Show THE GREATEST GENERAl OF THE AGE There will be a great sale of General Von MOLTKES book which has at last been issued detailing among other incidents inci-dents of his renowned career the leading victories of the Prussian army whilst under un-der his command And its publication will serve to remind mankind of his distinguished dis-tinguished services and his sterling vir 1 tucs for the great general was not less I estimable as a nan than illustrious a a soldier It was the summer of 1S70 when tae FrancoGerman war brought conspicuously conspicu-ously before the world three of the most remarkable and interesting men ever seen in 1 group together King WILLIAM of I Prussia subsequently the first Emperor of reunited Germany Prince von Bis MAIICK his prime minister and state advisor ad-visor afterwards chancellor of the empire and Count von MOLTKE his chief of staff and military adviser In the dispute that I brought on the SchleswigHolstein war between be-tween Prussia and Denmark the world had heard something of BISMARCK and still more about him in the war I with Austria that followed In both these aftairs Von MOLTKE had been brought into notice in Europe But war with Franco then the leadIng military power of Europe was a far more serious business than war with Denmark and Austria Now bo ling himself took the held taking his prime minister and chief of staff along with him and prepared to personally direct every movement in a contest of such mortal character It was this campaign which first made us on this side of the Atlantic familiar with Von MOLTKE The history of that campaign is a short but eventful one I lasted three months only and was a triumphal march of the Prussian army from the Rhine to tho Seine from Worth to Paris a march marked by nino great battles and nine great victories for the German arms The fighting fight-ing was desperate on both sides The French fought quite as well as their enemy but they were outgeneraled and outmanoeuvred from the first to the last I and military men everywhere 1rst watched the business with frank and onen admiration for the faultless strategy that directed the movements of the Germon armies upon the Key positions the massing of them at the right time for attack aud the tactical skill with which they were handled in action I was not long before it was learned who was the author of these movements and before the war was ended Von MOLIICE was recomzea as the foremost strategist and military aaviser in the universe Ho and BISMVRCK and the King knew that the war with their powerful and arrogant neighbor across the Rhino must come someday some-day and when it came it found them ready Von MOLTKE know every road bridgetown bridge-town and stream between the frontier and the French capital and had marked out the very route of march with unerring precision Ho was three years younger than the old King and lifteen years older than BISMARCK They had got along in perfect harmony and when they took the I field together in the war against France it was such a trio of great men as have rarely been seen together in the same camp Von MOLTKE as he himself had said had very little to do with tho organization of the Prussian army into tie formidable power it proved itself to bo in the three wars with Denmark Austria and France That was the work chiefly of still another able general Von ROON minister of war But the direction of the I forces on the field was the task of the Kings chief of staff and never was task better performed The old Emporor was accustomed to say that Von ROON sharpened sharp-ened his sword and Von MOLTKE directed it against the enemy The old soldier was an aristocrat and thorough practitioner and his erect and graceful form thin nostrils and quiet gentle bearing betrayed his high breeding and courtly spirit His habits were simple aud unaffected und a large oldfashioned red silk handkerchief which ho used was as familiar to his countrymen as the red bandana ban-dana of exSenator TIIUIIMAN of Ohio is to his |