Show IN 1 OP OJ 01 RichmOnd Va a 0 N News na Leader L In South Carolina the men ht demonstrated what ahat hM they the could do to tto ward securing l money mone to t l build n a 1 monument monument ment insult In ill honor of ot women thi women Woman of r After ACter a of or about three months month the tho Stat State news nan nt II paper pl p r of ot Columbia S C hRs has aue succeed ed od l In gathering by subscription about S which In addition to an appropriation appropriation by b the tho legislature assures a ules a handsome and adequate memorial So Sn far tar as wo we know this Is I the first fund for Cor confederate memorial purposes of oh 01 anti and given ghen exclusively by men sine since the th war closed 44 H years ears ago Of OC ours most moat of hI the Ute monn money for Cor such pur purposes poses has haa been given gUen by men hut but it HAH hM been Ien obtained by II the devoted and earnest labor and efforts of ot women omon Very YOI OtY likely Virginia after atter a n while wilt will 11 take up the lImo subject of ot n a 1 monument Iu to her women although the women themselves with characteristic modesty and nd haVe hivo rather die dis discouraged dl tho thc suggestion and teem seem dip die disposed posed to 10 Insist that some sOnIc other oth t propositions be bo given preference such uch for Cor In Instance instance stance as II the building of ot the Rattle Hottle Abbey a I monument to Jolt hugh I Le Jee ee anti and a 1 completion of ot Ute the endowment for tor n II homo home for Cor confederate rate wom n which carl cares for tor the living while hon honoring honoring oring orin the tho dead Nevertheless N the wo women women 0 men should have hae a monument p e especial especially ly I their own on the Idea will wll not be bO b for forgotten fOrgotten gotten or disregarded and an when hen the propitious times comes will be acted on |