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. rt UNION OF AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY SERIOUSLY IMPERILED BY PRESENT POLITICAL CRISIS EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH. j . m 1 Tho political crisis In Hungary has reached a point where It seriously im perils the union between Austria and Hungary. Backed by a large majority in the house of representatives and an overwhelming popular sentiment, tho leaders of tho coalition party of Hun gary went to Hofburg to present to Francis Joseph the conditions upon which they would consent to form a cabinet and carry on the Hungarian government. The emporor-klng hand ed them an ultimatum In which ho demanded that they form a cabinet, but declined to grant any of tho con cessions they asked. The coalition statesmen refused to yield and return ed to Budapest, and Hungary still Is without a responsible government, as It lias been for some months. Tho strained situation can hardly last much longer without some decisive result It would bo a mlstako to regard tho struggle as one merely between tho emperor-klng and the Hungarians. It is a struggle between tho emperor and Austria on the one side and Hungary on the other. When, fifty-seven years ago, a delegation of Hungarians, headed by Louis Kossuth, obtained at Vienna tho Emperor Ferdinand's promise to sanction a constitution for their country, they also secured tho promise of one for Austria. This made Hungarians extremely popular In Austria. But tho cordial feelings be tween tho people of the two countries of tho dual monarchy havo been almost completely extinguished by a half century of bickering. "To put the matter plainly," said Francis Kos suth, loader of tho coalition parties and a son of Louis Kossuth, In a re cent magazlno article, "tho Austrlans hate us, perhaps because they know they havo wronged us." Tho pretsent acute troubles began In 1898-99, when Premier Solomon Szell, at tho lnstanco of tho emperor, attempted to pass measures Increas ing the number of rocrults to the Hun garian army and tho annual grant to the crown. Riotous obstructionist tac tlCB forced Szell to resign, and Count Khuen Hodervary became prime min ister. The new promler abandoned his predecessor's unpopular policy, but a largo section of the party of Independence refused to desist from Its obstructionist tactics unless the government consented to the use of the Hungarian language Instead of tho German and of the national emblems Old Red Cloud, 'Leader Own Notion There Is a firm paleface conviction that the rdd man has no sense of hu mor. It were better perhaps to qualify tho statement by making It a trifle less sweeping. It Is the palefaco at a dis tance who thinks that the Indian has no funny bone tho frontiersman knows otherwise. There is old Red Cloud, the Sioux chieftain, now within a short Journey of the Joys which the happy hunting ground holds for him, who probably never laughed aloud in his life, but who behind his mask of solidity hides as keen an appreciation of "tho fun of the thing" as can be found In the com position of any one of his white con querors. Nearly forty years ago lied Colud, in ;tbo prime of his fighting days, led, with other chiefs, an attack on the Chinese Study American Methods. Six young Chinamen are among tho pupils of the New Bedford, Mass., tex tile school, having been sent to this country to learn all about the making of cotton fabrics. Tho purposo tn this procedure Is to expodlto China's indus trial development. Not only will their government expect them to develop their own talents to the host advan tage, but their services will bo re quired in imparting to others, less fav ored than themsolVos, a knowledgo of modern methods of spinning and weav ing cotton. in tho Hungarian army. Tho govern ment positively refused to assent to this proposition, and it has beon the burning Issue of Hungarian politics over since. Questions of parliamen tary reform, taxation, and rules of par liamentary procedure havo also enter ed into tho conflict. At tho last elec tion tho coalition of parties consti tuting tho opposition elected a largo majority of tho houso of representa tives'. Francis Joseph, Btrongly back ed by Austrian sentiment, has here tofore refused to bow to this emphatic expression of Hungarian public opin ion, and the signs are that ho is re solved never to do so. Tho events that havo been taking place, under remarkably similar cir cumstances In Scandinavia perhaps throw some light on what Is about to take place in Austria-Hungary. It was a famous remark of Bismarck, how ever, that if the Austrian empire did western Europe has been fraught with less 6orIous consequences than not exist, It would bo necessary for the good of Europe to creato it, and thore seems reason to fear tnat tho dissolution of tho dual monarchy of an attempted dissolution of tho dual monarchy of eastern Europo is likely to be. of the Sioux, Had His of Humor whites near Fort Fotterman. Red Cloud had the better of his foes on that day. Afterward when tho pale faco soldiers with bluo coats proved too many for him, Red Cloud had a change of heart He said that he had plucked out hatred. This was one of Red Cloud's best Jokes, and when tho whites could not seo his face because It was turned away from tho council fire, the old chief smiled and his eyo twinkled with tho Joy of It A quarter of a century divided tho fight at Fort Fetterman from that at Wounded Knee. Red Cloud was at tho Pino Rldgo agency when tho news of tho battle between the soldiers of tho Seventh Cavalry and tho braves of Big Foot's band was brought in by courier. Aged Veteran of U. 8. Navv. William Mackabeo, who served for elghty-six years in the United States navy, last week celebrated the one hundred and second, anniversary of his birth. Ho is at the naval home on Gray's Ferry road, Philadelphia. Mack abeo was born in Baltimore and has been on tho retired list for many years. Ho takos his four ounces of whisky daily and Is an inveterate smoker. For several years ho has not boen outside tho naval home grounds except on elec tion day, when ho never falls to voto tho Democratic ticket. Tho chief hoard of the loss of somo 300 of his trlbo, and said that notwith standing tho fight and tho killing, his heart was still shut against tho return of hatred for tho palefaces. Not long after tho Wounded Kneo battlo Miles and Brooke succeeded in throwing troops about tho bands of hostiles, and began tho task of forcing them little by llttlo Into tho Pino Rldgo agency and to final surronder. Gen. Miles wanted to get tho reds back to the agency without precipitat ing another fight and another fire of criticism. So it was that ho was urg ing the Ogalala and tho Brulo Sioux bucks to surronder, and was using his troops rather for herding and driv ing purposes thnn for actual offense. Young-Man - Afraid - of - His - HorseB went to tho hostllo camp and har angued his brother savages, implor ing them to obey Miles and to como in and bo bad Indians no more. Young Man's speech had somo effect. Then Red Cloud wanted to follow tho oxnm plo of tho young chief. No ono knows definitely whether Red Cloud was sent out by tho general commanding or went on his pcaco-talklng errand of his own lnttlatlvo, but ho went. The hostiles were north of Whlto Clay Creek and west of Porcupine Butto. Red Cloud reached their camp and he talked nt the council fire. Then thero happened a curious thing. On tho heel of the chiefs a pack band of tho young bucks broko away and be gan to raid. There was a fight with a squadron of the Seventh cavalry near tho Roman Catholic mission school apd an army wagon train was attacked at a place not far distant from tho agency. Red Cloud camo back to tho agency. Even his native command of himself could not glvo control to tho twinkle that was in his ancient eye. But what a talo was that he told! The Indians with bad hearts had rejected his pleas for peace and surrender, and had driven him, tholr old chief, with curses and with blows from tholr camp. He had plodded tho trail from the camp to the agency, footsore and food less, and In this day of his falling sight ho would have been lost Tiad not his granddaughter Star Eyes or somo such name, for here memory is at fault led him all tho way by the hand. It was with aB near a sob in his volco as an Indian over gets that old Red Cloud told his story. Way down inside ho was enjoying tho Joko of it better, perchance, than were his hear ers. Tho old chief, who had mado miles of distance, footsoro and food less, during tho night, was looking in an unusually robust and weH-fed con dition that frosty January morning fourteen years ago. It would bo something of a Joy to know Just what old Red Cloud had said to tho Brulo and Ogalala bucks be yond tho Whlto Clay Creek. Tho old fellow was an orator, and when thero were no whlto men listeners he know the way to tho seat of tho savago pas sions. Is the Indian lacking In a sense of humor? Ohi Red Cloud used to get more genuine enjoyment out of telling his unsophisticated palefaco llstoners tho story of how he talked peaco In the hostllo camp than Kicking Bear ever did in running off a settler's stock and this means much. E. B. C. in Chicago Post Giant Sunflower. W. R. McCormack, a farmer near Orion, has a wonder of Its kind on his farm in tho shape of a gigantic sun flower plant. Tho plant contains 105 buds and blossoms, tho latter number ing seventy-two. It measures 7 feet in height and 10 Inches In circum ference at tho base. Detroit News Hyde Selling All His Pronertw. James II. Hydo, formor master of tho groat Equitable Life Assurance So doty, continues to sell his properties In and about Now York, thus giving color to the story that ho intends to quit tho country and make his homo In France. Already ho hag sold his country homo, his private car, hltt stable and his autos, and now it Is an nouncod that ho has placed his olty residonco in the hands of brokers. Tho houso adjoining, occupied by Mr Hyde's mothor, is also placod on th market TlJii,wi,. 'iEL ' iP V-j1 ulIIinLlJjLP II ' jwa i JJii'u til ' ' jrtSWO I j l "i"n fY !' E2t-a . " THE CONSTITUTION. As she appeared when towed out of. Boston harbor In the war of 1812., If tho Navy Department consents to tho plan Brooklyn school children will got nn opportunity to raise a fund for tho preservation of tho old frigate Constitution. Moved by tho nows that "Old Ironsides" was rapid ly going to pieces In tho Navy Yard nt Boston, James Matthews sent tho fol SHIP'S GLORIOU8 CAREER END8. I Famous Constitution Declared Worn Out Beyond Repair. The Constitution Ib worn out bo yond repair. Not tho written or un written constitution, but Old Iron Bides, tho frlgato which bore Hull and Balnbrldgo to victory. Soventy-tlvo years ago tho spirited lines of Dr. Holmes saved It from tho wreckers, but now tho end has come. Tho Constitution was launched in 1797, a sister ship of tho United States and tho President. Tho latter, undor Admiral Decatur, was captured by tho English In 1815, after a treaty of peaco had been concluded, but thero were no cables in thoso days. If there had been Jackson would not havo fought and defeated Pakcnham nt Now Or leans. It is now an English training Bhlp and carrlos Sir Charles Beres ford's flag. Tho Constitution was equipped with thirty-two long twenty four pounders and twenty thirty-two pound carronades. Under Capt Preblo it took part in tho bombard ment of Tripoli in 1S04, its sailors winning tho admiration of tho world by taking it and making sail under fire as coolly as If on exhibition. In tho war of 1812, undor Capt. Isaac Hull It sank tho Guerrlcro In thirty minutes; undor Capt. Balnbrldgo it riddled tho Java In Bixty-flvo minutes; undor Capt Charles Stewart it cap tured tho Cyano and tho Levant. It was In 1830 that it was first pro posed to dismantle tho Constitution. Now, in 1905, It is reported that tho frlgato Is sinking where It lies, and if put In dry dock would fall apart of Its own weight. Is It due' to lack of caro or to Initial differences in con struction that It cannot reach tho ago of Nelson's battleship, tho Victory? Tho Victory was already forty years old In October, 180D, when It aided in destroying tho Spanish and French fleets off Trafalgar. It had takon part In the victory of Cape St. Vincent, which gave Jervls his title as earl, when nearly tho ago at which the Con stitution was first condemned. It car ried 100 guns, eighteen, twenty-iour and thirty-two pounders.' Its tonnage was 2,162 22-94. Its oak sides above tho water line were two feet thick, and aro still stanch. Tho steel bat tleship of to-day Is old-fashioned In flvo years, obsolete In fifteen, but this vet eran, after forty years service, won Its greatest battle, tho greatest sea fight of tho Napoleonic wars. Against a modern fighting machine a whole fleet like tho Constitution and tho Victory in their best days would bo useless. One of tho new twelve Inch guns will flro two shots a min ute capnblo of penetrating fifty-one Inches of wrought iron. Tho twenty four pound balls of the Constitution would rattle harmlessly against tho steel armor of tho Colorado. But progress is only relative. Offensive and defensive armaments havo devel oped equally. According to Sir Philip Watts, director of naval construction In England, the present rolatlon be tween guns and armor is about what it was In tho days of tho cast Iron smooth bore nnd tho oak sides. In 1905, as In 1805 or 1812, It Is the man behind the gun that makes tho differ ence. No nation can afford to fall behind tho othors In equipment, but precision, courage, loyalty must al ways bo the deciding factors where oilier things aro equal. Lawyer's Skillful Use of Words. Ex-Gov. Black of New York, bosldos being nn accomplished orator, gonoral-) ly comes out ahood In a personal ar gument. Not Ion? ago whllo he was pleading for the defendant In a dam age cult case in the Albany courts he applied the word "impertinent" to the plaintiff's lawyer and was promptly called to order by tho court. "All re marks, your honor," replied Mr. Black, with perfect coolnews, "must be either pertinent or Impertinent, and I submit that the remarks of tho opposing counsol are most importlnont" Sr- cr -- ' c?-3iTe'" v- i 111 IT i i " ST lowing telegram to tho Secretary of tho Navy: "Will you consider an offer to buy frlgato, 'Old Ironsides,' through a fund raised by Brooklyn school children?' Mr. Matthews' idea Is to havo tho historic craft brought to Brooklyn and preserved In somo sultablo placa. MARKETS WORTH STRIVING FOR. Commerce of the Orient World's Great est Commercial Prize. Three thousand millions of dollars! That is the arithmetical measure of tho commcrco of tho Orient, Thus It Is summed up by tho official statisti cian of tho government's department of statistics. And that commcrco is Bald to bo "yet small" as comparod with tho world's commerce. Tho population of Asia nnd Oceanlca is 850,000,000, whllo that of all other parts of tho world combined Is only about 750,000.000. Its lnnd area la 18,000,000 squaro miles, whllo that of other parts of tho world Is 34,000,000, yet tho commerce of tho Orient Ib but a paltry $3,000,000,000, whllo that of ohhor parts of the world is $19,000,000, 000. So It Is seen that tho Bverago por capita commcrco in the Orient is $3 a year, whllo tho average per vaplta for tho rest of tho world is $27 a year. The foreign commerce of China, with 400,000,000 industrious people and no railways, has grown but $1G0,0U0, 000 sinco 1870; that of India, with 300,000,000 people and a system of railways, has grow-n $258,000,000, and that of Japan, with only 46,000,000 and a system of railways, has grown $215,000,000. And how docs tho United States stand to shnro In this commercial prlzo of tho Oriont? At present tho United States sells to tho Oriont about $100,000,000 worth of goods a year, whllo Europo sells $000,000,000. But tho records of tho past ten years show that wo aro gain ing much more rapidly in this trado than any other nation. Tho imports of China, Japan and Australia fioin all European countries combined showed an Increaso In 1903 of but $45,000,000 as compared with 1900, while tho Increase in importations by thoso countries from tho United States alono in tho samo period waa $49,000,000, thus showing that our gain in tholr export trado was actually greater than tho grain of all Europo combined. Our purchases, too, from the Orient havo grown sinco 1870 from less than $32,000,000 to $190,000,000 in 1904. Wo have taken from them largo quantities of raw silk, tea, homp, Jute, tin, goat skins, etc., and wo send them raw and manufactured cotton, mineral oils, manufactured iron and Bteol, flour, meats and rice. No country has tho natural advan tages which aro possessed by tho United States for securing this Orien tal trado, In the command which American merchants havo of the Pa cific ocean. Our national frontage of tho Pacific is 12,500 nautical miles, while that of tho United Kingdom Is 10,000, of Russia 0,000, Japan 5,000 and China about 3,000. In addition to this wo aro about be ginning tho construction of tho isth mian canal, which, when completed, will furnish direct water communica tion betweon tho Orient and our pro ducing and manufacturing sections of tho east and south. Cotton, iron Rnd hreadstuffs will go by this route to tho Orient, touching at tho ports of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tacoma and Seattle. By this moans alono tho United States should Increaso her Oriental ex ports from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000 per annum. Daring Woman Explorer. Mrs. French Sholdon, the famous woman explorer, believes that her greatest triumph was hor doscont to the shores of Lake Chala In Africa. The lako Hos deop down In tho crater of an extinct volcano. No less author ity than Sir Harry Johnson declared that nobody, unless possessed of tho holding capacity of an apo or tho wings of a bird, could ever descend tho almost porpondlcular and smooth cliffs to tho wator far below. But Mrs. French Sholdon got down to the lake, and sailed across and around it What's In McClure's. The October MeCltu-o's is dovotcd po sullarly to Amorlcnn llfo nnd activities. Not ft story In It. nor a spoolnl article, but concerns the real ntul Immediate things that tnovo UiIh country at largo. Pastor Charles Wagner, the French alorRymnn-author of "Tho 8lmplo Life," wrltM of his vlitlt nt tho White Houso, mid with slmplo directness toll of tho children and tho household Ufo of tho president net ho saw them. Ho wrltos nn Interesting nnd Important cs tlmnto of President Hooxovelt nn a man, "What Kansas Did to Standard Oil" JoncludoH Miss TnrlioH's story of tho oil wnr In Kansas, and tolls excitingly of how tho Knns.ms rushed in nnd won. "Pioneer Transportation In America" In tho truthful romance of tradlc.'nn ftbflorbliiKly Interesting story full of curious Information. In this first pa nor Charles F. Lummls, foromost au thority on tho subject, carries trafllo through America's heroic ago up to thu beginnings of tho groat days on the plains. Bank Customers Photographed. Ono of tho most Ingenious methods in tho world for photographing por sons nnd keeping them in lgnoranco of tho fact Is that of tho Bank of Franco. Tho bank has a. hidden Btudlo In a gnllory behind tho caBh lor'B dosk, so that at a Blgnnl from ono of tho hank omployoa any bus pected customer will Instantly havo Ills ploturo taken without his own knowlodge. A Romance of the Xlxth Century. Mr. Richard Watson CJIIdor's "A Ilo maneo of tho Nlnuiconth Contufy," which will bo a fonturo of the October Century, grow out of an Inquiry, it Is said, ns to tho direct references by Hllzabath Barrett nnd Itobort Brown ing to each other In tholr poetry, with a vlow to grouping such pooms ns might appropriately bo classed with tho "Sonnets From tho Portuguese." Mr. aildor concluded that, on Mrs. Browning's part would naturally ap pear In this connection, with tho Portu guese Sonnotn, tho six lyrics, "Ufo nnd Lovo," "A Denial," "Proof and Dis proof," "Question and Answer," "In clusion" and "Insutllclency," and on Mrs. Browning's "Ono Word More," 'Prosplco" and tho passago beginning, 'O Lyric Lovo" from "Tho IUng and tho Book." Height of French Soldiers. Sinco tho law of 1901 thero has been no limit of height for n French soldier; dwarf or giant, all must servo. Be fore that time tho limit was only flvo foot ono inch. Yet tho avorago holght was not yet run down to that of Na poleon's "grnndo nrmco" in Its lost years and not long ago It was abovo that of tho German array measured as a whole. Flow of German Rivers. With ono oxcoptlon tho watoro of Gormnn rivcra run Into tho North Sea, tho Baltic and tho Black Sea. That ono exception Is a brook which starts In Germany beyond Alsaco and grad ually reaches tho Rhino by way of tho Saono, and thus at last empties into tho Mediterranean, in tho gulf oC Lyons. Vandanls In Palace. Tho famous tapestries of tho Pal aco of Fontalneblcau havo boon cut nnd slashed until they aro almost In shreds, and tho sculptures and carved wood mantolplccos havo boon chipped In scores of places. Tho damago aside from that to tho tapostrlcs, is estimator at $85,000. How to Avoid Washing Quilts. A good device to save washing com forters and quilts is to basto across tho top end a facing, a quarter of a yard wide or more, of cheesecloth or other matorlnl. Tho facing may bo taken off and washed frequently. This also koops the bedding from wearing out. Arsenic Mine. From a Bmall beginning two years ago an arsenic mine near Elbe, Plerco county, Washington, has boon devel oped until it is now producing twonty flvo tons each twenty-four hours. It Ib tho only mlno in tho country in which tho arsenic Is taken direct from tho ore. Gem of Phillips Brooks. These aro truths; wo aro all of us God's children; every soul Ib mado for purity, and has no right to sin; no soul can do Its duty anywhoro with out a thrill of richer Ufo running through all tho world. Phllllp3 Brooks. Were Once Peninsulas. Geologists Incline to -tho opinion that Ruegon only, but tho Isle of Wight and Great Britain wero onco peninsu las and became separated from the mainland before tho tlmo when tho Island of Ceylon enacted a declara tion of Independence from Hindoston. Gymnastics Benefit Young Men. Gymnastic exercises aro held re sponsible for tho fact that within ue last sixty, years the percentage of young men unfit for military service has fallon from 39 per cent to 0 per cent. Wore His Lawyer's Boots. While defending a case In court at Carlow, Ireland, nn attorney was sur prised and grieved to seo on the feet of hl3 client a pair of boots that had beon stolen from him, somo tlmo be fore. "Paddy's Hurricane." A "Paddy's hurricane" is when thoro is llttlo or no wind, when tho penanta hangs down alongsldo the mast, nonce, It Is said, whon tho wind Is up nnd down tho mast It is a "Paddy's hurricane." Somo people would worry them selves to death if they didn't hays trouble to think about ftj3afa' - " immMBmVM