THE ACORN Wallace Drug Co PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Drugs, Toilet Articles, Perfumes Protect yourself against a cold by purchasing a chest protector before too late 224Q Washington Ave. Bell Phones 290-Z; Ind. Phone 349 Girls Look Here! Christmas Millinery Sale OPERA HATS A SPECIALTY Call and see them Leading Millinery Co. Washington Avenue Drop a Line to Santa He's at our store, and using our delivery wagons for help this year. Z.= C.= M.= I. Copyright 1905 by Hart Schaffner & Marx Young Man YOUR SUCCESS IN LIFE will not depend entirely upon your appearance. Your character, your method of doing things will play a leading part. You'll find however that appearances count for much. It is our business to help you make a correct appearance Wright's Clothing Store Volume 3 The ACORN Number 2 DECEMBER 1905 A Snowbound Christmas Most of the occupants of the car sat gazing" out of the windows into the snow-filled air. All day they had spent in this one room, each sitting quietly in his place. There had been but little conversation. The tall dark man with the white moustache and tired face had slept much. A boy opposite, who showed sullen anger and defiance in his face had watched him. An earnest bright-faced young girl had eyed all her neighbors with keen interest. There was the old lady in the corner, a man with sample cases piled at his side, the shabby woman holding a big baby, and a middle-aged man who had read three newspapers from beginning to end without a change of expression, and since then had sat staring straight before him. An ill-assorted company it was. Surely they would have chosen to spend the day before Christmas together for no other reason than that they all wished to travel over this branch road between Little Falls and the Grand Central. The day was nearly over, and the journey should have been; but the snow, which had been falling all day, grew heavier, the speed of the train decreased slowly, and finally, the great engine groaned and stopped. The drifting snow hid the familiar land marks; and so it happened that just as the passengers were wondering as to the cause of the delay in that lonely place, Jim Case, the fireman, in swinging himself from the engine, fell and broke his arm. He was lifted back white and fainting; and, when the brisk conductor hurried into the passenger coach, he responded to the anxious queries with a brief, "Snowed up;" and then, addressing the dark man, he said, "I don't suppose you're a doctor, are you?" "Yes," said the man, "does someone need me?" The conductor told of the accident, and was quickly followed by the doctor with his grip. "Here we are Jim," he called out cheerily, "here's the doctor."