St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12
POMP AND PAGEANTRY
Final Ceremony Of the Flu
neral OF the Dowagep
Empress Augusta.
An Exact Repetition of the
Funeral Of Her Late
Consopt.
IluStrioas Re oresentatives o.
Foreign Nations Among
the Mourners.
Complications Of the Confer
ence OF Bohemian Ger
mans and CzeehS.

exclusion of all other topics. The
threatening news from Spain. the prog
ress in Austria Of the German-Czech
conference.-the seem of little moment to
the people here by comparison with the
grandiose pageant of an imperial fu-
neral. The final ceremony of the flu
neral service was like the other parts,
all planned to be a repetition of the
funeral of the Emperor William. The
religious service was concluded in the
SchlOSs chapel at 1880. and amid the
tolling of church bells the cortege
moved at once for Charlotten-
burg. The way was lined by troops
and by various trade guilds. by students
from the public schools, by members of
veteran societies and so OH, and behind
those thronged thousands of silent,
sympathetic spectators. The ecclesias-
teal services. as well as the military
part of the scene, was repetition of
the hOnorS paid to the renowned hus-
band of the deceased, while the
throng OF
FAMILY AND OFFICIAL MoURNERS
was nearly as large and illustrious.
The Duke of Edinburgh represented
the queen of England as before. In the
Immediate circle of family m0urnerS
were the king Of SaXOny, the crown
prince of Sweden, the grand duke
of SaXe-Weimar, Prince Christian,
of SChleSWig-HOlstein, the grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-Stre the Duke
of SaXe-C oburg- Gotha, the Prince of
HOhenZolern, the Grand DIXIE Francis
of Austria, Prince William of Wurtem-
berg, Prince William of WED, the
Princes of Schleswig- Holstein, SAKE
Meinipgeon, SaXe-W eimar, Waldeck,
Piedmont, SOndershausen, Schaum-
burg, Lippe and others. Beside these
were many representatives of foreign
SOvereignS. The emperor laid upon the
coffin magnificent palm branch. with
long white silk ribbons bearing the i'm
perial arms and crown in gold. Baron
LevetZOw, president of the reichstag,
laid upon the coffin in behalf
of the reichStag, a wreath of
palms. white roses and camelias.
upon the ribons of which was this ill.,
scriptiou: 1.-The Reichstag to the First
Empress Augusta. Blessed are the
merciful, for they shall obtain mercy"
Prince Bismarck sent large wreath
Princess Bismarck, wreath of roses
and lilies of the valley. The kings of
Italy and Roumenia each sent exquisite
tributes of flowers. as did the sover-
eigns of almost all the German and for
eign countries. AT the principal ser
vice on Thursday evening the coffin
was Enclosed. aud
THE EMPRESS LAY AS 1T ASLEEP.
The choral piece, Il Know That My
Redeemer Liveth," was sung as the
court entered. Rev. KOegel, the court
chaplain, in an eloquent address. re-
viewed Augustus connection with Ger
hictprXr In vip 10
He has since furnished to the Reich
SahZeiger a list of special Scripturai
texts OF which the empress was particu-
larly fond. These are the Epistle to
the Romans, xii. II. ard xiv, Z. Mat
thew xvii, 20, Corinthians XII, 0, and
others. Among many anecdotes now
made public in regard to the dead en-
press is one that has an interest of
actuality. In sending gift
to distressed widow she was
told that the woman's husband
had been a socialist, ana she
said: Il do not care what the political
opinions of the man were. l only re-
member that he has left hungry fam
ily." To-day The houses in the Inter
den Linden are draped with black and
the lamps are Shrouded with Grape. 1t
is expected that the conference of the
Bohemian, German and Czech parties
will end to-day. The delegates are ret
icent respecting the proceedings. The
Germans hold that Count Taafe has
asked them to help him solve the insOl-
uble problem against themselves. In
Bohemia there are 100000 Germans
and 100000 CZechs. The Germans
stand in that country in q stronger
position than the Stermein in Germany.
Yet Count Taafe has ignored them
for the offices and given rein to the
CZechS. He now finds that in this he
has not even pleased the Czechs them
selves; they are not satisfied with the
repeated concessions made to them at
the expense of the Germans; yet he now
asks the Germans to help him out of his
dilemma by making further concessions
FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE.
This they hold to be absurd politics.
They themselves only demand that in
the German-speaking districts of Be-
hemia the German language shall be
the official tongue, and that in the dis
trictS where there is mixed population
the language of the majority
shall prevail. The Germans accuse
Count Taafe of trying to make all
Bohemia Czech country.and in cOnse-
quence of the success of his efforts in
that direction they say that German i'm
periai patriotism is disappearing. They
dSoCIC IildJ IHe OeIlndll GlcIneIl, WHICH
is the largest and strongest national
mass in the empire, has been kept down
for ten years by combinations of the
other elements made against it. In the
coalitions of the nationalist elements
there is none, they say, which could
govern Austria alone, or agree long
with any other nationality except in OPP
position to the Germans. The German
party point out that the CzechS, who at
heart are in sympathy with Russia,
therefore hate the Poles, yet despite this
the Poles unite with them against Ger
mans, who form the backbone of the
country, and upon whom alone the
monarchy could rely in a crisis. On the
other hand the Czechs do not contem-
plate the Germans as such innocent and
helpless victims of persecution. and in
innate that this is not the first they
have heard of the exclusive virtue of
that race. They accuse the Germans of
endeavOring to eradicate from the
country the Czech language and insti-
tutiOnS and whatever else may stand in
the way of German domination, and as
sert that they themselves have had fair
play in the conflict only since Count
Taafe has been in Office. They do not dis
pute the full right of the Germans to use
their own language in districts occu
pied by them, but they hold that Bo-
hemia should be independent, as Hun
gary is, and claim that the emperor
should recognize their national rights
and privileges by being crowned King
of Bohemia at Prague, as the emperors
formerly were. The commandant of
Berlin officially denies the story that
when the password was given on New
Years day the emperor formally adj
dressed the officers regarding smokeless
powder, magazine rifles, and so forth.