The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22

/ 80 wild that the deer ate all OF m,
! first planting Of cabbagcs this spring
} If IL had been neighbor's cows
. would have had prompt redress"
II do not suppose you feel you car
! call on the Lord to call of His deer 2
someone suggested
!. 1T is not q case Of GOD Almighty
but OF the State OF Vermont. The
State claims TO own the deer and pro
vides that | may kill one If catch
the animal in the act of despoiling my
crops The law provides lot Of other
things that the farmer who had been
raided by deer must do. have skim
ned lot Of animals in my time for
| the largest museums in the world, but
] set my own price on my work. | did
not get the animals on private land
either The laws of Vermont regard
ing the protection Of deer and farmers
are poor"
While walking about the farm his
daughter, Inez, who was born on the
banks of the Ornoco river 1000 miles
from the nearest physician, was found
curled up on the seat Of carriage,
reading. Like all of the family, she
likes the open and the open Of New
fame hill is her preference. She wan
dered with the party few minutes
and returned to her reading.
An attempt was made to get the
professor back to South American ex-
periences and his own biography.
Bareheaded and in his shirt-sleeves he
allowed that he first saw the light of
day on Aug. %, 1865, in Knoxville, Ia,
and that he was a son of Martin and
Agnes breckenridge Cherrie. His
early education was obtained in his
native place and he later entered the
Iowa agricultural college. After two
years there his failing health caused
his physician to give him orders to
"get into the open and stay there"
He has obeyed orders almost literally
ever since. Spare Of frame and tall,
tanned and burned and with muscles
hard and firm he carries his almost so
years as many man Of 35 is unable
to do.
81 always loved the woods and ami
mails" he says. when they forced
me to cut loose from my studies for
what l thought then was to be my
life work-mechanical engineering
turned to the woods and animals. DR..
C. Hart Merriam of Washington, took
the greatest interest in me, and to him
owe a great deal for my early start
in what has since proved to be my life
work.. Later | went to Wards Nat
ural Science establishment in Roches
ter, N. Y, an institution that has
been responsible for sending out more
men who have to do with the building
up of museums than any other single
institution in the world. Among them
are Henry Lucas and DR.. Hornaday,
curator of the New York geological
gardens"
Professor Cherrie was assistant tax
idermist for the National museum in
Washington in 1883 and few months
later took a position with the Ameri-
can museum in New York. There
came his acquaintance with the prom
inent Costa Rican which resulted in
his contract to go to that country in
1889 as curator of the National
museum there. He remained five
years. Upon his return to the United
States he became assistant curator of
ornithology in charge Of that depart
ment for the Field museum in Chica-
90 and continued as such from 1894
to 1897. From 1897 to 1899 he was
in explorative work in the
valley of the Orinoco river for Lord
Tring museum. In 1902
and 1903 he made similar explorations
in French Guiana and again in the
Orinoco valley for the Brooklyn mus
cum in 1905 and 1907. From 1899 to
1911 he was curator of ornithology
and mammology for the Brooklyn In
stitute of Arts and Sciences and is
now connected with the National mus
cum of New York.
Professor Cherrie married in Chi
ago, Dec. /, 1895, Miss Stella M.
Bruere of Knoxville, Ia, and she has
been his companion on more than one
ong jaunt into the wilderness. He
considers that she is little the best
sportsman he ever has had as COM
Danion and in so expressing himself
ne admits he is paying her very high
for famous sportsmen
nave been his companions.
While on one of his trips in the in
.erests of the British museum in
French Guiana he had the misfortune
10 slip and fall into a gorge. How
ong he was unconscious he does not
Snow, but when he recovered his
senses he noticed his rifle lying near
lim with the stock broken. He was
alone in the wilderness, 200 miles
rom any aid. He attempted to reach
MS gun with his left hand and dis
covered that his left wrist was broken
md one of the bones protruded ,
through the flesh.
To repair the damage as well as he
vas able and at once was absolutely
necessary. He first placed two sticks |
plints within reach and then manag- !
d to tie his left hand to tree. With
eeth set and beads of perspiration
rom the intense pain covering his !