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Turkestan, Mongolia. Assistant Director James L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) and Explorer William J. Morden of Chicago reached home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands...
Americana is the day's rage, but the hest of it needs no rewriting. Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons. He felt, a century ago, that he must hurry to record the natural state of a world already vanishing. Monuments and societies have been set up in his name by people who hope that it is not yet too late for conservation. If such people are really interested in Audubon, this book...
...House: four stories, marble, Italian architecture, 30 rooms. A Gobelin tapestry 25 x 10 feet depicts a hunting scene. The marble stairway is lined with heads of caribou, deer, elk, mountain goats, mountain lions killed by?...
Along a strip of frosty marshland at Red Deer Ranch, Cherry County, Neb., Gen. John Joseph Pershing prowled with a gun. Two companions crouched beside him. On a nearby pool they espied a flock of wild ducks cutting the water zigzag. General Pershing approached...
...White Plains, N. Y., one Richard Kefter loaded his automobile last week with apples and hay. He started. A deer bolted from the woods, gave chase. Retarded by snow Mr. Kefter could not distance the beast, was chased for five miles. At last he threw out five apples and an armful of hay. The deer stopped, content...