Mr. Kaye Robinson, the brilliant English naturalist, describes a
competition witnessed by him in the fields:
Owing to a peculiarity of weather the poppies had managed to
get a start of an inch or so in the matter of height over the
wheat and barley, and the obnoxious flowers were just beginning
to burst into bloom that would have converted the stunted grain
into lakes of scarlet, when down came the rain; in a single day
and night the wheat shot up above the poppies, and for the rest
of the season the poisonous things were overwhelmed in a wavy
sea of prosperous green and yellow gold.
The best way to improve the world is not to fight against the evil
directly, but to so nourish and cultivate the good that evil will be
crowded out. (Text.)
(1270)
=Good Old Times=--See SCIENCE SHATTERING SUPERSTITION.