Show costly dreams of empire the dream of empire la doubtless a pleasant diversion from the stern real aties 0 the ordinary ruler s lite but when it becomes something more than a dream it Is usually a costly expert ment the czar has found it so in the far east and germany Is beginning to realize that the keisers kaisers vision is al most as much as it can bear millions of russian rubles have been spent in a vain attempt to make siberia and the pacific coast a productive part ol 01 the russian empire while the kaiser has spent 50 on his african wars with no prospect of return from those colonies for halt a century the public debt of germany has increased SOO in ten years and there Is no prospect that it will be decreased in the immediate future pittsburg dispatch |