The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
 ROMANCE IN POSTAGE STAMPS.
The Proud Mr. Connell-Clever Capt. LearY-The King of Sedanr


 The Proud Mir. Connell-Clever Capt.
 Leary-The King of sedang.
 The first postmaster of New Bruns- wick, a certain MT. Connell, lost his place because of vanity and postage stamps.
 MT. Cornell had an idea that his own portrait would look quite as well on the new stamps of the colony as would Queen Victorias familiar features. and he decided lightedly carried out his idea.
 The Government, however, showed a cruel lack of appreciation. The stamp were demonetized and the ambitious postmaster was dicharged. The result is that those little paper pictures of the concieted Mir. Connell are now owtrh hundreds of dollars.
 The death of Capt. Leary in 1901 re- called another philatelic romance. When Guam was ceded to the United States Capt. Richard P. Leary was appointed Governor Before he started for his distant province he applied to the department for stamps.
 The Bureau of Engraving and Print ing gave him a supply of United States Stamps, surcharged Guam" The day before Capt. Leary sailed, says the Elder Monthly, some dealers and collectors discovered the fact of the new issue and managed to interview him on the boat just before he sailed The Captain refused to sell the stamps, even though fabulous offers were made.
 The collectors were not to be thus baked however. and within few months after his arrival at Guam Capt Leary was overwhelmed with letters containing stamps money orders checks and drafts in payment for the new stamps. It is said that orders and cash were received for moro than ten times the whole issue of stamps.
 Being a business man, the Governor did not see why Uncle Sam should not profit by this case of excessive demand, so he ordered a new supply of stamps from Washington Even this second lot did not last long, Before another sup ply could be ordered Guam became a part of the United States system and now regular United States stamps are used there. But 1t is fact that the mail matter to and from Guam inereas- ed a hundredfold during the short term nf 1earv's GovaruOrshiD
 In many collections are seen a set of stamps bearing the name Sedang. It will puzzle most people even to place the country, but there is Q unique his- tory connected with the stamps scarce- ly remebered to-day except by the philatellst A few years ago there died of a cobra bite. on a small island off the Malay Peninsula, man known as the King of the Sedangs.
 He was a Frenchnan, who real name was Marie David de Marena. A wand- erer in the Far East, he had met with many adventures, and finally on ac- count of some unusual display of per- sonal bravery he was elected king of the sedangs, native tribe inhabiting the interior reigon beyond Annam in Africa. Here he ruled for number of years with a somewhat laughable dignity, establishing relations with the French missionaries and making trea- ties with France.
 Later he visited Hongkong and tried to interest some merchants in ne- gotiation by which they were to develop the country in return for certain duties on exports, but the Ffanch Government denounced him as an impostor.
 Then he offered himself and his country to the British but strange to say they would have nothing to do