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Show THELV WILL BE MISSED. Giers and Gourko Are Dying:, and Vannow sky Is Breaking Down. Nicholas de Giers is dying ia St. Petersburg. Peters-burg. Joseph Gdurko is awaiting his end in Warsaw. Peter Wanhowsky recently sought to restore his shattered health on the south shore of the Mediterranean, I but he has returned to his Rusnian home 1 as he left it, a broken down man. Each 1 of these three remarkable men has been ' half a century in the service of his coun- J try. Each has exercised a mighty influ-1 ence on Russian politics since the Berlin j congress. Each approaches his grave, I his breast covered with decorations sig-; nifying that he has enjoyed to the last 1 the full confidence and even the friend- Bmp 01 ms sovereign. It is a trite saying in Berlin that Count on Roon forged the German sword, Moltke sharpened it, and Bismarck drew it from its 6heath. In St. Petersourg it might be said with equal truth that Wannowsky forged the Russian sword, Gourko sharpened it, and Giers kept it in its sheath. Wannowsky has prepared for war, Gourko has threatened it, and Nicholas de Giers has averted it. On the continent conti-nent the statesman without a war policy is usually condemned to the obscurity of the virtuous woman, M. de Giers' efforts ef-forts to preserve the peace have been so evident and so successful, however, that ! the ebbing of his life is witched with I the keenest hopes and fears from Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome. Giers, Gouxko and Wannowsky are the last of the celebrated Russians who survived the Bismarckian period of European Eu-ropean politics. They were contemporaries contempo-raries of Gambetta, MacMahon, Disraeli, Gladstone, Moltke, Roon, Bismarck, Benedek and Andrassy, although noie of the three came into his facta until j long after the names of those men be- came household word's throughout Eu-1 rope. Of the famous statesmen and gen-1 erals of their day, only Francesco Crispi, the Italian prime minister, is still in of- fice. Of the sovereigns of great powers, j only Queen Victoria and Emperor Frana j Joseph still reign. Exchange. j |