The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-05
PATRIOTIC BREEZES
Blown by the Lake-The True Basis d
National Greatness-A Great Sunday.

Independence Day at the lake had q
valiant champion in the person of Mrs.
Leonora NJ. Lake, of st. Louis, an Irish
born lady but a ~tnroughly American pa
triot. Her address on this occasion was
one of the features Of the assembly,
sound to the core, based on the princi-
pies of the Declaration of Independence,
love of country. loyalty to our homes
and to our God. Celebrating her
theme Mrs. Lake believed that true
patriotism was opposed to bossism,
boodleism, and spoils OF office. Patriot.
ism was not politics in a personal or
party sense. It meant a vote against
party when party was wrong, 1t meant
a vote against the saloon, against gold
getting and extortion, a vote to protect
home, childhood, virtue. The training
of manhood to this high standard lay
with the mothers in bringing up their
children. 1t could not be done without
a deep sense of dependence on God, and
a religious education which gave their
children a high moral sense OF honor,
virtue, purity and charity. Mrs. Lake
ia a wonderful woman OF commanding
presence on the platform, magnificent
voice. a deep religious nature, warm and
motherly, her earnestness and sincerity
convincing even more than her e!o-
~quence. Her discourse yesterday on
the temperance question brought out all
the excellent qualities OF this magniti-
cent woman's nature, and she made the
greatest a%rraigument OF the liquor
traffic along these same lines suggested
IN her Saturdays address, ever heard on
the Chautauqua ground. Her praise
was in everybody's mouth and her dis
course made a deep and no doubt lasting
impression or many.
CLOSE OF THE WEEK.
Miss Shontz recited Saturday evening
the Chariot Race from "Ben Hur" in an
animated manner, Prot. Lufkin played q
. cornet solo and Heber Bowling Melon.
aid acted to perfection in %pantomine
1.-THE hired girl" at her toilet.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY
Or. Palmore on the Eastern Quee
ton" was a little disappointing AS his
discourse was principally taken up with
his personal experiences of travel in
these two countries which were very in
! tor,e%;,v ~ n h,,t rat -, tha 1,ro ~
modern political intrigue. He reviewed
= in a historic wa, the occasion and loca.
} ton of the Crimean war, took his hear
1 ers on a trip up into central Russia and
e lead back into Constantluople where he
pictured Mohammedan life, intrigue and
= atrocities as practiced q year or more
!, ago. His praise of Florence Nightin'
gale and Clara Barton WAS unstinted
and loudly %applauded, and the grea,
work being done throughout all Turkey
by the American Missionaries he be.
= lieved would work out the solution Of
the eastern question.
SUNDAY.
Yesterday at Chantauqua was a great
day. The Gro sd was the largest Of the
season. The day was full of good things
u Sunday school in the morning had ar
attendance Of about 200, Rev. CantielC
of Burnside being superintendent. Ii
the forenoon Rev. \. f. Thompson thu
evangelist preached from the text: Psa
62:52 on putting trust IN God. At 2:3(
Leonora NJ. Lake gave the great tom,
!: perance discourse to which we hav,
4 elsewhere alluded. said to be the grand
|. est discourse of the k,ud ever given OF
this Assembly platform, and after thil
"yespers" at which Dr.. Parks talked elo
~quently for half an hour.
l.. MUSICAL PROGRAM.
The evening concert drew anothe
large audience which was we'll repaid il
'e listening to an instrumental quintette
10 Messrs. Ireland, Collins and Lufkin o,
r the cornet, Lee G. kratz at the organ
e. and Miss Miller at the piano. The'
folio we'd a duet by Miss Chambers AM
Prot. Lee G.. Kraft, the recitation o
t "Old Soapy" by Miss Shontz whic|
&c brought every one in the audience t
- tears, a song by the Il. X. Quartette an
a solo by Prof. Lee G. kratz. This who!
a. program vas delightful and sympathetic
s touching deeply the feeling Of the grea
audience.
"A PROvIDENTIAL REPUBLIC
. was the theme of DR.. Palmore's Sunda
evenlng discourse founded on Deut. *
"God hath chosen thee, a special people.
He traced what he believed were provi
dental steps leading up in the life c
columbus and other historical cond
tions to the discovery of this continen
and it's settlement, and also in It's histor
as a nation. The doctor had nothin
but praise for the opportunities hi
country offers and loyalty for it's exit
tence, but he deprecated in scathin
terms the corruption IT DOlitics and th