“Last, and best of all, wherever there is a quiet hamlet or a growing town or a busy city, I see a schoolhouse. It may be but a rude cabin, where through the unchinked logs the children may watch the birds building their nests, or it may be a stately building which glorifies the memory of some generous giver, like the Ball and Rosenburg Schools at Galveston; it may be a crowded little place where the boys kick their heels against time-worn benches, or it may be the handsome University of Texas. But big or little, stone building or log cabin, there is always the schoolhouse; and within it the school children, the future men and women of the state. Upon them, even more than upon railroad or cotton crop, depend the prosperity and welfare of the state. I breathe a prayer for all who tread this free and unfettered soil to-day; but chiefly I call down blessings upon the school children of Texas.
“All is well with my people.”
So might speak the Genie of Texas from the dome of the capitol.
PRONUNCIATION.
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FOOTNOTES.
[1]Called by the Spaniards, La Vaca.
[2]Now Dimmitt’s Point on the La Vaca.
[3]L’Archevêque afterward returned to America and settled in Santa Fé, New Mexico, where he married and died, and where his descendants still live. See A. F. Bandelier’s Gilded Man.
[4]La Salle never married. His title was inherited by his brother, numerous descendants of whom are living in Louisiana.