Show SEVENTY YEARS SERVICE I Count VON MOLTKB field marshal of the German army has celebrated the seventieth year of his entrance into the army service What vast changes have taken place since that silent but warlike man has been under arms I In 1S18 says the New Yord Herald when the young soldier drew his sword Europe was throbbing after Waterloo NAPOLEON was quarreling with Sir HUDSON LOWE at St Helena because he could not have green cloth for his uniforms CANNING reigned in parliament JOHN QciNcr ADAMS an American secretary of state was composing his MONKOE doctrine BISMARCK was in the nursery nurs-ery BritoN was writing his Don Juan GLADSTONE was about to enter Eton j Louis XVIII the Beloved was on the French throne the illustrious CARNOT was an exile in Prussian Saxony little dreaming that his childrens children would rule in the Elysee j Pius VII reigned in peace after his BONAPARTB buffetings BLUCHBR was dying in Silesia Spain was in the throes of insurrection and of all problems that concerned the minds of men none was so nebulous as this dream of a united Germany What advancement has been made in the science of war since VON MOLTKB entered the field I What a number of new forces are called in to aid in the work of de itruction and in the management of armies What improvement in arms I If the Duke of WELLINGTON vanquished the Qrst NATOLBON by calculation it was left to VON MOLTKB to administer the most crushing crush-ing defeat of a strong nation recorded in history his-tory by a superior knowledge of the science Df war In the late war with France the result re-sult of which proclaimed MOLTKE the first soldier in the world seventeen great battles and one hundred and fiftysix minor engagements en-gagements were fought in less than ayear Twentytwo fortified places were taken 385000 soldiers including 11300 officers made prisoners of war and 7200 cannon and 600000 stand of arms were acquired by Germany |