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tains tills end.” 
Then she hastened and ran in the nearest 
'tenement; there sat Ada and her sister 
Hattie. 
“Ah, Mees Ada the rent is attained, nev¬ 
er shed a tear" the rent it has vanished in 
air, and the dress is thine!” 
“Is it Dinah Van Tasher’s hand that has 
made it vanish?” demanded Ada. 
“Indeed it didn’t. Heaven’s hand did it. 
A’inteen rare seeds hidden in the earth at 
s eed time did it. Then see the harvest that 
is attained—the rent, the neatest dress, the 
visit at Sir Herman Andersen’s—Ah the 
'tear Denis Hanna.” 
“Then Denis did it! Ah, Dinah, he needn’t, 
he mustn’t.” 
“Ho must, and he has!” asserts Dinah. 
■Tie desires that Mees Ada visits at Sir Her¬ 
man Andersen’s manse as he has invited 
her.” 
“Madam Teressa, Sir Herman’s sister in¬ 
vited me. I met her at Mrs. Dean’s. She 
invited Esther, Marian, Daisie and the rest 
•at the same time.” 
“I see, and I advise Mees Ada that she 
hasten; that the dress is made in time. I 
must assist. I must trim the dress and hem 
the sash. I have taste; I must invent a vest 
neater than Mees Esther's. Ah, heavens! it 
must shine radient!” 
“Dear Dinah, I must remain here. See! 
here is Hattie.” 
“Hattie! Ah, she remains—Dinah Van 
Tastier remains—Hattie and I, that’s it. 
And Mees Ada must visit the manse,” reit¬ 
erates Dinah in a determined manner, 
“I entreat it. Sir Herman and Madam 
'Teressa are Danes the same as I am. I have 
seen Madam, I admire her, she is divine! 
Visit her then and see.” 
Ere the harvest is ended Dinah Van Tosh¬ 
er reads in the Times that Sir Herman An¬ 
dersen and Miss Ada Stevens are married. 
“It is radient, me heart is radient!” said 
Dinah. 
“Indade, it is that same, I see it shine, 
me dear,” added Denis. 
You can tell a merciful man as soon as lie 
stops at a post. He takes the blanket off 
his wife’s lap and spread* it over the pom- 
horses. 
WALL’S ORANGE POTATO. 
Pp]HIS is that “six hundred dollar potato” 
S of which we made mention a year 
ago. Another year’s trial by a great many 
potato growers in different parts of the 
country has more than confirmed the good 
opinion of it that we expressed at that time. 
Various agricultural papers have given dis¬ 
sertations upon its characteristics since har¬ 
vest and we offer the following from the 
Rural New Yorker, which is the result of a 
test made on the Rural Grounds and is un¬ 
doubtedly a fair description of it. 
“Wall’s Orange. —This potato was sent 
to us for trial by I. F. Tillingliast, and cut 
to single eyes which were planted one foot 
apart in drills three feet apart, April lltli. 
The vines were spreading and bloomed 
profusely by June 25—the blossoms of a 
solid pui*ple color. Fruit (potato balls) set 
and matured on every plant in large quan¬ 
tities. The yield was 506.66 bushels to the 
acre and the number of potatoes to the acre 
large and small, was 173,316. The largest five 
weighed three pounds, three ounces. We 
should judge that in other soils and situa¬ 
tions this potato would yield tubers of a 
uniformly medium size. With us the av¬ 
erage was under medium as shown by the 
number to the acre as compared with the 
yield per acre. It has a distinctive shape, 
as the engraving, which is a true portrait, 
may serve to show, being oblong—some¬ 
times roundish-oblong, but always flatten¬ 
ed. The skin is generally splashed with 
purple. Sometimes it is of a buff color 
with purple eyes. The potatoes were eaten 
by six persons, September 15, who pro¬ 
nounced them flaky and of excellent qual¬ 
ity. It has a positive and agreeable flavor. 
The soil in which they were raised is a mel¬ 
low loam that seldom suffers from drought. 
Indeed it is too moist in wet seasons. A 
light spread of stable manure was spaded 
under; 500 pounds of Mapes’s Light Soil 
Fertilizer were then sown broadcast, and 
upon the seed-pieces lightly covered with 
soil 500 pounds of Mapes’s Potato Fertiliz¬ 
er per acre were strewn in the drills. The 
cultivation was entirely flat, a hand culti¬ 
vator alone being used between the rows,” 
