Life — April 25, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE INSULT: “sin, 1 HAVE THE noNXOK To INFORM You THAT YoU ARE A srectrs or cow." “18 THE PICTURE INTERESTING, CLARA?"? “NO, NOT THE LEAST BIT, UE IS ONLY AN IMPRESSIONIST.” FRANCE 19 BAVED. Congratulations to General Funston. As Tuey Ovonr To Have Brey. rPuE President instructs me to express his high ap- preciation and lofty sense of Christian morality in the wily game played on Aguinaldo by General Funston, and the conduct of the latter is so much in accordance with the high principles of a Christian State that General Funston will be immediately appointed Brigadier-General over the heads of any number of West Pointers, whose slow and laborious methods of acquiring military experi- ence do not begin to equal General Funston’s ‘dash’ and slickness, “Ever since General Funston, in 1887, when he was assistant editor of a Democratic paper in Fort Smith, watched his chance, while the editor was away, and turned the paper Republican, the President has had his eye on him, “He knew that a man like Funsten could be relied upon to trap ‘the enemy,’ even if, by sc doing, he had first to accept his proffered hospitality, and it gives the President peculiar pleasure to reflect that he was not mistaken in his man.” Disproved. “AE can’t be a good business man. Why, he’s a college professor.’’ «But he married the daughter of a millionaire.”