Show BISJUHCKS LATEST SCHEME For toME months it has been growing more and more apparent that Bismarck must make a decided move in Mme direction to avoid being placed at n serious if not fatal j disadvantage The course of Aus tria Inlending comfort to Russia In the policy of the latter to gain con trol in Bulgariamode a continuance of any alliance between Germany and Austria impossible 1 Italy was willing to have Austria support j Russia < provided the Alpine prov sinco of Trcntino were surrendered by Austria to Italy Thus Germany law herself deserted by her two allies and confronted with Russian aggressions which directly menaced Constantinople These aggressions I I aggres-sions if < successfully carried to a i certain point not far distant < would realize Russias traditional ambition the control of the Dos phones and hence of the Black Sea Which she would cover with vessel of war and thushaving a southern outlet become a great naval as well Ins I-ns military power Austria forms a league with tusa to the peril of Germany The ballet stands alone for Italys neutrality can be purchased cheaply enough Y < England holds back from interference interfer-ence in continental affairs and Prance beholds with glee the successes 1 suc-cesses of the Bear as against Bismarck Bis-marck What will the Man of Blood and Iron do Show himself equal to the emergency which confronts him He must outbid Austria by J making a better offer to the Czar than the latter lias and to match Austrias perfidy BIfmarcks bid t l accepted must be jioid at her expense J ex-pense The Chancellor makes to OJ r the Czar the a startling proposition j i I l t I them that they the divide Austria between Czar to take I r i the Slavonic districts and Ger I many the Germanspeaking duchies j I of Francis Josephs empire Aus tria is to be dIsmembered wiped 4 z t from the map Europe The Pan 1 Sclavic sentiment is to be gratified I by the union of the people of that race in Austria with their brethren in Russia and a similar sentiment among Teutonic peoples is to be met In the same manner by drawing into 1 in-to the German confederation the jS i Austrian provinces whose people J m J speak German i 0 j If Russia and Germany decide i p t tJ to divide Austria between them who is to say them nay Not even I Austria herself with a united voice for many thousands of Francis Josephs subjects desire to see this very thing done > iot Italy for al her interests declare in favor of neutrality Not England for she would hardly engage both Russia and Germany at the present stage of the drama She will wait to we whether the Suez Canal am other maritime and East Indian Interests are to be directly Jeopardized France would look on with mingled amazement and bewilderment JUt would hardly strike gilnst her I friend Russia feven to wound her enemy Germany The situation Js an extraordinary one In Its complications com-plications and possibilities but Bismarck Bis-marck rises to It A radical change of the map of Europe is a scheme ono o-no small dimensions and show that nation I Ia rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom Wars and rumors of war are likely to result from this feature of modern statecraft More deplorable than oven the pictures of war which line the clouds that lower over Europes near future fu-ture Is the state abandonment to all honor which she presents today Only a few short weeks since Germany Ger-many and Austria were sworn friend brothers in a firm alliance against Russia the foe of both Now Germany coolly proposes to unite with Rusols in devouring Austria but is Impelled to make this proposal by the perfidy of Austria who first sought advantage by a league I with Russia The statesmen who under Divine Providence ore permitted to carve the destiny of millions of their fellow beings upon the European continent appear to be restrained by no code or sense of honor They know they cannot trust each other and that any one of their number may at any time seize an opportunity to gain advantage ad-vantage regardless of existing pledges and treaty obligations Evidently celfInterest Is thomotive which actuates them in international interna-tional matters however patriotic and honorable they may be in their relations with their own countrymen country-men While England would probably not Interfere to prevent the carrying out of Bismarcks proposal to dIsmember dIs-member Austria out of friendship for the latter it would seem that her vital Interests In the East would demand that she do something to prevent exclusive Russian control of the Bosphorus which the Czar would be in an excellent position to attempt to enforce if once In pos don of the Sclavonic provinces of Austria It is therefore doubtful if England could retain a position of nonInterference very long alter thu division of Austria between Russia and Germany i On the whole the year open with Interesting prospects for Europe Not only are there international complications that can apparently l be solved only by the sword but t home questions of the gravest char acter confront each of tho leading Powers A few days ago another of the oft repealed attempts upon the Czars life was mod and it has been followed by the alleged discovery of one of the most extensive Nihilist conspiracies ever formed Thirty officers of the Czars army and many inmates of tho royal household house-hold had been arrested up to last accounts Francis Joseph finds It impossible to preserve hannoay among the different races embraced in hit domain The Italian government Is engaged in a war of diplomacy with the Vatican Germany Is battling at home with socialism labor troubles and popular discontent England I confronted I with the problem t > f home rule in a recently enlarged form and the home politics of France is In a chronic state of Instability Anxiety An-xiety unrest and uncertainty pr l over n the continent |