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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

ent a; the time u the Operations
Nj. aud Mrs. A. II. Hiatt ard
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Hiatt attend.
ed ii reunion Of ro' Fish family
uear Becca SunJ al Howard
Helton and Miss Lill.a De Bord
were married at the home of the
bride Sunday Rev. " w.
Brock ofticiated. Fred Durham
ana family spent Saturday and
Sunday with Brodhead relatives
J. R. Cass and family spent
Sunday with the family Of H j.
Tharp at junction City. They
mortored thru -W l. Kim
and Billy Green Fletcher, the
former d ROckcastle farmer and
the latter living in Lincoln couG-
ty, have hauled several wagon
loads of ground limestone and
spread over their farms. Both Of
these men are good farmers and
the future will tell the story of
the good w-rk they are now do
ing.
+. {. Harris and daughter.
Miss Margaret, were with rela
tives at Burning Springs, Clay CO
last week. MIR. Harris father,
l.. G. Harris, was here "A few
weeks ago-Ollie Potts, of Gov
ingtou, was here first Of the week
looking after some business
matters Ed. l. n. Bowling
closed Il very successful meeting
at Paint Lick Sunday.-L r.
Storms is in Laurel county this
week. - Rev. a. J. Pike, James
Meridith, A. Z. Albright and
Granville Owens. OF this place
and J. j Painter. of Stan
ford, attended the Baptist
! Association at Clear Creek Tues
day and Wednesday Rev. Pike
was reelected Moderator and j
/ J. Painter, who has served the
Association for a number of years
as Clerk was re-eIected.- Franl
Catron sold his farm, known AZ
the Joe Purcell farm, to A. H
Vance, of Honaker, Va, fol
$500. Mr.. Cstron paid $1,000
for this farm only few month.
ago. This shows something o
the increase in land in Ruckcas
tie and it has not yet reached
any thing like its value and wha
it will De in a few years.-W. a
| Robins who is barberlng il
COfOln, was with nOmeIOlK'
| Sunday.-Itis Said that when
widow with matrimonial inten
gets after a man he might al
well make up his mind to eithe
buy the marriage license or
ticket TO the far west. In on
Judgment there are some mel
near Brodhead who had bette
see Felix Bowman or get a tickle
to France w. P. Rigsby sold
boundary Of timber on Negr
! Greek to Edmis on Bros. O
Crab Orchard. for S2l0 j, Mon
Roberts is still on crutchcs.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07
COUNCIL OF
NATIONAL
DEFENSE.

When war was declared by the
United States it W; deemed wise
to call The whole people in coun-
Gil of defense. This organization
has steadily gone on until every
state in the Union is organized,
and by ActOf Legislature or proc
lamation of the Cover or these
organizations are conducted
under state law, backed by
Federal ruling, and is carried on
to help the whole people of the
country defend the nation and
themselves against the common
enemy. Meetings are being held
all over the nation and the citi
ZenS are reasoning together as TO
how they can best serve the
country in the greatest crisis Of
its existence, and much good has
been done. Kentucky is well
organized and from September
2Gth to Both a great speaking
campaign Will be carried to every
county in the state. People viii
be told clearly and forcibly what
the present war means to us;
how the burden of wal will fall
on people in every walk of Ifs
how we will ali feel the effect of ii
and why we should all bel Up all we
can in our respective spheres. 1t
is a well recognized tact that the
majority of our people. especially
in rural districts. do pot realize
the gravity Of the situation dc
not realize that they can help win
this war by staying at home and
co operating with their neighbOT
next to the men who ere on the
firing line in France. The COun
Gil organized in this county
wishes to help the farmer do his
best in making and conserving
food: not change his mode OF liv-
ing: not tell him how he must do
his farming, but encourage him
to do his best in his own way;
encourage community co opera
ton, and try to make each com
munity as near self-supporting as
possible by helping each indi-
viduaI in that locality and saving
more for our army and hat Of our
allies.
Further, the Rockc4stle COun-
Gil OF Defense wishes with the
help of the citizens to see that all
supplies that we have are
procured at a reasonable price;
ihat is. thai no pXOrhitant profits
are lnadc on what We must pro
cure from other sections. We
want to 90 on record as disap
proving the idea OF anyone amass-
ing a fortune under the guiee of
war prices. This will be of inter
est to each and every citizen.
The Council of National Defense
has allied itself with the Red Cross
i'm its eivilian relief fund and dur
ing this war will help any dis
dressed family when such distress
is caused by the one on whom
they depend for support being
called for military service.
We think this matter of suffic-
lent importance to justify all our
people in coming to at Least one OF
these .speakrngs, when we con-
slider that our speakers and men
from other counties will give their
time and pay their own expenses
to bring the message to US. We
feel sure that good crowds will
attend all these speakings.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

TEa9E mokAL-The quality OF
what you har 10 sell is known
to some people all of the EEs
sas al Of les teoss 8osss Of
the tine, BIT advertise rsgu-
kT:y with US and yOu'iI reach
, all OF the People all of the time.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Hickmsn-The gasolSne boat JOppa.
about sixty feet long. owned by L. NJ.
Frost. OF this Sty, which had just
been put in passenger and freight sery-
ice between here ksId Medley. No, dis
appeared from her mOOring near the
old wagon factory site last week and
has not been heard from. 1t is thought
the boat was sunk.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Nld'sonVille-Karl Gates. % years
Old who was shot by soldier at Prov
.dc"ce last Sunday. when he failed TO
neeI a halt command. died in an Ev-
ansyille hospital Gates was driving
a car for NshO garage and Wss re-
turning from IIenderson with several
negro passengers.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Georgotovn.-The Rev. DR.. F. ".
Ebprhardt, Ok Dapville. has been called
as pastor OF the First Baptist church
here to succeed DR.. b. \. Dawes. who
resigned after occupying the pulpit for
the past ten years. His salary will be
s2.25o. besides one of the handsomest
parsOnages In Kentucky.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Shelbyville-W. r. Johnson will con-
test the nomination OF +. W. Ford for
County Clerk, which the Board Of
Election Commissioners awarded him
by a plurality OF three votes. The
grounds alleged in the petition are
that persons were permitted to vote
for the contestee openly in the pres
ence Of other persons, without being
sworn as TO any disability.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Uelderscn.-CC~n took another big
,.op on the local market. falling from
q 10 81 80. The decline is the great
st in a single day ever recorded on
his market The food control meas
lie prohibiting the making Of whisky
sl.d 10 have caused the big reduc-
ions.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Lexinrton.-Reports reaching here
are to the effect that every coal mine
of large size in the Southeastern Ken
lucky district, or District 10, United
Mine Workers of America, closed
down, following the strike Of between
$1,000 and 10000 men last Saturday.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Lcxingtsn-The Guthrie Coal &
Thing Co, With 4 capital stock OF
20 coo lust G!eI articles Of incorpora-
.or here to do g:aersl coal. gas and
iii business Cher,G lIo.liOtt and II.
+. Nrmday. Of s.. Paul, End c. Z. Tut
e. Of Cincinnati. are the incorpora-
rnrs.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07
CUT THIS OUT.
The COtOtOne Co.
Atlanta. Ga.

Il IIC NIVLVTIVIIC NUsN
Atlanta, Ga.
I have never used COcCtOue
Skin Vhitener, but If you will
send me a 25c box free will be
pleased to try it. l enclose six
&c stamps to cover cost of mail
ing, packing. etc.
Name ......".. ...........-...
Address
Agents Wanted.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Pineville.-Twelve hundred men Of
the 5000 striking coal miners in Bell
county are affected by an agreement
reached between 10 companies. cpcf-
ating in the Pineville territory. and
th"ir employees. Contracts recogniz-
ing the union and agreeing to all of
the strikers demands We're signed.
Paris-"GienwOOd," the magnif-
cent country estate of f. X. Thomas,
on the Stony Point pike. this county.
containing 500 acres, was sold by Mr..
Thomas to Edward F. +nlms. OF Paris
snd{Houston, Tex, for $4,000. This
farI3 has been famous for many years
as he home OF high-class :horthorn
cattle
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

.&s~au NEW s $4,000
Items of Interest From
All Sections Of the State

Paducah.-FOr the second training
camp at Fort benjamin Harrison for
lie officers reserve corps i've Pdducas
men have been accepted.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Bowling Green.-The W2rren Conn
~ Board Of Election Conmias one S
has completed the canvass II h. vote
cast at the primary with the !o,l2W..-
result: For county Judge, ChI:l-.
Drake: county clerk, II. Lee Key.
0unty attorney. Duncan MiIi@e":
,heriff. Jane. II. Tucker; coroner
Tohn S. Campbell; surveyor. John l.
-fush. aernesr~. G. +. Fw'n~.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Whitesburg-It is reported on re-
liable authority that the Detroit-Elk
Coal Company, recently organized to
IevcloD 2.000 acres Of coal lands along
-c head waters Of tie Kentucky river
n TINS county Will give employment TO
800 men.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

exirgton.-HyweIl Davis. OF this
city. widely known 81 n Federal con-
ciliatOr in .tEiks troubles. has gone to
the coal strike zone in Southeastern
Kentucky. 1t is understood he will be
met there by other Government
agents.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

PRINT SHOWS THROUGH
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-07

Shelbyy!!'c.-W Work has been be--Hn
N the carpet coating which will be al
iliad on the state pike for one ana :
lalf miles west ANA one mile east Of
ShClhyville at a cost dpprOIimatin"
- 20. tn. process consists in sweep
NJ tho aust 'ronu the r0aGbnd. nr
shiCh asphalt i, thin spread with q
room. and the resulting surface lib
rally sprinElsd with EtCns chips.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16

the grimest determination on both
sides. But wherever the tanks
moved-and nothing served to swerve
n OF these from whatever course ii
chose to take-the ranks of the enemy
melted into d~isorderly rabble of panic
stricken fugitives.
A shell from the howitzer found the
Charming hacienda and laid it In
flaming, smoking ruins about the ears
of Huroki and his staff.
Thirty minutes after the tanks had
inaugurated the offensive, the inva-
sion had been turned into a rout. The
roads beyond the border were choked
with fugitives. Huroki and his per-
sonal aides forced their armored motor
car through the milling mob upon the
bridge at the border and regained
Mexican soil a bare minute before an
other howitzer shell destroyed the
bridge utterly, and with it hundreds of
fleeing Mexicans and Japanese.
The last action of the battle was an
engagement between American rough
riders and Mexican cavalry, in which
the latter, attempting to cover the real
of the defeated army, were vanquished,
dissipated, sent scurrying into the
south in disorder as great as that of
their comrades and allies whom they
had sought to save.
But in this engagement Rodman
Pillsbury fell, killed instantly in ac-
ton.
Ordering her batteries up to the
boundary line, Patria instructed them
to shell the fugitives mercilessly. Fur
Their than this line she would not per-
NIT them to move. Nor would she per-
NIT n of her decimated little army
to carry the war into Mexico.
In defending her W property
against aggression she had acted with
in her rights as a private citizen. If
reprisals were to be visited upon the
aggressors, that was the p~rerogative
of the government of her country-not
her p%rerogative..
Thus the invading army of Baron
Huroki and his dupes and allies melt
ed away into those sun-baked plains
and arid hills of Mexico, and was no
more-like the army of a dream.
SAMURAI.
In the heat of that GREATNESS after
loon the armored motorcar, a grim
gray unit of mechanism rendered only
the more grim and gray by it's heavy
coating of dust and the evidences of
hard usage it wore, lunged heav-
lily around the wide curves of the
military road penetrating the secret
heart of those Mexican mountains, de-
bouched on a ~downgrade with the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16

handed the wandering interest of his
tagged staff with a single glance, his
pose g~estureless. With a single Inn
pulse they stiffened to attention.
After a moment he addressed them
in a level and toneless voice, with
the n of one imparting informa-
ton concerning a person of particular
unimportance.
Gentlemen" said Baron Huroki. "1t
becomes my duty to impart to you GER
tain advices. 1 have here a message
from his majesty, the emperor"
He paused to make obeisance to the
effigy symbolized by that name.
81 need hardly remind you that, up
on the untimely death, day before yes
terday, of the late commander in chief,
Count Nogi, l, acting on authority
vested in me by his imperial majesty,
assumed the functions of commander
in chief, and in my supreme discretion
initiated that invasion of the United
States which was the ultimate pur-
pose of our presence in Mexico. For
this action I assumed, professed, and
accept full responsibility.
"That my action was ill-advised Is
beside the point. l alone was, and am,
liable for it's consequences. The onus
of failure rests upon a single head,
my OWE.
"By my lack of sound judgment, my
haste and rashneSS, / have brought
down defeat upon u forces, l have
needlessly sacrificed unnumbered fell
peror, l have wrought confusion with
his imperial designs, l have set at
naught his ends.
$50 be it. 1 explain without attempt
to e%xtenuate the consequences of my
madness. l accept without protest
the penalty of failure.
"The command of our scattered and
shattered forces 1 resign to your
capable hands. You + instructed
to reorganize them as quickly as
possible and withdraw from this
part of Mexico, marching westwards
to effect a junction with the army en-
camped at Magdalena Bay. This you
will do not only with all possible eX-
petition, but with all feasible secrecy.
81 have one request to make of your
pity; if it be within your power, l
would like my ~dishonored body to be
conveyed to Nippon for burial.
Gentlemen, 1 go to join my fore
fathers, in full confidence that the
honorable fashion of my death will
secure for me the freedom of their
company"
Huroki ceased to speak, drew him
self up, and saluted his staff. That
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16
Touchy People.

Beware of touchy people! There
are always some about, ready to poster
you in some way. Hurry on past, SO
you cannot hear them, and above all,
refuse to deny what they say. Just
keep sweet and go ahead, and let their
unkind words swelter in the cleaning.
How much time and patience are vast
ed on touchy people. And yet such
people think they are the salt of the
earth and everybody else dirty water.
1t is a real wickedness to be touchy.
1t is as bad as lying and cheating.
1t does the world as much harm. 1t
spoils more religion than swearing. Ii
you find a touchy person in your
church, turn him out as soon as pos
sible; if not, he will infect the whole
brotherhood and sisterhood with his
sin. We knew a touchy person one
time whose loneliness struck in on
him and he died. We hope all our gen.
tie readers will escape 81 sorry a fate.
Ohio State Journal.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16

salute returned, he executed an about
face and strobe into the adobe build
ing.
After him went Kato.
For an hour he sat in the office of
the commander in chief, industriously,
methodically putting in order all his
affairs, official as well as personal.
When there was no more to do, he
rose without hesitation, and strobe in
to the adjoining room, which had been
his sleeping quarters.
Here Kato was awaiting him-Kato
translated from the trim and soldierly
aide in the field uniform of the Japa-
nese army into a figure that might
have been conjured from some Japa-
nese print, a s~ervile, fawning, obse-
quious figure in the robes of his race
and humble caste.
Upon the plain canvas cot which
had been Huroki's bed were laid out
the magnificently embroidered robes
of q Samurai.
Beside the cot stood the steel trunk
NIISh INlb ACbCcs iNs
which for many years had formed an
essential adjunct to Huroki's travel
ing gear.
Assisted deftly by Kato, Baron HUI
roki Invested himself of his soldiers
clothing, bathed and dressed in the
robes of his nobility.
Throughout neither uttered a single
word.
And in silence Huroki turned and
entered the room beyond, leaving his
footwear at the threshold.
The door closed behind him. On it's
other side Kato, the imperturbable,
knelt and ground his forehead into
the dust of the floor.
In one stride Baron Huroki had
passed from Mexico to Nippon. Paper
screens masked the earthen walls and
the matched roof of the room. The
floor was covered with a clean white
cloth. In the middle of it rested a
small rug of glowing, sanguinary scar
let. At the edge of this small rug
was q low stand on which rested q
jeweled dagger in a jeweled sheath.
Kneeling on the rug, Baron Huroki
swiftly denuded his body to the waist.
Then taking up the dagger and draw
ing it from its sheath he tested its
edge and point upon the thumbnail.
Satisfied, he held the dagger be-
fore him on his two hands, outstretch-
ed, open palms uppermost; and in this
posture remained motionless for many
minutes, his grave, intelligent eyes
fixed in meditation upon a point, or
scene, or memory, thousands of miles
removed beyond the narrow confines
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16
Al the Wedding Feast.

In some parts of the country it is
the custom to send congratulatory tele-
grams to friends at a distance who are
being married. That is, the message
is timed to arrive just after the cere-
mony, and during the feast which u.s.
ually follows.
Now, a certain man, a large farmer,
was about to be married, and shortly
before the time he heard hat one of
his cattle had strayed. 1t being a
valuable animal, he told his bailiff to
let him know at once when it was
found. The bailiff, being IN econom-
ical man, combined the two affairs,
and the happy bridegroom received the
following message just as they all sat
down to dinner:
congratulations. The beast is
caught !"
1t is fair to conclude that the tele-
gram afforded at least as much graft
fication to the assembled guests as to
the actual recipient himself.-Tit-Bits.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16

swiftness of an angel of death into
the great valley devoted to the allied
encampment, and drew up sharply, as
if checked by some invisible but i'm
movable barrier, before the adobe
building dedicated to the uses of the
commander in chief and his staff.
Half a dozen men, worn, haggard, 81
lent, in uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust, alighted from the car and weari-
ly threw themselves, rather than
walked, up the steps to the veranda
in front of the headquarters building.
Deepest disconsolation was the key
note of their common demeanor.
In the lines that furrowed their dust
masked faces, in those red-rimmed
eyes which stared out of them, despair
was written plainly-the despair of
gamblers who have staked all on a
single throw and have lost.
Foremost in their number was Baron
Huroki, that arch-conspirator, that
gambler incurable-a presence of COM
manding distinction ever in the shad-
ow of defeat, disgrace, and death.
At his heels moved his shadow, that
n whose devotion and loyalty to his
master passed yer that devotion and
loyalty which was the due of his en-
peror-Huroki's aid de camp of today,
his body servant of yesterday, his IA
miliar spirit of all days, that Japanese
who answered to the name of Kato.
Their four companions were officers
of high rank, subordinate only to the
commander in chief of the army which
Japan had thrown into Mexico to CO.
operate with the native troops in that
"great drive" designed to split the
United States asunder by invading the
Mississippi valley via the Southwest
ern states, leaving the Pacific slope de-
fenseless against invasion by way of
Lower California and the sea.
As Huroki moved toward the door of
the adobe building, a Japanese orderly
came out, paused, saluted stifly, with
a countenance eXpressionless, and
proffered a folded paper.
Huroki recognized the form on
which incoming telegraphic dispatches
were transcribed. He could have
hazarded a shrewd guess at the ma
ture of this communication If put
to 1t, could have foretold 1t almost
word for word.
None the less he extended a steady
hand to accept it, unfolded the paper,
read it without permitting the slight
est phase of his emotions to be re-
iected in his face, and deliberately re-
folded 1t.
rounded smartly CD his heels and COM
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-16
FIFTEENTH EPISODE
The Sting of Victory.
DARK HOURS.

1t was shortly after sunrise when the
first shots signaled the attempt of
Patria Channing's little handful of pa
triotic Adventures to stem the inva-
sion of American soil by the allied
force of MeXicans and Japanese COM
manded by Baron Huroki.
Patria's first move, then, was to dis
patch kilograms to the nearest post of
the United States army as we'll as to
Washington, giving notice of the inva-
sion and asking for help.
Within an hour, Japanese field bat
teries, Smelling with shrapnel the adj
vanced trenches which commanded the
international boundary line, had rem
dered them untenable and Japanese
infantry had swarmed over them in
pursuit of the retreating defenders.
At the same time Baron Huroki and
his staff, taking possession of Patria's
hacienda, had converted it into field
headquarters. From its patio Huroki
directed the efforts of his troops to
overcome the resistance of the de-
tenders.
The latter had meanwhile occupied
their main Entertainments, a far strong
er position furrowing the ridge of a
range of low hills lying back of the
hacienda and something slightly less
than a mile north of the border line.
Here they took root stubbornly. De-
spite the disparity between their num-
bers and those of the invaders, they
threw back charge after charge of
Japanese and Mexican infantry, with
ering and blasting them with the ma
%chine-gun fire which sprayed the ter
rain with death as a garden hose
sprays a lawn with life; while their
batteries, cunningly secreted back of
the hills and directed in mastery fash
ion, kept the guns of the invaders too
busily on the move to permit their do
ing much damage to the trenches.
But if the defenders fought with IN
shakable determination and fearless
ness, they fought with despair in their
hearts. For their commanding eleva-
ton permitted them to overlook all
the land between them and the bound
airy, and they could hardly help being
appalled, by the flood of allied troops
which was sweeping across the bor-
der and arraying against them.
Again urgent prayers for aid were
dispatched to the authorities.
AS before, they gained no acknowl-
edgment of any sort.
Failing to take the main line
trenches by assault, Huroki ordered
his forces to fall back and dig them