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WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR * ' We have on hand a line of the best Bug gies for the money ever brought to this . market. We handle the Rock Hill,Columbia,Taylor- Canady, Tyson & Jones, •m v Columbus, Summers, * v t Durham, Piedmont and Anchor. Give us a call and let S. C. Potts or W. H. Sikes tell you howto roll through life with ease. Cannon & Flanigan, Winder, Ga- The BEST Fire Insurance that any country building can have is a Cortright Metal Shingle Roof ' It cannot burn. It cannot leak. It never needs repairs, and makes the handsomest long lived roof on the market. Insurance Companies recognize its advantages and are glad to quote lower prices where it is used. Drop in and see them. LEATHERS & EA.VENSON, Winder, Ga. You Want the Best BUY A ' MAJI..SIIC RANGE AND YOU GET IT If you want a Cooking Stove we : : :Have the BEST MAKES. : : : It will soon be cold weather, you will need a Heater, We put these ranges and stoves in your house anywhere in the city ready for you to make a fire. Come and See Us Smith Hardware Cos. Look ! Listen! Today will be yesterday tomorrow. \ou can t turn tlie wheel with the water that ha§ passed. Now is the time to get busy before building material advances too high, which it is bound to do. Yours to serve. Prices Right. Winder Lumber Company. REV. OXFORD EXPLAINS . -i..—— Says There Is No Truth in Statement That None but Baptists Will Be Permitted to Enter Perry* Rainey Institute. Editor Winch r News —It affords me very great pleasure to give to your readers the good news of a glorious success in our educational rally on September 11, the details of winch will appear elsewhere, but amid our joys and successes in life we have more or less of things un pleasant to deal with, but our Lord had them and we may expect to have them, 1 understand from some of the citizens that it has been told that it lias been decided that there would he no children admit ted into IVrry-Rainey school unless they are Baptists or of Baptist fam ilies. We wish to say in all kind ness this is untrue. In the first place the trustees and president of the school know that they would be charged with profound ignorance to he guilty of such a decision as that. The Methodists and Baptists own and control nearly all the secondary high schools in Georgia and in every school we have all denomina tions represented in the scholarships of the school. 1 wish to. call at tention to four other schools. Our Methodist brethren have at Sparks, Ga., a large- denominational high school that's doing a great work in that part of the state. If necessary 1 can publish over a hundred names of scholars out of Baptist families that have attended that school in the past two years. Similar con ditions prevail at Mcßav. The Bap tists have at Aley and Alt. Vernon, also at Norman Park, two denonr national high schools. If any of the readers of this article wish to investigate, they can write to the president of either one of the above mentioned schools. They will find that the student body of the, four schools mentioned and other evan gelical denominational high schools are composed largely of children of Missionary Baptists and Methodist families and from all other denom inations and girls and boys who have no denominational relation ship at all. Trusting that this will give’ sat isfaction and that the Holy Spirit shall enlist our hearts and hands and money in Christian education in this section of Georgia, 1 am sincerely your servant in the work, J. I. Oxford. Kinan. Agt. Berry-Rainey Institute. Auburn, Ga., Sept, lb, R.XiK. Found a Spider In Mis Copy of the Paper. t • tita-jnd— ii " 1 ii.A When Mark Twain was editing the Virginia City Enterprise he received from a superstitious subscriber a let ler stating that the writer bad found a spider in his copy of the paper aud wanted to kuow whether that was good or bad luck. Mark replied in his “An swers to Correspondents” column: Old Subscriber—The finding of a spider in your copy of the Enter prise was neither good luck nor bad. The spider was merely look ing over our pages to find out what merchant was not advertising, so that it could spin its web across his door and lead a free and un disturbed existence forever and ever. And Mark hit the mark. Does it hit you? JIIHAN MAKES DECISION Will Not Run for Mayor, But Pro fusely Thanks iiis PieAud Supporters. Winder, S >ty. to, l'.litS. Editors Winder News, Pity. Gentlemen —In your issue of the 10th there appeared an article in which I was mentioned as proba ble candidate, for mayor, and my name followed by the statement that you were authorized to say that 1 had the mailer under serious consideration and in all probability would announce this week. This statement has been widely quoted, and the warm assurance of loyal support, should 1 decide to enter the race, from my kind and pjH’tial friends, has made it diffi cult for me to arrive at my duty re garding the matter, and my action in the premises is hut based on what 1 conceive to he for the best inti rest of the town without regard to luv own ambitions or to the very flattering and highly appreciated loyalty of my friends. The issues involved in the coining campaign are of far more impor tance to the welfare of Winder than is the consideration of the person ality of the candidates, whoever they may he. The present condition of the city ’s affairs, the large ami varied new interests that have been recently added to her departments, and the increased demand that her proper cart 1 and government will entail upon the authorities during the next two years, with a system of waterworks almost completed, her electric light plant, a school that is fast outgrowing its facilities, with a larger number of miles of streets than ever before, and many other new iuiprovements that will from time to time be made, demands not only the close attention of her authorities, hut the consideration of every citizen in the selection of the mayor and council. The city’s interests have been well conserved and carefully guard ed in the past and if her progress and development is to continue in a greater way the mayor and coun cil will be largely responsible for it. In her present condition there are many things tint might he im proved; there are several defects in some of the systems employed that should be remedied in her government, and with perfect eorr tidence in her next city fathers, I believe they will be. Who these men "are remains to be seen. That the candidates who offer will be worthy there can he no doubt. But let the voter think for himself, look at the men and what they stand for, then go to the polls and vote his convictions. After serious consideration 1 have decided not to offer as a can didate for mayor, 'and beg to ex press to my friends and pledged supporters my appreciation for their confidence and to assure them that 1 stand with them for a clean, bus iness-like, economical administra tion and shall watch the outcome of the campaign with zealous hope that its result shall bring us to that alone. 1 have the honor to be sirs, your friend, Ben A. ,Jfiian. NOTICE. On and after Oct. oth we intend keep.ng on hand a good supply of fine Tennessee hogs and will price them reasonably. Call on us when in need. SIIEATS A BATM AN. lucredulcus. “I am sorrf* to have to tell you that your wife’s mother is threaten ed with lockjaw. ’ “You don’t say so! I can hardly ■ believe there's that much force 1 nature.— Boston Tanscript.,„ THE LEGITIMATE WORK OF THE W.'H. M.S. This Society is first and always a missionary Society. Its purpose is missionary and its administration is on missionary lines. The idea involved in this use of the word “missions" is that of a Society sta king to raise funds and employ workers to establish institutions for the purjiose of evangelizing, educa ting, or reforming people who, on account of personal or local con ditions, need tins kind of work and are unable otherwise to obtain it. In line with this idea the Society has inaugurated work among the mountaineers, aliens, friendless girls, fallen women, and in city slums and mills, the need of each being far beyond thediiuinoial ability of the Society. Indeed, the greatest diflieulty the Board has to meet is to restrain effort that would involve the Society in debt, and yet it. grieves to see so much of pitiful need left unsupphed. There are a great many good en terprise* —church schools, orphan ages, hospitals, etc. —that on ac count- of their character appeal to tin- philanthropic impulse, yet do not come under the class of work for which the Society was organized. They should be cared for otherwise. Many such institutions —usually conference schools —have been of fered to the Woman's Horne Mis sion Society from time to time, sometimes as a gift, sometimes at a low price, but invariably looking for a large future outlay of money to finish the building or pay a debt on it or equip it and calling for an annual appropriation for maintenance. These st bools have their place in the church lift —that is, if they are religious in teaching and conduct, which, alas! some of them are not —but they cannot Ur included in the legitimate work of a missionary society. The pupil age is not dependent upon the So ciety. or iced not be, for educative or religious opportunities, and there fore are not the proper subjects of the missionary effort by which do nations are secured and expended for the needy lasses mentioned. Conference enterprises offered t the Board have as a general thing been proven failures through seme kind of handicap that the Board is expected to remove and win a suc cess. They are pressed upon the Board by those deeply interested in securing the success of tire institu tion,and sometimes enthusiastically backed by the Conference Society. This is always unfortunate, espe cially when the Board investigates and finds conditions that make it (inadvisable for it to undertake the work. Sometimes the Board is severely criticised for ‘'a lack of wisdom’’or “partiality for another section,” and preachers and people of that Conference feel aggrieved and lose interest in the work of the Society. If the W. 11. M. S. accepted all these institutions and tried to run . % them properly, it would require a thousand dollars when* it now has one and hundreds of additional workers. The question naturally arises: “Where would the money and workers come from?” —Our Home. Kern Has fun with Graves. Chattanooga, Term. —In reply to a challenge for joint debate John W. Kern, the democratic nominee for vice president, wired aft follows: “Hon. John Temple Graves, Chattanooga —My engagement for tomorrow afternoon is for non-par tisan address Cannot be in Louis ville at night. Have pleasant memory of long conversation with you in July. We agreed perfectly on everything but baptism, and that is no longer a pSramout issue. Come and visit me at Indianapolis. I’nueisi: you good time, * ;i r ,r Jr , ,