The Progress., 1892-02-27
Tho Irony of Fnto.

died recently m Hh 'illo I"''
house. Tho author oI "lIom",
Sweet Home" newer had II homo.
4 mere coupling of thcs" Nv"
events must cauS" N'I'""'
thought in the minds OF th" most
rr;volous 70 Il certain lnt"nt
thoro wns "A similarity m Tia" livrH
or "Innd BilT Allon and John
Howard Payne Both cnrly d"
vclopcd decided literary nbl'I'y'
land Mike they entered the journal
i.tic field. The inclInatlonH oi The
Inter were somewhat of lh"s
| pain character, however and h'
devoted more t,mo I" dramatic
writing than actunl newspaper
llobor 70 some cxtont Payne WA
Il visionary, IN idcalisL All"n
VIVA more practical, and Tor many
yonrs did excellent work upon the
Ohio State journal and Clncln
nnti Gazcttc. While young he
conceived the idea OF II homestead
Inv as n hcnciicicnt and practical
method to settle the Grcat West
and develop the country. HIS III
antion WIS to make tho tnIt"d
Stntcs nation Of homes, to Rlv"
IGO acres of land to every man who
: hccame IN actual settler. In nj
y vnnciny his views, which were
= scolIcd at for years, LAND BIll'
'.IAllcn spent S75,OO0. the savings of
;, lhis life. His ideas finally crystal
." lied into general law III lS63.
J" He did not profit by tho enact
" ment, but bought II small farm III
~ Franklin county, Ohio, and vIr
u finally retired. Ills wife died
W Sickness WAS the lot OF tho bcno
" fnctor of tho homeless. Dollar by
~ dollar, dime by dime, his trlllini
~ hoard pnssod from hIs failing
W hands, the very roof over hls heat
=" being finally sold for taxes. There
u was Int one home left Ian,
u" Billn Allen this side of the grave
That was the poorhouso. Thitho
u no WINS taken, and there died, pen
u" niless and forgotten. Ncarly Tort.
eu venrs before John Howard Payn
W. died in Tuni4, whore ho held TN
y" beggarly office of United State
Wv consul. His salary was so smaI
" that his "homc, sweet home con
sisted of four bare walls and
" palIot on an carthen floor. III
"H last hours of the writer of th
most beautiful ballad in the hna
~ lish tongue recall tho lines in tia
' exquisite poeml "Hingon on tn
Rhine"
A soldier OF the legion lay dying
Algicrs;
There was lack of woman's nursing
there was dcarth of womans tear
tn Some sympathetic souls in No
ri England few years ago erected
nd modest monument to Payne
ply memory, and the citizens of ohI'
ne within sight of whose hearthston'
Nv Allen was permitted to die
'ad pauper, are moving in like dire
ne ton with emotional alacrit.
cal Several years since the leglslatul
of Of Pennsylvania learned TIN
~ Drake, the discoverer of petroleum
hat had died in IA poorhouse, and CO.
ess sciences were paciticd by an a
Try. propriation OF $4,000 for a statr
of in his honor In his old age Cyr'
the W. Field, the Second Columbus
ad who Joined two continents with
to cable, is lying sick and beggare
= to History is repleto with brief I
ing cords of the sad fate OF many
do the worlds benefactors, but few a
ion more touching or bare n moro
is markable resemblance than tho
any of the authors OF Home, Swe
fer. Home" and the author OF I
,ure homestead law. They may la
the had no homes here, but the IN
| to hopeless agnostic must feel u
the they deserve the happicst abldl
sled places ever pictured in that m
ners terious region just ov "the gr
Zach divide" National Economist.
node
,cts ssTruth crushed to earth shan
Ar again;
The eternal years OF God are he