Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-18
"OFF IN THE STILLY NIGHT"

'' | awake from dreams of thee, v ah falreSt one, to give unwecome ear to the blatant burro, the siren plaint of the rooster and the doeful wall of the sad-eyed hound with mournfu eyes fastened on the moon circling over the city. This the probable grievance, felt, if not always voiced by the average citizen of Globe as he is called from his sumbers by chorus that is not all harmony, by concourse of sounds that is not unmtigated sweetness.
 ''Breathes there a man with soul so dead who to himself hath never said' as a yeping cur disturbed his bed, Dwell! Whats the use in venting verbal spite on the nearest approach to music that Nature affords at night in our lusty municipality! In the late hours of the gloaming, at the reposeful midnight period and in the grayness of the dawnng our biological detil-sent chorus is always with us, with each member praying, growing or howling, according to the rare talent conferred upon him by the mystery of creation.
 Now there is the gentle Arizona nightingale (alias burro). Very often our nocturnal wake fitness may be traced directly to him by evi dence of ear. There is no chance to question our senses in his case. The expressive anthem which he enits is not to be compared or con- fused with anything else in the medley of sounds that emanates from the animal kingdom This docile little songster of the alkali knows when he wants audience and he gets it, whether we will or no, and the moderately seIf-cOnroll- ed person must admit that his graceful caroIing is more productive of profanity than of aesthet- ic pleasure
 Then there is the rooster whose vocastic efforts are contagious, and once eXerted by one member of the feathered community, inmedi- ately and forthwith spreads in waves of trem- ulos and quavers through every fowl colony in the neighborhood. We bear with his quaint and distinctive quality of song with some degree of satisfaction, for he is at least being that might have wasted his melodies on the desert air. had not some prmeval and enterprising person caused him to be domesticated.
 Last but far from least, if we base our esti- mate of his merits on the volume of discord which he voices, is the patient dog. He must be patient to endure the racket of which he is the mathematical source. Most persistent and most numerous is he among the favored song sers of the night watches. Like many human vocalist, he is singer without reason, unless accept deluson as sufficient cause. Appar- ently, the declusOn in his case is the idea that there is something radically wrong with the moon, for 1t takes hours of insistent and stren- uous complaint to fully express his dislike of astronomical conditions.
 Now, we can not conveniently suppress the waings of the burro nor would it be practical to muzze our roosters, but with the protesting hound is it not possible to do something Globe seems to be blessed with plethora of canines amounting to nothing less than glut on the local market. In fact, it is more than doubtful if any market whatever could be found for them even at the much maligned butcher shop or hot tamaIe counter And at the mere mention of sacrificing any of these oudvoiced pets to the meat cleaver or the creek, we can hear de- termined and voumnous protest go up from the owners of these valued if not valuable quadrupeds
 But if these possessors of musically inclined dogs could only purchase q muZzle that would