The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-10-23
NO. ID
CiXCINNATUS.
Inventor Of The Theory That The 0fscs Should
Seek The Man.

thc u"hNiut thcOis thuN AHC OnCt
should seek the mana theory
which has caused more unhappi
ness than any other advanced in
the great realm of politics-was a
party called Lucius Quintius, or
Cincinnatus, because he wore his
halr in curls, also because he had
at one time resided in Cincinnati.
In the fall of 45S q. B., after a
long dry season, aud a prolonged
and futile movement in which Gin.
cinnatus went forth TO summer
fllow the west field, hoping by |
that process aud a judicious rota.
ton in crops to head of the chinch |
bug and the bears. He was a good
deal depressed mentally and phys
ically. He had been trying TO
break new pair of wild and frac.
tious 4.year old steers, and it had
required good deal of frmness
and perspiration to accomplish
this. He had not yet fully sue.
ceeded, in fact, for every little
while the steers would light out
for a marsh at high rate of
speed, aud Clncinnatus would
have to follow them through the
dewberry patch in his bare legs,
for Cincinnatus did not wear pan
falcons winter or summer.
i have given the reader a good
view of Cincinnatus, as remem
ber him, in the accompanying
drawing, which | have made In
order that those who wish may
see the features of the most
celebrated politician of Nil time.
lie was the man who first ad.
vanced the doctrine that the office
shonld seek the man, and ever
since that time 1t is no uncommon
thing to see man holding on by
the plow handles and looking over
his shoulder, expecting that a
good Office will climb the fence
pretty soon and kidnap him.
Here, then, is Cincinnatus, the
man who first made this discov.
cry. The artist has happily caught
the expression of this eminent
man just as tie cillcc is In the act
Of seeking him. Ile has resolved
to sell his life as dearly as posi-
bic. lie will yield at last, howev.
or, and tear himself away from his
precocious steers.
In the distance, too far of, in
fact, to work into this issue of the
paper, is the toga Of Cinclnnatus.
1t is hanging on II tall pole as a
flag, where he has used II to sight
across the field while he struck
out a long furrow. To look at the
furrow few would believe that the
great Dictator intended to strike
out for the flag.
The artist has caught the true
idea in this picture. and shows the
great statesman aud general In
the pose of q thoughtful and phi.
lanthropical man, who has fully
decided that at the prevailing
price Of wheat he would carefully
and prayerfully consider any over.
lures that might be made by those
having the good of the people at
heart.
Cincinnatus was an austere man
Of the patriclan style of archltee.
ture and carefully reached his
hair, as well as the tail of bis
Roman mule. lie was imperious
III the extreme, and courted an In
vestigation whenever the papers
got after him. He was the pioneer
In this line.
The day came at last when
dark horse was needed, and the
chairman of the Roman Central
Committee went to Cincinnatus to
seek out the great man. The
chairman is just getting over the
barbed wire fence and the eminent
Romas agriculturalist has at that
moment got his eye on him, rs our
artist rapidly transfers the por.
trait TO canvass.
II was but the work of o mo.
ment to unyoke old Brin and Bally
and accept the Office of dictator.
Putting on his toga, the great man
began to dictate in less than forty
eight hours. He went to the
house, washed his hands in tin
basin of cistern water with soft
soap, put some fresh fine cut iu
the inside pocket of his toga, and
J was drawing a salary on the fol
lowing Monday at 0 o'clock.
The first thing he did was to cal
for more troops. He then march
ed against the enemy and captured
, everybody. He then returned
having been dictator sixteen days
at e. per day. He drew his pay
aud resigned to accept the port
folio of buck wheater on his own
property.
We have no American to-day
! who could accept the command ol
, our regular army,whip the Apaches
and be back on the farm IN sixteen
days. And yet Cincinnatus con
auered a hostile nation, paid the
.<,t,I;,, faht aud xras bomp In time