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Show "Mr. McKinley vas one of the mtst popular figure? In American history and one of the best representatives of American ideals. Society is 4efense-less 4efense-less against the propaganda of murder. It is scarcely probable that means will be found to prevent the repetition of such crimes. The semi-official Journal of Commerce and Industry says: "Mr. McKinley was not an extreme protectionist. protec-tionist. Shortly before his death he spoke out against crude trust protection." protec-tion." MOURN M'KIXLEY IX BERLIN. Germans, British and Americans Unite In Memorial Service. The services of mourning for the death of President McKinley held in the American church in Berlin, Germany, Ger-many, was very impressive. The edl- Tearful Ceremonies MarKihe Funeral of McKinley. their respective homes. President Roosevelt found Mrs. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., his eldest son, awaiting his arrival, they having reached there from New York in the afternoon. AN IMPOSING CORTEGE. Order of Procession Which Accompanied Body to Capitol Building. The following was the order of procession pro-cession which accompanied the body William McKinley has been laid to rest in the great west, which gave him to the nation, back to Mother Earth, which gave him to the world and history. his-tory. Beneath the great white dome of the Capitol the official and ceremonious ceremo-nious good-bys of his country and of the nations of the world were said feet autumn day. On the casket rested a large sheaf of wheat, emblematic of the gathered harvest. McKinley, the man and the statesman,-had passed through the same portals of the old railroad station perhaps a thousand times in the last forty years. His first coming was as a boy soldier, and then Tuesday. Then came the people, silent si-lent but for their manifestations of grief, passing in unbroken line before the flag-draped and flower-covered bier, sobbing their farewell. A train, black as the night through which it ran, bore the body to the little Ohio city whose residents called the illustrious illus-trious dead their townsman. Wednes-Say Wednes-Say they looked on him for the last time. And then ended all pomp and ceremony. cere-mony. The patient, stricken widow put away the inanimate clay and her last sad cry of farewell re-ecboes from the hearts of a stricken nation gathered gath-ered in memorial meetings wherever flies the flag so loved and so honored by William McKinley. Faneral Services Are Simple. As befitted ' the occasion and the character of the man whose remains were lying cold and rigid in the narrow nar-row embrace of the metallic casket, the funeral services in the Capitol were simple. They were conducted in accordance with the rites of the Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal church, of which President Pres-ident McKinley was a lifelong member. mem-ber. Consisting only of two hymns, a song, a prayer, an address, and a benediction, ben-ediction, they were solemnly impressive. impres-sive. Special prominence was given to the beautiful hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," which, in spite of the fact that it has been familiar property for many long years, already has come to be known as "President McKinley's hymn." It was played as the casket left the White House, and again as the stalwart soldiers and sailors carried their precious burden up the broad eastern steps of the Capitol. It was sung by the choir over the body in the center of the rotunda, while as the procession passed the : President's chuc the chime of the bells rang out the same sweet melody. Great Men of Country Mourn. Gathered around the bier were representatives rep-resentatives of every phase of American Ameri-can national life, including the President Presi-dent and the only surviving ex-President of the United States, together he came as a legislator and governor, and finally as President-elect of the United States. That was on March 2, 1897. It was a perfect spring day, with budding trees, spring flowers, and singing birds. It was early morning when a magnificent train, covered with fluttering flags, swept along the historic his-toric Potomac and into the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad station. It was the McKinley Mc-Kinley train and it carried the President-elect and his wife, his aged mother, moth-er, who had taught him that religious fortitude with which he faced death; his brother and sisters, his other relatives rela-tives and personal' friends, all plain people from Ohio. Monday night the last McKinley train that will ever enter en-ter the capital rolled into the same sr.-tion, sr.-tion, to be greeted by mute and sorrowing sor-rowing thousands, representative of every rank and station in American life. There were the officers and men of the army and navy, the heads of departments, de-partments, the clerks, and the charwomen, char-women, business men and working-men, working-men, whites and blacks, wedged in the street behind the ropes to receive the nation's dead. It was the ripened fruit of the harvest McKinley the beloved, cold in death, had come back to the nation's capital for a last pause within its historic precincts before proceeding proceed-ing to the grave by the side of his mother and father and his two children chil-dren in the. cemetery at Canton. The flags over the capitol and the White House were at half-mast, and the flags of the army and navy were shrouded, while muffled drums spoke the sorrow for his death, but above this sorrow rose the spirit of McKinley's triumph as the sorrowing multitude felt that his life at the head of the nation had effaced old sectional lines and even party lines in this hour, for among those who stood with uncovered heads and tear-dimmed eyes were men who had worn the gray, as sincere mourners mourn-ers now as those who had in the political polit-ical strife followed the star of McKinley McKin-ley as President: The casket, which was borne to the east room of the White House, was covered by the stars and stripes and two wreaths, one of l mmm toots'mcrite 'him I Jvji SUNG THROUGHOUT THE NATION THIS WEEK. h I Lead, ' kindly light amid the encircling; gloom,- js V Lead thou me onl fh The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on I - , 1 Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see qM W The distant scene one step's enough for me.. ( 1 was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou - (OJ . , Shouldst lead mc on;; rjjg) &c 1 loved to choose and see my path, but now J Lead thou me on!. jsfC I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, u C Pride ruled my will; remember not. past years. 3 So long thy power hath- blessed me, sure it still ' IL Will lead me on: ' L y) O'er moor and .fen. o'er crag and lorrenti till : NC The night is gone; v. y) Ani with the morn those angel faces smile (, I Which f have loved long, since, and lost awhile. V . k JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. witn represemauves at ims capital or almost every nation of the earth. Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and all the republics to the southward of the United States mingled min-gled their tears with those of the American people. Dospite the fact that.no attempt bad been made to dec- ""uo itrses huu me oiaer oi wnue carnations, car-nations, rested on the top. After President Roosevelt and the cabinet retired from the east room Mrs. McKinley, attended by her sister, descended from her private apartments, apart-ments, and entered the room. She stood for two or three moments at the of President McKinley from the White House to the Capitol Tuesday morning: morn-ing: Funeral escort, under command of Major General Brook; battery of light artillery; battalion of District of Columbia National Guard; two troops of cavalry; battalion of foot artillery; battalion of marines; civic procession, under command of Chief Marshal General Gen-eral H. V. Boynton; clergymen in attendance; at-tendance; physicians who attended the late president; hearse, flanked on either side by bearers and guard of honor; members of the Grand Army of the Republic; members of the Loyal Legion; the officers of the army, navy and marine corps in the city and not on duty with the troops forming the escort, in full uniform, will from right in front, on either side of the hearse the army on the right and the navy and marine corps on the left and compose the guard of honor; the president; pres-ident; the diplomatic corps; the cabinet cab-inet ministers; the chief justice and associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; the senators of the United States; members of the United States House of Representatives; Representa-tives; governors of states and territories terri-tories and commissioners of the District Dis-trict of Columbia; the judges of the department of claims, the judiciary of the District of Columbia, and judges of the United States Court; the assistant assis-tant secretaries of state, treasury and interior departments, the assistant postmasters general, the solicitor gen-.eral, gen-.eral, and the assistant attorneys general; gen-eral; organized societies and citizens. fice was heavily hung with crape and crowded with Germans, British and Americans. Among those who attended was Baron Von Richthofen, German minister of foreign affairs, United States Ambassador White, Mr. Jackson, Jack-son, secretary of the United States embassy; Mr. Mason, United States consul general in Berlin, and the mem-brs mem-brs of the family of Commander Beeh-ler, Beeh-ler, the United States naval attache. The papers treat of the death of Mr. McKinley, the anarchist danger, and the political outlook under Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt The Kreuz Zeitung describes him as anti-German in his sympathies, but otherwise gives him credit t SYMPATHY IN CANADA. Laurler In Message Expresses Horror at McKinley's Death. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the premier of Canada, has sent the following to Mr. Lowther, first secretary of the British embassy at Newport: "I have the command of his excellency the governor-general of Canada to ask you to convey to the secretary of state the expression of grief and horror which has been caused through this whole country by the death of the president of the United States under circumstances circum-stances so tragic and so heartrending. The uncontrollable sorrow of the American Am-erican nation will be almost as keenly keen-ly felt by the people of Canada, who, being so close neighbors of the United States, have had many an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the noble qualities which characterized Mr. McKinley in his private as well as his public life." -, i st-SSSLi MJ Z1 t i'Tii 'SI CATAFALQUE IN. THE NATIONAL CAPITOL USED FOR THE THIRD " ;' . TIME FOR A STRICKEN PRESIDENT. RUSSIAN PRESS ON M'KINLEY. Leading Dallies Show Deep Sympathy for Nation's Bereavement. The all-absorbing topic in St. Petersburg has been the death of President McKinley. The tone of the press was uniformly sympathetic with the American people in their bereavement bereave-ment and uniformly just in estimating Mr. McKinley's character. The Novo Vremya says: "He was a man of rare talents and a beloved son of the country for whose welfare he unceasingly unceas-ingly and successfully labored." The Svlet says: "Let us hope that the death of a talented and energetic president will rouse those lands which for the sake of freedom of conscience I and thought harbor bad elements and I become the breeding grounds for plots to action against the enemies of clv-I clv-I illtation." The Boerse Gazette says: Kins at Memorial Service. King Edward, Queen Alexandra and other royal personages attended a memorial me-morial service for President McKinley held In the English church at Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. Rev. Mr. Kennedy, who officiated, offici-ated, referred to the assassination in terms of the deepest indignation and offered a prayer for Mrs. McKinley The dowager empress of Russia, who Is visiting the king of Denmark at Fred-ensborg, Fred-ensborg, sent the Russian minister In Copenhagen to the United States legation lega-tion to express her sympathy with Mrs. McKinley and the American government gov-ernment and nation. The legation received re-ceived many callers and - numerous telegrams of condolence from the prov. lnces. ormte the Interior of the rotunda, beyond be-yond the arrangements made about the e&tafalqa. the assemblage presented a memorable sight The somber black of the attire of hundreds of civilians present was splashed brilliantly with the color and gold of the representatives representa-tives of the army and the navy and the court costumes of the diplomatic eorps. At the White Hons The last entry of William McKinley, the dead President, into the aapital of the nation was in the evening of a per- side of her dead husband, and then was led away back through the broad corridor, where she has been the hostess host-ess at so many state dinners, and finally fin-ally to her apartments. President Roosevelt drove directly from the White House to the residence of his brother-in-law, Commander W. S. Cowles, U. S. N., No. 1733 N street, N. W. He was accompanied In the carriage car-riage by Secretary of State Hay and Secretary of the Treasury Gage. The cabinet ministers did not enter the Cowles house, but, leaving President Roosevelt there, they were drives to |