Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-24

EA E " OidIlOuu IlGtU, ~~ AMH few days ago, the cables
 VI around the world from lit
 tie sp-t of blue ground in Belgian Congo.
 New Diamond Ficld," joined com merce in the cry through it's men of Maiden Lane and their brother gem experts 1n every capital.
 New Diamond Field!" echoed ad- venture, tragedy, romance, keen as ever to take advantage of the find, For mystery and blood have followed the costly crystal from the days in dim antiquity when it glittered it's way through Indian mysticism to rest on gleaming breast or in the hilt of 8 kings rapier, writes Thomas Mo- Weigh, Jr., in the New York World.
 The diamond!
 1t sparkled first in the rich soil of India and rajahs over and over again fought battles and shed blood for it. It has glistened in the eyes of idols and been pried from them by looters' bayonets. For centuries it could be owned only by 8 king. Tt exceeds in value all human things" said Pliny one hundred years after the Redeemer had shed on earth the radiance of his personality. The sin of Judah,' said Jeremiah, lis written with pen of iron and the point of diamond" And once you find it in Exodus assd once in Ezekiel. and that closes it's record in the Bible.
 The Greeks, three centuries before Christ, called it the "unsubduable stone.'
 "Peacemaker between wife and hus band
 It's Latest Discovery. A cable of yesterday gave the world the latest news of it.
 That news trailed from the Kasai river district in the Belgian Congo, more familiarly known by it's former name of the Congo Free State, leads under seas, over continents, across Broadway, New York, through Liberty street to a doorway marked 32. It keeps on to the elevator, ascends eleven floors, takes you to another door, No. 1109, enters and finishes it's l journey at the desk of Fortune | Thomas Fortune Ryan.
 It official and confirmed, it an- i nounces, and here it is: In 1906 MT. Ryan and group of Belgian capital ists took over under the name of the International Society of Forestry and ] Mining of the Congo, as mining con- cession, 370000 square miles in the Belgian Congo. Prospectors at work at Mai Munene, on the Kasai river and at the mouth of Kabambale creek, 55 miles northwest of Mai Munene, have found diamonds beautifully clear. In two weeks one man found 240 stones. Approximately 600 stones have been found to date for about 75 miles along the Kasai river The more northerly of the finds are but 15 miles from the head Uf navigation on the lower Kasa1, on which stern-wheelers ply. The largest of the stones weighed about one carat. Further reports, contin- ued 'the news naively, are awaited with interest.
 Last Discovery In 1867.
 It has been forty-five years, which takes us back to 1867, since the last diamond discovery news of impor tance reached New York and that came from a point in Africa, now known as Kimberley, about sixteen hundred miles south of the Kasai river district. Since then, because of that discovery, $6O0,0O0, 900 has been added to the worlds wealth
 It came about in this way:
 Burgher Jacobs, to escape British rule in Cape Colony, had settled oI a Dutch farm near Hopetown on the Orange river. His children used tc play in the sand with bright pebbles for marbles. Neighbor Schalk Var Neikirk noticed one of the pebbles, re marked that it might be valuable ant | showed it to one MT. John ORe1lly, { travelling trader. He in turn took I to Colesberg. cut his initials with | on the window of hotel and an nounced that it was diamond. l found it's way to Cape Town. where M. Henriette, French consul, declarinl it genuine. sent it to the Paris Univer sal exhibition, where it was bought, magnificent 21-carat stone, for $2,5OO
 Two years later Mir. Schalk Van Nel kirk. still somewhat interested Il bright pebbles, picked out of the mu --ses>