Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-11

sympathy OF the HeitFl anu hOlCS uLIn W
the attachment OF his own associations.
There il one day i'll seven appointed
for rest. but associate on that one the
gloomy experiences OF the preceding SIX
and the spirit of the proud man yields
TO the gloom of the unchanging day,
dispirited being to the monOtony OF ms
own existence.
But the time has come and the exam
nle has been set which inaugurateS
change in the policy Of our people and
in the pride oil our Citv'S inhabitants.
We have seen the beauty, grandeur and
magnificence OF other places. We have
seen the gardens, parks, monuments
and fountains laid out, erected and
maintained by the energies ola less opu-
lent people who now boastin their pride
and repoSe in the luXuries Of their own
creation. until We have determined that
our city shall no longer remain the dark
yelled maid OF the night, but the white
robed bride OF the morning.
To-day We inaugurate the beginning
OF new life, thro wing aside the sable
garments OF the past, and assuming the
dress Of more defined taste, We start
upon the pathway OF a refining future.
To one OF our most liberal citizens are
We indebted Tor the change. From his
hands have We received the gilt before
us. \ piece of artistic work that reflects
credit upon the mind that conceived IT
and the hand that executed It's design;
a model which displays the taste OF It's
purchaser, and fills, i'll every particular,
the purposes for which it was intended.
No other gilt could have been more APP
propriate, or no other ornament greater
adOrn the spot upon which il is located.
Here in the heart OF our city, Al the
front OF our Capitol. Il site a. we'll suited
TO the fountain IL the fountain 10 the
location.
But have said that OF all other gifts,
none would have been more approprl-
ate than the one presented. There l.
something even III the name OF fOun-
tain, and its associations carries back
the mind TO the remOtest past. Begin
ning with the Creator, We recognize in
in him the fountain OF living waters,
and when on earth tire Church OF God
was founded, il was known as Il spring
shut up and fountain scaled, but when
the Church and It's mission failed and
the Creator Was Knocked by the created,
the fountains of Heaven were broken
up, and the sin OF the flesh fell vie
tim to the waters Of the delugc. But
there came day when the Christian era
dawned, and the rcpentant soul sought
Christ Is the fountain sf Great truth,
believed in Him and lived forever.
Truly there is history i'll the word
found recorded in the Book that left its
authorship in Heaven. Purity must be
its meaning. because il had his name and
origin in him. Fountain is the source.
The source is the beginning. Il am the
beginning, and the beginning is in
God"
The material and artistic fountain is
by no means the invention OF modern
times, but finds its origin in the days
wherein the profanc historian has failed
to venture, and from that remote period
to this it has existed as 4 resort or an or
nament, and by successive ages been
preserved as legacy OF the earliest an
tiquity. Far back in that buried past
there existed city to whose opulence
the world contributed, whose streets
were paved with gold and whose every
monument shOne lustre upon the mag
nificcnce OF its superb grandeur, but with
all this was not complete until from the
fountain OF GihUn came the waters that
supplied the city OF the Great King.
And when the immortal bard in his
verse did sing OF a Paradise lost and Il
paradise regaincd; when this city, its
walls and gates and temple, he, in his
poetry. adOrcd, all would have been inn
perfect in the verse and distastciul to
his muse had he failed to speak of the
fountain OF Eurogal "a "Siloam's brook
that flowed fast by the oracle OF God
Coming to later period, We see the
refined taste OF the Greek Chiseled i'll
the sculptured work of the worlds most
euuisitc art works that have withstood
the test OF competing skill and challenged
the conception OF more modern times
to equal their perfection. Upon their
andtemples and their great
est works OF genius they gazed in pride
and admiration, but at the shrine Of
their fountains they wOrshipped and
imbibed its holy waters as the gift al
their heather deity. So with the
Roman, who, clothed in the pride Of his
country, knclt before the splendor
Of her great magnifcencc. And
now, whilst others sing her praise
and historians her greater deeds
record; whilst other tongues Of
her temples speak, and other pens her
and cdificcs portray, il was
Horace, the writer Of Roman ode, who
called in verse upon every praise, and in
song sung onl " oi the fountain of Ban
ducia
1t is true that whilst many Oi the loss
arts lie buried, there is still left skill,
a taste and enterprise that marks the
present and challenges in comparison
the past. In England in Germany and
in France, each and all upon their
beauty brag; each city, town and dale
their hands OF enterprise have made
and thcirtaste Of scuIpturcd art adorned.
The chase, the garden and the park
alike, each government protects, and
from hill to dale, from the lowland 10
the mountain top, wherever the villa,
the town or city stands, mark the spot,
for there streams-the fountain.
We are standing now before the tenn
pie Of our State, within whose walls the
sacred power OF government resides,
power that may for good exist or to an
evil tendency portend. 1t is there each
citizen his homage pays, the rich and
poor alike all equities invoke II is
there each patriot his loyalty declares
and swears his country to protect. May
it like Wonder water clear, onward with
the stream OF time, its purity maintain.
May it like sparkling rain-drops in the
sun, the sign OF the holy promise keep,
with honor fair its purity retain, a tenn
pie and fountain.
BY the one presented to-day there is
lesson taught. At its base are 'Rever-
les, >" with heads inclined and energies
in pensiye thought and dreamy
mood, sitting, waiting, waiting, sitting,
whilst world and time pass on together
The flowers Of spring may come and in
he:fall be withcrcd by the frost; the
summer storm her thunderbolts may
lurE, and wintsr in his frigid blast de-
stroy, but reverie il rcvcrie forever. At
he head Of the fountain il the Goddess
II Love and Beauty, who wears the
magic girdle. and in her radiance lights