The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-17

debate. member OF that group re
members Wilson's unspeakable disgust
when they chose as the subject for ore
nights discussion the question whether
there be any fundamental difference be-
tween right and wrong
The law professors Of the University
Of Virginia were Mr. Southan. who
held the chair Of international AND
common law. an easy going and much
beloved man. and Or. John B. Minor
who taught everything else in the
course and was in fact the college OF
law.
DR.. Minor probably Influenced vii
son more than did any other teacher
he ever had He was indeed an able
and fOrceful man. a really great teach
er, who grounded his pupils beyond
all possibility of ever getting adrift in
the broad principles of law.
As young man Wilson suffered
much from indigestion. an III which
later he entirely outgrew. Just before
Christmas. 1890. be found himself so
i'll that he left Charlottesville. The
next year he spent ut home In Will
mington. n. c., nursing his health and
reading
In May. 1882. Woodrow Wilson
went to Atlanta to enter on the prac
tice of law. Atlanta was chosen for
this experiment simply because it was
the most rapidly growing city OF the
south. The young man knew nobody
there. He met another young man.
like himself a stranger IN the city,
whittier he. too had come to practice
law-Edward Ireland Renick. The
two agreed on a partnership: on Tnu-
tual inquiry Renick proved to be slight
| ~ the older, so that the single was
| lettered "Renick & Wilson" 1t was
hung out of the window of d room on
| the second floor, facing the side street.
! of the building 4S Marietta street
Atlanta litigants did not rush en-
masse to 4S Marietta street In fact,
they never came.
Wilson's sole idea had been to use
the law as a stepping stone to pc
!itical career Most of the public men
| of the south had come from the ranks
of the law. In eighteen months in At
lanta he learned that it was impossible
for a man without private means to
support himself long enough in law to
get into public life; impossible certain
IL to establish a practice without Civ
ing up all idea of study and writing
not strictly connected with the pro-
fessi0n. The law was a jealous mis-
tress. He had begun writing book
on congressional government, and he
found the work full of joy
But the Atlanta experiment was not
without its great good fortune.
During the summer of 1888 Mr.. VIII
son found time to make what turned
out to be a fnomentous visit. His old
PLAYMATE and cousin. Jessie Woodrow
Bones. with whom he had played In
dian on the sand hills near Augusta.
was now living in Rome, Ga. TO
Rome had come also another family
with whom the Wilson's had been in
innate in Augusta-the Axsons. The
Axsons were a Georgia lowlands fam
iIy. The Rev S. Edward Axson's fa-
Their was distinguished clergyman in
Savannah. and his wife's father. the
Rev. Nathan Hoyt. was long pastor OF
the Presbyterian church at Athens, GA
The calls upon his time not being en-
tirely occupying, as has been limited
, young Wilson went to Rome to see his
cousin, and stayed to see more OF
Miss Ellen Louise Arson. The meet
ing was on the piazza Of the Bones
home in East Rome. To be accurate
it was not quite the couples first meet
YaocSInnafn
mirer of the lady when he was boA
/ of seven and she was baby. Th'
: sentiment of those days, beyond The
t recollection Of either. revived H'
> took her home that evening. She nVeC
in Rome across the river. She mus
A have been captivating, for as he cam'
] back across the bridge he clinched III
t hand and took silent oath that Ellel
( Louise Arson should be his wife
e Which also in due time came to pass
? They had seen each other clever
s times before he had persuaded her t
saw Yes" There was no idea of al
|. Immediate marriage. Already. per
o ceiving that the practice of law wa
e not the path for him, he had settles
= upon the plan of going to Johns Hol
d kins university to spend two or thre
! years more studying the science Q
e government
The partnership of Renick & Wilso
l. was dissolved. The young man I
t whom the people Of Atlanta gave
Ii little encouragement, but who had wo
Y what made him inestimably happie
than anything else Georgia could hav
$ given him. went north in Septembe
e About the same time Miss Arson. to-
d went to New York to develop her a
ready recognized talents in pa1nuni
' as a member OF the Art Student
d league.
1t The next two years of Woodrow WI
r sons life were spent at Johns Hopkir
5 university as a student of history at
n political economy Here he was one {
an unusually interesting group whiC
is included Albert Shaw and E r.