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First as Colonel Freemont's Nondescript or Woolly Horse. " He is extremely complex?made up of the Elephant, Deer, Horse, Buffalo, Camel and Sheep. Easily bounds 15 feet high. It is undoubtedly Nature's Last. Admission 25 cents...
...Lawrence, caribou, which are the same as reindeer, not only have been able to support themselves in immense numbers but even in spite of man and his modern equipment of destruction, there are still large numbers of them in the country. The question as to whether large herds of deer domesticated and protected, could be supported in Labrador needs no answer. The increasing need of Europe for meat foods also is without question...
...experiment with the reindeer was unfortunately marred by the deer being landed in Newfoundland instead of Labrador, and my not having the money to carry them across when the ice broke up. They multiplied there so regularly that my original three hundred, though I sold a good number and killed a good number for food, mounted up to fifteen hundred in a few years. The sole cause of failure was the refusal of the New-foundland government of that day to give me the protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around...
...efforts of all latter-day Adams have similarly met with failure. Ganquin departed for the woods and became infamous. "Joe" Knowles, of recent fame,--he who wrote a vivid description of tackling a passing deer that would have turned Munchausen a sickly green,--returned, mosquito bitten, to get his salary from the newspaper which financed him. Thoreau, who was Adanilo only in living close to nature, not venturing reproduction of the original, found himself in bitter and extended conflict with the town authorities of Concord for not paying his taxes. All in all, from start to finish, it appears that...
...stand with the party among whose leaders Governor Calvin Coolidge and Mayor Ole Hanson stand foremost." A Harvard Speaker Sweet! Those who are Democrats, or who are for the man and not for the party, must feel themselves out in the cold with the foolish virgins or over on Deer Island with the Reds. Perhaps, outcasts that we are, we may point out that party is a means and not an end; that the good American, the intelligent American, votes the Republican or Democratic ticket not because he is a Republican or Democrat, but because he wishes...