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Evening star., 1915-02-28
Sunday and Lent.

DILLY SUNDAY. the evangelist. to
- whom all Philadelphia has been
hitting the sawdust trail" was talk
ing about Lent.
Lent" he said, throwing up his arm
as If about to pitch Il ball. We'll,
boys, there's lots of humbug about
Lent. Sincere Lent keeping is a good
thing, mighty good thing, but the
other kind"
With a light leap he landed in a sit
ting posture on his reading desk. Seat
ed there. his legs swinging comfort
ably. he went on:
We'll, the other kind reminds me Of
the fat old party who said:
'Consarn this war! Turtles gone
up, oysters have gone up, trouts gone
up. wines gone up. canvas-back duck 3
gone up and beers gone up. With
things in such condition l hardly see
where mans to get the money to
cele-er-I mean to keep Lent on"
Evening star., 1915-02-28
Many Anniversaries of Life and Works
of the Author of @EH0nm@ Sweet H@mn@'

of course. with Kemble, McCready, Ed
mund Keane and the great Frehch
actor Talma.
abroad, acting in the leading English the
aters In Paris and London ne Wrole
plays. He wrote forty mine plays, TRACE
dies, dramas, comedies and operas, also
innumerable adaptations from the
french OF his dramas. only one. "Bru-
tus, or the Fall of Tarquin. stlii re
tains any vogue, and Is considered ah
English classic. OF his comedies
Charles III" was the most successIu, Vi,
the music of which was written by SIT
Henry Bishop, is the best known be-
cause of the incorporation or MS sohs'
Home, Sweet Home"
In view of this questioned auehor-
ship, as well as for historical value,
the poem on Home written by Payne
while a mere youth in Union College,
is interesting and important 1t is the
very genesis of the IDEAS anu even
phrases OF his Home, Sweet Home.
Not only did Payne's work as al.
actor finally prove a disappointment
to himself and his friends. but ms
literary and dramatic work proved
financially insufficient to gratlfy ms
dasires and tastes. Nevertheless he
had made such a reputation on poth
sides of the ocean that when ne re-
turned to America. in lsaz. ne wa,
given a series of benefits throuehou'
the United states "hlcn were seis -
munerattve.
For several years Payne spent con-
siderable of his time in Washington,
writing for the local newspapers be
cause of his talents and wide reputa-
ton as we'll as a result OF the ac,
ouaintance he made he was appointeu
in 1872, by President Tyler, consul at
Tunis, the appointment having beeh
obtained through Mr.. Webster and M,
Marcy He held that oft1ce from le4-
to mas and from 1851 to 1852
PAYNE died in Tunis in April. ls3L'
practically an exile in strange iahd;
attended by two sisters or charl'y en- alu
a Mohammedan man servant Inc
funeral ceremonies were conducted by
a priest of the Greek Church. His BODY
laid there for thirty years, having III
the meantime been given a sultaole
monument through the efforts or one
of his successors at Tunls, Wlillahi
Penn Chandler of Pennsylvania
W. w. Corcoran of Washington, hav,
ing heard Home. Sweet Home played
by the United States Marine Band on
the occa sion of the bringing back of
the bodies of the survivors of the
Jeanette arctic expedition in 1852, felt
that John Howard Payne. its author
ough not be resting in far-of land
butshould be buried at the nation 5
capital Mr. Corcoran brought the
matter to the attention of president
chester A. Arthur, himself also an
aIumnus of Union College, and through
the efforts of Frederick T. Frelinghuy-
sen. Secretary of State, and James
russell Lowell, then minister to Eng
land. Paynes body was brought back
to his native land.
Evening star., 1915-02-28
A Misconception.

DEPRESENTATIvE H f Rms y A.
~ METZ. apropos of neutrality. said
at a luncheon in Philadelphia:
Some of these people take a low. de-
based view of neutrality; otherwise
they wouldn't do the things they're
doing.
Their idea of neutrality. in fact. re-
minds me of the two actors idea Of
marriage.
"At the seventh wedding breakfast of
the first actor, the other. who had
himself been married six times. said:
We'll, old man, / thought you had
learned by this time that marriage is
nothing but a sentence of hard labor
for life
sentence that you can get commuted by
bad behavior"
Evening star., 1915-02-28
In March,.

<<IN March we sell 4 great many fine
silk stockings-oh, very fine. very
expensive silk stockings also the
handsomest slippers and low shoes
rich lingerie-all that sort OF thing
The speaker was an advertising
writer He smiled and added:
IT'S the March winds that do II. the
mad March winds, the wicked March
winds Every girl. you see, realizes in
March that a toilet. like photograph,
is very much matter of exposure
Evening star., 1915-02-28
All But the Breeches.
NJ. ScHwAB said at d

CHARLES NJ. sCHWAB said at a din
~ ner in New York:
The Englishman is the best dressed
man in the world, Americans excepted.
of course; and it was an amusing thing
to me to see, on my last visit to Lon
don, all sorts of English swells in
khaki uniforms that didn't fit them.
For 100000 volunteers, naturally,
make a big draft on a commissariat.
and that is why lot of young men.
who are dressed by Poole in peace
times, are now wearing all kinds of
khaki misfits in time of war.
Il heard of one young nut-or dude.
as we say here-who was getting into
his new uniform at Purfieet. when an
officer said to him encouragingly:
Everything quite comfortable. eh?
Tunic, breeches all comfortable
Yes. sir the nut answered cheerily.
Yes. sir, everything'S very comfort
able. indeed. except the breeches,
which are just bit tight under the
armpitS.
Evening star., 1915-02-28
HOWARD


boruly froW ned upon by his father. To
divert him from this tendency, and for
financial reasons as well, "A clerkshlp
was obtained for the boy with a New
York business firm, of which his older
brother. who had just died, had been a
member. Here again he attracted at
tentiou. and won him many friends.
Soon after reaching New York the
lad secretly started a paper called the
Thespian Mirror. The articles were SO
well written as to attract the atten-
tiou of the editor and founder of the
New York Evening Post, William Cole
man. and of Charles Brockden Brown,
one of the earliest American novelists.
Mr.. Coleman sent an invitation to
young Payne to visit him. OF this visit
Mr.. Coleman wrote, in part:
1T was difficult to believe that boy
of thirteen could possess such strength
and maturity of mind. ! couversed with
him for an hour. and his conversation
Evening star., 1915-02-28

established. Sixteen issues of this
publication appeared during his college
career.
In the spring of the year in which he
expected to graduate PayneS mother
died and he hastened to Boston His
father failed in business and became a
bankrupt. Feeling the necessity of
doing something toward the support
of his father and family, he decided to
abandon college and pressed his father
for permission to adopt the stage as a
profession The elder Payne reluct-
antly consented Through the influence
of numerous friends, when eighteen
years old, he appeared in the old Park
Theater. New York. on the night of
February 4. 1909. as Young Norval."
His success was instantaneous, and
from Boston to Charlessown he was
everywhere welcome. After four years
experience on the American stage am
bition led Payne to Great Britain in
1913. There as the friend of Washing
ton Irving he obtained free access to
dramatic and literary circles, and soon
became well acquainted with Byron,
Coleridge. Moore, Daniel OConnell and,
Evening star., 1915-02-28

those of the city issues Of 1s4'-tne
first postmasters provisionals IN TINS
country. These were issued hve years
after the birth of stamDS in Great
Britain. The dates bring the fact star
tlingly to mind that postage stamps have
only been in use a little more than
fifty years.
The first government issues came out
in 1S47 and a one-cent stamp Of 1851
TYPE l. is valued at $3.50. An Aiex-
andria stamp missing from the collec-
ton is valued at $2.5o0.
one OF the gems of the collection is
the display of 30-cent stamps of 1862
with inverted meda1lions. The 3o-cent
stamp is the rarest square of paper
in the entire collection and is worth
$1,000.
Among the twentieth century rarltles
are the stamps of 1909 printed on
blush paper; and the two-cent stamps
of the Pan-American Commemorative
issue of 1901 with inverted medallion,
worth s400.
Of the foreign countries. the Hawaiian
stamps are about the rarest, ana ar
really a magnificent lot. Buenos AIRES
of 1858 the .'3 pesos green is valued at
s15O A wonderful collection oil earl!
Spain. including the rare two seals Oh
1851 and 1852 and the tnree ut'e-i eo' VI
1s5s are valued at from s125 to $3.50
each. 49,, r-,i+1
The envelope section OF the Cnlteu t7,
States is nearly complete, and is propaoiS
the finest cut square collection IN exist
ence all of the die varieties OF the early
Nesbitt issues being shown.
The commemorative series are lh,ac'-
These include stamps of 1898, the %
lumbus celebration; 1898. the rtnasHis-
sissippi exposition at Omaha: 1871, me
pan American exposition at Buffalo; l9o4'
the Louisiana purchase; 1907, the James
town exposition; 1909. centenary OF LIN
coins birth: 1909 the Hudson
celebration: 1909, the Alaska Y ukon eN-
position: 1915, Panama exposition
1.-The value OF stamps, said MT. i'eans.
who has been government ph1iatehs1
since october, 1913, sis often determ'nea
uueerly. misprint or recalled issue
often brings up the value to an amaziis
figure. The intrinsic value OF stamps.
like anything else, is based upon Supply
and demand, and if collecting tell INTO
flisfavor many paper fortunes would van
ish as quickly as when some stock mar
ket bubble bursts. ,,.
I'VE philatelists have come to peneVe
that stamp collecting has grown out OF
the mania stage and arrived at the dlg-
uified point where it may be alluded 10
az science For the advantages OF stamp
, collecting are many. 1t carries WIN 1t
Evening star., 1915-02-28
A MiSreading.

TAR. FRITZ METZLER of the Univer-
- sity of Heidelberg said to heckier
in the course of a neutrality lecture in
Denver:
My good friend, you misread me-
PurposeIy you misread me. my good
friend. You are as bad as the wife
who was disgruntled
ITO this wife who was disgruntlsd a
young bride said, over their afternoon
coffee and coffee cakes:
- am SO sad. Gustav is away Oh a
business trip. This is the first time
since our marriage that / have been
left alone
"'Oh, well. don't worry sneered the
other, it won't be the last"
Evening star., 1915-02-28

clinton. the Clinton Academy was
started at East Hampton in 1888, and
Payne's father was put in charge. This
school failed, and the family moved to
Boston. where the father again took up
the teaching of elocutioC.
Young Payne at this time was not
only a lad of remarka BILE personal
beauty and rare charm of manner, but
he possessed maturity of mind far
beyond his years He was a boy of
great ambition, and organized boys
military company. d member of which
was Samuel WoodWorth, later the
author OF the well known American
song. The Old Oaken Bucket" To-
gether these boys produced d small
newspaper called the Fly.
Payne. through assisting his father,
became a skilled elocutionist. and soon
was the rage, socially. in Boston. He
was called the American Roscius"
and began to show desire for the
stage, an inclination that was stub
Evening star., 1915-02-28

own son. And, as the fragrant incense
now floating toward them betrayed
the nearness of tins daily period with
the Greek priest. and smiles flashed
from many a face in the long process
sion trooping through the doorways.
the Englishman saw that this was n
most wonderful place indeed and that
the uniform and sword were never
thought of as such by the army of
youngsters.
The priest could be heard chanting
prayers. and was seen upon a raised
platform from which open three doors.
and these were a part of the picture
wall or ikonostas separating the main
body of the chapel from the altar and
the sanctuary. While listening to the
host of childish voices singing the Cos
podi pomiIoie--which best corresponds
perhaps, to the doxology of Protestln
churches-and looking with no slight
awe over this sea of children. with
their teachers and friends all kneeline
on the checkered stone floor, the visitor
involuntarily raised his eyes. and there
caught not only the soft light of the
morning sun shining through the
stained windows. but saw the vast dome
that is decorated with pictures of
saints.
Though there were $4,000 children
enrolled in the home at that time sew
eral thousand had been. in homely
vate families. This allowed the regi-
ments attending seats, but none to
spare, even though the auditorium was
much larger than some great churches
are appearing not unlike the interior
of some old temple of another day and
age and creed, with the pillars stand
ing sternly upright and proud of their
soft rose color, and af1re with faces and
e.,
was a square of yellow frocks and
dusky hair-the plain peasant children
who were being trained for nursery
governesses and who sat in one of the
several balconies. Farther over was
yeritable regiment of smaller children
in green uniforms, and destined to be
milady's servants, unless the opportu-
nifty rose for the more desirable place
Of assistant in a shop in the city. The
older foundiings were seated with their
attentive faces turned toward the altar
Evening star., 1915-02-28
emit Installs Wonderful Stamp Collection

made to wash our one the other fades
and disappears also.
The evolution of the artistic design
of stamps Is worth nothing also. when
one sees the collection. In the earlier
stamps the heads are large that
they crowd out the figures. Later. when
the figures are the only adornment the
stamps are so plain that one cannot
arouse much enthusiasm for them.
Our present stamps are perfect
from the artistic standpoint. Tho size
Is just right. and neither figures nor
heads are crowded or obscure. Tho
nation should take great pride in tho
fact that the artists and engravers OF
Its bureau OF engraving and printing
have put forth in the current stamps
the most artistic and serviceable de-
signs in use by any nation in the
world
Evening star., 1915-02-28

was such as to dispel all doubts as to
any imposition, and l found that 1t re-
quired an effort on my part to keep
up the conversation in as choice
style as his own
The wiser of his friends saw the
necessity of taking hold of the boy at
this critical period of his life and put
ting him where there would be more
discipline and less of the worlds nat
terry and allurement. Accordingly.
through the kindness of friend OF
Mr. Coleman, John f. Seaman, he was
sent to Union College.
Payne's course in college was erratlc.
He quarreled more than once with ms
benefactor: he was restive under re-
straint and correction. He began the
publication of little college paper
called Pastime. which received the en-
thusiastic support of the students. IL
is claimed by some that Home, Sweet
Home appeared for the first time In
this paper. but the fact has never been
Evening star., 1915-02-28

an educative value that exceeds the value
of collection by itself.
y x
For the growing boy or girl, and grown
ups, too. I know of no more interesting
way of teaching geography and history
Interest in foreign countries stimulates
various channels of reading. I myself
have on many occasions brushed up on
the historical associa ations of certain
stamps that came under my observation
that might have otherwise escaped me.
This element is, of course, the prac-
tical value of stamp collecting to an
individual. AS matter of govern
mental concern it should have as high
place as any official documents which
record the history of the country.
Evening star., 1915-02-28
Two Why's.

REPRESENTATIVE WDLE of
~ Ohio, whose anti-suffrage speech
was the feature of last months suf-
frage debate, sat ut a recent dinner
party beside a suffragist.
The suffragist, desirous of showing
woman's serfdom or servitude. said:
Mr. Bowdle why does a woman,
when she marries man. take his
name?'
But Mr.. Bowdle. desirous to show
woman's sheltered and easy economic
position. smiled and answered.:
Why does she take everything
else he's gotr"
Evening star., 1915-02-28

dealer there. who notified the post Of
flee authorities. The counterfeiters
were rounded up before they had really
begun to circulate the stamps. Today
this counterfeit, used the original
cover. showing that the government
was defrauded of its just postal charges,
will fetch from 500 10 S25 whereas the
original stamp was worth about 10
cents a thousand.
TT seems that the greatest difficulty
that confronted the pioneer stamp
makers was the matter of preventing
people from washing out the cancella-
tion ink, so that they might use a
stamp second time. All sorts of eX-
periments We're made with. the ink. and
different kinds of paper were tried.
"One enterprisng inventor even put
Evening star., 1915-02-28

~ NE of the finest museum collec.
n ~ tions of postage stamps in the
Ill world is owned by the United
W States government. The public
Is; now for the first time. given I
privilege of viewing these stamps IN
tabuIated and orderly form Their ar
rangement in brand-new mahogany
cases of most modern construction has
about been completed by Joseph H.
Ieayv. the government philatelist. and
they now form a permanent exhibit OF
the division of history of the National
Museum.
The work of tabulation and arrange
Iuent has occupied over a year of Mr..
Leavy's time. The stamps had long
been stored away in the archives of
the post office, neglected and without
attention. and to him fell the stu
pendous task of sorting and Identify
ing them. and to him must go the
credit for having suggested the novel
cases in which they are exhibited and
the original method which was fol
lowed in their arrangement.
This S2oo, ,d00 collection is Installed
III the northwest court or the old
building OF the museum III tHe lIeSl
equipment of its kind in the world.
Even the famous collection of the Brit
lsh Museum cannot boast of SO mod
,rn and up-to-date an abode. and Mr.
Ieavy declares that the Berlin post
office collection and the French gov
errlmeut collection are poorly housed
and miserably displayed when com
cared to the lavish and magnificent ar
rangement of the collection belonging
20 this country.
one of the advantages Of this new
installation is due to its position in
an interior court, which is lighted en-
trely from overhead. No direct lSht
ever falls upon the exhibits Even IN
Til. late afternoon hours of dark winter
days the artificial light is supplied
from arc lights directly above the
cabinets
But the chief charm Of the collection
lies in the fact that the cabinets are
go perfectly adapted to the use for
which they We're made that one can
view the stamps easily and carefully
without the fatigue of bending over TO
look into cases or through heavy folloS.
The specimens are mounted on heavy
white Taper displayed on dark gray
mats, and these are arranged In glass
covered frames which side IN and out
of the cabinets. When the frames are
pulled out the stamps are brought on
a level with the eye. which admirably
facilitates their inspection.
The four cabinets are each about six
feet high. eight feet long and three
feet deep. Each section contains
seventy-four frames in a single row
Il compact arrangement which lnSureS
simplicity to the locking system. Each
frame Is secured separately, however,
so that even when the entire cabinet
is unlocked it is not possible to re-
move a frame.
Tie foreign countries are arranged
in alphabetical order, irrespective Of
geographical location. and where there
are colonies or possessions they are
displayed in alphabetical order direct
Evening star., 1915-02-28

ly after the mother country in ge-
ographical sequence.
The headings are typewriter over
the stamps on the mounting sheets
and throughout the collection these
give the cate of issue method OF
printing, where and by whom printed
watermark, perforat.on and If t.le
issue is commemorative n note Is
made of the event commemorated.
In addition to the labels shown above
the stamps a large chart will be at
tached to the end of each section OF
the cabinet giving the countries in
alphabetical order and opposite the
numbers of the frames which contain
the countries stamps. No time NJ I'd be
lost in locatin.: any particular stamp
in the entire cabinet.
Each country Is divided into two
Evening star., 1915-02-28

Stamp collecting may be said to be
equally as important as its kindred
mania-coin collecting.
Our collection here" Mr.. Leavy
passed from frame to frame, indicating
features of interest, illustrates better
than any medium the growth of the
process of stamp printing in the United
States. AS is perhaps well known. the
government did not undertake to en-
grave and print its own stamps in the
beginning. Contracts were given out
to bank note companies as late as 1898.
The engraving and workmanship or
the United States stamps has invariably
been of such a high order as to dis
courage counterfeiting with intent to
defraud the government Only in one
instance has the attempt been made.
In 1894 a counterfeit of the then cur
rent two-cent stamp appeared in Chi
cago and was discovered by a small
Evening star., 1915-02-28
RUSSIA'S GREAT FOUNDING HOSPITAL

they stretch themselves on the big, fiat
stove of the Russian peasant house
hold and enter a sort of coma induced
by four walls instead of the SHOWS OF
the steppes.
with the mechanical regularity Of
soldiers, each rank right about faced.
singing a chant as they formed q line
to leave the chapel. and glided OF with
an order and doc lity common to Rus
sian children" wrote the visitor.
over in the nursery there were 700
tiny infants that morning, and just as
many nurses. all Of whom were dressed
in pink gingham, with the national
Evening star., 1915-02-28

gong, which was the signal for the
procession into chapel, sounded.
The police director came from a room
off the hall where the visitor was
standing. This individual looked quite
military, as the traveller thought to
himself all Russians did. AS they
went on down the corridors toward
the chapel the visitor noted the happy
smiles that greeted the impressive Of
fetal beside him, and the informal way
in which he smiled back, chucking
some little black-eyed son of Slav
under the chin, just as an average
father back home might do to his