The Diamond
From the Sky
By ROV L McCAROELL
Copyright, 1915. by Roy L McCirdell
Tlvl.lti stui"k "her liead upon lllalr's
breast beneath the wistnrln lxugh. Hlie
tempted lilm with languorous glance
and alluring Hp. "Crtt and give me
the diamond and I vl!l W yours," Klie
Applies th Barrel Stave to th Bent
Over Negro Lad.
whispered. And Blair, much as he bad
longed for the baleful Jewel himself,
now longed mure for thin woman.
"I hall never rest till I get It for
yonP he replied fiercely. And he
woold have kissed her to seal the con
tract, but she drew herself from his
arms, and be knew that her caresses
war only to be purchased, by the dia
aoond, be the price of the diamond
Uvea, souls or honor.
But the luxurious and vivacious Viv
ian was a practical person. She did
not depend upon the romantic, if des
perate, efforts of a lover alone to secure
for her the star of her desire.
She consulted the businesslike and
equally eager brothers lUooui. To the
jape mouthed Abraham and Isaac she
confided the romantic story of the dia
mond and the confirmation of Its great
intrinsic value-,. which she had learned
from Blair Stanley and others while In
Fairfax.
"The diamond from the sky, as they
call ft, disappeared In IMchmond, torn
from your neck by the hands of an
unseen thief, the night of Airs. Ran
dolph's ball," said Abe Bloom, the gam
ble. "The chances are u hundred to
one It Is still hidden tu this town.
Whoever stole it will want money ou
It That's reasonable enough to as
sume. It will turn up."
"It 1th enough to make a inau put a
thine In hlth wlmlowth thuylng "Hlgh
li mtheth I'ald For Big IMamondth
u J No yuestionths Athked " remark
ed Mr. Ike Bloom, who lisped when he
wne excited, and excited he was when
he beard the romantic history of the
diamond from the sky and its price.
But especially did Its price excite him.
"It shan't thlip through my handth
again If I get hold of It," he added.
"1 wouldn't lent It to the uueeu of
Thpaln." And as he said this he gave
tU brother's "lady friend" from New
York, as he called her, a meaning
glance.
"Let bygones be bygones!" Abe
Bloom snarled at his brother. "VI
didn't lose It on purpose. I have tele
phoned for Tom Blake, whom I eon
alder the smartest detective In this
country. He does what you pay htm
to do and keeps his mouth shut. If
too diamond Is in Richmond Blake will
flud It."
la a few moments the suave and ret
icent Mr. Blake arrived. Placed In pos
session of all the facts the Blooms and
Vivian couM give him, he remarked
that be would do his best, and the first
and last meeting of the syndicate to
find the diamond from the sky broke
up and the detective departed.
lie was followed shortly afterward
iT Miss Marston of New York, whose
Richmond society friends would have
been shocked beyond expression did
they know she paid an occasion a l se
cret visit to the establishment of Abe
Ittoom.
Meanwhile where is the diamond
' from the sky? It Is not a pearl to be
ct before swine, nor Is It fated to
remain the tinsel plaything of a negro
lad who is a herder of swine.
In the frayed and dirty dress suit,
all the dirtier for its Jail stains, Mr.
JStiap Mc4,ee makes across country,
cursing his luck. He pauses by a pig
in to play a grim and Intensely prac
tical' Joke on a negro boy bent over
Je sty. Mr. Stxao McQeft cJckj ua a
'ZZd X '
bmr stave nt 'fl'ppllc It fo Y,6 "per
son of the Ip-Yi'i over negro hid.
Then Mr. Mcf,ee note the loy. In
sudden pnln und fright, hn dropped
onto hnnble rdnj-thlng Into the wlll of
the KwMie. Mr. MctJec is not fastld
(u. lie llshes out the bauble.
it I the diamond from the sky!
And It looks good to Mr. Met lee, and
be flees with It at hi lest speed, fol
lowed ly u shower of rn ks l'roni the
colored pig Isiy, In-reft of the sparkling
thing he found In mi owl's nest.
Bichmond is not far away, and Mr.
Strap Met Joe has some loose c hange
lie won nt gaming In tho J .ill. He pro
reeds to IniliilK, biding his time to dis
pose of tho hntihle hidden In his rags.
But when he drops into the curio
shop, opium len joss house maintained
by Chinese acquaintances, his tipsy
vanity impels him to show the bauble
to the crafty Hung I A. priest, don
keeper and tong leader.
It Is n fatal thing to do, for luck has
loen bad with Hung Ll and his friends.
The police have closed their gnmbllng
Joint and shut down on opium smok
ing. Hung IJ lielievo that the god of
tho sky, the grent god I .ting, needs
propitiating, and then he will bring
back good lurk In plenty.
Has word from the diamond from
the sky traveled to China and back?
The elllgy of the great god Lung Is in
Its sanctuary In the next room, nud
LUng Is 1he god of tho sky. The lardy
of a strangled tramp Is dropped through
a trap door, and the diamond from the
sky Is hung alsmt the neck of the great
god Lung.
This night Mrs. Burton ItondHph
would n slumming go. Blair and Miss
Marston are nil the little party, und
Tom Blake, the detective, Is to Imj their
guide. A significant glance of caution
and silence passes between the de
fective and Miss Marston when they
meet again.
The Chinese quarter, with its Joss
house, Is the first pla-e they visit. The
wily Hung Ll wishes no visitors to the
inner sanctuary of his Joss, the great
god Lung, but Blake will not be de
nied. He says his friends have come espe
cially to burn Incense for good luck
lK-fore the great god Lung. And so
they enter the sanctuary and behold
on the breast of Lung the diamond
from the sky!
Ictectlve as he Is, and, possessing
great and evil lowers in tho eyes of
Huug LI, Blake arid his friends are
forced from the place. The ladles,
Mrs. Randolph again In a "state of
nerves," are sent home, and Blake
from the nearest telephone summons
Aim Bloom nud his brother.
Meanwhile an Kngllsh lawyer has ar
rived at the Randolph house seeking
Blair Stanley. Ietermlned upon his
quest, the lawyer gets directions and
arrives at the Joss house. Hung Ii
and his confreres will have none of
the London lawyer.
But the exasperated Marmuduke
Smythc will not be denied. He says
he knows the persons he is searching
for are Inside this beastly Chinese
place. i
Here now he Is, re-euforced by the
excited and money proffering Abraham
re w. ,. t vim
4 Hv
Hung Li Examines th Diamond From
tho Sky.
and Isaac Bloom und the equally ur
gent but more self controlled private
detective, Tom Blake.
The Investing allies, English, Irish
and Hebrew, surge in upon the in
trenched Chinese. The struggle of the
invaders to gain the sanctuary and get
for money or by force the diamond
from the sky is now at its fiercest
But all the while a desperate man is
climbing the fire escape at the back
of the Chinese den. He has noted a
curtain draped window !ehlnd the Joss.
A crash of glass is heard w lib in.
The frenzied Hung Ll breaks from
the invaders and rushes Into the sanc
tuary, followed by the other Chinese,
the two Blooms, the detective and the
bewildered Englishman.
A hand through the broken glass be
hhid the idol has torn the diamond
from the sky from the neck and breast
of the great god luting. With a demo
niac scream the frenzied Hung Ii
seizes a keen Chinese sword at the
foot of the Idol and alms a swift blow
at the disappearing hand.
Woe and bad luck forever for the un
fortunate nung Ll! The blow has
missed the despoiling white hand and
has severed the head of the great god
Lung!
ten
' Anofher slash In excited frenr.y and
down conies tho burning altar light,
n1 tho flniy furnishing of tho snnc
fnnrr ntid the "-hole den Itself are a
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IE WE ALL TIIOCGIIT ALIKE
Did you ever utop and consider for
a minute what a tangled . up mess
this old world would be. and what a
queer, lot the people would be If we
all possessed the same ideas and
thought alike on every subject? You
often hear the remark,. "Why, 1
wouldn't: be like that person for a
million dollars." The person who
makes this familiar remar kseldom
thinks what the natural result would
be if all the' other people thought the
same as he does, had the same manners,-Ideas,
and Idiosyncrasies as he
has. Why, if this were the case, the
world would be In an uproar from
morning till night, and from night
until morning. Everybody would be
talking at the same time, and when
silence reigned In one place It would
reign all over the world. You had
probably never thought of that, had
you?
And, furthermore", every woman
would patronize the same milliner
and dressmaker, and would wear the
same style clothes, made from the
same goods. One saloon would re
ceive all the patronage, and, to .carry
It to extremes, every man would
want to drink out of the same glass
and bottle; all men would smoke the
same brand of cigars and tobacco,
and the opposite Bex would use the
Bame kind of face powder; all men
would want the same suit of clothes,
and would, like the women, all dress
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Bame side of the street and have the
same gait. Just think of several
thousand persons turning the same
corner at the same time.
One person Would never argue
with another, and the women . (It is
to be hoped) would never gossip
about their neighbors; everyone
would want to live in the same
house, sleep on the same bed, eat at
the Bame table, have the Bame cook,
eat out of the same dishes; all men
would want the same woman for a
wife, and all women would want the
same man for a husband. We would
all retire at the same hour; all the
men would have the same occupa
tion; and (so it is figured by statis
ticians) the women would all come
to town at the same hour and remain
on the streets exhibiting their fancy
gowns, even though they were all
dressed alike. v'
Everyone would take the same
train when they started on a trip,
and all would want the same seat in
the car. AH the patronage in the
town would go to one store, and one
doctor would be worked to death day
and night.
These few examples of what would
happen if we all thought alike will
prove the necessary stimulus for the
imagination, and the reader can con
tinue the picture until material is ex
hausted, which should be in exactly
four days. No one can read this and
then think the Lord was not looking
Into the future when he created man
and woman.
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SAINT JOSEPH, MO.
September 16 and 17,
$3,000.00 IN PREMIUMS"
Premium will bo paid in gold coin by the secretary, on presentation of award of judpes.
PREMIUMS
HEREFORD
Carload. 20 head or more, feeding steers.
Vpayed or martin heifers, two years old and
over:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $.10.00 $25.00 $10.00
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, one year old and
under two:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Carload, 20 head o more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, under one year:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 6th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Grand Champion car load if won by Here
fords, $250.00.
Cattle competing must be all steers or
heifers, not mixed, and may be pure bred or
grades, but must show a preponderance of
Hereford Blood.
SHORTHORN'S
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, two years old and
over:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, one year old and
under two:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, under one year:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Grand Champion carload, if won by Short
horn, $100.00.
Cattle competing must be all steers or
heifers, not mixed, and may be pure bred or
grades, but must show a preponderance of
Shorthorn Blood.
ABERDEEN-ANSI'S
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, two years old and
over:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, one year old ami
under two:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 ,$25.00 $10.00
Carload, 20 head or more, feeding steers,
spayed or martin heifers, under one year:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
$100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 $10.00
Grand Champion carload, if won by Aberdeen-Angus,
$150.00.
Cattle competing must be all steers or
heifers, not mixed, and may be pure bred or
grades, but must show a preponderance of
Aberdeen-Angus Blood.
A FINAL WORD
' "
Exhibitors of cattle will be assured a ready Bale. .More feeder
for their stock this year than ever before. Special efforts are being
feeder buyers here at the time of the Stocker and Feeder Show.
F. C. Fletcher, Sec. Stocker and Feeder Show
Geo. J. Hand,n.D.
Asthma and
Hay Fever
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
PHONE 251
Calls answered from office day or
night.
A New Roof
must be put on the house or barn
this spring. The old shingles can
not withstand the sun and storm an
other season.
If Uiis Job is not to be done over
again for at least ten years you bet
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Shingles
They are good for that length of
time, anyway, and perhaps longer.
At a lower price we can sell you
sliingles not quite so good.
Lumber, too, for reialra about the
place.
Dierks Lumber Co.
Best car feeding lambs $75.00
Best car
lings $50.00
Best car feeding ewes .$35.00
South St. Joseph, Missouri
There's Nothing Better
On a Hot Summer Day
Than a heaped-up, foaming, sizzling, freezing, tasty ICE
CKEAM SODA. It's a nice stroll to the fountain, and sodas
are more nourishing and refreshing than any other kind of
iced drinks you can get, because ice cream is rich food made so
appetizing with the pure fruit flavors at the soda fountain that
many people have one as a light lunch to keep up their energy
on a sizzling hot day.
A refreshing specialty is a CHOCOLATE GOUP concen
trated food and drink. Ten cents for a genuine treat.
We Serve the Purest and Best
Ice Cream Made
Orders Delivered to Any Part of the City. Just Use the Phone.
F. J. Brennan
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The "Penslar" Store phone g4
ILER GRAND HOTEL
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A Really Comfortable Hotel for You
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It Is Popular with Many Live Stork
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RATES ARE LOW
P. W. MIKESELL, Prop.
Feeder Show
1915
INFORMATION
PURPOSE OF THE SHOW
The St. Joseph Stocker and Feeder Show is
held under the auspices of the St. Joseph
Slock Yards Co, and the St. Joseph Live Stock
Exchange. The purpose of this show Is to
demonstrate to the producers, handlers and
feeders of cattle, that the St. Joseph Stock
Yards is one of the best market centers to
buy and sell this class of cattle and to pro
mote the cattle industry generally by bring
ing In contact both producer arid fattener and
affording an avenue of exchange of stock
from the west, northwest and southwest to
the great feed lot territory extending ea6t of
the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
ENTRIES
Entries will close on Wednesday, Septem
ber 15, 1915. Entries may be made direct to
the Secretary or may be made through any
Commission Firm by giving following Infor
mation: Number of head; age; breed; name
of owner. . ; commission firm to whom con
signed. St. Joseph speculators and yard trad
ers can not compete.
The cattle will be judged on Thursday,
September 16, .and offered at public auction
to the highest bidder on Friday, September
17th.
The services of P. M. Gross, as auctioneer,
have been secured.
EXPENSES
The exhibitor is required to pay the freight,
feed, yardage and commission charges, the
same as would accrue on any shipment to the
market for sale.
FEEDER CATTLE
Feeder cattle are hereby defined to be cat
tle known upon the market commercially as
feeder cattle, and they may be put in market
condition In any manner exhibitor desires.
Twenty (20) head will constitute a car
load. NEBRASKA RANCH CATTLE -Nebraska
ranch cattle have acquired a rep
utation among feeders who buy at the South
St. Joseph market of being exceptionally good
stuff for their feed lots. If exhibited at the
Stocker and Feeder Show they will without
doubt win some of the prizes, besides selling
for topnotch prices.
SHEEP
The following premiums are offered on
feeding sheep, 150 head or more to constitute
a carload:
1st
2nd
3rd
$20.00
$40.00
feeding year
$30.00 $20.00
$20.00 $10.00
buyers are coming to St Joseph
made to have a large number of
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We will mail you a half doa
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your name and address be
low. cut out this advertise
ment and mall to Her Grand
Hotel Omaha, Nebr.. and
you will receive the half doa
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