Show rz- rz t t t I I It SAW BUZZ W REFLECTIONS i V t H It M 4 4 4 m 6 U H m M 4 4 4 4 4 4 M m I I M M 4 4 44 H Frederick Funston is a good little man for his inches and also a brigadier general in the regular army a dizzy height to which he never in his wilde wild- wild e t dreams aspired in il the old filibustering and Kansas Kan Kan- sas su volunteer days For POI hi ills his prese present t greatness ha he i is indebted a little bit to his clever capture of Agui- Agui I 1 haldo find and a great eat deal to the newspapers which he I If now 1 denounces for f nagging him 1 f If there is one thing more than another that f needs to a avoid void it is pernicious gaiety A A- rt Rip dip or 01 two in the Great Salt Lake also might be The Tile little general ought to cultivate l modesty desty and perhaps a standard work work- on C r would do him good He is something great eat in one or 01 two respects In Inthe In the field he is a fighter fi- fi frOm fim m md Uld as a a. scout probably he is entitled to lo rank with old Jim lim Bridger But nut as a a. military administrator administrator ad ad- in cl charge rge of a district or department he helias has lias not shone brilliantly so far Nobody thought I of that when the obnoxious the venal and the nagging nagging nagging nag ging press lifted this volunteer mannikin on its shou shoulders ders an and lauded landed him where he be is while Secretary Sec See y Root and his lliS man Corbin gnashed their teeth i in futile rage We Te do not see that the papers have been so very hard on Funston's tons ton's Lotus Club speech If they have his tabasco sauce remarks in reply will make them an adjective sight harder er on the next one It behooves him not to forget that probably he be has hasa a long career before him in the army and that every step in it will be viewed critically through long range editorial tripods All he is he owes to the press It were well Avell if he refrained from filling it with a sense of bitter remorse |