Arizona republican., 1898-02-02
PHOENIX STREETS.

"A man came to me yesterday and applied for job shearing sheep" said sheepman. "I asked him if he. had ever handled the shears. and he re- piled that he had done nothing else for years I put him on the Mst.''
 Farther on down the street I met a man whom I recognized as the ex- change editor of a paper I had work ed on back east His face walI ano. nt- ed with it's accustomed happy smile.
 Well. old man, I've caught on here. Got back at the old job again I was put on the staff this morning, and will get busy in a day or two.'
 What kind of a park is fhis?" and the stranger stopped and gazed at the trees from the nursery sst out op- posite the Hotel Adams with an earnestness that made she trees stop growing for minute.
 Washington street will soon be down to the water level, and then we will have to travel from one place to another in, gondolias,' was the com plaint of an cratic man vest terday. And it was only. a few days ago that he was kicking because the mud and slush WAS allowed to remain on the streets.
 A street 1oafer accounts for the presence of so many ranchers in town these days by the absence of water in the big canal, which he says was turned off for ten days. This is the first information we have had that ranchers ever drink water.
 Spring is here and the waste bask- cts of the managing editors are being decorated with poetical effusions.
 '3ThiS climate makes a, pe sSimist of a man from the north. When he ar rives he is full of enthusiasm and gives it out to the world that he is going to make himself rich in a year. He has probably read the glaring tales sent out by the real estate boomers, and he is pretty we'll filled up before he gets here. He fails to get rich in the appointed time, and the reac- ton lets him down into the crowd of growlers who were here before him.
 The speaker was a man who had come to this valley expecting to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow in the good old way. He worked here just as he did in the north, and he is better off than he ever was there When he comes to town it ia on busi- ness and he does not spend any time on the streets with the men who have nothing else ito do apparently but stand around with their hands in their jeans and utter derogative words about the valley.
 ''I. seems to me that the prop9r way to advertise the resources of this val ley is through the newspapers pub lished here," is the wise conclusion a we'll known rancher has come to- They tell the story as it is from day to day, and after a person reads a pa per for some time he faels aa though he knew the country it comes from, even if he has never been there. Re ports and special arL:clas se1t ou, from any place are always colored. There is always 8 great deal said that is not true. People have come to ex- pect this and I believe they will soon get at that sage where they will be- lieve nothing contained in this class of literature. I notice that The Re publican, takes good care of the inter CSIS Ol 'Sut NdIISy, duu lty WIFE IS dl- ways complaining because I send the paper away 10 friends before she has time to read it.
 'I never knew 1t was so easy to break and form habits until I came to Phoenix" said a visitor q was much taken with the ordinance passed by the city fathers to punish men fer expectorsting upon the sidewalks. It was good law and I soon discov- cred that I was one of the "hogs" the law was after. I adopted the new code of manners the law forced upon me, and I was surprised to find myself instinctively going 70 lthe edge of the sidewalk. I went to mining camp last spring and remained there several months. There were. no side walks here, and men spat where they chose. But when I came back here found myself using the tilestones of the walk as cuspidors just as I had become accustomed to treat the adobe sidewalks at the camp. It only took a few days to get back into the habit I left behind me when I went away"