Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — "TUT HER IN BUCKWHEAT" [ARTICLE]

"TUT HER IN BUCKWHEAT"

Young Preacher Who Was Exhorting Mountain Farmers Received Unexpected Solution of Problem. A young preacher had beein sent out by the state mission board to bold evangelistic meetings in the mountains, and at the first one he held he met Lin Dobbins, a tall, lank, rustylooking indilvdual who immediately conceived a great liking for the preacher, and decided to let his crops go while he followed him. So everywhere the minister went, Lin went, too; and he always sat on the front seat with one leg crossed over the other, his chin in his hand, his elboy resting on his knee, looking up at the preacher as if he were some kind of deity. The young preacher knew very little about the methods of the mountain farmers and their haphazard manner of scratching a living out of the rough hillsides; so when he attempted to use illustrations which he fancied would appeal, to their understanding, Lin always became uneasy. “Let me tell you,” said the preacher one night, “of a certain man. who had a piece of ground. The snows melted and the ground lay moist beneath the rays of the early spring sunshine. The many voices of awakening life called to this man, but he heeded them ndt. He failed to plow his ground in due season; and even after the gentle rains came and the buds put forth, his land still lay untouched. Seed time passed away, the summer' sun poured down upon the ground, and the weeds had grown up in rank profusion. The day of harvest was nigh at hand, but he had pown nothing. At that late day, what was to be done?”

He paused to give his words effect, and at this juncture, Lin, who with dropped jaw and open mouth had taken all this in, suddenly threw up his head, made a speaking trumpet of his hand, and exclaimed in a very audible stage whisper: “Put her In buckwheat!" —National tMonthly.