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Show Some Dogs and : Some Folks i By C. B. WHITFORD ;J 1II---' Ilyl2, Woatorn Newspaper Union.) "There's something wrong with me, Doc. I wish you would lind out what It is ami put me right." "You're not a bad looking dog, Max. Vou make a good front and they say you're a pretty wise fellow, too. Why, I hear you can do more things than any dog In the neighborhood. What lppears to be the trouble with you." "My father, you know, was a pretty 5ood water spaniel. So I took a notion no-tion that my best graft would be in ;he water line. I liked the water for awhile and just as I was getting wise to my work I took an awful dislike to It. I was in trouble all the time with everybody. One of my grandfathers was a pretty good greyhound. He was a great success in his line. I kept thinking about him so much that 1 just hated to go Into the water and finally gave It up altogether and tried the greyhound graft. I liked the job for n while. Then they told me I was too cunning to do greyhound's work and wasn't fast enough. Besides every once in a while the old love for the water would come back and that is bad business for a greyhound. They told me that if I didn't know anything else I might do the greyhound's work very well. At any rate I was so smart about so many other things I lost my job." "I suppose now you'll try a terrier's ter-rier's job and Just as you get going nicely the old greyhound and water spaniel blood will crop out and distract you. Some day when you ought to be attending to a terrier's work you'll want to take a sprint just to satisfy the old feeling and show the rest of the terriers what you can do. Then you'll want to go fooling around the water when you ought to be looking after the rats and the woodehueks. You're just like some folks I know '-hat ain't bred right. They flop from one thing to the other and get a whole lot of general knowledge that Won't get them anything. The fellow that finds out what his best graft is and Etlcks to it is the fellow that gets the money. Of course he looks foolish when he mixes up with a lot of folks who know everything, but In his own line he has them all beat. No, Mas, the all-round wise folks won't do. It's the fellow that knows one thing well and knows enough to stick to It that 6liines. He's a star. The rest have got too many little lamps scattered so they don't shed much light. This is the day of the big single star." "Maybe I ain't just struck my right graft, Doc. I'm wise enough to make a hit if I could only get in right." "It ain't that. Y'ou ain't wise enough to stick. You think you'll strike some- thing better when you can show oft your versatile talents. But ail jobs are pretty much alike. They are what the fellow makes them. I know a man just like you, Max. He's bright, he's Industrious and a good fellow. .He has done almost anything from making Ice cream to running an undertaking establishment. His ice cream was bad. The livery and his funeral service was not tit for the dead. "But I'll tell you, Max, there Is a little hope for you. I know a lot of folks that have failed at everything they had undertaken and having nothing noth-ing else to do they went into politics and made a great hit. If you can find a Job something like that you may be a winner. Otherwise you are lost. "The really wise man who is a specialist spe-cialist has no chance In politics. Ha can shake hands but one way, and he Is all the time talking and saying things people remember. He's got opinions that are fatal to hjs success, He can only carry one bucket on one shoulder and If he don't like a bad thing, he can't help saying so, and offending a whole lot of voters that look at these bad things through .Tf.o tlcal eyes. The man in politics that knows one line well kuows enough tu know he doesn't know everything. If he is the big chief lie knows enough to pick out his specialists. But ha don't often get the chance to be bi chief, for If he did he would kill tlm game. It is one of your all-rouii.3 fellows that knows a little of everything every-thing and a great deal of nothing' that makes his mark in the political ring. A fellow with Just your kind of mixed bleeding. A real mongrel in the .affairs .af-fairs of the world, who thinks he's an all-round philosopher, able only tu make a front and play tight and loose with any proposition the people hand ; him." "I'm there with the front all right. Doc, and I don't know enough about anything to hurt. What me and the political stars have got Is talent ail right, and if I can fit my talent Into . the 'ight place I ought to shine. Some star politician ought to appreciate ma because I can sure go all the gtiis." |