Show FEAST VOLUNTEER OFFICERS Amusing and Touching Experiences Described in the Responses to I Toasts of t Lively Occasion i II Members of the Utah Volunteer Officers Of-ficers association met at a dinner at the AHa club last evening A tempting 1 Inenu had been prepared and when the tables which had been ranged In a i circle and ornamented with the national colors and a profusion of flowers hal been cleared a number of toasts were responded to Gen John 0 Cannon acted as toastmaster I I master on his right was MaJ Forbuah and on his left Lieut White How to be a Good War Governor had been assigned to Gov Wells but as he was detained at home by sIckness i ness the toast was responded to by Ad1tGen Burton I To MaJ Forbush himself of course r a regular had been given thc task of proving The Superiority of time VOI uulecrs Over the Regulars which he I did I to the satisfaction of the volunteers CalL Wedgwood told how he hud j i I tamed wild horses and other animals I i Including recruits In Luzon I Ad ItGen Burton had an idea that there was a slight vein of sarcasm running i run-ning through the title of his toast The Joys and Sorrows of an Adjutant General That he had found some sorrows sor-rows way Inferred from his speech and there waB a very delicate hint that he would rccfrlvo with Joy Inexpressible such Joys as might be yet In store He assured his hearers thmatiivt a single Joy would be allowed to gel away That was why he t t present As to Governlnrr tIme Aneols Cnnl Frank W Jeiuiings was slightly mixed There was an uncertainty about the theme that WS perpelxlng There wore angels on Angel Island but they were typewriters and not natives As to governing a typewriter that wao it I seemed to him an Impossibility Cant Calne was asked to respond to Peace and War As to peace said the Captain he as posted ojul on that he could talk war he had experienced only at secondhand and he did not believe all that he had heard from some of the Kcnllcmen Who had heard the shriek of the Mauser and the roar of tin shell Lieut Whites response to Our Sweethearts and Wives was a pretty little thing and ut Its conclusion he said Our sweethearts may they always al-ways bo our wives our wives may they always be our sweethearts This I caused somo moisture to evaporate disappear I I In someway ppea f leo I Lieut Nay lor was told that ho was an authority on Posing and ProposIng I Propos-Ing Modestly however he Insisted that all hC knew about posing was a picture of himself In u baseball suit I as printed In Flit Tribune As to proponing pro-poning that was another story which he might tell at some other time Lieu I Bonner x Smith showed The Superiority of Regulars Over Arolun teers to the Intense dolicht of MaJ ForbUHh unrlLleul White Lieut Webbs experience in Captur lug My First Crocodile caused teaii Our Country and Flag was handled neatly l and patriotically 1 by MaJ Grant National Guard Artillery VH Vomit coP Artillery fell to Lieut Glhhu I while Lieut nines talked cheerily about Shoulder Strops and Chevron5 I which he admitted were good things and hard to get Lieut Seaman took a retroHpeetlve view I lrOI p cte of Hongkong as He Saw U I Besides those responding to toasts apl J Wash Young wax present I Whtlo the dInner was delightfully drghtful hilarious as a rule there were also I moments when a deep hush pervaded I the rooms im Is was whenever reverential rever-ential reference was made to the former comrades tlmo were sleeping under the sod and the dow |