The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-04
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Tim Much and He eTeils Of II In an
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TAtlanta Constitution.

good teacher. Shakespeare says
knowledge is the wing with which
we fly to heaven" and rs heaven is
where we all wish to 60, it becomes
2ns to acquire knowledge. Lord
Bacon said knowledge is power"
and 30 it was n day we'll spent, for 1
flenrned much in ono day, at tho
Tennessee Centennaial-- much
that I am going to return very soon
and take more tine and acquire more
knowledge. I sometimes think it a
great pity that BY tho time a man
becomes fit to live his time is out and
he has to die. If the old men who
have made good usa~of their time
4nd aeslleAAts- We're given new lease
another three score years and ton,
aud had the vigor Of their youth re-
stored what world Of wisdom would
they accumulate. We would all be
Solomons and write proverbs. What
farmers we would make; what inven-
tors; what teachers; what preachers;
what scientists. Maybe providence
cut us down to seventy years for
fear we would learn too much of His
mysteries and once again eat the
fruit from the tree Of knowledge.
| was Illuminating about this while
listening to tho earnest discourse of
Colonel Killebrew, who has charge
of tho Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis and the Western and At
lantic railroad exhibits at the exposi-
tion. Now there is man who rs Paul
said to Timothy magnifes his Office.
1t is like going to school to hoar
him explain and expatiato and phil
osophize upon things that ordinarily
would attract no special attention.
If every man in charge of q special
exhibit had his enthusiasm tho expo
sition would not only bo a grand
success, but would diffuse moro
knowledge among men than any
similar display has ovor done.
Now, for instance when wo paus-
ed to look at some tobacco that was
hanging from the rods ho said:
"That tobacco grew on very poor
land. The best tobacco always grows
on poor land" Indeed it sooms
providential that poor land is good
for something.
The sandy, gravelly land of Gran
~ berry cohnty, in north Georgia grows
@the finest tobacco in tho world, and
it commands the highest price. Tho
soil is not rich enough to give it a
dark color, and hence it is pale and
sickly, and has tho consumption SO
to speak. This tobacco grow upon
land that is 80 per cent silica--sandy
)and-poor, white land, as you Bar
tow county farmers call i. I have
seen it, and it can be bought for q
song, but there is moro money in it
than in your valleys and rivor bottom
The sand that is in Florida soil will
moke tho tobacco growing success
there. | have been experimenting in
tobacco growing and curing for years
and know whereof l speak. There
are thousands Of acres in north Goor.
gle that arc just suited to it, and all
those poor white lands in Cobb
county are just waiting for it. Some
of that land along our railroad that
will not grow corn high enough tc
sho&an ear or mako a tassol, would
grow the most ar;stocratic tobacco
Wepaused again to look ut some
Ssfiittle pyramids Of broken rock, and ]
learned that it was phosphate ro
cent discovery in counties contiguous
to the herailroad. "There arc millions O.
it and millions in it," said the colon
o]. GAS is usual, these discovorie!
wore accidental Some minera! OK
ports were prospecting for zinc, ant
we're at n loss to account for thcs,
singular deposits. They have hat
them annalyzed, and they are pro
nounced by reliable chemists to b.
the very finest grade of phosphate
rock, running from G4 to IS pc
cent, and some Of the strata ar
twelve feet thick, and undorli
thousands Of acres. There are n
phosphates in Florida that will com