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 
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