Show f fAT AT HOME AND ABROAD In an interview at Kansas City a few days ago Fred Funston expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed surprise that the United States Senator who wh on the floor of the Senate r referred to Gen Lloyd Wheaton heaton as some charity boy appointed to West Point for ol t for or effect should not have kno known f the splendid career of one of the the a ablest lest most brilliant and successful successful suc sue general officers In the American service Said Gen Funston He served in the War of of the Rebellion where he was given a medal of honor for gallant conduct in the storming of Fort Blakely He lIe rose from the ranks to a majority in the regular army prevIous previous prey prey- ous to the Spanish-American Spanish war and was given two brevets for gallant services ser ser- vic vices s during the Civil war His career in the Philippines has been one of the most exacting and courageous of any of the officers who have served in the Orient He has personally participated In more engagements than any other general officer who has served in the Philippines Moreover he rose from the rank of Colonel to Major-General Major in the regular army during his campaIgn campaign campaign cam cam- in the Philippines I regard hh hhas him himas as the Kitchener of the United States He is one of the the- themen men who in a position position position tion to judge does not believe in the policy of squirting rosewater over the Filipinos The Utah boys who have served with and know Wheaton and Funston no doubt are of the same mind As some of the European countries notably Russia and nd Austria have so so- far declined to participate In the Louisiana Louis Louls- iana lana Purchase Exposition at St. St Louis LouisIn In 1903 the directors of the enterprise have appealed to President Roosevelt t to send a a commission across ss the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic for the purpose of awakening fresh Interest in the matter at the courts of the countries mentioned and others Th There There reappears appears appe rs to be some reason reason rea rca son to expect that the Government will accede to the wishes of the exposition people and that General Miles Admiral Dewey and some distinguished civilian will be named for the mission In hat case the General commanding the army would be president of the commission in virtue of his office Nothing could be better or more mor fortunate for the fair mana management ement than to secure the sending of Miles and Dewey on such an errand Both are well known and are highly respected by the crowned heads statesmen statesmen statesmen states states- men and Generals of the C Continent and if anybody could induce Russia and Austria t to reconsider their refus refusal l these two vo eminent emine t Americans could Since November last there have been two vacancies in the grade of brig brig- a general adier-general I in ii th the army due to the retirement of G G Generals MerrIam and H Hall ll A Although though Congress has been in session two months the President so f far fr fari r i has Ihas omitted to name narre anybody for either of the positions On March Major- Major General Otis OUs will will retire retire as will Major- Major General Wheaton and Major General Brooke respectively on the and 2 st of July next next Thus within less than six month months months' the President will have three major major generals generals generals' and three generals brigadier commissions in the theline theline theline line of the army t at t his disposal IIi In addition addition addition ad ad- he will wiil h have ve the appointment of I a a. staff staff brigadier in succession succession to Surgeon Surgeon-Gendral Sternberg who will I retire on June This his condition of affairs is exciting both interest and anxiety anxiety lety in army circles les The fact that Captain Crozier w was s jumped over the heads of his seniors and made a brigadier brigadier brigadier brig brig- adier and chief hief f the ordnance department department de de- de- de Is causing causing uneasiness among among the old Cornels and more or less rosy hopes among their juniors Nobody can guess what the President will do except that as lik likely ly as not he may mayl l promote BrigGen Leonard Wood toa to toa a By the way It is not all plain for Crozier in the Senate The army lobby Is a strong one and there are signs that his confirmation confirmation con- con may be ba vigorously opposed In the end however the chances are that he will keep his star Nothing could more snore completely emphasIze emphasize emphasize em em- the shrewd but hearted good-hearted diplomacy of the Kaiser In sending pending his brother to visit this country than the changed attitude of the German press toward the United United- States Perhaps the revolution might not have been as s sudi sud- sud d- d i t den or as radical If If the the scheme when first propos proposed d had not set st English elli edi- j tors ors to the task of showing that Germany Germany Ger- Ger 7 many was our enemy during the Span- Span I Ish war That Insular mistake clinched t the matter and now all the leading j journals of the Empire are vying with one another in as asseverations of the I warmest friendship for Uncle Sam which Prince Hen Henry y of f Prussia is t to I cement eternally at the White House The Berlin National says I The visit of Prince Henry must dissIpate dissipate disi- disi pate all the foolish and malicious ass assertions asser r- r of political antagonism between ermany and the United United States and of German erman plans of conquest In the Amer- Amer can sphere of influence and instead hereof strengthen and establish feel- feel of mutual of-mutual mutual recognition and equality f f standing Recent advices from St. St Thomas D. 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I are to the effect that a majority f. f Jf ff f the he Intelligent class among the Daish Dan Dai- sh West Indian islanders are surprised that In Ip the United States there should r e any doubt regarding the wish of a a. gie great t majority of of the Inhabitants for forI I annexation Both the commercial people people peo peo- and the planters realize that only through Americanization can the little littie islands regain the prosperity which once was wa th theirs irs but which has been long absent Most of the leading n natives na natives na- na tives are said to regret that the transfer transfer trans trans- fer should be postponed ned until after a plebiscite has been taken and has i re resulted resulted re- re favorably to the cession They declare that the outcome is so little In doubt that it will be a waste of time to togo togo togo go through the form In a dispatch from San Francisco itIs It ItIs itIs Is announced that the cattle firm of Miller Lux who have a a. herd of five hundred elks on on their ranch near Bak Bak Bakersfield Ba- Ba k have haye offered to present the entire entire entire en en- tire lot to the Elk Eik lodges of California That would be a noble and appropriate present and the splendid animals ls would be able to lend sensational Interest to social sessions at which as as- undoubted Elks they would have a right to be present If they are real true and tried Elks of course they could browse on beer and sandwiches s like any other of their Initiated brethren |