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The Password.

During the recent American war, no
BILE band of Christians, called the Christian
Commission, at the head ofwhich was Mr..
Stuart, accompanied the army wherever it
went, and, amidst the sick, wounded and
dying, did a great work for Jesus. Late
one night, Mr. Stuart had to pass the lines
of the two armies, and before starting he
asked the colonel Of the regiment for the
password. Chicago" was given him, and
away he rode, feeling all safe. At the
lines a sentry challenged him with the
usual "Who goes there? friend or toc?'
"a friend, said Mr. Stuart. The sentry
presented his rifle and demanded the pass
word. Chicago" was the confident reply
Without moving, the sentry said, "Mr
Stuart, it is my duty to shoot you, for you
have given the wrong password. Ride
back to headquarters and get the right
one, for it would be death for me to give
it you"
Mr.. Stuart turned his horses head. gal
Hoped back to the colonel's tent, and rush
ing in, said, Colonel, you gave me tn,
password Chicago and it is wrong.
''How could l be such fool?" said thu
colonel chat was the one for yesterday
to-day's is Massachusetts l am deeply
sorry for the mistake, Mr.. Stuart" Again
he approached the lines, and again tn,
challenge met him, "Who goes there
friend or foe?" "a friend" said Mr.. Stu
art. Have you the password" "Massa
chusetts," was the reply. At once the riff
was Lowered, and the word given. "Pass
As Mr.. Stuart rode up to the sentry, h
said, "Well, you have asked me for tn
password twice; once l gave it wrong; i
might have been fatal to me. Let me asl
you, my lad, do you know the password 70
heaven, which will only be asked 70
Once?" The sentry replied, Il thank Co
| do, sir; | learned it from your lips in
New York Sabbath-schoOl- blood G
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM tina
is the password, sir"
Oh, see to it that you have the RICH
password at heavens gate. The blood, an
only the blood of Jesus, is sufficient Their,
Jesus only in life and after this life. Lu
Their, whenever he wrote a letter, heade
| the sheet "Jesus, as if to intimate that a
must be done with reference to him. Ii
this be your motto, as it was of many
martyr who, for his faith, suffered deaf
by burning: "Jesus only"
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Ihe Way, the Truth. the Life

We extract the following from the pc
roration of the admirable baccalaureate re-
Gently delivered at Iowa College, by presi-
dent Magoun, from the words of Jesus: 81
am the Way and the Truth and the Life" |
stop with reaching the Just and accu-
rate meaning Of the text. 1t were futile to
think to explore or exhaust it. Each of its
three-fold parts stretches away into the In
finite. Even the Way is what the angels
desire to look into, and the Truth and the
Life they comprehend rs little. All this
grand and exhaustive synthesis of saliva
ton from lips divine! All is in it that the
largest type of humanity can ever ask
the whole OF mans liabilities, his POSSIBLE
ties, his spiritual and eternal being provid-
ed for. 1t meets the whole of man but
who can tell what the whole of man is!
The whole of experience, but whose thought
even has exhausted that? The whole OF
history, but what eye has comprised OF
foreseen 1t? Above them all He sits, crown.
ed and royal, the man Divine, the God in.
carnate, the creatures best friend, the Gre
ator's best expression--all Highland pow
er-and holiness; His countenance as thu
sun shining in his strength, flashing will
resplendency inconceivable. His vestur,
dipped in blood, His eyes as fame of fire
How poor beside that mental image of Him
the painted Christs that burn on the wall
of the antique and grand cathedrals of Ro
man Catholic lands have stood befor
these marvellous creations of art, tremblin
to the last tenuous thread of sensibility i
that nature which responds to expressio
and to beauty, but how poor the feelin
compared with that begotten by the Chri
four Protestant faith There is no pow,
in the last finish of art to communicate IL
Christly experience, to vitalize and rene
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Selling the Soul.

The Rev Oh. Spurgeon tells the fol-
loving story III one OF his sermons;
There Is story told OF most eccentric
minister, that walking out one morning,
he saw man going to work and said to
him, "What lovely morning! How CRATE
full we ought to be to God for all his mer-
cies" The man said he did not know
much about it. "Why,' said the minister,
81 suppose YOU always pray to God for
your wife and family-tor your children,
don't your" no. said he, Il do not
know that [ do What" said the min
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Female SUFFRAGE.

The advocates of woman's suffrage have
much to say of the refining influence upon
politics of the new, female element, when
it shall be introduced. They imagine that
it will purge out all coarseness, bitterness
and immortality, and elevate politics to a
higher level. Those, on the contrary, who
believe that the bible doctrine of human
depravity includes women, and who reflect
upon the intensity of woman's feelings are
more inclined to believe that female suf-
frage will infuse an additional element of
bitterness and partisanship. But a few
facts are worth more than all theories. The
memory of the special greatness and hui
mainly infused into the late rebellion by
the ladies of the South, and of how much
they did to hold back their husbands and
sons, their lovers and brothers from the
war itself, must be the ground of the argu-
ment that when women vote, we shall have
no more wars, that political contests will
be carried on with perfect courtesy and
good nature. But as similar facts may
still be useful we quote from the following
letter, in the American Missionary, of q
teacher among the Freedmen at Augusta
Georgia:
The very first. time 1 went out, Miss b
who had never before been South, was star
tied by hearing lady say, for our benefit
"Here are those mean Yankee schoo
ma ans come back to cheat the niggersl
can teach niggers how to work, but not t.
read and spell" perhaps she could not.
A few weeks ago Miss Williams and
were quietly walking along, when a splen
did barouche passed, with four elegant
dressed ladies (9) in it and a colored drive
!. We had scarcely noticed it when one of tn
four rose and shook her fist at us, calm
out in tone that made us start, ''See tho,
Yankees Oh you
g using words too profane and vile to writ
e We took no notice but trembled to hei
such language from the lips of female.
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Forgiveness.

One day, when wrong had stung my heart.
The tempter said to me,
"Revenge and Scorn shall hurl the smart
Back on thine enemy"
Swift on their mission sped the twain,
Hurting their words of fire;
They kindled hate that sprang amain
From friendships smouldering pyre.
"My foe" said, "shall know my might
But when l saw his face
So lost to honor or to right,
So fallen from Gods grace,
Strange sadness Ger my spirit stole
ofpenitence the germ,
That had girded up my soul
To battle with worm.
So when sweet pity touched my heart,
An angel said to me:
TWAS but the human felt the smart
The spirit can make free.
IT'S possible the flesh to wear
Yet life divine to live;
Christ like it is the cross to bear,
And God like to forgive"
Liberal Christian
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An Efficient Ministry,

To churches seeking minister, indeed
to all churches we commend the following,
clipped from the Intelligencer:
"The best pastor is not the minister who
has under his charge the wealthiest and
most fashionable people, nor is he necessa-
rily the best who has the largest crowd
waiting upon his ministrations, nor yet he
for whom the most liberal provision is
made by his parish but, as we understand
the matter, he is the pastor who gets out Of
his people the greatest amount of work for
Christ. The great secret of success in the
ministry, after all, is putting the material
which the providence of God had laid to
his servants hand to the best possible ac-
count. The church is Gods husbandry,
and as a skillful and practical farmer en-
deavors to make every piece of ground as
productive as possible, and secure as much
| fruit from every tree as with Gods blessing
in rain and sunshine, air and fertilizers, it
can be made to yield, so all the appliances
of spiritual husbandry are to be directed to
| the promotion of every good work that will
bring in revenue of glory to the great
head of the church. 1t is doubtless true
that much of the minister's efficiency de.
ponds upon his power in the pulpit, and il
he has gifts of utterance, which enable him
to arouse the affections and convince the
understandings of his hearers, he possesses
in such talents, large endowment which
can be employed with glorious advantage
in building up the church of Christ. In
deed, in these days, certain measure o
such gifts is beginning to be deemed indis
pensable to success in cities or large towns
but, after all, JUNCTION is the source of pow
err. We have known men of very ordinar,
intellectual endowments and rather slende
, attainments, whose ministry was neverthe
! less constant triumph. Their harves
9 was like that in some regions of the trop
les, all the year round. With them it is
. constant ingathering. The reason of a
r this is obvious. The power is not their
and in the conversion Of souls the powe
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Splendid Field of Oats.

We have seen the Norway oats in their
perfection, and can now say from personal
observation what We have before said on
testimony, that they surpass in growth,
productiveness and weight, everything Of
the oat kind we have ever examined. We
have seen the Black oats, the Excelsior,
the Main oatp, and probably dozen other
varieties,-indeed, all that have of late
years been grown in this section of the
country, and in some other lOcalities,-b
have never seen field that promised bet
ter than an acre and half now growing
on the farm of Mr.. Joseph Cate, just north
of the City Farm, on the Mammoth Road.
They stand on an average, We should say,
four feet high, though owing to the varia-
Bile character of the land, not entirely even.
There are stalks that will measure SIX feet,
but on that portion of the lot which is mo-
derately moist, and which is not too rich,
the growth is between four and five feet
high, and Is very even in height and thick
ness.
We have taken pains to estimate the re-
suit, and cannot compute the product of
| the field,-an acre and a half, 80 lbs. of
seed by measure, equalling only three
pecks,-at less than one hundred bushels,
and it may exceed that amount. From one
oat proceeded as many as ten or fifteen
stalks, and in some instances twice that
number. One hundred and fifty grains
are found in a single head, and on an av-
erage nearly one hundred appear, giving
about one hundred fold, on the basis that
but one stalk springs from single seed.
There is no lodging, no rust or mildew
and no blight of any kind. They are on a
side hill with an eastern exposure, and
sheltered from westerly winds. They are
now beginning to ripen, having in the dry
est places already turned a little. The
seed was purchased of Mr.. Randlett in New
York, and proves to be all that was claim
ed for 1.-THE true Norway oats, which We
advertised last spring. To the progressive
farmer, this field of grain is exceedingly
pleasing, and is worth a days journey tC
be seen. Mr.. Cate has demonstrated that
it is, in pecuniary point ofview, the best
policy to buy the best varieties. In the
spring his neighbors laughed at him fol
paying so, and another dollar for expires.
sage, to secure a bushel of seed. 1t is hii
turn now, as he invites them to see the re-
suit of his speculation.-Mrror and Farm
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BUILDING HAY Mows.-The Ohio Far
mer says that where hay forks are not used,
much hard labor may be saved and other
advantages gained, by building up either
the right or left end of the hay NOW first.
One half of the NOW being higher than
the other, the top of the load may be thrown
on the highest part and the balance on the
lower. Being carried up separately, there
will be a seam between the two parts, by
which the heat, always the greatest in the
centre of the NOV, will escape, and then in
feeding out there will be no need Of using
the hay knife to make division Of the
NOV.
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To PRESERVE NJ EAT.-To preserve
butchers meat in hot weather place it in
large earthenware pans, put clean heavy
stone on it, and cover it with skim milk
The milk will become sour, of course, but
may afterwards serve as food for pigs
The meat will be found to have kept it:
natural freshness even after eight or ten
days.
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FANCY PoTAToEs,-Are they hum
bug? How is one to know unless he tries
them? While reasoning thus one day
early in April, my eye fell upon a descrip-
ton of the Watson Seedlings, in the
Hampshire Gazette, pronouncing them
early and of good quality: price = per
bushel. The price seemed against them,
but | ordered three bushels. Next came
a note from a friend, offering the Early
Rose at IS per bushel. This looked en-
couragingly. l ordered peck To cap the
climax, l received circular from New
York setting forth the merits Of the Early
Prince; price S3.25 per lb. Here was
something to bite at ordered a pound.
The Watson Seedlings were planted in
open ground; Rose and Prince were start
ed in hot-bed, and transplanted 50 early
that they had to be covered night, 10 pro-
tect them from frost, long before the Wat
sons were up. Last Saturday, the 10TH
| removed the earth very carefully from a
hill of the Prince, and found an enormous
yield Of large, full-grown potatoes. Did |
pull them out? OF course l didn't;
couldn't afford it-must keep them for
seed. Rose was tried next; pulled a hill
yield fair and good size, nearly ripe
Pulled hill Of the Watson: yield double
that of the Rose, fully ripe. Iboiled mess
of the Rose and Watson. The Rose
cracked in boiling; Watson, are more
mealy than the Rose, and flavor better tc
my taste. The Watson Is an exact type Of
the Jackson White, only much earlier, and
| know of but one obstacle to its being ex-
tensively introduced as an early potato,
and that is the price; and I am not sure
but its merits will overcome that. -THE
OPHILUs JONES IN tie Homestead.
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CORN SUCKERs-PU LL THEM Orr
Last year | planted corn on rather poor,
sandy land. | had no manure to pillow in,
but dressed it well in the hill. 1t started
well and put out many suckers, so many
that feared that the ears would not fill
l could not help thinking that the suckers
ought to come off. I prune my grape vines,
taking off the needless buds and shoots
Why not take the same course with my
corn? Iasked advice of my neighbors and
through the columns of the Mirror, but
got no encouragement. took them off
however, leaving few rows untouched
Where the suckers were removed | got the
best corn, the ears being extremely large
and well filled. The sooner the suckers are
removed, the better.-SUBsCRIBER IN til,
Mirror and Farmer
We don't believe in pulling off the suck
ers; nature designed them for some pur
pose. Let them grow Still, We know
good many farmers cut them off-Ed. Far
neF
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1t is from the remembrance of joys we
have lost that the arrows of affection are
pointed
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Traininu Horses TO be Safe

A writer in the Rural World truly re-
marks cit is easy to train horse not to
be dangerous" 1t is easy, but it requires
patience and good sense in the trainer, and
good sense in the colt, too. Some colts
are natural fools and never can have any
sense trained into them. We quote IN
part the article referred to: at is not at
all difficult to train a young horse to be
gentle and quiet under almost any circum-
stances and if something unusual should
te,rify him, he would run to his master
| sooner than run away from him. A horse
properly trained will always look to the
rider or driver in the time of fright, for
protection; and instead of kicking and
tearing everything to pieces, when scared,
he will, when he sees you standing by him,
and feels your hand on his head or on the
rain, put his trust in you, and regard you
as his only hope in time of danger.
This was often illustrated during the
war. All who served in the cavalry or ar
tillery force have seen how terribly fright
ened a horse appeared the moment his
rider tumbled from the saddle. 1t mat
tered not how loud the thunder of the
guns roared in battle nor how great the
confusion in the hour of deadly strife-the
horse seemed unconscious of danger until
left alone without a rider or attendant.
The moment the riders hold was released
and the steed found himself separated
from the one he was trained to regard as
his protector, that moment he became fu-
riously wild, and would begin to neigh and
run in every direction, oftentimes pressing
into the group in the front rank, seeming
to find comfort by rubbing his sides
against the legs of the riders Of other
horses.
Every farmer who raises colts, could
with a little care, make them familiar
, with the saddle and harness on their back
, on under their belly, and also to teach
them to hold back carriage on a down
hill grade, by bracing their hips against it
: A horse taught in that way, would not b,
4 scared if the rotten breast-strap should
r give way or the pole break, and let tn,
r carriage against him.
: {" Educated horses will always be sale
able and bring paying price. A reall,
e seryiceable and valuable horse is seldom
: seen on the market IN any Of the larg
e cities. Those that are free from .blcmisl
:, are generally uneducated, and as danger
e Gus at times as if they had never bee
g hitched to a carriage. Farmers can rails
It colts that will pay well by giving some at
L tention to educating them for the variou
1 purposes horses are used for.
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Our prayers and Gods mercy are like
two buckets in well, while one ascends
the other descends.
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WOOlenS.

Our Stock of Woolens, Broad Cloths, Tricots,
and Flannels cannot be beat, and we are selling
them all off at cost. S. & ID.
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Dress Goods.

We are selling Prints, Delaines and Dress
Goods for COST because We are going West the
coming Fall. S. & D.
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A hundred years of wrong do not make
an hour of right.
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WAGONS.

We have for sale l new Lumber Wagon, one
second hand Lumber Wagon, and one light Elk
press Wagon. VIII be sold cheap. S. & D.
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CrOckery.

CrOckery and Glass Ware at cost. Hardware
at cost. W. I. Goods and Groceries at cost, al
SKINNER X DREW'S.
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Selling Cheap.

We mean Just what we say, when we say we
are going West, and for that reason we are bound
to sell off our entire Stock of Goods-and are
going to sell them cheap. S. Il D.
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Axes.

We have few boxes of Hubbard g. Blakes
Axes, which are warranted TO be good, at what
they cost at the shop. S. N d.
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Westward Bound!

We are going West, and offer our entire stock
of Good at cost. SKINNER DREW.
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Harnesses.

We have six new Harnesses for sale, and any
one wanting a new Harness can buy one cheap.
SKINNER & DREW.
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Tea

We are selling our best Jap Tea at 81 Is pei
pound simply because VIC are going West.
SKINNER & DREW
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Come and See.

Now IS the time for people to buy a lot of
Goods for little money. We are bound to sell
all we have on hand. S. & D.
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Hardware.

Hoes, Shovels, Spades and Forks, at cost, at
SKINNER n DREW'S.
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NAVAL NOMENCLATURE.


SOME of the jaw-breaking Indian names affixed
to our national vessels of war by that cold
man of the sea-" Mr.. Gideon Welles, were
criticized rather freely. 1t was felt, how
ever, that there was certain propriety in
choosing Indian names for this purpose,
especially as they represented mountains,
lakes, rivers, towns, etc. of our own land
which gave them distinctively national char
acter; the sailors, too, who generally like high
sounding titles for men-of-war, took kindly to
the nomenclature adopted by the Navy De-
partment; and if we except a little good,
natured banter at the expense of the queer
old gentleman who for eight long years figured
as Secretary of the Navy, there was no serious
objection to them.
Under the administration of Mr. Bore,
however, all this was changed and instead of
remaining the vessels as the law di-
rects, the nomenclature of the Bri-
tish service, which, by-the-way, savors
strangely the prize ring, was adopted
This change, it is understood, was adopted at
the instance of Admiral Porter, who may be a
very good officer to command fleet, but who
while managing the Navy Department for Mr.
Borie, showed a singular aptitude for creating
dissatisfaction in all quarters, and who GER
tainly displayed neither taste nor Judgment
in this particular instance. 1t is rumored
that our new Secretary, Gen. Robson, not
withstanding the fact that he is Jerseyman,
has determined to send Porter back to Anna
polls to resume the duties of schoolmaster,
and that he will run the Navy Department
after his own ideas. 1t is to be hoped that
his ideas are good ones, and that he will not
run the navy into the ground. Rumor has it
that Gen. Robson is about to abolish the new
names given to our ships of war and restore
those originally given. This is what he
should do, for the name of vessel ought
not to be changed except for very decided
reasons, and there does not appear to be any
necessity for altering the nomenclature
adopted by Mr.. Welles. 1t has been sug-
gested that, if a change must be made, it
would be preferable to adopt such as ''Billy
Bowlegs," or "Tall Bear or Jumping
Bear, or "Hole in the Sky" or ''Squinting
Eyes, or others equally expressive, rather
than to borrow from classic mythology, which
has been used up long ago for such purposes,
or the even more Objectionable names of the
British navy, which SAVIOR strongly of black
guardism, which is sufficient to condemn them
even if there was nothing else to urge against
them. Those we have indicated are express
sive if not elegant, and they have the advan-
tage of being genuinely American