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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09
CIRCUIT COURT.

smallest crowd that has eveI
witnessed the opening of Circuit
Court was here Monday. 1t is
busy season and those who die
not have business at court staid
at home and worked. Judge B. ],
Bethurum, who is feeling much
better than when here in Febru
larry, is on the bench. Common.
wealth's Attorney, w. N. Flippin
is on hand and ably taking care
of all prosecutions.
The following gentlemen were
selected as jurors:
GRAND JURY.
Isaac Clouse, Major Bullock,
Jim Pitman, Jim Parsons. Hayse
Clark, Bert Owens. Jones French,
W. II. Reams, D K. Argenbright,
F. R. Asher, M. G. Saylor and
A. E. Albright = :,
PETIT JURY,
PANEL No,1-F. F. Robbins,
D. g. CLARK, J.SR. Howard, Mat
Hoskins, J. L. Doan, w. q. Dull
lock, ]. A. Vance, Nath Bustle,
j. NJ. Mink. R. II. Bloomer. J.
W. Marler, R. B. Ballinger. !.
PANEL No. 81. ]. Adams,
Joe Blackburn, w A. Mckenzie,
Raymond Dowell. Z. L. Skid.
more, H. K. Mullins, Logan
Arnold, J. w. Baker, w. F. An
derson, w., M. Meadows. 2. T.
Hansel and Wesley Abney.
The following cases have been
tried: Charley Lear, breach of
the peace fined $2s; WiitSumler
for furnishing liquor to minor
acquitted; Leslie Alien, beating
board bill fined $40; P. M. Gender
and George -cender for giving
"cold check" acquitted; : o.: P.
Bostic assault 500; Herbert Cress
charged with shooting Green
cress acquitted; Herbert Cress,
breach of the peace, IS; Willie
Coffey giving liquor to minor $50;
lobe Russell for tearing down
and carrying away fair ground
lumber and fence. fined SIS; Mrs.
John Chapel, breach of the
peace, fined S.;
The case against Boyd Kelly,
charged with murder, which case
was brought to this county from
Harlan County on change of
venue has engaged the attention
of the court since Wednesday.
More than seventy-6ve people
from Harlan are here, many as
witnesses and some who came as
friends of the defendant and
some for the prosecution. A hall
dozen or more attorneys from
the Harlan bar are defending in.
Guiding j. Tucker Bowling
Attys. c. c. Williams and L. w
Bethurum are also for the defense
B. B. Golden. of Barboursville,
and Atty. Brock, of Harlan are
assisting Judge Flippin in the
prosecution. The two men; who
Kelly is%charged with having
killed, We're miners and were
the leadersin a strike which was
on in the Harlan coal fields where
the killing occurred, and for that
reason the Union of miners is
active in the prosecution. Kelly
was a deputy sheriff and had
gone TO arrest the two men whe
were Killed. !: Judge Hall, ex
circuit Judge and one of the lead
4 ing citizens Of Harlan county to.
gether with several other leading
business men. are here in the in
terest of the defendant. Thu
jury selected to try the case is
as follows.
w. II. Bullock, K. 7. Mckinney
H. K. Mullins, Wesley Abney
W. B. Poteet, R. B. Bauinger,
A. NJ: Winkler, Sam Roberts
Ramey Shepherd, Joe Blackburn
q. H. York, and R. L. Langtord
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09
FOR SALE.

Poultry farm, IL acres with
good buildings. az miles from
Mt. Vernon; 81 miles from Brod'
head on pike
}. Z. NfeELRY
405 5. Alabama St.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

The vocal. and instrumental
music pupils of Miss Autumn
will give q recital In Langdon
School Chapel Wednesday night
May I4th, at 500 O'Clock.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

Uncle James Head. a highly
respected citizen of the Hansford
section of this county, died at
his home Sunday from heart
troubies He leaves "a wife and
one daughter, Mrs. Charley Cheek
There was not any better citizen
than Uncle Jim.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

American women are to play
an important part in the presi'
dental election In 1920. The
stage is being set tor them now
by the steering committees hav-
ing the Woman Suffrage Bill in
charge in both Senate and House.
Reports are coming in to the
com mittees from woman suffrage
organizations in all states advis-
ing that they are successful in
lining up the majority of Con
gress who have been home on
vacation between sessions, also
/ telling that the new members
who will take their seats for the
first time when the extra ses-
sion begins, have not beer
omitted in their campaign. II
looks as if the Woman Suffrage
Amendment will become GER
tainty. within the next few
months
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

WANTED: Oliver typewriter
and typewriter desk. See. write
or phone w Fl. Fish, Mt. Yer.
non, KY:
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09
FOR SALE.

Turkey eggs, at $I.5o per
Dozen Gail, phone orwrite -
MRS. CHAs. LOWELL,
Burr, KY
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09
LOCAL

Shoes att cost at Drufnmord's
store.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

Time to paint right now. Get
your paint at Drummond's store.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

: Chiidren's Dresses $I.5o value
81 at Drummond's store.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-09

Mattresses at cost at Drum.
mond s store.
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morning" began Ralston again, but 7
silenced him with wave of the hand.
wanted to think. l did, and then sud-
denly it came to me.
"Can I meet Aunt Aurelia?" l asked
Ralston. Il want to meet her at the
Sixth Avenue loft, and l want to meet
her tomorrow"
1t needed speed. Ralston was too des-
perate for comfort
will II o'clock do?" said Ralston, and
we agreed on II.
"1'm an expert" I told him. "What
don't know about antiques was never I'M
derstood by the human race. Tiffany's
and Duveen and Christies never buy any
thing without my advice, and it's only as
an unusual favor to you that take time
out Of my heavy schedule to come over
and look over your wares. Meet me at
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choked up by some emotion, couldn't,
with all my ntuitive penetration, quite
/ fathom
Buck up, Ralston," said; "there's n
Aunt Aurelia in every family somewhere
sooner or later, and you've no call to be
unduly excited about yours
mo, Orval," he said, "you don't un-
derstand. I'm willing to stand up and
take my aunts like man, but Aunt
Aurelia is different-a kind of super
aunt. I've known you, Orval, for long
time, and hope you won't mind my tell
ing you that I've been adapting some of
your methods to Aunt Aurelia, not with
out success, but, frankly, I'm up against
it, and I can't go along now without
your help"
could see he was tremendously in
earnest about it. His voice shook and
there were dark lines under his ewes.
probably from sleeplessness. l couldn't
do any more than silently give him my
hand in pledge of faithful protection.
1t must have treasured him. He drew a
deep breath, said Thanks, old man." and
sat down in front Of the fire.
"Aunt Aurela," said Ralston, Olives on
movements There's no way of telling
what her next movements going to be.
nothing to go on except that she changes
often, and you can pretty we'll bank on it
that after a month or so of one move
ment she'll shift soon to another. She's
fairly diverse about it, and that's one of
the things that makes it difficult. Why,
| can remember when I was youngster
hearing Dad say Aunt Aurelia couldn't
come to Grandmother Dalhousie's
funeral because she was Shifting from
Egyptian scarabs to Belgian hares, and
Grandmother Dalhousie died between
Shifts
Ralston stopped and looked ren1inis-
Gently into the fire. "The only time Aunt
Aurelia corresponded to every one else
was during the war, and l think she had
to then because there wasn't chance to
do anything else. She went into the war
long before the President did, but by the
time we declared in on it the tide was too
strong for Aunt Aurelia to quit, strong
IS she is, and she had to keep coming
along. l rather expected that Aunt
Aurelia would go in for reconstruction,
and I'd been preparing for it out in the
trenches, but that's where l missed out.
Aunt Aureia signed the peace agreement
while Foch was still considering the ar
mistice, and when l came back last month
l found Aunt Aureia up to her shoulders
in brand-new movement
"What?" | asked of Ralston.
"She's going in strong for antiques,
and / don't know whether it's reaction
from the austerity Of war movements or
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acid I showed her just how worm holes
were made and then colored / went
back to a classic diction that I hadn't
thought of in years and some of the
Greek verbs that l used as nouns will
probably be waiting for me accusingly
on the other side of the Styx when I go
across. AS a matter of fact, Aunt Au-
relia had the choicest collection of good
stuff that. even my inexpert eyes had
been fortunate enough to observe But
! between what her pieces really were and
what I said they were lay a vast and
cloudy gulf
We had come up the spidery stairway
from the basement, with most of my
dialogue exhausted. 1t was little UNI
comfortable, the silence, and wasn't al
all sure we were over the river. Aunt
Aurelia's eyes worried me. She seemed
to be in deep thought. Suddenly She
turned to Ralston
Advertise the lot at auction to-mor.
row. Ralston," she said, and there was
the most touching misery in her voice.
1t almost made me ashamed. "And put
both Of the buildings back with tbs
agents. Pm done. Goodby, Mr.. Despen-
ser" q had thought it best to take
new name for the purpose), and she was
off to her car, with Ralston delightedly
after her.
A few days later Ralston came around
to see me. There was something un-
cert j,, II, y,oopror - TAI.
ton that made me suspicious.
After some conversational sparring
he came out with it.
Aunt Aurelia sends message to YOU.
She said to tell you in these words: 4
may be an old fool, but it's a poor fool
that doesn't know anothern And Raj
ston grinned little sheepishly. Sudden
ly / understood
"She knew" I queried, and Ralston
nodded slowly.
All the way back she made fun of
you and said you needn't have taken so
much trouble about it. She'd have liked
1t better if you'd come out frankly and
told her what you thought of her"
L confess it was jolt. Yet when [
looked at Ralston, smiling and carefree,
l had to admit at least I hadn't failed,
even at some personal expense of van
ity. You can't entirely choose your
methods when you're dealing with aunts.
"She sails for Antwerp Thursday
said Ralston. "She's decided reconstruct
ton may be better suited to the times
after ALL and he sighed with relief.
AS for myself, I've been taking rest,
l haven't seen anything that resembled
an aunt for six months.
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plain enthusiasm, but Aunt Aurelia is
more excited over antiques than I've ever
seen her before. Why, maybe you won't
believe it"-and he got up in his emotion
and came walking over to me-"but she's
hired six story loft downtown on Sixth
Avenue and has got it almost filled up
with wormy furniture, and she's nego-
tiating now for another lease over on
Ninth Avenue-'near the DOCKS she puts
lt-so it will be easier to receive incom-
ing cargoes Of aged chairs
II don't mind her spending the better
part of her fortune on it, though I must
say'-looking at me little nervously-
"it would put terrible crimp into me to
have Aunt Aurelia leave a lot of dirty
Chippendale behind her in place of
healthy bank account. But even that
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isn't so bad if Aunt Aurelia would only
leave me out of it. She's got me snoop-
ing around with her in musty old places
on Lexington Avenue and down on the
East Side till I hardly sleep nights any
more. What's more, Aunt Aurelia ex-
poets me to learn all this pedigreed stuff
don't believe there's a house in Con-
necticut we haven't been through from
garnet to cellar in the last four weeks,
and most of my mornings l have to spend
over at the Metropolitan Museum con-
sulting experts. If you knew Aunt Au-
relia you'd understand what this means
to me. I've been barely existing this
week in the hope that she'd wear out on
antiques and 60 in for stamp collecting,
OF which I've seen signs, but so far she
doesn't give any hope of letting up.
"And I can't stand it, Orval; I can't
stand it. What with Tanagra and Chi
nese Chippendale and Wedgwood and
Ming and Adam and toby jugs and high
boys and chairs you can't sit in, I'd
rather be back in the trenches any day."
and, somewhat to my discomfort, Raj
ston's shoulders heaved and he put his
handkerchief to his eyes
saw that this was case that needed
swift action. 1t has been one of my
axioms always to act swiftly, to hesitate
at nothing, and frequently the widest
and most impossible scheme in dealing
with aunts is the most successful. |
hunted deeply and fiercely for something
splendid and dashing, something that
would, so to speak, seize Ralston and his
Aunt Aurelia from the mad torrent of
antiquity that was bearing them to the
precipice of destruction
eve passed another loft with For
Rent sign on the way downtown this
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II, Ralston, and don't forget to lay it on
thick"
He gave me the address and departed.
I never knew a mans back to speak so
loudly of gratitude.
made up with special care the next
morning. I've had to look after my
wardrobe rather sharply since my little
penchant for aunts has become known,
and now I'm qualified to step into al
most any situation at moments notice
That day l wore checked trousers, a
fancy waistcoat, gladstone collar and red
scarf and gray coat buttoned up rath-
er tight and close to the chin, made in
the style of the sos. I grayed my
temples a bit, carried heavy silver
trimmed pince-nez and put on gray
bowler. 1t was bit neat, at that You
can imagine Ralston when my car put
me down at his grimy-Iooking loft at II
o'clock
"Splendid, splendid, Orval." he chant
ed, and l could see hope lighting up in
his weary eyes. "She's inside, in the of
fee"
She was. Among a good many aunts
Aunt Aurelia was the most distinguished
and determined looking have ever seen.
She almost matched my costume with
her own. She had on lots of black let,
glimmering from between the folds of a
rich Paisley shawl, and tiny poke bon
net on top of the deadliest pair of female
eyes I've ever seen. confess T wasn't
altogether assured when / met her.
Fortunately, my intuition set me on the
right track at once.
my aunt, Mrs. Dalhousie," said Raj
ston in his most velvet tones. But
didn't wait for her answer.
"Your shawl, Mrs. Dalhousie," I said,
grabbing it and feeling of the fine rich
stuff with an expert gesture. "Why
don't you rich people take expert ad-
vice? can match these any day in a
little factory on Warren Street that
turns them out at $17.50 apiece whole
sale. And I'll warrant you paid all of
$3.50 for this"
1t was a good start, I must admit.
She'd paid 5000 for the shawl, and there
wasn't a word left in her. I don't think
she said ten words from the sixth floor
Of that loft back to the basement, but
what we did to that rare assortment of
rare antique goods cannot be told-it
has to be imagined. I took out little
case of emergency surgical instruments
I had picked up on the way down and
sawed and hacked and bored away at
her furniture until there wasn't a piece
that hadn't been hurled down from its
high eminence. With little bottle of
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IN ELATIVES are always difficult,
but among relatives aunts are
IN probably more difficult than any
other species. Uncles are fair
sh in their way-the very process of be-
ing an uncle seems to supply any man
with shade of more than human under
standing and indulgence-and cousins
are usually too far out of the orbit
swimming around in their own circles to
have any chance to be troubling But
aunts, it must be confessed, have an in
vasive quality-if term c~l be made up
for the occasion-that is always sending
them up out of their own territory, even
when they don't mean to invade
haven't any aunts, but know lot
of people who have, and it must be con-
fessed that | spend lot of time saving
people from their own aunts. In fact, if
| may modestly say so, I've become
rather good at it, and it's got now where
it's no unusual thing to be called up
once or twice week to extricate chap
from his aunt. 1 don't mind confessing
it takes little fnesse, bit of subtlety;
an aunt now and then is no ordinary tax
on a mans abilities. But with practice
and intelligence and hardihood you can
get used to anything, and I've managed
to make it much easier by developing a
kind of technique in the matter. l don't
60 in much for card catalogues and the
like, but, just as matter of record, I've
never failed once fatty with an aunt, and
most of the time I've done rather more
than ordinarily we'll. There's Just once
that | came near to putting dent into
my record, and | never think of it now
without shuddering a little bit. 1t was
such narrow escape!
Ralston Dalhousie-he's one of the
Yonkers Dalhousies-came in to see me
the other day, and didn't have to look
at him twice-dntuition' such wonder
full thing-to know there was something
up with him. Ralston has reddish hair;
IN fact, it's red, and he's always been
very careful about his colors whenever
nc Soiil0 W aee HE because m 1rlgnC-
fully sensitive to colors. But this time
he had on pea-green scarf with a bit
Of blue hairline showing through his
waistcoat, and it didn't need a second
look on my part to see he must have been
terribly upset to come in at me that way.
de grabbed a cigarette from the table
and lit it with hand that visibly shook
and walked around my chambers two or
three times with me looking on before
he could get it out
Finally Ralston came to it, cts ny
aunt" he said, and there was something
Id never heard before in Ralston's voice.
1t was pretty close to terror. "My Aunt
Aurelia," he went on, and stuck there,
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Itself an ode and e1egy

Itself an ode and efegy
Common Grating the inspired dead
Who--even as he
Survive their dark nterment; and for us.
lnseparable from all he wrought or said,
Still rise illustrous
The words he spoke of those who gone before,
Came living homeward from heroic war;
And now again they come;
Again. in proud mortality,
Homeward once more
They march with unvanglorious Victory
And muted drum
Rolling the pageant Of vaster stage
The heroes of our age:
Our country 8 soul PERENNIAL
And now once more Q now
In that "clear-ethered" hall
OF Memory and of Elaboration seated,
How those great words with which he greeted
Our fathers still resound, and how
1t stirs to surmise
The exultation in his eyes,
And from his lips the lyric reverence
AS he might now greet these
These men who bore America overseas:
Armies, that the righteous eoquence
OF peace; soul-swords oracular Of truth;
Battalions that were ballads Of wild youth;
Dun khaki boys, who sowed the mud fields pied
With blue and white and red of Towering pride
Rooted in justice: Those, returning now
The live. and living dead-are they who left
The dreams of their civilian years,
Their work at loom and desk and plough,
Self-choosers, through their chosen peers,
To yoke Themselves to help set Freedom free
Conscrpts of Conscience. Duty's grenadiers:
Young New World Jasons, banded oversee
With allied hearts sore wcaried out.
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Freeman and lyric scholar: not
Because his name, Of honored line,
Is craven golden on another age
Among recorded lives
On boarded scripts, in husht archives
OF academe and nation;
Not in dull homage to a shrine
OF bookworm-cult or worldly heritage
We give to-day his birth commemoration:
But because his spirit wrought
Its image surviving thought
An image, cast from it's clay mould,
10 rise in clean, unulsting gold:
The mind, whose many darling prism
Resolves in reasons lucid white;
The heart, wherein hidden schism
Warps sense of beauty from the sense of right
But wherein one clear burning human LIGHT
Are welded poetry and patriotism.
SO Lowell, outlastng the years.
Stands forth-no sanctum statue but man
Whom all his human peers
Honor artist and American.
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v
he heeting lines forbid
10 follow, year by rpening year.
The stately footsteps of that sure career.
Where on the singer fell the statesman's cloak.
And where the scholar-artst stood amid
Ills peers OF Europe, and bespoke
Our countrys character
In London and Madrid
he tokens of his missions still aver
His rich felicity, and still
In Cambridge, between Shady Hill
And Elmwood the remembering air
Is fragrant OF our Friend of Learning there
But more than all cndearcd to memory
OF varied life and long
His most enduring substance is sony-
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Whose van at Chateau Thierry cleft
he Prussian Dragon through his iron snout.
Wrestling the Golden Fleece of Libertv
10 cothe the words bereft
VIII
What patriot pride
Not counterfeited by the noisy clan
Who toss at coins to make the Eagle scream,
But that unravished dream
And love of country which is faith in Man
Lowell might feel, prophet justified,
| o hail these men, and the victorious
Vow they redeemed for us:
Renouncing neutral will
| o know one faith-and live it,
| o share one life-and give it:
That choice they made and kept, It's ours to fu6
Yet how fulfil the test?-
He is slave, who dares not be
In the right with two or three
Twas Lowell said and they who know the zest,
OF battling, singlehanded, for the best
| he multitudes dsdan,
racing their whips to earn them their own gain.
Will sanction that brave wisdom. Yes;
But 0, the large delight
| he majesty of gadness and excess
OF Splendor. when the multtudes are 7iohti
Then. then-with all ones spirit Bonded tense
10 lean against the tide for liberty
Sudden the awful tide itself, immense.
Lunar with mystic life-birth, turns to sea:
lhen-as swimmer, caught from undertow.
Who yields, all free,
His body to the goaward bilIow, so
The one-will yields its atom. in the shoal
OF muttudnous life-w toward the goal
Of tidal Freedom. There,
In strange md-sea
Between the darting northern lights of death
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And the living rim Of SUNRISE half aware
Up from eternity
He feels the spirit breath
OF the lost, the ever-sought the risen Atlantis
Island Of Aspiration,
Whose beauty s fragrance like fronded plant ia
Vocal with manifold blended murmurnes:
Isle or the Lost-where souls Of tribe and matte.
Commingling lose themselves, and losing, so
Find one another
BY the secret springs
OF common yearning, and in one heart-glow
Embrace-brother with brother
BY some such deep-sea sense
And vision-dnnly seen-of beauty's permanence.
In fellowship, born of deaths nearness,
In friendship of mutual will
We all have felt the common DEAFNESS
OF her we call Our Country deeply inst
Our concept of mankind The least of these
Who comes with Glory home across the seas
Has felt the deep communion O, let all
Hold fast that communal
Faith. and let not the niggling partisan
Obscure the patriots larger love of man.
Or seek the of war in sectional cant.
| he statesman singer we commemorate
Was militant
Tor song that served the stars beyond the state
The stars still beckon from the blue beyond
The bleeding stripes beneath are borne
On of vaor that has torn
The tyrant from his seat and struck his bond
OF terror from the world And now the world
that waits
Our ministration, halls in dawning wonder
The orbit of galaxy of states,
Tor what the stars have Joined earth shall NOT nut
asunder.
SAA Copyright. 1919. by Percy MaeKays) So