The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1920-04-21
CAUCASUS IS
RICH COUNTRY
4 g4.saaSaaN. $500 $780, ~ lsE9t u saF
Contains Fertile Fields and Noun
tains Stored With Precious
Metals.
RABBIT WARREN Of HUMANITY IM|lIlNTY
At One Time Thers Were 800 Tribes
and, Dialects In Reeion-is Sort Of
.Three-Rino Group Of Nat
ur1I Marvels.

Washington.-With various antibol-
shevic governments seeking a resting
place and capital at one end Of the
range and fabulous oil boards Of Baku
at the other, inspiring covetous i'm.
perialistic interest, the long line Of
mountains which separates Europe
from Asia gives promise Of once more
attaining the headline position 1t so
often has held throughout the ages.
Made up Of 400 miles Of majestic
peaks, in three ridges, the Caucasus
stretches from northwest to southeast
like q petrifed wave, whose north.
eastern face mounts to the snow crest.
but whose southwestern front, facing
toward Turkey seems dashed into
countless precipices by the titanic
forces of nature says a bulletin from
the National Geographic society.
The Caucasus is the most interesting
rabbit warren Of humanity on the
globe. For uncounted ages various
peoples sifted through the secluded
valleys, leaving "a fraction Of their
number in some remote spot. so that
at n time Ell Azizi said that there
were 800 tribes and dialects in the re-
gion, $50 miles long and 100 miles
broad, which he called the Mountain
Of Languages"
straby spoke of % races Of men,
some Of them armed with poisoned ar
rows and wearing skin shoes with
spiked soles. Troglodytes they were
and are. The Caucasus Is q sort of
three-ring group of natural marvcls
compressed between Europe and Asia,
between the Black sea and the Cas-
plan.
Where Tolstoy Served In Army.
On the European slope the Caucasus
Is 1lanked by the Cossacks of the Don,
the Kuban and the Terek, along whose
banks the famous Tolstoy served as q
young soldier. On the Asiatic side
there are the new republics of Georgia,
Azerbaijan and Armenia, partly carved
from Russian, partly from Turkish
lands.
The people who have left the deep
est impress on the Caucasus, although
most of them emigrated to Turkey In
1884, are the Tcherkees or Circassians.
The Tcherkees gave to the Caucasus
and the fancy dress ball the Tcher-
keska, the familiar skirted costume Of
the wariike Cossack and the 1.-THE
Georgian grandee. It is the original
opera bouffe uniform, with a narrow
waist and flaring skirts above soft
boots without heels. This costume is
also distinguished by 10 cartridge
cases ranged across the chest.
Martial Dress Once Worn.
Formerly real cartridges gave q truly
martial aspect to the dress until the
automatic revolver came into fashion.
But comparative wealth and peace
overlook the Georgians and the other
town jewellers who wore the striking
dress, and gradually these cartridges
were changed for decorative imita-
lions. Some of them were made of
ebony at one end and ivory at the
other.
Modernity has gone ven further.
One of these cartridge cases is now
sometimes used for a fountain pen, and
the manifestations dandy sometimes
has hollow decorations in whose solid
gold shell is concealed rich perfume
Tor the mustache.