Show SUNFLOWERS The They are all over o the lowlands anti and andall all about on the thue hillsides their Imperial Im lot- penal yellow massing In a blaze o orich of rich color that fairly Illuminates the landscape Looked at singly I they are arc not a particularly attractive flower Hower Thero Is a suggestion of at coarseness a u alack alack lack of delicate form and the miracle tinting which made the rose rosc and the Illy lily worthy a n. place In the Bible But Bu when they are arc seen in masses as the they love hove to present th themselves m elves they glorify the whole landscape with a n flood of or golden glow The They are arc easy to see There Is nothIng nothing noth noth- ing aristocratic In iii the field of or ers Take a cent live ride rIlle to tho the fort or take tale a longer ride rille to any town north or south of the city and you u will find them awaiting you ou in ill a breadth of display which more delicate delicate deli deli- cate bloom cannot equal They cover cr I the earth like a a. mantle of or gold old and I trail down the tho shoulders of or the hills as if It they would sweep to lo trains of magnificent ceremony And you ou see ece them In wonderful contrast contrast contrast con con- with the green of tilled fields There Is the irrigated land with the verdant growths growth which hides the earth and speaks the color lan language of or the lie warm arrn spring days das There is such a u avista avista vista of green reen and gold gohl as would Impress Impress Im Im- Im- Im press the Can fancy and gladden the eye of the artist It Is a Co picture which has never been heen in canvas n a sweep of two primary colors out of which so much of the beauty of oC earth and arid sky has been made It is promise and fulfillment both bothIn In one There Is the green of the wakening wakening wak- wak ening year Jear and close be beside It as if Ie the he miracle of oC the tho pledge ha had already been performed the rich yellow ellow token ot DC f the summers summer's accomplishment Green and gold They await us every- every where Promise and performance 1 joth Loth from Crom the Intimate hand of tho Haker aker Big In their extent splendid in n their expressed conception they I I make the world beautiful And deep In the heart of or men and women rests the tho true significance of he tho pledge which was made when the spheres were wore young Here is the green of the order Till ye the ground And here Is the gold of oC the promised re- re ward vard For the sunflower besides filling the eye with a scheme of color is the testimony to opportunity Where it rears its head an and publishes the tho token of ot fruition growth th of food will wm come coi On such soil soli ns as now covered and hidden b by the yellow canopy the golden gold- gold en n grain Is willing and ready reay to lo bring you rou ou a husbandman's reward Where here the he spring sends green to catch the eye yc with invitation the autumn makes corroboration of potency with the he yellow of oC perfected growth Green and an gold have been the worlds world's pledge and recompense from Crom the he beginning The They are spread here hereIn heren In n the valleys valles an and over the hills of a splendid state stale And no e eye e can rest upon them without waking in the heart a sense sunse of or gratitude for the good Father wh who has cast our lines hines In pleasant Peasant places and has reminded the children of men once more that seed seedtime seedtime seedtime time and harvest shall not vanish from the earth |