Show DR COOK IN DEMAND One theatrical manager has cabled a mighty offer to Dr Frederick Cook who is said saki to have hae discovered the North Pole The man will wilt be in very great demand demaRd He is said ald to look forward to the joys and luxuries of ot civilization He has been for years beyond the region of or comfort Naturally he will Ill find keen delight In Ia customary living It must be a most frightful thing to live in the utter silence of those forbidden latitudes The cold is enough the constantly searching cold of the per perpetual perpetual perpetual winter It must drain the phy physical ph physical resources of a man bred to the temperate zone It must so 80 wear on his bodily powers as IUS to affect his men mental mental mental tal poise There Is a problem In hunger No such food a as he has hu known can be car carried carried ried tied with him He must fires of his blood with edibles unspeakably repulsive to the finer sense nee of an American His companionships must be hope hopeless hopeless less leM Their Influence wilt will of nece necessity relax reJa the manhood of or the gentler born But most mo t oppressive of all is 1 the thc constant the intrusive the limitless silence of or the unbounded And what is left of a mans mind after hunger and cold and low companion companionship ship have done their work ork for months and years might well give way in the unutterable stillness of the pole The wonder will not be that Dr Cook has found the pole poiso so much as that having found It he should retain the manpower to return t |