The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-02-03
a SKETCH or
GEN. NELSON a. MILES.
BY MARSHALL CUSHING.

Ii is easy--and also needIess-to de-
scribe the looks Of Cen Nelson a. Miles
when be goes 70 the photographer. It is
more profitable. II profitable at all. TO
paint him when be IS not posing. Look
him overall. but not so tam as be
seems, stockv. but seeming 10 be enor-
nous through ne body, handsome. with
his forid face and his grey hair and
mustache. but a very paragon OF manly
beauty when he appears in fun uniform
and The ladies get a fair view OF him.
This Is one most distinguished and ser
vicafIe living soldier Of the civil war.
possibly barring Dan SickIes. who com
handed brigade at Gettysburg. and
James r. Wilson. whO was a wcuderfulI--
dasbing cavalry officer and at only TWEEN
ty-seveu captured Jefferson Davis ana
who now accompanies Citizen WniJeIar
Reid 60 the coronation SIocum. Double
day, and BUtterfeId-au are dead.
Niles. a CLERK III a crockery store ID
Boston 40 twenty-five. enlisted ia 81 as
50 many other thousands did. perhaps as
a private. perhaps as a second lieutenant.
From the first he had fght in him he
was a real warrior-like Old John L.
among the SO-called pugilists. Miles Eot
on fast That was the way he SoIdiercd-
looking for trouble, finding il. getting pro-
NOTED for dispOSiug Of d. crediyabiy. He
was o born leader. real soldier Of the
scrappigg kind having Initiative using it,
III for independent commands Many West
Pointers have that also, but some do
not. and il you don't 90 to the academy
with IT, YOU need not expect 70 ger ir
81 "a. rHF frn nj
officers. graduates OF thar school have
sespisei the General Of the Army because
he wasn't scholar in tactics He lidn-l
have 20 be- Neither did Grant nor Sheri-
dan thev Also fought. even IL killing VAS
involved. And they Cut through The lines
and over tho breas. works
As Wilson caught the President Of the
southern C0CfclerscT. So Miles had him
to- lake care OF az Fort Monroe. Then
the great wax. as che President likes 10
call Ir. generously putting San Juan Hin
into a SORT OF background. was over.
Miles had about decided 90 go back 20
business perhaps 10 the porcelain. a
cousin end cousins wife dissuadeI
aim. The result IS Lieutenant general.
proud. ambitious ctlulsenJ. subscribing
10 all the clipping blreaus- Miles went
into The regular army IBIS record rs IN
Indian fighter beats Custer because
bands under she heroic LaUto1-calied
heroic because he himself always pro-
tested lEft Dc s-s not q hero. but only
s,l-IaT---l-Ehr Geronimo ard killed q
Ilr bH. -c- CuoG-l- I'd -hC Ap1chc5. He
was ail over tbe Western country. DARING
skulTuL brilliantly successful. That was
TWENTY-FIVE years ago. bus Buffalo Pill
CuLg s.ii approves 0t him, and his prop
a-itiaa taat she only good IuGlau is q
Ees. C.e u.s. universally subscribed 20 hy
those rao SNOW shs noble red man init
ma-ciy-
AU O. General HiIcs' troubles and
pleasures 90. resent years have arisen
from eH iacUvabic disease. he has The
bacillus Of ambition III his distinguished
relative bE marriage John sherman,
Couldn't make che Presidency. perhap 5
he could. and ii IecUmseE Sherman
wouldn't have it, that must not uecessari-
ly De a precedent fer al great generals.