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NEW TIMOTHY. Mr. Luther Brock, of this place, and Miss Ruth Jones, of Winder, were happily married last Sunday morning at the bride's home, Rev. j. H. Wood performing the cere mony- These young people have a host of friends who extend con gratulations. Prof. Hamby has opened a pri vate school at Central Academy. Robbie, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Press Hardigree, was very ill last week. Mrs. William J. Russell has re turned home after several days visit to Atlanta with relatives and friends. Mr. McDougald and family are leaving our community to make their home in Indian Territory. Miss Jones, of Winder, was the! guest or the family of Mr- \\ . T. Brock Monday. Mr. Kmmett Bond, of N\ inder, was at New Timothy Monday on business. Mr. Preston House attended the Brock-Jones wedding Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brock en tertained at dinner Monday in hon or of Mr- and Mrs. Luther Brock. N. T. ROCKY RIDGE. Several from this place and Beth lehem spent Sunday in Gainesville. Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Thompson, of Winder, spent Sunday with the former’s sister, Mrs. Bell Perkins and family. Mrs. Hattie Hendrix spent Sat urday night and Sunday with Iter sister, Mrs. Cal lie Hosch. Mr. and Mrs. Hull Harrison spent Saturday night with the hit ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H . M. McDonald. Mr. and Mrs- Warren Partain spent Sunday with Mr. Mavnard Ho low ay and family. Mrs. J. H. Clack is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Bell Perkins, who is very ill. Grandma Thompson is visiting her son, Mr. P 11. C. Thompson, at Bethlehem. JOHNSON’S ACADEMY. Mr. \V. ('. John son, of Social Circle, was visiting relatives here last week. Miss Lizzie Wood, of Galilee, sip ait-Saturday night with Misses Maude and Claiidie Johnson. Misses Vila and Irene Roberts; were the guests of Misses \Vow lie and Claiidie Roberts Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Watson spent Sunday with Mr. Will Wal lace and family, of <>ak Grove. Miss Ida Kley visited Miss Mvvt Strahge Sunday. Miss llhiford Sims h vi.iting rel atives in Winder this week. Misses Mattie and Ada Mine were the guests of Misses Rertha and Alice MeKlhannon Sunday. The singing at John Wall’s Sun day night was very much enjoyed by all present. Mr. Beldon Finch is very ill with pneumonia. Mr. Curt Waddell, of Jefferson, was in our community Monday afternoon. Miss Claiidie .Johnson was the guest of Miss Ruth Kley Sunday. Several from here attended preaching at Cnion Academy Sun day. . Mr. Ezra Hope and sister. Ag ness, are visiting friends at Apple Valley. Mr. Johnnie Wells, of Rockwell, HERE TO STAY. No, We Are Not Closing Out at Cost, Nor Are We Issuing a SENSATIONAL NOTE. Pint we are here with a brand new, clean, up-to-date stock of merchandise, cosnisting of Men’s and Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Overcoats, and at such prices that will put these Sensational and Cost Sales in the shade. Bear in mind that every piece of goods in this entire large stock is new, clean and tip to date, not a single old style or fashion. We respectfully ask you to com and look through our stock and we venture to say you will find it as a gentleman told us, that H. Mendel & Co.’s prices are cheaper than these cost or sensational sales. YOURS TO PLEASE, H. MENDEL & CO., WINDER, - - - GEORGIA spent Sunday with Early W illough by. Messrs. Mim Hayriie and Rob Roberts, ofStatham, visited \V. C. Roberts Sunday. Charlton Wood, of Elmwood, was in our community Friday, en route to Winder. SCHOOL LETTER. Our fail term of school will soon conic to a close and we are all looking forward to the Christmas holidays when all out of town teachers and students will return to their re spective homes to spend the holi days before entering upon the du ties of anew year. Thanksgiving is almost here. The school will have Thanksgiving exer cises on Wednesday afternoon. Last Friday was Public Friday, and the school rendered a very in teressting program, as follows: Recitation by Si bye Millsaps. Second grade, recitation by Zack Jackson First grade, recitation by francos Brooks. Fourth grade, recitation by 1 hol loa Woodruff. Seventh grade, recitation by Carl Robeson. Second grade, recitation by Ethel N ■ >va_L Ninth grade, recitation by Ernest Edwards. Third grade, recitation by Louise Strange. Sixth grade, no representative. Tenth grade, declamation by Clifford Foster. We had several visitors with us, among whom was l>r. George De- Laperriere, who made us a very in ten sting talk which was enjoyed very much by all who heard it. We give all parents a special invitation to visit our school at any time. Our superintendent, I’rof. Robe son, urged all pupils to come until the close of school, as it would he a great disadvantage to lose a week out of school. Miss Myrtrice Meadow, who has been ill for some time, was aide to n-turn to school Monday, and we were all glad to welcome her. PARADISE. Everything is moving on nicely j here. Mr. and Mrs. B. ('. Kinney at tended preaching at Hebron Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Patton vis ited Mr. W. A. Williams and fami ly Sunday. The prayer meeting at the home of Mr. J. If. Clack last Sunday was highly enjoyed by all present. There will he prayer’meeting at Mr. Italic Chandler’s next Sunday evening, too and take a share ill the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Odis Camp spent Sunday with Mr. William Sims and family. Mr. and Mrs. Madison Rogers spent Sunday near Bethlehem, the guests of Mr. and Mrs 1.. L. Rogers. Mr. Fred Adams and sister, Miss Ermine, visited their sister, Mrs. B. C. Kinney, Saturday night. Little Luther and Lulah Clack spent part of lasi week with their aunt, Mrs. R. E. Clack. Dr. John M. Burns Dies. 1 >i. John M. Burns, of Apple Valley, Satuday and was buried at that place Sunday afternoon with 1 Masou'e honors. Dr. Burns had reached an advanced age, and his family was not altogether unpre pared for the sad event. lie leaves a wife, three sons and two daughter- besides many other relatives to mourn his taking away. He was an uncle of Mr. S. ('. Botts, of this city. j The funeral was one of the larg est Apple Valley has witnessed in many years. for Sale. One house and lot on Athens street in Winder, but.; house has , rooms and is situated within two hundred yards of the publie school 'building; lot is 10* by *OO feet; _ fine variety of frith and excellent garden spot. For pf.ee and terms apply to ('. li. Ware, Lawrcncovillo, (la. Obeying a"Request. We have been requested to eali attention to a little ad. found else where in this issue of Th< News. Flanigan Bros, are going out of the shoe and clothing business .for keeps and will sell everything in their store, from the matting on the floor to the biggest derby on the top shelf at just what it will bring. Pink said he was fearful our readers would not see the notice, and asked us to gyll your attention to the mat ter. Look careful and when you find the ad. lieginning “Gigantic Auction Sale,’ ’ that ! s it. UNION MEETING. There will Ih* union services at the Methodist church Sunday night. Farewell to Brother A. W. linn. Everybody invited. S. <>. Brock, expert machinist and machine erector. Engine and i boiler work a specialty. Can be i found at the H. E. Patat blacksmith shop. Could Handle a Shovel. The foreman Of a Chicago iron mill once employed a tramp who had been a college baseball champion. Their acquaintance began in a way that showed the tramp still to be game and cheery, it was a cold autumn dawn, and the tramp had slept in front of a furnace on a warm stone. The fore man, lieing short of laborers, ou his morning lour of inspection spied the fellow ami thought he would give him a job. “My man,” he said, “can you do any thing with a shovelV” •“Well, I could fry a piece of ham on it.”—Minneapolis Journal. The Pompous Man. Ido not like the pompous man. I do not wish him for a frieml. He’s built on such a gorgeous plan that he can only condescend, and when lie bows his neck is sprained. He walks as though he owned the earth—as though his vest and shirt contained all that there Is of sterling worth. With sa cred joy I see him tread upon a stray banana rind arql slide a furlong on his head and leave a trail of smoke be hind.—Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. From Limb to Limb. Housewife —Why don’t you get a job and keep it? Holm- I’m like de little bird dat keeps fly in’ from limb to limb. Housewife G’van, you’re only a bum! How could you fly from limb to limb? Hobo—f mean de limbs o’ de law, mum!—Kansas City Independent. t CYCLONE OF FLUMP —i Fires In Bamboo Forests Are the Fiercest Known. SWEEP ON A IVhLE A MINUTE. Like the Roar, the Roll and the Rattlo of a Great Battle Is the Noise of tho Exploding Stali<3 That Sometimes Snoot High Into the Air. When the forests nre afire, when the smoke makes dusk at noon and reddens the harvest moon a thousand miles away, there is the measure of a coaS.igmtiou. When the prairies burn, as they used to before farms b id crept in upon tiie endless miles of grass, there was a fire which ran like mad and left behind it a blackened trail of dentil. If one could combine the speed of the prairie fire with the tumult of the blazing forest, that would be a tire Indeed. Such a combination is effected when the bamboo groves catch fire. Tho bamboo Is but a grass, a grass with the height of a tree, swaying stems reaching 100. even ISO, feet in air. In Cambodia, where the bamboo groves along tlie rivers cover the space of forests. It is no unusual thing for fires to break out and sweep all before them for many miles. If the summer has been dry the bamboo turns sear and inflammable as any grass. All that Is needed is a spark; then ruin runs red. It is not necessary to rely upon the carelessness of tho woodsman to start the blaze. The bamboo can kiudle Itself. I.et two sway leg stalks of dry bam boo be set In motion by the breeze, let one rub across the other long enough, and the friction will set the spark, and the long dry leaves will feed the flaiue. It is known that many fires of the bamboo forests thus originate. Per haps it was from observing such a sight that primitive man learned tho Promethean secret. That theory has been advanced. As soon as a flame In the bamboos has crept to the level of the tossing tips It spreads like wildfire. The wind carries a sheet of flame along the grove at tremendous speed. Some observer* say that such fires have been seen to move forward at the rate of more than a mile a minute. Seen from below, it looks as If she sky bad burst into an instant flash of flame. From such a burst of fire there could be no escape. Fortunately It passes high overhead at the tops of tiie bam boos. It serves as a warning to the traveler who may be miking ills way along someone of the water courses by which the forest Is intersected. The bamboo itself Is almost an obstacle to travel of any sort. It Is well nigh Im possible to force a way through it ex cept by the slow and toilsome labor of hewing out n path. The Hie In the great trunks moves more slowly, and if warning be taken It may be possible to sink one’s boat arid throw up wet herbage and clay against the bank of the stream to pro vide shelter until the furnace blast has blown by. Such a Hie In the bam boo has not only the speed of the prai rie fire on Its sweep overhead, but It has the same volume of fuel as Is found in any forest fire. It combines the t wo types. Bamboo forest fires have another quality which is nil their own. Thev bang and rattle with thunderous crashes, a3 of artillery fire, without cessation. The stalks of these tree bamboos are frequently more than a foot in diame ter. Near the ground the Joints are close together; In the younger growth the nodes may be several feet apart. But, long or short ns they may be, each Joint of the sun dried bamboo is a tightly sealed chamber filled with air. j The partitions between the cavities are singularly tough; the outside rind of the stalks Is almost pure flint. When the blast of tlie flame sweeps onward the air In the stalks upon which It is driven is suddenly heated to a very high temperature, 't he resid uum of moisture which may be In the stems is immediately transformed into steam and at once subjected to super heating, thus becoming a violent e.vplo- j give. As the hot breath of tlie flame, becomes hojter these joints burst with loud cannon discharges. Sometimes the force of the explosion near the roots is so great as to shoot the stalk like a javelin high into the air, where It into torchlike flame and is carried by the wind to spread wider disaster. The bursting of the smaller joints is like the roll and "rattle of rifles and machine guns. The effect is that of a battle hotly contest ed.—Washington Post. Missing Opportunities. “I.have no patience with a man who makes the same mistake twice,” said Arrues, rather severely, in speaking of an unfortunate friend. “Neither have I,” agreed his wife, “when there are so many other mis takes t© make.”—Youth’s Companion. He that studicth,, revenge keepetb hi3