Gen. Mitchell Look» Over Hi» Indian Hunt Trophies
Fort Ringgold An
Interesting Post
KEEPING TAB ON QUAKER
and about to 1* sold when
important Outpost in Line town-site
border disturbances again took sol­
of Indian Defense.
diers to Fort Ringgold. From 1911 to
the present soldiers and National
Kan Antonio, Texas.—Nestling In Guardsmen have constantly been on ।
he foothills of Ktarr county, lying watch there. However, no Improve- |
mugly against the banks of the somber ment was made until 1917, when the
ind treacherous Rio Grande, rubbing projterty was again turned back to the
■boulders with the quaint and typical- I War department. In 1918, congress
y Mexican town, lllo Grande City. Just | appropriated $250.000 for the Improve- (
Midway between Brownsville and La- I ment of the post and In the following
redo, 1» located one of the most dlgnl- years othyr appropriations have been
led sad stately of army posts—Fort sufficient to repair and Improve the
Ulnggold, Texas. Chaplain II. W. Ilog- port until today It Is <me nt the most
•rs, who prepared the history of this attractive reservations on the border.
>ost for the United States Army lie-
Where Lee Lived.
-rutting News, says that while having
The most Interesting building Is the
•njoyed a varied but quiet career. It tbree-ruotn frame cottage on the hill
xevertbeless Is considered a very near the signal station. This building
strategic border post. Fort Ringgold was used by Robert E. Lee. w hen he I
was established when the Rio Grande was In command there as a colonel
was navigable, boats bringing the first Just before the Civil war. The build­
Brother Charles Ramage of the
Jetachmeut of men to Lavis laindlng ing Is still In a perfect stale of preser­ seismological station of Georgetown
which later was called Ringgold Bar­ vation.
university fixing seismograph paper
racks. In those early days the near
Many prominent and notable army that has been prepared with soot and
Brig Gen Wllllnm M Mitchell, assistant < lilef nt the United State» army air serviea. with Sira. Mitchell und W. rat railroad was at Laredo something men have seen service at Fort Ring- ; ran through shellac.
This remlers
1.. Brown. tuzldermlrt. Inspecting some of the trophies and skins of the general's recent hunt In India. The collection more than 100 miles away, while now gold. Two or three years before the the record permanent. Father Ton-
la »aid to be one of the finest In the country and Includes the »kin» of ten tiger», Ove leopard», two hyena», »everal •he boasts a railroad at Sam Fordyce, Civil war Col. Robert E. Lee and Sec­ dorf Is In charge of this station, that
deer and bear und sundry others. The skins are at the national museum in the capital where they wll) he mounted.
only 20 miles away.
ond Lieutenant Ulysses 8. Grant were has a reputation throughout the world.
Camargo, Mex., six miles south of stationed there at the same time. It
employ Irrigation to grow their crop» Fort Ringgold, was founded March 5, wns a »trange coincidence that two
1749, by Jose de Escandon. Tbs first
of bananas, sweet potatoes and grains. vurvey and map wus made for the king leaders of later opposing forces should New Chamber Discovered
have been In the same post at the
in the Endless Caverns
Sometimes they merely divert a moun­ of Spain In 1785. It show» a line run­ same time. Other prominent officers
tain stream, but frequently consider­ ning north 8,024 varas (33 1-3 Inches) who have seen service there are: Jef­ 1 Newmarket, Ya.—A new chamber,
able engineering skill Is used to bring from the cross, the central point of op­ ferson Davis. General McCullough. surpassing In beauty ami natural won­
water through tubes or-channels con­ erations In Camargo This Une then General Hood, Lieutenant Colonel Sed- ders any hitherto discovered, has been
siderable distances. The forest belt, ran northeast Including the Fort Ring wheh. General Buell, General Bee, Ad­ found In the Endless caverns, reports
not Kilimanjaro's glaciers, supplies gold reservation. With the withdrawal miral Semmes, and, more recently, from a party of eminent geologists now
most of this life-giving water. The of Texas from Mexico and Its admis­ both Generals Pershing and Harbord, engaged In exploring the caverns say.
rain forest Is a vast sponge, drinking sion to the United States, the original who served there as lieutenants. The new chamber was entered by men
up the rain and squeezing It out In title changed over to the state. In the Troops which have been stationed who w ormed their way through a small
are
like
Labrador
or
the
Alnskan
j
la Much Higher Than Blanc steppe, but Instead of harboring rein­ springs.
early 40’s. H. Clay Davis, a restless there since the rehabilitation are. be­ openlng and descended 80 feet on a
young wanderer, drifted to that sec­ sides the National Guard: Third cav­ rope. It Is marked by vegetable an-1
6hun
Crater
and
Plain.
or Whitney.
deer. they support flocks of eland. .
tion
of the country and purchased a alry, Thirteenth cavalry. Twenty­ animal life and rock formations said
“
Below
the
agricultural
belt
is
the
The mountain Is a game preserve and
scorched dry plain. It Is almost as large tract of land, lie soon stabllshed eighth infantry ; Second squadron. Thir­ to be more spectacular than that of
Washington, D. C. — Kilimanjaro the flocks thrive.
other sections of the caves which have
“Next comes a belt of heather sim­ Impossible to get the nativee to ven­ a prosperous ranch and settled down teenth cavalry and at present the Sec­ been open for Inspection for years.
mountain of Tanganyika territory,«
to
make
hts
fortune.
ond
squadron
of
the
Twelfth
cavalry.
ture
down
to
the
hot
plain
as
to
get
which bus been the object of a recent ilar to that of the Scotch highlands.
Capt. J. H. La Motte, First United
expedition. la one of the moat notable Then the elevation drops, the region them to approach the lee-capped
States Infantry, took a small detach­
"violent contrasts" In Africa, sometimes of heavy precipitation appears and J crater.
ment of soldiers np the Rio Grande to
termed the continent of "violent con­ with It the rain forest, almost con- j "Elephants Inhabit the thick forests Pavla Landing, arriving on October 26.
Explorers
stantly swathed In mist. This thins ■ of Kilimanjaro's slojiea
trasts."
1S48. Not until 1853 was the Birt lease
"Although Africa spreads Itself to to the ordinary tropical forest and then ! often see their »poors on bonks seem­ made. A tract 400 yards square, sur­
both temperate sones." says a bulletin dwindles to the mountain's 'tem|>erate ingly Impossible for such huge animals rounded by a brush fence, containing
of the National Geographic society, rone.' where the tribesmen live. It Is to manage. One writer reports seeing 33 acres was surveyed. The lease was
"by whim of geography Its only no­ estimated 125.(100 |>eople now reside on marks Indicating that the elephants signed by II. Clay Davis, owner of the
table enow peaks are under the sun's the slopes of Klllmanlnro, and they are thrust their tusks Into the ground to land, and W. W. Chatman, represent­
most direct glare and. of Its 'high counted hy some explorers among the steady themselves on a descent, and
ing the United States.
spots' near the Equator, Kilimanjaro most Intelligent and progressive tin i that scruffed bark showed that they
Bandits Cross Border.
wound their trunks about trees to help
tlvea of Africa.
Is chief.
Immediately following the annexa­
doctors of medicine and surgeons, rail­
"The Chagga and other tribes even themselves up to higher positions."
"Kilimanjaro was unknown to the
tion of Texas to the United States 2,000 Likenesses of Gre*t road officials. There Is the rugged,
world a century ago, and unsealed
bandits began to cross from Mexico,
Gathered for Posterity.
smiling countenance of T. P. O’Connor,
until 1889. but now a railway from
killing, looting and burning at will. In
father of the house of commons; Win­
Mombasa approaches Its flanks. In Its
repulsing one of these Invasions on the
London.—The National Portrait gal­ ston Churchill, with his floodgates col­
way It affords Africa claim to the
battlefields of Palo Alto, an extensive lery Is compiling photographs of dis­ lar and studiously careless bow tie ; the
greatest mountain on the face of the,
prairie nine miles north of Browns­
tinguished men und women in all fields archbishop of Canterbury, with a shag­
earth. Everest, nt 3>,0t)2 altitude Is
ville, Maj. David Ringgold was killed
gy, drooping brow almost biding one of
almost 10.000 feet higher than Kiliman­
May 8, 1846. Honoring Major Ring­ of British life.
his eyes; the lord chancellor with long
jaro; there nre even peaks having slm
Already
2,000
of
the
great
and
near-
gold. the cainp at Davis Landing was
wig and close-clipped mustache; Mr.
liar volcanic origin rising higher In
gre.it
have
posed
for
this
national
col
­
called Ringgold Barracks In 1849. and
Asquith and scores of other some­
South and Central America, but nil of
more recently designated as Fort Ring­ lection.
bodies and almost-somebodies.
those grent ones rise on the backs of
Very few of the faces In the collec­
gold.
One of these days, it is hoped, the
their neighbor».
Kilimanjaro stands
tion are feminine.
♦
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In
September,
1854,
the
second
lease
national gallery will set aside a room
alone In the Lent-scorched windswept
It
is
an
exceptional
person,
man
or
The hostesses of the present-day was made, and operated five years. woman w ho becomes distinguished be­ In which to hang photographic enlarge­
plain. Without even the company of Smoothes Away Embarrass­
shops tire counted on to help them. During this period log huts were erect­ fore the age of forty. Some of the ments of prominent people ; after their
a mountain ridge It rises solitary from
ments for Women.
Most of the hostesses employed by the ed for the use of the troops. Early In ; beauty "f women often fades before death, of course. No canvas can now
a plateau nt 2,500 to 4,000 feet to the
be bung in the gallery until the sub­
smart shops today nre of certain age. 1859 the soldiers were ordered further
snow-enppod majesty of 10,819 feet.
New York.—For the first time In his But all are shining examples of pres­ down the river owing to the Cortina then, s*- 'hat the trustees of the Na­ ject has been dead ten years or more.
Overshadows Blanc and Whitney.
tional
Poi
ralt
gallery
have
not
been
tory, barber shops have hostesses.
Sometimes when a deceased man of
Young women are not trouble. The old lease having ex­ greatly surprised when, in several in
"Europe Is proud of Its Alps und These directors of hirsute traffic sug ervation.
pired during the absence of the troops,
prominence Is honored by selection for
sought,
but
a
woman
of
fifty
who
still
Pyrenees and the United States con gest type of hairdressing, smooth away
stances, after Inviting a distinguished the gallery, no adequate photograph
has attractive hair, although It may another lense was made upon their
alders the Itockles mighty mountains,
the embarrassment which many wom­ be white, a fresh skin and a figure return. This one was to operate for woman to have her picture made for from which to make a painting can be
yet Kilimanjaro Is nearly a mile high­ en feel In seeking a male barbers'
ten years, granting the owner $000 per their collection, the lady visited a pho­ found. Under the new system of com­
er than Mt. Whitney. America's tallest advice as to coiffures and assist pa­ can usually obtain such a position. year. It further provided, the govern­ tographer, but refused to approve of piling photographs of all distinguished
Her chances are enhanced if she
peak. It In almost 4.000 feet higlifr
the result.
people, this will never happen again.
speaks one or more foreign languages. ment had the privilege of buying the
than Mt. Blanc, Europe's lending sum trons In spending their money.
Photographs of more than 150 of
land
for
$23,000.
Two
years
later
the
The compilation was begun in 1915;
This
development
was
Inaugurated
For the cashiers of the women's bar­
mlt. Kilimanjaro has for company on
Civil war started nnd the federal the distinguished contemporaries, as It will probably go on forever.
by
a
department
store
which
for
years
ber
sho(>s
cash
more
checks
signed
the equator Mt. Kenya, Just over the
troops were taken from the Ringgold the trustees of the gallery call those
border, giving Its name to Kenya col­ maintained Its place of business on with "his mark" than any Institution barracks. Immediately after the war whom they invite to sit for their col­
Sixth
avenue
und
wns
somewhat
re
­
except
dealers
In
foreign
exchange.
ony and 'the Mountains of the Moon.'
troops were again sent to that post, lection. have recently been placed on 250,000 Men Received
In the men's shop a barber who will arriving In 1807. The property was public exhibition. Most of the faces
officially Buwenzorl, In Uganda. feed­ moved from the Fifth avenue trade.
Summer Army Training
ing the Whlto Nile with water for Now the concern has n Fifth avenue not talk is at a premium; but in the held by lense until 1878, when It was are old. but some of them, notably
Washington.—More than 230.000 men
shop
and
hns
hired
hostesses
for
Its
women's hairdressing establishment a purchased outright.
Egypt.
John Drinkwater's, the dramatist, are received some degree of Intensive
"Natives inhabiting the slopes of barber shop to hrnke patrons feel at barber who cannot talk interestingly
on the sunny side of middle age.
In
1900,
a
brigade
post
was
estab
­
military training under War depart­
baa but a brief time between himself lished at San Antonio. Fort Ringgold
Kilimanjaro have the legend that the home In the new surroundings.
Only one man In the collection wears ment supervision last summer. The
Duties
of
the
Hostesses.
and
separation
from
the
payroll.
mountain hns a silver peak. To tribes
with other bonier posts was disman­ n monacle—Austen Chamberlain, the period of training ranged from fifteen
Strange It Is, but true, thut tunny
who have never seen snow, this seemed
Other Shops Adopt Plan.
tled and abandoned. The property foreign secretary.
days to three months. The bulk of the
the most satisfactory explanation for of the newer comers to this country
There nre grizzled old shipbuilding training was In the National Guard
The so-called exclusive shops for was turned over to the Department of
the gleaming white cup. They associ­ find more difficulty In spending their women's clothing just off Fifth avenue the Interior. It was laid off In a magnates, authors, artists, musicians. camps.
ated It with their gods, und the first money than In getting It. New York also have taken the hostess to their
The reports show that in the twen­
white men to explore It had great dif­ Is full of newly rich people of foreign payrolls. To earn the weekly salary
ty-nlne civilian training camps held
ficulty satisfying the natives that they birth. With Increasing prosperity the check It Is necessary for these women
this year the attendance was the max­
would not drive away Bayll, the god women of these families have found not only to wear clothes well but to
imum which could be admitted and
that
the
old
standards
of
attractive
­
In the form of a giant cow Inhabiting
talk them well. One shop Is so exclus­
cared for with funds available to the
ness which appealed to the men In ive that It seljs nothing for cash. Be
the mountain's high plains.
War department for the purpose. The
“The mountain Is a small World In other countries nre obsolete here and fore one may buy a sample of Its prod­
number actually at the camps, 33,983,
itself, or more properly half a world. they nre determined to live up to Im­ ucts, it Is necessary to establish an
for thirty days, was a big Increase over
proved
conditions,
lienee
the
bob,
the
The snow cap Is Its polar cap; the
account for $1,500.
last year, while the number of applica­
high, cold ridges, without vegstation. barber nnd the hostess.
tions received amounted to 53,000.
For many years this shop has never
Of that number, 44,000 proved to
sold a model for less than $250 but
have the physical and other qualifica­
recently it has established a depart
tions necessary for admission, so that
ment on an upper floor where those
approximately 10,000 youngsters were
who do not feel equal to purchases at
disappointed In their hope to go
that rate occasionally enn buy a dress
through a training camp course last
ns low as $90. That, however. Is the
summer.
Irreducible minimum, ns the hostess
A phase of the organized reserve
will tell you.
corps work during the summer to
which the War department attaches
Yank Forbids Samoans
particular Importance Is the applica­
to Use Lordly Title
tion for the first time of the principle
of unit training to these organizations.
Apla, Samoa.—The title of "tub
The Defense day test, on the face
manu'a" of the Manua district of Amer
of official reports from all over the
lean Samoa has been prohibited hy th.*
country, served to bring out sharply
governor. Capt. Edward 8. Kellogg.
the benefit of this unit training scheme.
United States navy.
War department officials say.
Mannans who claim the right to be­
stow the title nre aggrieved.
The governor explained he would
Hand-Painted Shoe» Fad
not allow the title to be held for the
French Riviera Resort
reason that it wns equivalent to a king-
Cannes, France.—Women's shoes in
ship. nnd under the American govern
mah-Jongg pyrogravure and hand-
ment there could be no king.
painted designs are becoming quite
A large number of Samoan titles are
popular here and nt Monte Carlo and
designated nt "tul.” The word Is Ton
Nice at the beginning of what prom­
gun, Introduced Into the Samoan Inn
ises to be a most brilliant season on
gunge. A dictionary of the Snmoan
the Riviera. Examples oi hnnd-paffit-
Above Is shown the snow plow. Invented by Boger Edwards of Albert language defines It Is “high chief or
cd footwear worn nt the cnsinos In­
"king."
But
the
Samoan
word
for
king
Lea, Minn., which can cut a 12 foot swath at the rate of eight miles nn hour
clude mauve satin models ornamented
through snow from three to five feet deep. Such a demonstration took place is “tupu.”
with designs In gold nnd gray, nnd
A
tulmanu'a
does
not
exercise
any
between Albert Lea and Ownntonna. Experts who witnessed It remarked
Tills hawk made an early morning call at a St. Paul (Minn.) office, re­ gray satin shoes with hand-painted
that It could keep roads In the Northwest open all winter. The machine Is political power, but his person Is con­
roses on both the vamp and the quar­
propelled by n ten ton caterpillar tractor with two sets of rotary knives op­ sidered sacred and he commands the mained only long enough to have his picture snapped over the stenographer’s ter.
desk
nnd
then
departed
through
the
open
window.
highest
respect.
erated by a 120-horae-power engine.
Kilimanjaro, the
Everest of Africa
Keep Photos of
Famous British
Hostess Latest
Barber Shop Job
St. Paul Office Has Wild Caller