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Imperial Press
Saturday, July 27, 1901.
With the Potts
ISLAND TO ENGLAND
a ri.i'.A i.i r.grit v.
fill', fi.il. ■* Hltf (.111 IM i«iirti,' |«m-iii. t..i> • Ilir
Cllrotf rdph. wan wrrlttrn liv Jna<|uln Mitlrr,
and rr.ul l«> him at the fourth of July irl«l»ra
tiun lii-M in Oakland:
Illliid tiully, SantMin, ifrlodinir mi,
\V* laatfh, «»«• Liuirli. i" hear JTOflf r««ar,
Tlir w hllr »t.u Imu*l )<•» kliout a lUtrr
And burned hi* houw nnd all within!
\Vh> ,ii.inUf> with thr lion'a akin,
Vtiu did aU till* t<» I' S of jore.
And jet we lunjfril }uu,doan-<lirr-knruw !
We tuiif.-.l ><>v, baiitfrdyou; laid you low,
At Saratoga. York and auch -
We lrUlt, KntflUh. Scotch and Dutch!
Tiifu learn to In »uch (oik* alon«*;
Then Irani to let Kiiic tJcortfe'» throne
Krmemtwr; it won't Cost >•>» much -
Hut tuei you're Knrfli»h, <l<»auchrr-knr«m !
And we're >«.ur miiih! Hut we *hall if row.
Grow fairly. ««.|u.u«-l> , tall, alone —
A continent that tcorni a throne!
What ntjkr* we IJ 8 men want the earth
And all Acadla'* wealth and worth--
All earth and Canada our own?
Wli;, we're jtart KritflUh.doau-chrr-kneow !
lntader, outlow, freerfum'* foe.
The time lta» come when too mu*t i*av
Fur our tow n* you burned, or - Canada!
We banned you twice, can Imiii* *«'" thrice
Old man, there* mutic in the air!
• ;«-t out, w""t off, and call it ftqatre,
Or mukic, mubic, doan-chi*r kneow '.
Fair ftlftter of the nun and onov,
liruad Canada, brate, Manch, and true
What *tar to *tud our ti< M of blue!
And if yourKini,'. Kdwaril the I'at.
Should «i(*nif r he don't like that.
Why, we'll annri old Knglaod. t>-.
We yearn for i*land*. iS.>.m «.lni -S.n< <>*» !
FORTY YEARS
TIIK follow ioi» poem, uy» Western «. rapine,
frum the facile j"'" "f tltat talrutfld Human,
Will Allen Promtfoole, wa» read by Mr. W. D.
Wool win at a recent "tunoker" yiven to a «.mall
l«arty of intimate friend* by Maj.-r.ru. 11. <;.
Oil*, and i* *<• full of e»ed, Mr<ni|»' wntlnwnt
that it i» herewith reprwluced:
Te Maj.-r.m. Harrison (Gray Oti«.
FORTY YF.AKS.
Forty year*! Old *oldii*r rent.
Wear thy honor* on thy brea%t
Proudly; a* • Midler »houl<l;
Meek.y,a> a hero would.
Hani; thy ffood *word on the wall.
Subject to thy country* call.
Let it ru»t not w nile a foe
Tread* the »«lrmn earth l<elow.
Forty year*! The fight !• o'er:
H.i itk" thy sword .il»>\r the diMtr.
May the |>eace It helped to bring
Hover in thy heart and *inir
While thetrood year* gently roll.
Making tfladne** in thy miul.
May thy country's love and prid«*
lie thy light at eventide.
Forty year*:
When the la»t tattoo »hall beat.
May it Mill t>e mu*ic »weet
To the warrior* wailintr ear.
That no coward heart shall hear.
And when come* the la*t dread foe,
(•ather up thy feet end i»o,
lluttle-*»-ared and battle*fthod
Like a soldier to thr God.
May tli' eternal reveille
Call the to thy victory.
WILL ALLKN DROMGOOLB.
In a recent number of Western
Investments we stated that one
of the first institutions in a new
town is a newspaper. An exam
ple of this is Imperial, Cal., on
the Colorado Desert. The Pkkss
is already published there, al
though the village has just been
laid out and has but a few build
ings. The Pkkss is well printed
on book-paper, and is a most at
tractive and hustling paper. —
Western Investments.
Imperial preee
THE BIRD ON THE HAT
VMl.iwir.N luivr tirrii written on the
subject of the "bird on the hat,"
and it in ftomctimcfl attcrtcd that in
npitc of all, thin decoration i« more
worn than ever. Hut this may he
doubted. At any rate, any woman
who chooßCft, and many do choo*e,
to wear n hat unadorned with the <Ic
fuuet Imhlv of a t»ir»l, can do h<» nowa
day a without apj>earing cither Kiugular
or ill'drcftited.
The hope of the Atlduboti Society and
of various other organltatlotiN for the
protection of birdn, \* that the time
may come when a hat trimmed with
plumage will he an etiriou* an object
an the feather crown of an Afthauti
chief. One thing in certain, if fashion
ever does take a decided turn in thU
direction it ift unlikely that the old
barbarous custom will ever come back.
It Is so essentially ugly and un pleas*
ant in its ftiiggefttivcucA* that it need
only go out of ntyle for a few yean* to
be abhorred hi its true light. Hut there
are people who, if gloves and belts of
tanned human *kin from the dissecting
room happened to be the fashion,
would wear them without more com
punction than an Iroquoin warrier felt
in putting on his necklace of cut-off
human fingers.
The custom of decorating women's
hats with the plumage of birds is prob
ably an old as headgear itself, and may
have arisen in part from the notion
common to many savage tribes that
the qualities of an animal slain become
the property of the slayer. Moreover,
before the invention of velvets, gauze
and lace, the feathers of birds were
among the most beautiful things avail
able for the adornment of the human
i head. Tradition is partly responsible
for the persistence of the custom in
' these later days.
Hut there is nothing pretty in its
later developments, however appro
priate the wings or body of a bird
might have seemed to the head of the
hunter's wife. The modern hat is con
structed to tit the modern face, and
there is no beauty in tne juxtaposition
of a fair, intelligent, essentially civil
ized countenance and the body of a
a blackbird with its neck in a sugges
tive twist. It hints at ugly possibili
ties existing underneath the charm and
grace of the wearer. As for the face
that is not charming, or intelligent, or
kind, the bodies of two or three hum
ming-birds or the head of an owl,
speared with a hatpin and surrounded
with bows of ribbon, lend to such a
visage an aspect perfectly sinister.
It would be unjust, of course, to as
sume that there is real cruelty under
all this passive obedience to the dic
tates of fashion. Hut since hats and
bonnets quite as becoming and pretty
can be evolved without the bird decor
ation as can be devised with it, it does
seem that women of sense and feeling
might be contented without the outra
geous demand of of a yearly sacrifice
of bird life to adorn their heads.
There was much sense in the retort of
the little boy, who, when reproved by
his pretty Sunday-school teacher for
robbing birds' nests, and asked, in
pathetic tones, where the mother was,
replied, "She ain't sufferin' none, miss
— she's on yer hat." There is no ex
cuse of ignorance to be pleaded. The
public has been told over and over,
again that wearing Ospreys means the
death of multitudes of helpless
young birds, since the feathers are
best at the breeding season and the
parent bird must be shot then. The
fact that birds of particularly fine
plumage are often skinned alive has
also been made known; and the silence
of woodland* and meadows, where the
miller's agent has been, speaks for it
self. It in about time this »eu»ele»s
ami cruel fashion should go the way
of the noserings and war-paint.
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stage line from that place to Imperial, leaving Flowing Weells at 8 £
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Distances from Imperial to
Flowing Wells 28 miles
Blue Lake 8 miles
Cameron Lake Camp 1«» miles
Monument 220 l^U miles
Salton River 20,'/ miles
West Mesa 27% miles
Kast Mesa 28J6 mile*
Alomo Mocho 30# miles
Gardener's 36V miles
Seven Wells 43^ miles
Salton Crossing 47/ l 3l 3 miles
Cook's Wells S\)i miles
Dos Alamos &)}* miles
Hanlon's (Vs.l* miles
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