The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-20

DADDY DINKLE'S WARDS.
A Quiet Story.


This notice appeared in the May
vile Index one day, ever SO many
years ago:
'eThe Rev. Gustavus Dinklebach
proposes to open in Mayville, Jan.
1, private school for boys. Par
ticular attention given to the classics
and mathematics. Boys and young
men will receive careful and thor
ough training preparatory to enter
ing college. The Rev. Mr.. Dinkle-
bach respectfully solicits the pa
tronage of the citizens of Mayville
and vicinity"
In other words, it was an old
fastened boys academy which the
Rev. Gustavus Dinklebach''opened."
An old fashioned boys academy.
now all out of date, and laughed to
scorn by your new tangled fellows,
who turn up their noses at Plato's
dialogues in the original, and claim
that the only present and future
hope for the world is that it shall
be .'evolved' out of the pattern of
the crook of Herbert Spencer's lit
tie finger.
The Rev. Gustavus Dinklebach
wasn't that sort, bless his sweet,
simple old heart! He read his
Bible and the Greek tragedies, and
believed the salvation of the world
depended on the golden rule and
llic, haze, hoe. His religion and his
learning We're SO mixed up that he
could hardly tell which was which
at last, and he somehow got it into
his queer old brain that one who
was familiar with Greek and Hebrew
and Latin lore, by that simple fact
perforee was made gentleman,
and that it was henceforth incum
bent on him to walk through the
world as an example to modern de-
generacy, loving his neighbor as
himself. being honest, gentle man
nered, kindly, and dignified.
The Rev. Dinklebach was all that
himself, and he knew no more
of the ways of the wicked
world if he had been a spot
ted kitten chasing a spool of
thread. He could read the Clouds
of Aristophanes in Greek like a
novel, but he couldn't drive nail
to save his life. He came to May
vile a very learned, highly recon
mended man, with tender heart.
q big, bald head, the soul of little
child, and but two pairs of stock
ings to his name.
Mayville took him under its wing.
He opened his boys academy and
presided over it for twenty five
years, Itgrew and tiourished apace.
and nobody in Mayville cheated the
Rev. Dinklebach out of all the
money he got 1t just happened SO,
as exactly the opposite had happen
ed to him every place he had been
before. To this day many and
many broa1 shouldered. bearded
man, with his own locks e'en begin
ing to frost little, pauses minute
from the clashing din of the wide
world, while he calls to mind the
green days at Mayville, and remem
bers Daddy Dinkle and amo, amas,
amat, with a smile. tear and a
blessing.
Good friends, one and oil, here S
to the memory of the days of our
youth, which come but once,
Young friends, make the most of
your youth, for it is glorious, and it
comes but once,
The Rev Gustavus DinkIebach
| was an old bachelor, who loved
fHtle children. He called himself a
dre'~y old bachelor, and part of
his va1edictory to his biggest bows
was always this:
My dear young friends, don't
You be an old bachelor"
j don't know bow it was. but
before the Rev. Gustavus Dinkle-
bach had been in afayville a year
evey body fell into the habit OF
calling him Daddy Dinkle, and that
although he was an old bachelor.
They called him that to his face.
after awhile, and Tn sure they
meant no disrespect, for everybody
had q sort of reverence for hlm. so
good and SO dignifed he was. and