| Show DR COOKS COORS RECORDS A Christian ill dispatch brings news of or the arrival of or the secretary st of Dr Cook In with the doo docu documents t moats ments that are lIe to bo be examined In Cop Copenhagen Copenhagen enhagen for tho the purpose of at settling tho the North Polo controversy In a fow Cow moro more hours th 5 records will be ho In the hands handsor of or competent and Impartial scientists scientist and the public pubic can afford a reo Id to await their verdict before forming a final I opinion Wo We have no doubt the report will be bo closely scrutinized and ex cx examined examIned In every ever evem detail and amid the thc find findings findIngs ings will have the thu weight of authority The American minister In Copenhagen It seems seeing has been Invited to be bo present at the sessions of or the commission Ho He will be Iw In a position to Judge of or the proceedings and of oC the outcome whether er r tho verdict be bo favorable or 01 other otherwise otherwIse otherwise wise to Dr Cook To the casual observer It might ap up appear appear pear an nn cosy ca matter to fake r ke a report that would deceive even cven the elect hut but hulIt it Is not so 80 A thousand little things that experts are quick to detect would woul a faker Statements regarding the altitude o of oC the sun each day can be tested and so can n the nautical In Instruments by b which observations are made as to their accuracy The very photographs of or scenes and landscapes can an be made to tell their own story stol for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the shadows of or objects as seen been In tho the pictures can mali be measured and they the will vilI Indicate with accuracy the position of time sun at nt tho the time of oC the Impression on tho the plate When the records are aro ex cx examined by experts there Is very cry little doubt that tile the truth will be known There Thero are arc some signs that the th find findings findIngs ings of or the Copenhagen savants are to tobe tobe tobe be discredited In advance In case they are arc favorable to Dr Cook Thus Walter who has entertained tIme the world worM with spectacular failures in hI n bal hal baloon balloon loon oon experiments says There Is a general expectation that Cooks records when examined by tho university of Copenhagen will deter detel determine determine mine once for Cor all au whether ho he Is honest or an Impostor Imp stor In view ot the physical k of or doing what he claims to o have done and In view vie also of or tho the ease aso with which astronomical observations may bo be fabricated I can cannot cannot cannot not share nham this view That Is to say sa In the Judgment ot of Wellman Cook has ha not reached tho the North Pole no matter what Impartial scientists may say I after an examina examination examination tion lon of or his records s Is that thal lair fall Or 01 honorable True thin the Utah leaders leader of oC the he persecution of the Church Ch sonic some years ears ago sent to the United States Slates Senate a number of or accusations with ho tho understanding that tho the verdict of oC that hat august tribunal would be accepted If f favorable to the tho accusers but io me I If not but that course courle courses Is s not generally deemed n neither fair C nOI nr honorable f r 1 t I In iii the meantime wo we hope time the report that hat Dr DI Cook has collapsed owing to the he mental strain to which he hohas has ben been be n subjected since his return to this cdon i iry tr try ry may ma prove not true It would woul be bo too toot 1 bail should the controversy culminate In n a n tragedy Some men when persist cathy hounded though Innocent of o wrong find themselves unable to bear ear up under the persecution and even evenn an n Arctic Arct C explorer may be sensitive to continuous blasts of malice Wo Yo hope Dr Cook may ma not nol have been seriously affected physically by b the premature pI Whether bethel his claim Is true truer or r not ho no Is entitled to the b of ho the doubt until the time verdict Is 15 pro pro pronounced and an tho the courtesy coultes due ue to a persistent and amid fearless explorer |
