Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 42, 20 December 1908 — Page 13

THE RICHSltJlfD TAIiXiAOTim ATD SUTf-TE EiEOT&eST, BT7TTTJAT', If ECCJl BBK TSU, 15JOS.

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to buy musical instru:

Knw let uq talk to vou. No family in Wavne countv can afford to be without music when from $6.00 to $10.00

V A - . - ' ' " .. w - - - - S i . as first payment will bring you an instrument Besides our immense stock of Pianos on our floors, we have about

hiteen square pianos and thirty good organs at cto.UU and up.

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Piaio 'Bencbes $6.50 to $15.00 You certainly will please her if you present her with one of our Piano Benches. Besides being very acceptable to the recipient it makes a very pretty piece of furniture for the parlor or music room. The benches come in mahogany, oak walnut and ebony, with compartment that does away with expensive music cabinet.

Four More Days to Buy Pianos For Xmas Why Not a Starr Player Piano? You can play on it any music written for the piano. The musical triumph of the century consists of two instruments in one. That is a Starr Upright Piano, with that wonderful instrument, the Starr Player Piano incased within it. Ready to play by hand in the usual way if desired, or immediately, by simply inserting a Starr music roll, ready for any one to play any of the world's treasure house of music. As a gift would be most acceptable to the whole family. Player Concerts Every Afternoon and Evening. Come, in, You Are Welcome.

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The sihallest Grand Piano made. It is constructed on the minutest principles of Grand Piano making, yet still holds that wonderful and full tone enjoyed in the Big Grand. You can place it in any room of your house. It does not take up any more room than an ordinary upright. Come in and see the prettiest of Grand Pianos.

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Many homes are going to be made happy this Christmas. This is partly because a Starr piano is the gift of all gifts the most appropriate, desirable and acceptable of all presents, partly because our convenient payment system makes it easy for almost any familV to buy a piano, without hardship or inconvenience. A few dollars paid now will give your family the much desired piano for Christmas. Nothing could be easier. Yet no amount of money, nothing you could buy, would be productive of half so much Dleasure. education and entertainment for family and friends.

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JOKE ON BRIDEGROOM MAY RESULT FATALLY Dangerously III; Was Lashed To Tree.

Des Moines. la., Dec. VX Joe Bergttrom is dying from a wedding joke. Bergstrom left yesterday for Colorado Springs with his young wife to escape the ravages of tuberculosis, developed from a cold he contracted on his wediing night a month ago, when friends lasbed to a tree In front of the offltiating minister's house, and left him in the cold. He stayed there till the ninister. Rev. Nels, Peterson, released aim, and has been ill ever since. Bergstrom ia 22 years old. His wife ?ormerly Miss Olga Celander, is about :he same age. They were married in ;he mlddi of October. A big wedding i as held at the Swedish Mission jhurch and hundreds of friends attended. Many jokes were played on ii9 couple. Their newly furnished om was decorated with signs and

bedecked with old shoes from roof to basement. It was several nights later that Bergstrom was called to his front porch and asked where a certain party lived. He stepped cut on the porch to show the inquirer. Suddenly he was seized and the charivari party took him to the minister's house, and alter having a dance about the tree, left him. His calls for help were answered by Rev. Mr. Peterson, who cut the ropes and released him. A cold developed. He took to his bed the next day and did not leave it until last week.

Medicine That I Medicine. "I have suffered a good deal with malaria and stomach complaints, but I have now found a remedy that keeps me well, and that remedy Is Electjic Bitters; a medicine that Is medicine for stomach and liver troubles, and for run down conditions," says W. C Klestler, of Halliday, Ark. Electric Bitters purify and enrich the blood, tone up the nerves, and impart vigor and energy to the weak. Your money will be refunded if it fails to help you. 50c at A. G. Luken & Co. drug store.

Relieves sour stomach, palpitation of the heart. Digests what you eaL

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FATHER OF TRIPLETS

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teen, including Donie, Lonle and Lavonia, of whom eight survive. Mrs. Calhoun works in a cotton mill, so do two sons, aged 13 and 11. Mrs. Calhoun said that her&usband, to whom she seems devoted, was "as spry as a man of thirty" when 6he married him. He is spry today.

Columbus, Ga.. Dec. 19. The wife of Ambrose A. Calhoun yesterday gave birth to three very little girls. The father is 82 years old. He married their mother, his second wife, tweney-nine years ago. when she was a country lass of 13 summers. The triplets lived long enough to be named Lonie, Donie and Lavonia.. Then, dying, they were dressed all in white and laid three in one small cotfin, which was too big for them. Five hundred persons went to the Calhoun house to look at the babies. "If they had been three boys," said Mr. Calhoun, - "I would have named them William, Jennings and Bryan, just to let 'Teddy Roosevelt know there are some able democrats yet." Mr. Calhoun is father of twenty-five children. His first marriage was blessed by eleven, his second by four-

Th Distance We Dance. Dancing is a strenuous exercise. Calculations show the distances negotiated in a night by fair enthusiasts and their partners to be worthy the performance of athletes. Thus the average waltz turn will require a dancer to travel over 1.50O yards. Other round dances in their accomplishment involve: The mazurka, l.OoO yards; the polka, a trifle under the thousand; the pas de quatre. barely 900 yards. Quadrilles, however, hold the record, since dancing of one entails on each of the eight persons in the set the achievement all unwittingly of a constitutional a mile and a quarter long, while dancing the full card, inclusive of the cotillon, at a ball beginning, say. at 10 o'clock at night and winding up at 5 o'clock the following morning necessitates the taking of 23,000 steps, or a total distance covered of over eleven miles. Harper's Weekly.

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Rural Patrons Should Be Thoughtful.

stamps are wanted and that a sufficient amount of stamps be purchased to meet all rising conditions and circumstances. The instructions from headquarters advises ' the carriers to instruct all patrons of the notice from their superiors.

PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

Xow that the cold and Inclement weather is here, postal men say patrons of the rural free delivery should be more considerate of the man who carries communication across the land instructions have been sent but by the fourth assistant postmaster general relative to the placing of loose change in the mail boxes when the patrons should stamp their mail. There Is "ti custom among the patrons of mauy routes to place pennies along with the letter in the mail box. The inconvenience to the carrier may be readily seen. The postoffice authorities urgently request the patrons to keep themselves well supplied with stamps, and in case they should place the coins in the box, that the money be placed in a small tin or wooden box. The carriers desire to see the loose coins in the box only when

XMAS TREES DELAWARE HOLLY HOLLY WREATHS MISTLETOE. HADLEY BROS.-

FOR SALE. Five shares stock (par value $500.) in Seidel Buggy Company. Non assessable, pays six (6) per annum, payable semi annually. Inquire of II. G. Iredell, Dougan & Co.' office. 13-tf

IIuLby I don't see why yon do not exert yourself t make me happy. Wifey Why, of an things! Too know you told me when I accepted you that I had made you the happiest man on earth? What Is the use of my trying to Improve oa that? London Telegraph.

603 MAIN STREET ED. A. FELTMAN Assorted sizes in Glass Cigar Jars, Ash Trays and Plates, also assorted Cigar Bands and Center Pieces for Decorative Work. Full Line of Pipes and Smokers Supplies.' Smoke American Kid, best 5c Cigar. . ED. A. FELTMAN C09 MAIN SIMLA. f

Watch Repairing Right on the second is the only way to have your watch and that way Is to hare FEEGER give It his attention. ; . ; 1027 HzlaSL Pbose 2171