The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1858-11-27
Home, Sweet Home.

The recent attempt 10y some ingenious para
graphist to bestow upon Washington Irving,
the honors that have hitherto attached to j ohm
Howard Payne. as the author of the song that
is sung and loved wherever the English Ian
guage is spoken, has renewed attention to the
dramatist whose name, with this song, will en-
dure as loug as there is a heart to cherish the
memories of home
| John Howard Payne native OF New
York, where he was born on the 9th June, 1872.
| II lis father shortly after, left there, to take
charge of Il school at Boston. The son display
ed unusually precocious abilities. In lS03, he
returned to New York, and entered a counting
room but his pen employed not only III
commercial writing, but also III editing the
IHespiam Mirror. The talent it 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 to Albany, accompanied by
his friend, the celebrated Charles Brockden
Brown, the American novelist
PAYNE ST., became a bankrupt and his son
determined to support himself. HIS natural
bent for The stage led him to adopt the histr
onic profession, and leaving college, with his
fathers and his friends consent, he appeared
on the oath Of February, 1909, at the old Park
Theatre, in New York. g y oung orval."
He was then ii: only his sixteenth year never
theess his engagement was successful nc APP
pearcd on the stage until the winter Of 1913,
that elapsed until 1912, there and in France,
and then return e to the United States, where
he issued a prospectus for literary periodical,
but it never was published. He afterwards
was twice appointed L. S. Consul at Tunis, and
died there in 1852.
! Payne wrote many pieces for the stage while
! he was in England, and experienced all the ups
and downs and bitter pangs OF poverty ana III
regulated talent which too many literary men
lave suffered The operate play, "Clar'' or
| the Maid Of Milan" was produced at the ~
vent Garden Theatre, under Charles hell'o'e
management The song of 90 lone, sweet
| Home y occurred in it. and made the success OF
the piece and the fortune OF every one '-l"' n,'.i
.uvthiny to do with it, Payne eXcep'eo' -,
two wears after it was issued, its publisher had
made nearly. if not quite, $40 GOO by It, MISS
NJ erroo Who frst sang Home, Sweet Home"
Gained n wealthy husband by it, while the au-
thor lost the S % that were to have oeeh palo
him for the copyright
He had the consolation, however Oh h"o"!nS
that the heart of the world thrilled responsive
~ his tonchng song, which finds an echo in
the bosom of poor and rich, young and Old;
the healthy man in his pride Of robust enjoy
ment: the sick man his pallet; the prisoner
in his gloomy cell; the most wretched human
| being in his hour of verest torture and despair
Money cannot compensate for power like this,
and the sweet emotions and tender tears that
Paynes simple ballad gives rise to, will embalm
| his name forever in our hearts and IN those OK
our children's children:
| Mid pleasures and pal aces. though may roam
STILL be it humble, there no place like home
A charm from tie skies seems to hailow it there,
Which, 60 through the world, you'll not meet else
1 [where.
| Home, Home Sweet Home!
| There s place like home
There's place like home