The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-08

who in olden times had ridden with Rupert
and Montrose, but who on coming to America
divided their allegiance, some fighting for the
King and some for the People.
On one side of the Savannah River, a
Colonel Watson was next to Tarleton in his
service to the Tories. On this side of the
River, Major Watson lies under broad
marble slab, in forgotten tomb, on the bat
tle-feld of Kettle Creek where he received a
death-wound fighting with the Wings.
So from both sides of the ancestral divide
come the streams Of tendency" which ming
ling in Natures mysterious way, make the
worker and the fghter-make a law of the
blood which cannot be disobeyed, and which
drives on to its appointed end
After a brief period of youthful dreams
and the usual boyish follies, and rather more
than the average fondness of boys for solitude
and books, the crash of 1873 threw me out OF
the Idlewild into the very grim realities, and
face to face with the question, qoA0t e0i1 yOW
eGt and s0hereaoith0z shall you be clothed?
To an impractical, visionary lad of sixteen,
those questions we're as pressing, as inexora-l
BILE then, ashley now are to SO many millions
of human beings-in this bountiful year of
the ten billion dollar crops.
Work and trouble. more work and more
trouble; hope and disappointment, more hope
and more disappointment, has oftener than
not been my three meals a day, and lodging,
too.
Yet, after all, to work. is the rule of living,
and to combat difficulties is the exercise that
puts the muscles on the inside, where they
accomplish most.
AS | look back over the past there is moth
ing that goads me with remorse and nothing
that tempts me to wish that I could live Il
again. What was done, is forever done: what
has been suffered, is merely a recollection;
the mistakes hurt myself chiefly; the work
that was good will not perish
There are some good laws on the statute
books that my utmost strength helped to put
there: those laws minister daily to millions
of my fellow creatures; they save limb and
life, they carry the latest thought and the
brightest light into countless homes of the
humble, the remote, the poor. That my name
IS seldom mentioned In connection with such
laws, troubles me not at all
In almost incredible amounts of pen-worz.
[ have freely given, Of whatever [ have read,
learned, and thought that would be he'll pful to
others young and the old the rich and
the poor, the lettered and the ilIiterate-and
1T IS satisfaction to me to believe that
some Of this sowing has borne it's harvest. and
that some Of it will continue to bear harvests
long after [ shall have passed behind the
curtain.
In all the writing. of mine that has gone
forth into the limitless realm of literature, tof
carry the message from me to those thatI
viii never meet face to face, there is not a
single page that does not hold my true opin-
ion, my honest understanding of the facts,
my sincere belief as to what was Right.
1t is in this realm that will cont&4le to
live, in spite of envy, hatred and malice.
1t is in this realm that / will continue to
lay my thought and feeling upon the thought
and feeling of others, and go into the battle
for the good of humanity, even as those who