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DR. <XX>K DISOOY EH KD. AiMxinfi ami Strulliiig Annminocinent >lu?le by Airllc Kxplorpr. Ntw York, Nov. 3o.?Did I get to the North Pole? Perhaps I ruade a mistake in thinking; that I did. Perhaps I did not make a mistake. After mature thought 1 confess that I do not know absolutely whether I reached the Pole or not This may come as an amazing: statement, but I am willing; to startle the world, if by so doing, 1 can get another opportunity to present ; m> case. By my case 1 mean not n*y case as a geographical discoverer, but my case as a man. Much a3 the attainment once meant to me, the sympathy and confidence of my lellow men means more." In this way I>r. Fredrick A. Cook. , the Brooklyn explorer, in an article, | which will be published in Hamp w a .ua^ullic, VUlUCBSfS IIIHl 114? [ does not know whether he reached 1 the North Pole or not. The publishers of the article issued a statement to-night saying that nowhere in his narrative does Dr. Cook either caBt any reflection on Peary or question Peary's claims. Dr. I Cook, who has been in hiding for over a year, has informed the edi-1 tors of the magazine publishing that "] he will return to the United States j with his wife and children Decern- : her 22, in order to spend Christmas here. I Continuing, Dr. Cook says: < "Fully, freely and frankly I shall tell you everything Tell you everything?and leave the decision with ' you If, after reading hiy story, you say 'Cook is sincere and honest; half crazed by months of is-! elation and hunger, he believed he reached the Pole; he is no fakir;' , then I shall be satisfied.'' Dr. Cook tells the story of his lift, and pictures what he calls the overpowering ambition for exploration until it finally culminated in his effort to reach the Pole. Dr. Cook declares that, at the time he . convinced himself that he discovered the Pole he was half mad. He spent two years in his quest and during that, time endured hunger j and privation that, lie says, would i unbalance my mind. Dr. Cook says that it would he impossible for any man to demonstrate beyond question that he had neen to the North Pole. He characterizes hte region as a region of insanity, where one cannot believe iho evidences gathered before one's t eyes. "1 have been called the greatest ilar in the world,the most monumental imposter in history," says Dr. Cook. "I helieve that in every undesirable way 1 stand unique, the object of such suspicion and vituperation as have assailed few men." With this realization, l)r. Cook wote the story and says that to him the hqnor of discoverinig the North Pole no longer means anything. The explorer has been working on his story since last August, and says, according to the editor of Hampton's Magazine, "that his sole desire is to make the people of ' the United States just what he went through during his two and ;t . In. If years in the Arctic fastness, I and to make them see what pro- I ct'!;sj>? <if thfnlrlner- -o?. I ? ? ? Ul I?\ IV W| ' thinking;?it was that led him to do tin- thing;, which confirmed to the average mind the worst suspicions against him." I)r. Cook then tells <he story of the days in Copenhagen and later in New York, and of the crisis in his !'fe that led to his flight from New York and his voluntary exile from the United States Dr. Cook and his wife are now in Knroep and the children are now in a convent in France. Most of the time during his exile Dr. Cook has heen in London. 0 "Gipsy yueen" Given I'oison. New York. Nov. 2->.?It took ">00 grains of cyanide of potassium, a deadly poison to kill "Gypsy Queen."a trick elephant, this afternoon, ii> execution of the deailx sen- I tence passed on her for the tragic I bun.. i ? ' niiuufK i?i nei Keeper. tcooert ScMel, on October 20 last. J.ess than one grain Is ordinarily fatal to man, and the last convulsive symptoms supervane almost before the victim can set down the glass from which he swallowed. But the Queen swayed backward and forth, flapping her big ears, for ten minutes before she showed the least f uneasiness, and it was 4 4 minutes before she was pronounced dead. The poison was given her in three puilfuls of bran mash, in which had been sprinkled 100 capsule each of five grains of cyanide. She had been starved for 24 hours and ate greedily. The Qaeen was 87 years old, ! born in Africa and one of the largest elephants In captivity. She weighed 7,650 pounds, and stood eight feet, seven inches high. Of recent years her temper had no. improved, and last October she picked up an unaccustomed keeper. who had been warned to keep away from her, and slammed him to the cement floor, crushing his form into pulp. 0 Man Has Kight to Put Poison on His l?aml. Chest* r Lantern. A man haa a right to put poison on his land and not be prosecuted even if his neighbors chickens do trespass and are killed, according to a ruling handed down in court at Spartanburg Inst week by Judge Aid rich. Mrs. L. (J. Havea, of that county, whh the proud possessor of *8 fine thickens, while her neighbor, Undrum Thomas, was aft' mpting to raise a crop of peas and had planted his seed. The fowls of the prosecutor persisted In dining ^ en the seed of the defendant until.-it became necessary for him o w^irn her to keep them away. This she agreed to do, but *lhe> returned and found a quantity of poiBon. They partook of this freely nnd before nightfall all of thein were dead. 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