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Show it . nrmi or o jiowkii Tin dltpntchet aniioumi) llio aud. ileli death, from laart failure, of Count von Moltkr, Iho groaleet military mili-tary alrategUt of modern llnu. tier. many owe rnucli of Ita preterit rntlge to Hit tlcceateil veteran and l'rluca Illenitrck cumblneU. The name may beaalliegardliiKthe grratmna of the lata Lmperor William. Without two audi propa the one conveniant with all lha detalla iicrUlnlng to lha act enoe af war, together with phenomenal ability to irowculu and operate hla own lnr, while tho other baa . abown hluuelf a matter baud In the del I of atatccraft the i:mror could not have reached the degree of farao with which hla tanui U aaaocUtcl. Count Htlmiilh von MoUke,formerly Chief Manhal of tho Uerman Kmi Ire, au I Chief of the (lineral HUU, waa lrn In Mecklenburg on October U), 1SIXI He belonged to au old family, who had their neat for centuriet In Ibe place where ho waa lorn. Whllo he waa a boy hU fattier neltlnl on an enlaUlnllolituln. then lu Denmark. He and a brother were tent lo Copenhagen Copen-hagen to receive a military education, amllalSJJ lie inlerr.1 iho l'rulau army at a cornet, after a period of atudylnthe 1'ruaaUn Military Aeade- uiy. At a member of the general ttaflT bo ratwJaeveralyeoraln Turkey, when heaerved In ono caui-algn. Ha rein re-in r Ltd lo I'ruxla In 181 when he wat a pointed ailluUut lo 1'ilnce lleuy. Arterrai Id promotion In the nuhtrJInateotllcn, In ISM Von Moltkn waaruaJe chief of the grand general ttaffof the l'ruaalan atmy. The next yearhebeianie a lieutenant rtneral. la the auciea-TuI waa with Denmark, Den-mark, 180t-l, wlUi Au.trla, Ihod, aud Kraacelu 1870 I, Villi Moltke'a analogical analo-gical power were of the grealeat tor. vlctlo the able he aervnl. Ho not only tketrhnl Iho plan of thmu cam-lalgiia.butaMlttMl cam-lalgiia.butaMlttMl In tarrying them put. lorliU ti rvlcre aealiiat Auatrla In im, rapeclally In hoi ling the chief command ot tho dcclalvo li tile, of Ha-Unwa, Ha-Unwa, he wat decorate,! Ith the ordi r of Ike black eagle. Hit title of count waiilvenhlmluI87ii, the aamo year In vlilcli he waa decorated with tint order of HL Ocorge, the hlgheat mill, lary dccoratlnn of Ituaala. The year following, 1871, the l.rnperor of I Janitor Ja-nitor conferred on him the grand crow of the order of the 1 roll Crwa and made liliochlifinarabalor tlieUtrnmu I.m-plre. I.m-plre. Von Mollke waa a very tall. Ihln mat, with light yellowlah hair, and a aalbw, beardhw, wrinkled laco. out of ablchthone a pair of atony gray Hit wlfu died aomo yean ago; ho never ha I a child, nud lila urareat re-latlona, re-latlona, with the exretlonof a nephew and niece, teem to liavo Un kept at a dlaUnce bv lilm. lit. wu ktmu-.i - MoitkolhoHllent, and Ilia apinaranco waa ao mttterluutly qulef and cold, lhathe teemed lo bo tbelncarnutloil of cunreMratod thought. o one, Ilia ald, ovi r taw Count von Moltku excited, not evin at Hedan, wbtre tht, greatest victory of modern tlmtideihied thefortumwof tho two jnuit loarurful iuilrea oflheContl-Vrd. oflheContl-Vrd. On tho I altlelleld hla cold, clear eyiiwd tlowly from ono lulut to tbt other, nud hit col 1, tl.ar mlml weighed the chance of victory and defeat with tin, lutenilly and ttrenlty of a mathematician oiidrrliig over (bo eolation of nouie gravu problt m |