The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-05-29

probably lacked many OF the mod
ern appliances which some OF you to-
day think 50 necessary to your COM
fort and well being There were days
OF toll and seasons OF despair. some
times we thought life was a wanfare
without many joys. To-Day we look
backward through the vista OF years
to the days when the world seemed
to be in its sprlngdme -seemed so
because we were hopeful, and optI-
mIstic with hearts strong and vigor-
GUS We realize now as never before
that those were indeed happy days,
and
'.rhe world we then were living In
Was surely hard to beat
We found a thorn with every rose,
But weren't those roses sweet?
When life was ike a story, holding
neither sob nor sigh,
In the golden olden glory OF the days
gone1by.
ut Is good for US to come together
on such an occasion. It is proper
amidst the rush and. roar of n COM
merciaI age to pause and mediate
upon the things that have helped to
shape our course in the journey OF
lllfe.
AS I passed along the banks of the
lbeautKflII streams yesterday It seemed
to me that every hillside was page
OF history I thought Of the strong
; men who came to this region in the
liong ago.
BRAVE. courageous. 1Foerty-lovflag'
honest and strong they came to open
I H.erfT Il
homes. we call them the pioneer
fathers and we pray now that their
great virtues may abide with their de-
scendants as the years roll on. We
] owe much to them and to the noble
mothers who shared their privations.
They are gone! But down the quiet
elk. along the Tygarts valley, over on
simpson, yonder in old Cove-yes.
old hills which the fathers cleared
and by their toll consecrated to prog
ress and civilization.
They gave them nam es-froTn King
Knob to Laurel Hill. and I always
took to the idea that we should look
upon these old hills as monuments to
the fathers who cleared them-silent.
majestic, sentineIs of Hme-monu-
and continents shall be no more.
The speaker took up some OF the
changes that the years had wrought
and graphically described some of the
events of the past He said. How
many OF as would want to have
erased from memory's baiblet the old
school days in the country. when
I'VE sat on the old-fashIoned
FaaW hos
Beguleid with our pencils ana
We thought OF the opening future.
And dreamed OF our manhood's es-
tate.
o, days OF my boyhood! bless you;
While looking from lies busy
prime,
The treasures are lingering with me
/ gathered in youths early time"
He said .'the age of bullets was
passing and the age OF ideas was
surely daRvning, and that this was
most strikingly illustrated In the pres
ent location of Broaddus, the magnf-
tcent institution OF learning, that
rest like an architecturai gem on
the first battle field OF the Republic.
Tt prehEures that NOT distant time
when 1r1onum ents will commemorate
the triurnphs OF the man with a great
thought rather than the man with a
long range gun.
'rwhen n sublime faith and great
thoughts strike root in the hearts and
minds OF people, when men are up
lifted by the heroic traditions and
aspirations of great land. they are
bound together by ties and bonds
which neither catastrophe nor COM
quest can tear asunder.
"rhis history of Barbour county
that VIII i've &s not the story OF her
material progress. but the record
made by her sons and daughters. and
the parts taken by them in the great
drama of civilization. They have
never been wnlI-howers at the tour
nament. They have not figured much
"a the OBSERVATIONS OF so-cailed high
society. Tyheir aims have been nobier.
rf1ey have been soldiers Of true prog
ress and have helped TO produce the
wonderworsin manBesta lions OF AZ,
most wonderful age.