The age-herald., 1901-08-12
GERMANS MOURN
 FOR THE EMPRESS The Eyes ofthe Nation Now
 Turned on Cranberg SHE DESIGNED HER COFFIN It Has a Flat Cover Instead of the PyramldaI styIe--United States Tariff Views Continues
 to be Discussed.
SHE DESIGNED HER COFFIN

Berlin, August 11.-All eyes in Germany are turned today on Cronberg. Public interest in the deceased Dowager Elm press during her widowhood was slight and she did everything possible to retire from public view and avoided every sem, blance of political activity. The latter fact has softened the judgment of even the unbending junker organs which once persecuted Her Majesty, assailing her most sharply when at the very acme of her power. The Dowager Empress death reveals the fact that the autocratic ex- tremists had largely modified their judg- ment, or at least had ignored their points of defense They praise her for her hu- manity, her tender nursing of the sick in war, her interest in industrial art and the practical advances she male in these lines They also praise her activity .n promoting female education and in the advancement of women. The most con servative paper praised the latter feature of her character unstintedly. The news paper comment partakes largely of ie- miniscence. pointing out that the ieceas- ed was one of the links binding Germany of today with the great historical events of thirty or forty years ago. While tbe nation has thus been engaged in recount ing the story of the life of the Dowager Empress, her relatives have been assem- bling at Cronberg for the funeral King Edward and Queen Alexandra arrived there today and Prince Henry of Prussia Is expected to arrive at Bremerhayen Sum- day or Monday, too late for the services ct
 burial at Potsdam
 Crowds of Curious Persons.
 Great crowds of curious people are ar irving at Cronberg. All the hotels are overfiowing and all the windows are en- gagged for tomorrow. Cronberg is over run with English people in deep mourn ing. King Edward with Queen Alexandra go to Potsdam. Then His Majesty will re- turn to Homberg alone where he will take the waters. living at his accustomed hotel in the same style as when he was Prince of Wales.
 The coffin of the Dowager Empress is in the latest style. The deceased herself designed the rosettes ornamenting the cover and also designing the coffin.
 While Field Marshal Count von Walder- sees arrival in Germany was overshad- owed by the sad event at Cronberg. the whole tone of the press and the attitude of the crowds during Count von Walder- sees trip yesterday from Hamburg to Hanover indicates that Germany takes A much more sober view of Von Waldersee's mission now than was the case a year ago. The more influential newspapers re- view the field marshars work apprecia- lively, but implying that everything or dinary in Germany should place exagger- ated notions of task before him. Von Waldersee is described as deeply bronzed but as having his usual elastic step and buoyant spirits. t,
 The weeks discussion took largely the form of a sharp attack on the part of the Agrarians and Conservative organizations upon semi-official news agency for the continued publication in the foreign press of attacks upon the bill. Some of the bolder papers go to the length of openly attacking the foreign offices as being re- sponsible for the above, since all are censored there before publication, insinu- ating that Count won Buelow is insincere in his tariff bill attitude and is trying to Kill 1t. 5e St
 '4s The Tariff Discussion,
 uhe United States continues to play an important role in the tariff discussion. The Kruse today quotes declaration of the Chamber of Commerce of European (Rhenish Prussia) that Germany must expect to be flooded with American goods. The paper adds that the domestic indus- atry is threatened by keener foreign com petition, especially among adding: sThe greater the danger the more ur- gent and is exhorable the demand that the. home market is surrounded with firm protection. The United States pre- cedes us in this respect with an example impossible to understand"
 The Emperor has ordered change in the arrangements of all launchings where he participates, finishing himself sketch showing how the lines of soldiers must be