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f • f • *»*H+ » » »MW f » t » T » t EQUAL PARTNERS . By HOWARD FIELDING n Sfc Copyright, 1901, by Charles W. Hooke. »*♦+♦* 0****+4*-I-4.I-4+**M.*+ CHAPTER X VI. ELSIE PEni'HTIlATES A JF. 8 T. Rf HKY say," remarked Kittle, "that people always feel particu larly well just be fore they die. Do you remember Bern hardt In 'Camille,' 9 ft the very last words before she dies in Anna lid's arms: * Hindi live! Ah. bow well I fjjel!' Ilyw I cried when she said that! And then 'She sleeps.' Isn't that Huston sa.\ lovely scene "As it on mo to your mind at this went," said Brenda, "I joyfully infer that you are feeling very much better." . "You must think I am silly to talk imieli about dying," said Elsie. ' am soggy with ..tv." "V°." "r occasions, said Brenda, including this, but it seems often to us because ,we don't wish to lose you and to your self because really and truly you don't wish to die. On the whole, you have been ns cheerful as any girl could pus Slbly bo undo,- (be elroumslancos, and ns for your sentimentality, my dear, I'd give the world to have some of it myself." 1 "I was going to say," continued El ale, "(hat my motive for continually harping on it Is that you may know 1 am not afraid, and afterward you may tell Mr. A bleu." | This exchange of pleasantries upon a cheerful subject occurred during lhe lime when Kendal! was experimenting .with the while mice. I "I must have been'pretty near It.the last time," said Elsie. "It was double. hat was the mailer (When it began, even though I'd fainted Kuril a little while before. It was like drifting, drifting away. You me sur mised. You think you must stop, and areel.v knew •fore yon really frightened you me g( (just for a second- just long enough to remember mul realize; then down, dt waked down, the left there, ml the You've xpt'cssion of •Brenda's face, she laughed with the most delicious and dear sound, like the singing of birds. flipping away fro the roo OiRhl. liny were lowering me inlo Hie gr ind. . mooing to lie cremated, (promised me that, Brenda." i Then, l lie used horror bo - hi "Oil, but it hurts to laugh," she said, "IV" cried Brenda. "You're the first that "'You mustn't make me do it." i "Do you know," said Elsie, "that of the two of us you're the blue one? It's jmieli more cheerful to talk about laying Hum to 'roast' oneself as you ccused me of being minis lug." ; ao." *)e one step Itojotul clyitiK," I'cpIioJ •Brenda. "Hut I suppose the roasting is the saving of uucompli "Roasting is popularly supposed t 't help (you me inentnry things. M.v child, I e It: 1 suffer by contrast." ' Now you using. If I had your lmir! turn's absurd, of 11611010 "With cried Elsie. jrcnll.v are find *se. But do you know n b f U: <?F iM 1 j ! | j j V" v 11 Y J S-] J lie rumr hack with nblcr. Imitaliu I tie, si Study i f doing things I'l •l •nda. d if to « Koridv par This is the w: : 'Good jiug, Dr. Kendall. * All, thank y< ; sn nun'll. * * * Shall see you ngai lby.' You make all ifinr ike little things .dignity, pen •than a blade of 1 'ansomething. That's ably. I haven' y more ss, but I'm gaining it. It' live another w l shall flie and go to Daniel Frohnmn's No. 1 'company instead of to heaven. I'd rather." "Do I speak like that when I nddref JPr. Kendall?" said Brenda, ith a Blight access of color, •jbo so. You are "Well, It may y dear." I "This is the way you hold your alk," said Elsie. ["Isn't that pretty? Of course l can't Wo it very well lying down, but see the fflngers and the ease of the wrist. (Were you taught to do that?" "1 used to have q governess who was lerazy on Delsartc," replied Brenda. ("But she presently went crazy on ail [other subjects also, and we had to send (the poor thing to an Institution. I was fiot aware of my debt to her." "You owe her a great deal," said El liio. "1 wish I'd had a lunatic of that kind in my family. I couldn't afford to jhave much teaching. Of course I had come, but when I found what mother was enduring in order to pay [for it—well, I took an engagement with /the first thing that came along. And it jaras a barnstorming crew! We gave jfiix plays a week, and I had to learn a [long part in every one of them. The jeecond Monday, in the afternoon, the Uleadlng lady came into my room and ^found me huddled up on the floor in Jhe corner gibberiug-just gibbering, jlhat was all—words out of all the plays, os she told me afterward, all Bumbled together, and I was cross eyed gwlth sitting up all night studying per little flickering gas jets. Yes, that's (the way she found me, and the pas as cold as a barn too. I had tho gad quilt wrapped around lay shoul mers and my arm through a bole to it ! "Tb® leading lady yelled to the Ju venile man, and be really was juvenllo ('-about 18, as I remember. She said, ,*Go get a glass of brandy!' The Ju venile man went down to tho bar and came back with a tumbler solid full. 'He had to carry it carefully in order to keep from spilling any. Indy was u temperance never touched cry clever, tor hen you my I un room I The leading She drop of wine, and, iu 1 st mil In ml J NVw E:i mi nil nau c good for tbe thing that l had—'white brain,' tve call It The juvculle 41 au didn't know Jiow much brandy a per son ought to take, and I—well, I didn't know anything. So I drank It all, and then I lay down on the bed, and the leading lady covered me with every thing she could Mud, and pretty soon the bed got up and stood on the eeiliug, and I didn't care at all. mat branay was "When it came time <0 go to the the ater (Brenda, it's disgraceful, but I was kg— so drunk that 1 couldn't walk straight) the leading indy got aud told the juvenile man Around the block, and he walked me around about fifty times in the snow. We wore in u little ^Minnesota t ami it had snowed for he took me 1 • up to walk me When the 1 heater, 1 win per fectly sober, aud 1 didn't care for any thing. walked up f said cheerfully, 'Well, tonight T I had no troubles whatever. I Hie stage manager, and 1 hat do we play lie told me. and I couldn't . remember e have heard of it, hut got out my part and studied it while a king up. "When I went on, 1 was knew about half of my first scene, which was the Ion j Rl!,# <m ?,. "!* 111 1 l , < ' But I didn't °! l,v ' 1(1 always been troubled with I fl ' ,Rl,t '"«** or >-' ss - 1,111 «<>* *«•'» I ti,n ''-, ,10t ,0 lnKl1 '' "' lleu 1 f,,r « of ' 1 j ™ f :' I was off left, having a lit. By ana.ny I j end to go across right and sit down by -1 a table. I knew 1 couldn't hear the i prompter there, so I walked over and got the table and dragged It clear across the stage, and the audieuce applauded because I did it so naturally. "Then I went crazy, and* what hup-1 pence! afterward I scarcely know. Hut when I came off after the thrilling di -1 mux of the scene I fell into the lend , „ , , , ... , tug lady's arms, and she hugged ine up; tight She said;'You never ployed 8 a well as that before. You were like Julia Marlowe.' And she kissed me both ebooks. Julia Marlowe was m.v idol then, and I cried with heavenly!*- Je.v nu ll,o lending lady's neck. Tlmt's all true, just ns it happened, Brenda, and I never bad stage friglit after "It was," said Elsie. ."Yet I think 11 wouldn't have amounted to much any way. How could nny mortal man fail ] to see the difference between you and meV" ward." "Poor little Elsie!" said Brenda, kiss lug her. "It was a hard school where tore tauglit." y "M.v child," said Breuda, "no man can. Why, the brass knobs on the j posts of this bed know the difference be-1 you and me—the vital, essential i ( difference. They love you In their lit- { tie brass hearts. Everybody loves you. I Dr. Kendall, for a cold blooded sawyer of bones who could amputate my bead *Uhout a trace of emotion, takes your hand twee ith the eternal reverence of ho gives ! for ind wliei voinau, j you pain I can see his owi shrink. But lie treats me us if i a gentleman whom lie had met at the dub." heart were | Elsie opened her eyes so wide that; they seemed to light the room as she stared at Brenda, whose cheeks that." she said. * vert flushed by her unusual earnestness. "I am glad to hear you speak like Bromln rose nml wnlkod across to the which)w. Then site ruturned to the lire] anil look ICIslo's lianc], "I am going to open my heart to you." she sniff. "It was not because Clarence Alffon preferred you to me last unit I lost my seif control day. 1 cared nothing for you, despised you; 1 admitted uo comparison. ... was lipcauxo. though tlie Intensity of " ls onn u,,t,,rc for a tl,ue <loccir,,dl It i him, lie never really loved me at all. Nobody cv good looking, even a beauty, in the j society columns of the papers, and IJ rich that I have attracted many! But not one of them was able to loved am called am men. present even a creditable counterfeit | of love (though some of them could! counterfeit almost anything else, from i good breeding to the national cur- j rency) until Mr. Aldcn entered the' lists. That's hardly fair to him; lie j was sincere, but mistaken." "Yet I didn't have at all the feeling ilint I have now," she continued. "It / was only that last day that I became •d, mostly at myself. It is since! here, trlnce I have k j cum I ha the most womanly of God's crea tures, that 1 have had some true com prehension of my owd lack, some hou est. sorrow for it." "Only since you have been here," said Elsie. "IIow remarkable! But, Brenda, it Is sweet of you to talk this way to me, and I am so glad, so very glad! IIow long have you known Dr. Kendall?" you, "What a queer question!" said Bren da. "About two years, but we haven't met n dozen times. By tho way, be is going to be married." "He Is going to be married!" exclaim ed Elsie. "To whom?" "1 don't know," Brenda replied. "From something he said the other day, I judge there's a ditliculty. I don't know the lady's name." "Well," said Elsie, letting her head sink back on the pillow as "you will when it happens." "If you mean that he cares anything for me, you are quite mistaken," said Brenda. "His manner when he is in fu ; 2 •elieved, this room should show that I nothing—a piece of furniture. Do you know. It bus inspired me with some thing like jealousy—jealousy merely of the difference between you and me, which Is the theme we started with." "I'll show you what Dr. Kendall thinks of that difference," said Elsie. "Wait till he comes in here again. 1*11 suggest that you're going away, and then you watch him. He'll know that I'm going to stay till Pm carted away But watch him." "You must not do It," said Brenda But Elsie insisted that she should, and they were still having a cheerful littlp quarrel about it when they were inter rupted by Kendall's familiar rap. The doctor entered, looking very OU8, but his brow cleared nt the sight of Elsie. \ * To bo continued, items. Miss Susie Appleby, teacher of the Brown Cottage School or Middletown spent Sunday with her parents here. Mr. Fred St. Clair, our jovial bar ber friend, of Philadelphia will leave here to-day for Atlantic City, where he will spend the season. John Hanna is on Ihc sick list. Mr. Ilawpton Cupit left yesterday for Philadelphia where he employment with UM Tmetion Com pany. Christii L ill l&kv Become a Cendidito. At the Solicitations of his many friends Harry Whiteman a prominent young attorney of tills clty're'3ldlng*T Blsmcre has consented to become a candidate for the legislature for the next General Assem bly from Christiana Hundred. Whiteman Iras always been on ardent ltcpubllcau and lias never lieitl office. t, 1 ' Mr. Tny'ov d Fullerton F oix lure cures chills and i tiyl'ir, 302 King b i, NO MIXED MARRIAGES. Magistrate Weil, lias the power to issue marriage licenses, but last night he refuseil to do so after he had filled in the he secured the money in advance, and was no loser. The law says marriage shall be unlawful between a white person and a negro, or mulato. If a marriage, prohibited by this section, be solemnized, it shall be void and the parties there to shall each be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall he fined $100; and if any preacher shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize such marriage, or if any person, shall knowingly and wilfully pro cure or aid in the contracting or solemnizing such marriage he shall be deemed equally guilty and shall be fined in like manner. Hut names. .<>, « the parties to any mar . , .J , . i , F e l ,l0,Ml)1,( ' ( ' hy tilts section, | although (ho same may have been , solemnized in another state, shall j cohabit as husband and wife in 1 1 *i* < 1,111 1 i, i I I * 1 ls l ie ) Bl '" ll 1 e,icl1 be decD1 (i( * 6 wi lt} r oi it misdemeanor and j upon conviction thereof shall be tilled # 100 . i Joseph iSiscoiello, ami Annie 1 , , | 11 '- l< ' Ule purines Inst ! m'giit. He is a son of sunny Italy on'oud slid is a colored girl. When the Magistrate discovered the in i i T -i 1 i I eud " d lu ' de JJ* il 00 oled ' vo ", 11111 j refused. I hen tho startled ' Siscorello demanded tlmt his three dollars be refunded to hint, if lie could not get a license. Jlut the magistrate declined to give it up blHt ld o d J- He s -' dd tlmt « marriage license for which he had paid $2.50, had been filled in, and was useless, and he would retain the money until ho learned whether the license could be exchanged for a good one fit the office of the elerk of the All who !, peace. Brazilian Balm never have the grip. out. lurge bo:tie. To Cri jUi'lp iu Two Days. Bromo-Quintui) removes tho every h n enu re. W. tii '» sigimture box. Frit The I r. Him $ White Pul ■ic Bids •y Lung Remedy. ■dt American i'Tnn'oyineut Agencv wants help of a'i ttescrUHiions for butds private l a S, M. er of as lioi, Inquire ur, Hoorn 4 , and •1 Bldg., bill aud Market tlo All els. . RUPTURE AND PILES. ithout tho d Ly I;ulf«t- Absolute c proofs we si UoiiLl. Our mol ion just. on tie inct 1 lot!, The sg for auy :w book full of valuable hit' sued tells «. # Fidelity MetiiCa! IllStiillK 718 West Eighth Street. a' W rile * r (. 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Price 26c. Drumoists, or by mall. LaFranco&Co., Philadelphia, Pa. id <. mend mrrm Io ilemilaiur for nil troublos. R#>lie tin a (l»yn. At dru«Kl8t*, or by in •c* 9i». Free trial of "Tan .10 I Thoa •Tl K U N lolt Bnui .Itt l* an'B Safe Guard" for 10a Address "W E rmrfD IE E3B23 H .1 CHfCHC£,T«M*9 ENGLISH PILLS \T XN StFE 0 *!*# 15 reffillls °L f , i for CHJfJilksTKICH '"iCNGL 1 SH » TIED •if d Tut, •tin pfn !l». mm is ■2 c generol Par ib I.n.llra," l Mail. 10.000 l j«*y 2'Hll.A., pa: in May, •aide tun eating quart, tno •aid J H John Daniel OK SHERIFF Of New Castle County iii 1032 Joseph E. Martin. C| Wtluilngtou. Subject to Kepobiloeu party rules. ipoti sHicrnrr k ■■ • Connty la 1W3, Emmii F. Stidham G V Thomas Daniel Beni John E James V V W H SC Of Wilmington Hundred, to Hcoublioau party rule* nbject f28 tf Leech's Spavin Mixture v fails to cure ringbone ess n hors? may have! * D"i IL LTingliurst, 317 Market; dr REPUBLICANS IN THE FIELD. Willi flic advent of the robins the politicians have made their appear ance and from this time on the can didates will have their smiles and warm shako hands for Um voters. Mayor Fisher will shortly be called upon to again display his executive ability :n selecting Lite members of Among those ml lotted are l>r. .loliu P Wales, for president of the Hoard. Dr. Wales' record in the medical profession and in office Is enough to guarantee that such an appointment would he credi table to the appointing power and complimentary the Board of llcail.li. llie cifcv. Other physicians mentioned sire Dr. II. W. Howell and Dr. A. Id. Frantz. Fora business man the names of Hurry \V. Lowe, Hubert I). Kemp and U. Went worth Zoblcy are frequently mention 1 I e I. Thera is always a plumber on the Board and the* James F. Traynor, Ilerim (Jeorge C. Jlulton, Dr. M. .1. Hughes has been recog nized by City Council as Port Physi cians but Ilia new Board of Health Dr. Bastlan. That would lead up to another controversy between two city departments. For Executive office is those who would like to inspect the cellars and use the fumigating machines are Al bert F. Xeutze, Henry Lang, John McCaulley, Charles Bowers, Moses Wiley, Harvey K. Wadman, Charles C. Higinitt and Samuel J. Allen. For Secretary of the Board and City Registrar there is only one person mentioned, Joseph Wigglcsworth. He filled Hie position for two years with credit, was competent and obliging and courteous to all. He showed his sterling worth when smallpox appear ed and hud ids executive officers drill ed so well that the quarantine was the ix-st ever held in Wilmington. He had to work his men on economical basis for a Democratic Council refus ed to assist him. He never had any trouble with those wlio called at the office and Ids annual reports were commented on by leading men of the country and if elected to the position he would be sure to give general sat isfaction. spoken of are Hunt' and •I IN' THE COUNTY. For Sheriff the only Republicans in the field at present are Joseph Martin and Emm it Stidham with John L. Frick feeling his way for 1904. For Coroner Alfred D. Vandevcr would like to preside over llie Coro ner's office again while Samuel II. McCormick feels that turn about 's fair play and that it ought to he his turn in 1902 lobe the standard hear er of the Republican party for Coro •r. James T. Chandler has refused to allow the use of his name as a candi date for Coroner despite of tlie en treaties of his friends. His under taking business is such that it re quires his special attention and would not have the time to devote to tho office of Coroner. For Recorder of Deeds, Regis trar of Wills and Clerk ol Orphan's Court, James P, Katledgo, W, A. llukill. Julian C. Walker, Francis Walker, Ferris Giles, David P. Hutchinson and George W. Muu dain are mentioned as having bees buzzing in their bonuets. For the Legislature in Wilming ton, Charles E. Sparks, James Kitchen, Joseph Mackli S, liradiey, Hamilton Stewart, S. M. Knox and James W. Robertson arc men v. ho wonld like to lie in the next Legislature. As the sea son advances there will be more candidates. In New Castle hundred Willi Stafford, George W. Vuiitiue, Ed ward L. Wilson and James K. Foster arc mentioned for Repre sentative while Robert McFarlin, John Burris and Janies T. Challeng er are named us possibilities for State Senator. J. Thomas Wright, of Pencader; llarry Messrs. Townsend and McIntyre, of Delaware City are also spoken of as good men, lu Red Lion hundred George Key :oasl would Clark aud bold and C. W. Fa like to be t he art v , .. uee. in the other hundreds the party workers are looking over the crop of possibilities for the candidates must be of integrity who c be intrusted togo into caucus and I elect two Uuited Elates senators, | Every hundred will have ils Dem ocratic club and the Democrats will be united. li the Republicans want to win they must get together. Nomi nate good men and elect two Re states Sena tors is the general cry and the only wav to win. publicans as United The Othello Range, Johnson's 6 th and King streets. Advertise in the Republican. OTICM I, EI.LEN JkJcKhWUK, iid oinipaDl ut Hu; house, N TH K ituut* Kamolio f Hum} tyor Wil solid »»treels, in tint Mi mingion. in tlio (Stale of IJh f New 1 A tli the re : tho quireirents till bly i K'Vrf h c: made aud provided, do hereby in wi itiiiL' to the ut t Khali apply il I iSi'HKlons of the State of Dola t New CUKl BAY tho lu.h day of Mav, A. U. I!)j .' * ." ! ;l e •e, in d : t>3' km for id I for the sulo Io.kk quauti emu of iutoxicatiug liipn <. mid tl ib lo of least t nubs!initial freeholders mend IhoKiiid application, vi ♦lvt » of Whom ura mid ward recoiu ,!h )ldl Mousley Thoa Lewis Towiim J ohn .1 Mclut d »ps I) K U McSt N 1 ohl Iai lolt Hi'-ule .) Ko Aiichuel Hur ls V. Ktdliliu «IN L4 JuiSkHC Bnui 'I M.duty re John i. Kokh Otto Mill John T A limn ICdwrrd 1 .t.dolt IVtor Hedict .1 Ailreil! EI.LEN McELWEE. M \T U'l ICJi:—I. l)AN ilCL McBKJDB, THETEN uut and occupant ur the ouuJe, nit i<h1 the tli «l. iu tho city or Wilmiufftou yvChsiio, Hluto of Dflluivuru. County .pll mhly. hereby give •Hi of the is ol al A fli rued, do *.y in wii generol sessions ol liio lor New On-llo (J id I (S 3 :t. of of W. Of 11 - ha lisld Momluy, in Um Sltli tiny of Icnn of May, A. I). •aide o.xf. Ilg l a licoiiKe for said lioiida or tiivcrn. lor Ui« milotlierein ol' h; eating liquor-, in le*H qmiulities thiin quart, io be drunk on liio premia?*, umi following named respectable cifci ol' Bui (I ward, ut least \2 of whom sunstiiiitlal froolioidera. rocommeml th? iipplistUiuu, via j H Beatty John A Mitchell Daniel Mul her iu AW Harting Stephen O Blackwell Clius 11 Behringer "* 'i'iioa J G oh liu George Albert Heujainin W Conner NntUuu Liebor I, A fcsaltzfjiver James Ulcgary VV H llobniHoi V Vernon Thomas Fedigan Daniel T Hillroy Beni F liasaou S Stewart OstPi icht r James J Fox V Harrluoii H Dunbar Frederick Chi li Jf vv M J H . gliei DANJEI 14-; alCiiniDlf. .-.if! Wi D"i DUHAIID l y by im 1 N.; / * (Luma 1W1TM 1 1 7 a / I / m a l : > Ik: Vv AS* m '/i Hr I M i i r 9 AS V / f [1 1 / f 7 / / ! if / ! i. / f 4 fy. t \ it i,\ o. / A' Operations Avoided. Earnest Words of Gratitude. 11 Dear Mbs. Pinkham Your Vegetable Compound has completely cured me of the worst form of womb trouble, and made me a stronu. healthy, robust woman. Before using- Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound, I suffered with severe pains in buck and side, headache and nervousness. Menses would sometimes •y two weeks, and once I had a se When a physician tolls a woman suffering with ova rian or womb trouble that an operation is necessary, it of course frightens her. The very thought of the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. And our hospitals are full of women who are there for ovarian and womb operations ! It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but such cases are much rarer than is generally supposed, because a great many women have been cured by Mrs. Pinkhani's med icine after the doctors had said the operation must be performed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been very successful in curing ovarian troubles. In fact, up to the point where the knife must be used to secure instant relief, this medicine is certain to help. Ovarian troubles are easily developed from womb troubles, and womb troubles are so very common that ovaritis is steadily on tho increase among women. It is, nevertheless, a most serious trouble, and to recommend wrong treatment for it is a crime for which there cannot be too deep a penalty. It is, therefore, with full consciousness of the serious ness of the disease and the steady failure of other medicine to cure it, that we present for ovarian and womb trouble Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the most certain to help of any medicine in the world to-day. Any person who could read the letters in Mrs. Pinkham's flies at her office in Lynn, Mass., would be convinced of the efficiency of Mrs. Pinkham's Compound. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who have escaped the operat ing table by the use of this medicine. Let any woman suffering from these troubles, or anything which may de velop into them, write and get Mrs. Pinkham's advice. If you are beyond the reach of the medicine, you will be frankly told so, but, if not, you will be fully aud carefully and kindly advised. The most serious of all tho diseases of women, as well as the minor ills, are promptly overcome by occur vere hemorrhage which lasted a month. I confined to cians told at ion as soon as I was strong enough. I read in one of your little books several testimonials from ladies who were cured by your Compound after having been told by their doctors that an operation was necessary, and 1 made up my mind then and there to commence taking your Compound. I did so and it bos completely re stored me to good health. I have ga ined twenty two pounds since taking it and my flesh is solid as a rock. My friends remark about the change in me. I am a living advertisement of do, and have in friends to try it, which has proved very gratify thank you for restoring me to health."—-ANNIE bed and the attending physi 'ould have to undergo an oper i y ft? I MljMNNIt HAKTLtV what Lydta E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound e fluenced many of my ing in its results. 1 HARTLEY, 209 S. Sangamon St., Chicago, 111. ANOTHER OPERATION AVOIDED. " Drar Mrs. Pinkham:—I feel very grateful to you for the benefit I derived from y kind advice and re 1 was troubled with a painful and irregular I had ■,i eomplicati of female troubles, had rarit menstruation, leucorrhoea, no tile and could not sleep nights. The least exertio ness of breath and dull pains in my hips and side. The doctors ail operation and have and weakness PPe ould cause shorl advised a removed, Id not beur to think of. I was induced to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and after taking the first bottle I •h improved. It r continued taking it, also v of but this 1 y appetite, health, and str r Blood Purifier and {Sanative Wash, until tirely cured of all m 3 ' troubles. The pains have never returned, and my health is splendid. ■ Y ;medics have been a boon to . and e many a 1 bus Ave., 'es her life to them."—MARIE WEBB, 350 toll woman Boston, Mass. " Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I feci it my duty to publish the wonderful help Lydia E. Pinkhara's Vegetable Compound has bee like a crazy person—could not cat or sleep; there night. Physicians examined me and said g it, how io glad I did, for it to me. s no rest for me operation was •r. I determined to try Lydia .1 am n k. I want this published that all my suffering sisters may read, and if in •uv wav afflicted with female troubles, they may be induced bv my sincere statement to try this wonderful Vegetable Compound and be cured." —MRS. MARGARET BAM FOR D. Centennial Ave., Crescent Beach, Revere, Mass. day necessary. Before undergo E. Pink hams Compound. 1 well woman throughout the land, •ed ' und can do any kind of Mrs. Pinkham :—I wish to send y my testimonial stating the grand effect Lyd'ii E. Ptnkbam's Vegetable Compound has had •as suffering to such on extent fr ovarian trouble that ray physician thought i operation would be necessary. Your inediei having been recommended to me, I decided to try it. Alter using several bottles I found that I was cured. My system was toned up and I suf ? with my ovaries. Your medicine is the greatest boon on earth to suffering women.*' —MRS. ANNIE ASTON, Box 137, Troy, Mo. " Dej m health. stsT Lydia £ Pisikham's ¥@g&takie Compound. fered .MBS. ANNA ASTON *5000 REWARD Owing to tho fact that some skopticai people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testimonial letters we are constautly puhliuUing. we have deposited with the National City Hank, of Lynn, Mass., $5,000, which will Ixj paid to any person who can show that the above testimonials are not genuino, or were published before obtaining the writers' special permission.— Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. GRAND JURY DRAWN. Clerk of tlie Peace Quigly and Prothonotory Speakman yesterday afternoon drew from the list of one hundred names placed in the grand jury box by the members of the Levy Court the grand jury which is to serve (or the year. The jury Is regarded as one of tlie best the county ever had under the present system of empaneling jtirors are representative men various hundreds, indicating that the Levy Court made a judicious selection of names for tlie jury lists. The grand jury drawn yesterday is: Wilmington—Charles F Shcrburn, William W. Knox, William Beadeu koft, William G Taylor. BrandvWiiyffi-?;, ,lathes Belt, James W. Green. ■' ' Blackbird—James II. Steals, WII r. Keynolds. The of the Clirlstianii -William L. Dilworth, Edward Woodward. Mill CrecK-Ell Davis, Orlanda C. M agargal. Mew Castle -Elwood L. Wilson, Ilecry C McMullen. Red Lion—Thomas C. George \V. Rcybold. St, Georges—Joshua Cl ay tun, Daniel \V. Corbit' White Clay Creek—George Spence, Arthur G. Webber. j I'eneader-Clmrles Salmon. David C Appo'qulnimlnk—Arnold Nauflaln William G. Knotts. Under the law the grand jury be drawn within ten days al ter tho names are placed In the box. The petit jury must be drawn with-, in twenty davsot the opening of court. They will probably be drawn early In April. | 1 j Beeves, 1 Yt *o high grade post ions ban those you occupy contiduntiuliy ugh Tlit) American Kinpiuymeuc Ageuey, Room 1, 2nd floor Aliuou l Build util aud Mjii U. 1 ! h Dubell tii© Matter JO. Dubell lo th., : Co i hats i! cit i ii o; alt stylos No. 2 K 1'iiiri d 'tweeu Smyrna anil llnmliay Hook Lighthouse, for $1,400; to Harvey A . l) 0 rkalite, from Jamer L (.Jeorge 80 * acr8 favm bet "' eeu WoodNide must'Joseph A. Hwingloy anti Daniel B. Al'thirs, of Harford county, Md. Hmirv A Wriirht lot ami ran. . , ? ■ T ? , • , , nmg factory m Frederica, to Lltza 'Mason, from Andrew W. Slay maker, one-eighth of an acre of land in North Murdeikill hundred. Property Trans Dover, Do]., March 14. The following transfers of Kent county real estate have been recorded at the ofhcG of Recorder of Deeds James Lord; 'Po George W. Tebo, Sanford Buber, fre 180-acre farm in Duck Creek hundred, he land Woodley town, for $1,050: to for a consideration of $ I. Heavy Loss Yot ht tr il i ul [l f-D gagenu' A! Hell. ill stree Ne tl UJ eK. Fi SVI'HI -PHYSICS AS TAUOHT BY TflH I .sycliology, odojj 1 J on i oil Pi I k Io, ho <U uml lure Y« 111 t lie nu.1k ; I'K is iidisptiiisable to the lioatid of Xu mil •y ■1 hi! I It ih Ih 1 iu« tlH ir dill. Ufht by iii nil. P K,r B :i Ih. •>KUiai- 10 d $i ii Fill li A i.. Many of ilci jlviirtng $ 10 per Never boforo pportuutty here i I'cnlt •h at tho j. A dil I Be .1 I'd 2i thus Bo il0-7t MEDlUfl AND PALMIST Reads Your Life. Cull mid lie eoavtMW) of Imt wonderful fftnvci*. No muuey taken shod Ml perfeuMf »M« -i Ko. 103 E. Siith St., MRS. ADAMS 07 i ONEY LOANED I •IBS Atntq S F TO r i: a r t:o., .IR..SC