The Springdale news., 1915-07-30
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A Heritage =of-Hate.

T k June iH Virginia, June Ia the
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 In Richmond during the War 1ifdss. Lamar Stanley had heen high l. the councils of the cabinet If President Jefferson Davis. taZfhe Zae.!1 it.s cousin Arthur Stfnfe1. followed fiIe 4ffef $ 8f He GeIzE5 af.fzt .4t.tzzs x z aemlpr If tbe aT ef sieHcfal t.ee.
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 aH6fiehs, theff mutual hatred ase with their growing wears Fhere sas #feep causes for all this in the thH4rt Il social ambitions af tffe ftfflzr ts the scion of tho elder branch If the tmeriean StanleYs, sprtging from t4eif common ancestor, Sir sNtAar stanley. I gentleman aflvehtRfef. whf came te America iH l6f5, Colonel Sf4n icy held possession of the precious fam fly heirloom the diamond from the sky.
 The family tradition ran that this great gem had fallen in Il blazing fae teor at the feet of Sir Arthur StanttY three centuries ago Just as he WIS about to be burned at the stake by tha Indians, whom he had in some way affronted and aroused.
 The legend was that the Indians had deemed the falling meteor an omen from the Great Spirit that the white man about 10 be tortured WAS under the favor of his protection. This leg end further stated that Sir Arthur Stanley himself had so accepted the diamond from the sky as token of supernatural favor, especially as the Indians had called 1t the fallen star." and as The Fallen Star" Sir Arthur Stpv ht, I.l his banishment from the court of King James Of England for some wild esca pade of gallantry when he was but turned of twenty-two.
 In the age stained family archives kept in the strong box at Stanley hall the great mansion home of Colonel stanley, there was the will of the wild Sir Arthur. and at its end there was Il strange prophetic clause This clause read that when the noble line of Stan leys became extinct in England and an heir of the old Stanley earldom was sought among the elder sons of the American family of Staneys in Vir ginia the diamond from the sky, the heritage of the elder son of this elder 'f"ith, shohlo pt boIltt anu NoIH DUCK to England by the American earl when he came into his English earldom.
 At the time We write-that is, in Jnne, 1ss2-the last of the earls Of stanley Was q bachelor invalid and reclnse without hope or desire of an heir
 Colonel Stanley had no son to sue in t4l IT was married to a fair young wife, who expected shortly to become mother