The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-11
THE BULLETIN.
Published every merring, Monday ex
cepted.
ABOUT HATS.
OLD HATS AND NEW AND HORACE GREE
LEY's IN PARTICULAR.

OLD HATS AND NEW AND HORACE GREE.
LEY's IN PARTICULAR.
(Frsm the Louisville Courier Journal.)
Within the last day or two there ha'
been perceptible increase in the number
Of white hats upon our principal thorough
fares. In the shop-windows there is quite
sleigh-riding spectacle of white hats
and our leading hatters assure us that they
are hardly able to supply the demand. Il
il in deed the winter of Grants discomfort
made glorious summer by the son Of Cha.
pagua'
We are told by our little friend the
Bard of Avon. that when that much abused
gentleman, Mr.. McBeth, Of Csudorvlle,
was setting up for himself, he was assured
by some ladies Of his acquaintance, who
belonged to the shrieking sisterhood and
happened TO be spiritual mediums, that
until certain wood should pick itself up,
bodily, and walk, the worldly affairs Of
the McBeth family should prosper. Mr..
McBeth, who is resembled by a famous mod
crn soldier in many essential points, is said
TO have obstinately considered such phe-
nomenon impossible. He therefore with
drew from the seance, remarking poppy
cock as he went, and proceeded with his
fulfilled The wood in question moved
forward on his works by very natural
and simple process, and--to cut "A long
story short-Mr and Mrs. McBeth, Of
Caudorville and Glamistown, event up
the spout"
L. there, or is there not, a historic par
allel in the present moving of the wilder
ness Of white hats, that, like the tree.tops
To-, a., "a 81
the ba,tlemen,s of the White House =?
Are they, or are they not, the signals OF
peace which ire to supplant the red BAN
ners OF war that now float above the
fortress of the Presidents military ring ?
Mr. Prentice, in one Of his wicked ways,
once told how q body Of California miners
crossing the plains, came upon little old
bonnet; how they danced about IT. how
they made flag of it how they followed
it, and how it led them TO rich vein of
gold and, in that connection, be asked
many droll questions, which connoisseurs
will doubtless remember. Now, somehow
it has been, of a sudden, discovered that Il
little old hat-a little cid white hattie
little, old, shapeless, cavcd-in white hat Of
Horace Greeley--is u mighty inspiration,
having talismanic, having supernatural
b'bN 10 i'il'N biic
fashion. Mr.. Prentice's conundrun, after
twenty years, Is receiving an answer. If
the miners made such M ado over little,
ragged old bonnet, said Mr.. Prentice,
what would they have done If they had
come upon little old hat meaning, OF
course, little old ,ohite hat. We begin
to see. They would have put it on h flag.
staff and carried it, along with the little
old bonnet, to victory, just as they are now
doing by DOMINIC the peaceful colors Of
Horace Greeley.
Curious, indeed, are these phenomena o.
nature. A little while ago it was winter,
all crusted with snow-hakcs but yester-
day the orchards were white with APPLE
blooms and cherry blossoms and now the
very streets are turned into snow-storms
Of white hats, into moving orchards made
luminous with the pale embiems of the
coming autumn Of peaceful fruition :
God bless the white hats, and may their
wearers multiply Like the white hoods
Of Flanders; like the white plume Of Ma
varrs, be they the signals Of victory, the
signs Of ill-oinen TO bad men
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Press whore ye see that white hat shine
Until the fee u down,
And he the word Of the whole line.
Greeley and Dratz Brown"