Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-16

ters, frequently reading him choice ex
tracts from standard books Sir Wal
ter Scott and Dickens were made IA
millar to the lad In this way. He re
members stiIl the pleasure which bis
father showed in "Pickwick." reading
the inStallments aloud. with Mrs. WI
son as the special audience. though
even az the early age of eight TIE boy
remembers that he appreciated much
OF the humor OF the young author
The lad attended the best schools
Augusta offered Public schools were
either nonexistent or so poor as TO be
worthless. so the boy was put at an in
Hltution kept by Professor Joseph Il.
Derry. with habitation over the post
office. Later. Professor Derry moved
his school TO building on the river
bank next to some cotton warehouses.
Here the boys made the warehouses
their Fairgrounds. exploring and play
ing hide aud seek among the cotton
bales.
Joseph Rucker Lamar. now an as
50. iate justice OF the supreme court OF
the United States. was pupil Of Pro
feSsur Derry at shout the same time.
Joe Lamar was the sou OF another
minister in the city, the Rev. James 5.
Lamar, pastor OF the Christian church.
who lived in house on Mcintosh
street. next 10 the Wilson's.
Professor John T. Derry, much be
owed OF ali his pupils, had returned
home from four years In the Confeder-
ate army TO teach He IS the author
Of several books and Is now in the
agricultural department OF the state
! Of Georgia. MIR. Derry says that Tom
Wilson was a quiet, studiOus boy, and
he speaks with the greatest delight OF
the Augusta days.
| But young Wilson's real instri'-'sHr
during the Augusta days wac his IA
! ther Long before the age at which
boys are imbibing knowledge from
/ books ne was already receiving from
the lips OF his father an education
more varied. more practical and sound
than any that could otherwise have
come to him.
| Father and son were constant com
| panions, but it was Sunday afternoons
that the elder devoted particularly 70
/ his sons training Then, sitting OF
| the door, or. rather, reclining there
| asainst an inverted chsir. the gifted
psrson poured out into the ears Of the
| speliiound lad all the stores Of bis ex
perience, learning and Thought Tie
| wits q man Of wide information on the
| ahdirs OF the wor1d,,a Judge OF gooC
| literature. = uTsster Of the queen Of
| the sciences. Theology, and .withal !
| nIau of mHch Imaginative power
| !ylsose all the elder Wilson chad I
| cie4h working mind. " He mad way
| Of recognizing facts. and the processe:
Of his thought dealt with them in th'
\ light Of reason If the boy had learn
ed nothing else he would have beer
happy indeed TO have been guideC
from the beginning into the ways o
clear, cold thinking.
And DR.. Wilson was master Of th'
! English language. He believed tina
nobody had a thought until he coult
put it quickly and definitely int
words. This he did himself, and thi
he taught his son to do.
On Mondays the father would almOs
| without exception take his son on
! with him on some excursion in the cit
OF neighboring country. On Monda
the two would visit the machine shops
Tom would be shown furnaces, boiler:
machinery, taught to follow the releas
OF power from the coal 10 the compile
ton Of its work in a finished produC
i Of steel or OF cotton. He remembers {
this day the impression made upon hiI
then by the gigantic engines, the rOa
Of furnaces or the daTting up OF sheet
Of fame He remembers great forge
presided over by sooty faced imps- l
this fashion by a continual round G
visits OF inspection in which the sigh
OF visible things and visible processe
was the text OF running lectures on III
principles OF nature. chemistry, physiC
and Of the organization Of human soc
ETY. the boy learned what he woul
have had great difficulty in learnin
from books alone