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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
How the Pigeons Mate

On a south Jersey farm, which was
the home Of thousand pigeons and
which was conducted by a woman
who had formerly been a bookkeeper
in Philadelphia, was found one par
ticular fly and coop which was the
abiding place of young doves that had
reached the mating season, says the
Era Magazine. These young birds
were associated together so that they
might select their life companions.
The interior OF the walls of the coop
was filed with boxes and those
pigeons which had mated would
select one of these boxes for their
home and nest.
This period Of courtship is one filled
with excitement for the birds. Two
young pigeon cocks, having selected
the same hen for a mate have been
known to fight to the death in their
rivalry. The method of combat is
peculiar. The beak and wings alone
are used, the combatants catching
each other with their beaks by the
skin of the head and beating each
other with their strong wings.
Having once chosen his mate, the
dove, with an occasional exception,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Question Of Detail.


Former Judge Mayer was relating
how lawyers often badger witnesses
unintentionally, and cited the case of
a prizefighter who was on the stand to
testify concerning a street fight in
which he was principal. The plain
tiff's attorney politely asked the burly
witness:
did l understand you to say that
you were pugilist?"
Oats what am" proudly an
swered the prisoner.
Oral, manual or caligraphic?"
suavely inquired the lawyer.
The pugilist looked as if he had re.
ceived a blow in the solar plexus, his
face grew red as a danger signal and
he seemed about to spring out of the
chair upon his inquisitor. Then. turn
ing to the bench, he growled:
'SSy, jvdge, I'm fighter, and dat's
all, but amt one 0 dem t'ings dat
pie faced bloke calls me-"
Judge Mayer said the attorney with
drew the obnoxious question, and the
case proceeded without further mis-.
understanding on the part of the
doughty defendant.-Ph Philadelphia Led
ger. tf
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Had Suitors in Plenty

There is a childlike simplicity about
the peasant folk Of Montenegro. A
woman who has travelled among them
says that both men and women, on
her arrival, asked her, with perfect
frankness, the most personal ques-
tions When she explained that she
had come by train and steamboat, the
inference was that she had great
wealth
And you have come so far to see
US? Bravo. Are you marrled?"
mo. said the traveller.
There was great excitement and
much whispering.
Wait! watt" cried a woman. Then,
at the top of her voice. she shouted,
"Miloshl Miloshl"
A tall, bronzed boy about Is years
old edged his way through the crowd.
His mother stood on tiptoe and whis-
pered in his ear He looked coy and
twiddled his fingers.
ASK her, ask her!" cried men and
women, encouragingly.
Milosh plucked up courage, thumped
his chest and blurted out:
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Western Wlnnownil1ur

Charley Dexter may become team
manager Of the Des Moines Club #
he can get his release from Louisville.
George Tebeau makes the state
ment that Denver and Colorado
Springs are firmly anchored in the
Western League.
George Tebeau is at present in Den
yer arranging his affairs there. He
says he has no interest in Cantillon's s
purchase of the Des Moines Club.
Magnate Cantillon of Des BToines
has just added Mike Kelley's brother
William, capable outfelder. late OF
Winnipeg, to the Des Moines team.
New Denver pitchers are George
Hickman Of the Monroe La.) Club:
Louis Straub, purchased from Ottum-
wa. and Morgan Winter Of East Liver
pool o. Pitcher Kenna will be sold
or traded.
Eleven shut-outs is the record
against the Des Moines team for last
season. st. Joseph and Denver, how
ever, outrank the Politicians at being
whitewashed, the former being shut
out 16 times and the latter II times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

remains constant to her through life.
The occasional instances Of infdehty
cause discord In the coop. for when
one pigeon tires Of his mate and seeks
another he meets a vigorous protest
from the companion OF the bird which
he covets When they have agreed
to spend their lives together Mr. and
Mrs. Dove select box and the laying
begins. The parent birds may then
be less than eight months old.
The pigeons worst enemy is the rat
In the absence Of the mother or the
father bird, the rat will crawl into a
nest, steal ayoung squad. drag II bod
lily away and devour 1t. So a good
cat is a necessity In pigeon coop--a
cat that is taught not to disturb the
pigeons, but to be death to rats. Mice
are a pest among the pigeons, too.
but they eat only the grain. not dis
turhing the eggs or the young.
Frequently. however. the most dar-
ing mice viii creep under tie very
nests Of the pigeons. even while the
birds are on their eggs. AMI the pre-
sumptive rodents will make their own
nests there, rearing their young in the
genial warmth of the sitting pigeon.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Butterfly a Rare Find

John Haviland, whose home is in
Springfield, o.. arrived in New York
from Ecuador some days ago with d
butterfly such as was never seen be-
fore here-one so beautiful and so
rare that 1t is worth $4,000 It has
been sent to Lord Natnanial Roth
schild in London, who has for years
collected remarkable fleas and strange
butterflies.
Mr. Hayiland was private secretary
to Major John Harman, manager Of
the Guayaqul and Quito railroad, now
being built between these two South
American cities, thereby opening up
the Andes.
During his spare moments Mr. Havi-
land amused himself by catching and
mounting the many beautif1. butter
flies and dragon flies which fitted
about the orchid-hung trees Of his
Ecuadorian home. One specimen vas
of suoh beauty that fearing his mount.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Invention insure Dry seats.

A new invention for insuring dry
seats on electric cars in. wet weather
has been displayed in Edinburg. Scot
land. AS explained by the inventor.
the new arrangement is a simple one
and can be fitted to any style of gar
den. tramway or ships deck seat. 1t
is practically a wooden covering for
the seat, can be lifted in wet weather,
the ordinary movement of the back
rest Of the seat locking it in position.
When raised, it forms a shelter for
the back of the passenger. In dry
weather the cover forms the ordinary
seat.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Mow FAR Birds REASON.
John Burroughs Punetures Claims Of
UnthInkinq Persons.

The robin is a very adaptive hird i
certainly it adjusts itself readily to
new conditions, but it falls far short
Of the intelligence that is often ascrlb-
ed to it, says John Burroughs IN Out
ing. Thus there are persons who seem
TO believe that when mud is scarce
the robin will bring water in his beak
to the dust of the road and SO make
the mortar that it needs. This notion
is, Of course, absurd. How could the
robins know that water and dust wlll
make mud? This knowledge is the
result of reflection and experiment,
and is not within the reach of an ami
NAL. More than that, if the robin
could find the water. he could certain
ly find the mud somewhere. have
seen robins nests with little or no
mud, and have known them to use a
substitute for mud furnished by the
COWS.
Another equally absurd claim for
the robin comes from a correspondent.
A robin had her nest in a tree under
his chamber window in such a Dosi-
tion that he could see all that happen
ed in the nest. He says that when the
young robins were nearly grown he
saw the mother bird take them one
by one, by the nape of the neck. and
hold them out over the rim of the
nest to teach them to use their wingsl
suppose "our modern school of nat
ural study" would accept this state
ment without question It is such pre-
posterous natural history as this that
furnishes the stock in trade of this
school" Some persons deceive them
selves in what they think they see.
and not a few. am convinced, are de-
liberate falsifiers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Chapel Built by Nature

Ten years Of disuse now has
wrought sad havoc with the once trim
structures Of the camp The forest
chapel alone remains intact, with
very little change. and is still put 10
the use for which it was designed by
its builders.
A custom has sprung up among the
summer residents of the central por-
tion Of Lake Asquam region Of gather
ing every pleasant Sunday morning at
this open-air auditorium for divine
worship From cottage. camp and ho-
tel about the shores boats put out
with their freights of worshipers, all
bound for one common goal-the nat
ural sanctuary.
1t was in one Of these rustic seats
that ex-President Cleveland sat as
one OF the band OF worshipers on GER
tain charming Sabbath morning last
August. Mr.. Cleveland was at the
time the guest over Sunday OF Col
j. H. Colt OF Concord, NJ H.. at the
camp of the latter on an island in
Lake Asquam, and accepted an invi-
tation to rejoin the members Of the
camp in their novel church attend
anep
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
caverns a Holiday Resort.

One Of the strangest of holiday re-
sorts has been made accessible to the
public at Padirac, in the department
of Lot, France. There a wonderful
series of caverns, containing magni-
fcent stalactites and a subterranean
lake and river, has yielded its secrets
to the adventurous explorer. The dan
gers of the visit have now been in
geniously reduced. so that the aver
age sightseer may traverse these
caves with ease and safety. For ages
the caves remained absolutely unex-
plored. One vast crater-like opening
is 800 feet in circumference and when
a recent investigator made his first
visit to the depths he had to descend
or a board attached to two ropes after
the manner of a swing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Nor 4 sLEAcHEp eLoNpE.
Straw colored Hair Made It Hard for
Good Typewriter to Get a Job.

Straw Colored Hair Made II Hard for
Good Typewriter to Get a Job.
A great majority of the girl stenog-
raphers. as we'll as the men, secure
employment through some typewriter
establishment. A number Of funny
incidents develop A young woman Of
a perfect blonde type called at an
office on Ninth street to secure a rosi-
ton. Her hair was straw colored
She was sent out to an address, but re
turned with the following complaint:
Though 7 am an expert stenogra-
pher. as you know, find it difficult
on account Of my straw colored hair,
to get work. Men think that my hair
is bleached and they hesitate to en-
ploy bleached blonde, for they know
well that she who would bleach her
hair to so conspicuous a hue as mine
would have a soul too frivolous for
sober typewriting and shorthand.
When | was out of work last year
had to apply to six Offices before
could get a place. Three of the men
to whom | applied didn't test my abil-
ity in any way. They said lamely
that they were sorry, but they pre-
ferred an older, a more sedate person.
Two men, after a trief talk, admitted
that my work suited them, but had to
admit also that their wives had pecu-
liar views and would object to my
presence in their husbands Offices.
The man who engaged me was a
bachelor. He, too, was about TO re-
pulse me, but broke out desperately
with:
Look here, am not a bleached
blonde. My hair is straw colored nat
urally. If you object to it. I'll wear
brown wig during Office hours
THE man laughed and took me On.
He has told me since, though, that ne
would not have taken me but for my
frank outburst Now he tells me he
has been compelled to dispense with
my services because Of the many
jokes that his friends are poking at
him. Philadelphia Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

Manager Jimmy Ryan's first engage
ment for Evansville was that of Pitch
er Frank R. Fowler of Chicago.
There is a hitch in the organization
of the proposed new Springfield CO..
Club and ten days more time has
been granted.
Manager Grant Of the South Bend
team has signed Billy" Price, broth
er of the Wheeling captain-manager,
to play in the outfield next season
OF last years team pitchers Feri1as,
Schafer, Moffit and Smith Catchers
Andrews and Lieman, Second Base
man Grand, Third Baseman Sager and
Outfelder Anderson will return. The
other positions will be filled by new
players. Groeschow, who was loaned
to Terre Haute last season, will re-.
turn to South Bend next year
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
rraffic in Chinese Girls

There is a reason to believe that
the traffic in Chinese girls has been
renewed in San Francisco in the last
six months on an extensive scale, and
the Chinese immigration bureau there
is under. hot newspaper fire. It COSTS
the slave dealers of Chinatown LOCO
to land girl illegally, but how the
money is divided and whether any of
It goes to white officials are still open
questions.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

the treasury, and that it would not be
necessary to solicit subscriptions to
cover the preliminary expenses for
next season.
The ousted Rockford Club declined
an invitation to enter the new IL.
League being formed by Mr.. A. J..
Hine Of Clinton. la. The towns pro-
posed by Mr.. Hine to compose the
league are Rockford, Kankakee, Mus
catine, Moline. Clinton, Freeport, Ga
lena, Maquoketa, Elgin. DeKalb and
Aurora.
President Holland was advised on
the 18th that the papers had been
completed in the proposed suit for in
junction by the Rockford Association
to restrain the league from traLs-
ferring the franchise from Rockford
to Peoria, and that the suit would be
filed within next ten days. The
League has taken no action as yet.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

Ames, the boy pitcher of the Giants,
is a whole-hearted admirer of Man
ager McGraw
1t is settled that KLEIN and Bauswine
will be members of Harry Pulliam S
umpire corps next season.
That Tommy Corcoran is still the
star short Stop Of the profession is
the opinion Of Miller Huggins.
Miller Higgins has signed a Cincin-
natl contract for 1905. But few Of the
old players still are outside the fold.
Umpire Bill Hart says that young
iInfelder Al Bridwell. purchased by
Cincinnati, is the best young player
The hss ever seen.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

A. A. Ginn Of Prospect Ferry, Me-,
has fine yellow coon cat. One morn
iEg recently he did not come in at the
usual hour, and on looking around
Capt. CHM discovered him in a field
few rods away playing with a fox.
When the cat started for the house,
the fox followed for some distance.
Realizing he was too near civilization
for his own good, he turned and
skipped for the woods.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Virtue unadorned.

Venus, sne Of the broken arms, and
the discus thrower have been igno-
miniously banished from all buildings
controlled by the school board Of
Gloucester, Mass. Poor Venus, she
has been gazing unabashed upon the
world these many centuries and the
discus thrower has been making his
cast with never a thought of sweaters,
but Gloucester has cried, ITO the base
ment with the baggage and her trou-
serless fellow!" Naked Truth had bet
ter lie low in her we'll or the school
board of Gloucester will send the
hussy packing with her classical com
Portland Oregonian.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
American Association Affairs.

Umpire George Black, late OF the
South Atlantic League, will be a mem
Der of President Grillos corps next
season.
There is little doubt but that in the
final adjustment Manager Mike Kelley
will be found at Toledo and Mike Finn
at st. Paul.
Manager Watkins Of Minneapolis
has signed Ernest Frick. ]. w. Moore
of Hopldnsville, A. L. Chap Of Pough-
keepsie, and E. Cheatwood.
The Milwaukee Club has drafted A.
r. Mott Of tie Dallas Club. Mott is
a second baseman and was considered
the best infielder in the Texas League,
both in fielding and hitting.
J. Ed GrilIo is certain of reelection
to the presidency of the American
Association. He gave the organiza-
ton a clean administration last year.
and without offending players or mag
mates enforced discipline at all times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

board of directors, headed by w. w.
Copeland, was chosen.
George Stovall, Burlington's former
manager and first base guardian, also
Mekemson, Burlington's star pitcher
during first half the past season, have
recently become benedicts.
They tell a good one on Pitcher
Mekemson of Burlington. The day he
got married, after the ceremony, some
Of his friends got hold Of Mex, har-
messed him up to dog cart and made
him pull his wife around the town he
was married in, Biggsville, III. They
had warm time for about half an
hour.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Agreed on One Thinq.

Not so very long ago a certain al
desman who was running for re-elec.
ton to the board called upon Mayor
Collins, of Boston, and tried to make
the general say "yes," but the general
wouldn't. But, Mr. Mayor" ex-
postulated the alderman, don't you
give me the credit of knowing some
thing about this? Do you think I'm
an infant?" Yes, do" responded
the mayor, "and you ought to be
spanked.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Excltement h East Afrloa.

There is no lack of excitement along
the line of the Uganda. East Africa.
railway. AT Nairobi. one of the prin-
cipal stations, the postmaster found
a lion on his front stoop one morning;
several natives and more than one
white officer along the road have been
eaten by lions; on one occasion an en-
gine could hardly make its way
through miles of locusts on the track.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

1t is stated that a building at Ava
Ion, Catalina Island. off the southern
coast of California. for which excava-
tions are now being made, is to be a
large and fully equipped gambling
house. conducted by syndicate OF
San Francisco and New York gam
blers. The building is to cost $4,000.
Avalon is beautiful little seaside re-
sort.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

Roger Bresnehan is reported as be-
ing very sore over the capture of the
Toledo club by Lennon and Kelley,
over his (Bresnehan's) head.
The reason why Joe McGinnity did
not go to Los Angeles to pitch is that
Manager Morley of that team, declined
to take him without the consent of
Mr.. Brush.
Outfelder McChesney. who joined
the Chicagos last fall is telling his
friends that he is certain of the right
field position on the team, and that
Davy Jones will have to go.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

Col. D. B. Dyer of Augusta, Ca, has
presented his collection of Indian rel
les, valued at 100000, to Kansas City,
to be incorporated in the public libra
ry there The collection is consid-
cred the most valuable in private
oH Hnership in the country.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
An impossible Combination.

~ h'iPS9oiSt~ OSfhSiHotiSHs
why has Mr. Flipkins disappeared
from society?"
Lost his money" answered Miss
Cayenne. 1T is impossible to be lion
in society and a lamb in Wall street
both at once"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Sons Have 0IstIneulshed Names

A Paris cabinetmaker has named his
thirteen sons, respectively: William
H.. Victor Emmanuel III, Henry ~,
Philip ", Charles VI. Edward VII.
Charles VIII, Charles TX. Louis X,
Louis XI.. Louis XII, Alfonso XIII,
and Louis XIV. He did this in order
to be able to distinguish one from the
other according TO their ages.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Queen Helene nurses Prince.

The little prince of Piedmont, un-
like his sisters. Princesses Yolanda
and Mafalda, is being nursed by his
mother Queen Helene reluctantly
gave the other children up to the
nurse, but when the long-hoped-for
heir to the throne arrived she absc-
lately refused to let any other than
herself give him nourishment.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21
Iowa Leanue Items.

President Frank c. Norton Of the
Iowa League was married at Burling-
ton, Nov. Is, to Miss Lillian Miller
Burlington will be in it again this
coming season. such being the senti
ment of meeting held Nov u, when
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

Mr.. Figgiam-T Tommy, do you ever
use slang?
Tommy Figgiam-No. indeedyl
why, isn't no indeedy' slang?"
Sure nit Who put that bug into
your coco?"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

"Timson never seems to be broke
and yet he says be blows his money
right in as fast as he gets H."
"Yes-he's foxy; he blows II right
into the bank ."---Detroit Free Prcsa.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

Aunt Jane-How do you know there
is so much gossip at a womans club.
Uncle George-Aren't the women's
clubs patterned after the mems
clubs9
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-21

The Decatur association took an in
yentory Of finances last week and
learned, to the surprise of everybody.
that there was a balance Of $1,000 in
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-08-26
HOOSIER HAPPENINGS
Told in Brief by Dispatches IRON
Various Localities.
NJ hes,,Iate Sale OF Poisons.

Evansville. Ind. Aus p paN'o
Hecnt. OF this city. member 81 me
Indiana board OF pharmacy, is drai'ins
a bin to regulate the sale OF polsoAs
in the state and IL Will be- presented
TO the next session OF the Indiana gen
eral assembly The Law viii be SIM
liar H. general provisions TO those en-
forced in many states Of the union.
Ohio and Illinois have such laws now
and although there has been some
agitation in Indiana for one. II has NOT
reached the stage Of preparation until
now The Law will impose upon ca
druggist in the state the duty OF Keep
Ing what is known as poison reg
ister." In this he will keep the names
OF every person 70 whom he sells
poison. age. physical and apparent
mental condition. and notes OF other
peculiarities. the time Of sale and the
stated purpose for which the poison -
20 be used