The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-11
BIG CROWD HERE HOBO DAY
Continued from Page One)

dakota conference meet last spring De
gan to tell and he left his competitors
far in the rear. Kenyon finished sec.
ond, Carroll third and Faulkner fourth.
King and Chieftess Crowned
Prof. II. B. Mathews and Miss Da.
pine Chapman, who were elected
Hobo King and Indian Chieftess re-
~spectively in the college chapel in the
morning, we're crowned on State field
amid impressive ceremonies just be
fore the football game. Prof. Frank
f. Brown Of the department of public
speaking was in charge of the corona.
ton services, and delivered the follow.
ing unique address:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men and Fellow-Hoboes:
"Once more we are met. Once more
we are met upon the very grounds
where a year ago the Chaplet of power
was placed upon the brow Of a ruler
whose name was not born to die; we
are met once more upon these grounds
beautiful with tradition enriching alike
both literature and history.
Here but a few short years ago,
where the shaggy buffalo, his sweet
heart at his side, roamed untrammeled
in the cleaning, here where the fleet
antelope chased the impudent coyote
over the cheek of the Dakota land
scape, here where the primitive mon
ster mosquito played leapfrog with
the pillows Of the raging 500, here
where the agile and ~resourceful Hia-
Of a buffalo skin and made the first
and only trip to the moo from which
he brought back the blushing and tit
tering Minnehaha for a helpmeet,-
here indeed are we met!
Times Have Changed
But alas, what a change! True IN
deed the same canopy Of blue Is over
our heads, the same chinks are in the
floor of the streets invisible through
which the candles of night cast their
beams, the same ball Of fire whose
early morning %salutation kissed TO
wakefulness the cheek OF the slumber-
ing squaw, this self-same ball OF fire
takes yet the same daily pilgrimage
through yonder sky, while over the
border Of the same wide prairies, still
falls the ample folds of heavens
mantle.
Everywhere else Is changed. On
this very spot where the heart OF the
youthful hunter ~'throbbed and shouted
and exulted as he bore the red deer
homeward,' there has been built what
our admlring friends to the south have
been pleased to term a Cow College
the crude cradle which fitted so per
fectly the back Of the Dakota squaw
Of a few decades ago from which the
diminutive papoose wanted to squawk
but dared not-this crude cradle has
been transformed by our department
OF engineering into a modern ironing
board; the wild uncouth chickens of
Hiawatha's playground. j%ackrabbits
and wolves and buffaloes and polecats,
wildcats and gophers-yea. even the
wild ass Of the desert-through the
genius of a Wilson and a Larson, these
have been transformed into full bred
Durhams and Herefords, into four
square Poland Chinas, into thorough
bred Belgians and Percherons or into
ev~er-blooming camel-backed sheep:
while through the genius Of a Hanson.
the wild c%rabapple Of the prairie has
been crossed with the Siberian alfalfa
until today we have, as it were. in our
very door yards the luscious green
gauge plum.
The Hoboes Are Responsible
And all this has been brought
about by what! BY the ancient. the
honorable. the imperishable order of
the Knights Of the Hobo Brigade.
Since their ascent to power South Da-
kota no longer belongs to the ranks Of
the dry states. The administration of
Caius Buck Freeman has made the
desert blossom as a rose. And now ON
the brow of his worthy successor, fol-
lowing the administering Of the oath
Of office, we are to place the crown,
fitting symbol of rule and power.
"The mighty suppliant for the throne
will now receive the oath Of office.
VIII you. honored sir. repest after me!
I do solemnly swear to support the
constitution of the State of Roamania,
that I will bulge when possible on the
Kingdom Of Bulgaria and that I will
perform only q reasonable amount of
falsehood on my subjects. that l will
not willingly, wilfully or knowingly
allow ladies to be kicked OF the blind
baggage; or hurled under rapidly NOV
Ing freight trains; that l will ride only
on car Of even numbers and delay no
man avronf For 1ucro ana uoHoa -