Ann Arborites In Texas

The following account of a eouple of our prominent citizens is taken from the Valasco, Texas, World, of FeK 19: "Hon. J. T. Jacobs and Mr. Charles E. Hiscock of Ann Arbor, Mich., canie down last week looking for sunshine and opportunities to make the best investments possible. The former, who already had large interests in Velasco, is a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioneis and president of the Ann Arbor school board, and was proininently mentioned as a candidate for congress at the November elections. Mr. Hiscock is cashier and a director of the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, an institution with $50,000 capital, over $1,000-' 000 deposits, and $150,000 surplus. This was the second trip these gentlemen luid made, and they found many changes siuce their previous visit in the autumn of 1891. A real estáte agent offered to buy some of Mr. Jacob's Velasco property, and received the following answer: "No, sir. My property is notfor sale. 1 knew what I was doing when I bought it, I want it now. It is not on the market. I have made a good deal of money on real estáte and neyer lost a dollar in my life by that kind of investment, and I am not going back on my judgment now. When I first came to Velasco I said this was a good thing and X now see additional and better reasons for feeling as I did then. That's all there is about it. "By the way, young man, I knew this country before you were born. I came down this rich coast of Uncle Sam during the civil war; but we did no harm to anybody or anything in Brazoria county. Since tbat time I have liked tlie climate and everything else so well that I would be glad if I could spend the rest of my life in Velasco ; and it is not altogethef improbable that I shall be here permanently in some future day." These gentlemen left on Tuesday for Los Angeles, Cal., for a six week'astay, Mr. Jacobs promising to return by way of Velasco.