The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1912-08-22

go west" but if Horace Greely
ever thought of taking his own ad
vice as to the west there has never
been an inkling of it in his posi-
mortem papers; and if be ever
housed a bushel of corn, oil
plucked tomato from the vine oi
his own planting we have no &C.
account. Cincinattus, the famous
old Roman dictator, was a decided
success in ruling a turbulent peo-
pie, leading victorious army and
running farm, therefore be was
In great demand. If Cincinattus
ever made great and INSPIRING
speech it failed of short hand re-
porter to transmit it to future gen.
erations, but be did know men and
had the ART of saying "Come on
boys and the victory is ours. "
While we read much of the phi
losophies of his day we have no
extant record of what he knew
about farming, but he is reported
to have sent a message after this
kind to those who would trouble
him, eff you could only come and
see the cabbages that grow on
my farm you would cease to
trouble me with such trifing mat
ters as crowns and kingdoms"
The writer remembers a quaint
old character of his boyhood who
used frequently to say ode proof
Nv de pudden is de chawing of de
bag" Now there's both philoso-
ply and sense in that. Men want
the tangible. "Show me, I'm from
Missouri" is one of the most last
ing and beneficial results of the
Great Louisiana Exposition at St.
Louis.
Some four years ago the experts
began their visits to our cotton
section telling the people what
they knew about the boil weevil,
his habits, his likes and dishkes,
how best to raise them and the
surest way to exterminate them;
and in all these years he has gone
up and down in the land as an ed
ucator on how to meet this little
pest and the necessity of diversifi
cation. Taking seriously their
warnings, and believing that these
experts had timely message for
the country, | filed away every
speech and newspaper article that
came under my hands, that | might
be thoroughly furnished for every
good work in meeting the situation
when the time should come that
all must join the band of the Gin
cinatti-"Draw the bell cord over
old Beck" if you please, and raise
every thing but sand and cain.
Soon the discovery was made that
we were piling up the same old
lectures on diversihcation, boil
weeviI, tick eradication and pea
nuts, versus cotton.
Well, we are are told that agita-
ton is better than stagnation, but
it appears to this onlooker that the
time has come to do as the Great
Apostle advised in the matter OF
certain long promised collections
| by the church at Corinth, "See
that you perform the doing of it. "
That there is inspiration in well
delivered talk on any theme of
general interest there is no contro-
verting, but inspiration is not
worth the getting, unless we put
into execution that which we have
learned. Most of us can In some
degree perform the GreelY part,
but what is most essential is to
play the part of Cincinattus in the
drama of the field. These lee
turers have done a great work and
may still,be of great value to our
people, for we verify believe that
we have not in the past had
enough of exchange of ideas among
our farming people; but of what
use is all their talk if we only hear
to LET their exhortations be as seed
falling on stony ground. The
writer heard one of the leaders OF
our community say, within the past
week, that those who were perform.
ling as the Experts had advised
| were the ones who were succeeding,
and not the ones complaining.
| Well. Mr.. Editor, have writer