Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-09

fight Of life which haA been woven for him, which,
In 80 great measure he had woven for himself.
had left him among the satin. In that food Of des-
tiny into which he plunged 30 ambitiousy, the
was In ashes before he was forty. The enchanted
garden he had hed him to so swiftly and 80 gladly,
future it was to that future Of the defeated WHOSE
very veil Is Of stone. And now, when his heart
was even more bankrupt than his purse, and
was without crust, his head without a root. his
only pillow the pavement, In the Tartarus OF
his eyes ana behed altar OF the home i boso mp
That sorcery OF appearance. in the vain pursuit
of which the force of his youth had been wasted,
and there in vision before him rose his far OF
home, to which the heart was as the snail torn
to s te blind liberty so n to the
rest -, to the heavy laden, what should
be the hunger and thirst after home 6y
tines whatever other faith hath famished, the
temple Of the hearth is sacred As St Columbia
says in his farewell to Aman, so we say OF home,
"Paradise is with thee; the garden OF God within
sound OF thy bells" In the sinking fate of the man
this, too, came to him, like the memory of spring
OF his lfe-the bells of paradise lost This is the
forlron pathos Of that which makes him famous,
that is the song Of home by him who had not
from him. only its thorn was pressed against his
ties the midnight with the song OF his earliest
morning: flood OF sweetness, all the more ex.
quiste that Is poured from the throat OF Sadness
beauty from ashes, the bir1-sOng OF home from
the mouth of the homeless 1t is the sorrow in the
throat which makes the song so sweet This song
t porn OF suffering and sadness like all immortal
song OF triumph.
In 1892, after an absence OF twenty years. Payne
came back to his native land. Why he should
nave remained away so long, when so warm O
welcome awaited him in 1t, Is mystery Compli-
mentary benefits In Boston, New orleans and New
9 h1r Xxi awaited him. public receptions and dinners
in the graceful terms which never failed him But
the projects which thencefOrth engaged his atten-
ton were the desperate after-game OF life: Inter-
national reviews, sacred history, Cherokee In
dams and what not; projects OF fertile rather
than practical brain-the double-howering tree,
fruitful OF promise, void OF fruit. Finally came
the consulshp to Tunis in 1912, recalled in ls45,
renewed In 1851. There, amid the dusRy
and hs hard og ths spo OF
Caius Marius was seen sitting on the ruins of Car
| image, Payne laid him down-there, in the shadow
lfe.laid down to die. In Tunis, on the 9th of
April, 1852. in the SGD year of his life, he passed
| meslics were with him when he died priest OF
the Greek church said prayers over his grave.
The breath was hardly out OF his body when his
were seized and sold at auction for his
DEBTS; His personal apparel even disappeared
n In The soso general wreck Sad exit OF
his life sank behtng cloud, his face was turned
toward the morning. As the breath of life LETT his
oouy ms ilfe the breath OF others began AS his
every home in Christendom became his spoil The
light OF his life went down, like that Norway sun,
to-day OF him, whose whole substance the world
sold In execution. Every home is the sweeter for
him, as 1t Is also admonLshed by him. He might
be termed the Apostle or Home In some sense we
might say. without irreverance, trust, 1.-The chas-
s ,rns OF our peace was upon him. and with his
stripes we are healed" Therefore, 1t IS, that the
no
stranger, nor the ocean divide him from his own.
me ship OF mighty people has spread its sail,
over the deep water to rest at last, under
the oaks and beneath the violet OF his country.
Inc magistrates and the masses of his country
are here today, equally his mourners-the music
and the verse, the chivalry and the beauty OF his
own land and the ambassadors or all others. Here
In the consecrated stiffness OF the wood and by
the holy murmur OF the stream which in lie he
haunted with his love. his restless ghost will fold
It's wing. A charm from the sky viii seem to hal
low him here. AS l See awaiting him the sepul-
chre prepared by one, the venerable snow OF whose
winter '. has dropped no flake upon his open hand,
which never faileth were bowed in benediction
over TINS grave: II is as though we were witness
ing ing sae nenaole voyage OF Payne soul from the
which is his home; as though this. the transla-
tion or MS mortal part from the land OF old bond
continent to the bright one, were the likeness OF
his far great greater resurrection not from hents-
tally W 1''''''''-
The exercises were then continued as follows:
1nterment ceremon!es-The RI Rev. William
Plnkney, ID, LID, officiating.
r, Music Grand HalleluJah Chorus" NIess,ah),
Handel; Philharmonic Society and Marine band
(the audience rsing). Prof. F. widows, conluc-
tor 10y Invitation Of Prot Bernaysl
BenedictiOn.
Music - Finale - Marine band-"Safa In the
Arms OF Jesus" j. p Sou5a, conductor.
Phfharmonc Society-S. <. Middleton, presl-
dent; Fred Reichenbach, secretary.
The coffin was placed In the vault which had
been prepared directly beneath the monument.
The following gentlemen acted as ushers at the
cemetery: Assistant Engineer Charles W.. Rae,
Mr. Lee Phillips, Mr.. l. E. Beal, Mr. John c. Poore
4! MI W. F. PeddrlGk, Mr. John j. Chew, M Walter
T. Wheatley, Mr. Daniel Leech, Assistant Engineer
son, and Mr.. Andrew IL Allen