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Show Ij ; ! "j WHEN FRANCIS JOSEPH DIES. 1 : i The spirit that pervades Hungary means, if 'jj there is any thing in signs, that Austria will not j ' i hold that land in alliance a month after Francis i 1 Joseph, who is very old, passes away. Then if li Austria appeals to Emperor William for help, it I Jl will take a powerful peace congress to keep that fi ' ambitious sovereign from striking for "a Greater Germany." i , Iff About that time, too, we suspect that Russia ; ' j ( will move for an open door through the Bos- I 1 ' in phorus, and it will not be strange if all that air is i , ' jB filled with music. Russia has but one port on the j I ' 1 ii j Pacific, and that is ice-bound half the year. She . HE i needs a way to the Mediterranean and the Persian I ' 1 f ! H Gulf, and a natural act would be for her and Ger- , j 9 j many to partition southeastern Europe between I 1 11 ! them. It will be some time yet before the nations ! H decide "to learn war no more." |