A BE There come a mighty blizzard, Some said, BY JOE CONE COPYRIGHT 1908 BY JOE CONE PETERS was a Yankee man an’ sharp. than a pin, He lived way out in Lonesome Lane, all ‘by himself, an’ he Would never visit other folks or ask his neighbors in An’ never had Thanksgivin’ or a Christmas jubilee. He was the sharpest feller in a trade cu ever knew, He was the closest buyer ever seen around the town, An’ if he lent a dollar he was surc to get back two “5 An' always took advantage of the fzller who was down, An’ cwell upon his dealin's in The old folks used to talk of him beside the fire at night a most peculiar way; The children used to mock him when he chanced to come in sight, An’ this is but a sample of the things they used to say: - “Old Abe Peters of Lonesome Lane, Old Abe Peters in town again, Poor as a buzzard an’ With lots of money, but none to show— Old—Abe— Peters!" mezn as a crow, Abs : an’ it buried Lonesome Lane. Abe Peters he was covered under seven foot of snow; He tried to leave his shanty, but he found it all in vain; Each day he grew more frightened, with his fodder runnin’ low, “Let's dig out Peters,” an’ some said, ‘No; let him go.” They argued o'er the matter till the week was on the wane, Til finally they ventured, half a score of souls or so, An’ this is what they shouted as they dug out Lonesome Lane: Old Abe Peters, unbuckle your gold; Old Abe Peters, we're dry an’ cold; | Cider or coffee or crackers an' beer Or money to buy us some Christmas cheer— 0ld—Abe—Peters!" 3 Abe Peters saw ‘em comin’ from his garret window pane; He saw 'em diggin’ fiercely through the mighty drifts of snow. His heart warmed for a moment; then it turned to ice again. He scowled with selfish malice on the workers down below. And did he pass ‘em coffee? Did he offer Christmas cheer An’ thank ’em for their labor, which, alas, was all in vain? He warned 'em from his dooryard in a manner most severe An' sued ‘em all for trespass when he got around again. **Abe Peters has vanished from Lonesome Lane: . Abe Peters will never come back again, Just where he is quartered we do not know, But it's safe to reckon he's found no snow— Old—Abe—Reterst"’ Abe Pelers saw ‘em comin’, * Ohe ¥ Doll Hospital By J. A. EDGERTON . '[Copyrizht, 1%6, by J. A. Edgerton.) HE vorld is full of hospitals, nov only for disense racked and wrecked human beings, but for | dogs, horses, birds and—dolls. And why ; not? Dolls have zilments as well as other rolks—in fact. rather more so. They lose their hair, their eyes, their their hands, their legs, their saw- i dust and even their complexions and | heads. Small boys delight in crippling | and maiming them, rockers smash them, big folks step on them. This | iz a hard world for dolls. i . 80 the doll hospitals flourish. Most large cities support one. Doll surgery ' bas become a science. The poor things do not have to take medicine, fortu- nately, except paint applied externally and sawdust internally, so that a phar: : macopoein is not required in dol} doc toring. ‘The operations are all But for all that the doll doctors ave en- ; had cut dolly's head off with a fire- | enough hospitals. titled to place M. D. after their names, | AL D. standing for mender of dolls. ! ~ It is quite a grewsome sight in we wards and operating room of the hos- | pital itself. There heads, arms, legs, eyes and trunks lie about in startling array. Most of the heads are minus hair and have great holes in the tops of them. Arms or legs are hanging literally by a thread. Noses are brok- en, lmnds are minus, feet have been ampitated, faces are mashed in, while the internal machinery that makes the doll ery, say “mamma” and open and shut its eyes is out of whack as badly as som? people's livers. The wax, china nad papier mache babies have never developed appendicitis as yet, or stomach ache, but they are subject to almost every other ill. The doll hospital is a great boon to ‘the little mothers. They come at all ‘hours of the day, bringing their ailing Surlings. or, if they live too far away, ‘they send dolly by express or mes- senger, with eramped and pathetic motes. One little girl had let her precious fall downstairs and break its oe another had been listening to a ‘hand organ on the street, and her broth- ‘er, who was playing that he was a Chi- ‘nese emperor and was executing some «of his subjects, just to kee) in practice, ' ' ‘shovel. Still another small miss of weven had kissed the nose off. Me- | Jitavie Jane—dolls usually have long name’, tors plecse fix it? They would, On the werk table at the hospital are not only arms and legs galore, but all kinds of wigs, paints, threads and cords, miniature teeth, tiny curling irons, pastes and glues, habks and seis- sors of many shapes and sizes and even an appalling ossortment of glass eyes of various colors and sizes. "The eyes, which open and shut with a weight, are placed in position through the open- ing in the head. A few stitches serve to mend loose arm or lez, while hooks and cords are usually required to fix a fractured joint. ‘The paint brush touches up a faded complexion, as is the case even with flesk and blood grown folks, There are almond eyed Chinese dolls with faded yellow complexions and long cues, Indians with feathers missing from their war bonnets, picka- ninny dolls with moth eaten wool and angel faced cherubs with a battered appearance that makes them look as if they had been in a Bowery scrimmage. But surgery does miracles, and this | particular branch of it performs even - greater wonders than that in the sure It makes bodily , members grow on where none had been | before, and before its marvelous pow- ers even decapitation is not fatal. Ee ———— as ~ a a RA you know-—and would the doec- | ever heard. i i Christmas In the Caribbean “FF 1 can't be at my own house,” remarked a naval officer, “I'd rather spend the holiday s2a- son on a cruiser or gunboat | down in the Caribbean than in the | greates it city of the land. Fun? Why, you con't know what fun is until you come to a celebration like the musical : comedy given by the crew of a pro- tected cruiser off Santo Domingo on Christmas night four years ago. “The surgeon wrote the words, and there was a sailor, a regular genius at music, who got up the finest score you Why, he'd have made a | hit writing music for operas on Broad- | way if he hadn't died of tropical fever. { That comedy—but I guess you'd call i it nn extravaganza more likely—was the | funniest show I ever saw. Maybe it wouldn't have seemed so to you, but to us it was all that could be desired by the most critical.” i “But how did you ge: n stage or | scenery or costumes or makeup?’ ask- ed the landsian, “Oh, that was all easy,” he replied. | “As soon as the men told the captain | of their plan he gave them the free | use of the quarter deck, which ver | cleared for dramatic action. Then the | boys built a platform—as good a stage | as yon ever saw—and chairs or benches were placed in rows until there were seats for everybody, from the com- manding officer down to the cook's helper. “Curtain? Of course we had a cur- | tain. It was made of old sailcioth, and ! a series of ropes and pulleys made it rise and fall as smoothly as the one in the Meotranatitan Opera House. ‘I'hen, - 05 “THLE ‘LEADING WOMAN’ ats A SMOOTH CHEEKED SWEDE. on each side of the stage, more sail- cloth was used to conceal the dress- ing rooms and the ‘flies.’ As for scen- | ery, the carpenters bpilt wooden frames, and these were covered with sails stretched taut, on which the painters put beautiful trees and houses and whatever else was necessary to complete the pictures. The footlights were electric bulbs; shaded from the audience by tin reflectors. “Ihe costumes afid ma required ‘as much ingenuity. ¢ organizers had ‘procured au good many feminine garments ashore severalweeks ahead of time, but all the smaller accessories were made aboard ship. The false beards were constructed of strands of |’ rope, which were carefully picked out and then shaped up by a fellow who had a talent for that sort of work. Of the same material he wove elaborate wigs. Burnt cork did the work of darkening cyebrows, and face paints were mixed in the fo'c'sle—probably from ordinary house paints, for 1 guess the sallors weren't particular “about their complexions. “The ‘leading woman’ was a ool cheeked Swede, and he was rigged up ‘regardless.’ ! can tell you he was a stunner. The flounces and lace and ribbons he wore would have filled a trunk. The only tf¥ouble about him was hist voice, but we grew used to that before the end of the first act; what it lacked in feminine delicacy it atoved for in quality. He gave us all the popular songs of a year before in a rich tenor and added a few composed for the occasion, mostiy hits at the of- | | Montgomery & Co. Post Cards. 300 Varieties Xmas Postals from 1 to 10 cents. . 7000 Varieties Post Cards from 1 to 10 cents. 400 Varieties Leather Cards—special prices for cushion sets and table covers, the latest rage. POST CARD ALBUMS sc to $4.00—~LARGE LINE. CHILDREN'S BOOKS. 400 Varieties 1c. to $2.00—fine 5 and 10 cent lines. Peotograph Cameras and Supplies. Kodaks $1.00 to $26.00. Supplies of all sorts. WRITING PAPER. See the beautiful line of Box Papers to please everybody. Special Xmas Boxes. Gold Pens, Games, Almanacs, Diaries, Bibles, Gilt Picture Frames Fountain Pens, $1.00 to $10.00, and many other things all to be seen at BUSH'S, Bush Arcade, - - . =. A ——————— Bellefonte, Pa. Montgomery & Co. MEN'S EXTRA. Sometimes we think ahead of the calendar. We think winter ought to come in November, when in reality it does not begin until December 21st. The season prior to this is Fall, $0. the’ great bulk of the Winter business i is yet to be done, and onr is tables are piled high wilh Hats, Umbrellas, 2 Bagne Ways’ Mufflets, : Rallefonte. Pa. ° Now for Winter Weather and Winter =; ‘Clothing. * senile
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