The border vidette., 1899-05-27
GENERAL FREDERICK FUNSTON

There he picked up Spanish. He enter
ell the Kansas State University in his
early twenties, alternating annually
the pursuit of knowledge with the pur-
SUIT of dollars-irst as Santa Fe
train collector, then as Kansas City
newspaper reporter, and later as a
government botanical explorer in the
! Dakotas and in Montana, and finally
in che terrible Death Valley of south
ern California.
Ii the Cuban army he rose from
lieutenant to Northumberland and
chief of artillery, under Garcia. Fdnst-
Oh fred the first dynamit,-@sn ever
usei in actual war, With only the prat-
Ell directions of the gaa-makaIs to
gui him At That time he di not
Ano y as mach about artillery rs he di /
about sllky plou h, hut ha made
What boy calls stab" at it; and
when II chu TX OF Sp.nis fertilization
cavel in Funston wal happy, and
went Oh making rLias with his new
y. After he was appointed Colonel
OF the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers
oy Governor LsrIy of Kansas, Funst
on was called to fampl to cnnsuit with
General Miles about the topo ,raphy of
certain parts of = iba. Fuastor would
not wear his celonePs uniform at
Tampa; ne went abo 1t in the linen
clothes of civilian Waeh some one
asked why h. di not put OH his uni
form, he replie|: Now FL look pretty.
wouLil'c |, tratti ~ mp AMI down l'l 81
col1uei's RI, wlien all nrnun here are.
,u'e-enough soldiers -;nsn whD have
fought their way u, from the li',' in
the regular army, Nh htv.. b.rn Ia
the CT, il war nj, in s ore of Indi VA
wars, who have the ri sht o wear only
Z ctptaih's or at most IN ,rs *:li
forml Wo IlIn'G be IL daily lettin
men lik-. that .lure M il M tia snl-
AlltI teof w ri. L SOtNN tt'1O-tIt'
without stimulants, any ho~r' So he
sea mp red ab'u1 i'll his unadornei
clothes, anil j-,.r Il at what e called
the 'ivery--tah. brigad ers who did
not kno~ fou right from balance all
| klmston did no. know very much
abo tt tn. n. points o; til" art of war,
t,lt h.s as candid and aeknowlels gel
his ignoran When the regular army
men at Tampa b,gan to q t-stiosl hlhl
about lis range With the artill. ry
Funston toll them, With II iey-ish ih-
no;ence too ve+t to olson Will ii.ii!e-
airy s:.encr, that he pulled his guns up
within Jour or i've huhd'ei yar,ts OF
his mark before iirIL1. w lere ,t the
army lien la ,he.i 9rietl,, Wihk-;l at
oat. .uuther, nh lIsleueI dibtouS.y
thereait r. Later. when sttfe ) III h
OH ..e's we're taksl prisp ,ers IA 81 tia.
90 they TOT in horr,r oi a''iIttle damn
fool American" lighting der q arena
the year before, Who poke The nose "f
his sun SO close TO Gli,s 5 p Z. ASA 10, I'll i IL
tions that his po I'd II uurne their eye
brows Ten the Am. ric..n gular-
army men RENE nb.rel Funston, and
laughed a5aiI.
Wnrn Funston j,ine,l his Kans. 8
re -iineuo in San Francisco he put his
hest bib AMI tu k-r GA aud went to
school To lis maj RS. lie devote his
Inns to k3+plns tile camp c:eIn When
the Kansas bays dr,s,e up rh-y Ia
ne lately toca RANK with the best
REIN hts la this Z, up CIei- SICK | st
Was the suIaie s. in the divlai they
dril.e like mac zines; care to love
their coonrl SO that when he anointe,i
them vi. h the viiii; o. his siaeIlt wra,,i
thay were ecst,tie i'll their happiness
He I'M de spec hes to them TN It were
II II liz the ~. u stIo.,s. II nave IrOtI;
! e." he sail u Jne sc i neil5 one day i'll
August, THAT yo-. Buys are citing
sloppy III yo.r manners. Whem you
meet superior Oil o. yod kin / o.
brush 81 fly from. - elr aud 80 on
NOV her after you j.lst sChp uru. -
, hies AMI .lute III trpet' ) WecAIy