The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-07-31
A GREAT GERMAN.
Count Won Moltl<e the Famous
Soldier and Patriot
Brief Review of His Grand Life of -Four
Score Years and Ten and tits Services
to His Countrywide secret of
His Longevity.

"Few and evil, even at their longest
and their best. are the days of mortal
life" 80 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 fed. Seventy years
looks u long, long time, viewed from
the sunny hillside of early youth. Bun
the days OF seventy years are all too
few for the great purposes that crowd
and throng the busy ways of life; and
how few there are who ever reach this
far away goal! 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 a. of good.
All the world. and Germany especially.
has Just had its attention called 10
very remarkable man. whose days have
run in parallel lines with this evcnttul
century. Gen. Count Won MoltBe was
born in the year 1900. 1t was his rare
lot 10 bear the staff of pilgrimage for
record of this great Germans life could
be made; a record of facts, of thoughts.
of feelings; a record of observations as
we'll rs experiences, Of defeats as well
as victories: a true life of the man and
of his time, what an invaluable treas
ure it would he, 1t would be a history
of the century from German stand
point. from n great soldiers point
8 fvrI
about this grim old soldier worth
a passing thought at least. lie
is regarded-by all Germans, of
course, and 10y many who are
not Germans, as the greatest soldier of
this century. None viii 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 he said in his honor
that he did not delight in war. and that
Is far as possible he sought to keep
peace amongst the nations of the earth.
When war became Il necessity. and he
believed it was often Il necessity. then
he wanted ii to he short. sharp and de-
ciSive. He was ofteucr inclined to
''hOld" than TO let slip the dogs Of
war. There would have been more
wars and more disastrous wars this cen
tury if it had not been for the restrain
ing policy of Gen. Won Moltlle. A.
Il patriot. a disciplinarian and
leader he ranks with the Duke Of
Wellington and with our Washing
ton, our Grant and Logan. His great
est work was done in his maturer
age. He was scarcely known outside
of Prussia till he was more than sixty
years old. The hardest and best work
of his life was done when he had passed
the three score years and ten. Up t.
August, 1SSS. when he resigned the Of
flee of chief of staff, he did all the rou-
tine work that office demanded. Gen
Eon Moltkc was indeed grand old man
Bismarck VIII miss him Sorely, and now
that his emperor Is no more - for
William can hardly be called Bis
marciS's empcror-and his old comradc
in arms is gone, he too win soon ." gin
10 bc awcary q the sun" Not long ago
an American physician wrote tc Iio-t
Of the notable octugcuarian- and asked
the secret of their longevity Moltlle's
letter was long and characteristics All
of Importance was crowded into the
last paragraph which we herewith
quote. and SO close our notice of the
grand old German soldier.
'li q. .-c. O l-ue the factors which I'm my
oui4i have contributed most To my great Ion.
gny.ty. should say they are: First, temper
oug-. 8. gu tEc UIrt-- of life; second, exercise
in tho or air daily ua1cr all circumstance
without regard 20 the iugiCmgGCy OF the wealth
cr; third, regularity ia my hours OF sleep my
dict ANA all my other hcoits; last-and above