The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-11
HAD A GOOD TIME.
StOckmen Enjoy Hospitality of
Commercial Club.
A Few Guests Wore No Collars
and High Top Boots.
BRIGHT THINGS SAID.
Adage That Clothes Don't Make
the Man Again Proven.
City People Learn a Few Things
From Farmer.
BRIGHT THINGS SAID.

motel last night Dy the 1OpeKa COM
merciaI club. AS the banquet proceed
ed the men gathered around the two
long tables had to unbuttom their vests
or become anti-expansionists. By the
time the banquet was over the room
was filed with eloquence and tobacco
smoke.
Some of the banqueters wore high top
boots with their trousers stuck inside
and others had no neckties and some
had no collars, but they were bright
men and as one speaker said: You can
not tell man by his clothes, but you
can by the stock he raises They are
all gentlemen then, for they raise the
finest stock in the country. They en-
joyed themselves. Some left before the
banquet was over Some had to catch
trains and others had to milk in the
morning. AS they left those who had
not been able to find seats filed in from
the hall, where they were waiting, and
took the vacant places. During the first
part of the banquet an orchestra play
ed all the latest rag time pieces and
everybody felt jolly, especially when
famous Topeka soft" cider was
brought in.
It was 10 years ago that the Kansas
Improved Stock Breeders association
was founded. The tenth anniversary
was appropriately celebrated with the
banquet rendered the stOckmen by the
business men of Topeka. The associa.-
ton has grown and proSpered during
the last few years and the members
give the credit to II. A. Heath, the
secretary. Last night Ex-Governor
George W. Click was called upon by the
POSTMASTER to make a few remarks
while the wreck of the first course, oys-
tiers, was being carried away. Mr..
Click commenced by explaining that he
had been told by Mr. Heath two weeks
before that he would be on the list for
a speech. He said he had been left out,
not by mistake or error but through
spite and that Heath was the guilty
man. The secretary was standing at
the end of the room. AS the speaker
skinned" him in the most approved
fashion he clenched his hands. His lips
frightened, he was growing angry. He
restrained his pent up anger. He grew
white. Still the speaker continued. Mr..
Heath was really getting quite mad.
He could hardly control himself.
Then Major Tom Anderson appeared
with glass of cider and offered it to
the speaker, who drank it.
Il feel better now" said Mr.. Click,
perhaps Mr. Heath has not been so
bad. He has been working hard and
faithfully"
Bring him another glass; said
Heath.
After the speaker had worked his
own wrath and that of the guilty man
" q punt WHICH meant eAD1Oue W1In
another degree of abuse, Mr.. Click told
him he would forgive and heap Goals Of
fire upon his head by presenting him a
gold watch and chain in behalf of the
association in token Of the appreciation
of the Secretary's good work Mr..
Heath cooled Off, climbed onto a chair.
and thanked the members Of the asso-
citation
Farmers believe in saving time, so
while the consomfne was being eaten
0f no o,de Of q Of
master +. d. Coburn introduced T. A
Hubbard, president Of the State Board
of Agriculture, who responded to THE
Topeka Commercial Club, Our Host"
Mr.. Hubbard went to Texas once and
while there was induced to eat Mexican
Chill and hot tamales and since then
he has been opposed to Mexican ex-
pansion and had he not been too old he
would have raised a company to fight
during the Spanish war During his
remarks he said, I'VE are the guests of
the brightest and best city in the west,
represented by the best and brightest
men, the Topeka Commercial club" He
spoke Of the record made by our fight
ing regiment and said, I'VE sent a boy
just out of his sWaddling clothes He
be came a brigadier general. What if
we had sent a full grown MANI" In
conclusion he said, The stock breeders
of this state are ready and willing to
give their money and their time for a
state fair to be held in Topeka"
James A. Troutman responded in be-
half of the club. He said: "Show me
the hogs of a neighborhood and I can
tell you what kind of people live there.
Go where improved breeds OF stock are
unknown and you will find ignorance,
and superstition and desolation. Such
people do not know whether John R.
Gentry is a horse from Wichita or a
member of congress from Utah" He
waited for his joke to be appreciated.
There was a ripple Of laughter 1t
nd hoa
wound up in a continued yell. He re-
cited the following as a typical pastoral
poem:
q would fee from the city's rule and
law,
From it's fashions and forms cut loose,
And go where the strawberry grows on
And the gooseberry grows on its
goose.
Where the catnip tree is climbed by the
cat,
AS she crouches for her preyA
The guileless and unsuspecting rat
On the rattan bush at play"
Gen. ]. K. Hudson, who was at one
time a famous farmer statesman and
has regretted ever since that he sold
his farm paper and gave up his title as
originator of the MCGEE hog, responded
to the toast, The future of Kansas.
He said: You can read the future of
Kansas in the past. We have seen our
hard times, we have encountered
built at the foot Of the Rocky noun
tains the greatest young state in the
union, peopled by beautiful women and
great men. What Kansas has done in
the past she will duplicate in the fu-
ture.|
DR.. D. 3. Salmon, chief of the United
States bureau of animal industry, spoke
on THE Animal Doctors and Their
Patients" He exclaimed some of the
troubles of the animal physician and
told of the refusal of foreign countries
to accept American pork until COM
PEELED to.
Charles E. Westbreok Of Peabody, the
David Harum of Kansas was called
npon to tax about the "Kansas Sheen