Show handicap too heavy there Is a vacancy in the position of deputy warden of the county penitentiary tent iary lary of caldwell N J and as a blary of 1380 joea goes with the job it may be imagined that there was quite a rush of applicants for the position which has always been considered something of a sinecure the hopes of the score of politicians with a longing eyb eye for the position have been rudely shaken it if not shattered however by the announcement that the applicants would have to undergo a civil service ervice examination as to their fitness bitnes tor for the position that was bad enough for politicians as a rule have no great love for civil service examinations ami nations but what made hilbigs a thousand times worse and caused the majority of the applicants to withdraw from the race was waa the official clat announcement no that no applicant would N be considered eligible who could not mako make a running high jump of at least four feet four alches imagine a well fed politician making a running high jump of four tet fett fourt |