River Country of Georgia 



would venture into the country without being 

 able to gain the assistance of brother Masons 

 in these troublous times. 



"Young man," he said, after hearing my talks 

 on botany, "I see that your hobby is botany. 

 My hobby is e-lec-tricity. I believe that the 

 time is coming, though we may not live to see 

 it, when that mysterious power or force, used 

 now only for telegraphy, will eventually supply 

 the power for running railroad trains and 

 steamships, for lighting, and, in a word, elec- 

 tricity will do all the work of the world." 



Many times since then I have thought of 

 the wonderfully correct vision of this Georgia 

 planter, so far in advance of almost everybody 

 else in the world. Already nearly all that he 

 foresaw has been accomplished, and the use of 

 electricity is being extended more and more 

 every year. 



October 4, New plants constantly appearing. 

 All day in dense, wet, dark, mysterious forest 

 of flat-topped taxodiums. 



October 5. Saw the stately banana for the 



