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The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Sharing Prosperity.

A Buffalo savings bank has in.
creased Its interest rate from three
and a half to four per cent, and in
making the announcement explains
that last year it earned $253, 900 over
all expenses and feels that depositora
should have the benefit. This is not
only indicative of excellent manage
ment in this particular case, but ia
evidence of the general soundness un-
derlylng the surface of business. re-
marks the Troy Times. Were It
otherWlse savings banks could not SO
readily find sound and remunerative
investments and would not be able to
pay comfortable interest to patrons
At a time when there is more or less
OF a disposition to take a pessimistic
view OF certain financial features il is
we'll to recall the admirable showing
made by savings banks as a whole.
These are the custodians of the money
OF the Industrious workers who save
"nat they can of their earnings, and
the fact that deposits have increased
enormously of late shows that wage
earners are doing we'll, while the in
creaslng rate of interest is proof that
such savings are wisely handled.
Many capitalist would be content to
receive steady dividend of four per
cent. on his money.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
SUPPLY OF OFFICE BOYS
WAY BELOW THE DEMAND
WITH the ending of the summer

WITH the ending of the summer
W season, the metropolis is crying
for fifty thousand Office boys, the old
fashioned kind preferred. Each year
the cry for boys that goes up from
the skyscrapers becomes more in
sistent. New York's greedy business
nav gobbles up some seventy thous.
and youngsters a year as office boys,
and, though there are just about
enough boys to supply the demand,
business men complain that to Sc
cure the tight kind of boys is a very
difficult matter indeed.
1t is . curious fact about New
York's great army of Office boys that
small proportion Of them are grad
yates Of the public schools. The
schools graduate less than ten thous-
and boys a year, and fully half of
these enter the high schools to equip
themselves for business or other ca
reers, so that probably not more
than four thousand of these annual
graduates become Office boys. The
average age of these young business
men is fourteen years and six months.
OF the residue of the annual contin-
gent OF Office boys, the great majority
are youngsters who for some reason
or other have been compelled to drop
out Of school before completing the
course. Boys enough there are, then,
but business men lament the PASSING
OF the old-fashioned Office boy, who as
a type is taking his place with the
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
SUFFER PHYSICAL DEFECTS

NJ EW YORK.-Twelve millions Of
~ the children of the United States
are suffering from physical defects
which are serious enough to call for
immediate attention from parents and
physicians.
The startling statement is contained
In q report on the physical condition
OF school children by committee of
prominent educators, headed by Chair
man Burdenham, former president of
the New York board of education,
which is published concurrently with
the opening Of the schools throughout
the country.
The inquiry has taken wide scope
and the observations apply not only
to the school children of New York,
but also to those of Boston, Chicago,
and other cities. A synopsis of the re-
port says In part:
Based on the physical defects and
home conditions of 1,4O0 school chill
dren OF New York it is estimated that
100000 Of the children of the United
States have physical defects more or
less serious, which should receive at
tention from parents and physicians.
III the percentages recorded by the
board Of health in New York should be
maintained throughout the country
(and it seems likely that they would
be, as adenoids, and impaired vision,
malnutrition and defective breathing
are found in rural as wei; as urban
schools) there must be 1.440.000 ILL.,
nourished children, $685. 900 with en-
larged glands, and 6,925,000 with de-
fect1ve breathing in the United States.
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SOCIETY QUEEN LEAVES
HUSBAND FOR SONS SAKE

the man for whom she placed her So
cial position in jeopardy and bravely
encountered the opposition of every
member of her family.
A final warning from her father that
the penalty of her refusal to give up
Batonyi would be the disinheritance
of herself and her sons in his will i'm
PEELED the sacrifice. Batonyi has not
made the act harder for her. He has
voluntarily left his wife's roof and is
living in lodgings in Newport, while
she is at her cottage.
Ever since the announcement of
her secret marriage, Frank Work has
refused to see his daughter. His
grandchildren have been with him
much of the time. A month ago the
stern, domineering old man in New
York, now in his eighty y-eighth year,
served his ultimatum on his rebellious
daughter-beggary for herself and her
children unless she left Batonyi for.
ever
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
LOOK TO ROOSEVELT TO
AID LAKES TO GULF CANAL

the convention to persuade the presi
dent to give in his December message
to congress a strong Endorsement OF
the waterway project.
It can be said, however, that what
he may do in this respect will be
guided by the opinion of the inland
water development commission, which
was created by the president last
spring for the express purpose of ex.
amining into the lakes-to-the-gulfp prop.
osition.
The commission, accompanied by
the president for the greater part of
the distance, will inspect the Missis.
sippi river from st. Paul to Memphis
1t is known that at present the com.
mission does not favor the immediate
inauguration of the project, but it is
not known just what the members
will propose as an alternative scheme.
Advocates of the construction of a
ship canal project hope to be able at
the Memphis convention to induce the
president and the waterway commits.
sion to make an immediate beginning
on the work.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

G ACR1F1CING her own happiness for
- the sake of her twin sons, Maurice
and Francis, Mrs. Aurel Batonyi,
daughter of Frank Work, has signed
a pledge renouncing her husband.
The former Mrs. Burke-Roche, wife
Of the son of an Irish peer and ac-
knowledged in her girlhood to be the
most beautiful debutante of New York
society, has parted from her husband,
the ex-riding master, whip and man
ager of her newport farm, to whom
she was married secretly two years
ago. The suffering and worry of the
last year have changed her appear
ance greatly, and much of her former
beauty is gone.
Frank Work, the millionaire retired
banker, has brought about the separa-
tion of the Batonyis. Although still
deeply in love with her husband, Mrs.
Batonyi has been prevailed upon for
the sake Of her sons future to give up
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
IOHN E. MILHENNY, q member o1

John E. M1LHENNY, member of
u the civil service commission and
prominent in the presidents kitchen
a cabinet, is to be married next Decem-
ber to an old sweetheart in New Or
leans. His fiancee, Miss Stauffer,
daughter of one of the largest whole
sale merchants in the Crescent City,
is granddaughter of Gen. Dick"
Taylor, of the confederate army, and
greatgranddaughter of President
Zachary Taylor.
Mr.. McIlhenny shines in the Roose-
welt social set, and when Mrs. Roose-
welt is here, the handsome young
southerner is frequently her escort
on horseback rides. Although Dem
ocrat and member of the Louisiana
state senate, when the president ask
ed him to become a member of the
civil service commission to succeed
William Dudley Foulke, of Indiana,
Mr.. McIlhenny accepted because of
his attachment for Mr.. Roosevelt. Nc
Ilhenny was Rough Rider and was
at the side of his colonel in the dash
up San Juan hill.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

In New York city the estimated
figures are: Malnutrition, $4,000; en-
larged glands, $4,000, and defective
breathing, 230,800.
"A large percentage of the defects
indicated are easily remedied, and
many could be prevented by proper
care, though, except in case of de-
fective vision, the causes are not al
ways easily determined"
A comprehensive plan for dealing
with the physical defects of school
children is outlined in the report, in
cluding these things:
A thorough physical examination of
all children.
The enforcement of existing laws
and securing of proper authority,
where this is now lacking, to compel
parents who refuse to take necessary
steps.
Enforcement of healthy tenement
house and child-labor laws.
The establishment, in connection
with boards of education, of depart
ments of school hygiene, whose duties
shall be to see that school buildings
are SO constructed and so conducted
that they cannot themselves produce
or aggravate physical defects, and the
school curriculum is so devised as
neither to produce nor aggravate such
defects.
To study the effect of school en-.
vironment upon the child, and to teach
hygiene so that the children will them
selves cultivate habits of health and
vitality to present happiness and fu-
ture efficiency.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

wOMRN with tens of thousands of
W dollars a year to spend in personal
adornment, and who have run the
gamut of novelties in dresses and dia.
monds in New York, are getting rid
of their surplus allowances fairly well
now by investing In expensive leather.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has purchas-
ed many expensive leather belts, each
wrought by master workman and most
of them gilded richly. The buckles
are solid gold.
Here is a little secret about fash
ion tip which Mrs. Astor was believed
to have given to her friends. The
maid charged with the duty of dress.
ing the former Philadelphia belle by
mistake fitted her with one of these
belts with the buckle in the back. Mrs.
Astor got glimpse Of 1t in q cheval
glass before the maid detected the
srror. Instead Of becoming angry the
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Courage.

Courage.
One Of the most unhappy, but at the
same time impressive, sights ever
witnessed at the headquarters of the
New York police department took
place there recently, when patrol
man was discharged from the service
because of cowardice. In the pres
ence of his brother officers his badge
was unpinned from his breast and the
buttons cut from his uniform. No
such thing had happened before for
more than 30 years. 1t is curious
trait in human nature that physical
courage, the virtue which is most
cherished and most extolled, should
be at the same time perhaps the COM
monest. The great popularity of the
soldier and the military hero is due
almost entirely to the fact that origin
ally 1t was the soldier especially who
was obliged to exercise physical cour-
age. 1t is not improbable that the
1essening tendency to make heroes of
soldiers merely because they are sol,
d1ers is due to a growing perception
that many other occupations call for
and produce men who do quite as
daring deeds in circumstances far less
favorable to gallantry. 1t would be
an exceedingly interesting thing if
one could trace the influence Of news
papers and other periodicals on the
prevalence of physical courage. There
can be no doubt, says Youths Com
panion, that the influence is consider
able. Nothing is seized more eagerly
by the reporters than stories of "hero-
1sm, and not much is read with great
er interest by the people. In days,
then, when every man is hero who
stops a runaway horse or pulls a little
boy out of brook, it must be that
the popular imagination is very con-
siderably stimulated and the mind
stirred to emulation by the newspaper
reports.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

How determined the world is becom.
ing to put an end to food adulteration
is shown in many ways. The passage
OF the pure food bill by the British
mousse OF commons is especially sig
nlhcant. England is conservative
country, and it takes a long time to
stir up the people to the point where
they demand action looking to inter-
ference with old established customs
But food adulteration is so prevalent
and AFFECTS directly or Indirectly 40
many subjects of the king that the
necessity of putting an end to it ia
impressed on the popular mind. Par
lament, responding to this sentiment
mas passed an act which recalls the
legislation in this country on the same
subject. The fight against that form
OF rascality which consists Of fraud
IN 1ood goes merrily on and should 70.
suit in great reform.
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TREMENDOUS, concerted, and

A TREMENDOUS, concerted, and
"a well-considered effort is to be
made at the approaching session of
congress to secure the enactment of
legislation looking to the creation of
water route between the great lakes
and the gulf of Mexico.
The idea includes not only the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river.
but also the opening Of ship canal
between Lake Michigan, starting at
Chicago, and the Mississippi. During
the week of October Z the lakes to
the gulf waterways convention it to be
held at Memphis, Tenn. President
Roosevelt will be the principal speak
er at the convention, and it is ex-
pected he will outline his policy
toward the project, which is of so
great Importance to the whole Missis-
sippi valley.
The invitation to attend the conven-
ton was signed by the governors of
II states, in addition to the represen-
tatfves Of many influential industrial
and municipal bodies.
1t is the hope of the promoters Of
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
MISTAKE OF MRS. AST0R
SETS FASHION IN BELTS

mistress was delighted, for she noticed
that the larger buckle In front gave
more graceful slope to the waist line.
She refused to let the maid remedy,
the mistake and she has worn all her,
belts that way ever since. r
What a happy ideal" exclaimed
the women who saw her, and straight;
way followed her example. So wear
ing fancy belts with the smaller.
buckle behind has become the fash;
ion In the smart set and of course the
belt manufacturers will get on to it
pretty soon.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
TO PROBE new RATE LAW

Commissioner Franklin X Lane, one of the
strongest men on the interstate commerce COM
MISSION is at present on an extended trip through
the west and northwest and along the entire Pa
cifc coast to make an exhaustive inquiry into the
operations of the railroads and their condition
consequent upon the application of the new rate
law. incidentally he will hear several cases aris-
ing out of complaints filed with the commission.
Commissioner Lane was born on Prince Edward
Island in 1862 and in 1870 located with his par
ents in San Francisco. In 1892 DR.. s. c. Pardee,
republican, defeated him for governor of Cali
fornia. In 1903 E. F. Schmitz defeated him for
mayor of San Francisco. He is a lawyer and
has been a newspaper man. He was nominated
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

indignant letters are appearing in
the London Times on the question ~
tne indecent novels which seem to he
the vogue in England. A reviewar COW.
ne mas had six such novels in his hands
uurlng the past year, and declares that
IL would be impossible in an ordinary
miscellaneous publication to describe
the subjects they deal with or com
ment etfectually on the mfnutenos,
win which they deal with neurotic
sensations The general opinon re-.
marks San Francisco Argonaut i,
tnat the bulk of these novels are writ.
ten by women.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

nected working
He
universal
duced
Mr. faith
has
he with the non-union man."
Mr.
that
byng b S
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27


Fi He with
president
Last spring
before
On his present trip Commissioner
Seattle Portland Francisco
special
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

had been his college He the bterest
He
towards the Boe republics time
series
prevailing public opinion
but Rob Reid
and to of his there
majority
established When Liberals
Lord Ioreun enthusiastic devotee of almost
distinguished himself
his busy life he found
native with
judicial could be
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

Missouri fox hunting, as now organ
lied In the vicinity Of Monroe CITY.
is likely to become a noble sport fn11
OF all the sportsmanlike risks which
helped to develop the sturdy, fox-hunt.
ing squire as an admired type of
British character. But, remarks the
st. Louis Republic, sturdy as he is,
the British squire never would havo
had a chance to develop character by
facing what would have been coming
to him it he had jumped his hunter
across Missouri fence and chased a
fox across Missouri cornfield.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

because that dreadful face might
grow on you, Tommie." #
did you used to make dreadful
faces when you were a little girl and
took medicine ?"-Yonkers Statesman.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27


al movements
hiend-a
authority friend
"Wen
deserves fine girl But Laura hope
fear he will well of
the Of teling
Rockefeller has
at all for social gayet having
husband their
of the before
Baptist
teaching Sunday
She almost regular attendance
besides
Miss spelnan who lives with her The
pleasures as ordinarily 20
Of wealthy
100000
his evidences
which o. home
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

Uncle Sam is to have neu, .,o.,
ior some OF his coins. including the
gold, double eagle and eagle and tho
one-cent piece, these having been &C.
cepted by the government. The do.
signs are by the late Augustus st.
Gaudens and are notable as spec,mena
OF the artistic genius of that dist,n.
guished sculptor. The new co,n.
which 1t is believed will surpass in
beauty any now in existence. will form
a lifting memorial to the gifted man
who originated the designs and vii,
mark step forward in American ar+
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Speakinu of Faces

Speaking Of Faces. v.
Nurse-You must not make such. a
dreadful face when you take your med
icine, Tommie. -
Tommie-Why not?
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
HEADS ORGANIZED LABOR

Samuel Gompers, although a small man physi-
cially, is the biggest man in the country, from a
labor union standpoint, standing as he does at the
head of the American Federation Of Labor His
organization, with it's 100000 affiliated members,
is the largest union labor body in the world.
President Gompers has been at the head of
the federation except for one year since 1882, and
is recognized as the most conservative of labor
leaders. AS part of his duties he takes an active
part in nearly all great strikes and at present
is doing what he can to aid the striking telegraph
ers
Mr.. Gompers was born in England, January
q, 1850, and is cigarmaker by trade. He has
been an advocate of the rights of labor and con-
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Not Keeping His Promise

wv '\SSp"u9 s1IS TTOniSesS
Don't l give you all the money
you need?' her husband complained.
Yes" she replied, "but you told me
before we were married that you
would give me all wanted."-Ch;.
cago Record Herald. IL ss#
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
BRITISH LEGAL LIGHT

Lord Loreburn, lord chancellor of England
and of the ablest of the legal lights of Britain
is coming on visit to Canada. Lord Loreburn
in spite of his title, is Of the people, and
comes from middle class family in Dumfries
quaint old Scotch town on the border of Eng
land.
The chances for lawyer in country town
making national and almost international repu-
tation were slight, but Robert Reid as he was
known then, came of race of hard headed clear
thinking logical minded Scotchmen who had stood
for their principles at all times and whose motto
was, It'll TAX duns frae nane." Obstacles did
not daunt man of that calibre, and he soon
fn1 in +ho of bo
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
MRS. j. .. ROCKEFELLER

It is not generally known that of the most
valuable business partners John D. Rockefeller
ever had is woman. And that woman is his
wife,
There is no doubt that large share of his
present unparalleled financial prosperity is due
to the fact that many time he has accepted the
advice of his wife in regard to business matters.
1t is not hard to believe this after seeing Mrs.
Rockefeller. She looks if she were capable of
managing affairs other than those which COM
monty fall to the supervision of the domestic
circle.
An amusing incident is told in connection with
the engagement of John D. Rockefeller and Laura
Celestia Spelman the daughter of Cleveland
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-17

Very few who carry a watch ever
think of the unceasing labor 1t per
forms, under what would be consid-
cred shabby treatment for any other
treatment. There are many who think
that a watch ought to run for yearS
without cleaning or drop of Gil
Read this and Judge for yourself. Iae
main wheel In an ordinary American
watch makes four revolutions q day
for twenty.four hours, or 1.4s0 IN .
year. Next, the center wheel, twenty
four revolutions in a day, OF $3.50 In
q year. The third wheel, 1872 In a day.
or 5s, ,oso in year The fourth wheel.
2,44o in a day, or $4,000 in year.
The fifth, or escape wheel, 12,soo IN 9
day, or 4,728,200 In a year. The ticks
or beats are sss,so0 in day, or n.
$4,000 in q year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-17
PROFIT SHARING IN DEPART.
MENT STORES.
The Principle OF the Percentage sys-
TEN Is Being Widely Adopted.

The Principle OF the Percentage sys-
TEN Is Being Widely Adopted.
There is a growing disposition on
the part OF department stores to look
after the welfare Of their employees.
The question Of wages, always
source of grave concern, Is being ad-
justed on the basis OF accomplishment
that Is, in many Of the stores salar'
les are fixed by the quantity OF goods
that each clerk can sell-and the
plan is likely to be universally adopt
ed. Filene's in Boston has nearly
complete system Of what is practical
ly proft-sharing. In New York the
plan Of paying salespeople on per-
centage basis is called paying them
what they earn for the store. Ii a
clerk is paid $3.50 e. week, and the
seiling-expense in the department Is
three per cent, she is supposed to be
selling. $3.50 worth of itcSais week.
Now II she sells an average OF 5000
worth, she is worth 50 week, so the
firm can afford to raise her salary to
sS or $3.50 and can still reduce the
selling-expense so far as she Is con-
cerned. It Is worked out differently
by each store, but that is the prin'
ciple.-"The Department Store at
Close Range" in Everybody's.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-17
All Scholars.

Secretary Wilson will have no
words carved on the new building OF
the Agricultural Department, but why
does he tolerate allegcrical figures
ornamenting the edifice? They are as
"rubbishy" as the Latin words he has
ordered cut out Fortunately, he can
not get at the national motto. Ee
is not 50 complimentary to his clientele
as Gen. Butler was when he was run
ming for governor Of Massachusetts
against John d. Long. In one of his
speeches he said: What has this
Mr.. Long ever done that he should be
elected governor? never heard that
he had done anything except to trans
Late Virgil's Aeneid, and that was OF
no use to the Democrats OF Massa-
chusetts, for every one OF them can
read the Aeneid in the original
Philadelphia Record.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-17
Iariat Couldn't Hold Bear.

While looking for stray cattle down
In the Browns Hole country, near
Sunset Creek, a few days ago. E. z.
Clark Of Toponas and companion
ran upon a three-yeer-old black bear
in an open piece Of ground and roped
it, but the animal wouldn't stay rep
ed. Several times it freed itself with
its claws and each time charged up
on the men. who were forced to put
spurs to their horses in order to es-
cape.
The last time the bear got the rope
free from its neck it made for the
timber after giving short chase OF
its would and by the time
they had again prepared their lariats
he was up a tree. in which 1t was
kept until lark could ride to ranch
house four miles distant to obtain a
rifle and kill it.-Denver Republican.