The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-07-11
INTEREST INCREASING.
Prof. Moody, DR.. Hutchins and Mrs.
Yates-Col. Bain's Lecture Last
Evening-Band Concert and
Other Attractions
Tonight.
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PROF. MOODY.
One OF the hardest worked men on
she ground is Prof. Moody, teacher OF
the chorus class. We should think his
work unsatisfactory to himself, at least.
It is so upsystematic in it's arrangement.
He has to pull and haul from every
quarter to get q chorus together, drill
like q steam engine for an hour to get
them thoroughly interested in q few de-
lightful numbers and then they are dis
banded spd away again. He is next
found drilling q squad for come special
detail service in song, or more common
ly doing the singing himself to ''chink
in" But there il q praiseworthy quail
ity about Prof. Moody. He may be in this
line the pack horse OF the platform, but
whatever he does, he does we'll, and does
it with q will. We admire his stead
fastness to duty under ~distracting on
ditions and sometimes wish that he too
might 60 out occasionally on dress
parade. His singing "The Old Turnkey"
Yesterday afternoon was well received
by the audience.
DIR. 4. r. HUTCHINs,
Of Des Moines, grand chief templar OF
the state OF Iowa, who was to have
spoken on good templary at the audi
forum yesterday afternoon, changed his
subject to that of abraham Lincoln"
owing to the fact that the audience had
already been treated to q good deal Of
temperance talk by previous speakers
He brought greetings, however, from the
Good Templars of Iowa to those OF South
Dakota and wished them f~aithfulness in
the cause OF temperance and success in
the work. Since first the work began
in Iowa Good Templary had grown from
a few hundred to 1900 who now pro.
pose to stand by principle until absolute
prohibition was the law and constitution
of their state. His address on Lincoln
was a sketch OF the martyred presidents
life, historical and reminiscent, eloquent
ly presented.
ELIZABETH U. YATES.
"Truth stranger than fiction" was the
title which Mrs. Yates, Of Maine, gave to
her plea for prohibition. Dressed in
black this medium sized lady looks very
pale as she stands before an audience
and she had risen from a sick-bed to
hold her appointment here. The only
class of people protected from the saloon,
she claimed. were life convicts. "Let the
saloon alone and it will let you alone"
claimed the advocate of the liquor traffic,
and then the pale woman IN black at
tackled the proposition in every assailabls
side with facts, figures and logic to show
that it would let nothing alone. The
individual, the family, the church, the
taxpayer, the nation, were all taxed and
injured by the traffic in liquor. Count
erattractions were needed but that was
not enough. Root it out. At the close
of the lecture Mrs. Murray sang two
pieces of a Scotch cast.
sTEREoPTICoN NON EST.
Owing to a blunder of some one, Prof.
Davidson received a chest of carpenters
tools instead of his s~tereopticon yester-
day at Madison, consequently there was
no lecture in that line last evening. The
time was pleasantly occupied, however,
by the 4th regiment band and Col. Geo.
| w. Balm. The crowd will never com
plain at either of these attractions fill
ing some other appointment. The band
concert was all too short as it was, but
its numbers were delightfully."- entertain
ing. The first was a march-Semper
Fidelis; the second an overtufe-Sem-
erimlde; and the third a fantasie-On
My Old Kentucky Home.
COL. GEO. w. Balm.
This matchless orator held his vast
audience in close attention for an hour
and a half last evening as he spoke Of
"Traits Of Character Men were the
product of their environments which
accounted largely for their differences
in thought, speech and action. We
should judge character from the narrow
standpoint Of prejudice or education
The character of the south is entirely
changed as a result of the war-no one
wants slavery now. 1t takes time tc
learn the good qualities of an individual
give him a fair trial. The two great
dangers to our country to-day are reck'
lessness in marriage and recklessness ir
electing men to the legislature. Two
schools are badly needed-a school oil
economy and q school Of theology. But
we should learn that every experience oi
life is a school. People are unconscious
learners hence the smallest influence il
OF Importance. Every tone of the voice
is constructive or destructive OF famil,
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