Show HAS FANCY FOR PASSPORTS one man whose hobby seems to lie in gathering seals of the state department ment there Is one man in this cit who has an odd fad which Is apparently the collecting ol 01 seals of the depart ment of state says say the new york S in he lie does not often go abroad in he baa has been beer on the other elde ade ably no more than four times in the course of his life and he now Is around oo 00 0 but for about 20 beirs ye irs he has been in the habit of applying an an ally for a passport he wiltes to the department of state gets an ap blank and has it filled out he goes to the same notary every time and pays the fee then he sends his application and the passport fee to the department and gets his pass port rort back in due co arse passports are valid for two bears ears without renewal yet he neve misses miss es a year and he fills 0 it a new applina tion evcic avei y time alis TI is he has a col lection of papers and seals running run ing back over these years he ile never had occasion to use a passport when abroad but he says ays it has been a help to him hirn ak v hen traveling in this co antry as a means of identification when that his been ne cesar in some city in which he was a stranger the chief idea he has is 1 that some time it in be imperative for him to leave for d foreign country on some ome business or other and having the passport ht lit would not have to tu delay for it |