The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-14
CLIPPINGS AND GOATS.
Mr.. Andrew Lang on Two Things thu
He Can Well Spare.

Mr. Andrew Lang on TWO TntnBs tu"s
He Can Well spare.
Illustrated London News.
Are other scribblers vexed by end.
less appeals for dollars from THE Au.
thor's Clipping Bureau" Boston? The
bureau may be very clipping" but
dc not want extracts Of criticisms fror:
The Lynn Item. The Bangor Commercial.
The Memphis Commercia1-Appea The
Brooklyn Tor any other Eagle). The
buffalo Enquirer. The Toledo Bee. Tn"
Omaha Cor any other) Bee. or The New
Berlinopolisville Wasp. The opinions
of these Bees. Items and other insects.
fowls Pailadia dhe New Haven Pallad-
dump and so forth on my unassuming
works are things, Totally Indifferent t.
me. !. To be sure, The Troy Press, The
Troy Record and The Troy Times may
have valuable light to throw on the
Homeric Problem. but The Mycenae
Press, The Record and The Times must
in fairness, also be heard. and they
arc not in the list OF The Authors
Clipping Bureau" are not among the
two hundred papers listed above"
A morbid desire for posthumous cri-
tjcism is anticipated. Few deaths re :.
result in the printing of more tnan
hundred obituaries, ard $40 would De
the usual cost of memorial aloun
that the family would cherish with
pride, W nat StdUudIu IL WIS
family honor! Speaking as the corp
and for 1.-The brithers Of the corp" and
other kinsfolk Of the corp" ! may
say that no obituaries are in demand.
The family, as a rule, know great
deal more about the corp" than the
authors of the obituaries. and 10
them extraneous Information Is less OF
a necessary of life than a culpable lux
ury. In America 1t seems that ber:ave-
consolation
from the perusal Of hundred obitu-
aries of the dear one departed. all writ
ten by the ''brainy" young men " the
Grand Rapids Herald. The Tacoma
Ledger, The Seattle Post-lntell1nger
and The San Francisco Salpinx. At
home / hope and believe that British
subjects do not care to know what any
newspapers say about them In life or
death. On an old wall Of an old house
In an old town have read the inscrlp-
ton: They say. What say they: Let
them be saying"
The goat Is the last domestic ami
NAL which endears itself as a pet IN
urban society. Judging by Theocritus
and works of Greek art. especially
gems, the Sicilian herdsman seems to
have been as fond Of his goats as pr.
Johnson was OF his cat Hodge. favo-
rite who gave many uncomfortable
being one Of the people who are made
uneasy by the presence Of cats. There
| is a story, of a young girl VINO was
afraid of mice. and was advised by ar
old Selfish lady to keep goat IN he'
| bed room-a sad dilemma for a och-
cate young thing.
Goats are no longer commonly seen
| ia the streets OF London. used "a
wonder who it was that kept fine goat
co =
cadilIy My business then led me daily
| TO 10 Scerie Street, and goat equally
puzziing used to haunt the doors OF
house there. think 1t was the once
CT The Nonconiofmist. This goat may
have been a religious symbol; perhaps
he was a scapegoat.
In 1875 a London goat made himself
famous as we learn frcm Mrs. Ctimen-
sons new work on Elizabeth Montasu::
"the Queen of the Elue stockings.
Writing to- the Duchess "of Portland
tho lady tells how Mr.. Page drove IN
his coach to visit Mr.. Edward Walpoie'
brother of Horace: I wish 1t had been
the refined Horace Waddlepootie
fiat he favored. tame street goat
followed MI, Page into Walpoles man m.
sion. and u, footnan, thinking that II
had come, like a lapdog. In Mr. Page
coach. carried it into the gilded saloon
where the gentlemen were converslhs.
Mr. Page thought that he goat was
Mr.. Walpolc's goat. while Mr.. Walpoi'
supposed 1t to be the attached compan-
ion Of Mr.. Page. Eacn wonder d at MS
friends taste in domestic pets. ABOVE
all when the goat taking his seat on
a carved and gilded chair DESTROYED
that article Of furniture. Mr.. wal
pole mildly said that he fancied tame
goats did great deal of HARM. and
Mr.. Page said che believed so, 100
Politeness has it's limits. and when the
goat. after much free and easy De
havior," was devastating the furniture.
an explanation was somehow arrived
at. and the goat was despatched cow
stairs with gestures unusual In the In
tcrcourse of gentlemn