Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-02-23

! place Tor 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. |. 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
we'll worth reading.
THE RRoNTIERsMAN s. 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, ana
stand with our ancestors 1.-THE Path
] finders Of our then Western border,
as they opened tho 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 a character that Is we'll 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, I'M
tried country, a wilderness, to build q
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 rifle, bringing at once
death, and desolation Therefore our
/ frontiersmen had TO be men Of iron
nerves, of indomitable wills, OF such
persevering characters, that they knew
no such words as Encouragement, or
failure, with them it was always to do
or die. A sublime faith in Supreme
! Being. one who controls the events OF
our lives, and shapes their ends, Is al
ways high and lofty inspiration to
mighty deeds, and gives to men great
! holiness and courage as they carve
out the destiny OF their lives. This
belief in God, this faith in His guild
ing and controlling hand was in very
great degree possessed by the men who
paved the way and opened the wilder
ness, and it was this faith that gave
strength to their arms, comfort to
their hearts, cheer amid loneliness,
privation, and suffering, and made
them characters standing out as they
do-brave, noble, courageous to be low
ed, and admired as long as the heart
4 thrills, as we read and listen to the
stories of brave deeds and noble eff
forts. There is story in the sLati-
mers'' that most beautifully Illus
trates this nobility of character, this
high and lofty purpose where those
who through dangers that seem to be
beyond powers of men to endure, and
where If the body did not succumb to
WEAKNESS, the mind would to loneli-
ness, yet upheld by a lofty purpose
| fulfilling a divine commission with
abiding faith in an overruling Provi-
dence, they accomplish a seeming Inn
possibility The story in brief is as
/ follows:
/ A pastor had been called to admin
lister to the spiritual wants OF small
congregation, engaged at stipulated
salary, be purchased a small farm,
convenient to the meeting house, hav-
/ ing no money he bought on credit,
promising to pay with the salary
pledged by his people. He was truer
| to his little flock than they were to
him, for after several years his salary
was far in arrears, and no prospects of
payment. There was little or no
money in circulation, plenty OF wheat
but no market for same, matters thus
vyoG for