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*- "ms * ^ * ?Nrv* *#*&fs«* I* ^ ^j^V**1' t>^?^ ^ 1 *> ,.%.-*•J* W ' TOTE WclflkltT' PtATtfDBAfctift, McHBNfcY, tli: m: .<&"• By Hugh Pendextei! Oopyrlcfct Igr Th* BaMx-Maril Oft. .^*9 -%». ,.j-' .^...Ji!ife;j •«' '• -^' THE BROKEN JUQ SYNOPSIS.--In th« late summer of 1876, Peter Dinsdale. on hia way to the Black hills to Join the throng of gold-seekers, makes the acquaintance of the keeper of a Doadwood gambling house, San Juan Joe, who is returning to Dead wood. On their way through Red canyon Dinsdale and Joe meet * young woman running from a party of Indians. Dinsdale takes her on his horse and the two men ride through her pursuers, killing several. The girl is Lottie Carl, and she lias no relativ.es. Near Deadwood they overtake a prospector. whom Joe hails as old Iron Pyrites." At Deadwood City San Juan Joe, popular in the 'community, is given an enthusiastic welcome, which is extended to Dinsdale. Joe takes Dinsdale and Lottie to the house of a woman of -the town, Kitty the Sehe'mer, Joe's mistress, where , the gambler had intended to install Lottie. Dinsdale refuses to allow it, taking Lottie to a house where she will be safeguarded. Dinsdale saves an apparently haW-wttted individual, known as Scissors, from mistreatment at the hanCs of a "bad man," Bandy Allen, who vows vengeance on Dinsdale. Scissors' nickname is derived from his ability to cut with paper and scissors, remarkable likenesses of persons, or anything that strikes his fancy. Dinsdale takes to htm. Iron Pyrites arrives in town. At a midnight meeting ' of road-agents plans are made to rob one ot the treasure-ccaches. Dinsdale acquires a reputation as a reckless spender and an expert gunman. San Juan^ Joe. believing Dinsdale to be a train-robber, warns him of the coming of "Jim Omaha." Union Pacific detective, and advises him to take a prospfcting trip with Pyrites. Dinsdale appears reluctant. Dinsdale kills Allen. He then takes to the hills with Pyrites. While prospecting, Dinsdale blunders onto a large log cabin. In a cellar Dinsdale finds the proceeds of roi.beries. A man enters the cnbin. Dinsdale knocks him senseless. He makes his way back to Pyrites. The two make their way to Rapid City. In & gambling place a stranger, with a bandaged head, tells Dinsdale his name Is "Easy." Telling Pyrites he believes "Easy" is the man he slugged in the cabin, Dinsdale sets out with Scissors for Deadwood. They are ambushed by a band of Ogalala. among whom Scissors had once been a captive. Scissors claims friendship ..with "Crazy Horse," great Indian chief. The Indians, impressed take them to their village. During Scissors' previous captivity Sorrel Horse, had looked on him as a rival medicine-man. A test of the superiority of the white and red men's "medicine" Is arranged. Sorrel Horse is an expert at legerdemain, but Scissors Is his superior and finally wins complete victory in this strange duel. CHAPTER IX'--Continued. II ---10-- Those warriors who had come with Crazy Horse were elated over this proposed test. But Little Big Man and his braves were much concerned. They had said nothing to Crazy Horse or tbe medicine man about Scissors' ahil fty to free his hands from bonds. But they remembered that the presence of Shunca-luta should render futile any such power they became more op- Uaii8tic. It was Little Big Man who superintended the tying np of the two men. They were bound with many lengths •f rawhide. Crazy Ilorse himself Inspected the thongs to make sure they were right, and he directed that certain knots In the cords of Sorrel Ilorse ; be made more secure. 5 If a medicine was worthy of a man's devotion It needed no assistance from JRortals. Scissors read the dismay in . IMnsdaie's face and murmured: "The more rope the better. Four '-- feet would l»e harder to get out of ' .. than a dozen." /• t With the hist knot tied the two men Were carried into the prisoners' lodge tilid laid on robes with the center pole between them. Then they were left tnd the flap was drawn tightly and pegged to the ground. The assemblage considered this the supreme test, and each warrior waited In breathless expectancy. Sorrel Horse was famous for being a defter of knots. Some of the warriors knew the white man had (dipped his wrist thongs, but conditions, were no longer the same. j Not only had much more cord been TOed, but th«* tying of the knots had been under the supervision of the red nan's Invisible helpers. Tunkan had 1 #ent his subordinates to protect his • ftiild. True, the white man had made stone offerings to Tunkan. by;t the red children were ever first In the heart of the stone god. Almost as soon as the flap had been iecured there came the sound of voices from the lodge, and neither white nor red man was speaking. There was only one explanation--help for the red man had arrived from Mato Tlpl. One voice was high and squeaky and hac! been heard before when Sorrel Horse was In a trance In search of ent llghtenment. One voice rumbled and *^*88 quite terrifying to those grouped outside the lodge. The last would he a very mighty spirit. The side of the lodge next to the half-circle beciitne agitated. The covering of hide shook and bulged outward and then sucked In. The voices increased In volume and gave the Impressron the white man's medicine Was making a strong fight. Then the flap was shaken violently; and the spectators drew In their heels, ready to Jump up and run If the battle was transferred to the open. Those outside were at the peak of their excitement and were having dlffi calty in controlling themselves as they waited for the climax, when the voices <£ suddenly ceased. The agitation of the lodge covering ceased. Only a defep groaning was to be heard.'*<This groan Inc kept up for a minute or two, and yet nothing decisive happened. The spell was shattered by a voice behind the seated warriors calling out: "His medicine has failed, tlify say. They say it is realiy-'-very weak." Dinsdale stifled pack a cheer. The Indians jerked their- heads about as one and were nonplused to behold the white man standing on the outer fringe of the massed group, Thrs stupor gave way to a desire for uctlon, and with a yell several of the men leaped to their feet and would have laid violent hands On Scissors had not Cra*y Horse loudly cortlmanded: "Do not touch the white man. He is not running away. * Open the lodge." Scissors advanced to the medicine pole and seated himself beside Dinsdale. Little Big Man pulled up the pegs and threw back the flap. Sorrel Horse .was flat on his back in his original position, and thoroughly helpless. It was most amazing. Scissors took advantage of the moment to whisper : "Almost beat me. Nip and tuck. If Crazy Horse hadn't made them tighten up some of his knots he would have won. Once I was loose I fixed him up stronger than ever. That's what took me so long." > " . "So long! It was all over in no time. Why didn't some one see you come out?" muttered Dinsdale. With a chuckle Scissors explained: "I shook the flap and got every one to watching it. Thep I slipped out the back side and ran around behind the lodges.** Sorrel Horse wPas released. His face was deadly'with hate as he got oil his feet. He would not divulge that certain extra and very stubborn knots found in his thongs had been tied by Scissors. He preferred to explain that the white man's medicine had been allowed to appear the stronger because the red medicine was displeased at the Indian's soft treatment of the white man. * "Why should Tunkan help the red man against the white when the white man Is taken by the hand and called1 Kola?" he sullenly asked. This defense was peifectly joglcal in the minds of the majority of the red men, and more than one hand closed on a skinning knife In a lust to make a fitting sacrifice to the st>ne god. But Crazy Horse never lost sight of the main point. He spoke up sharply, saying: "These men speak with a straight tongue, and their medicine will help us--or else they are liars and their medicine will grow very weak. We must find out If the young man Is a friend of High Wolf, our brother of the Cheyenne. If he Is Ihen Two Knives Talking has talked with a straight tongue and his medicine will help us against Three Stars and his soldiers." " "Let Little Big Man pick out two young braves who want new names, and tell them to ride swiftly to the Short Medicine Pole hills and look for High Wolf. If High Wolf is not at the hills the two men will wait three sleeps, then one shall ride to Slim butte to tell me. The other will wait three sleeps more and If High Wolf does not come, nor any soldiers are seen to be watched, then he will ride to my village. "This place Is not good for camp. Little Big Man has been very brave in going to Mato Tlpl. Now let the camp move to Slim butte; for they say we shall have a big fight with Three_ Stars before many sleeps. thereby prove all his words were so many lies. Scissors refrained from even moving about the camp, and from his position lrt the opening of the lodge kept his companion informed of all that was going on outside. Two ambitious young bucks were soon speeding north In search of High Wolf, who was believed to be somewhere In the neighborhood of the Short Aiedicine Pole hills. A few hours after their departure word was given -to strike the lodges and pack them on travois poles. Dlnsdale's shelter was the last to be taken down. He was mounted on his own horse with his hands still fastened behind hlin. Scls* sors was commanded to ride at the front of the .band with Crazy Ilorse on one side and Little Big Man on the other. Sorrel Horse loitered behind to have a private conference with his medicine. A monotonous ride of twenty-flve miles, almost due north, brought Slave butte abreast on the right. After the first few miles Crazy Horse had evidenced a willingness to talk with his prisoner and was ready to answer questions. He took much pleasure in describing how some Snake captives were killed at Slave butte by the Dakota in" the old days, thereby originating the name, and added that much had been learned since then as to the most painful method of putting "prisoners to death. Scissors appeared greatly pleased by the gruesome recital and refused to betray any concern over the veiled threat as to his own possible fate. Although the top of the butte was about the same height as that of Mato Tip! Its actual elevation above Its base was less than three hundred feet owing to the sharp upgrade. from the Belle Fourche. No shelters were fut up and after a meal of jerked meat guards were posted and the men rolled up in their blankets. Scissors was not tied, and Dinsdale was .secured only by his(legs. From the chief down to the youngest buck it was firmly believed that thongs of rawhide could not hold Scissors, and as an extra precaution against his attempting flight Sorrel Horse offered to stand watch over him. Nor could there have been a more zealous guard, for whenever the picture man opened his eyes It was to find the baleful orbs of the medicine man staring at him. When they resumed their Journey In the morning the course stttl held northerly, and Crazy Horse informed Scissors they were to pass through Prospect -valley between the Short Pine hills, and then turn east and skirt the bad lands and make a hard ride of some forty miles before reaching the Slim butte village. The chief seemed to be very confident that his village was Inaccessible for the sol diers, should they ever come. CHAPTER X m Little Big Man Pulled Up the Pegs and Threw Back the Flap. Watch these two men, but do not put cords on Two Knives Talking. He will not run away and leave his friend; nor has his medicine the strength to take the rawhide off his friend yet." Dinsdale was much discouraged when this was repeated to him, but Scissors optimistically declared: "Even if old High Wolf Is nmong the hilts," as Crazy Horse seems to expect, the ride Is more than a hundred miles from here. They'll go through flying unless something happens to them, hut we haven't been skinned yet. So long as we can hope, we're all right. I'm wakan. I'm wakan wltshasha. Don't look downhearted. Look Jolly. That's better. You're a friend of High Wolf, remember. He'll vouch for you. You're Just hungry for him to show up,** Dinsdale was taken back Into the lodge and tied to the * center pole. Scissors was left free but under sharp espionage. Either Crazy Horse bad no fear of his trying to escape so long as his friend, was a prisoner, or else he wished to tempt him to flight, and The White Men Score. --Because of a heavy rain the Slim butte village was not reached until the close of the third day out from Prospect valley. The clouds broke and the afternoon sun shone warm as the Ogalala and their prisoners came in sight of the village. As they rode up the slope to the village the prisoners counted thirtyseven lodges besides four uncovered frames. One lodge, much larger than the others, had a tall pole standing beside the entrance, to which was attached a long strip of flannel heavily fringed with feathers. At less than a man's height there was suspended a large rattle which bore a turtle design. Dinsdale assumed this was the lodge of Crazy Horse until Scissors Informed him the chief was extremely democratic and 'that this particular shelter belonged to a military society, organized by Sitting Bull, and known as the Strong Hearts. They were tender the direct command of American Horse, who was absent on ^ scout to the head of Heart river. American Horse had left word for Crazy Horse that Sitting Bull would soon be on the Little Missouri, or the Heart, with five thousand braves, and that the combined forces 'would descend on the Black hills and wipe out all the settlements before the soldiers could arrive from the Big Horn country. Crazy Ho»se, although a stole In conceuling his feelings, was much pleased over the likelihood of an early Joining of forces. He ordered that the prisoners be conducted to a lodge and well guarded but not bound. The hard travel and the fare of Jerked meat had told more severely on Dinsdale than on his companion, and the former was glad to throw himself on a pile of robes and succumb to the luxury of complete relaxation. Scissors was more worried because of the danger threatening the hill settlements than he cared to admit, and he remained at the opening of the lodge in a hope of learning something definite. No messenger had arrived from rhe Short Medicine Pole hills, and untijl one arrived he would not believe Sitting Bull was wtthin smoke-signal distance of the Little Missouri Dinsdale waS too exhausted mentally and physically to anticipate the dangers of the morrow. Scissors' heart beat rapidly every time he heard a pony's hoof drumming toward the village. No guards were posted Inside the lodge, and for the first time since their capture both were free of bonds. They were so weary they slept through the ordinary bustle of early morning and did not awaken until disturbed by the penetrating sound of rattles. Dinsdale rolled from his robes before fully awake and groped about for some weapon. Scissors quieted him and opened the flap and peered.ouu He motioned for Dinsdale to Join him. and whispered: <4Some ceremony of the Strong Hearts. I can see their banner." Dinsdale was not assured, for the first part of the spectacle he observed consisted of two men with bows and arrows. - Behind them walked two braves, each vigorously shaking a gourd rattle. Ahead of the quartette walked two girls; one carrying a pipe and the other a_ Strong Heart banner. The purpose of the bowmen was soon revealed, and Dinsdale lost his fear. One of the men suddenly raised his bow and sent an arrow through a dog. His companion shot another; and the rattles were shaken loudly to signalize their marksthanship. A woman ran from a lodge and took both dogs inside. The' little procession disappeared behind a lodge and presumably killed more dogs, as there came further spasmodic rattling. After some fifteen minutes the men and the two young girls came In sight of the prisoners' lodge and walked toward it. The bows were unstrung, the rattles sounded only at regular intervals. The four men chanted: 'Friends, whoever runs away shall not be admitted." 'Strong Hearts, ail right. They've been shooting their breakfast. Food enough without killing dogs, but they are trying to tench the village folks self control. They won't shoot a dog. If the owner comes out and makes a fuss," explained Scissors, who was now cutting a piece of paper. "They reckon It makes a man's heart strong to see his dog killed without making a row about it. There comes the woman who owned the two pups we saw shot. She showed her self-control by taking the dogs inside and singeing them. Now she's carrying them to the society's lodge where they'll be cooked and eaten. In the old days there .might he as many as four Strong Heart lodges in one village; and It took some dogs to keep them all going." As the Strong Hearts proudly stalked by the prisoners' lodge. Scissors leaned through the opening and thrust his picture into the hand of a bowman. It was an excellent outline of a brave In the act of releasing an arrow, and the low grunt of the re clplent testified to bis appreciation of It. "Always could do it," mused Scissors proudly. "I'm wakan. Pictures don't cost me anything. Cheers them up. Why not give them some?" "if It'll cheer the devils any please give them a bushel," was Dlnsdale's disconsolate rejoinder. "Scissors, I'm losing my nerve; and I never lost It before. It Isn't death; it's the way they have with their d--d skinning knives. I'm always remembering that story about the fellow skinned auve and Rawhide creek named after tbe affair." "You're borrowing trouble," rebuked Scissors. "The fellow you mention suffered enough without you suffering apy over It. Almost any morning the dogs In this village see some of their canine friends shot. Do they worry and brood over what may happen to them? Two are out there playing now, Today Is theirs and they live it. Wakantanka lets them see only rhe present. Man sees a long line of tomorrows. Unless he can train his soul to be strong he pays for his manknowledge by being afraid for what may happen. Stir up your soul. We're alive. We can hope. Only those who see the tomorrows can hope. Up to this- minute we have been as safe as If we were back In Deadwood City." "Oh, I'll drag myself together so's not to show anything," muttered Dinsdale. "But I wish something could happen. I w:ish it was all over, one way or the other. I'm not afraid of where I will land, but It's the road there that I would like to skip." "It's trying to guess what road we're to take that's ailing you. We'll walk about and you'll feel better," said Scissors. him a lesson. Let's get away from the lodges where I can think a bit.** They returned to the slope and walked down to the river. Their guards followed, but kept a distance. They seated themselves on the bank of the stream. A slip of a girl stole down to tbe stream and filled an earthenware Jug to overflowing. She had not discovered them and paused for a minute to dabble her feet in the water. The jug was decorated with a red snake, showing the owner had dreamed of wolves and had learned from them how to locate game. Shunca-luta carried the bent stick of a Wolf-dreamer. At last the girl decided she had better be about finishing her errand and scrambled from the water and inserted the wooden stopper in the Jug and smote it with her small fist to drive it home^ The Jug being filled to the top of the snout, promptly broke under the hydraulic pressure, tbe cleavage being near the bottom and as evenly cut as If done by a knife. The girl stared in horror at the broken jug and frsgan tearing her hair. Scissors stepped forward and addressed her. In a broken whisper she explained : "It is his, the mighty Shunca-luta. Each day he sends the medicine Jug by me. Now I have spoiled it. Now he will work bad medicine against me." Scissors' eyes sparkled with inspiration and he kneeled and examined the break critically. Then he readjusted the two pieces and found they fitted snugly together. To the girl he said, Stop your noise, little one. Perhaps my medicine can make the jug whole." He motioned for Dinsdale to Join him. "Bring water in your hat and fill this up while I bold It from slipping apart," he directed. Deeply puzzled, Dinsdale brought water In his felt hat and poured it into the jug. Until| disturbed the jug looked the same as ever. When the last hatful brought the water to tbe top of the snout Scissors' took the wooden stopper and gently inserted one end and worked slowly so sufficient water might escape to allow the plug to remain in place and exclude the air. "What nonsense Is this?" demanded Dfnsdale. "The Jug Is broken." "I will talk as we walk back." Then to the girl he said: "Lift It gently by the handle. Do npt let it hit against your legs. Walk carefully behind us. When you see me talking with Shunca-luta place It gently on the ground where the ground Is very smooth and leveL Do you understand?" She bobbed her head, her small round face filled with terror. "And never tell any one, or it will be bad medicine, and you will never take care of a warrior's lodge," he warned. The girl gingerly took hold of the handle and lifted the Jug. So great was her amazement and fear on beholding the jug remain Intact *that she came near to dropping it. Then holding it away from her and walking on tiptoe she began the ascent of the slope with the white men striding along before her. Scissors explained to his mystified friend: "Years ago, and long before I became wakan and had learned to forget useless things, 1 went to school In St. Louis to an old Frenchman. He was a very wise old man, and frora® him I learned among other things how hydraulic pressure will knock the bottom out of a small-mouth vessel If the vessel is filled to the brim and the stopper Is inserted violently. I als<r" learned that where the cleavage It clean the vessel can be fitted together and made to hold water if filled to the brim and the stopper Inserted gradually and gently. The atmospheric pressure on the jug Is uniform. But let the stopper be disturbed ever so little, let there come a space the width of a hair for the air to get in, and out comes the bottom of the Jug. Now we will Bee what we shall see.' With the girl counting every step of the way In her anxiety to have her part in the mystery concluded, Scis- Scissors began calling on the medicine man to face him. Now men and women were watching the two. "Shunca-luta. you have meddled with my medicine^" accused Scissors. "They say Tunkan is angry at you." "They say a lie," hissed Sorrel Horse. "Red men do not touch the. white men's medicine." "Two Knives Talking is net a white man. He is red," solemnly declared Scissors. A bell tinkled and Crazy Horse walked around a lodge, coup wand In hand, and surveyed the two gloomily. Scissors, pointing to the Jug, said: "That is made of stone. Tunkan can speak through It. It is painted with the sign of a Wolf-dreamer. It belongs to Shunca-luta. Tunkan can speak through it to him.** Sorrel Horse answered: "The stone god tein me through the stone jug that Two Knives Talking makes bad medicine against the red men." "Then let the jug give a sign that you have spoken true words," challenged Scissors. Sorrel Horse was now thoroughly puzzled. But the eager gaze of hia chief and warriors told him he must do something, "Tunkan has already said through the jug that the white men are liars and will go under' the skinning knives." The listeners accepted this as conclusive and their fierce eyes exulted in anticipation of the sport. "Two Knives Talking has «tsfced Tunkan for a sign to prove his tonprue HOW THIS WOMAN HOT STRENGTH Put Up 300 Quart* Fruit, 500 Giaues Jelly and Took Can of Four Children ~i&r Norwalk.Iowa.--*' I have been log for senna time to write and tell yon bow much good your medicine has done me. 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For Bfile by druggists everywhere. >' ' Deeply Puzzled, Dinsdale Brought Water in His Felt Hat and Poured It Into the Jug. is straight. The jug is stone and very strong, and yet before Shunca-luta can drink from it Tunkan will break it," Scissors asserted. The onlookers, incredulous, grunted and Jeered. Scissors folded his arms and with level gaze dared Shunca-luta to make the test. The girl had brought it, filled with water, even while he was talking with the white man. He took it by the handle and lifted it. It was a very strong Jug. It was impossible for anything to break it before he could take a drink. And to prove that fact he yanked out the stopper and started to lift it to his lips. The bottom dropped out and the water splashed down the medicine man's legs. To the white men it was a ludicrous tableau. The medicine man stood rigid, the stopper clutched in one hand, the upper part of the Jug held In the other, his eyes bulging. But there was nothing humorous In the spectacle to the Indians. Even Crazy Horse stepped back and stared uneasily at the prisoners. With a low gasp of fright .Shunca-luta dropped the fragment of the jug and darted back Into his lodge. When they left the lodge several warriors walked behind them, keeping I 801,8 proceeded to Shunca-luta's lodge fifty feet from them. Other men, as if I called on him by name, speaking in a loud voice. The medicine man came out and glared at the picture man and waited for him to speak. The ghi halted behind the medicine man and carefully placed the Jug on a smooth level spot, and fled as If demons were after her. Heads popped from the surrounding lodges when wandering aimlessly, walked abreast of them. During their walk the prisoners saw nothing of Crazy Horse or Little Big Man, but Sorve! Horse, the medicine man, was occasionally glimpsed as he glided behind the lodges and near enough to watch them. Scissors began cutting pictures of dogs and children, making them exceedingly whimsical, and beckoned for the sullen youngsters to approach and receive them as gifts. At first the children Imitated the baleful hostility i familiar to of the medicine man and lowered at The snow worm is not famillar^to the smiling picture man with Juvenile ^ Se.nerH' '..«i and Scissors evidently has 8orrel Horse scared. How can he turn his victory to account? (TO BB CONTINUED.) Deaert Shower» Count The effect of a fdntrle stio*-«r on the southern margin of the Chilean desert Is noted by Churies Darwin: "The farmers, who plant corn near the sea coast, where the atmosphere is more humid, taking advantage of this shower, would break up the ground; after a second they would put the seed In; and if a third shower should fall, they would reap a good harvest In the spring. It was Interesting to watch the effect of this trifling amount of moisture. Twelve hours afterward the ground appeared as dry as ever; yet, after an Interval of ten days all the'hills were faintly tinged with green patches; the grass being sparingly scattered in hairlike fibers a full inch In length. Before this shower every part of the surface was bare as on a high road."--From Desert Trails of Atacama, by Isaiah Bowman. Worms Found in Vast Numbers on Glaciers ferocity. Gradually curiosity got the better of racial resentment, and one bold urchin counted coup by dashing in and snatching a picture. After that there was much scrambling for the pie tures, and as fast as one was secured It was taken to a lodge to display to tures have been called snow eels and they are frequently found on the snowclad slopes of the ranges of mountains in Oregon and Washington. According to the well-known Ichthyologist, Dr. E. W. Gudger. they are not eels, but true worms. They are the equally curious parents. Some one I scarcely more than a half-Inch long and only one-sixty-fourth of an Inch in diameter and are Jet black In color. Since they are sometimes found In vast numbers upon beds of snow, they present a rather startling spectacle. Upon making a study of the mattei Dr. ^Gudger found that the best account of the phenomenon was given In 181)9 by Dr. J. P. Moore of the University of Pennsylvania, from specimens collected by H. G. Bryant upon a glacier In Alaska. The notes of the latter quoted in Natural History cine. His voice carried far, and dusky I contains this Interesting passage: decided the grotesque outline* were medicine, .at least good-luck * 'o'ns. and one was pinned on the <mside of a lodge. The word was quickly pasxed. and in a very short time a dozen or more lodges were thus decorated. With rapidly rising nnger did Sorrel Horse observe this homage to tl white medicine. 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Vnd [firovmr $0\kar* Get • G^'iipsotf "Hie Old B!ock N) JUNIOR*--Uttlo Kit .•-third the rt.ular done. Made the same iDgredicatti t".&a cdndy ated. Por children and adults. SOLO bY YOUR DRUGClSTa 4-i ':iJ'i- -.1