Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-08-16

IIOu HIS uu1OrCundCe ndDlC O1 SCaVlng
 off bill-collectors. Later he was a candidate for mayor, and the town needed him; the newspapers forgot all
 party ties and boosted him as one who was honoring the municipality by con- asenting to run. He should have been elected by an overwhelming majority;
 but the people who had climbed that
 weary stairway to his office over and
 over, and who had been put off until
 tomorrow or the day after, got out
 and worked against him.. They voted
 against him in every ward, and then put on false whiskers and repeated, and he was beaten so badly that
 Aristides the Just looked like four
 time winner by comparison.
 It broke his heart; he thought the
 town loved and admired him; and the
 town would have done so had it not
 been for his habit of making people
 earn their money twice.
 It would seem like genial soul like
 Walt Mason never could become un- popular, but just that thing happened to him once. He says the neighbors quit stopping to hear his photograph, and he was met with stony stares in-
 stead of glad smiles, and one evening by the fireside reading a report of the fourth assistant postmaster-general, a Ibrick came through the window and nearly hit his bald hea6 He couldn't it, for he knew of no harm he had done. On the contrary, he felt that he had gone out of his way to win his neighbors' love and affection, among other things having that very evening put his trick dog through a lot of stunts for the entertainment of the children in his block, after hav- ing trained the animal for that ex- press purpose. He says:
 I hunted up Bill Kershaw, neigh bor who makes George Washington look like an amateur when it comes to telling the truth. Bill can't tell lie without the use of anesthetics. It's good to have such a man in the com munity when some ghastly details must be revealed.
 I told him that I must know what I had done to get in wrong. could n't stand it to have the neighbors treating me as tho I had broken out with the itch.
 "It's that blamed dog of yours" said Bill. Don't you know that the beast is neighborhood pest? A woman can't lay down pie or piece of beefsteak or anything but your dog swipes it. Also, he kills chickens, and he chewed the sawdust out of Miss Angora cat, and he up- set all the flower-pots on Joe Hemp stead's porch, and he craWled out of a mudhole and shook himself just when the Gault girls were going past n their white dresses, and he--"
 I didn't wait for any more. thought I was doing public service when I educated dog to perform like , genius, and merely managed to make myself a social outcast.
 This leads MT. Mason to the con ,lusion that after all it's the little hings that go to make man popular ,r the reverse in his home town. They may put up triumphal arch to lim on Broadway when he visits New York; but he says, "If I owe the but her for the soup-bones l bought sev- .ral weeks ago he will report the mat CT to the Retailers Association, and he secretary will notify the local ner- hants that my stand-off is no good, md that will make the triumph in lew York seem like tinkling cymbals nd sounding brass" Further:
 To be popular in Emporia, l must e eternally vigilant about the little hings. If let the dandelions grow n my lawn the seed will blow over o adjacent lawns and take root, and ause lot of trouble; and my neigh ors won't be imprest when 1 tell hem have been invited by the Board Trade of Akron, Ohio, to spend veek there as the guest of the city.
 If I burn cheap coal in my furnace, lrning from the chimney great vol mes of black, greasy smoke, so that 'hen the women hang out their wash ,g number of, beautiful gowns are lined, it won't do me any good to isit those women and tell them with ardonable pride that new five cent igar has been named after me, and nat my portrait, Autographed in col rs, is on each box.
 If you would know the truth about
 great or famous man, don't consult he biographical works; drop into his and ask the business men n the main street. The outside world nows of the big things he has done; is hometown knows the little things nd the little things count