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Fast and slow.

What is it to be ssfast?" To read
bad books and filthy publications,
when good works should be stud
led. This is to be s.fast."
To spend money, when time should
be boarded to earn and save money.
This is to be s.fast."
To frequent bars, and brothels,
and places of bad repute, in order
to get rid of time-of the time of
a fool and idler. This is to be ssfast."
To lavish money on bad women,
who will surely bring you, unless
you quit them, to destruction; who
will plunge you in debt and dissi
patton, and discredit youin all good
men and women's opinions; hussies,
who will lead you among gamblers
and all sorts of fash company
This is to be Every fast" The pit
of ink is not far from the house of
the strange woman.
To be fool generally; to live
above your means; to spend all your
income on your passions; to be old
in worldly sin and craft before you
are matured in years; to have seen
all and know all at twenty Eve,
which is seen and known by people
of eighty. This is to be s.fast."
To faunt jewelry and snobby
dress in hours which should be
spent in study, and reflection and
economy, is to be fast
To be slow and sure. is to do the
reverse of all the above. No mat
ter whether rich or poor, the young
man should seek no associates nor
do any act which he would hide
from q good father or elder broth
er. He should study profession,
or learn a trade. There is no curse
like idleness. He should cultivate
the society of pure women; marry
early; attend instructive lectures,
frequent the public libraries, and be
more proud of what he keeps than
of what he wastes.
The fast youth seldom enjoys ma
tured life. He has seen too much
to find content in temperate pur-
suits. Generally an infrm old age
attacks him prematurely, and he
goes out of existence like the bar
rem fig tree-wilted and wasted.
| All of this may sound like nurse
ry talk. Wel-the ssfast young
man" naturally despises the sim
| picities of good advice. But oh
who can tell how those NURSERY
thoughts came back to the wretch
Foster, as he sat in the Tombl
brooding over q life which woult
have been happy and honorable fol
long years TO come, If he had bu
needed plain nursery lessons ik'
the above, which no doubt . goot
mother taught him.
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after y o'clock In the evening, and
this curtails very greatly the pso-
fits of their business. The men
who pursue this business 'sprefer
darkness to light, because their !
deeds are evil It is wise because
it touches the rum vender where he
hves-in the pocket. Make the
business Improbable, and hun
dreds will abandon it.
Can it be enforceds Answer
YES! How! By rising above all
that is partizan, mercenary, selfish,
low, mean aud contemplate. We
can enforce il when the press-the
great American tongue-ceases to
be the tongue of SANDER, hatred,
vituperation and calumny, and ris
ing above low, mean, contempti-
BILE, partizan spirit, and mercenary
motive, will dare to plead for right,
and principle, and purity. It must
be enforced Our nation is the
asylum for the oppressed Of all ma
tions, because of the sacredness
and majesty of American law, and
that man is very ignorant or crimi<..
nal, or both, who clamors for per-
sonal liberty, against the enforce
ment of law. This is land of toll
GRANGE, and we welcome the strang-
er, and the foreigner from every na-
ton OF the globe-not that he may
remain an alien, but become citi-
zen-not of Germany, but of the
United States, and govern himself
accordingly. We may seem to be
little prlritanical, perhaps a little
pharisaical, to some of our adopted
sons; but while our laws hobble the
animal, they snap asunder the bonds
of the man. The American idea of
liberty is freedom in State and
church, bead and herrt, rather than
license to the passions and propen-
sites of the body.
| We think it better that our grand
prairies and mighty forests should
remain unbroken by the plough,
and unscarred by the woodman s
AK thousand years, than to have
them subdued by brutality, drunk
enness and crime.
| All hail! to the men who gave us
the new law-the Baxter bill. /
would rather have my vote recorded
in favor of that law than to be the
representative of a compromised
and drunken constituency hun
dred years.
| We call upon you-in the name
of humanity and in the name Of
God, in the name of the one mil
lion wrecks that bloat and tester
and fall hellward every year-of the
sixty thousand drunkards that an
nually fill drunkard's grave, on
the way to drunkard's hell; of the
two millions of children left worse
than orphans, with an Inheritance
of shame and vice; of the three mil
lions of women that have millstones
hanged about their necks, and are
thus cast into the social sea; of the
two hundred thousand that yearly
march to the poor house; of tht
four hundred and fifty suicides and
the seven hundred murders com
mitted every year; of the twelve
thousand lunatics that stare ant
mutter, and the great company o
idiots spawned by this monster
the homes made desolate; the 81,
100000 dollars taken from plent,
and comfort, and given to crime
and wretchedness; by all we holt
dear around the fireside-to main
tain the law.
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How a ouakeres. stopped Borrowing

The subject of borrowing and
lending came up in the course of
conversation with q subscriber liv
ing near Ithaca, New York, when
he suddenly recollected a funny re-
miniscence of that character which
had happened in his own neighbor-
hood. He said he had neighbor
whose family were great borrowers,
but not SO distinguished as pay
masters-they were always Dor
rowing, but seldom, if ever, return
ing the exact amount borrowed.
An old Quaker lady, another neigh
Dor, who had endured these inva-
sions for long time patiently, hit
upon very philosophical mode of
eventually putting q stop to the
nuisance. Keeping her own coun-
sci, the next time her good man
went to town he had separate and
express order to purchase a pound
of the best tea, and also y new can
lister to put it in. As he knew she
already had plenty of tea, and also
canister, he was puzzled to de-
termine what the old lady wanted
of more tea and a new canister, but
his questioning and reasonings
elected nothing more than a repeti-
ton of the order
Jim, did I not tell thee to get
me pound of the best tea and O
new canister? Now go along and
do as I bid thee"
And go along he did, and when
he came at night the tea and new
canister were his companions. The
old LAZY took them from him with
an amused expression on her un
usually placid features, and deposit
ing the tea in the canister, set it on
the shelf for special use It had
not long to wait, for the borrowing
neighbor had frequent use for the
| aromatic herb. The old lady loan
| ed generously, emptying back into
| the canister any remittance of
borrowed teas which the neighbor's
conscience inclined her to make
Time went on, and after something
less than the hundreth time of bor-
rowing, the neighbor, appeared for
'just another drawing Of tea," when
the oft visited tea canister was
brought out and found to be empty,
and the good old lady and oblging
neighbor was just one pound of tea
poorer than when she bought the
new canister, which now only re-
manned to tell the story. Then she
made a little characteristic speech,
perhaps the first in her life; she
said: ''Thou seest that empty can
lister. I filled it for thee with q
pound of my best tea, and I have
| lent it all to thee in driblets, and
put into it all thou hast sent me in
return, and none but thyself hath
taken therefrom or added unto it
and now thou seest it empty; there
fore / will say to thee, thou hast
borrowed thyself out, and I car
lend thee no more"
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A Vfncennes gentleman whose
passion for strong drink often gets
the better of him, has notified ell
the saloon keepers that II they sell
him any Intoxicating drink he viii
prosecute them to the full extent
Of the law.
indianapolis does not encourage
tradesmen to try to recover debts.
A grocer in that city Who publish
ed q list OF non-paying custoAners
hes been sued for libel
A Southern exchange has been
fooling its readers BY attaching the
nare Sylvarus Cobb to the last
Patent Office Report and publish.
ing it as serial.
In the forthcoming Atlantic
monthly for May, Mr.. james Par
ton has an article on the Prssi.
d,ntial campaign Of 1895, In which
he thus speaks Of Mr.. Jeffereon q
q candidate:
s Abraham Cumberte, an Evnns-
vile liquor dealer, Was arrested Lest
Saturday, On . requisition from
the Governor Of Penasslvania, at
the suit of q Pittshurgrdealer, who
charges him with having procured
the sum OF $4,000 worth Of LIQUOR
| through falaa ronpcannkeffr,
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General Grant recently app inted
Mrs L. A. Cary, the widow of
soldier, postmistress at Ashtabula,
Ohio. The President, on making
the selection, said: 1T is class Of
appointments I am glad to make
where it can be done; it is giving q
soldiers widow an opportunity Of
supporting herself and orphan chill
dren."
Postal cards have been received
with great favor in France; 2,93l,-
600 at two cents and 4,iSi,l 100 at
three cents were sold in ten DAYS
and the circulation OF letters has
not diminished.
The legal tenders outstanding are
$358, ,558, ,542.
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The Omaha Bee says that a young
lady of that town recently fell down
o long fight Of stairs and rolled out
upon the sidewalk. She was assis
ted into store, and after brushing
off the dust, took her departure
Although she denied being hurt,
she could not help but show con
trary by the hmping and evidently
painful manner in which she walk
ed. AS an instance of the predom-
nance of the bump of vanity in the
female sex, we will mention that the
first thing the lady did upon land
ing at the foot of the stairway was
to feel if her head gear was all right.
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A rural poet thus breaks forth:
so, the snore the beautiful snore,
filing the chamber from ceiling to
floor! Over the coverlet, under the
sheet, from her wee dimpled chin
to her pretty feet! Now rising
aloft like a bee in June; now sunk
to the wall of cracked bassoon! !!
Now, dutelike, subsiding, then ris-
ing again, is the beautiful snore of
Elizabeth Jane"
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A Kansas liquor dealer tacks up
his business cards in the pews OF
churches, and inserts them il the
hymn books. He believes In put
ting his advertisement where it will
60 the most good.
Each beau plucks . leaf from:s
coquette; so that thorns only re-
main for the husband.
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A clarivoyant trio, two women
and . man, have been travelling in
the South, pretending to cure epi-t
zooty by the slaying on of hands,.
They tried it on . mule the other
day, and the firm has since disov-
ed. $50
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ITO SEE OURSELVES As OTHERs
N SEE US".

Bill Baker owned lighting dog,
A brindle ooarse-hairsd bruit,
Whose chief delight Was to engage
In . canine dispute.
An Ill conducted, vicious cross,
Stab-tsiled. hair-lippsd, crop-sarsd,
And rsd.syed canine nuisance,
BY the neighborhood CANNES feared.
Bill's dog came down the street on
Diagonal dog trot,
A looking for some other dog,
For whom 10 make Il hot;
When ON scrubby looking bruit
His vision chsucsd to fall,
Starting from out . looking glass
That leaned against the wall.
Bills dog surveyed that strange canine,
With sinister regard;
Ard doubted II he'd ever seen
A dog look quite 20 hard.
The more he gaxed the less respect
He tslt within him stir,
For that dsmoralizsd, eross-grainsd
And hang-dog looking cur.
The stranger dog returned Bilps dogs
Insulting stare, in kind.
Which tended to still more TO disturb
Bills canine's peace of mind.
With every bristIing hair along
His back. he fercely frowned,
And curled bis tail until il raised
His hind feet from the ground.
He shcwed his teeth and cooked his ears
And Otherwise behaved
Impsrtinently. - dogs do
Whose Instincts are depraved,
But all bis hostile signs were met
Bvquits ~ hostile. quite,
And BilPs dog felt himself compelled
To stink away or fight.
He dew into that looking glass
With all his might and main
Filled with chagrin and broken glass,
He soon dew out again.
Reflection showed Bills dog that be
Had got into scrimmage,
Through indignation at the sight.
OF his own hidious image. ~
The knowledge Of his aspect quite
Destroyed hin sslf-sstesm, 81
For the hideous reality
Surpassed his widest dream.
Life lost, at once all charms for him.
30 mournfully be steared
Into nsighboring sausage shop,
And never reappeared.
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In this lasd Of boastsd freedom.
Ose great tyrast still fiuds room,
LsaAing thonsan nds Of our fathers
And cur brothers 10 the tomb.
Leaviag mothers broken-hearted,
Needing elothing. feeding broad,
leaving children, yes, the children.
Without homes to lay the head.
All have seen the tyrant's workings,
Many felt his 6. ushing power
Oh, the bowling Of his victims
IN their last delirious hour,
Not content to bloat their faces
Not content to blear their eyes
He incites host Of deamons
To stand grinning At their cries
Nor when death earth 8 cords have loossa'd
= ths victims spirit free;
IN. ~ ralns Of outer DARK ness
hFunkards dwell eternally. .
TO the priuce OF powers of darkness,
Whers the tyrant learned his trade,
Guarded By these ebastly esblIns,
SSs0 9oSu utuuaUI0 u0 .u20 m3OSs :
Long have earnest. thinking workers
Tried to stay the murd' rer's hand.
But alas! his work was sanctioned
BY the law that ruled our land.
Now the time has come for action.
God has heard and answered prayer;
Men muss work their own salvation,
While God frees them from this snare
Donot boast your country's freedom Z.
While 'tis IN this tyrant.s hands,
Vote against the monsters license
Vote to drive him from the land.
You'll BE recompenssd for trying
Vote aud God your work will bless,
For he hears the widows crying
Watches DER the fatherlsss.
Vots to free them, or the children,
Yea, the wives and mothers too.
All shall rise in time OF Judgment,
Shall rise up condemning you.
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Man respires, aspires, conspires
and expires.

No good that the humblest of M
has wrought ever dies. There is one
long, unerring memory in the uni
verse, out OF which nothing good
ever fades s-Woolsey.
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Mrs. Leggatt, the lecturer, has
brought suit against some Wabash
College students for $4,000 dam.
ages for publishing ibelous charges
against her in their college paper.
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The seven largest States are:

lie uHtlVe pOpulAClOu VI tuo Oul
ted States number 80, ,991, 142; for
eign born, 5,567, ,229.
The total number of schools In
the United States is 141, ,629; requir
ing the services of 221, ,O42 teachers.
Female teachers exceed in number
the males
There are SO, 329 male and 127,-
713 female teachers employed. The
pupils number 7,209,938; there be-
ing 34,059 more male pupils than
female. OF the total number of
schools given above, 125,059 are
public schools, the balance are pri-
vate or better known as pay schools.
The colleges number 467; en-
ploying 1896 teachers, and the pu
pills number Sc, 100. The aggregate
income of these colleges, from en-
dowments and other sources,
amounts to S3,176,717.
The total number of libraries,
in 1870 was 154, ,815, containing
As, 52S,O3S volumes. OF these,
107,673 were private libraries, con-
tanning 1851, SOB volumes.
| The church organizations of the
United States numbers 72, 459; the
number of edifices 53,0S2, with sit
tings for 21,665,O62 The value Of
the church property is $354, 49,
581. The Methodists own 21,337
church edifces, with property val
ued at S69,S24,121. The Catholics
own 3,S06 church cdifices, while
their property is valued at $780,
$50, 1866. The Presbyterians rank
next, numbering 7,O71 churches
with property valued at $50, 3,265,-
256. Then follow the Babtist, 49,
962 churches, with property valued
at $41, ,6OS, 1877; the Fpiscopalians,
2,6O1 churches, property valued at
$36, ,513, $40; the Congregationalists,
2,715 churches, and property valued
at $25, ,O69, ,698.
| The number of paupers suppor-
ted during the year ending June l,
1870, was 116,1O
| The number of persons convicted
and sentenced for crime during the
same period was 36,562.
The total area of land in the Uni
ted States in 1870 was 3,603, ,884
square miles. Texas has the larg-
est area, 274, ,456 square miles, and
Rhode Island the smallest, 1,306
square miles. California has On
: area of 188, ,981 square miles; Neva
! da, 1O4, ,125; Oregon, 1924; Min.
nesota, 1851; Kansas, 81,318; Ne.
braska, 1895; Missouri, 65,350
Florida, 59,268; Georgia, $4,000
Michigan, 56, ,451; Illinois, 55,410
New York, 47,O0O; Iowa, 55,045.-
Massachusetts is the most denscly
populated State, having 1864 per
sons to square mile, while Neva
da has but 0.41 to same area.
The largest Territory in the pos
: session of the United States il
: Alaska, having an area of 577, ,39:
square miles, and the smallest il
!, the District of Columbia, having
an area of only ga square miles.
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Interesting Facts from the Census Of
= 1870.

The cen sus of 1870 shows the to
tai population of the United States
to be 38,925, ,598, divided as fol-
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VOL. XLIII.l
A Lecture, Delivered at the Berry
81 M. E. Church, March i0. '73.
BY REV. A. MARINE

"Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging;
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not
wise. Prov XXI.
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RAILROAD ADVERTISEMENTS.
ARRANGE, ALEXANDRIA, AND MAN
" ese4 ASSAS RAILROAD.
!. -. DO Ii}I n ia LILY. TRAINS. 49, H.

On and after TUESDAY, AR. Il 1873, two
daily passenger trains will run between " ASll-
INGTON and Lynchburs, etfec tng double GAL
ly connections through bctM cen New York
and New Orleans At Gol.donsv Tile counecton
is made by mail train with the Chesapeake ana
Ohio Railroad daily, Sunday excepted TO tlslch :
mond,' Staunton and the W EST. at Y nchburg
with Atantic,' Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Ter
the West and Southwest, and at Washington
for the North and Northwest.
Leave Washington daily ats7.do q m and sou
p. m, and Alexandria at 10 q, m. and s. p. m
arriving at Lynchburg 50 P. M. and 4.2o
a. NJ ;.
Leave Lvnehburg at 8. 90 am. and p.
arrive at Alexandria at g. 10 p. bi land n 90 aIn
and at WASH ington at 7.l5 pr. m. and ls.~ep
IN.
For Manassas Division leave Washington
daily (ekccepting Sunday with main line tram
at I .05 a.m; and Alexandr ia at 8. 10 am. Leave
Manassas Junction at 1000 am. after arrival OF
main line Express train from Lynchburg, con-
meet at Strasburg for Winchester and all points
on Baltimore and Ohio Il. Il. and arlVe at
Harrisonburg at 80 p NJ: thence by Harman
Co.'S stag, lines to Stanton, Rawley Springs
&c.
5ag- Eastward, leave Harrisonburg at $40
a. m. connect at Strasdcrg with trains to and
from Winchester arrive at Manassas at 8, Is
a. IN. in time for ma train South on main line
to Richmond, Lynchburg and the South, and
con Getting with northbound Express to Alex
andria, making the p. m. train from Wash
ington to Baltimore, PHILADELPHIA and New
York.
va Leaving Harr;sonburg at 5 40 a. m. and
Winchester Al a. m. arrive at Richmond at
5,3e p. IN. Hynchburg at so 2. m. and New
York at 0,l2 p. III. same day. Leave Lynch
burg at s a. II. arrive at Harrisouburg at 4 40
p. N. and Winchester att, 80 p. N. with good
connections forward to alI the West.
Elegant sleeping cars are run daily between
New York and Lynchburg, and by way OF
Knoxville. A rlanta and Mouite to New orleags.
Through ticketsand baggage checked to all
prominentpoints.
J. NJ. BROADUs, "a.
apr If. General Ticket Agent.
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All he could do, Lafayette man
couldn't light the lamp, though he used
every tooth in'h his wifes hair comb for
matches. But there was an explosion
next morning that the kerosene wasn't
responsible for.
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POLITICAL
THE BROCK.


Up in wis, where few men come to fool,
There lives and sings little lonely brook
Liveth and singeth IN the dreary vines,
Yet creepeth on to where the daylight shines.
Pure from their heaven in mountain chalice caught,
1t drinks the rain drinks the soul her thought;
And down dim honows where it winds along,
Pours it's life burdens of unlssened song.
Il catch the nlurnur of its uadertone
That sigeth ceaselessly, alone alone !
And hear afar the rivers gloriously
Shout on their Path towards the shining sea.
The voiceful rivers, chanting to the sun,
And wearing names of honor, every one
Outreaching wide, and joining baud with hand
To pour great gifts along the asking land.
All! lonely brook Creep onward through the pines,
Press through the gloom to whore the daylight shines
fling on among the stones, and secretly
Feel how the floods are all akin to thee!
Drink the sweet rain the gentle Heaven sendeth,
Hold thy own path. howeverward it tendeth;
For somewhere. underneath the eternal sky;
Though, too, shalt find the rivers by-and-by!
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A worthy old farmer, who was being
worried in his cross examination by a
lawyer in Maine, exclaimed: s'Look
here, squire, don't you ask a good
many foolish questions 2"