The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-10-16
Portman Letter.

mere Is not TAR distant. This work is
the dam spanning the Seneca River Mt
the point of what was 'Portman
Shoals" about II miles west of the city
of Anderson. The power is owned by
the Anderson Water, Light and Power
Co., and is utilized in furthering the
progression, not only of the city but
the County of Anderson. Among other
notable men Of the County who are
executives, DIR. S. NJ. Orr, eminent in
his medical profession. is President
of the Company. The Doctor and
President is brother of the noted
Col: James L. Orr-first in peace
or war and respectfully first in the
hearts of his workmen at his sex-f
tensive cotton mills, Piedmont, s. C.
The construction at Portman is not
great in the science Of st0ru ;,ichi-
lecture. but 1t is great us the demands
! or the county require, antl as nothing
Is more destructive to n body neutral
or animate rs wasted energy, the Com
pany possibly pledge themselves that
not even candle power shall be vast
ed. while enough to glow Bartioldi
status from Anderson to Charleston
shnll be- forthcoming at tho request
|
pie. Great is electricity! Aud julius
Caesar. perhaps it was who, while
struggling for the first ;cmporship ut
Rome, snid while passing through n
small village in the Alps: 81 had
rather be the first man in this place
than the second at Rome.n So it is
with the electric company; since they
in the matter of famous construction.
they will i'll this little village of Port
man be emperOrs in power TINT ia not
second throughout the world.
| Another great "tirst' added to the
predicting is chat this piece Of con-
| structiOn at POrtman has within fifteen
months Or 80 supplied perhaps $4,000
mem few families and children in
cluded. This is no small reformation,
supplying food for so many. The best
men lacking Bustenance, at the point Of
death, would become thieves morally,
or mnniacs physically, the worst. snn-
piled. with f0Ol ana q comfortable sys-
mysteries of Christianity. Discourse
as we may, the bodily necessities of
man must be supplied. Without Food,
man, carniverOus in nil species, would
soon become cannibaiistic; or1tis dem
tai arrangement rearranged into the
graminiverOus, when, like Nebuchad-
nezzar,, King of Babylon. peculiarly
oxen."
The food supply Of the W., i'd was the
problem that bewildered the English
statistician, Malthus. Should popula-
ton magnify this human family in tho
future ns in the past--from whence
food9 Food! food! was the cry. The
outlook was wierd IND ghostly. Theo--
ries as to the digestibility of trees and
their foliage spread through the mathe-
matician's brain. The people would
stand go closely together that q man
could not handle hoe without putting
out his neighbours eyes. Were this
sort of Nautilus continued there would,
no doubt, be another sort of Franklin
who. witt. kite o. bucket, would be
dra awing food from the sky. Hut we
have survived the scare, and nre doing
very we'll on beef, mutton, chickens,
bacon, Hour, many vegetables, fruits,
and Jim cracks in the way of spices and
CONNECTIONS.
This food thought introduces, also,
an0ther:, That ministers and priests of
for the pe0ple-should seek by all
means to impress upon their congrega-
tiOns that sinners before being con-
'verted lnuBt be fed. 1t is almost i'm
possible to convert to good deeds the
man whose s.omach is raging like n
ravening wolf. 1t would seem that
whom Satan would possess he would
frat make hungry. Madam Roland. VIC
tim of the French communism, said: so
Liberty, what crimes are committed in
thy name" But no idealist or stetisti-
cian has undertaken the enumeration
of crimes said to have been committed
in the name Of hunger. The sea, were
it an ink well, would run dry and the
earth as scroll would be abridged in
in ihditing the crimes, tho extent of
the pangs. and the names of the multi
tudes who dragged themselves and
others to death and destruction through
the influence CO hunger. Christ, we
believe, never tried to convert q hun
cry mRn-He first fed the multitude.
cal history is feast where we find Him
with people who were appeasing hun
ger, and His last companiOnshiD with
His people was whore He asked them,
"chiidren. have ye any meat7" (Or
food) and ut this same pathetic fare
we'll, but not until Peter and the disci-
pies had dined, he asked the wayward
Simon Peter, lowest thou me3" Then
receiving from Peters satisfied body
and thankful soul hearty confession,
the Saviour bade tho disciple: "Feed
my lambs, feed my Sheep" Be the
command spiritual. material. or both,
tho Saviour knew, that child or man
susceptible to o hungry body. SO
blessed is food that Christ biest the
meal before he brake bread; and that
is the royal insignia to-day of the
Christian household-they ssgive
thanks'' at the breaking, or partaking
OF bread.
The prayer, .give us this day our
daily bread" is quite. often intended to
be answered by another, than the man.
who prayed. "A man may work and
work and pray, and unless he is paid
for bio labor he must go hungry uud
the promise of God be made of no