Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-18
About Old Hats and New.

O1u 1AttlO asAAN ~sOWs
Within the last day or two there
has been pcrceptibfe increase in the
number of white hats upon our princl-
pal thoroughfares. In. the shop wind
ows there is quite sleigh riding spec
tacle of white hats: and our leading
matters assure us they are hardly able
to supply the demand. Is it indeed
the winter of Grants discomfort made
glorious summer by the sou of Chap,
paquae
We are told by our little frienh, the
Bard of Avon. that when that much
abused gentleman, Mr.. Macbeth, OF
Caudorville, was setting up for him
self, he was assured by some ladies of
his acquaintance, who belonged to the
shrieking ssterhOod and happened to
be spiritual mediums. that until a GER
tain wood should pick itself up bodily
and walk, the worldly affairs OF the
Macbeth family should prosper. MIR.
Macbeth, who is :esembled by famous
modern soldier. in many essential
points, is said to have Obstinately con-
sidered such a phenomenon impossible.
He therefore withdrew from the Sc
ance, remarking p0ppycOck! as he
went, and proceeded with bis nefari.
Gus designs. But the prophecy was
fulfilled. The wood in question moved
forward ON his works by very natu-
raj and simple process, and-tO cut a
long story shOrt-Mr. and Mrs. Mcbeth
of CaudOrville and GlamstOwn, " went
up the spout"
Is there, or is there not, a historic
parallel in the present moving OF the
wilderness of white hats, that like the
tree-tOps in "A towering orchard, press
es close upon the battlements of the
White Housei Are they, or are they
not, the signals of peace which are to
su plant the red banners of war that
now float above the fortress of the
Presidents military rings
Mr.. Prentice, in one OF his wicked
ways, once told how body of Califor
MIA miners, crossing the plains, came
upon little old bonnet; how they
danced about it how they made q
flag of it; how they followed it, and
how it lead them to rich vein OF gold
and, in that connection, he asked
many drOll questions, which eonnois
; seurs will doubtless remember, Now
somehow it has been, of q sudden, dis
covered that little old hat-a little
old white hat-the little, old, shape
less, caved in hat Of Horace Creole.
lis a mighty inspiration, having tai
ismanic, having supernatural powers
and everybody is following the fashion
Mr.. Prentice's corumdrum, after TWEEN
t ty years, is receiving an answer. 81
! the miners made such an ado over
) little ragged old bonnet" said MI
. Prentice, 'what would they hav
3 done if they had come upon q little OH
: hat s7-meaning of course little oil
: achite hat. We begin to see. The
, would have put it on flagstaff an
!. carried it, along with the little oil
+ bonnet, to victory, just as they ar
5 now doing by DOMINIC the peaceft
: coiors of Horace Greeley
: Curious, indeed, are these phenom
e ena of nature. A little while ago
q was winter, all crusted with SNOW
y flakes; but yesterday the orchard
d were white with apple-blooms an
; cherry blossoms; and now the yer
8 streets are turned into snOw-storms {
\ white hats, into moving orchards mad
S luminous with the pale emblems of tt
n coming autumn Of peaceful truitior
II God bless the white hats, and ma
n their wearers multiply! like the viii
p hoods OF Flanders; like the whi
t plume of Navarro, be they the sigma
G. of victory, the signs of ill-omen to Ia
r men!
So
a "Press where you see that white hat shi
"A Until the foe is down;
~ And be the word of the wi ole line.
le Greeley and Gratz Brown"
rs Courier Journal.