Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-06-13

Won Moltke was horn only a dozen
Year, after the birth " Lord Byron,
and had reached manhood when by.
ron INDUCED himself In laudation oil
foreat life, and Of Daniel Iioone, WHOM
tho poet considered a. furnishing IN,
most striking illustration VI his theory
that the woods form the choicest home
for men. "The case In point cite IL,
Boone lived hunting, up 10 ninety
sings the author Of Don Juan. When
these words were inst published there
were number Of young men living
whose histories were 10 serve A. illus.
trations OF the fact that long life Il
quite NJ compatible with surroundings
OF tho highet forms Of civilization NJ
with life In the foreat, 10 say the least.
Tho future German Emperor Wilhelm
was one Of these; George Bancroft was
another, Gladstone WIS another, and
Won Moltke was another. All these
men were workers In the highes,
grades OF civilized employment; In In.
tellcctual lnbora which tried their
temper TO the last degree, and three VI
them have lived Into the tenth decade
u their lives, while the solitary sur.
vivor Of the gmup-pefhaIe the
most persistent worker Of all ui
them, MIR. Gladstone - bids fair
~ rival the other. In the number oi
his days. In the meantime Bymn'a
poems have become n part u ancient
literature; the Napolconlc wars, which
were contemponneous with the youth
Of William, Of Mollkc aud Of Bancroft,
have come to be regarded a. part Of
ancient history, and the great fOtests
that Boone loved have disappeared 10.
fore the forward movement Of q civil.
zatlon which loved them not, but which
gives every indication Of belng better
fitted for the environment " the man Of
the time than are the forests that u die.
places. The groves may have been
CODE nfrt temples; they wofc pretty
certainly mans first abiding place, bat
Il may H. doubted whether they were
ever more conducive 10 hcallhiulnc-s
than were the house,, ana even the
palaces, OF civilization. Mollku was a
graduate Of military school At Cigh.
teen, aud never thereafter ccasci 10 be
n student " military subjects ~ well rs
n practical worker. ~ with Holmcs'
famous "shay," there never was
any fault Ia the machinery Of
this remarkable man, physical.
" or intellectually, and his
nnAl COLLAPSE was also much like thnt
u the vehicle which iran u hundred
years 10 day." and then 40 suddenly
aud nysicri0usly disappeared from the
eyes Of men. On the last day u his
lie the general attended the session u
Inc imperial parliament for that day,
aud aitstward he was suddcnly dead.
From heart failure, the physlcianssaid,
a. they aro apt 10 say Ia cases Of coll
lapse; but u Il quilc a. probable that IN
the veterans well.halAnccd physlquc
the whole gave way together.
Probably no other general ever did
the same amount Of work In his profess
slon that was done by this man. cer'
tainly none WIS ever moru fortunate In
such number Of enterprises, aud none
ever passed from life Into death In u
manner morc apparently desirable.
Uncounted millions Oi the human race
have died since Mollku was born but
his term 81 life has demonstrated that
civilization has no, yet begun 10 retro
grade a. regards the temporal anu lef'
Tustrlal welfare u man, nj any rate.