Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1914 — Reveries of a Schoolmaster. [ARTICLE]

Reveries of a Schoolmaster.

I suppose that most of the boys whom I taught still exist somewhere. Most of them must be still alive, for they seemed in those days to be enjoying excellent health. There must have been some seven hundred of them. In moments of depression I used to exclaim, “What! will the line stretch till the crack o' doom?” I used to picture myself as a pedagogical wa-ter-wheel, turning, turning, in the educational sluice through which, out of Everywhere into 'the Here, k

stream flowed, agitated me for a while, and disappeared into the Somewhere, leaving nothing behind but a few negligible bubbles. Of all the boys not one has ever been president or governor or senator. If one has written a novel or a play, I have not read it Some appeared above the surface of society for a brief period as halfbacks or third baseman, but only to sink back into the common ruck. This, again, used to worry me. It seemed a reflection upon my teaching; But the years bring the philo-

sophic mind. One can but do what one can.—Robert M. Gay, in the Atlantic.