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TUESDAY, J POLK COUNTY OBSERVER TWO ' ' i; A Romance of The South Seas BY fiiAprnit Jack MDOM The Poonga-Poonga men's laughter died down, and they regarded tbe spec tac!e with (flittering eyes and glutton ous expressions. The Tahltlnns. on the other hand, were shocked, mid Adauiu Adam was shaking bin head slowly and grunting forth his disgust. Joan was angry. Her face was white, but in each cheek was a vivid spray of red. Disgust had been displaced by wrath, and her mood was clearly vengeful. Sheldon laughed. "It's nothing to be angry over," he j said. "You mustn't forget that he XIX- ontinued. Copyright, 19 10. by Street Q Smith Copyright, I9II, by the Macmillan Company small Never hnd runaways from Berande been more zealously .hunted. The deeds of Cogoomy and his fellows had been a bad example for the 150 new recruits. One by one the boys were captured. Gogooniy alone remained at Jarge, and, ns tbe pursuit closed in on him, he conquered his fear of the bushmen and beaded straight in for the mountainous backbone of the is land. Sheldon, with four Tahltians, and Seelee, with thirty of his hunters, followed Gogoomy's trail a dozen miles Into the open grass lands, and then Seelee and bis people lost heart. He confessed that neither be nor any of his tribe had ever ventured so far in land before, and he narrated for Shel don's benefit most horrible tales of the bushmen. "Gogoomy he finish along them fella bushmen," he assured Sheldon. "My word, he finish close up. kai-kal alto gether." So the expedition turned back. Noth ing could persuade the coast natives to venture farther, and Sheldon, with his four Tahltians, knew that It was mad ness to go on alone. That night, after dinner, Sheldon and Joan were playing billiards when Satan barked in the compound and Lnlaperu, Bent to see. brought back a tired and travel stained native who wanted to talk with the "big fella while marster." Sheldon went out on the veranda to see hi m. "What name you come along house belong n,e sun he go down?" "Me Charley," the man muttered apologetically and wearily. "Me stop along l!lnu." "Ah. liinu Charley, eh? Well, what j name you talk along me? What place ! big fella marster along white man he j stop?" Joan and Sheldon together listened to the tale Itinu Charley had brought, j Ue described Ttulor's expedition up ' the Italesuna. the dragging of the boats ! up the rapids, the passage up the river ! where it threaded the grass lands, the Innumerable washings of gravel by the haul the dunnage room for a shelter tent for Joan's use. "Tcwas quite" a lonnidable expedi- wbite men in search of gold, the first rolling foothills, the man traps o speur slaked pits In the jungle trails, the llrst meeting with the bushmen who had never seen tobacco and knew not the virtues of smoking, their friend liness, the deeper penetration of the Interior arounii the Hanks of the Lion's Head, the bush sores and the fevers of the white men, and their madness In trusting the bushmen. One morning Willi Charley noticed that the women and children hnd disappeared. Tudor, nt the fine. Mas lying In a stupor with fever In a late camp live miles away, the main ramp having moved on those five miles In order to prospect an out crop of likely iunri!!. Iilnu Charley was midway between the two camps when the absence of the women and children struck him as suspicions. "My word," he said, "me Ha wee too much trouble close up. Me run. My word, me run." Tudor, quite unconscious, was sluug cross his shoulder and carried a mile down the trail. Here, biding new trail. Wan Charley had carried him for a quarter of a mile Into the heart of the deepest jungle and bidden him In a big banyan tree. Here, nud from the direc tion of the null n camp, be had henrd two ritle shots. And that was all. He hail never seen the white men again. "There Is only one thing to do." Shel don suld to Joan. "I'll start the first thing In tbe morning." "We'll start." she corrected. "I can get twice as much out of my Tahltians 11s you can, and. besides, no white should never le alone under such clr cuiiistrinivs." Sheldon sent for a gang bos and told him to firing ten of the Mgcest, bet and strenge-st Pooiica I'ooi.ca '. men. "Not Sfilt water tvy." She) ton cau tioned, 'hut !.!i ty-hg N-long him stronj fella leg. Hot no savvee mus ket, no ciml Vu bring "iu sh.vt rmisket stroll-, fella." They were ten pl-led men that filed Tin on the vcran.li itnd t.vl In the 1 flare of the lanterns. Their heavy, miiseular leg advertised that they were tubmen. Killing u their nat ural vocation, not weed cutting; and. while they ou!d not time ventured ue i.iiiul Uoaiinr busa alone, wnn a white man l.ke Sheldon te!;;id them, and l.!:e Mary mh !j tUrf knew Joan to I, they tvu 1 eirnvt a asfe and dJhtf ul tiuie. l!-lJ,-. the pvat Buster bid t -ld them that the cltM '..ssit'c TaUI;bms were Roing aloos "l'kiiTy trouj: fella f.hi.- Sheldon warned tbem in con, :i!on. They srinu-d aal stifled drl lotted is. S- t uas.ea. ki! ka! ak-njr jour" t qucrk-4. " fiir." aciwt-rrd their spvkea tnaa, oue Kv a itri; '.i.e. thick lii ld lthi. j.iia lovklr. uaa. IVeua-l'init.,.! toy k.i l.l t uS Uyf F5e:d..-B atsx-k 11 lie 4 latifUi&fc ad thera ard went t ever- tion that departed from Berande at break of day next morning in a fleet of canoes and dingeys. There were Joan and Sheldon,-with Binu Charley and Lalaperu, the eight Tahltians and the ten I'oonga-Poonga men, each proud in the possession of a bright and ihlulng modern rifle. I?!nu Charley led the way onward into the rolling foothills, following the trail made by Tudor and his men weeks before. That night they camp ed well into the hills and deep In the tropic Jungle. The third day found them on the runways of the bushmen narrow paths that compelled single file and that turned and twisted with endless convolutions through the dense undergrowth. Here, in the midmorning, the first casualty occurred. Binu Charley bad dropped behind for a time and Koogoo. tbe I'oonga-Poonga man who had boasted that he would eat the bush men, was in tbe lend. Joan and Shel don beard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stum ble forward and sink down on his bauds and knees. Between his naked shoulders, low down and to the left, appeared the bone barbed bead of an arrow. He had been snot tnrougu ana through. Cocked rilles swept the bush with nervous apprehension, but there was no rustle, no movement; nothing but the humid, oppressive silence. "Bushmen he no stop." Binu Char ley called out, the sound of his Voice startling more than one of them. "My word! Look 'ui that fella," he continued, brushing aside the leafy wall of the runway, and exposing a bow so massive that no one busbniun could have bent it. The Binu man traced out the me chanics of the trap and exposed tbe hidden lllicr in the tangled under growth that nt contact with Koogoo's foot bad released the taut bow. They were deep in the primeval for- j est. Binu Charley took the lead as i they pushed on. and trap after trap yielded its secret lurking place to his keen scrutiny. Tbe way was beset with a thousand annoyances, chiefest among which were thorns, cunningly concealed, that penetrated the bare feet of the invaders. Once, during tbe afternoon, Binu Charley barely missed being impaled in a staked pit that undermined the trail. There were times when all stood still and waited 1 for half an hour or more, while Binu j Charley prospected suspicious parts of the trail. I Where a slight runway entered the ! main one Sheldon paused nud asked j Binu Charley If he knew where it leu. j "Plenty bush fella garden he stop j along there short way little bit." was I the answer. "All right you like 'm go look m along. Walk 'm easy," be j cautioned a few minutes Inter. "Close ; up, that fella garden. S'pose some ' bush fella he stop, we catch "m." ! Creel ing abend and peeling Into the clearing for a moment. Binu Charley beckoned Sheldon to come on cautious ly. Joan crouched beside him and to I get her they peeiH'd out On one edge I of the clearing was a small grass house. on sided, a mere rain shel : ter. In front of It. crouched on his i bams before a tire, was a gaunt and I warded bush man. The fire seemed to smoke excessively, and In the thick of the smoke a round dark oblect humr suspended. The hushm.m seemed at) sorN'd In contemplation of this object. Warning them not to sh'xt unless the man wms successfully escaping. Sheldon iKi-koned the Poonga poonga men forward. Before the Inishnian could shoot his swift enemies were ; 11111 him. lie w;is rolled over and over anil dragged to his feet, disarmed and helpless. "Why. be' an an. 1 -i;t K.-.r-ylotilan!" Joan cried, re-.-.i rd : n g Mm. "lie's an Asyrl.n. a Phoenician: Look nt that straight re. that narrow face, those biith 1 Inn k Uircs ami thnt slanting, oval forehead and the teard and the eye too." "And the snaky hvk." Sheldon laughed. "My word. mih felta kal kal along thit fella boy." 15!mi Chariev remark ed So stolid wa h iv?:-r.t r of utter ance that Joan turned cM!,t!y to me bat bad attracted hi attention and found belie f fare to face with Go- ! F'vn;T. At l-at It ws the head cf j t.sr ony-the dart or'eet they hsd seen bir.rpg la the m Ae. IN FKONT OP IT OHOUCHED BUSHMAN. A. BEARDED backed off Kwaque's head and that he ate one of bis own comrades that ran away with him. "And don't forget," Sheldon added, "that he is the son of a chief and that as sure as fate bis Port Adams tribes men will take a white man's head in payment." "It is all so ghastly ridiculous," Joan finally said. "And er romantic," he suggested slyly. She did not answer and turned away, but Sheldon knew that the shaft had gone home. T CHAPTER XX. THE HEAD IIC.NTEnS. HAT fella boy he sick." Binu Charley said, pointing to a Poouga-I'oonga mau whose shoulder bad beeu scratched by an arrow an hour before. The boy was sitting down and groan ing, bis arms clasping his bent knees, his head drooped forward and rollin painfully back and forth. For fear of poison. Sheldon had immediately scart lied the wound and injected perman gannte of potash; but in spite of the precaution the shoulder was swelling rapidly "We'll take him on to where Tudor Is lying," Joan said. "The walking will help to keep up his circulation and scatter tbe poison. Ad.imu Adam, you take hold that boy. Maybe he will want to sleep. Shake him up. If he sleep he die." The advance was more rapid now, for Binu Charley placed the captive bushman in front of him and made him clear the runway of traps. Once, at a sharp turn where a man's shoul der would unavoidably brush against a screen of leaves, the bushman dis played great caution as he spread the leaves aside and exposed the head of a sharp pointed spear, so set that the casual passerby would receive at the least a nasty scratch. The sun sinking behind a lofty west ern peak brought on an early but lin gering twilight, and the expedition plodded on through the evil forest tbe place of mystery and fear, of death swift nnd silent and horrible, of brutish appetite and degraded In stinct, of human life that still wallow ed In the primeval slime, of savagery degenerate nnd abysmal. They turned aside from tbe runway at a place Indicated by Binu Charley and came to an Immense banyan tree half an acre in extent that made In j the Innermost heart of the Jungle a j denser Jungle of its own. From out of Its black depths came the voice of a j man singing in a cracked eerie voice. "My word, that b!g fella marster he j no dieT j The singing stopjvd. and the voice ; faint and venk. called out a hello, i J.inn answered, and then the voice ex j plained: 1 -I'm not wandering. I w as Just sing I Ing to keep my spirits up. Have you j got anything to eat?" ! 1 Ilulor. having pulled throu 1 m . . j icer ami siartea to mend, una still fruitfully weak and very much starr ; ed. So bad'y swollen wa he from ) oiuito Mt. that hi race was ua j recognizable. Joan had ber own olnr- r.)ent alone and she prefaced their j a j plies ti..n by fomenting hi swollen feature with hot clothes. Sheldon. 1 m- t. . eve to tne camp and the preparations for tbe nizht. looked on j and felt the pang of Jealousy at er- flied ha her determination to push on, With Tudor, Adamu Adam and Arahu were to stop as guards. Binu Charley led the way, by proxy, however, for by means of the poison ed spear be drove the captive bush man ahead. They plodded on, pant ing and sweating in tbe humid, stag nant air. They were immersed In a sea of wanton, prodigal vegetation. Caught by surprise fifteen feet in the air above the path in the forks of a many branched tree, a bushman dropped like a shadow, naked us on his natal morn. It was hard for them to realize that it was a man. for ho seemed a weird jungle sprite, a goblin of the forest. Only Binu Charley was not perturbed. He fluug his poisoned spear over tbe head of the captive at the flitting form. It was a mighty cast, well intended, but the shadow, leaping, received tbe spear harmlessly between the legs and, tripping upon it, was flung sprawling. Before be could get away iiinu Charley was upon him, clutching him by his snow white hair. He was only a young man and a dandy at that, bis face black ened with charcoal, his hair whitened with wood ashes, with the freshly severed tail of a wild pig thrust through his perforated nose and two more thrust through his ears. His only other ornament was a necklace of human finger bones. At sight of their other prisoner he chattered in a high querulous falsetto, with pucker ed brows and troubled, wild nnimnl eyes. He was disposed of along the middle of the line, one of the Poonga Poonga men leading him at the end of a length of bark rope. "Close up he stop." Binu Charley warned them in a whisper. Even as be spoke, from high over head came the deep resonant boom of a village drum. But. the beat was slow. There was no panic in the sound. The runway now became a deeply worn path, rising so steeply that several times the party paused for breath. "One man with a rifle could bold it against a thousand." Sheldon whisper ed to Joan. "And twenty men could bold it with spears and arrows." They came out on tbe village, sit uated on a small, upland plateau, grass covered and with only occasional trees. There was a wild chorus of warning cries from the women, and spears and arrows began to fall among the in vaders. At' Sheldon's command the Tahltians and Poonga-Poonga men got into action with their rifles. The spears and arrows ceased, the last bushmen disappeared, and the fight was over al most as soon as it had begun. On their own side no one had been hurt, while half a dozen bushmen had been killed. "Poor brutes." Joan said. "They act ouly according to their natures. To eat their kind and take beads is good morality for them." "But tbey. should be taught not to take white men s heads." Sheldon ar gued. She nodded approval and said: "If we find one head we'll burn tbe vil lage. Hey, you, Charley! What fella place head he stop?" "S'pose be stop along house." was the answer, fella house, be devil-devil." it was the largest house in tbe vil lage, into it they went. Crouched be fore a slow smoking fire, in the littered ashes of a thousand fires, was an old man who blinked apathetically at tbe invaders. Ilia task, it seemed. wa9 to tend the Are, and, hung in the smoke, they found the object of their search. Joan turned and stumbled out hastily, deathly sick, reeling into the sunshine and clutching at the air for support. "See if all are there." she called back faintly and tottered aimlessly on for a few steps, breathing the air in crent drafts and trying to forget the sight she bad seen. Upon Sheldon fell the unnleasant task of tallying the heads. Thev were all there, nine of them, white men's heads, tbe faces of which he had been familiar with when their owners had camped in Berande compound and set up the poling boats. Binu Charley hugely interested. lent a band, turn ing the beads around for ldeiitiHenMon noting the hatchet strokes and remark ing the distorted expressions. Other heads, tborouchlv Sim Arai and smoke cured, were found in abun dance, but. with two exceptions, they eic 1 ue uca us or blacks. "Me savvee black Marv. me ant-, white Marv." nnotii rt'im. pk.i Me no savvee that fella Marv. What name belong him?" Sheldon looked. Ancient and whh. ered. blackened by tuanv vears of th smoke of tbe deril-d-vil bouse, never theless the shrunken, mumuivlike t.u unmistakably Chinese. How it devil-devil "That big third day. traveling with tbe current and shooting the rapids, the expedi tion arrived at Berande. Joan, with a sigh, unbuckled her revolver belt and hung it on the nail in the living room, while Sheldon, who had been lurking about for the sheer joy of seeing her perform that particular homecoming act, sighed, too, with satisfaction. But the homecoming was not ail joy to him. for Joan set about nursing Tudor and spent much time on tbe veranda when be lay in the hammock under the mosquito netting. The ten days of Tudor's convales cence that followed were peaceful days on Berande. The work of tbio Dlantation went on like clockwork. With the crushing of the premature outbreak of Gogoomy and his follow ing ail insubordination seemed to have vanished. Twenty more of the old time boys, their term of service up, were carried away by the Martha, and the fresh stock of labor, treated fairly, was proving of excellent qual ity. As Sheldon rode about the plan tation acknowledging to himself the comfort and convenience of a horse and wondering why be had not thought of getting one himself, he pondered the various improvements for which Joan was responsible. There wete times wben he was dizzy with thought of her and love of her, when be would stop his horse and with closed eyes picture her as be had seen her that first day in tbe stern sneets of the whaleboat, dashing madly in to shore and marching belligerently along his veranda to remark that it was pretty hospitality, this letting stran gers sink or swim in his front yard. It was patent to Sheldon that lu- dor bad become interested in Joan. Often after bis morning ride over tbe plantation or coming in from the store or from inspection of the copra drying. Sheldon found the pair of them together on the veranda, Joan listening intent and excited and Tudor deep in some recital of personal adventure at the ends of the earth. , Sheldon noticed, too, the way Tudor looked at her and followed her about with his eyes, and in those eyes he noted a certain hungry look and on the face a certain wistful expression, and be wondered if on his own face he carried a similar involuntary ad vertisement. He was sure of several things first, that Tudor was not the right man for Joan and could not pos sibly make her permanently happy; next, that Joan was too sensible a girl really to fall in love with a man of such superficial stamp, and. finally. that Tudor would blunder bis love making somehow. And at the same time, with true lover's anxiety, Shel don feared that the other might some how fail to blunder and win the girl with purely fortuitous and successful meretricious show. The situation was very unsatisfac tory and perplexing. Sheldon played the difficult part of waiting and look ing 011, while his rival devoted himself energetically to reaching out and grasping at the fluttering prize. He did not belong to Berande. and. now that be was well and strong again, it was time for htm to go. Instead of which Tudor had settled himself down comfortably, resumed swimming, went dynnmiting fish with Joan, spent hours with her hunting pigeons, trapping crocodiles and at target practice with rifle and revolver. Put there were certain tradltioils of hospitality that prevented Sheldon from breathing a hint that it was time for his guest to take himself off. And in similar fashion, feeling that It was not playing the game, be fought down the temptation to warn Jonn. Had he known anything., not too serious, to Tudor's detriment be would have been unable to utter it but the worst of It was that be knew nothing at all against the man. Whirled Hhrnnfl - fw a win ....j the rear door and down iS Sheldon sat and mUsert , trifle, angry, and tbe moJ upon the happening tha K SXew. Joan was tbe aV!' tbe world to attempt to n The thing smacked 0f o '8! anyway-a sordid little I haps, but to have tried it on nothing less than sacrtlJ! , should have bad better, It was while in this J ! screen door banged loudly heels of Tudor, who . room and paused before Z "Well?" Tudor demanded! And on the instant lll to Sheldon's lips. mi "I hope you won't itw . I like it again, that's n IT' -i.- .. . . -wc shall be oniv ton ho"' epii - extend to you the mJ. whaleboat. It will land you Vy! in a few hours." UJOUill "As if that would settle it ""-ul, iv uu uie pnnt i I retort. "Now. let me tell , 2S Solomon islands are not w T" f or tbe pair of us. tm. be settled hat well be settled right here and!1 "I can understand your tttL' manners as being natural tol Sheldon went on wearily Jl you should try them on me is .J' can't comprehend. You sureljl want to quirrrel with me." ' "I certainly do." "But what in heaven's name tor no'veeu mm with wlthei disgust. s "You haven't the soul of ata' suppose any man could make tot ypur wife" "But I have no wife," Sheldon istte. rupted. "Then you ought to have. Thesh tion is outrageous. You mishtatta. marry her, as 1 am bonorablv to do." For the first time Sheldon's ' anger boiled over. "You" he began violently, tte f abruptly caught control of him'seiim 1 went ou soothingly. Til call boat's crew and launch a boat Mi be in Tulagi by 8 this evening." I He turned toward the door as lis nut hia U'nrrla ntrt avam.tl, h, 14. I other caught him by tbe shoulder isi twirled him around. "Look here. Sheldon, I told jot ft Solomons were too small for the po of us, and I meant it" "Is that an offer to buy Beraik lock, stock and barrel?" Sheldon q ried. "No, it isn't It's an Invitation i fight." "But what the devil do yon finis fight with me for?" Sheldon's Into tion was growing at the other's per A ar ana noav. tomeboir rr .-. I tr. Nor r. Jon-. horror b.t K, 1 ' " V onc'19 wy a tbe eond-x-t ef the Pwn-i iWnri I tr. - the Instant they n-ovnlred the bead, and en the t-!ant ive th-!r ri;d tr.T laurh-er a thrr r'e-t to fte another ta !Ti:i trse.r beans tntotemtion. they a lft;ccr nrrnM to b'.m hoy a ban !. Tte morr-lrr'a arrsa bad Iwrt .e,i tne r ct before. Tod-v , ' ' " " - k- " rather atrrcrh rHe t-e eiww. It..,!,- ..v ,.n we nr charr ... . , .w iwr mi j Ana tDer ti,if ht - ui r-v.-rr j e ctt..i tSere be t ha a ti-e r-u-isiea Yr.:j tive eatea j tfcat -t Tf W pa -it. JKsa V( . i . i .vniie mere was tiie mystery. It was a woman's head, and he hnd n'ptr beard of a Chinese woman in the his. ory of the Solomons. From tho Mn hung two inch long earrinirs. and at Sheldon's direction tha nin,, , .!MHd away the accretion of smoke ni l;rt and from under bis tinkers ppeared the polished croon of he sheen rf rri .. .1.- ' 1 'h the . , i . .IV1 yur w arm re i :i . . ' of oriental cold. The other heart equally ancient, was a white man's, and She!d,.n wondered what forgotten beehe-der nier fisherman or sandalwood trader tad gone to furnUh that ghast ly trophy. Tei!inC r.inn Charier to remnre the earrim.- and directing tbe Poonra roontn tnen to carry on th old Are tender. Sheldon cleared the devil-deril houe and set fire to It. Soo evorr boil W.I, Wailsj cwt'.It. whl ft)- tnHent fire tender sat iirrtirtit In the snnsr-ine. oMitlnc at the detraction of bi viJ'.are. Every memfr cf Tn r' "Podition wa accented for and It art a long, dart war or.t of tb bead hnr.VrV cwir.try. Re!eairg their two pdson-r. who leaped away Hie was to tte stp Peta Info the s'earni-c 1urc "':5 cd at tl.a toon ef tt CriAPTER XXL BURNING DAVLIGHT. ND then it happened. Tudor made his blunder. Never di vining Joan's fluttering wild ness. mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm In her eyes aroused by his latest tale, for something ten der nnd acquiescent, he drew ber to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about hr waist and misapprehended ter frantic revolt for an exhibition of maldeuly reluctance. It occurred on the veranda after breakfast, and Shel don, within, heard the sharp eiclama tion of Joan, followed by the equally sharp impart of an open band against a cheek. Jerking free from tbe arm that was all distasteful compulsion. Joan Imd slapped Tudor's face re soundingly and with far more vim and weight than when she had cuffed (Jo goomy. Sheldon bad half started up. then controlled himself and sunk back In his cbair, so that by the time Joan en tered the door his composure wa re covered. Her right forearm was clutched tightly In her left hand, while the white cheeks, centered with the "iois or naming red. reminded him of the time he bad first seen her angry. "He hurt my arm." she blurted out in reply to his look of Inquiry. He smiled Involuntarily. It was so l: her. so like the boy she was. to come running to complain of the phvs- kiu nnrt widen bad been done her She was certainly not a woman versed in the way of man and in tbe ways of handling man. The resounding slap she bad given Tudor seemed still echo ing la Sheld.m's ears, and a be lookeu t tbe girl before t!m crying out that her arm was hart tls smile grew broader. It w, the smile that dd It coo tirt.ng Jan ia ber own eye r,f tb sadness of ber cry and sending over her face the most amazing blush be tad ever seen. Throat cheeks mi forehead famed with the nssh cf Hit tamed t!xid- 1 ATI " BBS BLVBi "HE HCBT MY ABM.' sistence. "I've no quarrel wi'k ,1 t.- run TOO llT auu dual H uci . . - Irt t me? I have never interfered na. You were my guest Miss f my partner. If you saw w i-' u a mhiw failed vr c W n. a. aauu . frt ceed. why should yon warn - with me? This is tbe t . . -n,t dneli tury, my a ear ienu. " i ? out of fashion before yon a5 f born." : "You began tbe row." TaW ly asserted. "You Bred me ou , bouse. It won't do. I tell y - atarted it and I am F " through ; Sheldon smiled tolerant ceeded to light a cigarette. "There Isn't any row. U ; to make a row. and I. f J to have anvthiug to do wi , fy1"--"- -jr' ; fio be Continued ces iae"' If your chiUrcn are sb .' tacks of croup. a,!l f"f svmptoni. hoarseiies. bcrlain's Couzh Ueme'T ' t.Le child become U attack may I warded bv all dealers. r Orders for engraved T-t-; invitations or nn.wn1;- be left at Otecrver 3 r deliveries and n?i-''s- "Rooms for Eer.i" " at tbe Observer Lfral Har.ks for f ' &l '' '