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Show wired to Vienna that the day of Sadowa was won by him the crown prince of Prussia arrived on the scone of conflict, just as Moltke hud determined, and reversed re-versed the feature of tho conflict. It was iu trance however, that his strategic skill stood the critical test when for the tirst time in the history of the world two armies equipped with modern weapons, breechloaders of the latest pateru, faced each other in a deadly struggle. When Napoleon declared de-clared war and the news thereof reached Moltke, he quietly opened a private draworof his desk aud remarked 'We are ready," and ready ho was. From the first skirmish in Baden to tho surrender at Metz, Strasshurg, Sedan and 1'aris he never miscalculated a move. In thoso four engagements over a million men laid down their arms, more than CVsar or Bonaparte Bona-parte ever commanded. "Bismarck raised the arm, Uoon sharpened the sword aud Moltke struck tho blow" said William I. when crowned emperor at Versailles in 171. Koan ami Moltke are dead and Bismarck Bis-marck alone survives. Is there another Moltke in Germany? She may need him any day and it is possible that his precept is" coutagious nnd yet it may not be. Such men as Napoleon, Wellington, tirant aud Moltke do not exist in profusion. Itlusraplilcal. Count Hel'iiuth von Moltke, formerly former-ly chief marshal of the (.erman empire, and chief of the geueral stall, was born in Mecklonburg un October '!, INIii. lie belonged to an old family, who had theirseat for centuries : thu plae.o where he was born. While be was a boy his falher seitied on an estate es-tate in Ilo'istcin, then in Denmark, lie and a brother were sent to Copenhagen to receive a military education, and iu 1VJ4 he entered the 'Prussian army as a cornet, alter a period of study in the Prussian Military academy. As :: member of the general ftrifT ho passed sev eral years in Turkey, whera lie served in one: campaign. 11a returned re-turned to Prussia in 1M.. when he was appointed adjutant to Prince Henry. Alter rapid promotion in the subordinate subordin-ate offices, in 1S.VS von Moltke was made chief of the general stall of tho Prussian army. The next year ho became be-came a lieutenant general. In the successful wars with Denmark, with Austria, ISGii; and France, 1570-71. Von Moltko's strategical powers were of the greatest service to the side he served. Ho not ouly sketched the plan of these campaigns, but assisted in carrying them out. For his services against Austria iu 18(1"), especially as holding the chief command at the decisive deci-sive baltlo of Sadowa, he was decorated with the order of the Black lagle. His title of count was giteu hitu in 170, the same year in which ho was decorated with the order of St. George, the highest high-est military decoration of Russia. The year following, 1S71, the emperor of Germany conferred on him the grand crocs of the order of the Iron Cross and made him chief marsaal of the German empire. Mon Moltke was a very tall, thin man, with light yellowish hair, and a sallow, beardless, wrinkled lace, out of which shono a pair of stony gray eves. No one, it is said, ever saw Count Von Moltke excited, not even at Sedan, where the greatest victory of modern times decided the fortunes of the two most powerful empires of tho continent. On the battlefield his cold, clear eye passad slowly from one point to the other, and his cold, clear mind weighed the chances of ietory and defeat with the intensity and serenity of a mathe-mctician mathe-mctician poudering over the solution of some grave problem. His wife died some years ago, and his nearest relations, with the exception excep-tion of a nephew and a niece, seem to Imee been kept at a distance by bira. II was known as Moltke theSilent, and his appearance was so mysteriously quiet anil cold that he seemed to bo the incarnation of concentrated thought. VON )I0LTIllo DEAD. The Grand Old General, tbe Silent Field Marshal, PasRei Away Weighed Down With Honors. GREATEST OF GERMAN CAPTAINS. Bismarck Eaised the Arm.Roon Sharpened tho Sword aud Von Moltke Struck tha Blow Biographical Sketch, Bkiilik, April 35. Count von Moltke died last evening at 0:45 o'clock. Death was very sudden. The old held marshal attended the session of the Koichstag yesterday afternoon. Heart failure was the cause of death. He passed away quietly and painlessly. Von Moltke died in his study at his ollicial residence on the Konigsplatz. Ho appeared in his tistiul health early yesterday evening. He supped as usual with a good appetite. He rose from his seat with the inleulion of retiring. He suddenly staggered and would have fallen had it not been for the fact that a servant sprang to his assistance. The count was theu carried to his bedroom and placed upon the bed upon which he died in a few minutes. The emperor at Wartburg telegraphed expressions of sympathy to the family. All the Germau princes and noted personages of the empire are sending messages of condolence. The will of the count states that he desires the burial to take place at t roisati, where his wife and child are buried. The funeral, if the count's request re-quest is followed, will be strictly private, pri-vate, but it is thought possible that the emperor will overrule tho dead soldier's wishes, and that the funeral will be made the occasion for a grand military display. All the ollicers of the geueral s t a 11" were informed of his death, aud assemblud at the house before daylight. day-light. The count's death was not generally known until the facts were published iu the special editions of the morning papers. It caused deep and universal sorrow. The emperor, on account of tho death of the count will return to Burlin this afternoon. The empress visited the death chamber this morning and laid a magniliceut wreath of roses upon the bed upou which the great geueral rested. The empress spent a quarter of an hour trying to console the family. Splendid tloral offerings are arriving at the residenco from all parts of Germany. A great crowd of people respectful and sympathetic, surronuds the count's residence and throngs the streets. Many stores ou the leading thoroughfares aro closed and the city throughout is commenting com-menting to display emblems of mourning. mourn-ing. In the lower house of the Prussian diet today the president oi that body in announcing von Moltke's death to the representatives said the high value of eouut's services to the fatherland would cause universal sorrow and mourning to be felt throughout Germany. Ia the upper house a laurel wreath entwined with black aud whi'e ribbons hangs over Count von Moltke'i seat. The president read a letter from Major Moltke, announcing the count's death, aud then he delivered an address extolling ex-tolling the merits and services of the dead soldier as a member of tho upper bouse. Both houses adjourned until Monday next. Late last night tho emperor telegraphed tele-graphed his sympathetic coudolence to the von Moltke family saying the held marshal's death was greater loss to Germany than tho loss of an army corps would have been. Tho emperor has summoned all the princes and crowned beads of tho different German states to attend the funeral, which will take place Thursday next and which will be attended by imposing military ceremonies. The body will be escorted in state from von Moltke's residence to the railroad station whence it will be taken to Croisau for interment. The ceremonies at Croisau will be quiet and without display in accordance ac-cordance with the late count's will. A handsome oak cofliu was taken to the official residence of the dead field marshal this afternoon. The remains will lie in state in the apartment in which the count died until Thursday, morning. Thecollin will be surrounded with battle Hags and be in charge of guards of honor until it is finally placed in the family vault at Croisau. In the course of the morning, by the emperor's orders the imperial standard was conveyed from the palace to the room in which tho remains of the great soldier will lie in state. This was done as a special mark of the emperor's favor fa-vor and showing how deeply he feels tho loss. In the Iloichstag this afternoon Ilerr Von Levetzow, president of that body, eulogized the dead soldier. The Reichstag Reich-stag then adjourned. This afternoon Lcssiug, the sculptor, took a plaster cast of the dead field-marshal's face. Ripe with years and weighed down with honors the greatest Gerruau captain cap-tain answered to the last muster. Not a Herrmann in patriotic fervor, not a Frederick the Great in resource, not a Blncher in dash. General Moltke was yet superior to any aud all of the soldiers in the commanding genus that achieves matchless success. ! Modest and retiring all through his I life his observations in the 'Turkish campaign of 181!! were so clear and bis deductions so logical that his report elicited general and instantaneous attention, at-tention, while he received rapid promotion promo-tion in consequence. The merit of his work can best be comprehended when it is remembered that every war since then waged in Europe was fought on his theory then elucidated, cous'i-ding of rapid marches in detached corps conveying con-veying upon a commou center. Thus in lt-(i he took Duppel and Alsen, and thus in 181'ili he overran South Ger- many and Austria striking down iu oue 'decisive battle the power of the allies. I Just at the moment when lienedeck |