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Show !WHEN FRANCIS JOSEPH DIES. The spirit that pervades Hungary means, if there is any thing in signs, that Austria will not hold that land in alliance a month after Francis Joseph, who is very old, passes away. Then if a. Austria appeals to Emperor William for help, it 1 ;J ; will take a powerful peace congress to keep that i ambitious sovereign from striking for "a Greater 1 i I Germany." Kfj,:' 1 i . About that time, too, we suspect that Russia Hj : : 'm will move for an open door through the Bos- r i 1 I'll phorus, and it will not be strange if all that air is y jjH filled with music. Russia has but one port on the 1 ' ' ' - 'in Vactiic, and that is ice-bound half the year. She Hj j Cj fflN needs a way to the Mediterranean and the Persian H'i i' I! isgS j Gulf, and a natural act would be for her and Ger- : ! 'Inl I many to partition southeastern Europe between j ' them. It will be some time yet before the nations B i Iff decide "to learn war no more." |