The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-03-01

After discussing the numerous
courses for an hour and hall
Judge Hagans announced the fol.
lowing program:
PROGRAMME
The Aborigines of West Virginia.
Col. HENRY RAYMOND
The Frontiersman and the Indian,
ALFRED PAUL., Esq
French Claims West of the Alleghanies
prior to the Revolution,
PROF. JOHN GEORGE Cuttings.
Battle of Point Pleasant-1774.
FREDERICK T. MARTIN
We're there Tories in the Present
Bounds of West Virginia?
WILLIAM GosHoRN CALDWELL, ESQ.
Fhe Pioneers,
Dr.. REED BAIRD.
Lyrics and Minstrelsy of the Revolution
Hon. G. w. BRooKUNIER.
The Material Profit of the Revolution
Hon. JOHN BAssELL
Several of the speakers were alb
sent but the papers prepared by
Col. Raymond, Mr.. PAUL and Prof.
Cuttings were read.
During the evening Mrs. Harti-
gan's orchestra made splendid music
and were several times encored after
patriotic tune. The music could
not be anything but good under her
direction and the orchestra has a
note of thanks from every one pres
ent.
Everything connected with the
meeting passed off delightfully."-. The
place for the next meeting will be
fixed later by the board of manager.
At the close of the menu Mayor
Glasscock was called upon and
made some very appropriate remarks
on Morgantown Dr. l c. White
also gaue an instructive talk on the
Geology of West Virginia.
We regret our inability gave all
the papers in full to-day but will do
so later. We append the one pre-
pared by Mr.. PAUL. They are all
well worth reading.
THE FRoNTIERsMAN 4 THE INDIAN.
Backward turn backward, O, Time
in thy flight. Backward through the
long years of the past, back through
the century, and tonight let us look
through the telescope of history, and
stand with our ancestors ''The Path
finders" Of our then Western border,
as they opened the Wilderness to
civilization, and then and there laid
the foundation of this great and
mighty Republic. To fully appreciate
their lofty undertaking, the sublime
grandeur of their lives, their indomit-
able wills, their courage and bravery,
let us tonight in the spirit stand
with one of them on the banks of the
Ohio or Monongahela, and behold his
log cabin, his home, his palace, situa-
ted solitary, alone, surrounded ON all
sides by deep, dark and almost impen
etrable forests, nothing to be heard
in all that impressive silence but the
bowling of the wolves, or the braying
of the dogs, as they chased the deer
from hill top to valley, a loneliness,
like the darkness, that may be felt.
His is character that is well worth
our most careful study. We all adj
mire bold adventurer, one who for
the sake Of excitement, or love of
sport, or for the love of something
new and novel, plunges recklessly and
fearlessly into unknown dangers, or
who for honor and ambitions sake,
seeks out new and undiscovered lands,
but we have in our frontiersman a
character over and above all this, one
who has gone into an unknown, un-
tried country, a wilderness, to build a
home for wife, and children, knowing
full well the dangers that hover on
every hand, not only from the wild
beasts of the forest, but, over and
above all, from the lurking, hiding saw
age, whose first and only warning, Is
the twang Of the bow string, or the
crack of the rife, bringing at once
death, and desolation Therefore our
frontlersmen had to be raen Of iron
nerves, Of indomltablc Wills, Of such
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