The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-05
Not a Member of the Bismarck
Family
Attended the Funeral Ceremony
In Berlin
ORDERED BY WILLIAM
In Honor of the Dead States
man and Prince.
Count Herbert Was In the City
at the Time.

Berlin. Aug. 5.-The Bismarck funeral
ceremony was brilliant and impressive as
regards court display, but quite disap-
pointing in other respects. 1t bore traces
OF haste and alf-heartedness The church
was 1nadequate1y decorated and the public
displayed no enthusiasm in the cere-
monial, which, so far from having the
exceptional character of great national
mourning for a nations greatest states
man, differed hardly from hundreds of
similar functions that may be witnessed
here at any time
Perhaps the most disappointing feature
though unknown beforehand, was the fact
that not single member of the Bismarck
family attended. The royal pew, set apart
for their accommodation, remained con-
sp1cuously and significantly empty. 1t
must be admitted that the deceased states
man was not altogether popular with the
this should hardly account for the non
descr1pt character of the public attracted
cellor toward the young kaiser seems to
reach beyond death.
Ine incident was empha sized by the fact
ihat fringe Herbert came to Berlin dur
ing, the AFTERNOON on private business.
The proceedings were characterized by
the utmost simplicity. The emperOr's invi-
tations to the official world were literally
responded to, many of the leading men
coming from distant places for the sole
purpose of being present.
The emperor and empress arrived by
train from Charlottenburg and drove to
the church in an open landau, drawn by
-FOUR horses with Positions, preceded by
Of cuirassiers Shorty Sfter the eryine
they left for Wilhelmshohe. Among the
were Prince and Princess Frfe DR. 60 co
pold of Prussia Princess Joachim Aibrecht
Max Won Baden. the Prince Of Hesse,
Prince Albert of Schieswig-HoIste the
hereditary Prince of HOhenzOllern, Prince
Carl of Hohenzollern, the hereditary
The kings and federal princes of the en-
ptre were not there in person, but only by
representatives
Prince Henry of Prussia was represent
Lehndorff, the best known of the late en-
mate friend Of Bismarck. though in Verv
delicate health, came from the distant
part of east Prussia Count Won POsa-
dOwski-WOhenr. Prussian minister of the
interior; Count Won Waldersee military gov
ernor of Berlin; Dr. Won MIGUEL, Prussian
minister of finance; General Count Schlief-
fen of the general staff and members of
the civil. military and naval contingents
DR.. Kendall took for his text at the
service the passage, blessed are the dead
Dr.. F'aber offered an extempore prayer.
based on the 18th Psalm, which he said
had once been commended to Prince Bis
marck at an important crisis in his life
by an old friend, as a source of comfort
and strength, and which the departed had
often quoted. The prayer was Ger
manic paen of triumph and gratitude for
the achievements of Bismarck and his
contemporaries. It was rich in scriptural
exclama tons like My Father. my Father
the chariots of Israel and the horsemen
One passage ran thus: ''Au who speak
the German tongue will laud thee to the
most distant days: and the hearts of their
singers will praise thee in ever fresh
strains because through him and through
all those loyal and great men who stood
by the side of King William in the peril
Gus deeds of war and in the noble works
of peace thou didst show thy good pleas
ure in US and dist gloriously help us.
Thou. gavest into their hands sharp
swords to execute vengeance among the
nations who set themselves against
and to bind their kings and mobiles with
iron chains and with letters of the might
of our armies. but afterward, with the
gentle bands of rev erence for true great
ness, so that they were forced to do right
as it is written on the tablets of the
worlds history. to acknowledge the right
of the .re-establshed German empire and
the right of the German name, once again
come 10 honor. Because all that swells
the patriots breast with joyful exultation
is bound up with the name of Bismarck
we, therefore, thank thee that thou didst
give him to US
After the choral. 90, Haupt vail blut
und wunden," their majesties left the
church, the organ burst into their favor
lite hymn and the crowd outside gave the
emperor and empress hearty cheers as
they drove away.