Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-21
NUMBER 20.

the chance OF a capital move, and, quite
excited, he placed his Queen right in
front Of his opponents Queen. A muir
muir of discomfort arose amongst the
spectators; the game seemed lost for the
pasha; he must have overlooked that
his Queen is eftunprotected. The face
Of Reshid Aga, who also looked on,
beamed with pleasure; at glance ne
had thoroughly mastered the combina,
tion OF his friend. The stranger took
much longer time to consider than usual
before he slowly lifted his lean hand.
NO doubt he will take the Queen,
the spectators whispered to each other.
Then he Will be mate in eight
moves, Reshid A., Aid, gleefully rub
bling his hands.
"And II he does not take herP'
Then he viii lose his own
For a moment the stranger appeared
undecided; but suddenly like lightning
his hand descended on the board.
Quietly and calmly he moved one OF his
pawns a square ahead. All looked sur
prised at each other. muttering. ITO
lose the Queen is losing the game"
while Suleiman Pasha, smiling triumph
antly, removed the hostile Queen from
the board.
The onlookers. who mostly sided with
the Pasha, breathed as if they had been
relieved from heavy load. In their
opinion the game was decided for White
could not hold out without the Queen.
Several Of them were already on the
point Of withdrawing, when they were
suddenly startled by the clear ringing
voice Of the stranger, who called out:
Mate in twelve moves"
Suleiman Pasha's looks grew dark
the smile died on his lips A change
had as suddenly overcast the features of
Reshid Aga; almost beside himself, he
jumped on a seat to follow the game
from more elevated point while the
spectators barely daring to draw breath,
counted the moves as they followed
each other
With mastery skill White nav led his
force into the field, encircling the hos
tile King in a powerful grasp and keep
ing him within an iron ring. At the
tenth move the Pasha tried to break
through the blockade by sacrificing his
Queen, but in vain. White declined to
accept the sacrifice, and moved his
Knight with Check to the King"
Eleventh move The spectators, whose
excitement had nearly reached fever
heat now saw that their Pasha. never
before yanquished would be checkmated
the next move. Suleiman's King was
compelled to withdraw into corner,
and with the twelfth move, as he
had predicted the stranger pronounced
"Checkmate'
A murmur Of admiration was heard
from the spectators, while the Pasha sat
there with bent head, as if trying TO
search in his memory, when suddenly,
as il a thought had flashed upon him, he
turned upon the stranger. "Once al
ready in my life, . he said, II have seen
chess played in the manner in which
thou hast played to-day. Thy mastery
moves are not unknown to me, but was
unable 10 resist them. The game. how
| ever which was then played before my
eyes was great deal more beautiful
even than to-day's. Guns Of the heaviest
caliber represented the Castles, feet
cavalry were the Knights, and in place
Of the Pawns well-armed infantry
formed the vanguard And when the
guns on the one side Numbered
their Check to the other, the
ground beneath our feet seemed to
shake, as if burning lava was thrown
! from a volcano. AT that u ne we stood
opposed to an army OF one hundred and
| fifty thousand men, terrible number,
which, led by the genius Of a single
man, threatened 10 crush us completely.
And this man whose genius made our
brave soldiers take to fight. and whom
il was impossible 70 withstand, was a
son Of tho cold North II was only to
the klessness Of Haiz pasha. the
Turkish commanGer-in-chief, who envied
the youthful genius his brilliant sue
cess, and who, though fully warned,
wildly pursued the Egyptians, that we
owed the victory Of Nisib which other
wise we never should have gained"
The Pasha stopped, and casting a
long and penetrating look on his adver-
sary suddenly, cried out enthusiastic
| ally: Stranger, thy Incompatible play
of today recalls TO my memory afresh
blAb Rdlllb VI NhfSe al AN494b anu ASS 5hAA-
full player. Only one man can play like
that, and that man is-Colonel Moltkel"
Thou hast hit it, Pasha,' the stran-
ger calmly replied. My name is
Moltke"
This indeed was Count Won Moltke-
alive STILL and with the reputation of
the greatest soldier in Europe. While
young man he went to the East, and
was in the service of Sultan Mahmoud
from 1885 TO 1899. He was present at
the battle Of Nisib, when, as above
said, the Turkish commander-in-chi
Jealous Of the great abilities Of the
young soldier, refused to follow Moltke's
advice, and so lost the battle. Cham
bers Journal.