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must pave their way to Art by draw
ing pictures for magazine stories
that young authors write to pave
their way to Literature
AS Sue was sketching in pair of
elegant horseshow riding trousers
and a monocle on the figure of the
hero, an Idaho cowboy, she heard a
low sound, several times repeated.
She went quickly to the bedside.
Johnsy's eyes were open wide
She was looking out the window and
counting - counting backw ward.
Twelve" she said, and little later
eleven" and then ten and nine"
and then "eight" and seven almost
together.
Sue looked solicitously out the win
dow. What was there TO count?
There was only bare, dreary yard
TO be seen, and the blank side of the
brick house forty feet away An old,
old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed
at the roots, climbed half way up
the brick wall. The cold breath of
autumn had stricken its leaves from
the vine until its skeleton branches
chung, almost bare, to the crumbling
bricks.
What is it, dear?" asked Sue.
Six" said Johnsy, in almost a
whisper. They're falling faster
now Three days ago there were al
most a hundred. 1t made my head
ache to count them. But now it's
easy. There goes another one. There
are only five left now"
Five what, dear? Tell your SUI
die"
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THE NOAHSIAN DIET.

A correspondent wants to know II
Noah and his family while enjoying
their memorable voyage were vese-
tariansA
There seems to be nothing 10 show
that they were, and yet there can be
no doubt that they either were or were
not. IL is true that there was plenty
OF animal food at hand. Nut for obvious
reasons il was not available for gas
tronomic experiments On the other
hand, the preservation of fresh vege-
tables during the forty days Of the out
ing would have been more serious
In short. there are good reasons for
believing that the Noahs subSisted
mainly and even exclusively on fish,
eggs, and canned fruit.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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ing to get well. Has she anything
on her mind?''
'She-she wanted to paint the
Bay of Naples some day" said Sue
"Paint?-bosh! Has she anything
on her mind worth thinking about
twice-a man, for instance?"
"A man." said Sue, with a jews
harp twang in her voice. is man
worth-but, no, doctor; there is
nothing of the kind
well, it is the weakness, then"
said the doctor. Il will do all that
science, so far as it may filter
Trough my efforts, can accomplish.
But whenever my patient begins to
count the carriages IN her funeral
procession 1 subtract so per cent
from the curative power of medi-
cines. If you will get her to ask one
question about the winter styles in
cloak sleeves I will promise you a
one-in-five chance Tor her, instead of
one-in-ten."
After the doctor had gone Sue
went into the workroom and cried a
Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then
she staggered into Johnsy's room
with her drawing board, whistling
ragtime.
Johnsy lay, scarcely making a rip
pie under the bedclothes, with her
face toward the window. Sue stop
ped whistling, thinking she was
asleep.
She arranged her board and began
pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate
a magazine story. Young artists
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fetal functions, London's
city aldermen have once more gone
through the annual farcical ceremony
OF -eiecting Lord Mayor. AS
everybody knew would be the case,
their choice has fallen on Walter
Vaughan Morgan, the senior sheriff of
the city corporation. Time was, some
centuries ago, when the citizens of
London really elected their Lord
Mayor, but long since the Aldermen
succeeded in getting things fixed so
that each one of them in turn, pro-
vided he lived long enough. would at
tain to the exalted Office Of the civic
chief magistrate. And thus it comes
about that at seventy-four years of
age Walter Vaughan Morgan has had
that dignity thrust upon him. He Will
be installed on November 9.
For the year that he fills the office he
will reside at the mansion house. His
chief duties will consist in eating "A
great number of official funcheons and
dinners. wearing gorgeous garments.
with prodigious solernnity. For this
and going through funny ceremonies
he will be paid salary of $4,000. but
IL Will cost him at least twice that sum
to maintain the Mansion House tradi-
tons OF hospitality. He has, however,
the consolation Of knowing that during
his tenure of Office he is sure to be
knighted and will be known as Sir
Walter for the rest Of his days.
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professional. He drank gin TO ex-
cess. and still talked Of his coming
masterpiece. For the rest he was
fierce little old man. VINO scoffed ter
ribly at softness in anyone. and who
regarded himself as special mastiff
in-waiting to protect the two young
artists in the studio above. Sue
found Behrmen smelling strongly
,of juniper berries in his dimly
lighted den below. In one corner
was blank canvas on an easel that
had been waiting there for twenty
five years TO receive the first line
OF the masterpiece. She told him of
Johnsy's fancy. and how she feared
she would, indeed, light and fragile
as q leaf herself, float away when
her slight hold upon the world grew
weaker.
= Old Behrman, with his red eyes
plainly streaming, shouted his con-
tempt and derision for such fdiotic
imaginings.
"VassI" he cried. rs dere people
in de world NIT der foolishness to
die because leafs dey drop off from
a COMPOUNDED vine? I hat not heard
of such a thing No, will not bose
as a model for your fool hermit
dunderhead. Wy do you allow dot
silly business to come in der prain
of her? Ach. dot poor lettle Miss
Johnsy."
She is very i'll and weak" said
Sue. land the fever mas left her mind
morbid and full of strange fancies
Very well, Mr. Behrman, if you do
not care to pose for me, you needn't
But / think you are horrid Old
old fiibbertigibbet."
You are just Ike a woman"
yelled Behrman. who said l will
not bose? Go on I come NIT you.
For half an hour hat peen trying
to say dot l am rady to bose Colt.
dis is not any blaze in which one
so shones as Miss Yohnsy shall lie
sick. Some day shall baint a mas
terpiece, and We shall all go away.
Colt! yes"
Johnsy was sleeping when they
went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade
down to the window sill, and mo-
toned Behrman into the other room.
In there they peered out the window
fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they
looked at each other for a moment
without speaking. A persistent cold
rain was falling, mingled. with snow.
Behrman. in his oldblue shirt, took
his seat as the hermit-miner on an
upturned kettle for a rock.
When Sue awoke from an hours
sleep the next morning she found
Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes
staring at the drawn green shade
Pull it up; want to see," she
ordered, in a whisper.
YEARLY she obeyed
But, 10! after the beating rain and
fierce gusts of wind that had endured
through the livelong night, there yet
stood out against the brick wall one
ivy leaf. 1t was the last On the vine
Still dark green near it's stem, but
with its serrated edges tinted with
the yellow of dissolution and decay,
1t hung bravely from branch some
twenty feet above the ground.
1T is the last one" said Johnsy.
Il thought it would surely fall dur
ing the night. / heard the wind. II
will fall today, and / shall die at the
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RESTING TIME.

Branches shaken
Overhead:
All the paths
We knew are spread
With a carpet
Green and gold.
And with colors
Manifold.
Green and gold
And heliotrope;
And. across
The stumbled slope.
Comes the calling
OF the lark,
From the early
Morn till dark.
Harvest time:
And down the way
Come the creaking
Loads of hay;
Comes the corn
And cotton, too,
Toiling. moiling
Days are through.
Winter comes.
And now the time.
Now the jig
And rigadoon,
Holds the boards:
The summer done
Come the time
OF rest and fun.
Houston Post.
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A Tale Of Three Art
lists and an Ivy
Vine, and How d
Masterpiece Was
Painted. :. :.
Copyright. 1906. by the Press Publishing Co..
New York Worldly

N a little district west
N1S&G of Washington Square
l291H the streets have run
8K0M crazy and broken
themselves into small
strips called places"
These places" make strange angles
and curves. One street crosses it
self a time or two. An artist once
discovered a valuable possibility In
this street. Suppose a collector with
a bill for paints, paper. and canvas
should, in traversing this ronte, sud
denly meet himself coming back,
without cent having been paid on
account.
So, to quaint old Greenwich VII
lage the art people soon came prowl-
ing. hunting for north windows and
eighteenth-century gables and Dutch
attics and low rents. Then they i'm
ported some pewter mugs and a
chatting dish or two from Sixth ave-
nue., and became a colony"
At the top of squatty. three
story brick Sue and Johnsv had
their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar
for Joanna One was from Maine,
the other from California. They had
met at the table d'hote of an Eighth
street ''Delmonico's" and found their
tastes in art, chicory, salad, and
bishop sleeves so congenial that the
joint studio resulted.
That was II May. In November
a cold, unseen stranger, whom the
doctors called Pneumonia, stalked
about the colony, touching one here
and there with his icy fngr. Over
on the east side this ravager strobe
boldly, shifting his victims by scores,
but his feet trod slowly through the
maze of the narrow and moss-grown
places"
Mr.. Pneumonia was not what you
would call a chivalric old gentle
man. A mite of a little woman with
blood thinned by California zephyrs
was hardly fair ggme for the red
listed, short-breathed old duffer But
Johnsy he smote; and she lay,
scarcely moving, on her painted iron
bedstead, looking through the small
Dutch window panes at the blank
side of the next brick house.
One morning the busy doctor in
vited Sue into the hallway with a
shaggy, gray eyebrow.
''She has one chance Inlet us say
ten" he said, as he shook down the
mercury in his clinical thermometer.
And that chance is for her to want
to live This way the people have
of lining-up ON the side Of the under
taker makes the entire pharmaeo-
peia look silly. Your little lady has
made up her mind that she's not go
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in the worlds history"
writes NJ. C. Sullivan in
the Electrical Review, lis the battle of
Mukden; remarkable because ii was
the mightiest land battle ever fought,
and startling because no victory was
ever won by such scientific methods.
Feats were accomplished by the Japan
csc never before contemplated in war,
and which had been previously de-
clared by military experts to be impos-
sible. The success of the victorious
forces was almost entirely due to the
skillful use of what is today consid-
cred to be one of the most ordinary
and commonplace among electrical in
struments-the telephone.
Formerly a large battle was to a
certain extent a haphazard, hit-and-
miss affair, the careful foresight of the
most skillful general failing to take into
account the many accidents and Incl
dents which would in almost moment
alter the entire aspect of things and
change successful movement into AN
utter failure Not so now however
as by means of the telephone il is pos
sible for the commanding officer to keep
in touch with each individual unit of ar
enormously large army and thus TO
make the best use of all portions of it
at all times, thereby obtaining che great
est possible effect with the least eXpen-
diture of energy.
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The Last Iedf c%oHzy

same time"
Dear, dear." said Sue, leaning
her worn face down to the pillow,
think of me if you won't think of
yourself. What would / dor
But Johnsy did not answer. The
lonesomest thing in all the world is
a soul when Ii is making ready to
go on its mysterious, far journey.
The fancy seemed to possess her
more strongly as one by one the
ties that bound her to friendship
and to earth were loosed.
The day wore away. and even
through the twilight they could see
the lone ivy leaf clinging TO its stem
against the wall And then, with
the coming of the night the north
wind was again loosed, while the
rain still beat against the windows
and battered down from the low
Dutch caves.
When it was light enough Johnsy,
the merciless, commanded that the
shade be raised.
The ivy leaf was still there.
Johnsy lay long time looking at
1t. And then she called to Sue, who
was stirring her chicken broth over
the. gas stove
I've been a bad girl, Sudie," said
Johnsy. Something has made that
last leaf stay there to show me how
wicked l was It's sin to want to
die You may bring me a little broth
now and some milk with a little
port in it. and-no; bring me hand
mirror first; and then pack some
pillows about me and I will sit up
and watch you cook"
An hour later she said.
"Sudie, some day / hope to paint
the Bay of Naples"
The doctor came In the afternoon.
and Sue had an excuse to go into the
hallway as ne left
Even chances" said the doctor,
taking Sues thin. shaking hand in
his. with good nursing you'll win.
And now l must see another case I
have downstairs. Behrman, his
name is-some kind of an artist, I
believe. Pneumonia, too He is an
old, weak man, and the attack is
acute. There is no hope for him;
but he goes to the hospital today to
be made more comfortable"
The next day the doctor said to
Sue: She's out of danger. You've
won Nutrition and care now
that's ALL"
And that afternoon Sue came to
the bed where Johnsy lay. content
eddy knitting a very blue and very
useless WOODEN, shoulder scarf, and
put one arm around her, pillows and
all
Il have something TO tell you,
white mouse" she said "Mr. Behr-
man died of pneumonia today in the
hospital He was i'll only two days.
The janitor found him on the morn
ing of the first day in his room down.
stairs helpless with pain His shoes
and clothing were wet through and
through and icy cold They couldn't
imagine where lie had been on such
dreadful night And then they
found lantern, still lighted, and a
ladder that had been dragged from
its place, and some scattered brush
es, and palette with green and yell
low colors mixed on 1t, and-look
out the window, dear, at the last
ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you won
der why it never fiuttered or moved
when the wind blew? All, darling.
it's Behrman's masterpiece = he
painted it there the night the last
leaf fell"
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THE CHAMPION THIEF.

The police of Australia are looking for
a man whom they consider the cham
pion thief First he carted off all the
baSait blocks from a side street In Bud
apest Then he netted all the fish in
the lake at Sfadwalchen park in the
role of lessee of fishing Next he rolled
away a wooden villa in the suburbs and
all its furniture and other contents
Kansas City Journal.
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For "Flying Lines"

For flying lines, or lines within the
zone of action, which connected the COM
mander's headquarters with the various
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HER FRIEND.

Don't you think she is one of the
most tactful women you ever metz
Did you say one of the most tacky?'
Houston Post
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London, October 7,

London, October Z.
W nth that prodigious gravity
M which characteriZes the
" " performance of all their Of
fetal functions London S
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The Battle of Mukden
Was Won by telephone

II OF the most remarkable
events that has occurred
in the worlds history"
writes NJ. C. Sullivan in
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-08-24
VICTORIA.

Specialize Tie NezsS.
Mrs. Barney Far. of Pikeville, and
children, are visiting in town, the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Womack.
Mrs. Clarence Blye and little son, of
Memphis, are in the city, the guests
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bro
phv.
George Doss has returned from Chat
tanooga where he visited his daughter,
Mrs. E. Hampton.
Chas. Minter made his regular call
at Victoria Sunday.
Listen for the wedding bells to ring
soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Ketaer visited
friends and relatives in Whitwell last
Sunday.
Mrs. John Hutton and children are
visiting in the city, the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Will Hutton.
Billie Friend was seen going down
the road last Sunday at a break-neck
speed. What was the matter, Billet
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Ketner enter
tanned at their home last Wednesday
evening in honor of Miss Jennie Har-
din. who left for her home at Tracy
City Thursday. Games were indulget
in until late hour after which daint,
refreshments were served and the ev
ening was thoroughly enjoy ed. Thos'
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Mari
Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Womack
Mrs. Hutton and children, Mr.. ant
Mrs. g. W. Doss, Mrs. verna LAM
and children. Capt and Mrs. Doss
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bridgeman, Misse
Lille Gott, Jennie Hardin, Eunic
Hutton, Lille Lamb, Myrtle Cannon
Lula Lamb, Messrs. Ligon Gott, Roy
Gillian.
| Wishing the News and all its reader
success, / close.
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PITTssuas, GA.
Special 10 Me Ms7Os.

Special 10 Tie NsT0s.
Misses Mona and Litia Johnson, Ada
and Fannie Thomes attended church
in the sticks today.
Jack Holloway and son, win, went
to 'Xhitwell today.
Rev. Prior filed his appointment at
Buriess Chapel today.
Mrs. Mary Morgan is visiting her
mother, Mrs. G. B. Thomas today
G. A. Thomas and Rufus Morgan
are at Kensington today.
Della and Lille Fletcher and Cora
Hughes returned home today after a
pleasant stay with the Misses Keef's
Miss Ada Thomas and Mona Thomas
attended the Campbellite Sunday
school this afternoon.
Lila Sanders is visiting his brother,
Emery Sanders today.
Sam Goode came down from the
camp Sunday afternoon all smiles. He
was on his way to the Johnson hotel.
Miss Myra Parker is visiting Miss
Rosebud Goode today.
/ We are all very anxious to know why
Bud Killian did not go to the sticks
today.
Irwin Fletcher is visiting at Mr.
Keefs this afternoon.
Louis Barnett and wife are visiting
at John Mcfarland $.
Mack Tate left Durham today foi
Whitwell. Rastns.
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CLlFTY, TENN.

Spasiai 10 tie NesOs.
Drilling wells and building houses is
the order of the day
Jno. Smith renamed from Whifwell
Tuesday of last week.
Miss Mary Ben has returned IRON
Chattanooga where she has been visit
ing her sister
Mr.. and Mrs. O. @. Ketner have
moved to their new home in NORTH
Clifty.
Mrs. Will BowdeA is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Clark, who is sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Bryant. Nora
Short and Bessie Hooper visited Mrs
Chas. Harris, Of Eastlaad Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Bell returned
home from an extended visit at Whit
well, and were accompanied by thu
aatter's sister and brother. Miss Luc.
and Mr.. John Ashburn.
Mrs. D. T. Layne and daughter, Lei
/ la, were guests of Mrs. Lee Bryan
from Saturday until Tuesday.
A crowd of young people went II
the mines Monday morning. The,
were Misses Ada Qnarles, Nora Short
Bessie Hooper, Lizzie Mcmillan. Val
lev Jarres, Messrs. Hugh Lancaster
R. J. Mackey, DR.. HILL Jno. Harris
All report nice time.
Mr.. and Mrs. viii Fields visite'
/ Mrs. Geo. Henry. Of Eastland Sunday
Fred Smith snre looks lonesome sine
Miss Fannie Haymaker went to Colo
RADIO.
Misses Lizzie McMillon. Ada Quar-
les and Valley Jarres arrived here fror
Clarktown Monday morning wher
they Joined lively party, who, wit
well l-filled baskets of dinner, accom-
panied them to the river where the
passed the day away with merr
laughter, a good dinner and pleasar
time. The party consisted of Misst
Bessie Hooper, Nora Short, Lell
Layne, Mr.. R. J. Macke, Mrs. ID. I
Lane, Mrs. Lee Bryant and Mrs. TX
Parker. Honeysuckle.
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SUI oHuR SPRING.

Special 70 tie Nes0s.
Miss Mona Phelps was shoRNing in
Nhitwell Monday.
Miss Dora Shelton ia ON the sick list
this week.
Mrs J. @. Ealy and little Sons, Asa
and Ray, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. P.
H. Ealy this week
Mrs R. E. Davis called on Mrs A.
K Bailey Monday.
Miss Dercas Richards was the guest
of Miss Emma Bryson Saturday and
Sunday.
DIR. J. NJ. Jett and J.. A. Phelps
were shopping i'm Whitwela Saturday
Miss Bette Harris is visiting rela~
tives at Whitwell this week.
Bryson Richards called on Miss May
Grant Sunday eve.
Miss Emma Harris visited the Miss
es Phelps Thursday evening.
A certain girl OF this place says Mr..
Henninger is the most handsome young
man ON the pike.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Holloway were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. j. c. Con
dra Sunday.
Dock Davis called ON Miss Maggie
Phelps Sunday eve
DIR. A. N. Hilliard. of Whitwell
was in this vicinity Monday.
Miss Mona Phelps has been suffering
very much with weak eyes.
Mr.. and Mrs Joe Davis gave thu
young folks a party Saturday night
which was well attended by youns
folks from Looney's Creek, and Oal
Grove. All report nice time.
Those present were Misses Stella ant
Stella Carlton, May Grant, Kizzi,
Richards, Dorcas Richards, Mona
Maggie and Ada Phelps Virgie and
Nellie Harris, Emma Bryson, Georgia
Raulston, Messrs. Bryson and Leon
ard Richards, Euhoit Carlton, Johi
Griffith, Dock Davis, Luthur Grant
Richard Shelton, John Hamilton, FREQ
Smith, Fred Raulston, Green Hollo
way, Charlie Bridges, Albert and Asa
Leonard and Ligon Gott, Willie an
Bryson Alder, Joe Richmond, Ere
and Joe Fowler and Sid Jones
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-08-24
ETNA DRUM.

Special 10 HE Mas.
Festivals and hot weather are the or
der of the day.
]. R. Houts had festival Saturday
night.
viii Hartman spent Saturday night
and Sunday with his brother, Kelly
Hartman.
Mrs. Matte Hartman was visiting
Mrs Fora Newson Sunday.
Mrs. J. A. Foster was visiting her
parents from Saturday night until
Monday.
Thomes Daffron attended festival
at Whiteside Saturday night.
Miss Mayme jolly went to Tracy
Saturday.
| Misses Rosa and Minnie Passmore
went to Chattanooga Saturday.
Miss Minnie Passmore and John
Simpson We're married Sunday Bro
Russell performed the ceremony.
Tom Sexton visited his sister, Mrs
Bertha Doyle, at Whiteside, Saturday
night.
A certain fellow said Miss jamie
Degnan looked fine Sunday.
Ed Doyle is hanging his hat on the
old sleeps horn at Squire Dobb's
now.
Wess Hix accompanied Miss Matte
Bailey home from the festival Satur-
day night.
Will Hartman says he would like to
hang his hat at Mr. Brumley's.
Mrs. Matte Sexton is very sick but
we hope she will soon recover.
win Smith looked lonesome Sunday
i Mr.. and Mrs Walter Snyder We're
visiting at Thos Smiths Monday.
Jack Smith visited Ed Houts Sun
day
Miss Minnie Hamilton visited Miss
Lizzie Smith Sunday
Mrs Addie Richie. of Kellys Ferry.
visited relatives here Saturday night
and Sunday. Elsie
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-08-24
MINERS WAGE SCALE
Conference on the Subject Being
Held at Tracy.

TRACY, CITY Tenn, Aug. 9.-The
district officers of the Nineteenth Dis
.trict United Mine Workers of America
have been in conference here this week
with the sewanee Coal, Coke & Land
Company, Flat Branch Company, Bet
-ty Coal Company and the jim Coal
Company, looking to the adjustment OF
"a suitable scale Of wages for another
year, beginning with Sept. |. A rep
1resentative of the district says that
the negotiations so far have been very
pleasant and satisfactory but an adj
Iiournment was taken until next Sat
,urday, when it was hoped settlement
satisfactory 10 all parties will be
meached.