The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-17

the mnmcr on and on the high gear, :
taking an the grades on the roadways /
OF s1atesTaansaip. when Il was taken 7
away from him and turned over TO [
Clarence Watson. Davis HAS not
oeen happy since and he has been I
hankering TO get back the cOntrivanee
for long while, with the most PEREZ
slstent and lnSiztent hankerinE chat
ever banked IN youngsters bosom
A. Blakeslee White is possessed Of |
some banker, too He never had what /.
Davis had. even for twenty-three sig
nIfcant days, but he has always had /
the laundering TO get 1t. In fact and!
indeed, as a hankerer. a Blakesleef
has a record. end q mighty successful /!
one. OF course. this particular Yule- /,
tide laundering is not the same hank /;
that he has had heretofore. He began !
TO banker very early in life. first for |
one Office and then for another, and {
about every time he hankered he got !
the particular job he was hankerins |
for 1t is no telling secrets to state /
that the present state of laundering !
promises to be one Of the most hank I!
erorious hankerings that a. Blakeslee /
has ever had-auG the longest.
Emmett L. showalter has also been |
somewhat Of a hankerer in his day !
lie has been taking a rest, however, }
which has not injured those particular
parts Of the human mechanism which (
produce the hankeTings. The fact is |
that the rest seems to have resulted |
in a positive benefit, for Master /
Emmett is hankering in a most in /!
dustrious and optimistic manner
The only one Of these good little
Republican youngsters who have
written their letters and sent them
soaring up the chimney on the wire !
less wreath OF smoke, and who have !
made no secret of their having done
50, nor the specific contents Of their
several petitions. who is a newcomer
in the ofice:hankering contest, is |
Master Mann, sirnamed Isaac. This
youn gster is rather bashfuI and in
terestingly modest, and as a hankerer I
he does not hank as the other boys
do, but. then. ample allowance should
be made for his shyness. for the rea-
son that it is a new thing to him.
Just stop and think how would you
feel you who have never hankered !
for public Office IN your life. if you
shonId awake in the still small hours
of the night and find yourself all
restless and 'feverish with something I
- -, 49,. ,,.;,L ,--,h 49,. 49, .,,Y,-o
quentIy pronounced a hankering for !
office, and a we'll developed and SER
ious case, too since the hankering |
was for a great big. responsible, high
up and mighty Office like a member
ship. IN the worlds greatest law
making body?" Wouldn't YOU feel
surprised, somewhat abashed. timid,
modest. and not quite sure Of your
self especially when you found your (
self surrounded by 10 of your
friends all hanke1ing IN unison rwithi
sou, and who had somehow singled
your particular laundering out os- the
one and only hank to which they
would pin their boyish political for
tunes
And thus il is that Master Mann is
50 different from the Others. 1t is a
brand new experience for him. He
never dreamed of such a thing before.
He had. to be sure. helped others. He
had hankered frequently and most
generously with others who wereI
hankering for themselves and hank
eIfns for the help of himself and OF
Others. but TO ind himself quite sud
denly-himself a hankerer-it was
shockinG:y new and strange TO him
These be all nice little. good little,
falrhaired boys santa Claus should I
be good to them-our party's good Old
Santa CIaus-Eor he has always been
so "gooder'' to some than TO others.
All VIII doubtless be remembered
handsomely Most Of them have, eX-
cepinE one. And yet-!sn'c it TOO
bad and too sad-t!lat there IS but
ore suatorship and not as many OF F.,
them as would go Ground among all
the lictIe boys in the party household !
who may happen 10 want one either