St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-06

''tuppennies" taken in at the door of a
play house.
The foregoing, [ imagine, will convey to
the INITIATED reader general idea of the
grounds taken by the disciples of Bacon in
attributmg to him the authorship of the
grand work. 1t brings us up to the point,
roughly told when Ignatius Donnelly began
his work. A convert to the Baconian
theory and deeply interested in the work,
he conceived the idea that in Bacons work
on ciphers. published with the folio of 1923,
might be found valuable clue. He read
this with care and arrived at the conslusion
that this proud author had no other idea
than that posterity should
RENDER HIM FULL HOMAGE
as the author of the worlds first literary
work. He was haunted with the belief
that the cipher idea so strongly plead was
the first step to the proof and determined to
work it out if possible. He secured in
London photo-lithographc copy of the
original folio of 1923 and began his labor.
A short study convinced him that the pub
Usher, and not by accident, made the pages
OF manuscript correspond page by page
with the printed matter and that
each page of the latter contained
precisely the words on the corresponding
page of the manuscript, no more, no less.
The numbering of the pages was so irregu-
lar and apparently eccentric that it was
evident the writer had done it and not the
printer, as is usual. Pondering over this
at great length, the sage turned his atten-
ton to seeking for the cipher which he
thought must be concealed in the work.
Satisfied that if Bacon wrote the plays he
would so indicate in cipher, he turned his
attention to looking for the name Francis
Bacon. Bacon" caught his eye in liking
Henry W. and merry Wives of Wind
sor," and in such connection as entirely
satisfied him it was used by design, in spite
OF seeming incongruity of text. The plot
seems even twisted about to ring in the
names Francis, Bacon, William. The
scene between DR.. Evans and the bow
William is used to introduce Bacon. The
boy is recit!ng Latin and says: "Hic,
haec, hoc," which the pedagogue mimics
Hing, hang, hog" 'Hang hog'' inter-
poses Dame Twickley; why, that is Latin
for Bacon" William is rung in a dozen
times, just as Francis is used in '.King
Henry w." in the scene between Ponis
and Prince Hal. On another page of Henry.
it was discovered the words Francis Bacon,
son of Nicholas Bacon, were used Further
examination convinced Donnelly that words
were not flung in at random. He counted
down the page and found Bacon came
as word numbered 371. The page was SO,
and there were seven italicized words on
the page. Multiplying SO by he had 81.
He tried this with other words desired, and
Invariably found the page number, used
with some multiplier similarly found, pro-
duced the number of the key word. He
encountered ''St. Albans' in the text. st.
Adams was the county seat of Francis
Bacon, but Strattord, Shakespeare's home,
does not appear in the entire body of the
work. st. A1bans is used by Falstaff in
describing the appearance of his ragged
regiment, which had only one and a half
shirts amongst it, and that was stolen from
mine host of ST. Albans." The word IS
the 402d on the page. which is 81. There
are, six italics on the page. and 81 multiplied
by gives 402. In this way the discoverer
proceeded. Every word, such as Bacon,
Francis, Nicholas, ETC., was, in its number,
a multiple of the page it was found upon.
The multiplier varied sometimes being
bracketed words. sometimes italics and
sometimes hyphenated words. This work
Donnelly has prosecuted with patience and
diligence, and the result he proposes to give
the world in his new book, to be issued
this summer. He has revealed, however.
that the result gives him complete story,
a summary of which is as follows:
THE SECRET STORY.
Among Shakespeare's plays is Richard II,
which is seldom played. In it the people
rise up and the monarch is dethroned. At
the time of the Essex Instruction, follow
ers of the Inflated earl induced the presen-
tation Of the play by the company of which
Shakespeare was member. To create sen
finnnyf IN l.,
plauded all illusions to the popular uprising
by which the ruler was dethroned. The
effect was that Queen Elizabeth heard of it
and ordered the seizure of Shakespeare.
The faithful Percy knew of the order and
flew with it to Bacon, who was sick from
the fear of consequences. Shakespeare
and his company were strolling about the
country, according to popular belief, but
Bacon knew the player was sick at his
home in StratfOrd. Accordingly, Percy
was sent by a direct route to warn him to
fly. The messenger found a party in
progress. but Shakespeare was abed when
he received the summons. He refused to
go. saying he did not write the play and had
nothing to fear; the worst thing he had ever
done was to snare rabbits and strike
deer His daughter Susannah Joined with
Percy in urging him to fly, but he obsti-
nately persisted. Finally Percy played his
trump card. Said he: Though you did
not write the play, you cannot deny that
you taught it to your fellow actors. Did
you not teach him who impersonated Rich
ard to initiate the voice and gestures of
Elizabeth? Can you hope to escape the
result of your complicity?" This had the
desired effect and Shakespeare fled. How
ever. Bacon did not escape and, though ex-
posed. he was saved by the Influence of the
powerful .Burleign from the wrath of Eliza
beth.
1t is intinated by Mr.. Donnelly that the
story is continued in the cipher and en-
braces the execution of Essex and the
death of Elizabeth, but for additional de-
tails and the conclusion of the marvellous
story, the public must await the book
HELoT.
On His Feet Again.