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REMARKABLE WOMAN
WHOOE BIRTH WAS A STRANGE
COINCIDENT.
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Qiiaen Victoria Wanted to Outlive;
• li*> Queen Mud still l.lvua.
In a modest house on South State
street, Syracuse, N. Y., lives an aged
widow, who was Loin within sight of
(tie windows of Kensington palace, on
the same day and almost at the same
hour that Queen Victoria first saw the
iUht. She is Mrs. Charlotte Padgham,
and iiy h<?r survival of England’s
queen her lifelong wish aa Ir en grat
ified.
Mrs. Padgham’s maiden name was
Charlotte Carpenter, and she was born
in the parish of St. Margaret’s. West
minster, May 24. 1819. Her father was
a well-to-do farmer. According to
English law ail births are required to
he iccorded in the parish register,
' ■ !< ether the children Ik- the highest in
the land or the lowliest. 'Che Duke
nd Duchess of Kent followed this cus-
Imn and Princess Victoria's name was
ins iihed, and directly after was placed
the signature of the humble farmer,
Cu-penter, announcing the birth of a
'laughter, Charlotte.
Mrs. Padgham recalls many interest-
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MRS. CHARLOTTE PADGHAM.
(Who was born near Kensington palace i
at the same hour as Queen Victoria.)
ing circumstances of events occurring
in (he vicinity of the great Englisft
palace. In those days the Duke of
Kent-'was far from being in affliicnt .
circumstances and the family lived in !
a very modest way. The little Prin- [
and .-is Victoria was kept, in ignorance of j
the j’art that, she would one day be
queen until she was 12 years old. She ;
recalls vividly the night that William !
ID died. The villagers stood in the i
streets during the night and in the 1
morning when it was announced that j
Aiexandrina Victoria, daughter of tho
Duchess of Kent, had been made Queen
of ihe United Kingdom, the town was
shaken with cheers and “God Savo tho
Uueea" rang out for the first time.
Mrs. Padgham often saw Prince Al
beit, who married the queen, and she
describes him as a man who was much
beloved by the common people. It was
the prince consort's habit, while stay
ing at Kensington, to roam through
the village, stopping here and there
to chat with the farmers and trades
people. Mrs. Padgham came to this
country soon after the queen's mar
riage.
TRADE OF EATING.
tiirtUii'i Htr> Profession*! Raters to As
sist Their Cues Is.
One of the most striking customs of
the past that are preserved by the In
dians of today is found among the
tribes op the Devil's Lake reservation
in North Dakota. Supervisor Wright
or the Indian service gives the follow
lug account of this peculiar practice:
“From lime immemorial the Devil’s
Lake Sioux have adhered to an old cus
tom In regard to the treatment of a
guest. According to their etiquette,
it is the bounden duty of the host to
•apply Ills guest with all the food he
may de-ito.and as a rale the eppo tion
meiit set before the Indian is much in
excess of the capacity of a single man.
Hut by the same custom, the guest is
obliged to eat all that is placed before
him, else he grossly insults his enter
tainer. It was found that this prac
tice would work a hardship, but in
stead of dispensing with the custom,
the Indian method of reasoning was
applied, and what is known as the pro
fessional eater was brought to the
front. While the guest is supposed to
tat all that is placed before him. it
serves the same purpose if his neigh
bor assists in devouring the bountiful
repast, the tuaiu object being to have
the plate clean when the meal is fin
ished. It is not always practicable to
depend upon a neighbor at table to
Assist in getting away with a large
dinner, and in order to insure the final
Consumption of the allotted portion,
visiting Indians call upon these pro
fessional eaters, whose duty is to sit
beside them through a meal and eat
what the guest leaves. The professior.
al eaters are never looked upon In the
light of guests, but more as traveling
companions wiGi a particular duty to
perform. Those eaters receive from
$1 to J 2, and even |3 for each mea!
where they assist. It is stated by the
agent at the Devil’s reservation
that one of the professional eaters has
been known to dispose of seventeen
pounds of beef at a sitting. That they
an* capable of eating an almost fabu
lous amount, I myself can testify.”—
Youth's Companion.
The world’s stock of paper money is
now ?00,000.000. equal to the existing
stock of gold coin.
GOOD COLOR WORK.
Children Love Color a* They I-ove Illril*
and Flower*.
The amount of time devoted to work
with color varies somewhat as the
course of study varies in subject. In
the spring and fall we do a large
amount of work directly from nature.
We begin with the landscape, wo take
landscape in the middle and we end
with landscape. We draw in color
from flowers and fruits, from bright
foliage, seed berries, etc.; we watch the
sunset and the sunrise, the play of
color in various forms of water —in
clouds, in lake, in river, in rainbow and
in dewdrop; we are interested in the
cold and somber hues of winter, as well
as in the freshne-s and vividness of the
green of returning slicing —and we re
cord these observations and impres
sions as they come to us, no matter
what the season or the proportion of
time consumed by so doing. As an
average, however, if I were obliged to
estimate, I should say that about half
of the time devoted to drawing work
had been used this year in the study of
coior, perhaps more, as we have doubt
less been carried to an extreme by the
novelty of the work and the fact that
m order to make a strong beginning j
overemphasis was necessary under the
conditions in which we work. If I
were to answer in one statement the
question, What is the value of a knowl
edge of the coior to the child? I
should say: It helps him to be hap
pier, and being happy, he is good;
and being good, he is a benefit and a
blessing to his community and his
race. Children are emotional in their
thoughts and feelings. Color appeals
directly to the emotions and feelings.
Good work in color is so largely a
question of feeling—if we do not feel
the beauty of the landscape, we can
never adequately express it. Children
love color, as naturally as they love
birds and flowers, kittens and puppies,
babies and playmates. There are phy
sical i casons, also, why the brush is
a better tool- for children to use than
r pencil, or even a stick of dry color.
That medium i3 best for them which
offers the least resistance, that af
fords the thinnest barrier between
themselves anil their expression. They
think in mass, they see in mass, they I
should ex pi ess in mass. An apple is {
round to the young child, but after j
it is red. How overwhelming has bean ;
the response from the children as to |
their delight in drawing with color!
It is right apd; natural for them to love
it ami to use it. It is unjust and
wicked to diepiTve them of a fuller ac
quaintance with it. With the older
children, also, the study of color has
been of irrirnenpc disciplinary value.
A much larger percentage of the pupils
have been 1 greatly interested in color
than have been interested in any other
one study in the entire course. —School
Education.
d|:aTH OF A VETERAN IRON
WORKER.
There passed away in Allegheny. Pa.,
the other day, a man whose career has
embraced an epitome of the develop
ment and progress of railroad build
ing—Philip James. The chief fame of
this extraordinary old man was that
he puddled the iron for the first T-rail.
This great innovation in Iron manu
facturing was produced in 1831, at the
Dowllas Iron Works, Dowlias, Gla
morganshire, Wales, owned by Josiah
Jphn Guest and Rev. Thomas Guest.
Mr. James was born in Wales in
1813. At the age of 7 he began work
in the iron mill, sweeping plates.
Young James was later placed in charge
of a furnace, and was not yet 19 when
lie assisted in making the first T-rail.
He came to this country in 1837, locat
ing as puddler at Haverstraw, N. Y.
Later he moved to Reading, Pa., and
PHIUP JAUSa
(Puddled the Iron for the first T-rall.)
in 1843 went to Pittsburg, where he
passed the rest of his long and useful
life.
A Students’ Initiation Party.
A wild-eyed resident of lowa City
dashed into police headquarters there
the other evening aud aunouneed that
a lot of grave robbers were at work in
the church yard. Several officers
started for the scene and there, sure
enough, were a number of figures
grouped around one of the largest mon
uments. The sleuths crept forward and
were Just about to spring on the sup
posed grave despoilers when they dis
covered that it was a party of uni
versity students initiating a freshman
into the mysteries of a college order.
(!“*>'• Russian Sect.
Siberia is the birthplace of anew
religious sect, the members of which
style themselves “Slaves of Christ.”
They teach that the earth is flat and
stands on three whales and that in
the middle of the ocean there is a gi
gantic chanticleer which crows at sun
rise. Railways, telegraphs and tele
phones are attributed to anti-Christ.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, OA.
Late Count
Gourko
Field Marshal Count Gourko of Rus
; sla died on his estate at Scharow,
; Tver, a few days ago.
“Such good steel as this is fit for a
t man of such iron will,” was the in
: scription on the sword presented to
] General Gourko by officers of the
j guards after tho Russo-Turkish war, in
which he won distinction.
Born in 1828, Joseph Vassily? vich
Gourko became an imperial page when
fifteen years old. After serving in the
imperial body guard under Emperor
Nicholas I. and attracting attention by
gallantry in the Crimea, he became a
captain in 1857, colonel in 1861, took
command of the fourth regiment of
Hussars in 1866 and was promoted to
major general in 1867.
It was in the Russo-Turkish w-ur of
1877 that dogged perseverance, com
bined with brilliant dash, placed him
in the front rank of European soldiers.
Twice within six months, in the heat
of summer and again in furious De
cember snows, he penetrated the Bal
kans, which the Turks had declared
impassable. On the first occasion he
compelled the withdrawal of a numer
ically superior body of the egemy, who
for ten days besieged his intrenched
position in the Shipka Pass.
Commanding the cavalry of Prince
< hai les of Roumanla, he covered the
army besieging Plevna and beat off the
strong force with which Mahomet Ali
Pacha sought to relieve that fortress.
His successes won him the rank of
field marshal, the title of count and the
civil and military command of Poland,
besides other honors and pensions.
Strongly believing in approximating
conditions in peace meanoeuvres to
those of actual war, he seriously ad
vocated the distribution of one full
with every nine blank cartridges. He |
argued that such “accidents” as might !
occur would be far outweighed by the
advantage of accustoming the men to ■
GOVERNOR OF VAST REGION.
Notwithstanding the facts and fig
ures made familiar by our geographies
and books of reference, few even of our
most intelligent Americans realize the
vast extent of the territory stretching
away from the northern boundary of
the United States to the Arctic seas,
and included in the area known as the
northwest territories, a political divis
ion of the Dominion of Canada. Jhese
territories, which include several Arc
tic islands, have a total area of 2,254,-
931 square miles —an area thirty times
that of England, and greater than that
of all of India. This vast region, how
ever, is not great in many things, ex
cept rivers, lakes, and cold and sterile
plains and mountain ranges. It has
a population of only a little over 100,-
000, and a large part of the country
north and west of Hudson’s bay is al
most uninhabitable. The chief execu
tive officer of this truly regal domain
is a lieutenant governor, appointed by
the governor general of the Dominion
He presides over the legislative assem
bly of, the territories, and is assisted
HON. A. B. FORGET,
in the direction of state affairs by an
executive council of four members.
The present lieutenant governor of the
northwest territories is Hon. A. E. For
get, a man of large experience in Cana
dian affairs, and one of the ablest and
most promising statesmen in the Do
minion.
SLEEP RESTORER.
Beginning* of Pulmonary Consumption
Traced to Loss of Sleep.
Without sound sleep neither health
nor beauty can loug be retained. Much
of the discomfort and nervousness that
people complain of when they rise in
the morning is due to the fact that
each does not sleep alone. There la
nothing that will bo derange the ner
vous system of a person who is elimin
ative in nervous force as to lie all
night in bed with another who Is ab
sorbent of nervous force. The latter
will sleep soundly all night, and arise
refreshed in the morning, while the
former will toss restlessly, and awake
in the morning rretful, peevish, faint
hearted and discouraged. No two per
sons, says a medical authority, no mat
ter who they are, should habitually
sleep together. The one will thrive,
the other will lose. This is the law.
The grandmother with her little
grandchild is a case in point. The
aged one keeps strong; the little one
pines away and becomes enfeebled. A
lady In middle life informed us the
other day that she habitually arose in
the morning nervous, worried and
weak, while her husband would sleep
soundly all night. The touch of his
foot even would awaken nervousness
and discomfort, while he seemed to be
The Greatest
Soldier of Mod
ern Times.
the whistle of bullets. His plan was
not put in practice, but many “bad
accidents” resulted from another efi
his methods, whereby cavalry charges
were carried right home, infantry regi
ments being intended to open to let
the horsemen through at the last In
stant. He believed that chargers were
becoming too much accustomed to the
command to halt, given in sham fights
just at the moment when in real ac
tion their speed would be quickened.
General Gourko became field marshal
on the name day of the present Czar
Nicholas 11., December 18, 1894, when
| at his own request, based on shattered
COUNT GOURKO.
health, he was relieved as governor
general of Warsaw and commander of
Warsaw military district.
He suffered a paralytic stroke in
1898 after the death in prison of his
son Nicholas, who had made a sensa
tional attack on a Russian councillor
of state in Monte Carlo. General
Gourko’s wife was Marie de Seilhaus,
whose father was a B’rench count, hor
mother being descended from an old
Muscovite family.
wholly unaffected. It is wonderful
how much may be done to protract
existence by the habitual restorative
ot sound sleep. Late hours under men
tal strain are, of course, incompatible
with this goed work of sleep. A phy
sician reports that he has traced the
beginning of pulmonary consumption
in many cases to late hours and eve
ning parties, by which rest is broken
and encroachments made on the con
stitution. If in middle age the habit
of taking deficient and irregular sleep
be stiil maintained, every source of
depression, every latent form of dis
ease, is quickened and intensified. The
sleepless exhaustion allies itself with
every other exhaustion, or it kills im
perceptibly by a rapid introduction of
premature old age. which leads prema
turely to dissolution. A scientific
writer says that sleep, if taken at the
right moment, will prevent an attack
of nervous headache. If the subjects
of such headaches will watch the
symptoms of its coming, they can
notice that it begins with a feeling of
weariness or heaviness. This is the
time a sleep of an hour, or even two,
'as nature guides, will effectually pre
vent the headache. If not then, it will
be too late, for after the attack is fair
ly under way it is Impossible to gat
sleep until far into the night, perhaps.
It is so common in these days for doc
tors to forbid having their patients
waked to take medicines if they are
asleep when the hour comes round,
that people have learned the lesson
pretty well, and they generally know
that sleep is better for the sick than
medicine. But it is not so well known
that sleep is a wonderful prevention of
disease, better than tonic regulators
and stimulants.
Horace Greeley’s Prodigality,
Horace Greeley, writes A. K. Mc-
Clure, in February Success, was lavish
in his gifts, often to most unworthy
recipients, and was most sensitive
when admonished on the subject by
even his closest friends. He loaned
thousands of dollars to a scapegrace*
son of Commodore Vanderbilt, and,
wh<?n Vanderbilt appealed to him to
stop it, Greeley curtly closed the con
versation by saying he did not expect
the commodore to pay the loan. In
one of the many conversations I had
with him in his dingy office in the old
Tribune building.l ventured to suggest
that he was a more generous giver
than his means justified; to which he
answered: “Well, I guess that’s so,
but I can’t stop It. lam like the south
ern planter who, after spending the
proceeds of his crop in winter reveling,
closed up the account by selling a nig
ger; I do it by selling a share of the
Tribune.’’ He originally owned near
ly or quite one-half the paper. When
he died, he had but one share remain
ing of the 100.
Belfast Loe Plcturaaqu. Figure.
In the death of Professor MacMillan,
professor of modern history and Liter
ature, Belfast, Ireland, has lost what
was doubtless its most picturesque fig- j
ure. He was six feet three or four
inches tall, fair and ruddy complex- j
ion, hair prematurely white, with dis- '
tinguished features, and a singularly :
noble head and brow. The man was '
as remarkable as his looks. He had
been deprived of his father at an early
age, and unaided and alone fought his
way through college, and finally at- ;
tained to a pioud place among the
scholars of his day.
DANCED WITH QUEEN
AND ALMOST LOST HIS STAND
ING IN MEETING.
Kirhard Vaux. the Only American Who
Gained That Distinction —His Quaker
Mother Mildly Reprimanded Him tor
the Unheard of “offense.”
“Richard, I am told thee has been
dancing with the queen. I do hope,
my son, thee will • not marry out of
meeting.”
The good, old-fashioned Quaker sim
plicity and distrust of royalty were
never better exhibited than in these
words of the mother of the late Rich
ard Vaux of Philadelphia. They were
her first greeting to him on his return
home from the court of St. James after
his memorable exploit at the court ball
in Buckingham palace, when he at
tained mo distinction cf being the
only American who ever danced with
Queen Victoria.
It was in 1837. Mr. Vaux’s position
as secretary to Mr. Stevenson, United
States minister to the court of St.
James, wa3 in itself a noteworthy one,
.and brought him at once into social
prominence in London, but his excep
tional personal attributes, his brilliancy
of conversation, charm of person, ex
quisite manners, elegance of diction
and gallantry of carriage made him the
beau ideal cf a court cavalier and a
welcome guest in the Houses of the
nobility, whence he was received and
welcomed with open arms. No one,
therefore, was greatly surprised in
court circles when it became* known
that the young queen had singled him
out for a signal honor, and had com
manded that he attend the court ball
at Buckingham palace, which was to
be given in honor of her coronation.
A MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT
Benjamin D. Silliman, who died at
his home in Brooklyn last week, at
the ripe age cf 95, was the Nestor of
the New York bar and the oldest liv
ing graduate of Yale university. Other
distinctions were his. His great-grand
father was a judge for thirty-three
years in Connecticut and his grand
father was a brigade commander in
the revolutionary war. Through his
grandmother he was a descendant from
John Alden and Priscilla Moulin, who
came over in the Mayflower in 1620,
and who are tlis hero and heroine of
Longfellow’s famous poem.
In 1815 Mr. Silliman’s father re
moved to New York and later to
Brooklyn. In 1820 the younger Silli
man graduated from Yale and in 1829,
after studying in the office of Chan
cellor Kent, he was admitted to the
bar. In 1838 he was elected to the as
sembly. In the Whig national con-
B. D. SILLIMAN.
Sweden's Population.
In 1800 Sweden had a population of
2,350,000 and at the present time, in
; spite of the large emigration which
has given 1,000,000 people to the Unit
ed States, the population is 5,150,000.
The kingdom has progressed along
with the other European states. In
the cities of Sweden in 1800 there were
200,000 people,and now there are 1,100-
000. Stockholm in 1800 had a popula
| tion of "5,000. Now it has 310,000;
Gothenburg had 12,000 and now has
130,000. The death rate has consider
ably declined during the last century.
The figures indicate a falling off from
26 per 1,000 to 16 per 1,000. People
live better, enjoy more comforts, have
better educational advantages, and
get more out of life than they did 100
years ago. The consumption of wheat
and rye and their flours has risen from
80 kilos (160 pounds) to 175 kilos (350
pounds) per Inhabitant.—Charles San
ders, In Chicago Record.
Crook ttnutiid 111. AssUfanca.
One of Houdlni’s strangest adven
tures happened at a big hotel !a St.
Paul, Minn., where he was very \weil
known. To his surprise he found that
When, however, the night of
arrived, and the “queen’s coti
was forced, and the guests k, v l *
Richard Vaux, arrayed in his brink ?
court costume, take his place in ,
position that was supposed to be *
served for royalty alone, there
surprise and excitement indeed n
the music struck up and the Ka W
young American threaded his
through the intricacies of the roZ
dance, bearing himself with an air n#
grace and confidence that was wonsJ *
“ The queen
to smile in gracious approval as h
took her hand and led her thro„gJ
RICHARD VAUX.
the evolutions of the dance. And
there was not a man present who j 1
would not have given a coronet to |
win so coveted a distinction.
Mr. Vaux, whose death occurred a
few years ago, was for half a century
one of the leading residents of Phila
delphia.
vention that nominated William Henry
Harrison for president he sat as a del
egate. He was an early abolitionist
and joined the Republican party as
soon as it was formed. He declined a
nomination for state senator in 1859,
but accepted President Lincoln’s ap
pointment as United States district at
torney for the eastern district of New
York in 1864. In 1873 he ran for state
attorney-general on the Republican
ticket and was defeated. In 1873 Co
lumbia college conferred upon him the
degree of LL.D., and a year later his
alma mater gave him the same honor.
Mr. Silliman was a millionaire and
had the distinction of owning the
most valuable piece of real property,
taking it foot by foot, on the western
hemisphere. This piece o? property is
29x30 feet and is at the southeast cor
ner of Broadway and Wall street. H
refused §600,000 for the lot.
a couple of men occupying the room*
on either side of his own appeared
to be mounting guard over him. At
first he only suspected this, but after
a few days he was perfectly sure that
one or the other of his neighbors
shadowed his every movement. One
afternoon, when Houdini was sitting
in his own room, he heard the sound of
scuffling outside the door. Flinging
it open he discovered his two unknown
friends grasping a third man, who evi
dently had been wearing a long, dark
cape that was dragged on one side,
showing that he was heavily hand
cuffed. “We’re a couple of detectives,
Mr. Houdini,” panted one of the men.
“This fellow made his escape from )sil
some days ago. We knew that b*
wouldn’t dare to go to a locksmith to
get his handcuffs removed, and we sus
pected that he might come to you:”— *
San Francisco Bulletin.
F.bUlntj Life and the Tide.
Superstitious persons see ia the
death of Queen Victoria confirmation
of the old notion that lifo goes out
wdth the tide. The queen died at 6:30,
Just about the minute of low water *
Cowes on January 22.