St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
BACON AND DONNEELY,
The Light ofan Acrostic DiscIoses
the Truth of the CryDtO0pam

The art of writing, whereby men may
commit to paper by the mere scratch of
an ink-stained pen their most sublime
thoughts, was wonderful invention,
says the Philadelphia News, but when
it became imperative to captivate and
preserve for the benefit of generations
yet unborn the words of others, ordinary
methods OF writing were, as Bardwell
SlOte would say, X. g.-knOw good. A
substitute had to be provided that would
perform the feat, according to the rules
laid down by the hiStrionic champion of
the mighty Dollar" p. d. @.
Hence the origin of stenography.
Now, what stenOgraphy was to writing,
so is the anagram to the cryptogram-
at least so far as the purposes of the
DOnnelly-Shakespe imbroglio
are concerned. There cannot be the
Scintilla of doubt in any mans mind
that is not cut bias that Ignatius will
not eventually prove conclusively that
Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays. But
time is in this case, as the lawyers say,
of the essence of the contract. The
nineteenth century is being rapidly
hustled down the tObOggan of time by
the twentieth inStallment of ammo
dOminiS. which is anxious to begin its
seven ages.
Therefore shOrt-handed method is
requisite to open the Shakespearean
sesame and bring forth the Bacon that
has been packed therein ever since long
before Chicago girls grew on two feet
two county fair feet. That sterographi-
gram | have discovered. 1t is the Ana
gram. At one fell swoOp Ana turns on
her incandeScent and fiat luXes the
whole business.
Just cast your pOrcine eye down and
across the following specimen of an
archiSm, or rather anagramism. and
learn whose quill Shakespeare appropri-
ated and the name of the latter-day
genius who disclosed the larceny long
after both Bake and Shake had gone by
the underground to that bourne whence
no traveller gets an excursion ticket:
Much Ado About Nothing.
Twelfth Night; Or What You Will.
The Comedy of Error,
Measure for Measure,
Winters Tale,
Romeo A Juliet,
Antony n Cleopatra,
Troilus ID Cressida
Midsummer Nights Dream,
Merry Wives OF Windsor,
Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Merchant of Venice,
Tanning of The Shrew,
Loves Labors Lost,
Ais Well that Ends Well
AS You Like 1t.
There's the entire subject as clear as
the interstate commerce bill, and with
less than half the available ammunition
used. Suppose L were to continue and
trOt all the Anas the amorous Shakes
peare has kept concealed in the rest of
Bacon's plays these three centuries
past? Why the fountain recently erected
at Observation-Disclosures would weep
apollinaris, and Henry Irving's imported
bottles of aqua pura would be compelled
to enter Uncle Sans porte by the pro-
tective tariff route.
If any of the News readers are so in
tellectually ObtuSe or so literaturely-
welded to their immortal Idol that they
still hesitate to embrace the decollete
truth, am prepared to meet them with
four-ounce kid boots and kick them by
dOubIe-leaded cablegrams. London prize
ring rules, to finish, in the presence of
a limited number of friends, two weeks
after have put the Marquis of Queens
berry to sleep for $1,000 side, the
kicker to take all the receipts and the
kickee to be allowed five pun note for
his travelling expenses. j. S. M.