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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
KINDERGARTEN is NOT A FAD.
Twenty Years Experience Has Made
1t Permanent.
(Contributed.)

The interest in the kindergarten is
so steadily increasing that one rarely
finds skeptic now, because people
realize that a thing that has held for
twenty years, improving all the time,
is no fad. 1t must be laid upon a firm
foundation or it would not hold so
well. Another reason is that a. great
many people visit the kindergartens
and see for themselves the practical
side of it and the result of the work.
The large audiences that attend the
graduating exercises each year is an
other proof of the amount of interest
taken by the Savannah public, for long
before the hour appointed to begin,
there is Standing room only and
often special friends of the students
have to leave on account of lack of
room.
In the Kate Baldwin Free Kinder
garten the student gets not only the
theory, but the practical application
of it with many different types of chill
dren of all classes. Besides the regu-
lar plan of study there are a great
many opportunities for improvement
offered the training class. This year
these advantages have been in the
form of lectures given by some promi-
nent professional men, and Misses
Susan E. Blow and Marriet Neil
Next year there is to be a special
course of nature study that will be
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07

handbook.
So he pulled out his knife when he
got in under the tent and gave Zeke
a fierce jab in the leg.
In another half minute he wished he
hadn't monkeyed with that leg. The
air came out just as 1t might from
an immense rubber balloon. 1t struck
Tom squarely in the face and nearly
knocked the life out of him.
AS Tom was knocked over, the air
came out with a rushing sound which
made many persons think of the roar
ing of Niagara Falls.
From that second Zeke began to
shrink.
Inside of five minutes Zeke had
shrunk so much he was no bigger than
his father, and in a few minutes more
he was just the same size he had been
before.
When the doctors saw that he had
shrunk to the correct size they clapped
a heavy plaster over the hole Tom had
made with his knife and thus stopped
the mad rush of air.
Then they pulled the tent off the
boy and there he was, just as nice
and pleasant as he had ever been in
his life.
1t must be hard for anyone who was
not there to believe this tale is really
true, but If you ever happen to be in
that vicinity and will ask Zexe about
It he will show you the scar on his leg
at the very spot from which all the
air and not one drop of blood came
out.
(The Enid
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
THE QUEER CASE
OF ZEKE HIGGINS.
Continued from Page Thirty.)

humming bird, humble bee or some
other beast would come along and
gobble him up. So he made dash with
his tiny legs and disappeared In the
tall grass.
Just then the doctors came out with
some pills which they thought might
make him grow big, but the boy was
nowhere TO be found. Then the thous-
ands of persons began a hunt
Once policeman saw Zeke, then
no bigger than a potato, running as
hard as he could to get out of the way
Of a robin. which apparently mistook
him for new kind of apple on ac-
count of his rosy cheeks.
Zeke was yelling as hard as he
could, but his voice was so little that
all that could be heard was a kind Of
chirp which sounded like sparrow,
and in a short time even the chirp
couldn't be heard.
Shortly after that a little boy came
flying around the corner and said he
had seen the tiniest kind of a little
man without any clothes being chased
up a rosebush by a green worm.
This boy took the seven doctors to
the place and pointed out the bush,
but no one could find the wonderful
youngster. The green bug was still
one of the small limbs of the rosebush.
They had made another thorough
search, finally deciding that some bug
or worm must have eaten the boy.
Zach doctor thereupon pulled out a
big magnifying glass, and, with thous-
ands Of eyes watching, once more be-
gan the search. Everybody was
giving the boy up for lost when one
doctor, who wore long white whiskers,
gave a yell.
i've found him." he shouted, bend
ing over a rose. Here he is"
All +he doctors gathered around the
rose, the people cheered Justify, and
the white whiskered gentleman an
nounced in glad voice that the boy
really had been found.
Away down in the petals of the rose
he was to be seen by the aid of a
powerful microscope.
He was swimming as hard as he
could in a drop of water which, to
him, was as large as a big real lake.
Carefully cutting the stem OF the
rose. the doctors poured on a drop Of
medicine and Zeke began to grow so
fast that he could be seen without a
nagnifying glass almost Immediately
In ten minutes he was as big as a
mans hand, and in an hour more he
looked like a child four years of age.
At last he was big enough TO wear his
own clothing. Then he went out where
people could see him. With many
great cheers the thousands went away.
But the wise men were so interested
that they remained for another hour
and such an hour as IL was! II seems
they had given Zeke two growing pills
when one would have been plenty.
When he reached the size he should
hA az Ana
but kept right on.
He grew 20 fat that inside OF ten
minutes after they had dressed him he
burst every button on his clothes and
was hustled into one of bis fathers
ebis suits % SUIT which dld not last nye
minutes The buttons fairly few on
and biz mother aid not know what 90
o.
i looked 90 II be would have 70 90
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07

Mention the telephone, says the
New York Press. and instantly the
name of Edison comes before the
minds eye; speak of wireless telegra-
ply and one Immediately thinks of
Marconi. The name of Santos Dumont
is as closely connected with the fly
ing machine as that of Robert Ste
phenson with the locomotive. Yet there
are dozens of things, big and little,
which are a part of our daily life, of
the origin of which we never think;
or, If we do, we fail to connect them
with the names of their inventors-men
as worthy of praise as any of the
worlds benefactors.
When our grandmothers were young
pin-money was a necessity, not a fig
ure of speech. Pins were sold at four
a penny. 1t is to the forgotten Samuel
Slocum that we own the cheap pin of
to-day. In 1880 the idea came to him
that pins, which were then made by
winding a fine wire on the head and
fastening it to the post of the pin,
might be made at a single operation.
But. strive as he would, he could not
pcTleCl TIE -lutd. Al last he SHUT
self up in a room in his house in the
Isle of Wight and remained there eight
days. seeing no one and having his
meals passed into him. At the end of
that time he had every detail perfect
ly worked out, and in 1881 the manu-
facture of the modern pin commenced.
A few years ago, comparatively
speaking, every one laboriously laced
his boots from the lowest hole to the
top. There was none of that lightning
crossing of the laces into the neat lit
tie hooks with which the modern lace
boot is provided. The inventor of the
boot-hook, H. A. Ship, who was born
in London more than seventy years
ago, is at present ending his days in
an almshouse. He sold his patent out
right for the sum of ESQ, and the pur-
chasers are said to have made ESQ, 900
out of the idea.
1t is less than a century ago that al
most all the worlds cooking was done
over the open fire. Joints were roasted
on spit. Bread was baked in a brick
oven, tediously heated with wood. For
buildings and cakes the portable
Dutch oven was the only continuance
known. In great houses deliberately
built-up ranges of brick, with iron
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
UNCLE MINGO ON
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE

Preparation had been make for splen-
did weddin'; all de great people OBJ de
country had been inwited-de Presi-
dent, Booker, Bryan, Henry Watterson,
Clebelan, Corbett, Mark Hanna, an all.
Dey had lots o. poun' cake, an two
two kin's OBJ ice cream.
"Ebbleting was ready; de weddin'
CUES was 'senlble cen de church, an
de organ was playin'. But still de
happy, blushin' bride an her adorin'
an noble bridegroom delayed. A shock
in row had spring up. Jis wen de time
come to march up de aisle an claim
dc reward oh his lubbin an onselfsh
devotion, he juke he up an AK de
bride an her family wot kin oh
man dey take him for, Does you tink,'
he AK, dat I is SIGH a blawsted bloom
in idgit as to go troo wild all dis hum
bug for measly dod-gasted fibe tou-
san a year? Not much isl he say. L
wants ten tousan' a year pocket mon
ey, an all de res OBJ de gals forchune
settle on my farm ODER cen Englan',
or no weddin'. don't care a bloomin'
cent he say, wedder de cake an de
ice-cream spiles or not
'"Cose dat start a big fuss. De gal
brudder an all say dey wouldn't do
no SIGH oh a ting, cause all de money
arrangement had been ten to long ago
already. Den dey gifts to 'sputin' an
quoilin', ontell it look mo- like habin'
fight dan a weddin.' But de noble
juke screw on his glass eye, an stick
up for his JUS rights like de noble,
highwayman dat he was. Elder, he
say, I gifts all de money, all sign ober
to me right here now on de spot, as
tight an secure as de lawyers can fix
1t, edible cent, jis' zac'ly as I say, or
else l walks out de church. -
AN didn't dey tell him to walk
out?" exclaimed the amazed waiter;
AN moreober, didn't de gal brudder
glib him a little assistance cen dat di-
rection wild de toe OBJ his boot?"
Uncle Mingo laughed. mot much
dey didn't" he said. DE noble an
lub-sick juke had ebbleting his own
way. De lawyers fix up de papers; dey
was all sign hard an fas,' an den de
fon' an doatin' couple proceed to call
de Lord an all desc witnesses to no
tice dat dey was swearin to Tub, hon
or, cherish, 'protec' an obey one anud-
der ontill death do dem part"
Divorce, mo- likely, an pretty
soon," said the waiter.
20 1 dunno" said Uncle Mingo; "he
want de money an she de name too
bad for dat; dey may stick But wen
you consider dat we exports chiefly
pretty rich gals to Europe, vile dey
exports chiefly paralytics, an paupers.
an pianner Founders to us, it don't
look quite ezac'ly chen. I tink OATS
wot de newspapers mus mean wen dew
say de balance OBJ trade is aginst u.s."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
why II. p. P.,Lippman's Great Rene
dy, is the Best Medicine in the
United states.

why II. p. P.,Lippman's Great Renee
dy, is the Best Medicine in the
United states.
P. P. P. is made up of green Prickly
Ash bark, gathered when the sap is
down, green poke root dug out of the
ground, and green stillingig root,
gathered at the seasonable time. All
brought to our store, and laid out,
green as gathered, on large boards, to
dry, where they are carefully preserved
in the strongest double-proof spirits to
preserve their virtue intact.
Every article in P. P. P, Lippman's
Great Remedy, is printed plainly on
the bottle. Every physician knows the
great virtue of P. P. P. in the cure of
rheuma tism, scrofula, blood poison
ing, catarrh in all its stages, and be-
sides P. P. P. is fine tonic for delicate
females. curing their troubles, and in
valuable in dyspepsia.
Other remedies are made out of roots
imported from Mexico and the East
Indies; are dry and rotten in many
cases. P. P. P. is made fresh from
green roots and barks gathered by our
selves on the seacoast near Savannah.
This is why P. P. P is the best medi-
cine in the United States. The physi-
clans know it and the patients feel il.
P. P. P. Co., Lippman block. Savannah,
Ga.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Heidi Plow Company still takes the
lead with farm machinery, horseshoe
ing and blacksmithing. Always the
best and always the cheapest. Al West
Broad street.
We are now showing our full line of
spring novelties. English worsteds,
cheviots and f1annels Orders filed
promptly, workmanship guaranteed.
Haslam & Co., taiiors and haberdash-
erS.
Free Automobile-With every So
cent cash purchase at my store you
get a ticket to the $3.50 automobile.
Bear this in mind. James ]. Joyce.
Phones 107.
e. j. Kennedy. high art tailor, is
now offering at very reduced prices
fine line of tweeds, homespuns, light
weight cheviots and serges.
Edward Lovelrs Sons are showing a
fine line of merchants tools Get prices
on shelf hardware and implements.
You can save a nice per cent. lis
Broughton. west.
Photography in all its beauty of style
and finish at Launey's gallery.
Let me send you a nice roast or fine
steak. All you have to do is to phone
me and the order will be filled In time
for dinner. Plenty fresh vegetables
and fruits. John F. May; phone 81
Metzger g. Brunson have on hand a
large stock OF gents furnishings
liss Coon collars, l2iAe: other brands
at Toe. Monarch negligee shirts. 81;
the best made shirts on the market
for the money. Underwear. ties and
half hose. all new goods at low prices.
II you have any pictures 70 be
framed take them 20 ~, Hymes Art
Store. ~ Bull street. near Ogleth0rpe
avenue. New line 81 mouldlngs and
the latest styles Of framing,
The bargains 20 be found o. Daniel
Hogans this week are rare ana numer-
Gus. BE- Niaes call early and get choice
81 specials,
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lent, and if she has had a full college
course after leaving school, so much
the better will she be fitted for kinder
garten work.
The next term of the Kate Baldwin
Free Kindergarten will begin Oct. l,
with ten seniors and probably twenty
received, and as it is the intention of
the president to arrange that all who
come to Savannah from a distance for
the training may live together, if they
care to do so, at a reasonable rate of
board 1t is hoped that those who con-
template coming or desiring further
information on the subject will write
as early as possible TO Mrs. Elizabeth
c. NJ. Watt, corresponding secretary
and business manager of Kate Baldwin
Free Kindergarten. During the sum-
mer month Mrs. Watts address will
be P. o. Box No. POS, Griffin, Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
Summer Excursions via Central of
Georgia Railway.

Georgia Railway.
Excursion tickets at greatly reduced
rates, are now on sale at Savannah,
and all coupon ticket offices, to noun
tain and lake resorts, limited for re-
turn until Oct. 81. 1903 Convenient
schedules and through sleeping car
service. Rates, schedules and full par
ticulars will be cheerfully furnished
upon application to any Central of
Georgia Railway agent. Ticket offices,
107 Bull street, and Central Passenger
Station.-ad.
Only One Dollar
To Brunswick and return via Seaboard
Air Line Railway on Sundays.-ad.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30

dining room and loaded to the ut.
most with roast chicken, boiled
ham, cake, pickles, jelly, fruits and
salads, and all the good things that
one could mention. So Mr.. Paxson
with table full of his gentleman
friends sat down and did ample
justice to the nice supper, but I will
tell you right here the table did not
groan when those men got up, but
there was plenty to fill It again and
the old table was loaded down Q
number of times until all did am.
pie justice to the occasion. About
lao q. m. all departed for home,
wishing Mr.. Psxon many more hap.
Ply birthdays. CALM SUsIk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30

siorer, which had immediate effect:
"Sir:-This Office is informed that
rural carriers from-are unable to
make prompt delivery of mail on
account of the bad condition of the
highways over which their routes
pass.
"Your name has been submitted
to the department az one of the off,
Gals whose duty il is to keep these
roads in repair. You are therefore
requested to take steps as early as
possible to put them In such con-
dition that they may be easily trav-
eled at all seasons.
"Indifference to this matter may
result in a withdrawal of the rural
free delivery service from that com.
munity."
The road question, therefore, its
"up to"the local postoffice, and the
department will back the carriers
and the postmasters In their eff.
forts"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30
BLUE MOUND NO. 2.

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.
tell you, Mr.. editor, il you had
been where I wac last night I don't
think you would have been able to
hear anything this morning-st
one end of q we'll loaded table at
Charlie Paxson's in honor of his
SD birthday We ate supper there
last night to the tune of 81 persons,
among them being Mr.. and Nrs. p.
C. DUFF, Nr. and Mrs. Dave Carney,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Stofakopf, Mr.,
and Mrs. p. J. Chubb, Mr. and Mr..
N. d. Hileman, Mr.. and Mrs. c. C.
Sparlin, Mr.. and Mrs. b. Lyle, Mr.,
and Mira. John Paxson, Mr.. and Mrs
o. J. Chubb, Mr.. and Mrs. A. D.
Chubb, Mrs. N. J. wilbur, Mrs. c.
Sharp. H. E. Haines, Lige Amos
Avery Wilbur, Jim Amos. DIR. and
Mrs. d. 8. Chubb, and whole host
of young folks. We had a big time
and didn't 60 home till the email
hours of the morning.
May q, 1908. WINDY jim.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30
THE HOTEL BAXTER.
Magnificent HosteIry VIII Soon be
Thrown Open 10 the Public.

The Hotel Baxter, formerly the
Occidental, will be thrown open TO
the. public within the next fort.
night. The furniture has been or.
dered and should be here by the
time We 60 to press.
The building has been remodeled
and built over from bottom to top.
II 10 owned by Sam'l II. Smith OF
this city and his brother, A. v.
Smith, of Columbus. The whole
interior has been remodeled, and
painted, and papeTed, new stair
ways have been put in, and In fact
almost everything needed to be
done has been done. The exterior
will next receive sstentiou, but the
bniiding will Do open to the public
first. =,
DR.. W. r. Cline and associates Of
Joplin have leased the building
and will condacs . ssnitaxium in
connection With the hotel.
The building when opened will
contain twenty.teuF nice bedT0oms
bat more will be fitted up later,
There will be an elegant parlorl
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30
AID THOUGHTS.

Talk about your business In your
advs. all the time.
To be the leading dealer in any
line you must be the leading adver'
tiser in that line.
Describe your goods clearly and
carefully, in plain, every day Ian
guage and tell the price of them.
If you want people to become
patrons attract their attention. II
you would attract their attention
advertise and make your ads. in.
terssting.
Attempting to do business with
out advertising 10 like trying to
pick your teeth with a marble.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30
THE MINES

Work in the mining district goes
merrily on. Drills are working in
several places and new strikes are
continually being made.
&c. Haskell made a strike this
week northeast of the Catholic
church. The ore was encountered
at about 60 feet, but an undercur.
rent of water washed the drillings
away couple of times between 60
and 80 feet, and consequently the
extent of the fnd and the richness
of it can not be sscertained. What
drill cuttings were saved, however
show both lead and jack. II 10
thought by many shat Mr.. Haskett
has a rich piece of mineral land
where the drill 10 working.
Brewster, Gaines, Saith & New
conner, who have made three good
strikes with q drill on the Felix
Dardenne land just south of the
Quapaw mission, are going to sink
shaft. Work will begin next week.
The Tom Clark shaft has 90 far
exceeded the most sauguine expect
atoms. Seven feet of lead ore was
penetrated; then . fve-foot run of
zinc bearing ground was gone
through, and then the miners came
into lead again under the zinc. The
free lead is being piled into the ore
house. Quite a large amount of
dry bone and silicats is also being
found in this shaft.
At the Sunny Side we understand
mill will be built. A large enough
body of ore has been developed to
justify Il.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30
BLUE MOUND.

Fair weather prevails once more.
The rains of the past two weeks
have put the farmers away behind
with their work. When the weather
gets nice everything will have to
go with a whirl and rush, to make
up for lost time.
The young ladies of this com.
munity are preparing a program
for Childrens day.
Mr.. Embry and family are slowly
improving. after q long siege OF
sicknes.
A picnic and fish fry 10 talked Of.
Push Il along and let's all 90.
Mrs. n. ]. Wilbur had very mar
row escape with q runaway team
of colts a few days ago.
Any first class hotel or restaurant
In need of first class dining room
boys would do well to call on Char
ley Paxsou and Dye Chubb. as they
are both experts at the business.
The famous tea drinker, Ars.
Pros Chubb-some good Wholesale
tea house would do . good bust
ness TO call on Mrs. Chubb, for che
surely buys tea by the caddy.
The % day of May being Dir. Pax.
sons birthday his good dame plan.
ned surprise for him. About 0 p.
m. nearly go Of his neighbors and
friends gathered with we'll filled
baskets, such - farmers have, and
took him by surprise, and after an
hour of pleasant conversation, and
music, and games BY the young
folks, the table was spread in the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-05-30
THUNDER MOUNTAIN.

Rsports from the New Thunder Mountain
Gold FSslds grow steadily better. Thsve win
undoubtedly bs great rush into the DISTRICT
this year. Last year he nsw. concerning
The nsw discoveries Of frssnnilling ers had
only begun 70 lsak out and bsfoss October
moro than q, 900 olsins ware filed.
From every quaxtar thsrs WIN b psopas
Roins 10 Thundse Mountain, and III win
want reliable information o. 10 The best route
and how soon tho trail WIN Be opsa. Many
who cannot no win want to invest In Q good
uroperty there, and The time 10 do that h now
Whsn money d needed for mine equipment
Tho Thundsr Mountain Gold Mining and
Milling CouPany has splsndid pFopsFtY Of
$50 acfes, acfoW which t6srs n 1Femsndous
Win Of free-milling ore 10feee wide and rum
MIR rieht into Rainbow Teak Mr.. Charia
]. Fsrans, Gsasrai Manager Of tho Company,
spsns al last summR IN lie district he 10
now as TIE Company eastern ol;sss n New
York. where - Win rsznain until soma time
In Nay purchasing equipmspt and describing
thu property TO a vAo wish 20 buy sharss
he also possesses full infosmstion ls9aSding
The disElst and makes IL point 10 answer
IN Qusstions about Il, without charge, % that
al who are iut0vosted may write and gUt the
information FREQ end ct fafst hand.
The Company: which Mr.. Perkins repre-
ssnts madsfts ATIt public offering Of stock In
January, and % many subscriptions have bean
rsceivsd that great deal Of the equipment
for the u1ine has BEEN purchased and prepared
for shipment a. soon a. the way b opened Tor
travel
Il q estimated that fully three millions Of
dollars Of machinery and equipment Il now
ON the way 10 Thunder Mountain for various
companies, One Of the companies sold stock