New-York tribune., 1894-04-07
NEW MN WITH 4 NEW CIPHER.
HOW SIR FRANCIS BACON WROTE EVERYTHING
AND REVEALED HISTORY.

HOW SIR FRANCIS BACON WROTE EVERYTHING
AND REVEALED HISTORY.
About hundred persons were assembled In
Parlor D r at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night
to listen to lecture on "The New Bacon-Shake-
speare Cipher" by DR.. o. w. owen. of Detroit.
They had been summoned by the Howard Pub
fishing Company. described the card OF admission
as the publishers Of the cipher writings Of Sir
Francis Bacon. deciphered by Orvine W. owen,
NJ ID. The company has offices In Detroit and CAi-
caso. those Of the latter city being In The
Rookery." If anybody disposed TO repeat Miss
Betsy Trotwoods persistent question 'Why Rook-
ery?" he would conclude after listening TO the
lecture that a rook which would deliberately take
up its abode in Chicago would be just about the
bird of wisdom to brood over the new Bacon
Shakespeare cipher. This is not the first theory OF
the sort that hos been hatched in that region ana
the excessive fondness of its scholars for Bacon
is not easy to explain till their method of
reasoning is adopted. This method is first to as
sumo the thing to be proved and then to look
for proofs Of it. When this key Is applied TO use
the language of the cipher decipherer. 1t Is seen
that these theories connect themselves with the
pork-packing industry. Chicago can never attain
the culture of Boston. so 1t is resolved that If
hams cannot be culture all culture shall be Bacon
This conclusion shows the practical sense that was
displayed by Mahomet in his relations with the
mountain.
II this reasoning does not seem final. 1t is at
least as clear that OF Dr. owen. Perhaps ne uld
not call his talk reasoning at all. for he did not
pretend to tell anybody how to work his cipher
with any such plainness to allow him to work II
himself He said plainly that the cipher was MS
and he intended 10 make money out Of II. ana thht
he would tell all about II when he got ready ana
not before He does allow few hard. cold hlstori-
cal facts TO escape. however. such as that queen
Sir Francis Bacon WAS their son. that Ehzapeih
was stranEed by Cecil, the son OF LORD EurlclEh'
that Bacon lived till 1912 at least instead oi DYING
in 1926 in accordance with common report, ana
that this Bacon, who did everything eis.
murdered Shakcspeare-litcrally not the way act
ors do tin the presence Of Ben Jonson. All inns
is learned by making a running narrative out OF
certain passages rom the alleged works OF W III
lam Shakespeare TIE plays ignoranty supposed 10
have been written by Robert Green, George feel
and Christopher Marlowe; the alleged works Of
Edmund Spensor. THE Anatomy Of Melancholy
vulaarly attributed TO Richard Burton, and the
works confessedly written by Sir Francis i'acoH.
All the works here named were really written M
by him. Just how the passages forming the story
were selected and fitted together was what DT.
owen did not make clear. and whenever anYbodN
a skeJ as several did. he replied, "Concordant
words" II ne had bee quite frank on this point
his audience might have been called upon 70 admire
his ingenuity: as II was. the most wonderful thing
about IL all seemed to be his crcdullty, as shown
in his belief of his own theories