The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-07

Ill magazine ana Inc JeH0rSO-
MAN and enjoy them because
they have individuality,
clearly and unmistakable stamped
upon every page.
/ have read with profit, several of
your historical works, I admire and
appreciate you, but to say that |
agree with you upon everything
would be an act of hypocrisy upon
my part.
| am inclined to agree with you
upon the subject of Foreign Mission.
/ think it would be we'll to overcome
the ignorance, the squaTor and the
want that exists about us before we
look to lands beyond the seas.
In the last number of The Jeffer-
sonian you said something in regard
to the mountain schools Of Georgia.
They may need help and ought to
have it, but | am convinced at the
same time that the poor children in
the cities need help. To my mind
no poverty is quite so abject and
helpless as the poverty of our cities.
] have seen the poor, both white and
black, young and Old walk the rail-
road tracks upon cold days about
our cities in eager search for lump
Of coal that might fall from some
passing train. In the mountains the
abode Of the poor may be q log cabin.
but from the great forests about them
they can gather fuel fer the fire, and
the freestOne springs that burst in
translucent purity from beneath the
everlasting cliffs furnishes them with
drinking water pure and untainted
by single germ. The chickens that
scratch in the dry leaves about the
cabin furnishes q supply Of eggs with
which they can buy coffee and
tobacco, while the razor back
shoats that grow to maturity
and fatten upon chestnUts and
boechnuts furnishes an ample
and beechnuts furnishes an ample
supply of bacon with which to season
poke-greens, snap beans and other
garden sass" Gin the good old sum-
mer time" The condition of the
mountain folk is happy when COM
pared to that Of the city slumS.
Ihe mountain folks have a spirit
Of Independence, akin to that of the
eagle which nestles it's young upon
the dizzy heights about them. Pow
eTty itself cannot quench the Unborn
spirit Of pride that wells up in the
breast Of our Scotch-Irish noun
taineers.
A little money goes a long way
with them, and if our missionaries
are looking for a fruitful field Of la
Dor let them go to the people who
inherit our Southern mountains To
the people which a kindly writer has
called our Southern Highlanders. To
this people who have ambition to
succeed.
To show how far money goes with
deserving poor who inhabit the hills
and mountains we viii cite an in
stance. A poor boy who was born
and reared in Green County, Tennes-
soc, the same county in which 7 was
born and reared, had an ambition to
80 to college The college which
lie desired to attend was Tuscuum,
in those days commonly called Doak's
College, in honor of the great pioneer
Samuel DOak, its illustriOus founder.
This college has always been kindly
disposed towards poor boys and girls.
Boys used to 80 to school there and
shack as they called keeping their
own room and cooking their own
"grub." The poor boy in question
desired to enter college at Tusculum,
Green County, Tennessee, and the
story goes that he went to sec and
talk to an old farmer named William
Stonecipher, who lived in the COM
munity where | was reared, in re-
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