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Roflolpk G. lede MaaaKlas; Editor. Charles M. Morgaa Baslaess Maaaser. O. Owes .Kaha News Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond f 5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance... $5 00 Six months. In advance 2.60 One month, In advance 45 RURAL ROUTES. One year. In advance $2.00 Six months, in advance.... 1-25 One month, in advance.... .25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subaorlbers will please remit with order, which should, be riven for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment Is received. Entered at Richmond, Indiana, postoffice as second class mail matter. REPUBLICAN TICKET. NATIONAL TICKET. For President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT of Ohio. For Vice-President JAMES S. SHERMAN of New York. 8TATE. QoYernor JAMES E. WATSON. -Lieutenant Governor . FREMONT C. GOODWINE. -Secretary of State FRED A. SIMS. Auditor of State JOHN 0. BILLHEIMER. Treasurer of State OSCAR HADLEY. Attorney General JAMES BINGHAM. State Superintendent LAWRENCE McTURNAN. State Statistician J. L. PEETZ. -Judge of Supreme Court QUINCY A. MYERS. Judge of Appellate Court DAVID MYERS. Reporter of Supreme Court GEORGE W. SELFDISTRICT. Congress WILLIAM O. BARNARD. COUNTY. Joint Representative ALONZO M. GARDNER. Representative WALTER S. RATLIFF. Circuit Judge HENRY C. FOX. Prosecuting Attorney CHAS. L. LADD. Treasurer ALBERT ALBERTSON. Sheriff LINUS P. MEREDITH. Coroner DR. A. L. BRAMKAMP. Surveyor ROBERT A. HOWARD. Recorder WILL J. ROBBINS. ; Commissioner Eastern Diet HOMER FARLOW. ; Commissioner Middle Dlst. BARNEY H. LINDERMAN. Commissioner Western Dlst ROBERT N. BEESON. WAYNE TOWNSHIP. , Tnittoc ' 1 JAMES H. HOWARTH. Assessor CHARLES E. POTTER. KERN EVADE3. The citizens of Indiana may naturally, take some Interest In the utterances of Mr. Kern. John W. has come to the front at Ellicott City, Maryland, supporting Gov. Haskell. He accuses Mr. Roosevelt of going too far and then wheels around and says he does not go far enough. "Mr. Roosevelt's last fulmlnatlon as to Governor Haskell only proves his attack was premature and uncalled for. No such assault was ever before made upon the chief eexcutive of a sovereign state by the president of the United States. His original charge of criminality Is abandoned and he now contents himself with a criticism of the governor's official acts. So far as I am concerned the Incident is closed until some evidence is brought forward to substantiate the original charges. Mr. Roosevelt will not be permitted to divert the attention of the American people from the record of his party by such by-play as this." Oh the logic of Mr. Kern. Is not the venality of Governor Haskell In office far more damnable than his action as a private citizen? The Ohio incident is not a closed one if Mr. Roosevelt had made charges against Haskell with out having all the premises, he would have laid himself liable to the criticism which Mr. Kern makes when he ha3 refrained from it. But we would ask Mr. Kern If anyone is unjustified in drawing the Inferencethat a man whose public record and the records of the courts is that of Governor 'Haskell may not be looked on with. Just suspicion when further developments come to light (the Ohio case.) So far as Mr. Kern is concerned the incident is closed it seems, until Governor Haskell Is placed behind prison bars or words to that effect Truly

however, the average citizen may admire Mr. Kern for sticking up for the man of his own party, the citizen will not praise the attempt to apologize for Haskell actions, which occurred as public testimony in the Monnett case and to declare that because Haskell is a governor, that that fact excuses his actions. It Is probable that the people will incline to the belief that rascality in public office, especially when it incriminates him with the foes of the republic, is not to be put aside because it happens to be termed "by-play" and a trick to "divert attention," by Mr. Kern. The subtrafuge of Mr. Kern that the governor of a state should not be attacked by the president, may have some foundation in the theory of states rights. But on the eaually important theory thta all executive officers are in reality only citizens of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt whose patriotic citizenship is unquestioned can say: "As an American citizen who prizes his Americanism and citizenship far above any question of partisanship. I regard It as a scandal and disgrace that Gov. Haskell should be connected with the management of a national campaign. ,

THE WEATHER. The glorious company of weather men seem to be put in Omar Khayam's quatrain and "Are thrust Like foolish prophets forth. Their mouths are stopped with dust." True, the average citizen, too, is "stopped with dust and even if the legislature fails to pass the county local option law, "the water wagon" still has a mission in life. A few days ago the chief of the weather bureau gave out the report that a barometric wave was sweeping across the country and everyone held himself in readiness to see it barom. Most of us who like to peruse light fiction with a happy ending, have laid aside the dime novel and the juicy effusions of Robert Chambers and read only the encouraging reports of the weather bureau and the romances of Mr. Hicks. Our ardor is not dampened. Those miserable denizens of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Baltimore, who have their straw hat season regulated by the respective boards of commerce, are mopping their brows and brushing their derbies. So far, the only results which have met the eye have been in response to want ads la the newspapers asking for rain. In the discredited state of the weather bureau, try a want ad. CAN ROOSEVELT REFUSE TO SPEAK? Unusual Pressure Brought Upon Him to Take Stump For Taft. HIS PROBABLE ITINERARY. FIRST ADDRESS FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WILL PROBABLY BE IN NEW YORK MIDDLE WEST TO BE VISITED. (Special Correspondence.) Washington, D. C, Sept. 25. President Roosevelt is going to have a hard time resisting the demand that he take the stump in behalf of Judge Taft's candidacy. He is possessed with a strong personal desire to make a number of speeches next month, and to this is now added the urging of prominent party leaders and the republican press throughout the country. It Is a pretty good guess that against such a combination a "century of precedent" cannot long hold out. Several weeks ago an "inspired" statement came from Oyster Bay to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt had decided not to make any campaign speeches. Two reasons were given. One was that the president was loath to disregard the traditions of the office. The other was that it was feared the people would not take kindly to the spectacle of their president on the hustings as a campaign spell-binder. Things have changed materially since then. By his letters and official statements Mr. Roosevelt has become Involved In a large campaign controversy and demand has been made, both by the democratic candidate for president and the democratic national chairman, that he furnish proof of charges he has brought. He is in the campaign, therefore, about as thoroughly as he well could be, and it would be a mere splitting of hairs to hold that the making of a couple of speeches would involve a sacrifice of the presidential dignity. So far as appears, there has been no republican A Pill That Will Blackburn's CaseaRfcaFPill!

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criticism of the president for going as far as he has now gone In support of Taft, and the fear of many prominent republicans that for him to make speeches would be resented, has about been dissipated. Should the president decide to take the stump, it is certain that at least one of his speeches, probably his first one, would be delivered in New York. As New York is Mr. Roosevelt's home, this would be entirely fitting, and there would be the further advantage of speaking In a large population center with adequate facilities for handling the news of his meeting. If the campaign managers can have their way, however, the president will make an excursion Into the Middle West, speaking in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and in as many

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Philip's face lit up with a strango light as this protest left his lips. T'ne meteor was his mother's bequest She gave it to him, and she would safeguard It. Had she failed hitherto? Was not all London ringing with the news of his fortune, yet what man or woman had discovered the whereabouts of his treasure? In his pocket he felt the great iron key of No. 3 Johnson's Mews, and he was as certain now that his hiding place was unknown as that his mother's spirit was looking down on him from heaven and directing his very movement The man, in spite of his own great lack of composure, saw the fleeting glimpse of spirituality in the boy's eyes. Puzzled and disturbed though he was, he made another violent effort to pull his shattered nerves Into order. "There is no need to talk all day, he said doggedly. "Now I am going to tell you something you don't know. If your boast is justified if you really own as many diamonds and as good ones as you say you own there must be a great deal of discretion exercised in putting them on the market Diamonds are valuable only because they are rare. There is a limit to their possible purchasers. If the diamond mines of the world were to pour all their resources forthwith ,lnto the lap of the public there would be such a slump that prices would drop 50,. 60, even 80 per cent Do you follow me?" "Yes," nodded Philip. A week earlier he would have said, "Yes, sir," but his soul was bitter yet against Isaacstein. "Very well. It may take me months, years, to realize your collection. 'To do it properly I must have some idea of its magnitude. If there are exceptionally large stones among it they will be dealt with separately. They may rival or eclipse the few historical diamonds of the world, but their worth can only be measured by the readiness of some fool to pay hundreds of thousands for them. See?" "Yes," nodded Philip again. His sententlousnesa brought the man to the point "Therefore you must take me Into your confidence. What quantity of stones do you possess and what are their sizes? I must know." Isaacstein, cooler now, pursed his Hps and pressed his thumbs together until they appeared to be in danger of dislocation. It was his favorite attitude when engaged in a deal. It signified that be had cornered bis victim. Philip, appealed to in this strictly commercial way, could not fail to see it was to his own Interest to tell bis chosen expert the exact facts and nothing but the facts. The boy, singularly unflurried In tone and manner, hazarded an inquiry. "What amount of ordinary diamonds in their money value, I mean can you dispose of readily in the course of a year, Mr. Isaacstein?" "Oh, 200,000 or 300,000 worth. It is a matter largely dependent on the condition of trade generally. But that may be regarded as a minimum." "And the bigger stones, worth many thousands each?" "It is impossible to say. Taking them in the lump at values varying from a thousand each to fancy figures, perhaps 50.000 worth." "It would be safe to reckon on a Quarter of a million a year, all told?" "Quite safe." "Then, Mr. Isaacstein, I will supply you with diamonds of that value every year for many years." The man relaxed the pressure on his thumbs. Indeed, he passed a tremulous hand across his forehead. He was beaten again, and he knew it worsted by a gutter snipe in a war of wits. The contest had one excellent effect It stopped all further efforts on Isaacstein's part to wrest Philip's secret from him. Thenceforth be asked for and obtained such diamonds as he needed and resolutely forbade himself the luxury of questioning or probing the extent of bis Juvenile patron's resources. ,. But there was a long pause before he found his tongue again. His voice had lost its aggressiveness when he said: "In the police court I valued the diamonds you produced at 50.000. It does not necessarily follow that I am pre pared to give such a sum for them at this moment I might do so as a speculation, but I take it you do not want me to figure in that capacity. It will be better for you, safer for me. if I become your agent I will take your stones to Amsterdam, have them cut sufficiently to enable dealers to assess their true worth and sell them to the best advantage. My charge will be 10 per cent and I pay all expenses. Today I will give you 50. Tomorrow I will take you to a bank and place five thousand to your credit Meanwhile I will give you a receipt for thirty stones, weighing in the rough so many carats, and you or any one you may appoint can see the sale vouchers subsequently, when I will hand you the balance after deducting 3,050 and my 10 per cent The totaj. price my asce IStx, thou

other states as his consent can be secured for speeches. It is the Middle West that Mr. Bryan Is making his battle ground and in the Middle West Mr. Roosevelt enjoys about his largest popularity. The campaign managers believe his appearance there would be worth thousands of votes in every state he visited, and it is easily conceivable that in close states a speech or two by the president might turn defeat Into victory. Undoubtedly Mr. Roosevelt is more earnest for the election of Taft than he ever was for anything before, except his own election four years ago, and should he beconvinced that the result might depend upon his taking the stump, it is hardly possible that any prejudices of the past would prevent his doing so.

n re. i 11 i aw m a I fej ii u sand or it may be less, but X do not think I will be far out in my estimate Are you agreeable?" Some Inner monitor told Philip that the man was talking on sound business lines. There was a ring of sincerity in his voice. Apparently he had thrust temptation aside and was firmly resolved to be content with his 10 per cent. And this might well be. Twenty-five thousand pounds a year earned by a few journeys to the coutinent a few haggling interviews in the Ilatton Garden office! What a gold mine! Moreover, he would be the head man in the trade. He was that now, in some respects, but under the new conditions none could gainsay his place at the top. Even the magnates of Klmberley would be staggered by this new source of supply. What did It matter If the boy kept to his rags and amazed the world so long as the diamonds were forthcoming? It was no silk hatted gentleman who first stumbled across the diamond laden earth of South Africa. Isaacstein had made .up his mind. Fate bad thrust this business into his lap. He would be a fool to lose it out of tnere curiosity. "yes," said Philip. "I agree to that" "Samuel!" yelled Isaacstein. "Coming, sir," was the answering shout and a flurried clerk appeared. "Bring in the scales, Samuel." The scales were brought and a level space cleared for them on the desk. Philip, of course, had never before seen an Instrument so delicately adjusted. A breath would serve to depress the balance. The boy held forth his paper and poured the contents into the tiny brass tray of the scales. Samuel's mouth opened and his eyes widened. It was his first sight of the diamonds. "Four ounces eight pennyweights five grains 629 carats in thirty stones. Oh, good gracious me!" murmured the clerk. Isaacstein checked the record carefully. "Rlgbtr he said. "Put them In the safe." Philip raised no protest this time. He knew that the man would keep his word. Indeed, Isaacstein told Samuel to bring him fifty sovereigns, and ere the man returned he began to write on a sheet of letter paper: "Received from Here! What's your name?" he broke in. "Philip." "Philip what?" "That will do today, thank you. The next time I call I will give you my full name and address." "Please yourself. I am no judge in this matter," and he wrote on: Received from Philip, a boy who refuses any other name, but the same whom I saw in this office on the 20th Inst, and again at the Clerkenwell police court on that date, thirty meteoric diamonds weighing- in the gross 629 carats. I hereby agree to dispose of the same and to render true account of the sales to said Philip or his agents, my commission to be 10 per cent, the expenses payable by me. I have today handed the said Philip 50 in gold and undertake to place 6,000 to his credit tomorrow with my bankers. REUBEN ISAACSTEIN. After completing this acknowledgment he scribbled something else. "There," he said, with a sigh of relief, "that is not a very formal document but it will suffice. You can get It stamped tomorrow at Somerset House. Just sign this receipt for 50." Philip took the two papers and read them carefully. Isaacstein's handwriting was a scrawl, but legible enough. The boy reached for a pen and signed his Christian name. He was on the point of adding his surname In an unguarded moment but he felt the man's eye on him. so he simply wrote "Philip" across the stamp at the foot of the receipt Isaacstein fully appreciated the incident and knew that his own eagerness defeated the chance, all the more powerful because it was involuntary, of ascertaining the name of this marvelous youth. f Philip gathered up bis gold, not without counting the coins. They felt strangely heavy in his pocket much heavier than the stones they replaced, yet they formed but a thousandth part of the value of those fiintllke pebbles. What a queer problem it was. this ratio of worth between a few stones and the bright minted sovereigns! "Whit time shall I call tomorrow?" he asked, standing cap in hand, ready to take his departure. "At 11. But wait one moment Have you no friends to look after you? See what trouble yon may get Into. Why, the mere possession of so much gold by a boy like you may" I can take care of myself, Mr. Isaacstein. I will be here at 11. Good afternoon." CHAPTER YIII. IT was 4 o'clock In the afternoon of a fine but chilly March day when Philip regained Holborn with 50 making a lump in his pocket and Isaacstein's letter safely lodged In his coat. . TJh max- weizht ofv the cold

imlly t MdDire HDaiy Palladium and Sun-Telegram Classified Ad. Contest Only eight more days until the prizes will be awarded in the great Palladium & Sun-Telegram's classified ad contest. Nine days is a short time in which to gain the lead in your district and it behooves each contestant to leave no stone unturned in covering their district thoroughly. It should be much easier to obtain classified ads now than at the beginning of the contest inasmuch as the subscribers of this paper are becoming firm believers in the great- results obtainable from reading and using Palladium want ads. "Little satisfiers for big wants" is an easy way in which to describe this paper's classified ads. The want ad page is the market place of all the people in Richmond and Wayne county and to become a trader in this market only a few pennies is necessary. Let each reader of the Palladium think of anything he wants, wants to sell, trade, to rent or, in fact, anything may be advertised among these little adiets. Send or bring an advertisement to the Palladium office before twelve o'clock tomorrow and we will be glad to credit any one of the contestant's names appearing below. There is still an opportunity for anyone to enter the contest in the districts below and if the proper amount of energy is displayed in soliciting want ads there is a splendid chance for the last one entering to be the one to win out at the end. Anyone wishing to enter the contest now is entitled to 200 votes for the first ad brought to this office. Below is set forth the standing of the contestants in their respective districts

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suggested an unpleasant' possibility. Ills clothes were so worn that the frail calico might give way and every golden coin rattle forth to the pavement So with one of Mr. Abingdon's shillings he made his first purchase, a capacious tobacco pouch with a 6nap mouth, for which he paid nlnepence. Then he adjourned to an aerated bread shop and ordered some refreshments. While the waitress was bringing bis cup of tea and piece of cake he contrived to slip all the sovereigns but one into the tobacco pouch. " He did this with his hand in the pocket itself, and more than once there was a pleasant clink as tbe coins fell Into their novel receptacle. A man sitting near caught the sound and looked tip suspiciously, rhilip. whose senses were very much on the alert today, realized that bis action was somewhat careless. Without even glancing at his neighbor, he took out his remaining couple of shillings and the three pennies, and affected to count them with a certain degree of astonishment, as if some were missing. The ruse was satisfactory. The man gave him no further heed and soon quitted the restaurant Philip tendered the odd sovereign in payment of his bill. The girl cashier seemed to be surprised that such a ragged youth should own so large a sum. "All silver, please," said rhilip, when she began to count his change. lie would take no more risks if he could avoid them. Not a single policeman in London would have failed to arrest him at that moment were his store of gold revealed by any chance. Yet Philip was rich honestly, and there were men driving away from the city at that hour whose banking' accounts were plethoric with stolen money. For their carriages the policemen would stop the traffic. In neither instance could the guardians of the peace be held blameworthy, such is the Importance of mere appearances. Tbe boy, during his short and terribly sharp tussle with London life, had already grasped this essential fact and. with great skill and method, he set about the task of altering his own shabby exterior. In a side street leading out of Gray's Inn road he found a secondhand clothes shop. Here he purchased a worn, but decent, blue serge suit for 8 shillings sixpence, a pair of boots for 5 shillings, a cap for ninepeuee, a woolen shirt for 2 shillings and a linen collar for threepence. He haggled sufficiently over the bargain to suit the needs of a scanty purse. "I've cut 'em dahn low enough," said the shopkeeper t mournfully. "Things isn't wot they was in the ole clo' line, let me tell yer. Not but what you do want a new rig-aht" "Yes," said Philip. "I've got a Job and can't keep it unless I look decent." For the life of him be could not burlesque the cockney accent and although be used the simplest phraseolothe man glanced at him sharply. Philip rattled ell bis silver and copc?rs on to the counter. He counted out 1G shillings sixpence. . "Not much left is there V he said. "Well, look 'ere," said the man. "Gimme fifteen bob. You're a sharp lad. You'll myke yer w'y all right Nex time you want some duds come to me an I'll treat you fair." "Thank you very much." said Philip, considerably surprised by this generous act "I certainly will not forget you." "You can change in my little beck room If you like. ' That lot you've got on ain't worth tykin ome." "I am obliged for your kindness, but I must be oST now. It Is late, and I hare.a lq-ir way Zr sro." (Continued Sunday..) MARKET. Members of the second Presbyterian Sabbath school will give a market in Johnson's stove store, S12 Main St Saturday afternoon and evening.

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VOTES. PRAISES LECTURE Dr. Uathell's Address on Lincoln "Masterly Production." At the International Lyceum association, held this year at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from August 28 to September 5, where many Chautauqua speakers gave exhibition work, Dr. J. Everist Cathell of this city, gave his celebrated lecture on 'Abraham Lincoln." Since the adjournment of the association, Mr. Lou Beauchamp, the platiorm manager of the Oshkosh gatherjng, who presided at all the lectures and other exercises during the session of the I. L. A., has given the following appreciation of Dr. Cathell's lecture: Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1W8. "There are many lectures on Abraham Lincoln, given by many notable persons, but it seems to me that the lecture by Dr. J. Everlst Cathell on that subject, gives us pre-eminently the real "Lincoln," the man of the tender heart as well as the great strong soul, the man who was so tenderly human, and yet so superhuman in many of his attributes as none of the other lectures seem to do. Dr. Cathell thrills with much of his story of the great commoner's public life, yet before you are aware of it, tbe tears are flowing as though the one wept for was a close personal friend just passed away. It is a masterly production, this lecture of Dr. Cathell's, and gives many new views of the times that tried all hearts in the 'AO's, and of the wonderful character who was so manifestly the man of the hour. "LOU J. BEAUCHAMP." SHOOTS WIPE; THEN SLASHES JQWN THROAT Anderson Man Caught in Act Of Crime. Anaerson, Ind., Sept 25. After twice shooting his wife at their farm home near this city yesterday, John A. Glasco was beating her head to a pulp when the dead woman's father, Jackson Rector, rushed upon him. G!asco then went into the kitchen and slashed bis throat with a butcher knife. Glasco will not die from his self-inflicted wound, the physicians say. The tragedy was a culmination of many clashes the Glascos have had since shortly after their marriage less than a year ago. Both had been married before. Low Colonist Fares West Inquire of Agents Pennsylvania Una

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