The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-16
Boston Globe Has New Idea Of
Jayhawker General.
.Kansan Finally Is Forgiven by
Regular Army.
HeHTING IS HIS PASTIME
Chased . Negro and Missed
Classes at K. q.
Beat Up Cavaliers on the Santa
Fe Railroad.

The Boston Globe OF May 10 con-
tains a new feature article on Fred
Funston of Kansas.
The Globe saws: Gen. Fred Funs-
{ ton il to command at Vera Cruz
barring any possible misunderstand-
j angs with the navy-and it II perfect
" all right with the regular army.
Funston has been a member OF 1t 30
LONG now that his non-West Point
origin has been forgotten.
But a few years ago-say hve years
ago-the regular army would nave
retired to a hammock and famed IT.
self bitterly II Funston had been ap-
pointed to such an important com
exquisitely humorous to the gentle
men Of the regular army-when he
wasn't acutely irritating.
You sec, he never got nearer to
{ West Point than the deck Of an ex-
cursion steamer. That gives tho sol
right to lawff and lawn and lawn.
They have a laugh coming at Funs-
ton. at that He's q funny looking
little geek, to begin with. He weighs
about as much as a fried moonbeam
and no has little reddish paintbrush
beard that irresistibly tempts the hu-
4 ymorous person into tickling him un-
der the chin and baaing-only the
same persons will never do the same
trick again-and he has some red hair
on the top of his head, and other
places almost as red where he has
worn through the hair; and he walks
with q limp, and he has the grand
1T little red vocabulary you ever
heard.
Ever in the Spotlight
And as q holder Of q season ticket
for the best seat in the front row OF
the grand stand no one has ever
beaten Freddie. He can follow the
Tate. for instance. that time the
Y1lipinos were trying to wipe his
three Kansas companies out of exist
ence. and General Otis wanted tc
know how long he could hold his po'
Until am mustered out" SAID
That, of course. was perfectly alb
nurd. The touching part IL that hi
believed It and so did the regular
army, and SO. eventually. did the FIJI
One Of tho scandals of the Manils
campaign was of the language uset
by the Funston irregulars. They d.
nav that g. delegation Of Ftlipino
came in under a flag of truce and
nut up a nervous complaint to Fun
ston's commanding general.
pinos. I'VE viii gladly die for oul
country. But We cannot-we simpl!
cannot-endure to be sworn at b!
these gross persons from Kansas
II ever there was q victim OF poPu
larity Funston il the individual. H'
erabbed Aeuinaldo when that Eli
pino leader had about lost his impor
lance and the papers made q fus
over it, and Freddie. being of hec
tic turn Of mind. posed a bit too hard
Army Didn't Approve.
And then every one turned In t
make a mock Of him. One OF the stor
1es told Of that capture represent
Funston as ordering a sergeant to for'
the Bag-Bag or whatever the river wa
called, that separated the American
from Aggie.
.aThe river" reported the sergeant
'"Hurrahv' shouted Funston. wavinl
his new sword. Come on. my gallan
boys! We will swim tho river!'
The American tendency to sheer
after having 1dealized-was helpe,
along by the regular army, whicl
given commissions. And Funston
neck was positively craggy.
A bad Niger had tried to slap hir
with . razor when he attended tn
that "coon'' 80 TAR with an old-fash
toned oIngle-acf1on sfx-shooter that h
was suspended for being absent fror
classes.
And he earned the d1staste Of til
cowpunching population along a paI
Of the old Santa Fe road when he wa
. conductor upon It because he used
beat up cavaliers who liked to shoot on
Of the windows.
He was fired a. q street car conduc
tor in Warrington because no wouldn
stand for physical humor.
He went ON botanixing expeditio
through Death Valley. in which sue
haEdships were experienced that he
the only member OF tho party mo-
uano.
Moro sedato, But SIN Fighter.
Up In Alaska, he told two America
and British whaling crews that wa
had been declared between the tw