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v l TALMAGE SERMON H By Rev. FRANK DC WITT TALMAGE. D.D., Paator of Jefferson Park Presby terian Onurch, Chicago Chicago, Oct 12. — A vigorous pro test against the prevalent habit of pro fanity is made by Itev. Frank De Witt Talmage in this sermon on the text Exodus xx. 7, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The blasph Tier's condemnation is a mighty theme. Its curse indirectly af fects the whole human race. Every man belongs to one of two classes—ei ther he is a blasphemer and therefore, on account of his profanity, comes di rectly under the condemnation of God, or else he belongs to that large class whose ears are polluted by his profane utterances, in which class are some who listen with' indifference of con tempt, while others shudder with hor ror as they hear the blasphemous men tion of the name of their Master and King. No street car or factory or shop or camp is entirely free from this shock ing plague. In our streets and public resorts there is daily and hourly evi dence of the prevalence of this perni cious habit. Not only does the hus band and father swear, but bis exam ple is sometimes followed by his wife and his son and even his little chil dren. Motormen swear at the trucks. Engineers swear at their fires. Boys swear at their lessons in the school room and at their baseball bats upon the playground. Merchants swear at their clerks. Employees, under their breath in the store and out loud when they are away from the counters, swear at their employers. Men swear when they are buying goods. Fishermen swear at their hooks and lines and at the fish they do not catch. Commer cial travelers swear because the train or the hotel meal is late or because there is no water pitcher In the bed room. Sailors swear at the ropes and the winds. Farmers swear at the cat tle and the grain and the weather. Men swear at the gutter into which they tumble and at the wagon wheel which spatters them with mud. Blas phemers swear when they are happy; .. they swear wh£n they are sad; they ■wear at everybody and everything. The peculiarity of this habit of profan ity is that it so permeates the blas phemer’s mind and conversation that he gets to swear unconsciously. He can swear automatically in the same way that the lungs can breathe auto matically or a child’s eyelids can open and shut automatically or as a speak er, when be is thinking and planning out an address, can walk up and down his study automatically. It is about time that Christian pulpits should ut ter their protest against the universal evil of sacrilegious imprecation. Profanity is a cruel and a cowardly habit, because it shocks the holiest feelings and pierces the hearts of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Christians who are unable by law to stop this awful and blood curdling infamy. Only the other day a tele phone girl had a Chicago merchant ar rested and fined $20 and costs in the police justice court because the de fendant swore at her over the wires. His defense before the Justice was that he was hungry and wanted to order his dinner from a neighboring restau rant and that the girl in the central office of the telephone company would not give him the right connection. But iwhen the justice heard the young girl’s statement that she could not make the necessary connection because the lines .were busy at that time he decided against the defense of the Chicago merchant He said, “No mail has a right to hurl profane words at any public servant when that man or wom an Is trying to do his or her full duty.” But Christian people cannot as a class stop the profane remarks which they hear every day from the passersby upon the different public thorough- fares. The Blasphemer a Cowart. The blasphemer is essentially a cow ard, because be inflicts suffering on persons who are powerless to resist or retaliate. It is a hard word, but I use the plain, unvarnished Anglo-Saxon word which describes the cowardly act. I want you swearers to realise the ex tent of the injuries which you are do ing against some of your fellow men when you swear in public. I want you to fully realize how you are cut ting and lacerating Christian hearts with your blood curdling oaths by try ing to put yourself, if possible, in your Christian brother’s place, who is com pelled to listen every day to the public utterances of profanity. You can judge, perhaps, bow your Christian neighbor feels by supposing that some (me is speaking slightingly and disrespectful ly and slanderously of some one you very dearly love. You have a mother or a wife or, perhaps, to use a better illustration, a young daughter whom you fondly cherish. Suppose in some public place you should hear her name vilified. What would you do? Why heed you answer? Even now 1 can See your cheek flush and your teeth become set and your bands clinch to gether. You would immediately de mand an apology from the vlllfler or perhaps, if you are an impulsive man, you would raise your fist and knock that man down. You would do Just what a friend of mine did some years ago in Waynesburg, W. Ya. He was bringing home the dead body of bis little girl, who was his idol. As a great, rough, brutal porter took the coffin out the baggage car be, the father, said to him: “Man, please be careful. Don’t handle that box rough ly.’’ But when the porter in spite of that plea swore at the coffin and used a contemptuous epithet about the be loved form within it and roughly let the box tumble upon the platform, as an average expressman lets a trunk fall to the ground, my friend doubled up lis fist and knocked that porter clear into the tracks. He hit him so hard that the policeman who ran up at first thought him dead. But, though the policeman was about to arrest the suf fering father, he did not, for when he heard how the porter had sworn at the Jody of the dead child he turned and said, “Brother, if that brutal porter comes to, hit him again a little harder than you hit him before, and I will stand by and, if necessary, help you.” That spirit which my friend showed toward the porter who swore at his little girl’s body you, O blasphemer, would show toward any one who would insult the fair name of a pure, noble daughter, whom you devotedly loved! Now, my sinful brother, you who are addicted to the habit of swearing in public, did you ever stop to think that nearly always there are Christian men and women around you who love the name of Jesus Christ more than they love their father or mother or wife or daughter, or you love your child? Did you ever stop to think that by your profanity you are dishonoring the name of that Christ for whom those men and women, if necessary, would be willing to die? Have you a right to insult their Christ’s name any more than they have a right to insult your child? Oh, my blaspheming brother, 1 called you a cruel coward. 1 take it all back. I take that statement back, because you may have sinned thought lessly. I cannot believe that you have deliberately intended to do this cruel thing. In the past you have not real ized the enormity of the injustice which by the public habit of profanity you are doing against some of your fel low men. You are so kind hearted you would not hurt a dog or a cat. Surely after this you will cease to use blas phemous words in public and not fur ther cut and lash into the bleeding hearts of your Christian brothers and sisters with the sharp, merciless im piety which has heretofore proceeded from your profane lips. A Cruel and Foolish Habit. Profanity is not only a cruel, but also a very foolish, habit. My profane brother, can you cite me one Instance in all your life when the indulgence in the habit of swearing helped you In the least? Did the stone over which you stumbled get out of your way and apologize to you because you cursed it? Did the winds ever abate when you were crossing the seas because you blasphemed them? Did your employ ees ever love you better or work for you harder because you lost your tem per and hurled at them a whole torna do of oaths? Did your horse ever drive better because you swore at him until you were red in the face? Did the blood stop flowing when you cut your finger merely because you made the air sulphurous with your denunciatory imprecations? “No!” you answer. “I cannot think of one good result that ever came from the evil habit of pro fanity. It is such a foolish habit that I sometimes wonder why God does not let the sticks and the stones and the dumb brutes have power of speech to rebuke me, as he once bade the long eared beast of burden open his mouth and speak to the quick tempered and unreasonable prophet of old. I ought to have better sense.” And yet this evil habit of profanity would be absolutely ridiculous and ludicrous if it were not so heinods In its results. We have read how one of the kings of old in order to prove that he was master of the seas as well as of the lands ordered his soldiers to come down to the seashore and with whips lash the waves as they tumbled upon the beach, and when we read of that royal order we have laughed at the king’s actions as those of a madman and of an egotistic, cracked brained person. Wherever we have noted the imbecile act of an unbalanced mind we have compared it to the Insane am bitions of the hero of the celebrated Spanish romance which Cervantes wrote. But were the picture of a king fighting the waves with whips and lashes or the escapades of a Don Quix ote ever more ridiculous and imbecile than the act of a great, big, strong man cursing a stone merely because his toe stubbed against it or swear ing at the axle merely because the grease ran dry or blaspheming the iron head of a hammer merely because be, as a carpenter, was clumsy fingered and hit the end of his thumb Instead of the nail In the plank? Was ever a sight more ridiculous, if there was not eternal misery in its outcome, than a man standing at the gate of an ele vated depot cursing the train and wish ing that its platform wheels and glass windows and wooden seats might be consumed in the fires of an inferno merely because he was too lazy to get up In time for breakfast to catch that elevated express which would have landed him at his office in time to meet the important business appoint ment? I tell you there is something weak about a man’s head who will con tlnually swear at everybody and every thing. There is something soft about his brain as well as something very sinful about bis heart. Pr*tealt7 From Depraved Hearts. Profanity is a monstrous habit It either comes from a totally depraved heart because that heart wishes to condemn a fellow human being to the awful agonies of an eternal condemna tion. or else it teaches the users of pro fane words to have an utter contempt for the name of God and for his com- mandments. Blasphemer, have you ever stopped to consider what would be the effect of four profane words by which you con- lemn your fellow men If they were lit- irally carried out? Have you ever stopped to consider that when you ask God to condemn your fellow men to the infernal regions you express a de sire that through all the coming ages they will suffer greater torture than ever a human victim suffered upon the operating table, under a surgeon’s knife, when anaesthetics could not be administered? You express a desire that they shall be thrown into “the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” You express a desire by your profane oaths to see human belpgs suffer as Mark Antony and Cleopatra commanded them to suffer, when, at the banquet table, this guilty, merciless twain ordered poison to be administered to their slaves and pris oners so that they might witness their convulsions in the throes of an awful death. “But,” answers some blasphemer, “you know just as well as I that there Is not one man out of a thousand who ever means what he says when he blasphemes. His profane oaths are mere exclamations. They come from the lip and not from the heart.” Then, my brother, there is only one other deduction which can come from the use of this evil habit. Either you as a profane man wish to condemn your brother to eternal misery or you are lacking in reverence to God, which is precisely the attitude condemned in this commandment Either you de spise your fellow men or else you de spise the name of your Creator and your King. There is no other outcome to these two extremes. Either you are cursing your fellow man or else you are mocking your divine Maker. The Bear!nnlnira of Protealt?. The profane habit is to be dreaded because it is often the outgrowth of seemingly very harmless beginnings. The blood curdling oaths heard in the home of the rich man and among the so called respectable members of so ciety are not, as a rule, bom among the saloons and the outcasts. They were not once the Inhabitants of the slums and the places of wassail and crime. In all probability their germs were fostered In the parlors of Chris tian homes and in the weekday school rooms and even in the Sunday school rooms attended by Christian children. These germs of the most horrible of profane oaths were once the exclama tions and ejaculations and the slang expressions so commonly used by la dles and children upon our streets. They are the “By Georges.” the “By Graclouses," the “By This” and “By That’s” and the “By Other Things.” They are the ejaculations which are used today by many people who con sider themselves educated and polite and refined. Profanity can grow from seemingly very harmless beginnings. Therefore it is the duty of all Christian parents not only to refrain from the use of such unnecessary and absurd exclamations as those just quoted, but they should Instill into their children the right use of the English language. The Anglo- Saxon tongue is a noble tongue. It is especially rich in vehement, emphatic, expressive and, if I might use the ex pression, sledgehammer words, power ful enough to annihilate any foe. In its broad sweep of denunciatory words the English language is unexcelled by any language. Therefore, Christian par ents, in the education of your children you should teach them never to use slang. You should teach them that slang is only the immature child which will grow up into the destroying mon ster called Profanity. You should teach them that God hurls his con demnations at slang as well as at the hideous monster called Profanity when Christ says: “Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne, nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be. Yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometb of evil.” Could any de nunciation be more vehement against the use of slang common among our women and children and also among the men than those words of Jesus Christ? A Suicidal Habit. Profanity is a suicidal habit because it runs directly counter to the express ed commands of God. Albert Barnes once wrote, “There is not in the uni verse more cause for amazement than God’s forbearance in his dealings with the blasphemer.” But that God will ultimately punish those who take his name in vain there is no doubt The Bible distinctly asserts it And that God sometimes instantly punishes the sin of blasphemy is also unquestioned. Incident upon incident can be cited to Illustrate this fact Some years ago two English soldiers in the Chatham barracks gathered some of their comrades about them as judges. Then these two men made a wager. Then each started out to find out who could utter the greatest num ber and the most awful variety of blood curdling oaths so as to win that wager. After one of the soldiers had gone on for awhile in his blasphemous sin he suddenly stopped and said, “Now I shall utter one more oath, more hor rible than all the rest of them, and then I am done.” Instantly God’s con demnlng wrath struck him dumb. For three long hours he suffered and strug gled for breath. Then be died, a con demned blasphemer’s death. After the heart of the blasphemer’s body had ceased to beat his corpse, by the order of bis officers, was made a public spec tacle to teach the populace and the sol diers and the sailors alike that they might realize the awfulness of. the warning In the third commandment, that “God will not bold him guiltless that taketb bis name In vain.” God’s condemning wrath In that Instance came as suddenly as a stroke of light ning. My father often mentioned an Inci dent showing how sometimes the wrath of God can and does strike the blasphemer down; how it can strike the profane lips in the twinkling of an eye. The scene took place in a noted Infidel club in Scotland. That night it was decided by the club members that the man who could make the most aw ful oath in defiance of God should be elected president of the club. In this competition of oaths one man uttered so vile an oath that his comrades were dumfounded. But no sooner was it unanimously decided that this blas phemer should take the president’s chair than his tongue began to swell. It kept on swelling until it protruded from the mouth. The blasphemer's tongue k< on swelling until the blas phemer died. He died quickly, be cause God had once said. In the words of my text, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” But though Kazlitt Arvine gives in cident after incident where the con demning wrath of God has instantly slain the blasphemer, none of them ever made such an impression upon my mind as that which happened some years ago practically under my own eyes. We were then stopping in Eliza bethtown, among the Adirondack mountains. One afternoon a fearful thunderstorm came up. Before the tempest broke it was almost black as night The air became so still that even the leaves ceased to rustle. Na ture was silent, save here afid there when we heard a frightened bird twit- tez as she flew away to her nest and young. Then the winds begun to blow, and those great trees began to grpau and bend like monstrous human Lao- coons with their children in the fatal grip of a destroying serpent dragging them down. Then the heavens became at times like great rivers of fire. The lightning struck the earth again and again. The golden grain, like a wound ed and dying deer, bent the knee and pillowed the head in the mud. Every where were the awful, terrific exhibi tions of a supernatural power. Amid this battle scene of the elemqtyts a party of men were gathered in a burn but a short distance from the hotel piazza. In that company was an in fidel, a blaspheming scoffer. When the conversation turned upon the power of God, he arose and said, “Even in this storm I Juii not afraid to defy God.” He stepped to the open barn door and raised his arms as he cried: “Curse God! Strike if you dare!” Immediately there was a flash, and the blasphemer fell dead. The God who had uttered the words of my text had heard. God in one stroke of the unsheathed sword of fire made that blasphemer answer for his crime. Oh, my profane brother and sister, us the doom of the blasphemer sooner or later is bound to come, dare you today curse God? Dare you lon ger defy his will? To Save the Blaaphemer. 1 have written this sermon upon the blasphemer's condemnation for two purposes. The first is, I want to make the blasphemer realize his awful dan ger and, by the grace of God, to rescue him if possible from the awful de struction toward which he is heading. I want to rescue him, by the grace of God, because, my brother, you will never be emancipated from this sinful habit of profanity unless you seek di vine help. After you have been a pro fane man for many years your pro fanity becomes a part of yourself. You are bound to this evil habit by links stronger than steel. Elon Foster tells us that there was once a godly man who for thirty years had lived a consistent Christian life who was taken seriously ill. During his deliri ous sickness he swore all the time. He swore because the evil habit which he practiced in his youthful days was still lying dormant in his subconscious memory. So, my profane brother, if you wish to be emancipated from this sin of profanity you must pray to God for help. You must plead and pray for divine help to resist this evil habit to the day of your death. You must pray not only for the forgiveness of your past profanities, but you must also pray that God will keep your lips pure from ever uttering another blas phemous word. The second reason why 1 preach this sermon is to rally all Christian people to the support of a new interdenomina tional society, which has Just been formed to war against the sin of pro fanity. I believe this society has as great a mission as the Christian En deavor society, the Brotherhood of An drew and Philip or any of the other in terdenominational societies which are binding together the Christian people of the land. This society is called the Antiprofanity league. Rev. John L. Withrow, D. D., an ex-moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyte rian church and the present pastor of the famous Park Street church, Bos ton, has thrown the weight of his in fluence into it and accepted the presi dency. The object of this society is to rally all Christian people together to oppose this universal evil. That soci ety will furnish you tracts; it will teach you what to do and what to say in the unrelenting war which hereafter we must all pledge ourselves to wage. That society called the Antiprofanity league will arouse your holy enthusi asm if you will only let it Oh, my brother, will you ask God for help and consecrate your life to overcome the worldwide sin of blasphemy as well as all the other kind of sins which are striving to destroy the throne of right eousness' and are defying your Master and King? Lord God of the past, help | us to make thy Son’s name honored and worshiped all round this blasphem ing, cursing and Holy Spirit defying world—around this world which more often bears the name of Jesus spoken in derision than in earnest, tender, heart pleading prayer! [Copyright. 1902. by Louis Klopsch.] ROADS OF THE SOUTH HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Can Boaot of Some of the Best Road* In the World—The Employment of Convicts on the Hlshwaya of North Carolina. Among the many interesting and val uable articles published in a recent number of Harper’s Weekly was the following on highway improvement in the south: One of the most important, but least conspicuous, movements in the new south is that being made in be half of good country roads. About fifteen years ago there was a general revival of interest in the building of country roads, and now many com munities iu the south have systems of roads of W’hich they justly feel proud. Even North Carolina, long known as the Rip Van Winkle of the southern states, has at last awakened and is giving lessons to the outside world iu the construction of good roads. It is MACADAMIZED ROAD IN NORTH CAROLINA. no exaggeration to say that the roads of Mecklenburg county, N. C., are the best to be found in the entire south. The county of Mecklenburg is near the South Carolina line, and is pierced by that division of the Southern rail road whicli extends from Washington to Atlanta. The county seat is Char lotte. a progressive city of thirty thou- sand Inhabitants. Within a radius of one hundred miles of this city there are three hundred cotton factories, compr.sing more than half of v- . ,i.;i diesun.: looms oijernted iu tin- * ..u.i. In ISbO the authorities of the county conceived the idea of utilizing the con victs for the improvement of the pub lic roads. Instead of locking up of fenders in the county jail or sending them to the penitentiary it was decid ed to employ them at home in improv ing the highways. A law was passed authorizing the use of convicts for this purpose. The convicts were or ganized into a squad or camp, placed under the control of a competent su pervisor and engineer, and the work of grading, straightening aud macad amizing the roads was begun. A short experience demonstrated that the con vict laborers cost the county only 25 cents per day per head, including food, lodging, clothing and overseeing. The outfit for the road work, con sisting of a steam roller, crusher, bins, portable engine, road machine and a screen for assorting the rocks, cost about $5,000. At present the county has in operation two road outfits and employs about sixty convicts with each outfit The total expenditure in constructing each mile of macadam ized road is from $1,(500 to $2,500, not including bridges. In summer the convicts live iu teuts along the road, and in winter they live in barracks. Tbe rock used for the roads is bought from tbe farmers, who haul and depos it it at tbe convict camp. These roads have been in process of construction for twelve years at the rate of about ten miles per year. At present there are more than 100 miles of macadamized roads in the county. Tbe roads radiate in all directions from tbe center of Charlotte and extend ten or fifteen miles to tbe county limits. Tbe roads of this county have become so famous that delegations from many other states have come here to inspect them. Many good roads organizations exist In tbe south. Professor J. A. Holmes of the University of North Carolina has traveled in many states, giving il lustrated lectures on road construc tion and organizing good roads dubs. His campaign has borne much fruit, and tbe south can now boast of some of the best and most picturesque roads in the whole world. Necessity For Drataage. In tbe improvement of earth roads one very important essential often overlooked is tbe necessity for drain age to carry off the surplus water be fore it can soak into the surface, says Good Roads Magazine. Good roads can be constructed even in a prairie country, and by tbe adoption of im proved methods Immediate recovery from tbe effects of heavy rains may be insured. Tile draining is very effec tive. and with even a shallow dressing of crushed stone or gravel on the sur face of an earth road wonderful Im provement can be secured. BRAIN WORK. Should Last For A**s- There Is uo reason in tbe world why a road abould not last for ages If It Is built of good material and kept in prop er repair. If this is not done, tbe mon ey spent is more than wasted. It is more economical, as a rule, to bring good materials a long distance by rail or water than to employ inferior ones procured close at band. Its Effect Cpon the Body and the Kind ot Food It Demands. Tbe changes of tissue in tbe brain that take place during study and thought are very Important and very rapid. It has been estimated that three hours of brain work cause as great an exhaustion of tbe forces of the body as an entire day of manual labor. This waste must be replaced by abundant food, bat its selection re quires careful consideration and often self denial, for many things which the physical worker can eat with perfect impunity are slow poison to the brain worker, who exercises the brain at the expense of the body and rarely gives the latter sufficient exercise to counteract the mental strain and keep it in condition to resist disease. Bear in mind that, while the waste of the body is much more rapid, the depriva tion of physical exercise encourages torpidity of the voluntary functions and renders them sluggish in eliminat ing these wastes; therefore it is of the utmost importance that the tasks im posed upon them should be light Brain workers require the most con centrated and easily digested foods. They should eat fresh beef and mut ton, fish, eggs—cooked in many forms, but never bard boiled or fried—oysters and crisp salads, lettuce, chicory, toma toes, watercress, etc., with mayonnaise or French dressing. They should begin the day with fruit and make it form tbe principal part of luncheon and be very sparing in their use of cereals, eschewing entirely white bread and oatmeal. Their ideal luncheon, which must be light if they continue to work In the afternoon, is a glass of milk or cup of hot chocolate or, better still, a glass of fresh buttermilk, with two or three graham wafers or a bit of toast and some fruit, au apple, figs or an or ange. THE MILKY V/AY. A SyMcm Wlilt-li (>ive» (.'■ a Vague Ideu of (lit- Fternlty of Space. Tbe Milky Way. tbe grandest feature of tbe “tirniuinent which bends above us,” the hazy path which so majestic ally bands tbe whole fabric of tbe skies together, is uovv known to be composed of a grand aggregation of at least 18.000.UOU suns, each as large as or larger than that which makes vege table and animal life an earthly possi bility. One is apt when allowing tbe mind to revert to the contemplation of these misty and indistinct astronomical subjects to measure their magnitude or attempt to measure it by making terrestrial comparisons. It is obvious, however, upon more mature reflection that such compari sons are worse than “odious.” The bulk of our sun exceeds that of the earth 1,200,000 times, being (500 times great er than that of the bulk of his whole train of planets taken collectively. This being tbe case, what basis can we use for calculating the magnitude of 18,- 000,000 suns, each, as I have said be fore, probably larger than that which ^ gives us heat aud light? * ’ The Infinite number of suns whiph, d taken together, make up the Milky Way are not set at a uniform distance y from our earth or even from our ipn. '. In fact, they appear to work altogeth er independently of either this mun dane sphere or our “glorious orb of day.” The majority of them are plant ed at a distance too remote to be even imperfectly measured or understood. Some of them are so near (?) that light which travels at the rate of 185,000 miles per second, would cross tbe distance between us and them in tbe period of about an even tea years. Others, however, are so remote that it would take a full thousand years for their light to reach us. A Curloua State of Affaire. You must be very cautious how you treat your neighbor In Isle of Jersey, fop he can have you arrested on the sUgbtest pretext and if he has a grudge against you can bring about such a calamity by simply giving a fic tional account of your misconduct to the nearest lawyer. The latter will de mand a fine, and should you decline to pay It he will cause you to be thrown Into prison to await trial. Then, even if you are acquitted on the ground that the charge is unfounded, you have ab solutely no claim against your persecu tor, though you may have suffered a couple of monthz’ imprisonment for uothing.—London Tit-Bits. Serviceable For Coeatry Roada. Burned gumbo is a very serviceable material for use on country roads. It is not as durable as crushed stone, but Is superior to dirt Baras aa a Tar Collector. In the olden days candles were taxed articles, aud it was the duty of Burns, as an excise officer, to see that the tax was not evaded. He generally looked tbe other way, however, as when passing through tbe kitchen one night at William Lorlmer’s of Ken- uisball, where the gudewife was busy making candles, be merely remarked, “Faith, madam, ye’re tbrang the nicht” and passed into the parlor.^ Blackwood’s Magazine. Notice of Bankniptcy In thk Disthict Court or the United States for the District or South Carolina. In Bankruptcy. In the Matter or i i n R«nk Green Brothers Si Compant,- ,n Bankrupts. I rupwy. To the Creditors of Green Brothers k Com pany. of Gaffney, in the County of Chero kee, and district aforesaid, bankrupts. Notice Is hereby given that on the 13lb day of October. A. D., 1902, the said Green Broth ers A Company were duly adjud.cated bank rupts ;und that the first meeting of their cred itors will be bold at Gaffney in tbe Court House, on tbe OOth day of October, A. D., 1902 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the said creditors may attend, prore their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt^ and transact sucb other business as may properly oome before said meeting. G.W. Hpebr. Referee In Bankruptcy. Gaffney, S. O., Oct. lOtb, 1908.