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been done Will be apparent only when the
great Jewish Encyclopedia will be ready.
which is now in course Of publication In
New York.
The second attempt was to found or Gre
ate some central body which would remove
the purely personal element out Of the re-
form movement. In 1851 Geiger had called
his friends to a conference at Wiesbaden
Tor the purpose of formulating what they
considered to be the essence of Judaism. In
NA a second such I bbinical conference
was held in Brunswick, largely at the sug-
gestion of L. Phiiippson. Similar confer
ences were held at Frankfort In 1916 and
~ Breslau in 1876: for the meantime the
kteiorm Genossenschaft had been created
u. Berlin. which went beyond all previous
sttempts and demanded some positive state
ment OF the theological position which 1t
ano its friends occupied. The FRANKFORT
assembly not proving satisfactory. the Ber-
an society went ahead TO establish Its w
! synasogue; added a Sunday service (Which
" a short while became the only serv!ce).
ana under the guidance OF 8. Holdheim
u~ennitely broke with traditional Judaism.
removing nearly all the Hebrew from It's
service, abhreviating the prayer book stih
Iuftner and diminishing the number OF OBJ
servances.
49, 'laAi't AItot'o 'h'S
form movement developed its full capacity
anu pore Its most perfect fruit. In a new
gu which was untrammeled by tradi-
Nols OF the past, and where the congre-
eaaonai system became the basis OF Jewish
SolnHunal life. the ideas which the German
ieiormers had sown had a most fruitful
sIound In which to grow. It canno be said
maj the reform movement here was actual
~ started by the Germans. for already. in
g * one OF the tons in Charleston.
y, made up almost of Sefardic Jews. had
Seseioped THE Reformed Society OF Israel
80 and the formation of the society
se.ms TO have been due. not only to the
o.hand for an aesthetic service, but to an
attempt to formulate a creed which should
Sue al reference to the coming OF the
hhNesSnsiah, the return to Palestine. and the
pnhy resurrection. But whatever crifi-
senn one might like to offer on the reform
movement In the United States. 1t deserves
e.est praise for the serious attempt 1t has
.naue 10 understand its own position and to
square Its observance with that position
.. mas also been most active in its modern
Institutional development. 1t has certainly
oeautlned and spiritualized the synagogue
S.rvice; 1t has founded a union OF American
1T, s Congregations. and a seminary
Maeprew Union College in C~incinnati.) It
mas published a union prayer-book
una a union hymnbook. and has given great
Sare TO the development of the confirma-
uon and the lettering OF the Sunday school.
~ mas tried to make the synagogue q CEN
y ior the religious and spiritual develop
uleht OF Its members; and Il cannot be de-
Ried that the very large mass Of educated
~ N this country, in 80 far as they have
! amliation with the synagogue, belong to
3 zsfosm wing.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY
A little, wiry, nervous. red-headed man.
quie. in manner, daring in spirit, positive
in action. with grit for any deed and a
strong tinge of melodramatic romance about
him-thats Funston. .
out on a farm near lola. Kas., they call
him Fred" or Freddie" for there live his
father. "Foghorn' Funston. and his moth
er, who was IS years old on the day that
Arninaldo was taken to Manila.
In lola, where everybody claims a per
sopal acquaintance with him, they call him
Fred Funston.
\ In official documents and in military cir
cles they call him Brigadier General Fun
ston. L.. s. A.
But the public simply calls him Funston.
Now and then they refer to him as the
little fellow that swan some heathenish
river over in the Philippines and took a
fort; rather more frequently, just now.
they refer to him as that Kansas dare
devil that caught Aguinaido."
For that Is the latest remarkable thing
that Funston has done. To-morrow-next
week-next ~month-any old time-he Is la
BILE to even excel that act: FOR he is a mar
who keeps his 115-pound body forever In
action. If there is anything out of the ordi-
nary to be done, he Goes it. And that habit
of everlastlrgly doing something Is at the
bottom of Funston's fame.
Mr.. Roosevelt has made 1t popular to
refer to the Strenuous life" and Mr.
Roosevelt has.bpen considered the best eTA
templification Of that sort of existence. Blu
that was before Funston came to be Sc
riously regarded. For il ever there was an
animated portrait of the word strenuous
I'll Funston.
Funston has dabbied in politics, but that
was when he was very, very young-oniy
Is years old. 1t was a BRIEF experience
Just one evening-but it was exciting
enough to have satisfied an ordinary man
had It been spread over the time of an en-
tire campaign.
Funston tried to get into West Point, but
failed. and has lived to be glad of It; Tor
the youth who won the cadetship over him
Is now on his way to Manila with only the
rank of Captain.
Funston ceased from national affairs long
enough to thrash a negro bully. bad Bill"
who was not only twice his size. but also
armed with a razor.
Funston's next public appearance was as
Q reporter on the Fort Smith Tribune; but
his incessant efforts toward sensational &C
tiyity made this position a temporary one.
Funston became a conductor on the santa
Fe. Many people would be willing to swear
that such a position is exciting enough to
suit anybody, but * didn't suit Funston.
Funston sought and got a job with the
Agricultural Department and soon began
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FIGHTING IN CUBA.

astounding feat Of leading his men in a
charge across a river to get at the Fflipinos.
There are various versions Of this deed.
Each of them is interesting. but which of
them Is true is another question. Here is
one:
AT the battle of Calumpit the insurgents
had planned to wreck the American artil-
lery transport train by cutting a span of
the iron railway bridge over the Bagbag
River. but the structure collapsed of its
own weight before the train got on It.
1.-THE river. which is about 100 yards wide
at that point was well fortified. General
Wheaton's brigade approached the river
along the railroad. The armored train was
being pushed by Cinnamon. the Twentieth
Kansas advancing in extended order on the
left bank
I'm the course Of an hour the Americans
had forced a passage through the woods to
the open space in front Of the river. and the
artillery Immediately on wheeling into the
open began Smelling the Filipino trenches.
"In the meantime Company K, Twentieth
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to tramp Dakota for specimens for the bo-
tanical department.. and Death Valley for
geological curios. He got both.
Funston found this too tame. even though
he was nearly frozen to death in a Dakota
blizzard, and nearly choked to death and
burned to death and starved to death in
1 Southern California;; so he sought something
really exciting and took up newspaper work
in Kansas City. lie was rapidly climbing.
Funston's aspiring spirit grew restless IN
even that work IN a short time. and he
made a long and lonesome trip through the
Klondike. fighting mosquitoes. getting
thrown into the river, nearly freezing. al
and returning to Washington with a val
liable collection OF botanical specimens.
Funston turned from the Frozen North to
the Sunny South, and was soon at work on
q coffee plantation. 1t was a brief career.
| however, and he took to the lecture plat
| form. His tour led him to New York, and
there he became interested In the fight OF
Cubans for their freedom. He was SO much
interested that he cut his lecture tour short,
accepted the Cuban Junta's commission as
Lieutenant Colonel, and hurried to the scene
Of fighting.
Funston had finally found his sphere. He
was in his element He fought wherever
there was a Spaniard to be fought; he
risked his life fearlessly. and was wounded
q number Of times. In one battle he charged
Spanish breastworks with a dynamite bomb
| In his hand. At Las Tunas. where he was
q Colonel Of artillery, he was wounded and
| caught under his horse. Soon afterwards he
| pleaded in vain for the lives of fifty cap
tured Spanish guerrillas. When they were
shot he resigned his commission, receiving
q letter from General Garcia Before he
| could get out of the island he was captured
J by Spaniards. He ate Garcia's letter. When
he gave his promise that he would not re-
engage In war in Cuba, he was released.
Funston returned to the United states
and was lecturing on Cuba when the Maine
was blown up. He was one OF the first to
volunteer, his regiment being the Twentieth
Kansas, Of which he was made Colonel.
While still in camp. he was called to Wash
ington to confer with Generals Miles and
Shafter as to the best method Of campaign
in Cuba.
Funston hurried back to Kansas Just IN
time to proceed with his regiment to the
| Pacific Coast preparatory to going to the
| Philippines. At the Preside. in the latter
part of September, 1895. he met Miss Eva
Blankart, whose parents reside in Oakland.
On October 26 he married her. The next
| day he started for Manila. leaving his bride
| to follow on the next transport.
Funston was unhappy now. The Spanish
American War was officially declared
ended; 1t seemed that for once in his lie
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, same time advises his brethren to declare
themselves "Confessionslos." SO a. to b.
come lost. not in Christianity, but IN
"Deutschtum." A similar request was made
to the Jews Of Roumania. In 1900. by the
historian Xenopol Of Bucharest. There u
little fear that this advice Of wholesale
apostasy will find many adherents. notWith-
standing the fact that an unusually large
number of conversions have taken place IN
Germany and Austria. due wholly to pres
sure from without rather than to convictions
from within. The detection even Of com-
paratively large numbers can hoWeveI,
hardly affect the Jewish cause as a wholaI
for these numbers living on the periphery,
or even beyond 1t, have been OF little serv.
ice to the Jewish cause, and all through
the ages Jews ave made Just such contri.
buttons as these to the general society in
which they lived.
There can be no doubt that Zionism - q
strong protest against these weddings and
that the coming century will witness the
Jews divided into two camps not necessarily
hostile to each other. the Zionists and the
Observation-Disclosures who plead for q conser.
walton Of the old energy and the old ideals,
and those who look forward to the disinte-
grafton Of Judaism and its gradual passing
AWAY into other forces. That Judaism can
only conserve its force If that force is at
tached to q racial and national basis Is
seen clearly in the fact that just those
Jews IN Germany who have been most
loudly clamorous against the Zionists pro-
pose to have now what the call Q Ger.
man "Judentag," which can certainly mean
nothing unless It become Zionist in itS
tendency.
Confident in this hope. we Of the House
Of Israel look calmly into the future. The
message Of the prophet Of old is full Of
meaning for US: THUS saith the Lord God:
Behold !. even ], will both search my
sheep and seek them out, as q shepherd
seeketh out his nock in the day that he
IL among his flock which is scattered. and
I will deliver them out Of all places where
they have been scattered In the cloudy
and dark day" We can echo the senti-
ments expressed by a Christian Zionist.
George Eliot, many years ago: Revive
the organic center let the unity Of Israel
which has made the growth and form Of
its religion be an outward reality. Looking
toward q and and q polity, our dispersed
people in all the ends Of the earth may
share the dignity Of a national life which
has a voice among the peoples Of the East
and the West-which will plant the Wis
dom and skill Of our race so that It may
be, as Of old, q medium Of transmission and
understanding. Let that come to pass,
and the living warmth will spread
to the weak extremities OF Israel,
and superstition will vanish, not in
the la~wlessness Of tho renegade, but IN
The illumination Of great facts which
widen feeling and make all knowledge alive
as the young offspring Of beloved mem
cries." RICHARD J.. II. GOTTHmk
Copyright. 1901. BY the Sun PRINTING "a p.
Nshtng Associatlee.
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he had been kept out of the fighting. But
his spirits revived when trouble with the
insurgents became imminent, and the attack
on Manila at the beginning of February .1Sss.
marked the commencement of the present
era in his life.
Funston was in the thick of the trouble
before it had fairly begun. He swan the
| Bagbag River and routed an intrenched de-
tachment; he led a charge at Santo Tomas,
n was wounded in the hand. and while In
! the Manila Hospital he was notified OF his
[ promotion to be q Brigadier General OF
volunteers.
Funston came home for a brief season Of
rest. but soon returned to the Philippines.
was made military commander of q. de-
partment, kept his body and mind busy
seeking some new daredevil exploit, found
it in his own plan for the capture OF Aguin-
| aldo. carried 1t out successfully, and is now
a Brigadier General in the regular army.
Funston was born in New Carlisle, O.. in
1863. while his father was at the front serv-
ing as a Lieutenant In the Sixteenth Ohio
Battery. Soon after the close OF the war
the father. a large man. with a voice which
gave him the nickname of "Foghorn" Fun
ston, moved to a farm near lola, Kas. He
got into politics early in the seventies. and
after serving in both branches Of the State
Legislature was sent to Congress.
Here is where Funston-the present Fun
| StON-DeRan 10 De neaIQ 1EOLl. OL6 night
when he was 16 years old. he ran into a po-
litical meeting at Fort Scott and found the
| speakers assailing his father with all the
| force and venom that characterize CAM
| paign orators. Fred listened with close. II
not respectful. attention.
When the speakers had finished he said he
had a few remarks to make about Fog
horn" Funston. and as he knew him pretty
well they might be worth hearing.
The crowd thought otherwise. but Fred
, carried his point and began to tell funny
stories about his father until the crowd
| was in a hunor to listen to whatever he
might say.
Then he got into a political speech. and.
although the leaders tried to stop him. he
kept right on and carried his audience
with him..
That was Funston's first political speech
and his first public SCRAP"
Funston was busy all during his fifteen
months Of service in Cuba, but the people Of
the United States did not really hear Of him
until. in April. 1889. he performed his world
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Expressions Of
Modern Anti-Semitism.

I pass over the outbreaks against the
Jews during the early years of the Nine
teenth Century, even the Damascus blood
accusation in 1sAD. and the forcible baptism
Of little Edgar Mortara in 1858: they were
believed to belong to the old order Of things.
with which the new, at least in that d.
~rection, had nothing in common. I couflne
myself simply to the modern form OF anti.
Judaism, which has been dtgniied with the
name Of a~nti-Senitism. It is hard for a
Jew to speak Of these things with com.
posure or with the judicial mind Of q mere
chronicler Of events. Neither emancipation
from without nor Reform from within has
been able to stay the hand Of b destroyer
of Israels peace. It has been contended
that in most countries the Jews were not
ready to be emancipated: that in some the
non-Jewish population was not sufficiently
advanced to make emancipation effective.
Thu first may be true in regard to the
Algerian Jews; the second. in regard to
those in Roumania; but It Is not true OF
the other nations on the European CONT
nent. Starting in Germany, perhaps as a
political move on the part Of Bismarck, 1t
spread into Russia, Galicia, Austria, Rou-
mania and France. In most Of these coun-
tries it not only found expression in the
exclusion of the Jews from all social inter-
course with their fellows. but in Russia pro-
duced the riots Of 1851 and 1882; in Austria
and Bohemia the turbulent scene in the
Reichstag, n even the p~illaging Of Jewish
houses and Jewish synagogues; in Rou-
mania 1t received the active support Of the
Government and reduced the Jews there TO
practical perjury; while in France 1t showed
itself in accusations against the Jews.
which, for baroarity. could match any that
were brought against them in the Middle
Ages. The charges against the Jews are
varied in their character. In Germany they
have been blamed for exploiting the agri-
cultural class and for serving the interests
of the Liberal party. forgetting that Leo
and Stahl, the founders Of the Orthodox
party in Prussia, were themselves Jews,
and thai Disraeli in England was born Of
the same race. The most foolish ACCUSE
lions on almost every conceivable subject
have been lodged against them by such men
as Ahlwart, Stocker, Lueger and Drumont;
and in ate years the old inc foolish charge
that h Jews use the blood OF Christian
childrsn In the making Of Passover bread
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Now, that is one story of the affair. Here
Is another:
1.-THE rebels were strongly intrenched on
the north bank Of the river, seemingly de-
termined to make a desperate stand. The
Americans tried in vain to dislodge them by
I a sharp fire from the south bank. They
would not bulge.
FINALLY. Funston resolved Upon a des-
perate measure. He called for volunteers.
and, with them. swan the river in the face
OF a hot fire. dragging a heavy rope. They
landed safely IN front OF the rebel trenches
and tied the end Of their rope to a tree.
18th rope was used as a ferry rope to
| pull across several boatloads of men. Then.
with his re-enforcements. Funston charged
| the rebels and drove them in disorder from
the intrenchments.
THE rebels were reformed farther back
from the river and marched forward to
| meet the main force of the Americans.
which by that time had got across the
river on Colonel Funston's ferry. But they
| were again beaten. and their double defeat
! was a severe blow to the hopes Of Aguin-
| aldo"
1 which Of these stories Is true Both are in
teresting; and whatever proportion Of fc-
ton they contain, they at least relate this
much Of fact: Funston got across that river.
drove of the Eflipinos and became famous.
a oS&h VAIL SS
in the career Of Funston. SO far as his his
torians have recorded: and that was fatal"
as the Reflective Bachelor would probably
say. It was Of a piece with Funstcn's other
performances: He met the girl and, married
her. No wasted effort-no long-drawn-out
c~ourtship-for Funston. This IS the way in
which the mother Of the bride. Mrs. Otto
Blankart of East Oakland, Cal. describes
the incident:
General Funston was at the Preside
with his regiment in September. 1898. He
was only a Colonel then. My daughter Eda
and myself had been invited by q number
OF General Funston's college fraters to a
banquet at the home Of one Of the gentle
men in Belvedere. We were all present ex-
cept the guest Of honor. and he was pre-
vented from coming by camp duties.
Again this friend arranged a house par
ty. which General Funston had been in
vited to attend: again he could not come.
Our woman's curiosity was aroused to sec
what manner Of man this General was. but
IT was not until several weeks after that
We met him at tho ferry landing in IT,
huron.
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Kansas. charged a distance Of 4 quarter
of a mile across n cornfield to the bank of
the river, near the bridge, where the in
surgents from a trench were peppering the
train. then about 200 yards down the track.
The company found shelter in a ditch.
Colonel Funston called for volunteers to
cross the bridge. and the Colonel himself.
Lieutenant Bal. Private White. Private
Trembley. Trumpeter Borsfeld and Cor
poral Ferguson crawled along the iron Cir
der. While this was going on tho men Of
Company X. from the ditch. were fusillad-
ing the trenches in the endeavor to divert
attention. but the Filipinos got the range
from q trench down the river. and their bull
lets soon spattered the water under the
structure.
Having reached the broken span, the
small party Of Americans slid down the
caisson, swan a few yards to the shore
and crawled up the bank. the little Colonel
leading the way to the trenches. revolver in
hand. while the few remaining Filipinos
bolted."
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CuIturists stands the Reform party. more
, numerous In the United States than my
where else. whose position 1t Is hard to de-
fine and in whose midst there are various
shades Of opinion and OF practice. All the
Reformers have openly or tacitly broken
with Talmudic J~udaism-the more conser-
vative among them seem to believe that a
new Judaism can be built up on the
Bible, only without its traditional interpre-
tation: while the advanced body do not
even look upon the Bible as binding, hut
merely as a starting point for a further de-
velopment. They do not consider the Bible
as inspired in the old accepted sense Of the
term; they welcome biblical criticism as an
aid to the understanding Of the early his
tory Of their people: they do not believe in
the special election of Israel. and have a
well-def1ned adherence of anything like a
creed. They are practically Theists with a
Jewish racial coloring. Nor do they believe
in the coming Of a personal Messiah: rath-
er. In the advent Of 4 Messianic time in
which Righteousness and goodwill shall
prevail and all the earth acknowledge the
ono God. To bring about this time IS. ac-
cording to them. the mission Of the Jew-a
phrase very current in these latter days,
the fulfilling of which has been made the
pretext for dejudaizing Judaism, SO as to
make 1t acceptable to non-Jews. Mr.. Os-
wald John Simon Of London has gone even
further. He believes that II the Reform
party IS earnest In its pretensions, 1t ought
as 1t did once before in its history-to be-
come an active missionary power. A few
years ago he attempted to found a Jewish
Thelstic Church. which should in no way
be colored by Jewish ceremonial.
The movement was, Of course. q failure.
The original attempt. some nineteen hun.
dred years ago. led to the founding OF
the Christian church, n Jews themselves
have suffered too much from missionaries
Of other faiths to take to this work with
pleasure. But. In addition to these, there
is also a large body Of Jews whose connec-
ton with the synagogue is purely nominal.
and who know Of It only when they need
the services Of its sanction or the respecta-
bility Of its connections. The hold which
the Jewish church has upon them II small
indeed. and many Of them hope, in tho
Twentieth Century. to don their Jewish
gaberdine. The open or concealed pressure
of anti-Semitism (particularly on the Con-
tinent of Europe which makes It impos-
sible for the Jew as such to attain to
social distinction or political position will
drive most of these Into the arms Of the
dominant church Of the country in which
they live. In a remarkable article published
in the Deutsche Jahrbucher Of October, 1900.
a writer who uses the nom de plume Of
Benedictus Levita openly urges those Of his
fellow-Jews who have become estranged
from the synagogue to have their children
baptized, In order that they may not suf-
fer as their parents have, but may become
really believing Christians, since their afA
fliation with the Christian church has be-
come necessary in the modern Christian
state. Another German Jew ct about tho