The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-31

Madison people will remember with
pleasure the genial DR.. W. B. Palmore of
St. Louis, who was the first lecturer in
our last Assembly, as they read the
following from his pen in the st. Louis
Christian Advocate:
The first white settlement IN South
Dakota was just forty years ago. link
of a land in which there was not a single
school house until the close Of our civil
war, now having "a ChautauqUa Assem-
bly, and an extensive State University !
The star Of empire is certainly moving
westward. We write from the shore Of
Lake Madiso, :, the site OF the Chautau.
u about four miles from the city OF
Madison. The lake is seven miles long
and surrounded by an undulating
pralrie!of rare beauty, with improvements
suggestive of a much older civilization.
As we gaze upon the vast wheat fields OF
the Dakotas, our thoughts turn back to
the days Of Cortez, when q OF his
followers found in his ration of rice three
grams Of wheat, the first ever planted IN
the Western hemisphere. Think OF a
wheat field with $4,000 acres, with twelve
reapers in a line moving 1t down, o
of spread eagle orators talking OF the
Land OF Hiawatha and Of Handsome
Women" and you will have a faint con.
ception of the phenomenal development
of the "Wild and Woolly West"
We were amused at the conversation OF
two patriotic ladies, u from South
Dakota aud the other from North
Dakota. The former speaking OF the
fertility of her state. said that she had
seer SIX beets grown in South Dakota
which aggregated loo pounds. The
other replied: I'VE have them in North
Dakota weighing POO pounds each, but
they are dead This last species seems
to be "a universal product III all countries,
new and ole. II the reader has any
doubt of this statement, let him or her
start to publish a newspaper. HOY the
church would take wings and thy on her
missions of mercy If all her dead beats
could be regeLerated or born into L new
life Of service instead OF being always
served by others. How about the reader
of these lines? Are you Il weight or ii
wing to your church: Are you "a dead or
Il live beet? Have YOU been boru again
and retained your birth-right by active
and cheerful service, or have YOU been
SO burdeued with The consciousness of
unused powers that you have back
slidden into a dead beat existence.
quarrelipg and grumblirg with your
entire environment:
The difference between Northern and
Southern girls is very manifest at these
Chautauqua Assemblies. Here are
bright. sparkling poor girls waiting on
the tables 10 the dining OF the
great hotel, thus paying their expenses
and getting the educational benefits Of
the assembly. If more Of our poor girls
OF the South could sufficiently conquer
their foolish pride as to enable them to
work their way through college, it would
certainly be much better for them, for
their struggling parents and for the age
in which they live. When We see the
average Southern girl, we generally feel
like volunteering our services for pro-
lection, to see that no harm befalls her.
When we see the average Northern girl,
we feel like putting ourselves under her
protecting care that she may see no
harm betalls Us. Our girls ia the South
however, are growing more self reliant
as the days go 10y, and some day they
will he the strength us we'll as the charm
of the whole world.