Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-12-30
E,Ithi,a Despite The
| Dorn Of The World

vr THEfI DR.. Cook sent ringma
NV across the world his start
ling declaration that he had
iiScovefed the north pole. one vom-
m alors.. 10 AL the Wild aeciaimins
world; Sr3Sd out. "Oh. can y be trae7
Arc thHySure all the suffering haa
aot dtf Thin msdf"
1t 16rs. Cook, and from IL
m6m& lat the news reached her
,hi erself up in her Brooklyn
uomeSE& 4ing admittance to the
,cores Of friends, the newspaper and
magaxine writer's and all the thou
lands who daily rang the bell.
,.Nt shall have nothing to say, sns
,aid. over and over again, until my
s,usbaId tells me of it himself"
F! XHd, now. after months OF bitter
sxil(y going from place to place IN
Eurdps. pointed at with q finger OF
corn by the whole world. Dr.. Cook
IA ssid IN humiliation and confes-
lion. 1.-THE years in the bitter cold,
lie privations and the suffering
nade me dazed so that / believed
hat. I had found the pole.
il thfs the woman's work? Or the
n4fi's repentance?
Has wife loyal through all the
corn and haunting as she was loyal
Turing the worlds homage-is COM
ng back with him to America. COM
| ny back to help him e1piate his 90
Jailed Gigantic fake" and their
friends declare that DR.. Cooks Con
| .ession" was brought about BY the
,rgiiG ana the pleading Of the faith
tul woman on whom the shadow OF
his disgrace fell so bitterly. casting
tn blackness across not only hez
happiness but that Of her little chill
iren.
/ Bewildered at first by the acclama.
uors of the whole world, proud and
, Happy she stood with him when New
York went mad over his arrival and
, lung thousands Of flowers at hi
, Ileet. When Peary's telegram came
iihattering the dream Of her hus
, lSand.s success that had grown in hel
Heart. lhe turned her back bravel!
: lipou the home and friends that sn'
| lknsw and loved and went with DE-
Icook to strange lands across tn
: lea: to hurried journeys fleeing from
!, lDursuing- newspaper men and crowd
: hat 3 tainted and jeered at tn
: broken man at her side.
J. She put her children in q conven
: n France, and then quietly. bravel
Q Ithe began-so it is said-that cam
: l,aign for honesty" that has ende
: Ia DR.. Cooks plea for lenient judo
: uent of his half-crazed declaration
hat, he had found the pole.
FOR the first time since the new
lashed round the world he has &C
q nitted, II do not know whether
y lound the pole or moi"
Q For the first time he has come on
b 81 his voluntary hiding and aske
, or forgiveness. and l am sure tbs
: |. woman and two little children al
o thanking God for it.
Mrs. Cook Is q very beautif'
le xoman-or was-for they say tn
% differing of these past months hi
e eft indelible marks on her love-
70 ace. She is very proud womal
% 90: and for that reason all this hi
or lpeen doubly hard. and it has mean
l,s well, the renunciation of all Il
= pleasant. social events. the hous
= lteeping dpties and the things so de,
= % q wom4n's heart. Yet she n
q I,een brave and cheerful through
y Ill. ShesAas never faltered from t
oath into5which she set her feet, Il
bath thatSled to s.regained homo
or her husband.
And so; once again it has been Il
woman who paid.