The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-07

and the relative, enjoying with the
family the social life and hospitality
which has ever characterized our
people. The latch-string of our first
log cahin is said to have hung ON the
out side and our modern architecture
has not been able to abolish that
custom.
But above and beyond the matter
of increase in population there is one
thing to which we do point with
pride in this connection: 1t may
not be immodest for us to say that
we are proud, if not of the number,
of the quality of the men who have
made the history of our town.
Our neighbors are accustomed to
say of US that they always know
citizen of Morgantown ON sight"
Nor is the distinguishing quality
in the cut of his coat or his peculiar
gait The peculiar test or measure
of manhood that has obtained among
us, may have something to do with
it. And probably that test is radi-
cally different from that which is APP
piled in any other part of the State.
If you go down TO the antipodal
part of our State-to Charleston, the
present Capital of West Virginia
they will want to know your politics.
They will hunt up your political
antecedents until they learn how you
have cast your vote since you reached
your majority; how you vote now,
and with what ring you are supposed
to affiliate. They will estimate you
entirely from a political standpoint.
If you come farther up into the
State, to the city of Parkersburg,
they will want to know who your
grand was-who are your
cousins and your uncles and your
aunts--and they will trace up your
entire pedigree. They will estimate
you from family standpoint.
If you come still farther up into
the State, to the city of Wheeling,
they will Immediately want to know
what is your standing in bank; they
will demand to know the exact
amount for which your check will be
honored; they will size your pile;
they will estimate you from a finan-
cial standpoint.
Now when you have travelled to
the other antipodal point of the State,
to old Morgantown, and have walked
from the beginning to the head of
Main street, there will not be a man,
woman or child along the way who
will not already have asked: What
does he know? What does he stand
for as a man? How does he round
up Intellectually, morally,physically?
This is the measure of manhood
which Morgantown has been won't to
apply to it's citizens. And we are
proud, to-day, of the men who have
lived among us and whose names
stand as familiar landmarks all along
the line of our history. If there is
one thing more than another that we
desire to honor on this anniversary
occasion it is the memory of these
men. We are proud of these old
family names SO familiar to us-the
Morgans, the Jarretts, the Rogers,
the Rays, the Maderas, the McLanes,
the Evans, the Lowrys, the behring's,
the Gays, the Hays the Laziers, the
Chadwieks, the Hanways, the Kigers,
the Pickenpaughs, the Hagans', the
Dorseys, the Wilson's, the Aliens, the
Shislers, the Hennens, and many
other names that have become house
hold words with our people.
Mr.. Wiley closed by extending a
warm welcome to the citizens of
Monongalia who had come in to join
in the festivities of the anniversary
of their county seat; to the old citi-
zen who had left his first love to
seek his fortune in other lands and
was now back to honor his old home;
and to the stranger who had drop
ped in to share the hospitality and
make merry with the people of the
old town. Three cheers were then
given by the crowd for the Centen-
NAL of Morgantown, and the crowd
adjourned for the dinner hour.
AFTER DINNER.
AT l 80 p NJ. the crowd reassem
bled, at the ringing of the court
house bell, in even greater numbers
than in the morning. Court House
Square was one great living mass.
The Grafton band, which, by the
way, is one of the best bands in this
part of the country, opened up with
one of its most successful performan-
ces. Then the chairman introduced
Mr.. W. T. w. Barbe, who had writ
ten for the occasion
THE CENTENNIAL POEM.
And had written it we'll. The SEN
timent of the promising young poets
song touched responsive chord in
the hearts of all Morgantown and
Monongalia people. Its ideas re-
kindled the old love that only Nor
gantown people are capable of bear
ing for their native place and their
childhood home 1t recounts the
virtues of our fore-fathers as it
comes down through the decades of
the century just closed. 1t brings
us to realize that ''these hearth-stone
shrines are worth all the world be-
side" 1t is SO appropriate to the
occasion that it will be highly priced
by all whose fondest recollections
cluster around the old familiar
scenes they loved so we'll. Here is
the poem:
SONG OF A CENTURY.
The highest aim of every Islamite
To npna fo stand upon tho ho1v otto