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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06

$4,000 year up to any figure the
business can afford. The superintend.
ent is the highest direct authority over
the composing room, job room, press
room, and bindery, and, Of course
must be man of large attainments
and experience. as it is to him that
the firm looks to fix the factory cost
of its work, which really means the
most responsible position directly in
the institution. Notwithstanding this,
your boy may reach superintendency
by the time he is thirty-five.
The advance from here is to the gen.
eral managership of the company, and
then, of course, the presidency.
It is likely, however, that your boy,
unless he should get some such po-
litical position as that of public print
er, who has charge of all officers and
employees of the government printing
Office, or state printer, would be taken
into partnership by his own or some
other firm, and thereby build up an in
dependent printing or publishing bust
ness.
All the foregoing figures are based
on the assumption that your boy has
gone into a job printing Office to get
his training, as these have greater
variety Of work than a newspaper Of
flee. Indeed, most printers in newspa-
per offices have served their term at
job work. These are paid more than
job printers, journeymen on newspa-
pers getting $2S week when working
days and $33 at night; assistant fore
men $33 to $38: and foremen anywhere
of the large New York offices are paid
as high as $50 week. Apprentices
generally get two dollars a week more
than when in job offices.
At this time early in his career,
either when he is two-thirder, or
soon after becoming a journeyman,
your boy should take the course of
study that will fit him to handle
typesetting machine. These courses
may be taken at night, last sixteen
weeks, and generally cost $50. One
cannot be a thoroughly equipped
printer without having this training.
Machine operators generally get about
two dollars week more than floor
men.
Proofreading will probably be &C.
quired during the course of the print
er's training, as, when he is appren-
tice, he will have to hold copy for the
regular proofreader. If he has good
general education and knowledge Of
affairs, he can develop himself sui.
ficiently to fill this position. The
future in it is not particularly attrac-
tive, however, for proofreader that
gets $35 week is quite rare, and
there is no direct step of advance
ment from that position.
The prices and regulations referred
to in this article are based on condi-
lions as at present existing in New
York city, which are not essentially
different from those in other large
cities. In small cities the pay runs
generally lower, of course.
Copyright, 1910. by the Associated Lit
erary Press)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
WHAT LITTLE CHILD THINKS
Interesting Story of Wee Tot Who
Was Botherinq Her Aunt and
Couldn't See 1t.

All those in charge of little children
must surely wonder sometimes what
little children think Of them. There
are always the two points of view
what we think of the person to whom
we are speaking and what that person
thinks of us. A certain young woman
was busy writing letters the other
the room.
Nov, Nell, you must be very quiet.
as auntie is very, very busy"
'Es, auntie.'
Dead silence for nearly half a min
ute, and then Nellie said: Can put
dolly here?" Yes, pet, but don't
speak, Another momentary silence
followed by a second interruption, and
then another and then another.
Nov, Nellie, darling" said her
aunt sternly, IF you bother me again,
shall send you up to the nursery
do you mean it, auntie?" asked
the naughty little miss.
"Yes!"-even more sternly-"1 do
mean it; you have already bothered
me quite enough"
There was the unmistakable note of
firmness that every child can recog.
nize, and Nellie subsidized into compar.
alive stiffness.
After about ten minutes auntie
turned round with an approving smile:
Now, pet, you have been so good you
NAV come here and I'll tell YOU a
lovely fairy story
les, auntie."
Nellie climbed on to her knee and
then looked critically and only half
approvingly up at the smiling face,
and she added argumentatively: But
auntie. it was not me that was bower.
in you, but really you that was boy.
erin me, COS l wanted to play and
you didn't let me-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
Summer Snow.

It is only exceptional places near
Chicago that can have snow all the
year round. A sand hill near Miohi
gan City, Ind, within sight of Chica
go's smoke, is one of these exceptional
places. There is snow there three feet
deep, or at least there was early in
September It is a place where sand
is dug and loaded into cars and
brought to Chicago. Last winter the
worknen abandoned one Of the sand
pits, and the sand blew over it in the
springtime, before the snow in the
hole had time to melt. The pit was
opened in September, and snow three
feet deep was found under the yellow
blanket that had kept it cold all sum
mer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
SKATERS HANDY LlFE-SAvER
Little Spike Hanging Around Neck on
Cord Enables One to Escape
When Ice Breaks.

1t is often on some trif1ing thing
that mans life hangs. The little
article here described, for instance,
can be dropped into a pocket and. not
noticed, but there are, circumstances
under which it. might be the only
thing between a man and death by
drowning. It consists of a wooden
handle, with a sharp metal point pro-
jecting and resembles an awl of un-
usual strength. 1t is meant to be
hung around skaters neck on a
cord, and is we'll named. 1.-THE Skat-
ers Life-saver" If the ice should
happen to break the skater could
seize this instrument and stick it into
the firm ice alongside the crack, thus
affording a purchase by which he
could draw himself to safety. With
out such aid he might founder to his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
His Sacrifice,

He was good little boy and very
thoughtful. He had heard about the
great scarcity of water throughout
the country. He came to his mother
and slipped his hand into hers.
Mamma" he said, lis 1t true that
in some places the little girls and
boys have scarcely enough water to
drink"
THAT Is what the papers say, my
dear"
Mamma" he presently said, I'D
like to give up somethin' for those
poor little boys and girls"
His mother gave him q fond look.
YES dear And what would you like
to give up?"
Mamma" he said in his earnest
way, "as long as the water is so very
scarce think 1 ought to give up bein'
wahsed."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
The Canary's Ears,

A canary's ears are back of and a
little below its eyes. They are not
hard to find when one has learned
where to look. There is no outer ear.
such as animals have, but simply a
small opening which is covered by
feathers. 1t is quite surprising that
birds should possess the very acute
hearing which they do while lacking
the feshy flap which enables the ami.
mails to catch sounds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
Great Feat.

Come on, pa" insisted little Ostend
at the summer park, land see the man
hump the humps"
you mean bump the bumps, don't
you, son?' inquired his father.
mo, hump the huHps' A man is
going to jump over six camels."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
Dorothy Visits GRANDPA.

Dorothy was visiting her grand
parents in the country for the first
time. Seeing a quantity of feathers
scattered about the hen yard, she
shook her head In disapproval. 4
Grandpa" she said gravely, you
really ought to do something to keen
your chickens from wearing out 60 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
The Boys Idea Of It.

A few days ago little John, three
years old, who is very fond of his
pets, noticed that his young rooster
had comb. In a very distressed tone
of voice he exclaimed: 20, papa, some:
body has made hicks in my ROSTERS
head"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06

canoe, for the purpose of padding
above the housetops after he has walk
ed up there and hung suspended by
the buoyancy of the balloon above his
head. If everything works as intend
ed, this will truly be remarkable in
vention.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
sTATELY'VERSE.

If Mary goes far out to sea.
BY wayward breezes famed
I'd like to know-can you tell me?-
Just where would Maryland.
If Tenny went high up in air
And looked Ger land and4lea.
Looked here and there and everywhere.
Pray what would Tennessee?
I looked out Of the window and
Saw Orry on the lawn;
He's not there now. and who can tell
Just where has Oregon?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
Mortarded

Look, John, at my dress. feel
SO mortarfed. I'm ashamed to walk
through the streets. - 49,. -...... ...,--~
what are those white spots. Dot -
i. 'sldortari 4 passed that new bufs1f
Ing. and Il rot al spattered up
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
lnadeoVate,

Canaggy-You've quit studying Es-
peTanto? What for?~
1cenoggle-1've just learned that
there are no cuss words In the dad;
dinged language.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
It's Nature

Its Nature.
Il don't think there was much good
in the tirst-aid-to-the-injured that
nurse bungled So"
1T struck me, too. it was rather a
lemon aid"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
Not Strictly Orthodox

Not Strictly Orthodox.
Police Justice Young man, what Is
your religion, If you have any?
Chauffeur (arrested for overspeed,
ing)-Something like Jim Bludso's;
your honor-never be passed on the
highway.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06

7t'007'0 TWIN UT WITT
death before he could get suficient
grip on the slippery surface to get
out of the water. II the skater is
alone he would find it difficult task
to save himself in the event of the
ice breaking unless equipped with one
of these picks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06
q % . . % % I
PRINTER?

Not the country town, zone
horse" kind, but the kind that
runs the big printing shops Of
the country, and sometimes be-
comes a member Of the firm.
How your boy may go about
realizing such an ambition. The
start and the various steps up
wards described, together with
the remuneration that each new
position brings.
BY c. w. JENNINGS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06

Chambermaid Repartee.
First Chambermaid-Look You
let your pillow slip.
Second Chambermaid-N the GOV.
erlet it-Exchange.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06

ENERALLY speaking, there
isn't much known about
the printing business out
side of the immediate fol-
lowers of the craft or those
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-24

S in n ,and
should be addressed
nec Editor Short
all The Associated Sunday
81 10Th
country will decide upon the exact method of awards which
One competitive stories will be published each
undaV. February 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-24

These are already entered in Short St
Practically all the we'll known writer's of short
sented, Judging from the letters have received.
But do not let these famous discourage W
writer with fresh, vivid style and something to
against the most noted writers.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
Jury For November Term.

Clerk Gruenther of the district
court announces that the following
named gentlemen have been drawn to
serve on the petit jury at the Novem
Der term of the district court. which
will convene on Monday, November
p:
City of Columbus, LIST Ward. Louis
hslinger, c. c. Hardy; 4th Ward.
John Magill, W. H. Randall; Column
bus township. L. S. McComb, Frank
Blaser; Bismark township. Friedr
Cattau, J. +. Goedeken: Creston town.
ship, John Muhle; Grand Prairie town.
ship. George Fehringer, Ebert Brock
enhoff; Humphrey township. J. F.
Mutf; Butler township. Peter Dis
elmer; Loup township, John Scholz +;
Lost Greek township. Peter Schilz
Burrows township, John kula; Gran
Vile township, Frank Brockhaus :;
Monroe township, Peter Person; Joliet
township, w. NJ. Dickinson: St. Ber-
nard township, VIM. Kurtenbach,
John Beierman: Walker township.
Irving Smith, Peter Bettinger; Oconee
township. John Miller.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
Leigh Route No I.

Henry Seafgen was sporting his new
autOmbile last Sunday.
There was band concert at Alvin
Harnspp's Sunday which was well at
tended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Marty We're
visiting at the NJ. Jenny home Sun
day.
Edward HOLMAN has sold 800 bus
hels of apples of his own raising this
year so far.
A. Philson was in this vicinity Sat-
urday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Harnapp We'd
nesday, making the trip in their auto.
Henry Moeller returnd the last of
the week from his trip to Roosevelt,
New Mexico. Mr. Moeller bought 40
acres of land at the rate of 500 an
acre while there.
Carl Rosche went to Omaha last
week and brought back an Interna-
tional automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Brock were in
Leigh last Saturday on business.
Misses Olga and Anna Backenhus
and brothers Oscar and Will We're in
Columbus Tuesday.
Mrs Herman Johannes sr. was able
to return home last week after a
months illness in Columbus.
Adlph .Henke: has been busy this
week getting the roads in better con-
dition.
There was a social gathering at
Martyrs Sunday evening.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
CreSton.

J. n. Kincaid returned from Omaha
Saturday evening where he had gon.
on business
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Connley OF
Lindsay We're in town Monday help
inng invoice the Leach and Beadingel
stock of hardware and implements.
Mr. Connley holds some interest in the
stock.
The Ladies' Kensington met last
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. W: liam Jackson. There We're
seventeen ladies present who deem
Mrs Jackson a royal entertainer.
Refreshments We're served.
Mesdames Amion and A. George.
of Dadvid City arrived in town Wed
nesday for few days stay with their
husbands who are interested i'm the
Leach and Badinger stock of hardware
and implements. They returned home
the later part of the week.
Among those who registered at the
South Dakota and opening from her
Were; Miss Murie Brown Fritz Brown
Ernest Glgax Len Carpenter, Rudy
Wenk, Henry Getz julius Engle and
Otto Struvee.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clausen We're
called to the death bed of Mr.. Clau-
sens sister at Papillion on Tuesday.
Their daughter Emma left for Papil-
lion the same evening. Thy returned
the later part of the week
Mrs. Clyde Clark returned home
Friday evening from Omaha where
she underwent an operation for APP
pendicitis two weeks ago. she is re-
ported to be getting along nicely now.
Mrs. Dickinson and daughter Mable
spent Sunday at the Frank Leach
home.
Mrs. ID. |. Clark was on the sick
list the first of the week
William Rinkens and family. of
Hamburg. Germany, arrived here the
first of the week in company with
William Wenk. who accompanied them
from Omaha. They expect to make
this their future home
DIR. Lueschen, of Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. was in town the first part of
the Week visiting his brother William
Lueschen and old friends.
Mrs. Hines and her two daughters
arrived here Sunday evening. They
expect to make this their future home
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
Watsrspouts.


A waterSIout Is a miniature tornado
originating in a strong upward draft
Of air which occurs above the surface
of body of comparatively warm wa
ter Its effect first becomes visible in
circular motion at the point in the
clouds to which it aScends. This be-
comes a whirl. which condenseS the
vapor at its center, causing the por-
ton of the cloud there to drop down
ward in the shape Of gigantic jelly
bag. At the same time the continuing
upward draft increases the rapidity OF
its original swirl and the condensed
vapor caught within it until the
ascending and descending masses join
to form the waterspout. Necessarily
by this process the air beneath the
spout is rarefied. and thus where the
phenomenon occurs at sea the water
always seems to he sucked up into 1t,
although this is not really the case to
any considerable extent. For similar
reasons where a waterspout or lorna
do passes over a building 1t does most
Of its damage by exhausting the air
outside, causing what Is within to ex-
pand and blow the structure to pieces.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18

as Mr.. Hines has bought out the Her.
man Englebart Pool hall and bowling
alley.
Misses Nell Graham, Ada Wenk
and Mrs. T. F. Stevens We're at Leigh
on Friday.
Severa young people from here at
tended the dance at Humphrey Friday
evening, given by Collins orchestra.
They report having had big time.
Misses Fern Moore, Stella Leach
end Ella Snyder were Humphrey Wis
itors on business Saturday.
Fred Sanders is business visitor
at Norfolk Thursday.
George Wagner spent a few days
in Lincoln the first of the week.
G. W. Smith. of Central City. was
in town the last of the week attend-
ing to some business.
Mrs. Theodore Wagner and children
of Humphrey. were visiting at the
home of Mrs, Wagner's mother the
first of the week.
The ball game played here Sunday
between Lonely Valley and the Cres-
ton boys was broken up in the eigth
inning with score of one to one.
Miss Vera Webb was suddenly TAX
en- i'll at school on Monday with
hard cold on her lungs. The doctor
was called. She is much Improved
at present.
Nell Hagerty, of COrnlea. is visit
ing at the Herman Englebar home.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
The White Whale.

The white whale. or beluga, is an
arctic cetacean and closely allied to the
narwhaL 1t is pure white in color,
twelve to eighteen feet long, whalelike
in form. with a huge muzzle and nu-
merous sharp conical teeth.
The white whale swims with ex-
traordinary speed by doubling its huge
tail under its body and then striking
out with it. Scientists who have stud
led it in its natural environs say that
1t is able to catch the swiftest Of fish
Is, often pursuing its prey far up the
northern rivers. 1t is gregarious and
may be seen at times in herds Of forty
or fifty.
These herds not infrequently gambol
around boats In the arctic seas, and
the natives Of Greenland often capture
them with harpoons or nets. The flesh
Of the white whale, in fact. Is con
siderable source Of food supply to
them. From it also is derived one Of
the finest grades Of commercial oil.
The skins are tanned and the leather
sold in the trade as "porpoise hide
New York Times.
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nesdays and purchased an auto truck
for his creamery business.
Frank Babe and o. J. Lueschen
shipped car of hogs to Omaha Wed
nesady.
Miss FTeda Ripple spent Sunday
with home folks.
DIR. A G. Lueschen, of Rakerfeld,
California. spent a few days with his
father last Week.
Gus Loseke and wife visited with
August Schultz Thursday.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
Sherman Township.

The corn crop will not be as good
as people expected. Those who have
picked some say it will not go over
fifteen bush els per acre.
John Rosche and family spent Sum-
day at the home of Fred Boning near
Creston.
r. III. Wurdeman and Bruce Moore
Were up near Duncan Friday.
Carl RoSche went to Omaha Wed
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
Sing q SONG Of Sixpenee.

The London Globe attempts an ex-
PLANTATION Of the rhyme Sing a Song
of Sixpence" Here it is: The four
and twenty blackbirds represent the
four and twenty hours. The bottom
Of the pie is the world. The top crust
represents the sky. The opening Of
the pie is the dawn Of the day, when
the birds begin to sing, and surely
such a sight is fit for a king. The
king in his counting house counting
out his money is the sun. The money
the king is counting represents the
golden sunshine. The queen, who sits
in the parlor. is the moon. The honey
she Is eating Is the moonlight. The
Industrious maid who Is working in
the garden before the sun has risen
is the day dawn, and the clothes she
hangs out are clouds. The bird that
so tracically ends the song by nipping
of her nose is the hour Of sunset"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18
There is No Time Like the Present

Now then, since the climate is good, soil pro-
ducive crops remuneratve, rainfall abundant, water
pure and land values certain to rise why not buy
now? You have probably thought many times that
yon would go out and buy soon you could get
away but you have put it off time and again until
you have practically forgotten about it. Did you
ever stop to think that the man who acts quickly
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18

gets his profit from fellows who wait awhile? We
have made scores of sales to men this year whom
asked last year to out and buy for far less
money We will make scores of sales this coming
year to men who could come and buy now for far
less money than the will pay when they do come,
simply because now is the time to buy.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18

The passenger trains are crowded almost every
month of the year with persons who are going
somewhere in search of homes. Considering the
cost of good land in the eastern and central states
it is not surprising that many are seeking the
west where the chances of prosperity are many
times better than they in the said eastern and
central states. Among all the localities that are
now open for investment there is none that sur
passes western Nebraska. Land can be bought at
such prices that crop will pay several times the
price.
The population is at present very scarce 1t,
however, is rapidly increasing. Not only is the
decided land becoming thiclly settled, but the
government lands have all been taken up and con-
tain thriving and prosperous farmers and stock
growers.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18

Do you not feel glow of comfort when you
think of the old home of your childhood where for
years you met with father, mother, brother and
sister?
One cannot have home that casts such
benediction the life of his children unless he
owns it. The renter is like driftwood tossed about
from place to place and never knows how long he
will be permitted to remain where he is. When a
man owns his home there is something to live for.
Every tree he plants and every nail he drives is
joy to him.
The great struggle of today is for better homes.
Whether you are in the east in the central states,
or in the west you will find men earnestly search
ing the maps for the location of certain sections of
the country that have been recommended to them
as favoraby for improving their present conditions.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-10-18

Columbus best music at
the Owls dance Oct. 20.