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Show ! CHARLESTON EXPOSITION j! spite her age continues to personally look after her, business affairs. She has long taken an interest in educational educa-tional matters, and, believing that she could use some of her wealth to no better advantage than in erecting an assembly hall and chapel at Purdue, she presented the treasurer of the board of trustees with a check for the amount necessary. Mrs. Fowler was born at Hamilton, O., and removed with her parents to Lafayette seventy-two seventy-two years ago. She was one of seven daughters, and two of her sisters, Mrs. Jamima Winship and Mrs. Adams Earle, are still living, both residing near Lafayette. UNITED AT DEATHBED. j Mother Separated from Her Daughter for Twenty-Nine Years. Beside the deathbed of Mrs. Jane Williams, who died at McKeesport, Pa., last week, her daughter, stolen from her twenty-nine years ago, was re- South Carolina residents crowded the Hotels and streets of Charleston at the opening of the South Carolina interstate inter-state an 7 Wast Indian exposition, December 2ft. There were present also thousands of visitors from both neighboring neigh-boring and distant states. All journeyed jour-neyed to the exposition grounds where in the auditorium special exercises were held to celebrate the completion of the great undertaking. There were addresses by prominent men, an original orig-inal ode and music by a chorus of 500 voices. At noon President Roosevelt pressed a button at Washington and thus officially opened the exposition. The exercises were participated in by 30,000 people. The instant President Roosevelt set the machinery of the exposition ex-position in motion a salute of forty-six forty-six guns, one for each state of the Union, were fired by the German artillery, ar-tillery, an ancient military organization organiza-tion of the city. The parade was reviewed on its arrival ar-rival at the exposition grounds at the ing mother recognized her child in spite of the years that had passed since their cruel parting and died holding her hand. BANK BILLS IN CAR WHEELS. Currency Macerated at the Treasury II Used by the Car Builders. It is the commonly accepted belief that the old currency redeemed at the treasury department is absolutely destroyed. de-stroyed. Such, however, is not the case. A single wheel of a locomotive represents many millions of what was . once good paper currency. From a bank note to a car wheel is quite a radical transformation, but it happens every day, and to become a supporting atom in the revolving mass is the ultimate ul-timate fate of every soiled $1, $10 or $1,000 bill. Between $50,000,000 and $500,000,000 worth of paper money is cancelled every ev-ery year in the treasury department in Washington, and after being macerated is converted into filling for railroad stored to her. The relatives of the dying dy-ing woman gathered in the room describe de-scribe the meeting of the long sundered sun-dered mov.her and child as aifecting in the extreme. It was at first hoped that the joy of receiving back her child would enable the aged woman to recover, re-cover, but her health was shattered and though she rallied at first she died holding the hand of the child, now a grown woman, who had been stolen from her so many years before. Mrs. Williams for many years resided resid-ed in Chicago, in the days when the Illinois metropolis was not a large city, many of her relations being residents of that state. While in Chicago she married Mr. Williams, who, however, died in 1869, leaving her with two children, chil-dren, of whom the youngest, Mary, was about 2 years old at the time of his death. The older children had reached the school-time stage, but the baby of the family was thought by relatives not car wheels and the government gets $40 a ton for It from the manufacturers. The destruction of soiled paper currency cur-rency goes on daily and is in charge of three treasury employes, who repre-. sent respectively the secretary of the treasury, the treasurer of the United States and the comptroller of the currency. cur-rency. Bundles of the canceled notes are dumped into the big macerators and crushed into a puttylike mass. The pulp is then treated with an alkali, which extracts the ink; the stuff is dried, shipped In bales and forwarded to the car wheel manufacturers. For every note so destroyed, unless it has come from a national bank in liqui- j dation, a new one of the same denomination denom-ination is printed at the bureau of printing and engraving. All this work costs the government nothing. The national banks pay the expenses, although al-though the treasury department has :full control of the redemption division. CAPT. F. W. WAGENER. President Exposition Company, grand stand on the race course by Governor Gov-ernor M. B. McSweeney of South Carolina, Caro-lina, Mayor J. Adger Smyth of Charleston, Charles-ton, the distinguished guests of the city and of the exposition company from other states. After the review the opening exer-i exer-i cises took place in the Auditorium. The ceremonnes were presided over by Captain F. W. Wagener, president of "-""Tche exposition company. He intro- duced Rt. Rev. Ellison Capers, bishop of South Carolina. After a prayer by Bishop Capers President Wagener made a short address declaring the exposition ex-position work completed, and introduced intro-duced Governor McSweeney, who delivered de-livered an address of welcome on behalf be-half of the state. Mayor Smith followed the governor and welcomed the people to the exposition expo-sition on behalf of the city. The mayor then introduced Chauncey M. Depew of New York, the orator of the day. At the conclusion of Senator Depew's to be strong, and they feared that the mother would not have the time to give it due attention. Relatives desired to adopt the child shortly after the death of the father, but Mrs. Williams . objected, saying that she did not wish to see the home broken up and that she would not let her little daughter go away from home under any consideration. Several times efforts were taken to induce her to give up the child to those who were richer, and, it is claimed, more able to look after the child's welfare, but to no avail. Then when little Mary was about 5 years old, while playing with some little lit-tle girls in the street not far from her home, a woman accosted the group of children and asked them whether they would not like to have some candy. The children, naturally enough, assented assent-ed and the stranger led the girls to the nearest candy store, where she gave them a treat all round. Then Mary got into a vehicle standing near, Prince Henry Is Unpopular. Prince Henry, consort-royal of the young Queen of Holland, whom cables from that country report as being execrated ex-ecrated by the entire dominion as the cause of the present illness of his beautiful girl wife, is a member of the ducal house of Mecklenburg. The story genra-I!y-ewiteH9-to-tie-ef-fect that Queen Wilhelmina and the prince had discovered that their marriage mar-riage was an utter failure; that their temperaments were incompatible and that a long-threatened quarrel occurred just before the queen was taken ill. These stories have been afloat in The Hague for some days and are now repeated re-peated on all hands. Dowager Queen Emma, Wilhelmina's mother, is said to have been keenly distressed over the alleged quarrel, but refuses to discuss the matter. The young queen is said to be constantly improving in health, and it is now believed that the court COTTON FXlCBr will soon return to The Hague. True or false, this gossip has caused the public in Holland to be openly hostile to the former Duke of Mecklenburg, whom Wilhelmina married not without some protest on the part of the legislature legis-lature of the Netherlands. We Feed the Entire World. The United States are the great bread producing country of the earth, and if our supply of foodstuffs was suddenly cut off half the people of other countries would starve to death. Recently published statistics show that the United States sell approximately $1,000,000,000 worth of surplus agricultural agricul-tural products in a year. They feed the armies of Boers and English, and a squeeze in prices in America is felt all over the world. England is the best customer of this country in food supplies. In 1900 we sold her $408,000,000 worth of farm products. Germany spent here $134,-000,000 $134,-000,000 for agricultural products. About half of this was for cotton, the rest for food. France buys annually from us about $45,000,000 worth of agricultural agricul-tural products, mostly bread and meat ddress a message was received from i President Roosevelt at Washington and read to the audience. A reply was at once sent by the exposition authorises authori-ses and the instant that it was received re-ceived at the White House the Presi-! Presi-! dent pressed the button that set in mo-Ition mo-Ition the apparatus in machinery hall. Captain Wagener then officially declared de-clared the exposition opened. While the work on the exposition it-!eelf it-!eelf is not entirely completed, the authorities au-thorities have fulfilled their promise to have all the main and many of the minor buildings finished. The cotton palace, the palace of commerce, the administration, ad-ministration, agricultural, machinery, mineral and forestry, art and woman s buildings and a number of others are complete, with the exception of placing plac-ing some of the smaller exhibits. The grounds have been put in admirable admir-able condition and present a most ex-auislte ex-auislte appearance, with acres of tropical trop-ical plants and flowers in full bloom. Generous Gift to Purdue. Mrs Eliza Fowler of Lafayette, Ind., t,who -recently gave Purdue Universi y ' $60,000, is the wealthiest woman in nppecanoe County, and is the mother of James M. Fowler, President of he i National Fowler Bank of Jett; Mw. Fowler is 85 years old, but de together with the stranger, and aDso-lutely aDso-lutely disappeared. The police were notified of the disappearance dis-appearance of the child and for many months a close investigation was carried, car-ried, on, but without result, and when the months lengthened into years and there was still no sign of the child most of the friends of Mrs. Williams oelieved 'that the child was dead. Not so the mourning mother. Never a year passed that she did not make some effort ef-fort to find out where her child had been taken, but until recently use- 16 About twenty years ago she went to McKeesport and made her home with her son Last summer she was stricken strick-en with illness necessarily fatal in its character and about two months ago it became apparent that death was not far off With the approach of death the longing of the mother for her. child grew more intense and five weeks nzo the relative who had taken the child wrote, saying that the little girl had grown to womanhood and married. This fact was made known to Mrs. Williams and immediately arrange-'ments arrange-'ments were made for the daughter to 3The daughter, now Mrs. Annie Madden Mad-den of Liverpool, England, was sent for and arrived a week ago. The dy- The Rev. Mr. Sandford, of Shiloh, Me., recently baptized 218 persons la one hour and thirty-seven minute. |