The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-11

ana the Kansas Horse-TheiF Wool and
Wind Unrivaled." He has always been
warm friend of Topeka, for it was on
the track mere that his horse Joe Young
made his wonderful record Like the
original David, Mr.. -Westbrook knows a
good horse when he sees it.
He said he would talk if the audience
would not laugh at him. He started out
by saying that since he was born in
1865 and then the banqueters laughed
Westbrook has a son AZ years old. That
was the reason. He was called on to
give the date of the birth of his father.
he said he did not know but his grand
father was born in 1888. The laughter
was kept up. In the early days." he
said, we never bought a horse with
out nrst looking at his wind to see II
1t was good" Then the horsemen
roared. Westbrook is not a, polished
speaker. What he says may not seem
humorous in print but at farmers
banquets he never fails to keep every
one laughing, provided he talks. He
said he had asthma for years and for
that reason he could eat no gravy. He
took SO much goose grease for asthma
that he had no room for gravy. He
spoke about whisky, sons-in-law,
churches, foot races and bicycles. The
nearest he came to wool was to speak
about blankets.
THE speaker has given US a great ex-
h1bition of wind said the toastmas-
ter, and he introduced E r. Nichols,
president of the Agricultural college of
Manhattan. He told of the work done
by the college and said: I'VE do not
ones"
DR.. Roby read an original poem en-
titled 1.-The Horse That Made Him
King" S. S. Benedict responded to the
proved Man" He said stockraisers
must keep pace with the times.
Higgins Hope was responded to
by brand new Higgins. }. w. jr.. from
Hope, Dickinson county He is related
to the Swift family that owns the large
packing houses. He said he had the
specific weights of Is head of cattle for
10 days that had gained pounds a
day.
Colonel Richards J. Hinton of Brook
Ign, responded to the toast, kansas
Partially for Water He said he
must have been called upon to respond
to that toast because he came from
a state where RaineS made the laws.
The play upon words fell fiat and he
had to diagram his joke to his western
hearers by explaining that Raines was
the author of the excise law in New
York.
T. NJ. Potter, better known as 'Tom
Potter, the man who would be COVER
nor" spoke on THE Stock Shipper and
the Railroads" He did not believe in
tearing up the railroad tracks because
of the advance in shipping rates but he
said: I'VE are going to see what re-
course We have. We are going to be
treated Ialrly ana SQuafely.
DR.. Henry Wallace, of DeS MoineS,
editor of ''Wallace's Farmer" spoke on
THE Farmer, Wallace's and Others"
He was at one time a Scotch Presby-
terrain preacher and knows how to
speak. He said he believed the farmers
papers should tell the why instead of
the how"
The last speaker was H. G. Toler, of
Wichita, who raised the famous PAGER
John R. Gentry. He is credited with
ho4Y7 ha r,7Ixr hat hxrra
tised William J. Bryan and caused him
to speak while the shekels rolled into
Toler's pocket. His subject was, THE
Horse Useful" IF there is one thing
above another he said, that fius-
trates me, as Mrs. Darlington says, it
is to make a speech" Toler is a horse
man, every inch of him. He can not say
horses he has to say "hosS' for it is
natural. If he knew it he IS a good
speaker, too. He said: THE farmer
nee6 not lose money training a fine
race boss. Raise him and break him
the same as any other 'hoss' and then
enter him at q. county fair race. When
he sees the boss come into the stretch
in the lead and go under the wire a
winner by a neck he feels the perspira-
ton run down his back and he feels
mighty fine" Toler has seen Gentry do
it as well as Gentry's sire Oakland
Wilkes and a lot of others.
This is tomorrow, said Mr.. COburn
land we will have to stop now. School
will take up tomorrow in Representa-
tive hall when the state board of agri-
culture meets"
AS the banqueters were leaving some
one offered a hasty resolution thanking
the members of the Commercial club
for their hospitality. 'All in favor say
aye" shouted some one and the shout
that followed made the guests in the
hotel believe an earthquake had struck
the town
The following was the menu:
Con PTinfanqirn
New York Counts.
Celery. Queen Olives.
Broiied Lake Trout, Saratoga Potatoes
Boned Young Turkey, Cranberry Sauce
Boiled Sugar Cured Ham.
Roast Leg of Venison, au Jus.
Shrimps, en- Mayonaise. Chicken Salad.
Assorted Cake Lady Fingers
NeufchateI and Cream Cheese.
Bent's Water Crackers.
Long Branch hackers.
Coffee. Fruit. Cigars.