The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-11-18
Home, Sweet Home.

Home, sweet lAOuHes
The recent attempt by some ingenious pa.
rsgraphist to bestow upon Washington Irv'
ing the honors that have hitherto attached
to John Howard Payne, as the author Of the
song that is sung and loved wherever the
Eng Iish language is spoken, has renewed at
tention to the somewhat rom mNntic career OF
the poet and dramatist, whose name with !
this song, will endure as long os there is
heart 10 cherish the memories Of Home.
John Howard Payne was native Of New
York, where he was born on the 9th OF June,
1892. His father shortly after left there, to
take charge of school at Boston. The son
displayed unusually precocious abilities.-I
In 1905, he returned to New York, and en-.
tered counting room; but his pen was en-
ployed not only in commercia! writing, but
also in editing the Thespidn Mirror. The
talent il displayed made friends for the youth
-one of whom. Mr.. J. B. Seaman, offered
to pay for finishing his education at Union
College. Payne at once accepted, and went
10 Albany, accompanied by his friend, the
celebrated Charles Brockden Brown, the
American novelist.
Puyne, ST., became bankrupt, and his
son determined to support himself. His ma.
tural bent for the stage led him to adopt the
histrionic profession, and leaving college,
with his fathers and his friends consent, he
appeared on the cath Of February, 1909, at
the old Park theatre, in New York, as Young
Norval. He was then only In his sixteenth
yeor; nevertheless his engagement was sue
cessful. He appeared on the stage until the
winter of 1918, when he went to England.
He spent the years that elapsed until 1882
there and in France, and then returned to
the United States. where he issued q pros.
pectus for literary periodical, but it never
was published. He afterwards was twice
appointed U. s. Consul at Tunis, and dice
there in 1862.
Payne wrote many, pieces for the stage
while he was in England, and experienced
all the ups and downs and bitter pangs o
poverty and ill.regulated talent which to-
many literary men have suffered. The ope
ratio play, "Clari, or the maid of Milan,'
was produced at the Covent Garden theatre
under Charles Kemble's management. Th'
song of "Home, Sweet Home," occurred ia
it and made the success OF the piece and tht
fortune of every one that had anything to d.
with il, Payne excepted. In two years ate
it was issued, it's publisher had made nearl.
il not quite $4,000 by it. Miss M. Tree
who first sang "Home, Sweet Home," gain
ed by it. while the author lost the $I25 tina
were to have been paid to him for the copy
right. ..-...
He had the consolation, then, however, Q
knowing that the heart OF the world thrilled
responsive to his touch, in this touching son
which finds an echo in the bosom of rich an
poor, young and old, the healthy man in hi
pride Of robust enjoyment; the sick man OIL
bis pallet the prisoner in his gloomy cell
the most wretched human being in his hou
. of veTiest torture and despair. Money can
not compensate for power like this, an,
the sweet emotions and tender tears lha
Payne's simple ballad gives rise to, will
embalm bis name forever in our hearts an
in those OF our chidren's children
mid pleasures and palaces, though we msy roam,
Still, be II ever 60 humble, there's NO place lik
. Home, .e-
charm from the skies seems to halIow II there,
Which, go through the world, you'll not meet else
where.
Home, Homo,
| Sweet Homel
There's no place like home
There's NO place like home.
An exile from home, pleasure dazzles in vain,
AhI give me my lovely matched cottage Agaio;
The birds singing sweetly, that came to my call,
Give me them, and that peace Of mind, dearer thar