The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-02

sulting from her compliments that her
sarcasm elected no reDly.
When Senator Burton arose to speak
he appeared i'll at ease. He said he was
member OF a digniied body and OF
course the club knew nothing about
dignity. Some one at this suncture In
terposed Try US and see, and Senator
Burton then said IL was evident he Rad
been invited to the banquet to draw him
into the senatorial race The members
of the club kept the senator wen IN
hand and ne was not permitted to talk
about MS subject.
IN the Saturday Night club be it
known It IS not necessary for the author
Of q witticism to furnish a diagram of
his joke The other members are there
With pointers to designate a joke and
explain a joke as it is uttered. Some
times it requires a little time for the
point to get to them but when it does
you may be certain that they will tell
the rest OF the company all about it.
Last night copies of a poem written by
Joe Waters for the club were distrib-
uted among the guests. It was full of
hlnSs at the club members and these
were very obligingly explained in foot
notes at the bottom. 1t seems to be
contrary to the principles of the club
10 leave anything to the imagination of
the guests, If arrangements are made
to pass gimlets with each alleged joke
at the next banquet it = believed that
all that IS possible viii nave been done
for those suffering from an atrophied
sense of humor.
President E. D. AIcKeever presided
with his accustomed airy grace and was
treated with the usual courtesy accord
ed an officer by the club members
Early IN his opening address some one
arose and gravely moved that the speech
be printed without being delivered. A
mOtlCn 10 strike out printed was not
heard in the wild rush with which the
original motion was carried Mr.. Nc
keever remembered what is expected
of club president and talked about
the elevation and uplifting of human
ity" but was advised by irreverenJ
voices to forget it,"
One Of the speakers referred to "a
member OF the Saturday Night club
and was greeted with a yociferOuS de-
mand to Name him. IS The speak er evad-
ed the responsibility by saying. Hes
dead now 20, he means Stebbinsl
shouted wag at another end of the
table, a reference to l.. A Stebbins, de-
feated candidate for the Office of county
attorney, who is a member of the club
and was at the banquet
The Rev. Abram Wyman read an
original poem of some length which was
could be heard of it above the din to
tell whether it was in blank verse or the
heroic couplet
AS for O. p. NJ. McClintock it is doub.-
full whether any one in the room could
tell whether his address was in verse
prose, ragtIme or hog Latin. but such
scraps of it as could be caught led to
the suspicion that il was a plagiarism
from Frank Daniels curtain speech.
J. b. Larinler was supposed to tell why
he left the Saturday Night club which
was among the most promising sub
jects of the evening but his brother H.
G. Larimer, kept interruptng with fam
lily history so that the dread secret is
still unrevealed.
President McKeever referred to Mr.,
Larimer's talk as a brief vacuum and
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man who had given the people of To-
pel1a the State Journal habit and who
had taught them to read his pa per He
said that the reason he was not a Sat
urdaN Nlghter was because the society
of the club has such a baneful effect
upon the manners. He recalled that at
a banquet given two years ago when
1 Governor Stanley was a candidate for
reelection to the first Office in the state
he was a guest of honor at the club
which proceeded to endorse C. G. Glenn
ems for governor. Some one called for
three cheers for. Stanley and the still
ness was painful but a similar demand
in Clemens behalf almost raised the
roof At this point T. f. Doran rose
and demanded that the speakers subject
be read by the secretary SO the company
might know what he was talking about
Q. P. NJ McClintock, secretary com
piled with the request and everyone
breathed relief. The meeting was nota-
Bile for the exchange of compliments.
Every visiting speaker abused the club
and the club responded in kind. The
members of the club who We're on the
I programme eulogized themselves bur
! proceeded to decorticate the others.
/ The advantage of a reputation as a
/ humOrist was shown when Tom McNeal
I arose to talk about Wild Animals 7
4 Have Known Every time he paused
/ the company rOared whether they heard
what he had said or not He referred to
the wild animals of the Saturday Night
club menagerie. many of which, he de-
clared. have been in captivity so long
that they show almost human intelli-
! gence. The other wild animals discuss