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Show SENATOR WEBB A DISCIPLINARIAN j i ft ' faS r XX - w. x w v s j 1 William R. Webb was elected by the Tennessee legislature to succeed Senator Newell Saunders, whose term expired March 4, and was in turn succeeded suc-ceeded by John K. Shields. Mr. Webb, therefore, served only about a month. Down in Tennessee, where he has taught school for so many years, Mr. Webb is known as "Old Sawney," and any of the boys who have sat on the benches under "Sawney" will tell you just what the senators should have done when he entered the chamber. There were the desks and the seats why didn't the senate go into some sort of special session and go to school to Sawney Webb for a while? They could not have done better for the country than to swallow a bit of his discipline, which every one of his scholars has tasted. It would be better bet-ter to say digested than tasted, for It is just there that Webb has made his schoolmastering famous, in the thor oughness with which he teaches every lesson. Ask a Bellbuckle boy what is his clearest mental picture of the master. It is odds that he tells you that if he were to see "Old Sawney" coming over a stile on the day of judgment he would grab a book and begin studying, if he had to seize the book of the recording angel to do it. |
