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Show .iT - - - - HORNS OF THE REVOLUTION Charges Were Bounded on Quaint Instruments In-struments Made of Wood. Whcnover you seo revolutionary soldiers sol-diers dressed In regulation uniforms and blowing on brass horns you must admlro tho picture, but at tho same time remember that no artists were In that fight. Artists make thing? very attractive, but not always truo to life, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Tbaro was not a uniformed regiment In tho army. Tho grand old follows fought In hunting garb or the dress they wore on tho Carm, store, church or tavern. So wl'h tho horns or bugles. bu-gles. Those that sounded Johnson's charges In le wnr of 1812 and tho death-knell of tho great Indian chief Tecumseh, wero tho old wooden horn of Capt. Dob Collins. This was made of two ce'dat staves threo-slxteenths of nn Inch In thick-noss. thick-noss. These wete trlmmoil and so bent that when the edges Joined they formed a f untie", shaped Instrument four Inches In diameter at the large end and tapered down to a convenient size at the mouthpiece. The two cedar staves were held In place by hoops made of cow's ho.n. Whether Capt. Hob had acquired the hsblt of blowing a woo'ien horn In the army, or whether he had once been a flatboatman (who used such horns altogether) Is not known. It Is, how-over, how-over, certain that the good man sounded sound-ed reveille at sunrise until his death In 18G4. The neighbors for mlle3 around saw the sunrise unheralded ftor Capt. Bob was called home, and-his and-his quaint Instrument was never used again. It has been preserved, though, by Mrs. Anne Mayhlli. his granddaughter, grand-daughter, whot cherlBhes It In her home In Kentucky, where It Is an honored hon-ored relic. |
