The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-04


Is an alarming increase in the drink
evil among women and children All
through the shopping district and In
other parts of the city as well are
drinking parlors fitted up especially
Tor women. The habitues Of these
places take their cocktails and whisky
straights as regularly as men. These
women belong to the best classes In
other words, they are mice" They are
wives, daughters. mothers, who have
good homes. often women Of wealth
and culture. in every way respectable.
Comment is unnecessary. but that
temperance wave which has been
sweeping over the rest Of the country
might find profitable employment by
doing one or two sweeps In this city.
new use has been found for a deep
bass voice. In the little town Of
Goshen, which is not so far from
Gotham but that we can hear a voice
Of the magnitude Of this one. fire
was recently averted In the following
stentorian manner. Edward Wood.
possessOr Of the voice. is a railroad
Waterman In a high tower. One night,
observing a blaze in a nearby lumber
yard. he improvised megaphone out
Of newspapers and woke the volunteer
fire department. calling in turn each
members name. although some Of
them lived more than a mile away
Possessors Of deep bass voices should
take the hint and hire out as fire
alarms.
In last will filed for record in Chi
cagO the other day to establish title to
property of an estate in Chicago &C.
ours this provision: mo part or parcel
Of this property shall be spent for
dances or card parties, in games of
chance or theater going" The will
was written by a woman in Michigan
whose husband formerly lived in Chi
cago. He was an exemplary church
man, and his widow desired to carry
out his ideas as far as possible in the
will The document provides further
that "a handsome headstone be put in
tering on the same. to be paid for out
of my estate" The testatrix was
buried in Henneker, N. H.. the town in
which she was born and where she
was married.
John Curran recently stole from
Thomas Quayle the enormous sum Of
cent. Quayle said it was his last
penny, and Curran was sentenced to
two and half years in Sing Sing.
The culprit should have known that it
is a crime hereabout to steal anything
less than million dollars and the
smaller the amount the greater the Of
Tense. But, since / cent was all his
victim had, how could the poor pick
| pocket get more? If all sentences for
larceny were on the basis Of two and
half years for every cent taken there
are some gentlemen in this community
who deserve several billion years.
There are many Armenians In and
about New York, and they report that
1t is believed by their kinSfolk In Tur-
key that it will be some time before
the danger Of repeated outbreaks of
bloOdthirstiness and lust and greed in
districts in the interior is over; hence
concern will be felt still for the Ar
menians and the Christian mission
| aries In those districts.
One explanation Of these conditions
is found in the fact that the laws Of
the Koran are the laws Of the state.
Under these laws the testimony Of
Christian is not valid against a Mo-
hammedan. A Mohammedan can shoot
Christian for debt. If Christian
makes trouble in MOhammedan's
family he must, according to the Sheri
be buried in the ground up to his mid
die and left to die. A Turk may break
up a Christians family without pun
iShment.
Many Of the Mohammedan Turks be-
lieve the constitution to be Christian
continuance and something they should
never tolerate.
Richard Croker's old desk, at which
he began work when fire commissioner
SO many years ago that nobody remem-
bers just when it was, recently needed
the attention Of the wood surgeon and
was removed to the repair shop with
vast ceremony. The regard with
which Croker is held in New York
may seem a mystery. but the cause Is
not far to seek Bad as he was, Gro
ker was so much better than the pres
emit head of Tammany that by compar1-
son he seems a paragon of virtue.
Cruelties In Turkey.
A vivid picture Of the cruelties that