Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-05-09
D0N-NIL-HE.
Secret of the Great Cryptogram-
Donnelly Ante Dating George
Washington.
Ugh! Ugh! Hi Yah Dance OF
the Cheyennes at Fort
Keogh.
sHAKEsPEARE OR BACON?

"The Great Cryptngram,h Ignstius
Donnelly's much advertised work in
defense of the Bacon theory in regard
to the authorship of Sbakespeare's
plays, is at last given 30 the public,
and is receiving searching criticism at
the hands of the leading papers OF the
country. No more critical, compre-
hensive or mathematically acute re-
view of it has come to our notice than
that editorially given in the Pioneer
Press of Sunday last covering three
columns. 1t may be remarked en- pas,
SAINT that the Pioneer Press has no love
for The distinguished author of THE
aud Il is therefore to be
that If there was flaw 10 he
picked in the Donnelly argument, it
would receive due and ample attention
at the hands of the Z. p, but so hon
estly critical aud mathemstically cor.
rect are the differences drawn, and de-
ductlons made by the writer of the
article referred to, that without further
and fuller explanation by Mr.. Dom
nelly, his cipher defense of the Bacon
theory must fall to the ground. For
instance, Mr.. Donnelly starting from
entirely arbitrary premises (which he
refuses TO reasonably account for on
the ground that rival book-makers
may profit by his researchl discovers
In a series of pages of the play of King
Henry ~. a combination of discoD-
nected words from which he con-
structs the sentence, Cecil said that
NARROW or Shakespeare never writ u
word of them.n This it appears il
one Of the strongest points brought out
BY the application of the cipher, and
to bring it out involves a series oi
mathematical calculations very for,
and totally incomprehensible Die
except as governed by the arbitrary
formulas mentioned. Yet working
with the same formulas and governed
by the Donuelly idea, the
Pioneer Press evolves from a portion
OF the play Of Hamlet a prophetic and
announcement, hidden away
by Bacon centuries ago (if the Don
nelly idea be the correct one) for the
benefit OF future ages. By the sppli-
cation OF the cipher principle TO
Opbelias mad scene In Hemlet these
words stand out like the handwriting
on the wall; Dopnelly the author, pol
itician and mountebank, will work
out the secret of this play. "The Sage
is a daisy, OF course the proper
name, Donnelly," does not appear rs
a whole in the play but is artfully con-
structed Of the words "DOnr and
"nill he;" yet this construction is no
more strained than in the selection
quoted above rs taken from Donnelly's
book, where the proper names Cecil
aud Shakespeare are made up of the
words "seas Ill" and "Shakes peer.n
Thetitlss OF author, politician, mounte.
bank and sag, all fit so closely 10
Mr.. Donnelly's public personality
that the phrasiug seems wonderfully
apt, and suggests the trickery of q
waggish writer who knew the foibles
and irailties Of the erudite IgDatius
and sought under cover Of the alleged
application of his own theories to
poke fun at him, but this Ia not SO; the
same process that applied to the
Shakespeare text, evolve for Mr.. Don,
nelly the refutation Of Shakespeare,
authorship, bring 10 the surface Tn,
above remarkable prophecy. In con
cluding this very interesting anC
readable article the Pioneer Press thu
sums up the "cipher theory"
There Is, then, u cipher. Aud thii
ls the Recipe. 90 extraordinary Wal
TIE command of language on t6e par
oi tue writer oi ,hese plays, that few
pages of any one vi them, ii separate {
into single words, will give u yocsbu
larry cut OF which any story desired
can DO pisced. Pick out the word
you need, TO say what you desire
Count tue number of each word from
The top and from tue bottom of itl
column. Then, having five root nun
bers, ten or q dozen modiiiera. IN,
number oi the page aud the numbe
OF words on II, also the number IN
italics aud connected by hyphrDs. yo,
have studied addition and subtraciio,
10 little purpose u you cannot SO con,
bine these various numbers that the,
will furnish you, at least, with In,
number that you want to Identify IN,
Particular word you have chosen, m
IL hard work. No wonder Mr.. Don.
nelly has covered bundle Of pape,
that q man can scarcely lit. The Plo
neer Press consumed most Of a auir,
In its simple application Of the cipher
key 10 Hamlet. But II pays; whether
you want 10 make money out Of = gul-