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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
Trains Restored.

Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 9.-The Ala bama Great Southern Railway has restored trains Nos. and 1, the Pan- American specials, as far south as Meridian. Trains No. and have also been restored as far as Meridian. All these trains were annulled last week south of Birmingham on account of the quarantine established by Alabama against the State of Mississippi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
TUCKER PRESIDENT.
succeeds Lee at Head of the James
 town ExpOaition.

Norfolk. Va, Oct. 9.-Former Repre- sentative in Congress Harry St. George Tucker has accepted the presidency of inc Jamestown Exposition.
 He will succeed the late General Fitzhugh Lee. He is son of John pandoipb Tucker and was elected pres Id, mt of the American Bar Association at the St. Louis convention in 1904, and is Dean of the George Washington University at Washington.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
Live stock Show.

Kansas City. Mo, Oct s.-@The sev- enth annual royal live stock show opened at the stock yards here today with s21 individual entries of fine cat tie. The largest previous number of entries for an American royal show was TSP.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10

annual report with regard to the es- tablishment of postal check system, thus saving the express company hum dreds of thousands of dollars" as she alleges
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
Duune Douned by Cowuc,l.

CE:cago. Oct. 9.-Mayor Edward F. Dunne placed his contract plan for municipal ownership before the City Council tonight and it was defeated by a vote of AS to 1e.,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
Mississippi Summary.

Jackson, Miss, Oct. 9.-The official yellow fever summary for the past twenty four hours is as follows:
 Natchez, 8 new cases. new foci; Roxie. 6 new cases; vicksburg. new cases, 1 death: Hamburg. new case, 1 death. patients discharged; Gulf port, Mississipp City, Soria City, Scran- ton, Moss Point, Port Gibson and Har- riston. no new cases and no new deaths.
 This Is the third consecutive day that has passed without new infection on the gulf cost. State Health Officer Magee has asked for an allowance of $6.000 for Immigration work to be used under the direction of the Marine Hospital service.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10

ease is expected. The death today was of lady of prominence in the town. One of the deaths credited to the city was in Algiers, which lies just below Gretna.
 Newspaper Men Stricken.
 In the list of cases now under treat ment are two newspaper reporters. Both were undoubtedly infected by moving in the districts where there has been much fever. During the ~exis& ence of the fever half dozen news paper men have been stricken and & of the six papers have been represe. : ed. In only one case did the disease result fatally.
 Thirty-six cases are now under treatment at the emergency hospital. There is accommodation for three times that number. with a large force or physicians and nurses. Because the hospital is so far from having its ca pacity tested there is ample opportun- ity to give every patient unusually close attention and that Is one of the reasons why the mortality is now so low in the institution. The nine resi- dents of Rosetta, Miss, who are being detained in the hospital were again re- ported we'll today and 1t is not be- 1ieved that any of them will develop fever. They will be discharged during the present week.
 On Sunday next the decision Of haIf dozen or more parishes to raise quarantines will go into effect. Oth- CTS will follow during that week and the experience of those parishes will no doubt affect many others. As it is, there have been in the last few days an unusual large number of arrivals here from different points in Louisiana, which indicates that communities in the interior are modifying their re- strictions.
 Interest in the Presidents visit is constantly growing and the probabil- ity Is that, with or without quaran- tines, there will be a large country in- vasion of New Orleans at the end of the month. Dr. White said today that he was in receipt of information of an unofficial character that many towns would raise their bars within the next ten days If it became evident that the disease is under control and there is no increase of the sickness. He feels as- sured that there will not be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10

WEATHER FORECAST.
 Washington, Oct. e~-ror AIahama- Rain and colder Tncsdsyg fresh to brisk shifting winds, beco ming northwest. Wednesday, fair and colder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10

ease is expected. The death today was of lady of prominence in the town. One of the deaths credited to the city was in Algiers, which lies just below Gretna.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02

rent receipts
Under this plan any man can acquire
a $1,000, $1,000. $4,000, $4,000 or $1,000 home
in comparatively few years as easily
as he could pay rent during correspond
ing period The equated payments on a
$1,000 loan of both principal and interest
would only be 1928 per month. The loan,
with accrued interest. can be paid at any
time. thus stopping further interest.
Studying the plan of the Standard Trust
Company from every possible point of
view 1t presents no feature or point vul-
nerable to criticism and it impresses us
as the most beneficient. safest and ra-
tional solution of the rent problem that
has ever been devised. The company
makes no pretention 10 philanthropy and
no promises which 1t is unable to fulfill.
The security furnished its members is
based upon improved real estate, which
the contract holders themselves have
possession of and are paying for, and
while the borrower only pays 4 per cent
interest per annum, payable monthly. the
company, by re-lendlng the monthly pay
ments as fast as they are paid each
month, compounds its interest, and thus
makes not less than. per cent on its
loans.
No business proposition could be sound
err, no security could be better.
The officers of the company are reliable
and conservative business men and would
not lend their aid and influence to any
enterprise which did not appeal to them
as being unassailable. practical and
bringing fair and just returns to all par
Elephants.
The personnel is as follows l.. f. Har-
ris, president; II. Sheffield Jr., vice-pres-
ident; F. E. Whitehead, secretary and
treasurer.
The Standard Trust Company is incor-
porated with an authorized capital OF
$500, COO and has the principal office at
63s First National Bank Building, Bir-
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ton, Del, and branch offices as follows:
IS and 10 Exchange Bank Building,
Charleston, S. c., third floor People s
Bank Building, Anderson, S. c.; 104-105
Lenkauf Building, Mobile. Ala; 4O1 Main
street, Dallas, Texas; sos Thiesen Build
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Selma, Ala.
Liberal contracts will be made with
competent and trustworthy agents.
Call or write
THE STANDARD TRUST COMPANY,
No. 6SS First Nat Bank Bldg, Birming-
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his share when his matchless genius
proved the handspring for his overpower-
ing ambition. No birthday anniversary of
the new century carries wider significance
than does that of the Children's Friend.
Scandinavia and the United States are
cbration of Hans Christian Andersen, for
Danish Americans by the thousands are
no less anxious to do honor to their ia
nous countrynan than those whose
homes are encircleG by the waters of the
North sea and Baltic. In Denmark there
is not a city or hamlet where the national
banner Is not flung to the breeze on this
day of celebration.
In Odense especially great festival
commentaries the event when 1t pleased
Providence to make that city the birth
place of the Danish immortal. The poor,
whose cause he championed SO vallantly
end constantly in everything he wrote,
are being remembered through individual
gifts and grants to charitable institn-
tions For the benefit of the children the
theatres are giving free performances,
and in the great banqueting hall of the
Odense court house the burghers and their
wives are listening to speeches euloglstic
of what Hans Christian Andersen has
done for the land they all love so well.
Marked BY Unusual Festivities.
In Chicago and the great northwest the
day is marked with unusual festivities on
the part of the northumberland
Headed by the we'll known Danish-Amer-
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Danish sculptor stood for simplicity II
theme and expression, and where other
noted artists strove for attention by
methods the directly opposite, Thorvald-
sen won fame because his aim was truth
as pure as the marble in which he
wrought. The myth and the allegory
which he employed were to him what
the fairy-tale meant to Andersen. The
moral lessen explained itself, no matter
what were the mediums of these masters.
A noteworthy celebration in honor OF
Hans Christian Andersen was the occa-
sion of his visit to his native town IN
1876, the year he died. His fellow-towns-
men of Odense had him as their guest or
honor and the city was decorated as on
the Kings birthday. 1t proved the final
triumph in his career, the hour when
the place of his birth was to be 'hlumi-
mated for his special benefit, exactly as
the wise" woman had told his mother
many years ago would one day be the
case. But that the world would share
in paving homage to her famous son not
even the foresight of the seer" coutd
have predicted.
Monuments in commemoration of Hans
Christian Andersen are now the outward
evidence that his name will outlast gem
erations. In his native town the school
children have erected a statue TO the
noet in the characteristic attitude he as
sumed in life In Copenhagen the An
dersen monument is one of the hand
soonest among the many in the capital
This side the Atlantic ocean, the statue
in Lincoln park. Chicago. is the work OF
a Danish American sculptor whose INFORM
sympathy with his subject produced
real work of art Brooklyn, likewise Is
about to honor the poet with statue.
More than all. his stories remain the I'M
nerishable promise that they VIII retain
their beauty and their freshness VIZ
20 tho ravages of time.
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vivid Imagination which turned the cob
blestones of the alley into so many blocks
of gold, and made the one-story house in
the Monk Mils street, where he was
born. take the semblance in his eyes of
splendid palaces.
1t was during this constructive period
that the future poet conceived the plots
for the wonderful fairy tales that the
world has come to look upon as literary
gems and parallels than which no other
stories of their kind have appeared since
his day. Along the banks of the Odense
river, in the quietude of the beech forests
near the town, or as he watched the city's
teeming life Hans Christian gathered to
himself the knowledge that led him to
fame in spite of immense obstacles.
Was Gain of Literature.
That Andersen proved unsuccessful In
his ambitious quest to become an actor
was the gain of literature. His father
diving some years before he set out for
conenhagen his mother had been COM
pelled to take In washing as her means
Of making a living for herself and boy.
with n couple of dollars in his pocket and
a bundle of clothes under his arm, An
dersen now made the arduous journey to
the capital. The vicissitudes that met
him here. his dscoura gements and his
final triumphs the poet has described feel
ingly in his 1.-THE Story of My Life As
a biography of human endeavor rising tri-
umphant above every opposition, the
moral of this book will continue to en-
dure RidicuIe and contempt were ar
rayed against him, just as In his school
days in Odense his fellow students had
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~ =, ...,.,,.. 49,
failed to comprehend 10 pe nus u ,,'s,,,
stood seemed his fate up to tnat happy
hour when fame took MIN py me nalu,
and then, as he tells IN Inc Hilpeio,
New clothes, wheh the ehi'u SO"
light all could see,
1t was due to the Kihd oiiices % a n'l.,
Der OF literary personases
ouaintance ne haa ihaoe 'iiat 1> ~, H.,
was directed INTO the pain 'nee i.u -,
out OF his mserapie eA,s.eiee, ,aS aI
be noted that the ahlpi.,ous sou.' :,
ready had the opportunity " us n,s va
ents as pupil at the schooi o. ms "
ton of the Royal Iheatre' bu. ~
come ever more ana more ev,uen. no a.
the stage would never prove ms loau ~
success, let alone give nun we AM r,n,,, =.
sought. Al the entrealies oi ~. So.ni m,
the dlreetor-ih-en,ei % s sne ~ raai,,
ersen was persuaded 10 Iorsake ,he realm
OF Thaha ana aeVo'e iiihsen ~ IS
In that hour MS tate was seaiee ~ SUI, ~.
Gent sum was coiiecleu 70 insule i a.,
1urther euueatioii' anu uN.'' l ,.1 -,
August, 1910, the nome " .ne ,oii''s IA
~ was 10 MN nome as wen
First Trip Abroad.
.s,,. A., tr,n abroad took Mace
,,, haue M y,as 2, Years old and in Germany
VIZ ,..,,, he fo,,nd ,ntsreatinp material
~ siN ~ sso,i., non Already some time be-
- ha Nod n,,hlished number of
H. a,n,, and tho noems collected after
,,,a.ds as ..,I,be Twelve Months the pic
t,'naso,,a ..Fantasies and sketches and
..xr,ansttes ~ Danish Authors 1t was
a,,r;nar tbis na,,od that certain critics as
sa,,aa bic u,orls nnmercirnllv. and his sus-
oart,hiiitv N criticism of whatever kind
ra,,,ained m his diving hour the one great
wool,ness of the noet The vanity of
which so many writers have made SO
mucn IN ulscussins ,ie in ,,, -, Us, 80
WAS hotnihs NOR 'iam -, ,ie n',ts,.,s ,,at,,,.a
pieteineht oi Tue n,an WIS 80 s,rat;srs
STOOD close 10 .ile .eehnsS ana si,s 49,
mat ooninale eiiiiunvou ~,
equippeu, ms me- WORN mou,u ~ go, "
some.hlhe ieasues ieio Nc r.o or,5 I'D .
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The following article is copied from the
Mercantile and Financial Times of New
York:
There never was time in the history
of this country when 1t was easier Tor
people of moderate means to secure
homes of their own. There Is general
prosperity and they are earning the
money, and men of integrity and ability
having a thorough knowledge OF the
Isouudest methods of legitimate financier-
ling. are devsing plans to enable men
of thrift and Intelligence to pay for their
homes upon terms which are, If anything'
easier than those imposing the payment
of rent.
| The majority of our readers are prob
lably familiar, to SONS exten,' with the
lplans of the ordinary building and loan
societies, the so-called home building as
sociations and the mortgage installment
plan of selling property. No doubt these
plans have placed many people In the
possession of homes and have worked
fairly we'll in many instances. We have
no intention, therefore, of assailing these
plans but we believe that every intelil-
gent reader will readily recognize the
advance that has been made upon these
plans by the Investment Home Purchas-
ling Contract" of the Standard Trust Com
pany of Birmingham, Ala.
From a careful study Of this contract
liz appears to the writer that the Stand
ard Trust Company have embodied there
In. with essential notifications, the prin-
cIples that underlie and have been sue
cessfully applied to endowment insur-
ance for many years. At all events the
plan has nothing in common with those
Of home cooperative societies, or mort
gage installment sale of property.
Briefly outlined, the plan is as follows;
The company issues an Investment
Home Purchasing Contract the race
value of which $1,000. They collect on this
contract SO as an advance payment when
the application is signed, and thereafter
monthly instalment of &c. payable on
the 18th day of each month. Each con-
tract is eligible to loan Of funds to pur-
chase a home In the sum of $1,000 after
six monthly installments of dues have
been paid thereon, as per terms and con-
ditions of the contract. After purchase
of a home is effected or loan made the
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charge only $50 per month";
nth ner cent interest per annum, pay
able monthly, on each $1,000 advanced OF
borrowed. -
All monthly installments with 3 per cen1
interest per annum on sane aliei e"e
third installment are credited on the pur-
chase price of the home or loan. Inc
contract provides for the purchase Oh
home. farm or business property IN any
locality to which a clear title can ne hau'
the only restriction in the purchase Oh
Tho nronerty is that the title must be
oood and the price paid must be based
unon a fair and reasonable valuation Oh
such property No security Is required
bevond the property purchased, improved
or released under lien, and the fuiniiheht
of the contract agreement, and all VINO
are disposed to make an e. ort can by
this method, put themselves on a sure
footing of property ownership.
The resemblance of the contract to an
endowment insurance contract lies, first
in giving the holder a definitely speclned
time-ten years and six monlAs-to pay
for his home. exactly as the applicant
for insurance pays for ten-year endoW-
ment policy One has a home paid Tor
the other a paid-up insurance policy.
Secondly. the resemblance Is accumulated
nv the provision in the investment
Home Purchasing Contract by cash
surrender value, If from misfortune or
otherwise the holder does not wish 10
carry It. and it provides also for the re-
turn of all payments with his proportion
ate part of the profits of the company,
n the contract is carried to maturity
These provisions are equivalent to the
non-forfeitable and proft-participating
features of life insurance policies.
In case of the death of the contrao
holder all money that has been paid H.
together with 6 per cent interest thereon
,s returned to his heirs, or Lenefciaries.
Inasmuch as the $3.50 per $1,000 which
the contract holder DAYS in, is constantly
reducing his Indebtedness, the interest
navments are correspondingly reduced
every year. the total interest payments
for ten years and six months being only
s217.32. which, added to $946 paid IN
monthly installments on loan. makes the
total payments only $l5163.S2; the contract
has been completed and holder has
home of his own instead of bunch OF
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Hans Christian Andersen Dream
ed Of Becoming Famous
as an Actor
WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AND
TURNED TO LITERATURE
"The Ugly Duckine" Was Based on
Poets Own Experiences and
Was Directed at Critics.
His Birthplace.

One hundred years ago today Hans
Christian Andersen WAS born in the an
Client city of odense, Denmark and
poverty was his lot from the cradle
until he reached mans estate Today
the fame Of the Danish story-teller is
sounded from the Baltic sea to the Pa
olflc ocean; from the Icy north to the lands
of the tropics, in Asia, Europe or Amer
lea, wherever the eyes of childhood
search the mysteries OF the world of print
the fairy tales of Andersen exert the
charm which time has made more last
ing. Honors and material reward became
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istence from the moment of his first en-
counter with dispara ging world to the
hour when he became the uncrowned
king of poetry The Ugly Duckling
contains every element that made or
marred his daily life; joy and sorrow, APP
probation and critical comment, whatever
the ugly duckling had to endure In Its
lower sphere, the author of the story had
himself experienced. In this tale Ander-
sen revenged himself for all he had been
made to suffer. The shafts of satire that
merely awaited the proper moment to is
sue forth and strike the enemy to the
quick the poet here speeds on their jour
ney In language the victim easily under
stood.
Anderson wrote for children. but the
fact remains that his real appeal was to
those of maturer years. Nothing demon
strates this better than the delight Ber-
tel Thorvaldsen experienced when listen
ing to the readings of his countryman
during the latter's stay in Rome. Like
Andersen in his own domain the famous
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pleasure of Travelling.

Anv trip is a pleasure to those who
travel over the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way. The best OF equipment. excellent
service. quick time. beautiful scenery.
FINEST dining car service. Polite atten-
t,on Convenient schedules. Every COM
Tort the most exacting traveller could
wish. New York tickets permit stop-over
~ 10 DAYS at washington. Baltimore and
PHILADELPHIA; also the famous Virginia
IL, cnrinea u-11-frf-su-we-tf
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Mama's Mistake.
cb;caoa News.

From the Chicago News.
Fond Mother-Nellie, the next time
Young Higgins. calls ask him to bring
his airship around some afternoon and
take us for a ride.
Pretty Daughter-Why, mamma, he
hasn't any airship.
Fond Mother-Oh, yes. he has Mrs.
Tattles told me only this morning that
he was quite high flyer.
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DANISH POET WAS BORN
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

lean, Charles j. Ryberg, members OF more
than half a hundred societies in the city
by Lake Michigan are gathered togethF
in JOYOUS celebration. In Omaha, the CEN
ter Of Danish Americanism in the north
west. men like Sophus f. Neble have the
matter in charge. So, too, in Brooklyn IN
Minneapolis, in Racine, Wisconsin Wher-
ever the descendants of the Viking race
have settled in, numbers the centenary of
the birth of Andersen finds ready particle
pation. In every instance the proceeds
are to go to charity. orphans and home
less children being the principal beneh-
Charles.
The career of Hans Christian Ander-
sen has been power for good the world
over Few men of the past century have
Influenced society in Its wider sense TO
the extent of what the Danish story
teller accomplished in a lifetime which
proved so rich in results and so varied.
From the point of physical embellish-
ments nature had treated the Odense boy
in a most stepmotherly fashion. But
what he lacked in handsome appearance
he more than made up for in a mind
which proved veritabe wonder-house;
his brilliant imagination coupled with
voice slngularly sweet and appealing when
he read aloud his tales. made one forget
his plainness of face and figure when In
the presence of the Danish bard.
Longed to Be an Actor.
Andersen was hardly more than boy
when he became possessed of the fixed
idea that the world outside Odense stood
ready to make him famous as an actor.
From earliest infancy the theatre had
been to him the acme of human happi-
ness as far back as he could remem-
her, he says himself in his biography,
he plays with dolls which he himself had
made, on q stage of his own construction.
Naturally enough, the poverty of his home
surroundings-his father was cobbler,
with literary bent, however-precluded
Hans Christian, from possessing toys that
it cost money to purchase But in his
own simple way the boy passed his child
hood days happy in the possession OF a
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The Investment
Home Purchasing
Contracts

which we issue terminate in
Eighty months. You would
paw $3.50 and receive S24O
profits, making a total OF
s72o that would be returned
to you.
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INTEREST TABLE ON $1,000 LOAN.
Amount of loan ...........s.. 81 200. 90
Amount to your credit -. 54O0
Balance due LIST yr.. s946 at per CTS 1874
Balance due I'd yr.. $3.50 at per c.. 34.24
Balance due Sd yr., s766 at per Co.. 1864
Balance due 4th yr., $676 at per c.. 27.04
Balance due 5th yr., s5S6 at per c.. 2S.44
Balance due 9th yr., 1896 at per .....19.S4
Balance due 7th yr., $406 at per c.. 1924
Balance due Sth yr., 1916 at per c.. 1884
Balance due 9th yr., 1925 at per c.. 904
Balance due 10th yr., s136 at per c.. 5.H
Balance due months, SAG at per C. .92
Total interest for 101h years. s217.3 30
$217.32 divided by 1876 months equals $1.73
per month.
Z ss4s divided by 126 months equals $3.50
per month.
Total equated monthly payments, 1928.
Loans may be paid at any time. thus
stopping further interest
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