The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-21


for the distinction of having discov-
cred the North Pole has come for
ward. The people were getting so
used to the North Pole discoveries
that they actually miss something If
a week passed without a new an
nouncement of discovery. The polar
explorers seem to be lacking in enter
prise and it is not surprising that
they never reached the pole. To the
world in general the quarrel between
Peary and Cook presents many anus
ing features. The public which has
so patiently waited for the discovery
of the North Pole for hundreds of
years can we'll afford to wait little
longer, until the fight between the
rivals is over and the question de-
cided beyond dispute, which one of
the two claimants is entitled to hon.
orary membership in the Ananias
club.
The alleged discovery of the north
pole has had one deplorable result
1t Is true, it has had no effect upon
the stock market, but it has caused
the outbreak of a new craze. Some
enterprisins concern has put in the
market North Pole Eskimos," sort
of fuzzy doll supposed to represent
an Eskimo in his fur garments. There
is a close resemblance between the
North Pole Eskimos" and the Tied
dy Bears" Of former seasons and a
justified suspicion that the concern
has utilized the remainder Of it's
stock of Teddy Bears by transform
ing them into Eskimos However
that may be, the new toy sells like
hot cakes and there seems fair pros
poets that American childhood will
undergo another severe spell OF toy
monomania, as taste-corrupting as
the teddy bear craze
AS a general rule the world has
little sympathy with persons who
commit suicide BY the thoughtless
who never take into consideration the
courage required to overcome the in
born desire to prolong life, suicide
is interpreted as cowardice, no mat
ter what the immediate cause or mo-
tive was. Of course, there are excep-
lions, and 1t is safe to assume that
the man who tried to commit suicide
the other day at Maspeth, L. l., will
find thousands of sincere sympathiz-
ers. He lived with his aunt, who is
the mother of a little boy baby,
named Willie" AS the young man
explained in letter intended to be
fn h fc
q aunt drove him to suicide by ever
fastingly RECALLING him with accounts
of the wonderful things that Willie
did. Like many thousands of other
mothers In whom the otherwise ma
tural fondness for their child has de-
veloped into a mania, the woman in
question never considered the posi-
bility that the nerves of the persons
around her might not be attunej to
the rawlings of her monomania, and
the result was that she nearly talked
her nephew to death.
Man may be brute, but when 1t
comes to subtle, cunning and fiendish
cruelty woman takes the palm Only
a woman could have conceived Of the
Joke" of sending one undertaken
after the other to a house where no
one had died and where there had
not even been case of sickness for
a long time. In every case the un-
dertakers had been called up by q
woman, who informed them that
somebody had died at a certain ad-
dress In the Bronx and requested
them to call there with the gruesome
paraphernalia as soon as possible. A
perfect procession of undertakers was
thus kept going to that house until
the owner. driven frantic, appealed
to the police for protection.
There is vacancy in the position
OF deputy warden of the county peni-
Tertiary at Caldwell, N. j., and, as
a salary of $3.50 goes with the Job,
1t may be imagined that there was
( quite rush Of applicants for the po-
sition which has always been con-
sidered something of sinecure The
hopes of the score of politicians with
a longing eye for the position have
been rudely shaken If not shattered,
however, by the announcement that
the applicants would have to under
go civil service examination as TO
their fitness for the position. That
was bad enough, for politicians. as
rule, have no great love for civil
service examinations. But. what
made things thousand times worse.
and caused the majority of the pros
pective applicants to withdraw from
the race, was the official announce
ment that no applicant would be con-
sidered eligible who could not make
running high jump of at least four
feet and four inches Imagine a well
fed politician making a running high
jump of four feet four,
To the strains Of Bringing in the
Sheaves" and ether popular airs,
Nose Mandelsen, a Grand street corn
doctor, is now removing warts from
fingers and corns from toes. Nose
makes his rounds in a wagon. The
other day he appeared with a hand
organ In the vehicle.
Come on, let's see your hands"
he cried, as was his wont. When
hands were shown and an operation
was necessary, he set the hand organ