Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-19

NEW YORK, September lS.-A whole week and no new claimant for the distinction of having discovered the North Pole has come forward. The people were getting so used to North Pole discoveries that they actually miss something if week passes without n new announcement of discovery, The polar explorers seem to be lacking in enterprise and it is not surprising that they never reached the Pole4. To the world in general the quarrel between Peary and Cook presents many amusing features The public which has so patiently waited for the discovery of the North Pole for hundreds of years can well afford to wait a little longer, until the fight between the rivals is over and the question decided beyond dispute, which one of the two claim ants IS entitled to honorary member ship in the Annanias club.
 The alleged discovery of the North Pole has had one deplorable result It is true, it has had no effect upon the stock market, but if has caused the outbreak of new craze. Some enterprising concern has put in the market North Pole Eskimos, sort of fuzzy doll supposed to represent an Eskimo in his fur garments There is close resemblance between the
 'North Pole Eskimos' - and the ''Ted- dy Bears' of former seasons and justified suspicion that the concern has utilized the remainder of its stock of Teddy Bears by transforming them into Eskimos. However that may he, the new toy sells like hot cakes and there seems fair prospect that American childhood will undergo another severe spell of toy monomania, as taste-cor rupting as the Teddy Bear craze,
 As a general rule the world has little sympathy with persons who commit sui eide By the thoughtless who never take into consideration the courage re. quired to overcome the inborn desire to prolong life, suicide is interpreted as eowardice, no matter what the i'm mediate cause or motive was. Of course there are exceptions, and if is safe 10 assume that the man who tried to com init suicide the other day at Maspeth, l.. l., will find thousands of sincere sympathizers. He lived with his aunt, who is the mother of little boy baby, named "'Willie' As the young man explained in letter intended to be his last message to the world, his aunt drove him to suicide by everlastingly regaling him with accounts of the won derful things that Willie did Like many thousands of other mothers in | whom the otherwise natural fondness | for their child has developed a mania, the woman in question never consider | ed the possibility that the nerves of | the persons around her might not be at tuned 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 fendish | cruelty woman takes the palm. Duly a | woman could have conceived the joke of sending one undertaken after the other to house where no one had died | and where there had not even hecn a case of sickness for long time. In every case the undertakers had been called up by woman, who informed \ them that somebody had died at ccr tain address in the Bronx and requested them to call there with their gruesome paraphernalia ss 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 tentiary at Caldwell, x. J., and, as salary of $l,3S0 goes with the job, it may be imagined that there was quite q rush of applicants for the position which has always been considered something of sinecure. The hopes of the score of politicians with a long ing eye for the position have been rude " shattered. however, by the announce ment that the applicants would have to undergo a civil service examination