The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-10
Portlllan Letter.

midulo OF tho week brings tho er., tous
aud says: here is tho close nt, ,eur .,.,,
dnys.
Wo scarce get limo to read wc,l ovor
the many interesting portions OF our AN
DERSoN 1NTELLIuENcER-w which mama
every column-before is time to begin
our Portman letter Every correspon-
dent, no doubt, realizes this rerarotng
time. Readers of tho ISrEL,yGEScEp
should feel grateful to these oblieinr
writer's from the country at large whoEo
'i'ne must he SO busily occupied with
crops or household cares. Like the
honey bee, they cheerf.ly gather, as
they wanac. through the wholesome
hours, all that is good and enjoyable, and
send it to their paper that. week after
| week. readers may partake with thom in
me feast ofreason and the flow of soul.
Usually thore Is little to write about.
but we notice that all the contributors
MAKE the mos. OF their little, and are
grateful to their friends who supply them
with news.
a newspaper links its readers in beau
uful, benevolent ties. In its clear. ac
centuatod type, it tells each of the other.
It acquaints tho other with what each
has said and thought kindly in his behalf;
there is no "hallowed ground" that pre-.
serves 30 many sacred memories as the
| pages OF q newspaper, and subscribers
should preserve files of their paper as re-
| cords of the friendliness of friends all the
year round. To look next year in some
paro Of this years paper and SEQ where
| n hoo ox,lu fnl
III speaking of us to newspaper reporter,
has called rs the hands ONE, or dashing,
or gallant, or pretty, or noble, Miss,
Mrs. or Mr.. Somebody, saying how hap
py our visit has made every body! We
sought TO have those files of newspapers to
show We wore living, and where we liv-
ell. AS for the man who cannot or will
not take newspaper OF Ills OWL, there
Will be few ecords no doubt Of the noble
things Ee has done, and few will have
enough interest In him to pat his name
in tho local itemp
Wo rend "Hreathes there a man with
soul so dead who never to himself hath
said, this is my own, my native land"
we wonder. breathes there man with
soul so dead who never tc himself hath
said: want a newspaper! We doubt 1t.
We have heard on authority that
clergy man, passing through the heather
ofScotland, mot an old woman, and never
missing an opportunity for promulgating
his faith, he asked bor Of her soul. She
had not heard OF such questions before,
and did not know. "My dear woman"
said he revtrently, don't you know that
Christ died?" "Naw, naw," said she,
IL dinna ken wha g a livin' or ded moo:
ma husband nav TAX ma hoom th' noos.
paptr." SO much for the general knowl-
edge or historic past that comes or re-
mains with the man whose own soul is
30 dead he does not taxi hoom the noos-
paper 10 hls wife.
/ We are having april weather" Of
course, at Portman. It's on the calendar
aud It's accuracy must be recorded. With
the bursting of sunshine and Erolic OF
blossoms somc Of us began looking
around for man who would cut up our
heavy oak logs into stove lengths, and
we began sweeping up and away tho
last pipe full of ashes in our sitting room
fire place, for 1t was time to put in
screens! And we began folding away
two or three winter comforters OFF our
beds, and looking through last years.
effects for mid-season garments; but as
the darkey said, "Mistah winter, LIE COM
long an say: hea, hea now, you jes' put
dem tings back whar iey belongs; you
put dem woods back in de e. place, an
yo kivers on 80 bed, an' 20 clos on yo
ches'. rs not dun wif 20 yell"
A story the writer heard in childhood,
and we have all heard since. April had
come. Tho fatller of the household said,
Ga soeing the children wanting to discard
shoes and ilannels and mufllers;" "childrep
Will toll you story: There was once
man who had q alck COW; he nursed this
cow through the dreariness of winter,
through its cold and snow and sleot and
rain, and at the ond OF winter the COW
was saved. He nursed it into Spring,
and the month Of April came to make
glad his heart IIo let the convaescent
animal out in tho wsrm sunshine. The
animal enjoyed the bursting Of sunshine
and buds, but 1t experienced this enjoy
ment only enc week-tho first week of
! April killed it!'
Tho writcr always remem bers this, and
takes little pleasure so far In the bland
ishments OF Mis.ah Spring-paying con-
siderable respect to tho cautiousness of
Mistah Winter.
In reference to local item Of Portmsn,
we notice that Dr.. Orr's general manager
here, Mr.. II. Il. Long, has about complet.
cd the placing of the wires between this
and Anderson. He has had his mon, It
is true. place them during sabbathe, and
censure was not unusual on manager and
mon for disregard of sacred laws. The
good keepers of the commandment, per-
haps, throughout the County did net
know that the mills could only work at
day time. Tho employees would not work