The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-04-23

more chan seven weeks. yet many
people are expecting an immedi-
date return of that prosperity
which characterized the admins
trations OF Arthur and Harrison.
The Republicans did prophesy
the return of prosperity. but the
! TELEGRAM on more than one &C.
casion, stated that it would take
considerable time to repair the
damage that our commerce and
our industries have sustained
during the calamitous four years
OF the Cleveland era. AS yet, we
are under the Wilson tariff, and
the officials at Washington have
had time 10 attend to little else
except to change the management
in the different departments.
Congress recently passed the
Dingley tariff act, and it now
awaits the verdict of the Senate.
Meanwhile the importers are
taking the advantage of the little
time left them of low tariff and
no tariff. and are crowdlng Ameri-
can ware houses with the pro-
ducts of cheap foreign labor.
Large shipments of wool will
take the place of that which
should be supplied by the Ameri-
can wool grower. Any sensible
man can see that such conditions
blockade the way to good times,
The creation of new offices
seems to have become a craze
which must be met sooner or
later and squelched. This desire
to increase the Office holding
class makes itself manifest in the
numerous proposals to add new
departments to the national adj
ministratlon. Almost every bu-
reau of any importance in any
one of the present departments
has grown to be self-suficient
that they imagine they should be
represented at the Presidents
council table. This would call
for a new cabinet officer, for an
assistant, for a first and second
assistant, and directly for several
thousand subordinate officers in
order to add proper dignity to
the big man who has succeeded
| in having his name added to the
eight who now sit with the Presi-
dent.
Calvin Davis. a nephew of Hon.
Henry G. Davis, of Washington.
and Col. Thomas B. Davis, of
Keyser, whose father died at
Richmond, and whose mother re-
sides in Baltimore. was found
dead in his bed at Piedmont at
half past five o'clock Sunday. DR..
H. I. Kalbaugh decided that
death resulted from heart dis
ease. Justice Allen considered
an inquest unnecessary. Young
Davis for years, and until recent
", held a clerkship with the
Davis Coal and Coke Company.
Harry G. Buxtin, manager of the
company, and cousin of Mr.. Davis
has taken charge of the funeral
arrangements. Mr.. Davis was
last seen alive by William r.
Powell, with whom he roomed.
at half-past one this morning.
Mr., Davis often kept late hours
and slept all day.
Richard Henry Stoddard, the
dean of American poets, was re-
Gently asked 10 name the ten best
short poeRs by British authors.
His answer was that it would be
impossible to pick out from the
mass of verse tenpoems and say,
arbitrarily, they are the best.
With this reply he named ten
poems, with the understanding
that he will not be put on record
as saying they are the ten "best
short poems. He says, in his
opinion, they are ten of the best
produced by English authors The
poems he names are ITO Lu-
casta, on going to the Wars by
Richard Lovelace; death Final
Conquest" by James Shirley;
Glow Sleep the Brave" by
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