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Inscriptions which are to be placed upon the South Carolina monument to be reared to the women of the Confederacy have just been decided upon and made public in Columbia, S. C.

A number of writers complied with the request and the proposed inscriptions were submitted anonymously to a committee. As a result of the work of this committee, the commission has adopted the inscriptions proposed by Captain William E. Gonzales, editor of the Columbia State and secretary of the commission. The two principal inscriptions were selected several months ago, but, owing to delays occasioned by correspondence between the commission and the sculptor in Paris regarding mechanical strictures and other details, the inscriptions are only now available for publication.

The monument commission asked a committee of five to pass on about thirty of the compositions considered worthy of their consideration. That committee was composed of Miss McClintock, president of the College for Women; Stanhope Sams, Litt. D.; the Rev. Dr. W. M. McPheeters, Professor Yates Snowden, LL. D., and Colonel U. R. Brooks.

The commission adopted the report of the committee of judges. Captain Gonzales, being a competitor, had absented himself from the meeting and his compositions were selected as the inscriptions for the south and north sides of the monument.

The four next succeeding compositions were submitted in the order reported by the committee, by Dr. George Armstrong Wauchope, head of the English department of the University of South Carolina, by Dr. E. S. Joynes, professor emeritus of modern languages at the university, by the Rev. A. M. Fraser,