Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
cIIC.NNArUs AND his Pillow.
NOW He Inaugurated a Bane1ui
Political Theory.


r,o frat person to lnaugurate the bane-
.I.hoorv that the office should seek the
tbeorv which has caused more I'M
a,niness than any other ever advanced
- the great realm of politics, was party
na,,od Iucius Quintius. or Cincinnatus,
ono,,se he wore his hair in curls, also be-
oonse he had at one time resided IN Cln'
cinnati. ,o dru
,oason and a prolonged ana futile DULL
1,oyement in which Clnclnnatus went
tnrth 10 summer falloW the west neIo' mop
nv that process and Judlctous rota-
! !ns IN crOus to head OFF the chinch bug
WA WA The bears. He was good deal de-
" nu mentally and physically. He had
on irving to break new pair OF villa
Oee J tactious 4-vear-old steers, and 1t had
ant u a GOOD deal OF firmness and pers-
IgJqqotIon TO accomplish this. He had not
PnlttnIIv succeeded in fact for every little
Lille inc steers would light out for the
marsh at high rate OF speed and I'm
ninnatus would have TO follow them
%rn,Igh the dewberry patch in his bare
inrS for Cincinnatus did not wear panta-
IoSns winter or summer.
have given the reader good view OF
Cinoinnstus. as remenbe him, In the
commanding drawing, which l nave
'node in order that those who wish may
COO the features of the most celebrated po-
iircian of all time. He was the man VINO
frst advanced the doctrine that the once
houId seek the man, and ever since that
time it is no uncommon shtnG ~ see
nan holding on by the plow-handles and
.iaokjn o over his shoulder. expecting that
oood office Will climb the fence pretty
eoop and kidnap him.
Here. then, is Cincinnatus, the man
who first made this discovery. The artist
hashappily caught the impression of this
eminent man Just as the office Is In the
act of seeking him. He has resolved to
sell his life as dearly as possible. He will
Weld at last, heweyer, and tear himself
AWAY from his precious steers.
In th, distance, too far of in fact to
work into this issue of the paper, Is the
toga of Cincinnatus. tits hanging on a
tail mole az a flag where he has used it to
..sightv across the field while he struck
mt a long furrow. To look at the furrow
few would believe that the great dictator
had intended to strike out for the flag.
The artist has caught the true idea In
this picture and shows the great states
man and general in the pose of a thought
ful and philanthrOpical man who has
fully decided that at the prevailing price
OF wheat he would carefully and prayer
fully consider any 0yertures that might be
made by those having the good OF the peo-
pie at heart.
Cincinnatus was an austere man of the
patrician style of architecture and care
July reached his hair, as well as the tall
of his Roman mule. He was imperious
in the extreme and courted an tnvesti-
CATION whenever the papers got after
him. He was the pioneer IN THIS line.
Il
horse was needed and the chairman of the
Roman central committee went to ClncIn-
natus to seek out the great man. The
chairman is just getting over the barbed-
wire fence and the eminent Roman agrl-
culturist has at that moment got his eye
on him.
1t was but the work of moment to I'M
yoke 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 a tin ba-
sin of cistern water, with soft soap, put
some fresh tine-cut in the inside pocket of
his tOga, and was drawing a salary on
the following Monday at 8 O'Clock.
The first thing he did was TO call for
more troops. He then marched against
the Q envy and captured everybody. BE
turn returned, having been dictator six
teen days at 81 per day. He drew
his pay and resigned to accept the port
folio of buckwheater on his own property.
We have 40 American to-day who could
accept the command of our regular army
whip the Apaches. and be back on the
farm in sixteen days. And yet CincInna-
tus conquered hostile nation, paid the
public debt, and got home in time to do
his fall plOwing.
If we read the history of Cincinnatus
carefully and look tBoughfully at his
equestrian portrait we are forced to admit
that he was either one of the creates
men OF whom we know or that he wrote
the matter up himself for one of the Ro-
man magazines. BILL NYE.