Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-30
A Vision Of Heroic DAYS.

and he leans against the rifle that gave
the command its name.
A Vision Of Heroic Days.
So that was the way Tim Murphy
looked when he shot down Fraser by
order of Morgan. his chief. The erect
military figure in the case makes STILL
water so wildly near that one can see
scariet-coated Fraser charging his
british across the October fields and
rifleman: ms iaNorie
inc rate of battle rests on that Eng
.Inan on the white horse. He is a
brave soldier and | honor him, but
ann true and fire.
shoulder to the rifleman Stands
omcer In the Revolutionary ar,,,..
a majestic patriot in top boots cream
oreeches, gorgeous blue coat. all lac
anu goid. cooked hat and thirsty
the buttons,
one OF Washington's Generals
more buttons and lace: featber.d
ccockade instead of -bristles and big.
stars. Will ooiioh
Which general? Surely hard lighting
nasder swearing Putnam, never ston'
psu TO bother with all those buttons
aio1g ABOUT Bunker Hill time-or. II
9u. ore.nern. there must have been
temper. Vi Israel
AS to Mad Anthony. one likes to thi,i.
ma MS cooked hat was askew and his
s.resS,, oare or ruh1es when he stood
would plan it," And II isn't IIisa 1n
IN, .nat ne spared lace and buckles wbe;
-. Was taxing stony Point at , O'clock
M aie morning, or at that other time
Spring i''sh AT "reen
mink of brave, beautiful Marian
tta .ihs 10 war in all that finery-and
tnen picture him in the midst of H.,
ir,a swamp foxes" so fascinai-
that Royal George, across The u..,,a1,
CSApIessed an admiring wish to see THE
"reek god of the American army
Not Even Benedict Arnold.
AND even poor Benedict Arnold in
those first glorious days when he dre.y
sword for freedom as fearlesslv as any
patriot in the thirteen colonies
mink of that cameo faced courti.r.
MS spectacular uniform gone tn ra,,
ana tags. ikneeling in the shadow NJ
beniis Heights to pin his hree.bes viii
thorn win .
Army faces front undaunted n,,i.,r,,
20 nave been one of Ethan AlIen,.
Green Mountain Boys, or one az th,t
paho OF red-hot fighters who made i'm
Inv ,oi I'd an ny LOT themselves the day they
laE MD in the grass until tbe, co,,,a
balls 'i9 : eye
There are ten casts in the ravol,,-
,nohary exhibit, among them "A MARY
en- f.ifiefnan in a cap of coonskin in
stead OF the regulation felt. In is his
Tory down in old Maryland that tbose
TiHemen were the ha rdest fighters thar
the colonies sent to the front. for Wien
. mere were no British convenient thev
n!tue themselves useful by extermf-
natlns tories and Indians. II was a
WARY iahd riEsman. so legend has II
VINO spent his life .scalpiny as man
red SKINS as there We're hairs in moor
So NC orea mead. May be 1T wasn't
so-but IT makes thrilling story.
As you turn to leave this exhibi, .r
uiiiorms, old and new somethin.
makes you pause. 1t is a quiet CORR.
uoi whefe, usually. few tourists come.
ana as you linger among those aImos,
.iVlng monuments of a past thar can
never die, that same something mal,es
you realize the magnetism of contjnen
.al ir,iis, army blue, West Point gray
and plain. fighting khaki-and te,ches
you why it is that men dare follow
whenever flag leads the way.
Souls in Old Uniforms
I0 the mass of pilgrims who drag
Iheir fagged-out bodies through the
Hiies OF sights" at the National Mn
scum the collection of historic uni
forms over there is only musty old
duds' To the lucky owner of minds
eye, however, those time-eaten coats
ana trousers are so many charts that
Dear witness to the personality of the
men who wore them as distinctly as
they lifted into their physical angles
and curves
true, Washinaton's Inform i,a,,
peeh SO OFTEN and variously hung in its
moorings from one institution 10 an
other that it indicates nothing but the
shape OF its peg: but
Every seam in Old Hickory's coat
proclaims the uncompromising back
bone OF the man who broke the Bank
OF the United States There is IA ioviaI
bulge in the foreground of Santa
Annals waistcoat that tells of good and
gone dinners. = thrill OF triumDh n IN,
army blue of Grant and sherman and
something victorious. though il is
not victory, in every thread OF Confed-
crate gray.
II potatoes have self-will and if gems
renect the temperamental moods of
those who wear them. why NAV not
old clothes have souls