The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
A GREAT GERMAN.
Count Won Moltke the Famous
Soldier and Patriot.
Brief Review of His Grand Life of Four
Score Years and Ten and His Services
to His Countrywide Secret of
His Longevity.

sFew and evil, even at their longest
and their best, are the days of mortal
life" So in effect, says the Saturday
Evening Herald, sang the patriarch
Job, twenty centuries before the advent
of Christ; and the world is singing that
same song to-day Few at best, even
if they should stretch out to three score
years and ten! Life looks long in the
morning, but when the shadows gather
and the day declines how speedily the
hours seem to have fledl Seventy years
looks long, long time, viewed from
the sunny hillside of early youth. But
the days of seventy years are all too
few for the great purposes that crowd
and throng the busy ways of life; and
how lev there are who ever reach this
far away goall To the overwhelming
majority the days are few indeed, and
to very many it would seem as if they
were almost as full of evil as of good.
All the world, and Germany especially,
has just had its attention called to
very remarkable man, whose days have
run in parallel lines with this eventful
century. Gen. Count Won Moltle was
born in the year 1900. 1t was his rare
lot to bear the staff of pilgrimage for
four score years and tenl If faithful
record of this great Germans life could
be made; a record of facts, of thoughts,
of feelings; record of observations as
well as experiences, of defeats as well
as victories; a true life of the man and
of his time, what an invaluable treas
ure it would be! 1t would be history
nf 1f11,-x do
point, from a great soldiers point |
of view. There are some things
about this grim old soldier worth
a passing thought at least. He
is regarded-by all Germans, of |
course, and by many who are
not Germans, as the greatest soldier of |
this century. None will deny that his
ability, his sagacity and his success
make sweeping mark in the military
history of the time. When he fought
he fought to win, and he generally did
win. But this is to be said in his honor
that he did not delight in war, and that
as far as possible he sought to keep
peace amongst the nations of the earth
When war became necessity, and he
believed it was often necessity, then
he wanted it to be short, sharp and de-
cisive. He was oftener inclined to
''hold" than to ''let Slip the dogs of
war. There would have been more
wars and more disastrous wars this cen
fury if it had not been for the restrain
ing policy of Gen.. Won Moltke. As
a patriot, disciplinarian and
leader he ranks with the Duke of
and with our Washing
ION, our Grant and Logan. His great
EST work was done in his maturer ,
age. He was scarcely known outside
II Prussia till he was more than sixty
years old. The hardest and best work
If his life was done when he had passed
he three score years ana ten. Up TO s
august, 1885, when he resigned the of
ice of chief of staff, he did all the rou- |
inc work that Office demanded Gen.
ON Moltlle was indeed grand old man.
will miss him sorely, and now
hat his emperor is no more = for
William can hardly be called Bis :
aarck's emperor-and his old comrade
n arms is gone, he too will soon '''gin
o be aweary o. the SUM-" Not long ago
n American physician wrote to most
the notable octogenarians and asked
he secret of their longevity. Moltlke's
etter was long and characteristic. All
Importance was crowded into the
LIST paragraph which we herewith
uote, and so close our notice of the
rand old German soldier. !
IF asked to name the factors which in my
'inion have contributed most to my great lon
witty. should say they are: First, temper
ice in all the affairs of life; second, exercise
the open air daily under all circumstances
lthout regard to the inclemency of the wealth :,
; third, regularity in my hours Of sleep, my Is
ct and all my other habits; last-and above
Ito the grace, mercy and goodness OF Him
ho so wisely and benefcently rules the uni
rse.'
The President's Trip.