the public schools of Texas. At the time this resolution was adopted, there had accumulated from leases and rentals from the lands of the public domain, several millions of dollars which were then being classed as a part of the permanent school funds of Texas. This resolution called for the investment of that vast amount of money in safe interest-bearing securities, and the interest arising therefrom to be made available for school purposes. A subsequent legislature enacted the idea into a law and great benefit to the public school children of Texas has been realized therefrom. This question, however, was strenuously fought by the banking interests of Texas, for the reason they were the beneficiaries of the so-called permanent school fund deposits.

One of the daughters of Rev. John Anderson, Miss Margaret, and her inseparable chum who later became her sister-in-law, during the Civil War had quite an exciting experience at a school play. They were conducting a play in which they had one of the students of the school painted up as a Negro representing Quantrell, a leader during the Civil War of a guerilla band of men who were not under the control of either the armies of the United States or the Southern Confederacy. During this play three of Quantrell's men, who were present, created quite a big disturbance by rising to their feet, pulling their pistols, and declaring the representation of the Negro as their leader, Quantrell, to be an outrage, and they were attempting to