quiet as an infant's dream. Pil
lars of clouds set against the-sky looked
like the castles of tlie blessed, built for
heavenly hierarebs oil the beach of the
azure sea. All the trees sparkled
as though there had been somo great
grief in heaven, and each leaf had
been God appointed to catch an angel's
tear. It seemed as if our Father had
looked upon the earth, his wayward
child, and stooped to her tear wet cheek
and kissed it. .So will the darkness of
sin and crime leave our world before the
dawn of the morning. The light shall
gild the city .spire and strike the forests
of Maine ami the masts of Mobile and
all between. And one end resting on
the Atlantic coast and the other resting
oil tin Pacific beach. God will spring a
great rainbow arch of peace, in token of
everlasting covenant that the world shall
never more see a llelugo of crime.
"But," says some one, "preaching
against the evils of society will accom
plish nolhing. Doyotinot see that the
evils go right on?" 1 answer, we arc not
at all discouraged.
It seemed insignificant for Moses to
stretch bis band over the lied sea. What
power could that have over the waters?
But the cast wind blew all night the
waters gathered into two glittering pali
sades on either side. The billows reared
as God's hand pulled back upon their
crystal bits. Wheel into line, 0I1 Israel!
March! March! Pearls crash under the
feet. The shout of hosts mounting the
beach answers the shout of hosts mill sea
until, as the last line of the Israelites
have gained the beach, the shields clang,
and the cymbals clap and as the
waters whelm the pursuing foe, the
swift fingered winds on the white keys
of the foam play the grand march of
Israel delivered, and the awful dirge of
Egyptian overthrow. So we go forth
and stretch out the hand of prayer and
Christian effort over these dark, boiling
waters of crime and sin. "Aha! Aha!"
says the deriding world. But wait.
The winds of divine help will begin to
blow the way will clear for the great
army of Christian philanthropists the
glittering treasures of the world!B benefi
cence will line the path of our feet
and to the other shore we will be
greeted with the clash of all heaven's
cymbals: while those who resist and de
ride and pursue us will fall under the
sea, and there v.-ill bo nothing left of
them but here and there, cast high and
dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel
of a chariot, and, thrust out from the
surf, the breathless nostril of a riderless
.Sv.-elle.st Mourning Paper.
It may interest fastidious letter writers
to know that the very swellest mourning
paper used by the elite of France
measures eight by five inches, and has a
black border half an inch wide. The en
velopes measure four and a quarter by
five and three-quarter inches.—New
York Tribune.
Teeth by Subscription.
A woman at Albany, Ga., wanted a
new set of false teeih and hadn't money
to pay for it. She went around among
the business men of the place with a sub
scription paper and si'-jceedcd in raising
the required sum.
While the bee keepers' convention was
in session at Waierviile recently, not
one of the fifty men who attended was
seen to use tobacco in any form.
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court house, in tiie city of Wahpeton, in the
county of llichlaiid, and territory ol' Dakota, at
public auction, by the slierill' of said coun
ty, on VKIDAV, the 11th \Y of MAY,
A. I), eighteen hundred cighty-oiglit, at 10
o'olock in the forenoon, to satisfy the amount
which shall then be due on said mortgage, with
the interest thereon, anil costs anil expenses of
sale, and Kitty dollars attorney's fees as
stipulated ill said mortgage ill case of fore
closure.
The premises described in said mortgage anil so
to be sold are the lot, piecoor parcel of land situ
ated in the couiity of Hichland and territory of
Dakota, and known and described as follows, to
wit: Tiie southeast i|darter [seifl of section
eighteen [1K1. in township one hundred and
thirly.livu [Inorth, of range forty-niue [ml
west.
Dated ill l-'argo, Dakota Territory, thisilth day
of March, ISKS.
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I" It A Nf Is A SoNTHAItn,
Attorneys for Mortgagee. Kargo. Dakota Ter.
(Kirst publication March SO, 1888.)
SALK—Default has been made
in the payment of nine hundred and seven
ty-threo dollars and Ihirty-six cenls, which is
now claiineil to be due upon a certain mortgage
made by John B. Uisliee to William A. Kindred,
dated the ijlsi day ol February, IHSi anil duly re
corded iu (lie ollice of the register of deeds of
Hichland county. In the territory of Dakota, on
the 'J.ltli day of Kcbriinry. 1882, in book U. of
mortgage deeds on page .r,ti4,riGr and BOO.
Anil said mortgage liavin! been duly assigned
by said William A. Kindred to C. R. Tyler by
deed of date September 14th 1885, recorded in
I lie ollice of said register of deeds of said
county and territory on the 5th day of
January A. 1). 1K8U in book of mort
gages on p:ig:s II) and 11 and no action or pro
ceeding having been institiitod at law or other
wise to recover the debt Secured by said mort
gage or any part thereof.
Now therefore, noi ice is hereby given that by
virtue of the power of sale contained in said
mortgage and pursuant to the statute in such
cases made and provided, the said mortgage will
lie foreclosed by a sale of the premises described
ill said moriganc, viz: The northwest quartcr
and the north Imti'of the southwest tjiiailer of
sec.ion number soventeeii in township number
one hundred and thirty-live north of range num
ber forty-eight, wesi of the lifth principal merid
ian containing two hundred and forty acres
more or less, iu the county of Kichlaud and ter
ritory of Dakota with the hci-editaments and up.
piti-litnaiices. which sale will be made by the
slici-itVof saidnichlaiid county at.the south front
door of the court house in the clly of Wahpeton,
in said -county ou the 1st day ofMAY I)., 1388.
al 10o'clock a. in.ol that day at public vendue
to tlie highest bidder lor cash lo pay said debt
and intere.-t and lil'ty dollars attorney's fees anil
the disbursements allowed by law, subject to
redemption at anytime within one year from
the date of sale, as provided by law.
C. R. TYLKU,
IT VAN*. Assignee of Mortgagee.
Attorney, Kargo, Dakota.
Kirst pub. March 15.
MORTUACiK
SALK—Default has been made
in the payment of live hundred and forty
four dollars and lil'ty cents, which is now claim
ed to be due upon a certain mortgage made liy
John Ulsbee to William A Kindred, dated the
•Jlst day of February, IHs-J and duly recorded in
theollke of the register of deeds of Kichlaud
county, In the territory of Dakota on the astli
day of February 18K2, in book O of mortgage
deeds on pages 5ti1,502 and 503. And said mort
gage having been duly assigned by said William
A Kindred to G' It Tyler by deed of date Septem
ber I ltli. 1885, recorded the oitice of the said
register ol deeds of said county and territory, on
the nth day of January A D, 1880, in book Tof
mortgages on pages and 10 mid no fiction or
proceeding having been instituted at law or
otherwise io recover the debt secured by said
mortgage or any part thereof.
Now therefore, notice is hereby given that by
rtlie of the power of sale contained in said
mortgage and pursuant to the statute in sucli
cases made and provided, the said mortgage
will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises de
scribed ill said mortgage, viz: Tlie northeast
quarter of section number lil'teen, in township
number one hundred and tliirty-slx north of
range number forty-nine west ol the fifth princi
pal meridian, containing one hundred and sixty
acres, more or less, iu the county of Richland
and territory of Dakota, with the hereditaments
and appurtenances, which sale will be made by
tiie slierill'of said Uichland county at tlie south
front door of the court house in the city of Wah
peton iu said county on the 1st day of MAY AD
ISMS at It) o'clock am of that day, at public
vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, to pay
said debt ami interest, and lifty dollars attor
ney's feces, and the disbursements allowed by
law, subject to redemption at any time within
one year from the date of sale as provided by
law.
C. R. TYI.KR,
MAIITINI!VAN, Assignee of Mortgagee.
Attorney, Kargo, Dakota.
Kirst pub. March I.',.
OF SALE—Notice is hereby given,
Hut by virtue of a judgment and decree
iu foreclosure, rendered and given by the Dis
trict court of the third judicial district in and
for the county of Hichland and territory of Da
kota, and entered and docketed in the office of
the clerk of said court in and for said county,
ou the litli day of March, 1888, in au action
wherein Willis A. White was plaintitl' and
A. .1. Uooilhue and Kate B. Goodhue were de
fendants, in favor of the said plaintitl'and against
tie said defendants A. J. Goodhue and Kate B.
Goodiiue for the sum of Seventeen hundred fifty
seven dollars and forty-six cents, ($17r?.ilii
which judgment and decree among other things
directed tiie sale by me of the real estate here
inafter described, to satisfy the amount ol said
judgment, with interest thereon and the costs
and expenses of such sale, or so much thereof
as the proceeds of such sale applicable thereto
will satisfy. And by virtue of a writ to me is
sued out of the otlice of the clerk of said court
in and for said county ol St'-chlnnd and under the
seal of said court, directing me to sell said real
pioperty pursuant to said judgment and decree,
I, J. M. .Miller, sherill'of said county and person
appointed by said court to make said sale, will
sell the hereinafter described real estate to tlie
highest hidile.- for cash, at public auction, at tlie
friuil door of the court house in the city of Wah
peton iu the county of Kichlaud and territory of
Dakota, on the 3uth DAY OK APRIf,, A. U.
isss. at ten o'clock a.
HI.
of that day, to satisfy
said judgment with interest and costs thereon,
and the costs and expenses of such sale, or so
much thereof as the proceeds of such sale appli
cable thereto will satisfy. The premises to be
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decree, and to said writ, anil to this notice, are
described
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said judgment, decree and writ, as
follows to-wit: Lot No. threo (3) in block No.
three (3) in K. S Tylers addition to the city or
Wahpeton according to the map or plat thereof
now on IIIo ii the ollice of the register of deeds
of Kichlaud county, Dakota.
MOHTUAGK
J. 11. MILLKR.
Sherill'of llichlaiid county, territory of Dakota.
W. S. LAtriiKit, Attorney for Plaintill',
Wahpeton, D. T.
(Kirst pub. March IB.)
the conditions of a certain mortgage exe
cuted anil delivered by David W. Stewart and
Martha A. Stewart, his wife, mortgagors, to
Dakota Mortgagee Loan Corporation, mortga
gee, dated tiie 24th day of November A. D.
eighteen hundred and eighty-live, and recorded
as a mortgage in the ollice of the register of
deeds of the comity of Richland in the territory
of Dakota, on tlie 1st day of December, A. D. 1885
at o'clock p. in.. In book 'S' of mortgages
on page 33!) on which there is claimed to
be due at tiie date of tills notice, tho sum of
nine hundred and forty-three dollars, and thirty
cents ($043.30) anil uo action or proceeding
has been instituted at law or in equity to recover
the debt secured by said mortgage or any part
thereof.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a
power of sale contained in said mortgage and
of the statute in such case made and provided,
tlie said mortgage will bo foreclosed by a sale of
themortgaged premises therein desdribed, which
sale will lie made at the front door of the court
house, ill the city of Wahpeton in the county of
Richland and territory of Dakota, at public auc
tion, by the slierill'of said county, or by his dep
uty on SATUKDAY, the 5th day of May, A.
D. eighteen .hundred and eighty-eight, at
o'clock in the afternoon, to satisfy the amount
which shall then be due ou said mortgage, with
the interest thereon and costs
and expenses of
sale us stipulated in said mortgage in case of
foreclosure.
Tlie premises described in said mortgage, and
so to be sold are the lot, piece or parcel of
land situated iu tlie comity of Richland and
territory of Dakota, uud known mid dcscrbed
as follows, to-wit: The northwest quarter ol
section tliirly.llve (35), township one hundred
and thirty (130) north of range lorty-clght (48)
west ol' the lil'th principal meridian, containing
one hundred and sixty acres more or less ac
cording to the United States government survey
thereof.
Dated March ITtli, 18S8.
DAKOTA MOKTtlAUK LOAN CORPORATION.
K. II. DICKSON. Mortgagee.
Attorneys for Mortgagee, Kargo. Dakota.
fKirst publication Mar. 21. 1888.]
MORTGAGK
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a
power of sale contained in said mortgage, and of
the statute in such case made anil provided, the
said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of
the mortgaged premises therein described, which
sale will bemaueat the front door of the court
house in the city of Wahpeton, in the county of
Richland, and territory of Dakota, at public
auction, by the slierill' of said county, or by
Ins deputy on SATURDAY, the 5th day ofMAY,
A. I). eighteen hundred eighty-eight at 2 o'clock
iu the afternoon, to satisfy tlie amount which
shall then be due ou said mortgage, with tho
interest thereon, and costs and expenses of sale,
as stiplateu in said mortgage in case of fore
closure.
The premises described in said mortgage and
so lobe sold, are the lot, piece or parcci of land
situated iu the county of Richland and territory
of Dakota, and known and described as follows,
to-wit: Tiie northwest quarterof section twen
ty-four (24) in township one hundred and thirty
one north of range lifty west of th'! fifth princi
pal meridian, containing one hundred and sixty
acres more or less according to tlie United
States government suivey thereof.
Dated, March 17, 1HSS.
DAKOTA MORTGAGK LOAN CORPORATION,
K. II. DICKSON, Mortgagee.
Attorney for Mortgagee, Kargo, Dakota Terri
tory.
CFirst publication Mar. 22. 1888.]
MORTGAGK
SALK.—Default has been made
in the conditions of a certain mortgage,
executed and delivered by Addison Hamilton
and Jennie Hamilton, his wife, mortgagors, to
Dakota Mortgage Loan Corporation, mortgagee,
dated tlie 27th day of November, A. D.
eighteen hundred and cighty.live, and
recorded as a mortgage In the ollice of the
register of deeds of the county of Kichlaud in
the territory ol Dakota, on the 4lhday of De
cember, A. D. 1885, at 2 o'clock p. in., iu book
'S" of mortgages, on page 342 on which
there is claimed to be due at the date of this
notice, the sum of eight hundred and thirty
seven dollars, ($837) and no action or pro
ceeding has been instituted atiuwonn equity
to recover tlie debt secured by said mortgage
or any part thereof.
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of
a power of sale contained ill said mortgage,
and of tlie statute in such case made and
provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed
by a sale ol the mortgaged premises therein de
scribed, which sale will be made at tho front
door of the court house in the city of Wahpeton,
in the comity of Richland, and territory of Da
kota, at public auction, by tlie slierill' of said
county, or by his deputy, on SATURDAY, the
5th DAY OK MAY A. D. eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
to satisfy the amount which shall then be due
on said mortgage, with the interest thereon,
and costs and expenses of sale as stipulated in
said mortgage iu case ot foreclosure.
Tlie premises described in said mortgage and
so to be sold, are the lot, piece or parcel of
land situated in the county of Richland, and ter
ritory of Dakota, and known and described as
follows to-wit: southeast quarterof section nine
(!l) in township one hundred and thirty (130)
north of range forty-eight (48) west of tlie tiftli
principal meridian, containing one huddred and
sixty acres, according lo the United States gov
ernment survey thereof.
Dated March 17th, 188K.
DAKOTA MORTGAGK,LOAN CORPORATION.
K.H.DICKSON, Moitgagce.
Attorney for Mortgagee, Fargo, Dakota,
(r'irst pub. Mar. 22, 1888.)
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SALK-Default has been made iu
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cuted and delivered by Math Wonner,
mortgagoi, to The Dakota Mortgage Loan
Corporation, mortgagee, dated the 2nd day
of January, A D. eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, and recorded as a mortgage
Iu tlie olllcc of the register of deeds of the
county of Richland, ill the territory of Dakota,
on tiie 11th day of January A. D. 188G, at two
o'clock p. in., in book "S" of Mortgages, on
page 355 on which there is claimed to
lie due at tiie date of this notice, tlis sum of
five hundred and seveuty-tour dollars and
eighty-eight cents (J571.8S) and no action or
proceeding lias been instituted xt law or in
equity lo recover the debt secured by said
mortgage, or any part thereof:
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