Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-23


 young student bent very far from his dignity fin public, but in private he fairly bnbbled with humor and wifi and was very much given to monkey shines.
 As he had done at Princeton. Wilson at Charlottesville also organized a smaller gronp oc thinking chaps for debate A member of that group re- members Wilson's unspeakable disgust when they chose as the subject for one nisht's discussion the question whether there be any fundamental difference be- tween right and wrong.
 The law professors of the University uf Virginia were Mir. Southal. who held the chair of international and common law. an easy going and much beloved man. and pr. Joha B. Minor who taught everything else ia the course and was in fact the college oi law.
 pr. Minor probably influenced Win son more than did any other teacher br ever had He was indeed an able |. q forceful man. a really great teach
 
 ali possibility of ever getting adrift in the broad principles Of law
 As young man Wilson suffered much from indigestion. an Ill which later he entirely outgrew. Just before Christmas. lSS0 be found himself so m that he left Charlottesville. The next year he spent at home in Will ~ hfgs h,a 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, whither he. too. had come to practice law-Edward Ireland Renick. The two agreed on a partnership; on mu- fual inquiry Renick proved to be slight ly the older, so that the shingle was lettered "Renick & Wilson" It was hung out of the window of a room on the second floor, facing the side street, of the building AS Marietta street.
 Atlanta lltigants 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 po- ltical 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 ly to establish q practice without giy- ing up all idea of study and writing not strictly connected with the pro fession. The law was a jealous mis- tress. He had begun writing a book on congressional government. and he found the work full of joy.
 But the Atlanta experiment was not without it's great good fortune.
 During the summer of 1883 Mir Will son found time to make what turned out to be a momentous visit His old playmate and cousin, Jessie Woodrow Bones, with whom he had played h. 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 ily. The Rev. S. Edward Axson's fa- tber was a distinguished clergyman in Savannah, and his wife's father. the Rev. Nathan Hoyt, was long pastor of the Presbyterian church at Athens, Ca The calls upon his time not being en- tireIy occupying. as has been hinted. young Wilson went to Rome to see his cousin, and stayed to see more Of Miss Ellen Louise Axson. The meet ing was or the piazza Of the Bones home in East Rome To be accurate, # was not quite the couples first meet ing. He had been passionate nd mirer of the lady when he was boy of seven and she was a baby The sentiment of those days, beyond the recollection of either. revived He took her home that evening She lived in Rome across the river. She must have been captivating. for as he came back across the bridge he clinched his hand ard toog silent oath that Ellen Louise Axson should be his wife.
 Which also in due time came to pass. They had seen each other eleven times before he had persuaded her to say Yes" There was no idea of an immediate marriage. Already. per ceiving that the practice of law was not the path for him. be had settled upon the plan of going to Johns Hop kins university to spend two or three years more studying the science of government.
 The partnership of Renick & Wilson was dissolved. The young man to whom the people of Atlanta gave so little encouragement, but who had won what made him inestimably happier than anything else Georgia could have given him, went north in September. About the same time Miss Axson. too. went to New York to develop her al ready recognized talents in painting. as a member of the Art Students iaaGue