| Show coon COOK THE TIlE VICTIM OF Ok DELUSION DEI SION New ew York World So amazing in is Dr Di Cooks failure fl luro to nake milk an intelligent attempt to defend his ils title to the tho discovery of the pole polet It t is B not strange that the theory theor of is ie advanced to account for his ils preposterous claims The fixed Idea of great at achievement Is one of at the most common forms of or aberration Asylums Asylum are fire full of oC tors ors explorers and amid founders of oC new re rc religions Such delusions may ma lIla even ex ox lilt 1st st In men ordinarily accounted sane The Tho classic case of oC this sort Jort Is George orge IV of England Tho The battle of Waterloo occurring when he was 54 years old was tho th great event of hIs hs life Though ho he 10 was sane ane as ns royal r Georges went ho h 10 came to believe l flom constantly hearing It discussed that he had ha himself boon bean n present at the great eat struggle Arid And Andas Aridas as few Cew dispute a IL king ho lie long lived comfortably In his honest error Cook Coole has h s for tor years vears been Interested In arctic exploration He Ire went once with Peary to o the tho north unit and once creditably served In n the Belgica antarctic expedition For years vears he has lias talked and thought thou ht and amid written of oC dangers amid sufferings In inthe the tho ho north His lIis dreams have hue been of tho blue alue ribbon of at adventure the thc pole Taken north by b Bradley he sets out with Ith an Eskimo party part Somewhere west vest of oC Cape Columbia ho he reaches tho the place of oC the tha western world He H endures the endless mono l 5 tony t y of at tho t o arctic sea of o oI ico Ic co anti and snow I W WI WIL I IL t and desolation He Ho suffers hardships I as 18 real as nI the tho actual discovery of o the pole iole might have entailed Ho lIe spends a winter In the edge of or the polar night battling with cold hunger and the lone liness that thai often drives men mad Just escaping death he emerges the tIme wasted wreck of oC a man that Whitney met near Etah Would it bo be strange If IC a aman aman man maui so trained and so environed should como come to believe himself the polar con conqueror conqueror conqueror His vague narrative his Ills care tree free happiness when greeted home homo his neglect to manufacture proofs for fOI the Danes are ale consistent with such a sup position The Time only other theory Is that Cook a man who highly values alues the worlds good opinion deliberately en toned upon a clumsy fraud and antI for tho time wake of ot brief applause and a 11 little dirty money advanced claims whoso whose failure ho lie must have havo known would not leave him In imi any civilized land a 11 refuge where under Ma hi own name ho could be secure from ridicule mend and contempt We e shall not quarrel with any of ot Dr Cooks friends who caught between these harsh alternatives prefer now no to be bo lioto that he lie Is one more in the tIme long list Hat of oC men who have fallen fallout prey to hallucinations of or their own greatness |
