The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26

l did not contribute anything to her sup port. These are two Of the grounds for her suit
 The main allegations of the complaint deal with cruelty to and inhuman treat ment of Mrs. Gould by her husband. She charges him with having openly and flag | rantly consorted with several women of bad character in the last five years
 MT. Gould, she says has spied upon her every action for years, and has dogged her footsteps everywhere she has gone He has even opened her mail in an effort to get a more intimate knowledge of her doings.
 In his answer Howard Gould says that in September, 1906. his wife became "enamored and infatuated" with Dustin Farnum: that she attended every per formance he gave, followed him on his New England itinerary, and even followed him to Brooklyn, taking him to and from the theatre in her automobile.
 In relating an episode at Lynchburg, Va, MT. Gould ayers that on November 8 of that year, at Blue Gap Farm, Mrs. Gould became drunk that she fell off her chair and lay helpless on the floor. After that dinner. he says, she continued to drink more intoXicants. and finally re- tired to the garden of the farm, where, he says, she fell on the ground and lay for several hours.
 One of the main allegations in MT. Goulds answer is a repetition of the old story that he was inveighed into marry ing her by fraud and misrepresentation. He says that he was deceived as to the real relations between her and Colonel Cody.
 There is no scandal in the separation of the Frank Goulds Incompatibility of temper is given as the cause.
 The price of diamonds is not to drop after all; good news to owners and sad news to the would-be buyers In view of the general faith in the cash value of diamonds, certain recent rumors came like bombshells. rumors concerning sum- dry disagreements that had come about between two great South African mining companies. It was whispered that this controversy threatened to lower the price of diamonds all over the world. Day by day the papers, east and west. printed the reports which were coming thick and fast that diamonds were to be cheaper and then cheaper; and one sensational sheet prophesied that school boys would be playing with these jewels as marbles before many years were out.
  the Premier and De Beers mines became the unconscious actors in dozen vare- ties of financial drama, and the talk of a diamond panic ragged on. disseminating startling predictions of the coming dia- mond war which was to cheapen the gem in every quarter of the globe. It was declared that the Premier company would break away from the syndicate and un- dersell the other companies The belief a,a1 t. hot tl,- ian dic- satisfied with dsposng of only half it's output, which was all that the syndicate was willing to take during the present hard times and depression in the sale of gems Now it is said that the Premier has gone back into the fold.
 This is a day of trusts and combina- tions, and the diamond has it's syndi- cate. too, like everything else-a very powerful and substantial syndicate, with such names upon it's roster as Sir Julius Werner, Solomon Joel of the Barnato firm. and Sir Lionel Phillips of the Eek ersteins-the trustees of the Cecil Rhodes estate. The diamond business of the world is controlled by them, or certainly 99 per cent of it. They regulate the output of the mines and the placing of gems on the market, in such a masterly and careful fashion that the supply is never permitted to exceed the demand.
 
 buyers, stocks are kept well boomed, and the trade goes smoothly anG prosperous ly on.
 The immensity of the diamond busi- ness cannot be grasped without an un- derstanding of the size. working and out put of the South African mines con- troled by the De Beers and the New Premier companies. The great mines cover such large areas; as for example, the Kimberley, B acres; the De Beers, 22; the Du Toits Pan, 45, and the Bulfon- tein, 36 These mines lie close together in a circle of three and a half miles, The Premier is a separate mine, 20 miles northwest of Pretoria, and is larger than any of the others. It has the distinction of having the biggest known "diamantif- erous pipe"-the pipe containing the dia- mond-bearing "blue ground; the area of this is estimated at about 350,000 square yards. The expense of the mines is enor- nous; the De Beers company alone spends s40O.000 a month on the operation of it's workings.
 The "ambuance chaser has become one of the crying evils of all large cities. The ambulance chaser is an unscrup- ulous lawyer who goes to a victim of an accident and offers to sue for dam ages on speculation; agreeing to divide the profits and charge nothing if the case is lost. In New York these lawyers have worked out a system whereby through the police they hear of accidents in five minutes after they occur. Often their representatives are on the spot be- fore the victim can be carried to a hos pital and at all times there is an army of touts besieging station houses and hospitals. When a citizen of New York was recently killed at Poughkeepsie five lawyers visited the family before the ar rival of the body. and when it was taken from it's shell the professional card of d sixth was found pinned to the coat sleeve. The methods of those classical shysters Messrs Dodson & Fogg, as outlined in Pickwick, seem almost infantile in, com parison. But when it is taken into con- sideration that 2500 new lawyers are turned out in New York every year this keen competition is not to be won dered at.
 The Old Philosopher.
 From the Atlanta Constitution
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