Show DR COOKS COOK'S CHANGED ATTITUDE Doctor Cook appears appears to be recovering his nervo uen-e now that he has emerged from obscurity ty and ancl is n no more the subject subject sub sub- of tho fierce condemnation that for for for- fora a while h cw was s' s visited upon him on the exposure of the of his claim caim W that h he had been to the north pole I When he recently merged emerged after his per period od of of hiding he gave to Hampton Hamp Hamp- ton s 's Magazine a story which is called by that publication Doctor Cooks Cook's Confession This confession is that the tha doctor did not insist upon his claim that he was at the pole Ho He took an apolo apologetic attitude saying that tha ho be did not know whether he had been at atthe t the e pole or not and he pleaded for lenity of judgment jud nent and that honesty as a man bc be accorded n hi in his s mistake mistake mis mis- take take- apparently admitting n freely that mistake w was s rather more than possible pos pos- sible in his claim caim In that article he heis is s. s no lon longer er the discoverer of the north pole th predecessor of Peary at that remote point of the tho earth but is isa isaman a aman man pleading to be acc accepted on the score of manhood and honest intent At Atthe Atthe the same time it is dear clear from om his narrative narrative nar nar- abd from Commander Peary's account that it was quite impossible that Doctor Cook could ild have been at the pole i Now however as s carried in the telegraphic tele tele- graphic dispatches dispatches- yesterday morning Doctor Cok is disposed to be be ram ram- rampant rampant pant again and to insist the vcr vcr- Ii ity ty of his first reports He makes a fierce arraignment of Knud Rasmus- Rasmus sen undertaking to to convict con him of f se seven en separate an and distinct falsehoods But the tho world will wUl take tak little interest in ina a amere mere mero quarrel between Doctor Cook and Knud There appears to be personal feeling in it although it is s certain that at the first was disposed to credit Doctor Cooks Cook's claim that he had been at the pole pol Had maintained his former attitude it would have been a stron strong reinforcement to Doctor Cook I But t afterwards changed his his- mind professing that the change was brou brought ht about through his talk with the two Eskimos who were with Cook on his trip It is of little consequence whether I F t lied about Cook or orI not But it if is of tho greatest consequence conse conso- quence that the truth should be known about Cooks Cook's trip and exploration Enough is known now however to tomake tomake make it sure that Cook did not reach r the north pole And really wo we think that Doctor Cook would be better off if he ho did not undertake to to revive any controversies about this matter or to insist upon his claim or to enter into I a wrangle with oj anybody else Silence is his best d defense especially espe if ho wo would ld have the world do doas doas as he asks in his Hampton article give him ct for manly effort and true intent |