The Springdale news., 1915-12-17

of SpIinters, the clown, killed by the lion Laneelot. A triple tragedy and all because of a woman's coquetry and the diamond from the sky
 The new manager of the circus is optimistic He is inclined to believe the big blow of, as he calls the tragedy. will be great press stuff for the panic and riot that followed il have brought the creditors who are numeroas-down upon the show, and it is seized for debt and will be sold at auction The diseons9late perform CTS and attaches. their salaries long in arrear, realize it is a bad season for the show business and are fully aware the returns from a sheriff's auction will pay little if any of their salaries.
 Then Bill Hui, acrobat, remembers the great diamond Santley save La Belle before the lion Eatcelot killed her-inspired to the deed by the jeai- ous clown Splinters, :he show believes. Gossip as 10 the value of this great gem has been rife about the circus since Williams, the billposter, brought 1t i'll from the woods where he said he found it and lost it to Santley at dice.
 If this diamond were recovered it would be all asset that would perhaps pay all salaries when sold. Bill Hull, the acrobat, remembers Sankey, the stableman, was one who snatched at the diamond Hull knows Sankey. In q previous season, with a smaller show, some of the animals had been stabed at Sankeys.
 The sheriff is informed, and the aero bat. donning an overcoat to hide his tights-f0r the sheriff's seizure has stopped the show-leads the way to Sankey's stable With the sheriff and the acrobat % policeman and the manager of the circus pro tenn.
 They have reached the stable yard in an auto just previous 10 the arrival of Quabba with his monkey and pony and street piano cart that he stables here. While Quabba faces Luke Lov- el! at the alleys mouth, the sheriff with the acrobat and others are in the stable. Sankey has been in the loft searching vainly for the diamond. where he hid it beneath the hay He comes down the ladder and faces the sunlight from the open door. and there between him and the daylight gleam- ing like d star, dangles from the hay rack over the pony's empty stall the diamond from the sky,
 Just as Sankey grasps the diamond from where it had been left unseen by Quabba in his ponys hay the sheriff and his party are at the door and grab the sinking stableman.
 Out from the place they struggle. the diamond glittering in the sun, clutched in Sankey's grimy hand. that is in turn clutched by the others. In wrestling it from the desperate stabeman the dia mond Is passed almost against the eyes of Quabba and Luke Lowell. who have hurried upon the scene from the alley mouth at the first sounds of the strug gle.
 How well they know that dazzling jewel, It had been fortune for them both. a fortune briefly held and quickly lost.
 The next day the papers ring with tie account Of the recovery of the dia- mond, the aftermath of the sreat cir GUS tragedy The value of the diamond can hardly be estimated che Los Au. geies papers say. Theae are conflict ing stories as to how il came into the possession of the dead circus proprie- for. This only is known. It will be sold it sherilfs $ auction IS an asset Of the Santley circus. bankrupt.
 Homer Graydon, millionaire reads the story Homer Graydon is old in years, but as he says young at heart" Wicked at heart would be the truer saVinp