Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Lake Gives Up Its Money. [ARTICLE]

Lake Gives Up Its Money.

Ten thousand English sovereigns, after lying for nearly 126 years at the bottom of East bay, Lake Champlain, have been recovered and are now deposited in the Allen National bank in Fairhaven. The Story of Texas, edited by C. W. Raines, the State Librarian, and magnificently illustrated, is the most prominent feature of the Christmas number of Pearson’s Magazine. The dramatic story of the “Lone Star” State, its immense size, and the big scale of its industries, invest the subject with a peculiar Interest. “What we want,” said the First Patriot, “is honest elections.” “I should say so,” agreed the Second Patriot. "Why, Heeler promised me SSO for my influence in my ward and now he says he never agreed to give me more than slo.”—Baltimore Sun. The Christmas number of the Woman’s Home Companion is full of matter of seasonable Interest. Mrs. Lamed tells how to give a Christmas dinner; there are articles descriptive of holiday entertainments, and many suggestions about the making of simple gifts. The ink of the Greeks and Romans was merely lampblack mingled with gum in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. Oil in Texas Gulf Coast lands, any size tracts. Ten dollars up. Raise any crop. Cheap R. R. rates. Write tor information. W. S. Swilley, Houston, Texas. A dollar saved is a dollar earned—for it’s hard work to save a dollar.