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CREATION MUNDANE
Genesis I—2:3—Jan. 5.
"In the Oentnneng God mated the heaven* ana
the earth; ana the earth wae tmete ana
voia, and darkneee wae upon the luce oi
the deep. '—Ueneeie 1:1. t. <K. V.>
HT "the beginning," of the Gen
esis account, the Earth bmi
already been created by Di
vine Power. Higher Critics
attribute millions of years to this form
ative period. Bible students accept the
' record that the Earth was already in
existence, but lifeless.
The Bible mentions days of various
lengths. See Hebrews 3:8; 2 Peter
3:8; John 8:56. There Is no reason to
think that twenty-four-hour days are
meant In Genesis 1. God arranged a
great Week of Seven Days for perfect
ing mankind. Six of these Days pre
pared our planet for Adam, its king.
The Seventh Day lacks a thousand
years of completion. During that pe
riod the Earth will be perfected, and
man restored by his Redeemer to God’s
image. By many this period is styled
the Millennium.
The Seventh Day of the Creative
Week began with Adam’s creation and
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will be seven thou
sand years Jong.
The Six preceding
Days were seven
thousand years
each. From the
time when Divine
Energy began to
operate upon the
Earth until crea
tion is fully com
plete will be
49, Q00 years. Ac
cording to Scrip-
ture, this period will end a thousand
years hence, when Christ will deliver
up the Kingdom to God. Then the
fiftieth Thousand-Year Period begins,
with all crestion ascribing praise to
the Father and to the Son, forever. In
Bible usage, seven is symbolical of per
fection, 7 times 7 represent complete
ness of perfection; and the fiftieth, or
Jubilee following, is climacteric.
“Let There Be Light.”
The Genesis account is in full ac
cord with facts known to Science.
There was no light in the Earth until
Divine Energy brooded on the waters
The account suggests an electrical in
fluence and light, somewhat resembling
the Aurora Borealis. The earth was
shrouded with a canopy of water, min
erals. etc., shutting out the light of the
sun. until the Fourth Day. The First
Day, under the Divine Energy, gradu
ally prepared for the next Epoch.
On the Second Day. or Epoch, was
established a firmament. Doubtless
the light had to do in a natural way
with this. The firmament was com
pleted with the Second Day.
In the Third Day, or Epoch, earth
quakes took place, mountains were
thrown up. and the waters gathered
Into seas, draining off a land surface
Forthwith vegetation sprang up. The
account does not say that God made
grasses, trees, etc., but that under Di
vine command the earth brought forth
these various kinds. Nothing in the
Genesis account interferes with an ev
olutionary theory as respects vegeta
tion. Thus the Third Day accomplish
ed Its purpose.
According to the Vallian Theory, the
Earth was once surrounded by gaseous
rings and belts, similar to those of Sa
turn and Jupiter, thrown off to a great
distance, when the Earth was in a
molten state. Held off by the firma
ment, they spread out like a great cur
tain, causing darkness. Then, influ
enced by the rotation of the Earth,
they gravitated toward the poles, grad
ually cooling. Finally they broke, one
after another, coming down as great
deluges, burying vegetation, and de
positing minerals.
The last ring came down In Noah’s
day. For centuries it had been a
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The work or the sixth
day.
When the canopy collapsed as a deluge.
After the fall of several rings, the
heavenly luminaries exercised their
beneticial influences and served as a
great clock, marking days, months and
years. Thus the work of the Fourth
Day was accomplished.
In the Fifth Day. the waters began
to swarm with living creatures. Next
came fowl and great sea monsters. A
measure of evolution is suggested by
the statement that "the water# brought
forth abundantly," under Divine super
vision. Only in the case of man does
the Bible declare a personal creation
• The creation of laud animals marks
the Sixth Epoch Day. Fish and fowl
took precedence in time, as scientists
agree. Again we read that "the earth
brought forth." but we also read that
the Lord directed the matter.
At the very end of the Sixth Day
Gott created man. in His own likeness,
to have dominion over the creatures
of land, air and sea. Another account
Implies that Eve was taken from Ad
am’s side in the beginning of the
Seventh Day. Since then, God has
rested, or ceased from His creative
work, leaving matters to our Redeem
er. whose Messianic Kingdom will
complete that Seventh Day—49,ooo
years after God said, “Let there be
light!”
ITINERANT FARMERS’ SCHOOLS' "
President Andrew M. Soul*.
Extension schools of from two to
four days’ duration will be conduct
ed by the State College of Agriculture
during January, February and March
in as many parts of the state as
funds will admit.
These schools are designed not only
for the dissemination of the latest
agricultural information, but for the
exchange of the experiences of the
farmers themselves.
The college experts will tell what
has been accomplished by tests at
the college and in fourteen counties
A COMMENDABLE ORGANIZATION
IN BUTTS COUNTY.
John R. Fain, Professor of Agronomy.
The representative planters of
Butts county recently met and form
ed the Butts County Grain Growers
Association with Hon. C. S. Maddox
as president and S. K. Smith as sec
retary.
•The purpose of the organization Is
to stimulate interest in growing a
greater variety of grain crops, par
ticularly corn and oats. Every per
son over 18 years of age is eligible
to membership on payment of a fee
of sl. Contests are to be conducted
with six premiums as prizes for the
best yields, the premium being offer
ed as follows: forth? largest yiald
of corn from one acre of upland, for
the largest yield on one acre of bot
tom land, for the recond largest yield
per acre on upland, for the second
largest yield on bottom land, for the
third largest yield from an acre of
upland and the third largest yield
from an acre of bottom land. Pre
miums in the same schedule are of
fered for oats.
Complete rules are laid down gov
erning the contest, respecting the
classification of the land, the con
testing crop, the measurements of the
acre, the reports as to methods of
cultivation used, etc.
This movement is admirable, just
the very thing to supplement the corn
club work and stimulate general in
terest in and knowledge of cereals.
Every county in the riato should fol
low this example and ’’ ’ al 1 thc^s
associations should be affiU~'' , 6 w‘ i
the Georgia Breeders’ Association. In
such co-operat ; on there are unlimited
possibilities for the upbuilding of ce
real industry of Georgia.
SHILOH.
J. F. McDaniel is in Eastman,
for a few days this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Vaughan
visited their son, N. J. Vaughn,
of Charlott, Saturday and Sun
day last.
J. W. Heam returned Satur
day from Darien.
Anderson Conner and J. L.
Lowery of Charlott, were visit
ors here Sunday.
C. E. McDaniel was a visitor
at the home of J. W. Hearn
Sunday.
The remains of Mr. Abe
Wright, who died Saturday,
were laid to rest Monday in the
Spring Hill cemetery. We ex
tend our sympathy to the be
reaved ones, and may they look
to God in their deep sorrow.
J. T. Wright was in Lumber
City on business one day last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. WjlMs Hearn
are visiting their daughter, Mrs
Ballinger of Cochran, for a few
weeks.
Miss Bessie Tompkins was
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J.
C. Jolly, last Sunday.
Ms. J. 0. Hearn was a vis
itor at Mr. L. C. Sikes Sunday
P. M.
Mr. Bryant Livingston was a
visitor at the home of J. A.
Clark Sunday last.
Success to the Herald.
The young people of this com
munity enjoyed the Xmas holi
days by going to several enter
tainments.
N. J. Vaughan and Hershel
Conner of Charlott were visit
ing friends here last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Hearn
and little son spent last Sunday
P. M. with Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Clark.
Mrs. W. W. Tompkins was
the guest of Mrs. D. L. McAr
thur last Wednesday P. M.
Misses Bessie Tompkins and
and Albertie Sikes were the
guests of Miss Kayte Hearn one
night recently.
Miss Sadie Vaughan spent
last Wednesday night with Miss
Viola Sikes.
The entertainment given at
the home of Mr. J. A. Clark last
Tuesday night was enjoyed by
all in attendance. '
Miss Janet Ryder was the
great watery can
opy, through
which sun, moon
and stars were
visible, but not
clear. Under this
canopy, rhe Earth
was like a green
house. This ac
counts for vege
table and animal
remains, found
long embedded in
ice. which form
ed instantly
TheGeornla
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on various eon types. They vrtll also
lead the discussions in spraying, in
pruning, dairying, feeding, selection
of seed corn and seed cotton and the
cultivation of various crops.
Forty-two hundred farmers attend
ed these traveling schools in Georgia
last year, and more are expected Chis
year. Any community desiring the
schools should make application at
once. As many requests will be com
plied with as funds and economical
arrangement of the itinerary will ad
mit.
THE BEST SILAGE
CROPS FOR CATTLE.
Milton P. Jarnagin, Professor Animal
Husbandry.
Question —What is the best silage
crops that can be raised in Georgia
for feeding cattle?
A mixture of corn and sorghum.
{Sorghum by itself ferments too much.
Corn will counteract this. Corn by
Itself may suffer too much from
drought, but sorghum is more resist
ant to dry weather. In fact, by rais
ing the two together about 33 per
cent more of vegetation suitable for
the silo can be produced than by
growing corn alone or with other
crop than sorghum.
Question —How much cotton seed
meal should be fed young calves.
Shelled corn and threshed oats
should be fed for the first five or
six months. Then cotton seed meal
may be fed at the rate of from one
to three pounds per day, depending
upon the size of the calf. The oats
ration should be cut down at the
same time. If the calves are to be
developed for dairy purposes the
bulky food that distends the stom
ach must be given prominent part in
the ration. ,
President Andrew M. Soule recently
delivered a notable address to the en
tire student body of the University
of Georgia on the agricultural de
mands of Georgia. It was a strong
and effective address that will lead
the students to more seriously con
sider agriculture and its opportuni
ties than ever before.
guest of Miss Mamie McArthur
of Lumber City last Wednesday
night. “Red Wing.”
HELENA, ROUTE ONE.
The Wheeler county candi
dates have been ; doing a good
deal of electioneering in this
community lately, and as it is
almost election day, guess we
will soon know who will be the
first officers for the new county.
Mr. L. M. D. Nobles and son
Earnest went to Erick Monday
P. M.
Mr. Will Brown of Erick was
in this community Monday P.
M.
Quite a large crowd at the
singing convention at Long
Branch Sunday. Quite a num
ber of candidates, so you know
there was lots of hand shaking. ■
The writer spent the night at
M. R. T. Crofton’s near Scotland
Saturday night.
The music school at Long
Branch is progressing very
nicely under the management of
Miss Mattie Grimes.
Mr. Gillis of Vidalia was a
visitor at Mr. H. H. Grimes
Saturday and Sunday.
Pink Bass of Erick visited
Ms. S. M. Johnson Monday
night.
Mr. A. J. Grimes of Glenwood
was in this community Sunday.
The singing at Mr. B. H.
Grimes Sunday night was great
ly enjoyed by all present, and
we hope to have the pleasure of
attending another one in the
near future.
Mr. C. M. Mobies was a visit
or at Mr. C. M. Williams Sunday
P. M.
Singing convention at Long
Branch Sunday next. Let’s
everybody come as we are ex
pecting some good singing.
Hurrah! for Xmas!
Miss Willie Lee Peavey visit
ed Misses Mildred and Grace
Monfort Sunday.
Several visitors in the com
munity this week.
Much success to the Herald.
H. A. M.
KEEFGLOSEWJITCH
ON MILK SUPPLIES
G»«rgla State Board of Health Points
Out Importance of Knowing
That Milk la Pure.
Atlanta, Ga. —(Special.)—Do you
know that the milk you are using Is
sanitary and free from dangerous and
deleterious impurities? Do you know
whether or not you are liable to take
typhoid terms into your system in
the next glass of milk you drink at
your table? Do you know whether
the condition and quality of the milk
you are using are such that it will not
affect the health of your child?
It is important, vitally important,
that the consumers of milk who in
clude practically every family, should
have definite knowledge, and not
mere opinions or beliefs on these
points, says the Georgia State Board
of Health.
Where the family owns its cow and
knows it is healthy, it is possible for
it to have always clean and healthy
milk by observing the simple sani
tary rules In the process of milking—
rules whose basic principle is clean
liness, absolute cleanliness. Unfortu
nately, however, the majority of fam
ilies either because of the expense, or
local conditions of city life, must de
pend on one of the nearby dairies for
their dally supply of milk.
From the cradle, it might be said,
to the grave, milk is one of the most
Important, most essential, articles of
human diet. Composed of water car
rying in solution the three great nat
ural foods —albumens in the form of
casein, carbohydrates such as milk su
gar or lactose, and fat —milk is an
ideal food for persons in all ages. It
contains everything needed for the
sustenance of life. Its value depends
upon its purity; its universal use de
mands that it shall be pure, sanitary
and wholesome.
The family owning its own cow
should know first that the cow is
healthy. The cow should be milked
■in clean surroundings. The person
milking have thoroughly clean hands.
Water should be boiled in the vessel
Into which the milk is to be drawn.
This boiled water should be poured
into another vessel and used for care
fully cleansing the udder and teats
of the cow. The bucket into which
the milk is to be drawn should not be
rinsed after thekboiled water is pour
ed from it, tor it is then sterile and
clean, and other water poured into it
may contaminate it. The milk should
be poured into other vessels which
have been similarly cleansed and kept
■n a clean refrigerator oi' cool place
until wanted for use.
With the cow at home, the family
may see to it that these simple sani
tary rules are complied with, but with
the dairy the problem is a different
one. In the interest of the protec
tion of the public, cities and towns
should employ the full extent of their
authority in making rigid dairy in
spection; the city should stand in
the place of the consumer and should
be able to certify to its people that
the milk they are getting, whatever
its source, is sanitary and sate.
Undoubtedly sanitary conditions in
dairies could and would be more rig
idly enforced, if patrons of them
would visit them from time to time
and make personal inspections; their
right to do this where they are pat
rons, could not well be questioned.
City inspection where many dairies
are Involved is often a difficult prob
lem, for the watchful eye of the in
spector cannot be ever present.
Unsanitary milk is a frequent pur
veyor of typhoid and other diseases
which abound in impure water, and
which may be conveyed to the milk
through the use of such water, by
filthy surroundings or by flies. Milk
should be carefully protected from all
these sources of contamination.
But the purity of milk is most im
portant because of Its essential use as
a food for infant children. There is
undoubtedly a large percentage of in
fant mortality which may be attribut
ed to impure and unsanitary milk.
The best food for the baby Is, of
course, its mother’s milk; but unfortu
nately an increasing percentage of
mothers are unable to nurse their
children, and cow’s milk properly
modified in accordance with well de
fined rules to suit the child’s age and
condition of health, is the best ob
tainable substitute.
Too great care cannot be exercised
in obtaining milk for the child; its
delicate stomach is suspectible to
sl’ght impurities which might not af
fect the adult, and bowel complaints
often serious and sometimes fatal,
may result from them. Unless the
mother is careful in the milk she se
cures for her child, she is merely in
viting the death of the littleone.
Keep the baby’s milk separate from
that of the family. Place it against
the ice as soon as received. For feed
ing it should be modified as directed
by the physician. All utensils used
in preparing modified milk should be
boiled or sterilized before using so as
to destroy all dangerous germs. Use
the large mouth nursing bottle; it is
more easily cleansed. Place the proper
amount of modified milk for a single
nursing in each bottle and close the
mouth with a plug of cotton or rubber
stopper. After cooling in cold water,
the bottles should be placed next to
the ice until needed. When needed,
heat the bottle in warm water; never
pour the milk from the bottle to be
heated and then put it back. Wash
the bottles immediately after nursing
and boil them before using again.
Wash the nipples carefully after each
nursing and place them in a solution
of one teaspoonful of boric acid to a
pint of water until needed. When
needed one should be taken out, rins
ed and applied immediately to the
neck of the bottle.
By securing clean, wholesome milk
and'observing these simple rules the
mother may best protect and safe
guard the life of her t!hild.
E. W. CLEMENTS 1
ALOMO, Ga I
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Offers to the peo
ple of this section
a first-class line
of dry goods,groc
eries and general
merchandise
CLOSE PRICES
Will be made on all goods and
courteous treatment to all who
favor us with a visit. Will pay
the highest market prices for
produce of all kinds. When you
come to Alamo, come to see us.
E. W. CLEMENTS
W. H. SPELL & COMPANY
ALAMO, GEORGIA
Dealers in ■
General Merhandise
Dry Goods,
Shoes, Hats,
Clothing,
Groceries, Etc,
We have on hand four dozen
Boys’ Suits that we are selling- at
cost. Also three dozen Ladies’
Sweaters going at cost. Bring
your folks to town and get those
goods while they last. We’ll ap=
preciate your trade.
W. H. SPELL & CO
LANDSBERG.
We are having some rainy
weather now.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barlow
celebrated their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary Saturday,
Dec. 21, 1912.
Miss Fannie Posey and Miss
es Mattie, Lena and Ruby Hol
ton visited Misses Eula and Lu
die Barlow Saturday P. M.
Mr. M. P. Moseley has re
turned home after spending the
week with Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Barlow.
Mr. Ed Barlow has returned
home after spending a few
weeks with his relatives.
Misses Eulee and Elise Bar
low spent Sunday with their
friends, Misses Anna, Laura
and Mattie Lena Holton.
Miss Sudie Barlow is spend
ing Xmas with her cousins, the
Misses Moseley, near Uvalda.
REV. KITE PREACHED
HERE LAST 3rd SUNDAY
Bro. C. E. Kite, pastor of the
Helena Baptist Church, deliv
ered a very interesting sermon
at the Methodist Church last
third Sunday.
This was one of the most in
teresting sermons ever delivered
in Alamo, one that will long be
remembered in the minds of
our people. Brother Kite, will
preach every third Sunday for
us # and it is the purpose of the
Missionary Baptists to organize
a church in Alamo on the third
Sunday in February, and all
who will are invited to come
and unite with tips church,
which has a very bright pros-
Fresh Fruita
& Vegeta bl®
Always i
on Hand
pect of being one of the best or
ganized churches in South Geor
gia, and is very much appreciat
ed by the people of Alamo,
whose first attention points to
ward good churches and schools.
The barometer was discovered in
1634. But long before that wiseactes
were prophesying the weather and hit
ting it about as closely Its they do to
day.
Poland is possessed of salt mines
that have been worked for the last
600 years. They ought to be getting
dowfi to the salt of the earth by this
time.
It is announced that the American
woman’s foot is getting bigger. This
will be all the better for her in these .
emphatic days when she is putting it
down.
One of the signs indicating that
China has come abreast* of western
civilization is that nation’s fixed da.
termination to acquire a large nation
al debt.
The demon of the air is busy these
days re ping hie gruesome harvest.
Why go away for the st^aer when
there is a perfectly good odjjat home?
The weather man has certainly
: been good to us these nerve-racking
। days.
The man who doesn’t worry is gen
erally a man with nothing to worry s
about.
This season’s most popular song *
seems to be just as inane as its prede
cessors.
Notwithstanding their heavy fur
coats, the bears are active on the
stock exchange. a
