Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-05

ting with a number of typewriter chapters
before him, giving them the last revision
before going to the printers. He has been
working at 1T for months early and late,
and he has 1t now almost completed The
plain facts of Gen. Miles career read like
a novel. His whole life has been a
sensational romance, many sentences of
which throb with danger. Where will you
find life like it? The Greatest generals
of the past have risen to prominence
through special training. Napoleon was
intended and educated for a soldier; Caesar,
brought up in the family of his uncle Ma
rus, the greatest general of his time was
sucked on military milk. Grant had re-
ceiyed his West Point education, and until
he was thirty-nne had risen no nighe,
than to capta.ncy, and Sherman, that
was hardly known to fame. These men
were pushed, as it WERE into the army
Gen. Miles had to force his way there He
began his life as farmers boy. His West
Point was crockery store in Boston. One
of his rich uncles offered to make him
financially Independent if he would give up
his ambition to be soldier and it was
only by taking all the money he had saved
and all he could borrow that he was able,
al the age of twenty-one to raise the COM
pany which enabled him to go to the army
as first lieutenant. This was at the be-
ginning of the civil war, and from that as
Il starting point IN the snort space of TOUR
years his wonderful military genius elevated
MIN with lightning rapidity from one POSI-
ton TO another until, at twenty-five, he had
become major general, and had risen to
the highest iineal rank in the army.
A Hoy General.
Think what the ordinary boy is between
twenty-one and twenty-five, and YOU get
some idea of the remarkable career of this
eX-crockery clerk. What a story he can
tell of the Army Of the Potomac! He was
in every one of its battles except that OF
Gettysburg. where he could not be on &C.
count OF the desperate wounds which he
had received at Charlottesville and which
the surgeons had said would cost him his
lie. He was always in the thickest of the
tight, and all of the generals from Grant
to Burnside recommended him many times
for promotion. He was wounded again
and again, and he ceased his fighting only
VIXEN his hurts We're so great that he was
unable to keep his place upon his horse.
AT one time when shot through the neck he
put his hand over the wound and was anX.
ious to again lead his troops into battle.
Still, he never wantonly risked the lives
of his men, and his GOODNESS in scenes
where other men lose their heads. and his
ability to take advantage OF every change
in position on the part of the enemy. ade
the other officers consider this boy general
a valuable ally
His Indian Stories.
And then think of the Indian stories he
can tell! When the war was over, Gen.
Niles remained in the service, and contin-
ued to seek duty in the midst of the fray.
Some of his Indian campaigns have
been filled with adventures which would
make books in themselves. They have
been in all extremes of climate. His
first and last were in lands so hot
that his men, crazed with thirst. opened
the veins of their arms in order that
trey might moisten their lips with their
own blood. Others We're amid the arctic
snowstorms of a northern winter. where
the men were so clad in furs that they
which promised to involve all the Indian
tribes and make an Indian war greater