The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12

"'Your honor ought not to hang me, because /
am a relative of yours
"'How is that said the judge.
8 Because my name is Hogg and yours Bacon,
and all the world knows that hog and bacon are
related
"'True,' said Sir Nicholas, but hog does not
become bacon until it is first hanged
Having found William, the first name of
Shakespeare, turned to find in the same vicin-
ity the rest of the name. In the same act. scene
A. page Sc of the folio found description of
Herne, the hunter, whose ghost, it is said:
doth all the winter time at still midnight
Walk round about oak with ragged horns.
And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes mich kline yield blood. and shakes chain
In most hideous and dreadful manner.
II found the next syllable Of the name in the
next column to that in which William occurred
so often, page 81 of the folio, in which Mrs.
Page describes to Mrs. Ford her husbands ago
nies of jealousy:
Why woman your husband is in his old lines
rails against all married womankind, so curses all
Ewes daughters of what complexion and
Bullets himself the forehead, crying. ''Peerout.
peer-out"'
ut seemed to me that this was very forced
and unnatural construction; that no jealous man
in the world would ever act so; that man
could so speak of his brain 'peering out, and
that, in connection with the words Bacon
William Shakes it was conclusive that
there was CIPHER in the play.
Il found scores of other instances where the
sense and the words were so twisted to bring in
the cipher story, and in many cases The necessi-
ties of the cipher compelled Bacon to make his
characters talk nonsense in passages that have
puzzled commentators from that day to this.
AS a specimen look at this, in Act /, scene g
Winters Tale. When Polixenes is bidding fare
well to Leontes, after saying sthat he has been
nine months away from his throne he says:
"'Time as long again
Would be filled up (my brother) with thanks,
And yet we should for perpetuity
Go hence in debt and therefore like a cipher
get standing in rich place. multiply
With one we thank you many thousand more
That 60 before it.
''This was done in order to lug in the word
cipher
Another instance of the same kind is found in
Henry V, and has been the subject of great
deal of attempted explanation. Where Dame
Quickly is describing the death bed of Fastaff
she, says: For often saw him tumble with
the Sheets and play with flowers. and smile from
his finger ends. knew there was but one way, for
his nose was as sharp as pen and a table of
green fields
"The commentators, in their effort to make
sense of this have ingeniously changed it into
And he babbled of green fields The truth is
that there was necessity to speak in that
sentence of the word table, and it had to be
dragged in whether it destroyed the sense or not.
In some places bracketed words wholly unneces-
sary have been put in and other words reduced
to a single letter. King is often compressed to
rs and Master to Mr.
~
Gin the original plays there was no cipher In
word Bacon Shakespeare William nor any
other suspicious word In Hamlet Cecil is al
ways called the crook back Where you see
hurly- burly, as in the witch scene in Macbeth it
is to bring in the cipher word for Lord Burleigh.
The line when the hurly- burly's done was in
serted in the folio Hamlet was increased SO
much by the cipher insertions that much had to
be left out in putting it on the stage. And, by
the way, let me ask question: Why did a man
who was bred to the stage, who wrote plays fit
for the stage put himself to laborious work to
rewrite them so that they were unsuited for the
stage, and evidently intended only for readingl
''The cipher is different in the comedies from
that in the histories. In Mrs. Potts Promus, a
collection of Bacons notes, there appears this
sentence. Alphabet the same in comedies and
tragedies Alphabet was Bacon's word for
cipher, he used it in the De Arguments in de-
scribing ciphers.
II think there is cipher in the plays of Mar
lowe Their likeness to the ShakspeareaE plays
has often been noticed. In Hero and Leander
in close neighborhood, occur the words Essex
Shake, 'Speare,' Treasury Queen the play
of Dido the words 'Burly,' Eliza flor Elizabeth)
Spear Winters Tale and many other signi-
fcant words; in Faustus the word Bacon occurs
many times, as also in the Jew of Malta and in
Edward Ii, on three pairs of consecutive pages
occur the words Shake and 'Speer.'"
Such is the general outline of Mr.. Donnelys
story have told it as he told it to me. A few
nights later | took friend with me who is an
advanced mathematician. l wanted to learn
something about the law of chances as applied
to the double multiple in the words found out"
My friend is scientist and graduate of a
German university-a skeptic. also, let me say
in regard to Mr.. Donnelly's discovery. He ex-
amned the multiples very carefully, and went
over the count His comment as we came away
was THAT is not chance. 1t might happen
once in a million times. but it could not in a
million times million, for that would be the re-
suit of a series involving the whole number of
words on those three pages
Mr.. Donnelly, whom this discovery, if fully
established, will dover with fame and fortune
possibly beyond any literary toiler of the age is
n Philadephian by BIRTH now fifty-three years
old. He graduated from the Philadelphia High.
school, and studied law in Attorney general
Brewster's office. He went to Minnesota thirty
years ago. and at twenty eight had become Lieu
tenant governor-the youngest man then or since
who has reached that distinction In 1862 he
was elected to Congress Republican and was
twice reelected. In 1868 the Washburne family
hired General Andrews, now consul at Rio ia
metro, for sc. 900 to become boiling candidate
against Donnelly and a Democrat was elected
Since that time Mr.. Donnelly has been liberal
Democrat. OF late years he has taken to litera
ture. His Atlantis, popular scientific work, is
now in the twelfth edition ''Ragnarok."
which followed Atlantis" is in its
SlXLn eulllOu NOrOeuSkJOlu mas recently
Endorsed the latter book by most inter
estng testimony in regard to meteoric dust in
the arctcs Mr. Donnelly is now writing book
on the cipher. In it he will give the whole rule
for it which at present he withholds. He says
some other fellow might Jump up and claim to
have discovered the whole thing years ago. Last
fall Mr.. Donnelly was again a candidate for Con-
gress against Major Strait, an old Republican
member, and reduced his majority from 8, 900 to
800, which is probably equivalent to election
two wears hence unless as the greatest literary
discoverer of the age he can afford to forego the
honors of a seat in what the late Matt Carpen-
ter so felicitously called 'bear garden"
j. A. T.
Permanently Cured.
Chicago Herald.
Talk about change of heart said long
haired and big whiskered man, at the Rock Is