Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-04

talk in their sleep. as well as talk all
day
You surely cannot complain of lack
of diversified sounds remarked the
friend. ANY pigs or sheep on the east
of you?'
Invalidity of Ordinances.
NO No pigs. thank goodness an
swered the tired man. for. strange TO
say. l am informed that the police ordi-
nance to the keeping of pigs within the
District is yet valid, though il may be
valid merely because it hasn't been
tested. like the cattle. chickens and pig
con ordinances and found to be invalid.
But we have three goats in the back
yard just next to the chicken tiend. Two
of which are robust billies who show a
dozen times an hour fixed deternina-
ton to butt their way through the alley
fence to reach the tin cans and billboards
in the vacant lot few PAGES up the al
ley.
The man on the other side of the pigeon
chap has started a kennel of fox terriers.
These terriers may do something else
than bark at all hours of the day and
night. If they do anything else. it hasn't
come under our observation. Since the
dog muzzling law has gone into effect
they never leave the yard
Then the fellow on the other side of
large expaase of tin roof over the star
board quarter of his premises. He calls
himself a lover of cats What l call him
would be ippolite 10 mention out aloud.
He has three families of kitties of va
rious groWths and colors and lung capac-
ity. The grandmother and mother cats
and the grandfather and father cats. not
to mention the all kinds of little kitties
are always at home every day and night
of the month
To IL parafi. ifat
The tin roof is about twenty-five feet up
and on a level with our dining room WIN
dows-you can't beat the hospitality of
these cat families.
L don't wonder that you are peaked
and hollow-eyed." commented the other
man sympathetically.
Act of Congress Needed.
The trouble" continued the tired man.
with the animal ordinances in the Dis
trct is that we haven't a mandatory act
Of Congress against such nuisances. You
can keep chickens on your premises just
so long as they don't run at large in the
streets. And perhaps they may even do
this.
You can keep cows anywhere from
Massachusetts avenue to the river front,
provided they are kept in sanitary
stables. whatever that is supposed 20 really
mean. And as for pigeons. goats, geese,
dogs. cats. horses. parrots and perhaps
little Mary lambs. not to mention other
animals. l am now too sleepy to think
of to suit your own individual taste.
IF 1t is the intention of the city au-
thorities to rid the city of these unde-
niable nuisances an act should be framed
for presentation to Congress at the next
session which will exclude them once and
for all time from within the city bound
aries. The only way that the owners
of these pests can now be proceeded
against is a common law suit on the
ground of maintaining a nuisance. or to
have two or more sufferers go before the
United States District attorney and en-
deavor to secure an Indictment from the
grand jury upon the same general legal
ground. These suits and eXpedients are.
of course. out of the question to the aver
age citizen.
Hence" concluded the sleepy man, as
he stumbled off the car at the Treasury
corner, ''let us All live in hope that such
an act as suggested will surely be passed
at the next session OF Congress and cut
ourselves loose from our old-style village
privileges