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REMARKABLE WOMAN WHOOE BIRTH WAS A STRANGE COINCIDENT. f jru me, York, l.itrty I!.rn si Hamm Tlm* anil IMara h* lli [jut; 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- Emm \.| • /r\ 'J 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.