8 
BROWNELL’S BEST. 
Ira fine quality, the last three very closely 
resembling each other in color and appear¬ 
ance. For later planting, or for general 
use the Belle and White Elephant are now 
regarded as standards. The White Whip¬ 
ple. Jordan’s Prolific, Champion and Early 
Sunrise are promising new varieties worthy 
of a fair test in every neighborhood. The 
White Star is a large yielding, fine appear¬ 
ing, late variety and if it proves satisfac¬ 
tory in quality, will no doubt become pop¬ 
ular. 
Corn, beans, peas, beets, celery, carrots, 
cucumbers, melons, parsnips, radishes, tur¬ 
nips, &c., will have to wait for consider¬ 
ation until our next number. 
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A SHEAF OF RICHEST GRAIft. 
BY EBEN E. REXFCRD. 
He saw the wheat waiting’, 
All golden in the sun, 
And strong and stalwart reapers 
Went by him, one by one. 
“Oh, could I reap in harvest!” 
His heart made bitter cry; 
“I can do nothing, nothing, 
So weak, alas! am I.” 
At eve, a fainting traveler 
Sank down beside his door— 
A cup of cool, sweet water 
To quench his thirst he bore. 
And when refresh’d and strengthened, 
The traveler went his way, 
Upon the poor man’s threshold 
A golden wheat-sheaf lay. 
When came the Lord of Harvest, 
He cried: “Oh, Master, kind! 
One sheaf have I to offer, 
And tliat I did not bind; 
I gave a cup of water 
To one athirst, and he 
Left at my door in going, 
The sheaf I offer Thee." 
• Wi :: • 
Then said the Lord of Harvest: 
“Well pleased with this am I; 
©ne of My angels left it 
With thee as he went by. 
Thou mayst not join the reapers 
Upon the harvest plain, 
But who so helps a brother 
Binds sheaves of richest grain.” 
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Seed-Time and Harvest. 
BY LAURA J. DAKIN. 
£ 'C ‘.p\ INAII! me dear !” said Denis Han- 
m na the Irish man-servant, “Vat is- 
the matter av Mees Ada? I have seen her in 
tears, and she niver eats her dinner.” 
“Ah indeed, the dear Mees Ada!” assent¬ 
ed Dinah Van Tasher the Danish maid-ser¬ 
vant, “Sir Herman Andersen has invited 
her that she visit at his manse—that is his 
tenement—and she has never a dress that 
is neat as she desires, as have the maidens, 
Etta and Ermina Davis, Maria, Edna and 
Tina Harris, Esther, Marian and Daisie* 
Dean. These maidens are invited, and have- 
neatest dresses. Ah, me dear Mees Ada, 
her tears rend me heart. I have taste, and 
I devise radient raiment in me mind—then 
it vanisheth in the air in the instant—the 
minit. Ah, heavens! it is sad.” 
“Indade, it is a shame! and she the dearest 
darter av me dead master, Dr. Ethan Ste¬ 
vens. And Mrs. Stevens her mama is dead 
the same, heaven rist them.” 
“And never an estate remains, never even 
a dime save that she earns. She said her 
rent she must save, as a tenement she must 
have. And that her sister Hattie must 
needs be attended. ‘Never mind the dress¬ 
es, Dinaah,’ said she.” 
— * ~~~ —* • 
“Pint is it” said Dennis, “She needn’t 
shed a tear! I’m the man that sees the rint 
attained. I have seven earthen dishes and 
ten tin dishes; in them are rare asters, and 
tender red trees. In the seed time I started 
them—and see! the asters are radient as 
stars this minit, and the red trees shimmer 
and shine.” 
“I see, Mister Denis.” said Dinah, “the* 
rent is indeed attained—Miss Ernestine* 
Ames desires the asters, and Maste: David 
the trees. I heard them assert their desire.’” 
“Ah!” said Dinah, as Denis retired. “ I 
admire the head, hand and heart that a - 
