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PAGE FOUR Summary of Tbents as They Happen Trouble at Henderson. Henderson, Ky., Dec. 13.—a note of warning against the further re ceipt of tobacco was found tacked on the door of the Imperial Tobacco Factory today, and some windows were broken out of one of the Galla her, Ltd., houses John H. Hodge, a Regie buyer, received a warning letter and has placed heavily armed guards at his houses in Henderson, Madisonville and Slaughtersville. The Dibrell-Glover factory, inde pendent, also has engaged guards. Mayor Harris has sworn in all the men asked for by the tobacco men. Growers of the stemming district have been strong in their denuncia tion of lawlessness, And it is believed that all threats come from boys or meddlers. This is considered espe cially probable since the Imperial Company has just bought the 1907 association crop. —Nashville Banner. 336 Booming Guns Salute Roosevelt When Fleet Sails. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 12. —There will be more gun powder burned next Monday in Hampton R-oads than there was in the historic battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Every one of Admiral Evans’ sixten ba£ k ' tieships will fire twenty-one guns on the arrival of the president o> his yacht, the Mayflower, and they will repeat the salute when they pass that vessel on the way out to sea. The admiral, his division commanders and ship captains, are busy today work ing out the details of the program for the president’s reception and the departure of the fleet on its long voyage. The Mayflower is scheduled to leave Washington at 5 o’clock Sunday af ternoon, reaching Fort Monroe short ly after 8 o’clock Monday morning. With the president will be Secre tary Metcalf, Assistant Secretary Newberry, and Rear Admiral Brown son, chief of the bureau of naviga tion. The firing will be led by the Con necticut, the guns being let loose sim ultaneously from the ships of each di vision—four ships at a time. Admiral Evans, accompanied by his staif, will then come aboard to pay his respects to the president and receive his final instructions. The final order for the start will be flashed by direction of the president from the Mayflower to the Connecti cut. Next will begin a series of signals from the Connecticut under the per sonal direction of Captain Royal G. Ingersol, chief of staff, which will bring about the actual movement of all the vessels. As each ship passes the Mayflower, about 200 feet from the vessel, the presidential salute of twenty-one guns will again be fired.—* Atlanta Georgian. What Candidates Say of Roosevelt’s Stand. Speaker Cannon: “The president speaks for himself. It would be use less and inappropriate for me to at tempt to interpret the president’« words. ’ 9 Senator Foraker: “That has been his position all the while, I suppose, but I don’t care to discuss the mat ter, thank you.” Senatoy Knox: “I am not at all surprised. I believed him the first time. The president’s word is always good with me.” Secretary Cortelyou: “I can not discuss the subject.” Alabama Beyond Threescore Mark. The State of Alabama has just passed the eighty-eighth year. The State has passed through a most eventful year. Much work has been accomplished. No Reduction in Stove Rates. The Southern Association of Stove Manufacturers, .which control all the stove manufacturing business of the entire South, held a meeting in Bir mingham this week. It was decided that, notwithstanding the decrease in the price of iron throughout the coun try, the association will keep the prices of their product as at present. The following resolution was adopted: “Resolved, That after a careful re view of the entire situation and con ditions, the manufacturers can not find wherein the prices for the com ing year can be modified.” They declared that the past year, with iron prices at the maximum, they operated at a loss and will only break even under present conditions by ad hering to present prices. No Third Term for Teddy. President Roosevelt will not be a candidate for third term. President Roosevelt has at last spoken as to the “third term.” He is emphatic in his determination not to accept another nomination. He quotes the announcement made two nights after his election, in which he said: “Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination,” and follows this with the announcement: “I have not changed and shall not change the decision thus announced.’* Hughes to Get Support of President? Washington, D. C., Dec. 14.—- Washington hasn’t enjoyed such a po litical sensation since the president is sued his reiterated declaration that he would not be a candidate again, as that which it experienced this after noon when it became known that State Senator Alfred R. Page, the close personal and political friend of Governor Hughes, of New York, had spent nearly an hour with the Presi dent. It was natural that the interview should be looked upon as an effort to bring about a better state of feeling between the president and the gover nor. It is known that Mr. Roosevelt has not been well disposed toward Governor; Hughes as a presidential candidate. It is believed that the conference of this afternoon means that the two luminaries will be drawn closer to gether. It is not impossible that Governor Snifara will yet be adaiaidratieM THE JEFFERSONIAN. candidate for the presidency, should the Taft boom collapse, as is predict ed in certain quarters. At least a state of feeling may be brought about that will render the president chari table towards the aspirations of the Empire State governor. Senator Page declared that a great deal of the talk about antagonism be tween the two men had been brought about by indiscreet friends. He said it would entirely disappear. He ad mitted that Governor Hughes would be pressed for the nomination, and said that he had not the slightest doubt that New York would send a solid Hughes delegation to the nation al convention. • Secretary Taft will have part of the Ohio delegation probably, Senator Foraker will have the rest. —Atlanta Journal. Laborers Want Crusade on Railroads Stopped. In an address issued by the execu tive board of the Georgia Federation of Labor a plea for more conserva tive action on the part of state and national officers in their dealings with railroads is made, while more strin gent immigration laws, the passage of the Beveridge anti-child labor bill and the establishment of the parcels post are recommended. The greater part of the address is devoted to the discussion of anti-rail road legislation. It is claimed that “the rampant agitation against rail roads in the past few years has caused greater losses to the people of American than all the strikes of the last hundred years, and all that are likely to occur in the next cen tury.” Waiting Game Played by Congress. The statesmen on Capitol Hill are playing. The lower house has hardly been in session three hours, all told, since the speaker’s gavel fell at noon, December 2. Some old bills have been introduced, which various represen tatives have been pushing for several years. The currency question is the one uppermost in the minds of con gressmen, and an avalanche of bills dealing with the problem generally and specifically have been introduced. HIGH TIDE OF PROSPERITY FOR GEORGIA. It is a weakness of human kind to think, say, and believe that things are not quite as good in our day and time as they were in the old days. Hence the belief which many of an other day and generation have that the South is not today as wealthy as the section was in ante-bellum days, when the wealth of the Southern planter was proverbial, and there was by reason of that fact established the reputation of the Southerner for un bounded hospitality and plenty. Commenting on this phase of hu manity, Captain R. E. Park, state treasurer, and one of the best in formed men (in the state in regard to the resources and wealth of Geor gia, said: “Never in the history of our great state has it been so wealthy as it is today. Some of our older people are fond of saying and believing that Georgia and the South were wealthier and times better before the Civil War than at the present time, but the statement is not borne ou by cold facts. $300,000,000 Wiped Out. “I have had occasion to look up the figures bearing on this matter, and I find that the high tide of pros perity in former days in Georgia was reached in 1861, when the taxable property of the state amounted to $671,000,000. Os this sum, more than $300,000,000, nearly one-half of the whole, represented slaves, and this immense wealth was wiped out of existence by a stroke of the pen when President Abraham Lincoln signed his emancipation declaring the negro slaves of the South freedom. “When one thinks of it, the strides which Georgia has made in material progress since that day are really wonderful. Confederate soldiers re turned to their devastated and ruined homes after the surrender at Appo mattox, footsore, weary and half starved to take up the fight against poverty. As bravely as they fought under Lee, Jackson, and other famous generals—and the history of the world furnishes no example of so Titanic a struggle—the battle which they waged against poverty and oppression was. even more valiantly fought. Under the horrors of reconstruction, the burdens which carpet-bag govern-, ment and negro misrule imposed on a struggling and impoverished peo ple, they never lost heart, but strug gled along, finally coming into their own. Property All Replaced. “The result of that struggle is truly magnificent when we look at the wealth of Georgia today. The $300,000,00 of slave wealth wiped out by the Civil War has been re placed by property holdings valued this year at $699,000,000 —an increase in value of taxable property of $28,- 000,000 over Georgia’s most prosper ous slave-holding days! Is there any race but the Anglo-Saxon capable of accomplishing as much, or any peo ple who could have done more than our Georgians?” Captain Park might have added that the valuation of property for 1907, stated at $699,000,000, is based on returns for taxation. The real value of the property, as it would be returned were the proper machinery provided for equitably assessing val ues, would be fully one-third more. — Atlanta Journal. A CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF COMMISSIONS. We have decided to make a uni form rule, giving 30 per cent com mission on new subscriptions, and 20 per cent on renewals. We hope that every agent will get busy and co-op erate earnestly. If you can’t do any better, send along the remittance in those nasty little clearing house cer tificate*.