Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-11
Hats.
Some Reflections of an EnRlishman Who
 Has Travelled With Open Eyes.

Some Reflections of an EnRlishman Who
 Has Travelled With Open Eyes.
 There are more sides to hat than most people think. For beside the inside and the outside and the right side and the wrong side, there are political social, religious eth many other-sides as well. Indeed, it would be we'll if in these days of profound research some one would go deeply into the hat-put all his head, so to speak, into it. He might find more in it than he expected. AS gene- ral rule, it may be accepted that hats are made only for white men, and that the SUD- elementary classes wear them after they have been thrown away, and that the negro, as general thing, only arrives at a hat aftei it has been thrown away several times. No- body but negro cherishes very old hat.
 With him, however, appreciation of the independence of American citizenship leads to the most complete recklessness. There is nothing that he will not put on the top of his head--provided there is only enough of 1t to assure him that it once formed part of cap hat, and that he can balance the frag- ment on his head. In Texas and Arkansas his originality excels itself-he turns any thing ints hat. I saw negro sitting on woodpile, near Marshall, with the aid of luncheon basket on his head and tied round his chin with red ribbon. He was simple person, for he accepted the remarks of my companions with kindliest spirit possible and told us that he had ''another hat' at home. This was only his work-day hat.
 The Indian has very marked tastes, for he prefers the "stove-pi hat, if without crown so much the better Next to this is the gray felt, the light color having superior facilities of adornment He begs for frag- ments of ribbon or for the mental ornaments used as trade. marks on cakes of chewing to- bacco, and trims the crown with them, while he adorns the brim with fringes of his own contrivance. The labels of sauce bottles o1a oh nrrro, oar1tf for hQf of ind The Chipaman is pronounced utilitarian. He understands, moreover, the real object of hat in hot climate, and does not hesitate therefore at any width of brim. When working in the sun, as I saw them in gangs on the Southern Pacific line, he wears con- struction that looks something like laundry basket. Speaking roughly, hats increase in brim as security to life and property dimin- ish. It was man without 8 hat that stabbed Buckingham. This is true all the world over, whether we are among the wide turbaned Kookas in India, the flap halted banditti of Italy or the cow boys of Arizona and Texas.
 The umbrageous brim of the hat of the Arizona COW boy-''the white Indian," as he is called, and he is indeed often more terrible to meet than the red-is the flag, as it were, of his insubordination to law. He is no TO specter of limits, and expresses a general ab- horrence of discipline by the license which he takes in hats. narrow brim savors to him of cramping civilization. He refuses to be cribbed up under ordinary headgear. Nothing is too wide for him. If he could he would put prairie on his head. What Was Wrapped Around the Baby.
 From the Albany tGa) News and Advertiser.l
 The following surprising story is given to our reporter by a negro named Deal Jack son, @ colored man we'll known in the com munity as man of veracity He said that on tho Gilbert place, six miles from Albany, in Lee county, on Wednesday night, negro woman named Emma Kennedy was lying asleep with two weeks old infant by her side, when she was awakened by an unusual motion beside her. Her screams brought her husband to the bedside, snd turning down the covers, there was the hldeous sight of a rattlesnake coiled about his baby. The snake quickly anooiled himself and dropped upon the floor. He was killed by the darkeys who had gathered to see what occasioned the commotion, and thirteen rat ties counted upon his tail. The frightened people threw him into tho fire as soon as he was dead. The baby was unharn,ed