The Florence tribune., 1899-11-18
UPS AND DOWNS.
Every Man Has His Day and You Can't
 Keep Good Man Down.
from the Jerome Hustler.l

From the Jerome Hustler.l
 Never look down on man because he is down. That is something which every man and every woman should bear in mind. In this free country of ours, where the unexpected is always liable to happen and where the pos abilities are great, there is DO telling what change few days may make in anyone.
 Suppose, for instance, young man who seems to be barely clinging to the bottom rung of the ladder of success arrives in town and seeks work Give him lift, and you will not only be acting humanely, but you may be pur- suing the best policy. Suppose you slur the unfortunate man because he is down and refuse to speak to him in public, and in the course of two or three years he becomes one of your most influential and wealthy citizens. And suppose you should come up for election to the office of county barber, dog catcher or some such responsible office, and the enemy you purposely made uses his influence against you. There you are. A kind word and helping hand when the young man sorely needed it would have made him your lifelong friend.
 Now there is Bill Howard, for in- stance. He came to Jerome last January, to relieve us of the job of delivering meat for Tovrea 6 Clay. He had only one collar. As we call to mind the three days we went around with him, showing him the flesh route, these few lines enter our head--so ap- propriate, too:
 Over the trail so slippery.
 Down to the 800 roast.
 We Led the way on our charger.
 While Billy came on like ghost His teethwere knocking together,
 Mercury was forty below;
 The wind blew through his whiskers,
 And his hair was full of snow. Handsome and dashing was Billy.
 Long, cadaverous and gay;
 He looked like a beef led to slaughter
 When we showed him the route that day. "Beefsteak pork chops" he hollowed.
 Those mornings when we rode roundi And the hearts of the girls, God bless 'enl
 Went fapatyfiop at the sound.
 Naru Tli1l trs ie m noua- 1ff fbo Jaror,1a Telephone company, owns one collar and a pair of socks and has one young lady and oneman working under him. He wouldn't grind pound of sausage any more, and hardly recognizes To. vrea when he meets bim. In one more year, if talking keeps up-and it is sure to, since the telephone is connect ed with many private residences where women live-this same Billy is liable to own the whole talking plant. We were good to him. in his strugg ling days and showed him how to hold out to the best advantage. He is friendly towards us and will always be so.
 Now we shall cite another example to prove the truth of our argument: Shepherd & Dewees. Their names are as familiar to the public as is that of the Hustler. They both came to Jerome on the swine train, vulgarly speaking. They had thirty-four cents between them. Now Will Dewees has sold his half ef the store to Shep, a is touring the state of Texas on 1n automobile. Shep. dresses in good store clothes and buys shoes for his baby. He is an influential citizen and DO one remembers the days of his poy- erty. Of course he delivered ice for the F. F. Miller company when the ice trade was brisk, but that is forgotten now. He is only MT. Shepherd, the proprietor of the Red Front fruit store, 8 man of honor and means, 2 politician and a scrapper.
 Con 0;Keefe you all know. A big, good natured Irishman with fine wife and two orosy-cheeked, smart little boys, superintendent of the Cobre Grande Copper company and owner of fine three story concrete building and 2. dry goods store. The first time he pushed his face into the Hotel Burke 10 Prescott, not over seven gears ago, hs i was refused credit for a fifty cent meal 1 He had not cent then, had no wife no concrete store, no superintendency of anything except burro- and pacl saddle, which he had followed over. tn,
 trail from Phoenix. To tell the whol,
 truth, he was one of the men tha
 put burre and pack into.a box car a
 Tucson and stole a ride up to Maricopa
 When the brakeman opened the bo.
 car door and saw the happy family, h
 laughed until he utmost fell down in
 fit. Con and his partner were mead
 ing stoves and soldering dishpans then
 Now look at him. His word is a
 good as any mans bond and Jerome
 proud of such citizen. Those wh