SEED-TIME AMO HA1¥EST. 
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■established a wide reputation for ‘Reliable 
Seeds at Honest Prices,’ and he has the 
satisfaction of seeing his orders more than 
double in number with each season. 
If this ratio can be kept up for a few years 
more an enormous business must be the re¬ 
sult. 
But we soon find Mr. Tillinghast is a 
young man who cannot be idle. He wields 
a facile pen and has been a contributor to 
most of the agricultural papers in the Unit- 
*ed States, and could no doubt command a 
large salary as a writer on agricultural and 
horticultural topics. In conjunction with 
his seed business he is the editor of Seed- 
Time ai d Harvest , a '24-page magazine, 
which he has for the past three years pub- 
lishsd quarterly, and which now has a much 
larger circulation than any other publica¬ 
tion of any kind in this section of the State. 
The fourth volume will commence with the 
October number, and thereafter it will be 
published monthly at only fifty cents per 
year. The regular edition of the last two 
issues lias been 12.(00 copies, and Mr. Til¬ 
linghast is confident that by January next 
his edition will be at least 100,000 copies. 
As his business and circulation have been 
built up by costly advertising in high-priced 
mediums, he has reached a class of men 
■who read and answer advertisements and 
have money to send for whatever they 
want. This makes Seed- Time and Harvest 
a valuable advertising medium, and we can 
confidently advise our readers wdio desire 
to give the advertisement of anything they 
may have to dispose of a wider circulation 
than we can give them in the Republican 
to insert the same in Seed- Time and Har¬ 
vest, and we are certain the harvest will 
well repay them for their sowing. Our 
visit to La Plume was an agreeable disap 
yiointment. We found a store and stock <>i 
.•seeds rivalling those found in New' York <n 
Philadelphia, and a steam printing house 
far superior to many others we could name. 
Although it is the dull season for the sale of 
•seeds, the crops are being harvested, and 
the gentlemanly pro mi'dor was busy with 
his preparations for the winter and spring 
trade. One of the specialties of his busi¬ 
ness is the growiug of seed potatoes and he 
.(guite frequently has ns many as one hun¬ 
dred varieties under cultivation to test their 
merits. Large fields of this vegetable are 
on all sides, and he has been obliged to en¬ 
list the co-operation of nearly all the farm¬ 
ers in the neighborhood to secure a suffi¬ 
cient supply of seed for filling his orders. 
For some years his shipping station has 
been at Factoryville, although the D. L. 
& W. RR. crosses his farm. After much 
trouble he has induced the superintendent 
to stop a train at La Plume to receive his 
freight and express matter and also the 
mail, which is the heaviest on the line be¬ 
tween Scranton and Binghamton. A new 
depot will soon be erected, which will be 
one more conquest for him who has given 
La Plume ‘a local habitation and a name.’ ” 
What Shall the Motive he? 
BY ADA S. CUMMINGS. 
What shall the motives be 
Throughout the present year? 
Shall they be for evil, 
Or shall they bring good cheer? 
Shall the Angel Reapers 
E’er search for wheat in vain? 
Or shall they find a store 
Of ripened, golden grain? 
Shall my heart be grow ing 
A crop of evil deeds? 
Or carefully produce 
A harvest of good seeds? 
Shall my hands cease labor 
Because the work is hard? 
Or shall I, with new vigor, 
Discouragements discard? 
Shall my life bo wasted, 
And time be spent in vain? 
Or constantly improve 
Each moment for my gain? 
Shall 1 cultivate the thorn 
And let the roses go? 
Or tares cast in the fire. 
That flowers sw r eet may grow? 
With careful watch, I’ll give 
The tares and thorns no room; 
Rich graces from the spheres 
Within my heart shall bloom. 
That, when the Angel Reapers 
Bind up the golden grain, 
They find in rfte a harvest,— 
A life not spent in vain. 
—Church Union. 
The world is said to be ruled by four box¬ 
es—the ballot-box, the jury-box, the car¬ 
tridge-box and the band-box. 
