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i VOLUME XVIll. CAM DION, S. C.. Kill 1>AY, OlTOIiHU -I. N() ;(J Splendid Memorial Unveiled At Home of Martyr President it. great throngs present With Imposing Ceremonies the Mag nificent Monument to the Late President McKinley was Dedicated Monday ? The Imposing Parade Includes United States Troops, State Militia, and Various Patriot ic and Fraternal Organizations? Governor Harris Presided at the Exercises and President Roosevelt the Speech of Dedication. Canton, ()., Special.?With un ad dress by President lloosevelt in which lie paid a glowing and tender tribute to the martyr President the McKinley national monument was dedicated Monday. Governor Harris of Ohio, presided at the exercises, and on tlie speaker's stand with the President were cabinet members, Su preme Court justices, Senators, Rep resentatives, foreign ambassadors and diplomats and many other distin guished men. Miss Helen McKinley niece of the President unveiled the statue. ???. President Koos.evelt arrived Mon dayTSbrniiig and was escorted to the /high school for the children's saluta tion, after which he reviewed the pa rade from a stand on the public square. At the school building all the public and parochial school children of the city were massed, and joined, in singing "America" and "The Star Spangled Hanner." The President delivered a brief speech to the young sters. n^hc parade was the most imposing seen o.i the streets of Canton, ?rollers including United States ?: ? , State militia patriotic organ vNiions, members ol' the (Jraud Army James Witcomb Riley recited a poem prepared for the occasion. Bishop liortsmann, of Cleveland pronounced the hcncdiction. The McKinley national ^onument was erected at a cost o^-tfiialf a mil lion of dollars and xva*J pai<l for by funds gathered from every State and territory of the Union. An addition al .fj00,000 has also heen raised for an endowment fund, from the earnings of which the magnificent marble me morial will, bo maintained and kept in repair. The masusolcum proper is con st rueted of pink Milt'ord granite aad the interior ilnished with Knoxviue marble. H. Van Buren Magonigle of New York was the architect. f The McKinley National -Memorial ! Association numbers among its hon j orary members President Roosevelt I and the Governors of every State and j territory of the Union. The trustee* I in charge of the work, nearly all of whom were present at Monday's ex j ercises, include Vice President Fair banks, Justice William R. Day, Secre tary Cortelyou, Ex-Governor Myron T. Herrick, Charles G. Dawes and Franklin Murphy. Thousands of visitors from all over Ohio and surrounding States witness ed the exercises. Shortly uftor the of the monument at the actual t1>p of tlie structure is loll foot ti inches; the masusolcum it^**1 r Initio 08 feet (5 inches high above tlx; summit of tho mound. Tl?e top of the diameter through which ? oonies a softened light which adds greatly to the beau ty of the itwior. The mausoleum is 78 feet w indies in diameter. In the centre of the ltoor beneath the dome stands the sarcophagi containing the bodies of the President and Mrs. McKinley; and in niches on the north side of tho dome are the caskets coutaining those of (he two daughters Ida and Mary who died in infancy. | High Doric columns are placed ; around the interior in such a manner ! as to appear half buried in the sides of the building. The floor is of Mo | salic, marble having 'been brought | fr/nn many States lor the purpose. . Half way down from the top of the j 125 granite steps that lead up to tho j main entrance on the south side of j the mausoleum stands an heroic i bronze figure of President Mclvinley j representing him in the attitude usu ' ally assumed when speaking?his left { hand holding a roll of manuscript and I the right hand in .trouser pocket. 1 Behind the figure is n bronze chair I encircled with a wreath and draped i with the (lag of the United States The bronze figure, which is 0 feet j high, stands on a pedestral IS feet 'from the base to the feet of the fig ] ure. Twenty-six acres of ground were purchased by ..the monument commis sion and the utmost art of the land j scape gardener has been lavished up i on the grounds. Natural streams ; flow past the base of the mound, and j trees and flower-beds have been ar ' ranged with an eye to the greatest artistic beauty. \From the entrance to the grounds on the south to the foot of the mound is 590 feet and along this distance a double driveway 175 feet in width has been construct ed. Between the two sides of the driveway is a lagoon which is con stantly filled with fivxh water. Long row# of trees flank the lagoon and the driveways. The mausoleum and grounds have Mckinley mausoleum. fraternal bodies and several bands. Both union and non-union bands marched in tlio parade a special or der permitting this having been issu ed by the president of the National Federation of Musicians. After reviewing the parade, the ' President and other distinguished ( guests of the city were tendered a ! luncheon at the auditorium, after ; which they proceeded to the monu- i ment. ^ An invocation by the Rev.' F. M. ) Bristol of Washington opened the I exorcises. Associate Justice William R. Day,of the United States Supreme | Court, was then introduced by Gov- [ emor Harris and told briefly of the work of tlio National McKinley Me morial Association of which he is! president. Then came the President's speech?a tender, loving eulogy of ! . the man who passed away at Buffalo orer six years ago, whispering, "Clot* wills it so," leaving to his successor of today the glories and cares of the chief executive of a great nation. Following the President's address the thousands of spectators joined in ginghig"The Star Spangled Banner," ?ending up a mighty volume of melo dy that was hcaixl throughout the city , Floods in Fnfece Won#. - Montpelier, PYanec, By Cable.?The heavy rains recommenced and the '?Mfe cituetion ia becoming worse, ^heretofore. Betwreii here and MM wre rapidly rising to wwiti the b? ameiag the completion of t lie dedicatory pro- ^ gramme the President left for Keo- | kuk, la., where lie will begin his trip I down the Mississippi. Description of Mausoleum. I Tho mausoleum stands on an e:ni- ? notice to which has been given the' name of Monument Ilill, about two! miles due west of the McKinley homo j in the city of Canton. It is not an ornate affair; hut its simplicity is re lieved by sufficient artistic cmbeliaii ment to make it an object of beauty, as well as oue of massive proportion I and breadth of design. Four States have contributed a share of tho material which has been used in the-building of the monu ment. Tho granite used in approaches J and the mausoleum proj>cr is form I the quarries of Milford, Massachu setts. Tennessee has furnished the grey marble for the interior of the i tomb, while the ?arcoplv4gi which | now hold the bronze easlcet in whic^h lie the bodios of President and Mr.<. McKinley are of dark green granite from Windsor, Vermont. The base upon which the sarcophagi rest ii black granite fron^ Berlin, Wisconsin. .. From tho first step to the approach Jamestown Officials Resign. < C Norfolk, Va., Special.?Authentic reports disclose that a number of heads of departments itill resign with Director General Barr of tho James town Exposition. John A. Wakefield, chief of coniceMions, and A. C. Sher wood, chief of afmiasions, annoane? their resignations. \ It ? reported that W. M. Dbm, Mttteit director-gen eral, and & W. Bowtea, director of it ^ been built and arranged at a cost of $500,000 and it is the intention of the commission to raise an endow ment fund of $150,000 which will pre clude the charging of a fee for ad? mission. At the next meeting of the mau? soleum trustees, custodians will b? chosen and it the intention to ask for the indefinite detail of soldiers of the regular army to guard the tomb. The architect was II. Van Buren Magoniple of New York and design er of the bronze figure standing be fore the mausoleum, was Charles Henry Niehatis. ?y. To Colonize Negroes. . - " * i Atlanta, Ga., Special.?A sputfia' to The Journal from Birmingham, Ala.,'says: Governor B. B. Comer has sold his greut plantation in Bar ber and Bullock counties, eotlsistinj of 18,000 acres, to Internal Itcvenuo Collector Thompson, of the Alabama district for $162,000, who, it is im dcrstood, is acting fof Booker c5>< Washington. It is said to Vj Wash ington's itnontion to establish c'olon ies of negroes on the land, tearly all of which is under high state of culti vation, the improvements alone be ing valued at $50,000. FayetteviUe Gets Bryan. ?, Fayettevillo, Special.?\V. J. ''Bry an has accepted pn invitation to be here on the 15th of Octobcr'and will be the gtxcst of Mnj. E. J. Hale, edi tor of The Fayetteville Observer. lie will make two speeches that day, one publie address and the other for the benefit of the Women's Civic provemsnt 8coiety. ' ' ' AODHtSS OF THE PRCSIDtNI Chief Executive Deliveri a Touching Or&ntion at Uncviling of McKinley Mausoleum. We have gathered t?her today to pay our timed ol' respect atul at faction to tlio memory of William McKinley who as President won a place in tlio hearts of the American people sue'* as hut three or four 01 all the Presidents of this country have ever won. Ho was of singular uprightness and purity of character, alike in public and private lite; a cit izen who loved peace, he did hi' duty faithfully and well for fouv years of war when the junior of the nation called him to arms. As Con gresuian, as (jovcrtiot of his Slate, and dually as I'residrtnL he rose to the foremost place anioiHfgjHir states men, reaching a P?^it>u& which would satisfy the keenest ambition; "but he never lost that simple and thought ful kindness toward every human being, great or small, lofty or humble with whom he was ..brought in contact, which so endeared him t<> our people, lie had to grapple with more serious and complex problems than any President since Lincoln, and yet, while mauling every demand of statesmanshi|1*ne continrfai to live a beautiful and touching: family life, a life very healthy for this nali\n to see in its foremost citizen; and now the woman who walked in the shad ow ever after his death the wife to whom his loss was a calamity liioro crushing than it could be to any other human being, lies beside him here in the same sepulcher. Singularly Appropriate. There is a singular appropriateness in the inscription on the monument. Mr. Oortelyou whoso relations with Inm were of such close intimacy gives me the following information about it: On the ('resident's trip to the I'acilie slope in the spring of lflOl President Wheeler of the Uni versity of California conferred the decree of IX. 1). upon him in words so well chosen that they struck the fastidious taste of John Hay, the?Sec rctnry of State who wrote and asked for a copy of them from President Wiieehr. On the receipt of thiscopvf he ??ei t the following letter to Presi d? nt McKinley a letter which now .-cents filled with a strange and un consciors prescient 1 tear Mr. President : Piesiocnt Wheeler sent me the inclosed at my request. You' will have the won Is in more permanent shape. They seem to me remarkably '.veil chosen .and stately and dignified enough to serve?long, hence, please Clod?as jour epitaph. > Yours faithfullv, . JOHN HAY. "L'NIVKHSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Qllice of the President. "By authority vested in me by tlie regoists ot tho University of Califor nia, i coufei? the decree of doctor of laws lipon Wililam McKinlcy, Presi dent of the United States^ a states man singularly gifted to unite the discordant forces <?t the government and mold the diverse purposes of men toward progressive all salutary ac tion, a magistrate whose poise of judgment has been tested and vindi cated in a succession of national emergencies; good citizen; brave sol dier, wise executive, helper and lead er of men, exemplar to his people of the virtues that build and conserve the. State, society and tho home. 4' Berkley, May 15, 1901." ft would be hard to imagine an epitaph which a good citizen would be moro anxious to deserve or one which would more happily describe the qualities of that great and 'good citizen whose life wo here commem orate. He possessed to a vc^y cxtra ojclinnry degree the gift of uniting' discordant forces and securing from tl.cm. a harmonious action which told for good government. From purpos es not merely diverse but bitterly conflict ing he was abln to secure healthful action for the good of the Stale. In both poise and judgment he rose level to the several emer gencies he had to meet tut leador of I the nation and like all men with the i root of true greatness in them he | grew to steadily larger statue under I the stress of heavy responsibilities, lie was a good citizen and a brave soldier a Chief Kxecutjve whose wis dom entitled him to the trust which he received throughout the nation, i He was not only a leader of men but f preeminently a* helper of men; for | one of his most marked traits was the [intensely human quality of his wida and deep sympathy. Finally, he not I merely preached; he was, that mcul valuable of all citizens in a democra cy like ours, a man who in tho high est place served* as an unconscious example to his people of the virtnea that build and conserve alike our rVr.blie life, and the foundation of all] public life, tho intimate life of the) home. . 0 Lessons of His Career. Many lessons are tmight, us by his caicer, but none more valuable than the lesson of broad human sympa thy for and among all ot our citi zens of all classes and creeds. No otlfor President has ever more de served to have his lifo work charac terized in Lincoln's words as . being carried on "with malice toward none, with .charity toward all." As a boy ho worked hard with his hands; he entered tho army as a private soldier; he knew poverty; heeafned hit own livelihood; and by his own exertions he finally rose to tho position of a ?urn of sooderate means. Not merely b. if, penwrt ?-* ??* -- * / -V ?:v5sdfiP?" mcr and town ?!?cller, with <a:i|*iI;il?rt and wngeworkcr hut 11?? felt an inti male under*!ttiuTiii|2T of each; and tlicit fore an itimalo symp:i'h\ with each; ami liis consistent ?? tV?>rt was (o tr\ to judge all hv the same stand ard ami to treat all with tho same just i < ?. Arrogance lowni'd tho wea?, and envious hatred of tho*e woll oft', wore equally abhorrent to his ju^t aiul trout le soul. Kure|\ ihis attitude of his should he tho nil it lah* of all our people to day. 11 would ho. a cruel disaster to tliis country t<? permit ourselves to odont au attitudo of hat rod and onvy towuru tun-cess wort ml,) Won, towar< weath honestly acquired. hot us u this respect profit hy tho example o! the republics of this Western Iteiuis pheru to tho South of us. Some oj these republics have prospered ureal ly; but. there aro certain ones thai have liij^eil far helund that still con tinuo in a oomlition of material pov erty, of social, andpolitical unrest and confusion. Without cxeeptioi the republics of tho former class nr? those in which honest industry hat be en assuicd of reward and protec tion; those where a cordial welooiiK has been extended to the kind of en terprino which honelits the whole country, while incidentally,as is right and proper, giving substantial re wards to those who manifest it. On the other hand, tho poor and hac.K ward republics in which the lot of the average citizens is least desirabic and the lot of the laboring man worst of all, are precisely those republics in which industry has boon killed be cause wealth exposed its owner tc spoliation. To these comunith foreign capital now rarely comes he cause it has boon found that as soon as capital is employed so as to giv< substantial remuneration t?? tho#.* supplyling it, it excites abhorent envy and hostility Avhich result ii such oppressive action within or with out the law, as sooner or later to work a virtual contlseation. Kvery manifes tation of feeling of this kind in out civilization should bo crushed at the outset by the weight of a ttensibli public opinion. .^?' Cfhicanery and Dishonesty. From tbe standpoint* of our ma terial prosperity there is only out other tiling us important as the dis couragement of a spirit of envy and "liostility toward honest business nun towarVl honest men of means; this i_> the discourau'einCent of dishonest busi ness men, the war upon the chieaiw. ery and wrongdoing which are pe I'tdiarly noxious when exhibited by men who have no excuse of wanlT/oi poverty of ignorance for then crimes. Men of means, and above ail men of groat- wealth, can exist in safety under the peaceful protection of the State only in orderly societ ies, where liberty manifests itself ? through and under the law. It i: these men who more than any. others should, in the interests of the class tc which they belong, in the interests of their children, seek in every way but especially in the conduct of thou lives, to insist upon and to build up respect for the law. It nmy not b< true from the standpoint of Home particular individual, of this clas.i, but in the long run it is preeminent!} true from the standpoint of this clasi as a whole no les stlmn of the coun try as a whole that it is veritable clalamity to achieve a tomporoary triumph by violation of evasion of the law, and wo are the best freinds of tho man of property we show oursel ves the staunchest upholders of tho rights of property, when w&^sei our faces like Hint against those offend ers who "do wrong in order to acquiro great wealth or who use this wealth as a help to wrongdoing. Wrongdoing is contincd to no class. Good and evil are to be found among both rich and poor and in drawing tho line among our fellows we must draw !i| on conduct and not on world ly possessions. In the abstract most of us will admit this. In the con crete we can act upon such doctrine ouly if we really have knowledge of and sympathy with one anri'ther. If both the wage worker and the capi talist are able to enter each into the other's life, to meet him so as to get into geniune sympathy with him, most of the misunderstanding be tween them will disappear and its place will be taken by a judgment broader, juster, more kindly, and more generous; for each will find in fh'e* other the same essential human attributes that exist in himself. It was President MeKinley's peculiar glory that in actual practice he real ized this as it is given to but few men to realize it; that his broad and deep sympathies made him feel i\ genuine sense of oneness with all his follow-Americans,whatever their sta tion or work in life, so that to his soul they were all joined with him in a great brotherly democracy of the spirit. It is not given to many of us in our lives actually to realize this attitude to tbe citent that he did: but we can at least have it before us as' tho goal of our endeavor, and by so doing we shall pay honor better than in auy other way to the memory of the dead President whose serviced in life we this day commemorate. The 'newest rejt cure Is At once simple, economical and officious. It soothes, rests and rehabilitates the tired body and jaded nerves, as all the other cures, even sunllghC and air, junder other conditions, fall to do. On* does not have to leave one's own home' crelter to any great extent one's or* dinar? mode of Ufa (o> take It, neither Is any special diet, any contemplated apparatus, any medical aiiaadA&c*. ?r HozSous drags required. The cure.-ex plafes the New York Tribute, oqmM d??if to saoadlsr every Svaday to STOLEN BONDS AKt VALID Supreme and Circuit Court Judges of South Carolina Sitting ?n Banc; in Ehrlich Bond Case Bonder Do citdon Validating $12,(j00 Worth of Bonds Stolen by Bond Clerk Zim merman and Sold to Innocent Pur chaaera. Columbia, Special.?The Khrlich bond case, which invc?lvc?k tho valid ity of thu $12,600 worth of State bonds stolon by Bond Clerk Zimnier niaii from the State Treasurer'a of tlce and wold to innocent purchasers, was argued before a special nieeiing; of the Circuit and Supreme Court judges silling en banc for the pur pose. The case is a mandamus to compel the State Treasurer to exchange Klir Iifh's $1,(100 boiul for a certilicate oi' stock of the State and thus validate this and othor bonds and establish the Slate liability for the act of it.s agent. All members of the bench were present when the meeting; convened in tin? Supreme Court room Friday morning1, except Circuit Judge Aid; iich, who has been given a vacation on aOmnt of tint condition ot his health. A large number of lij/vvera and others interested in thecerfse at tended the hearing, and listened with great interest to the very able argu ment presented on both sides. Mr. \\ . T. Ay coo It. of the Columbia bar, delivered the argument in sup port of the petition for mandamus, while ex-S<dititor ,1. William Tlnu moml, of Ktlgelichl, appeared with j Attorney (ienernl Lyon for the Stale. Bonds as Currency. These bonds are made payable to ! bearer, and there is no difference be tween iiiii1 of (lie stolen kind and the I other, except that now the Stale Treasure*4 under advice of the Attor ney (General lias advertised their numbers and refused jiaynient on tho interest. The petitioner, therefore, contends that they are lo be, treated ns currency and that an innocent pur easor cannot be forced to bear tli'i loss.; thai the Slate is liable for the acts of its a troll! : that lo refuse to pay this bond would impair the cred it of the State aiuj would depreciate I the market value of other bonds out standing. Numerous authorities were* cited in support of these contentions. |( On the other hand, the State's at torneys quoted {lie constitutional pro hibition against any increase in the bonded debt of the Stale and con I tended that' this would have the (111 | deniable" and inevitable result of in creasing the bonded debt of the Stale to just the extent o ftho stolen hotuU. | These stolen bonds had been turned into the Slate Treasurer's office to be exchanged for certificates of stock," hut the bond clerk instead of cancel ing them as required by law sold them and thus two certificates of indebted* ties went out instead of only one. The State's attorenys cited a lengthy array of cases in support of their argument that to validate these bonds would establish a dangerous prece dent; that there would then be no safeguard against, a State officer's in creasing the State debt to the ex tent of even a million dollars; that it would be flKninst public nolicy to make a soverifjnty liable for such acts of its agents. Bonds Validated. The decision of the courfe?%ns ren dered this evening. It grants the mandamus and thus validates the stolen bonds. The opinion writ ten by Asociale Justice Jones and con curred in by Justicc Woods aiuUCir cuit Judges Watts, Cage, Duntzler, Mcmminger and Wilson. A dissenting opinion was field by Justice* Eugene B. Oary^ and this is concurred in by Chief Justice Pope and Circuit Judges Ernest Gary, J. C. Ivlugh, George E. Prince and D. E. Hydrick. Had Circuit Judge Aldrich been present there might have been a tie. ' May Be Other Actions. It is likely that the Attorney Gen eral will bring action against tho ! three State Treasurers under whose administrations the cmbezr.lcDlcnts occurred to recover on their bonds. J There is a dispute between the three State Treasurers as tp the extent .of the liability , of each, and whether Treasurer* Jennings, in whose admin istration the embezzlement was un covered, is not wholly .liable. It seems likely that the various ? compli cations involved will be a long timo in tho courts for settlement. An attempt was made in the last legislature to relieve the State Treas urers from liability by a special act, but this was voted down by a large majority. , /. ? Henry W. Thompson Waives Pre liminary ' * Spartanburg, 8. C., Special-?Henry W. Tbomp on, charged with usinf tho mails for fraudulent purposes, ap peared before United States Commis sioner Atkinson end waived pretim inary investigation. He gave bond in the ran of $5,000 for hie iMi M ttf ; el Cotff to be ? 1 >s :* ' -?>v'>L uoi aeicu ?'u ui<k <piesi io.i t of liis ab-^j#o 410:11 l??t* ('liaiiinaik., said I" ALtii HAl- H OUWKANY I IA :i L t. Railroad C-')n:n:i:sion Deride lu lor a: ally That Western U.ii<'Ti Peo ple Violated "Charter Whoa They Mailed Telegrams Whoro Tlioy Could Not Be Ot?ier\vii;o Delivered. Columbia. Spccwd. Tin- i;ulroad commission decided to > u it I ho complaint of I'ros-.ident M. 1,. Steven*, of the local telegrapher's union, again*t (he Western I'uioa Telegra ph Company (lutl it is violating i'd, charter rights in mailing telegrams !o tand from points where il lias no operators. No i'ormni decisions lias yet boo put on paper, and ('iujynis:>ioi?ei Karlo lias not acted on bh<t >picst io.i on neeount of city, hut that he and Commissioner Sulivfln had agreed to sign a decision, to ho drafted later, to the effect that after exemination of (lie com])any'.s chsrter on (lie in the Secretary of Stale's ot (ice it lias no authority lor conduct ing other than a strictly telegraph business and is violating its charter in sending messages by mail. Whether Attorney 'General Lyou will he able to Hud law suilifsieut ou which to base an ad ion to revoke the company's chariot' Chairman Cattgh man does not know, lie says tho company is chartered under the laws of New York and has entered thd State under the law requiring I'uciga corporations to tile copies of their charters with the Secretary of St a to. Several weeks ago the commission turned over the telegraphers'* com plaint to Solicitor Timmennan to let the solicitor decide whether tho com pany should luPprotftfuited for fraud in accepting money for wir<K set-vice and performing that service iu part by mail. The solicitor handed oug no hill, as he was strenuously busy with a heavy docket and wanted to study the situation more closely. ' Complaint From Broker. Tin* commission received a very forceful complaint from Broker John T, Leonard, who says that tho aorvicG in C|fcrlcston ami elsewhere ovov tho country of the Western Union, the newspaper reports and ttio signed statements of the company officials l> the contrary, is not only not normal ittid satisfactory, hnt on the contrary "both State and inter-State is ' tin *<!'!i"f'H't'Ty, ?jboitimahl*? and in Paefc almost unbearablethat in spite of the company's dates on telegrams ho has found on investigation that they were (lied for transmission from on?t to three days previous to the timo ciaitned by the company; that in th?v past five weeks, in the largo numbifc <>f telegrams sent afid receivd daily by his house there has not boon a single instance in which the delay was not from-ft to 12 hoiu* bayojul?oojjt... nuil. The commission sent a copy of thi^ letter to Superintendent Maxwell, at Richmond, saying: ? "We beg to state that'unlofw theaa complaints are remedied-wo will tuVii. the matter over to the Attorney Gen eral or solicitor to force your com pany to1 handle your bushier,s tfitu dispatch and regularity." c. * \ 1 " ' - 4 ' x , v'' ' Bcok Contract AH Eight. v ? Columbia, Spfccial.-rTiio Supremo Court handed down a decision unani mously sustaining the decree of Jus tice WoodtT in refusing an injuuc tion against the Slate board of .edu cation when Governor iloy.waid wua si motiiber ex-o<Rcio from entering upon ii half million dollar contract with certain book publishers for tho school book supply of tin.' State for a period of tivo yeare. This contract established a radical departure from the method -of buying books for a live-year period. Under tho new con tract the State board decided up^n Utt official list to be used in tho common schols of the State for a period of five years, these books to be handled through a central deporitory at Co* lumbia, which in turn soils ttiom sub-depositories throughout tho State, the central depository to real ize 10 per cent., ami the sub-deposi tories to get 30 per eent; mote. Tho contract witl\ the publishers require.! Carolina edition," and the retail price list established by theV l>oard printed beneath, l\\es* words. Any depository selling 'above the list priee makes tho publisher lia ble ou his bond. The action was brought in the name of two citizens of the State, but tho undcrstimding has been that cortain publisher* whose books were not accepted were back of the proceeding. It wan argu ed for the petitioners that tho de pository scheme was in violation of law ajjd that the school patrons would have to pay more than under the old system. Superintendent, i Martin and others of the board* how ever, contended that a saving 'of about $100,000 would bo saved iivtkv period of flvo-^enrs, and that the | scheme prevented retail dealers frou\ charging top much for books. jL-' Box Crtuhea Out life. Danville, Va., Special. Gibson, * young white man year* of age, wl|p baa bain aa brmkeipan for the ly.