Show 17 one WW burl buri bari nag D the abe dead in abil country Ns as sueh buee importance iu publio public it bids fair soon to fank rank among the tha nine fine arts the Arne aine american rican people undoubtedly take the lead of almost all nations in every art and science and they like uke above all wings things to be acknowledged as champions in everything they undertake accordingly we bave have champion I 1 11 11 runn runa lets and champions in la almost all the tho ista that can be thought of there Is one department of human affairs irs irh rather a melancholy one too in which if we are not already we certainly shall be ere long and that is id in the art of burying champion funera lists sounds rather oddly to the ear barbut iut lUt to be acknowledged aa as such by the world seems to be a point which the folks east are anxious to reach this naturally follows and Is an outgrowth of the nero liero spirit of the nation but there is I 1 little that is laudable or praiseworthy in worship MR pina ping 9 living heroes or great ones it is abill it less I 1 ess so to spend thousands of dollars and to be occupied for months in burying them OB an la Is the case sometimes now these eudoral furi furl urai ural shows no doubt pay some bome parties engaged therein very well and as the old saying is there la Is no accounting for taste they may be pleasant pastime for some of the members of the committees under whose management they are conducted but nut to see bee se hundreds of thousands of the people of ors ofa a great nation interested in and making a fass fuss about thu the burial of a deceased fellow mortal is simply ridiculously the funeral mania seems to be supplanting piau plan lingi to somo some extent the monument feve fever r chich which raged so fiercely some year or two since the death of mr peabody yea Pea body hody the banker and philanthropist seemed to call it into existence or to give it a great impetus there can scarily be a doubt in the mind of any person that mr peabody was a very good man his bis works prove that an and hundreds are now experiencing the benefits of hib hie but the way that mans mortal remains were serveul buried and exhumed in great britain transported across the atlantic in a man manoo manof of wac war provided expressly for the occasion and aad then packed around and made a show of for weeks in this country before being committed to their finai final resting place was as great an absurdity as could well be conceive dl since then there hab has been another instance which was also seized upon with avidity aridity for a display we allude to the funeral of the late admiral farragut it took several weeks to bury him and before the task could be accomplished the highest ability and talent which the nation possessed poss essed eseed had to be called into requisition the death of general lee furnishes another chance in this direction whether the people of virginia Virgin la will require several weeks to accomplish the task and will vie with their northern brethren for the championship pion plon ship in this peculiar line of amerlean american enterprise and genius remains to be seen for the bake cake of com nonsense mon bense sense it Is to be hoped they will not we are universally noted for being a peculiarly live people and this fuss alid and parade about the mortal remains of our departed great is not consistent with the reputation of the nation for hard common sense honor to whom honor la Is due is a motto whose praiseworthy but the expenditure pend hend iture of tens teas of thousands of dollars and the display of national enthusiasm over the interment of an individual whose deeds in life may way have rendered him famous and who while living has received very high rewards is a most childish display and I 1 ya view of the fact that thattie the names and memories of the departed great might be honored much more effectually and strictly according to the dictates of common sense this lavish expenditure optime of time means and enthusiasm la Is too high a price to pay to secure for the nation the appellation of the worlds oham Cham champion plon pion Funera Vanera lists |