The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-20

curls. Tho sun doesn't complain, and u
doesn't cost the zephyr continental CENT.
Why should the Times interfere2 People are
always having fling ut these excellent
young men partly through jealousy. partly
through pure meannoss: but It seems to BIO
carrying tho thing too far to urge their
punishment to tho Spanish American coun-
tries.
Besides, II the Times had been really ans-
ious to do the friendly thing. 1t would never
have proposed expectation when there is 80
much active and remunerative employment
right here at home. In Sundays DEMOCRAT,
for instance, there appeared the following an
nounoement:
4 .OsT BILLY GOhT-sTRAYED AWAY
llfrom tho pramleea Of tho owner, on Wednes,
day. January Il. u TAME GOAT. black and
white. with short horns and clipped ears.
| liberal reward will DO paid for return OF
tho goat to No. 10 Hospital street.
Now, what we want 10 know ie. why should
man, especially one who Is young, hand
some, well educated and Of unusual intelec-
tual endowment. seek work upon foreign
strand when such opportunities as this
await hin2 Where could one lind pursuit
better adapted To tho lamp post brigade than
the pursuit Of thls errant billy goatl Let
| him who hnB undertaken tho discovery and
capture OF lost blly.goat Of average Mt
talnments say II there Is any srm OF human
effort moro perfectly calculated 10 develop q
mans powers OF mind and body, or to give
play TO his knowledge OF languages. This is
not merely an opening for one OF the idle-it
gives unlimited opportunities to fifteen or
| twenty OF them.
| And then the reward IA rich. Not only does
the bereaved owner promise handsome re-
com pence, but think what the citizens OF tho
neighporhopd to which that billy CONT has
strayed would cheerfully contribute to reward
| the person or persons who recovered him
from their midst Suppose this black and
white goat to be tame, as described; every
observing person knows that there Ia no agent
so destructive To picket fence, or door-steps.
or veloclpedes, or anything of that sort. as a
really tame billy-Roat. Tho goat In his
natural state browses on boulders and shale
and hornblende and quartz, and Is therefore
com paratively harmless but tho tame goat Ia
altogether dreadful engine, before which
mans handlwork disappears rs does the
frail arbor and delicate gingerbread work Of
tho rural districts before the devouring
cyclone. We aee from the terms OF the ad-
vertisement that tho goat In question has
been absent since January IA, and, without
stopping to make a very nice calculation, IL
strikes ,ls as safe to say that II he has been
| Ia one vicinity all these six days there would
| BIO no trouble about raising purse OF
| 800 among the neighbours. BY this time
there Is not clothes-pole, or baby-car-
rage, or ohieken-coop. or pair OF gum
shoes, In an area OF twelve or fifteen
squares, and by the end OF the week the In
habltants will be stripped Of oil their largest
articles OF croekery and hardware, even to
the scraper ut tho front door. Now, rather
than emigrate to Mexico or Guatemala, where
there is no certainty rs to lamp posts, or
brown paper for cigarettes, why do not fifteen
or twenty OF our unemployed young men on
Canal street organize an expedition In search
OF this billy goat Why do they not collect
their intellectual powers, brush up their
knowledge OF the modern languages, and go
forth IL isn't only this goat; other goats
will DO lost other rewards will be offered for
their return, and other purses will be donated
by grateful neighborhoods In acknowledge
ment Of their delIverancs. Properly worked
up. this thing OF capturing lost billy goats
might develop into regular Industry. afford
Ing wholesome and remunerative, not to say
exciting, occupation to hundreds OF talented
but Idle young mon now languishlng on the
brink OF tho Canal street cutters and wearing
out their youth and beauty In fruitless
struggle with tho tropical luxurIance OF our
lamp posts