St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10
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LIZ. U. W. Owen ~ia,,ns the
Greatest Discovery of the Age.
THE GREAT CRyProeRAM" OUTCOME.
Bacon the Most Amazing ScOundrel and
the Grandest Genius the World Ever
Saw Old Fav0rites Dethr0ned-
Harvey an InpOster, Spencer
Fraud, burton Nobody.

Who discovered the circulation OF bloods
Harvey, you sayl Wrong, by all the gods
and little fishes It was Sir Francis Bacon.
Who wrote the "Ahatomy of Melancholy?
"Why, Burton, to be sure" you say, with
the credulity born of a pitiful ignorance
No, he didn't, Bacon wrote that book. OF
course, you are laboring under the blind de-
fusion that Edmund Spenser wrote the
"Fairie Queen that Kit Marlowe is the
author of "Dr. Faustus," and of '"Tambur-
laine the Create" Maybe you think that
Robert Greene wrote 'Pandosto, from which
Shakespeare borrowed the plot of ga Winters
Tale" Greene, who called his brother dra-
matist can upstart crow beautified with fine
feathers-in his own conceit the only Shake
scomb in the country" say maybe you
think Greene wrote that or anything else
worth reading? Well, my dear sir, you
show your ignorance, for he did nothing OF
the kind. Are you one of those back num-
bers who believe, Shakespeare wrote the
works that bear his name? If SO, get thee
to monkery and hide thy diminished head
in shame and confusion, for the works of
Spenser, Marlowe, Burton, Shakespeare,
Greene, Peele and all those that bear his own
name, were written by Francis Bacon, Lord
Verulam, Viscount st. Adams and, if you be-
ieve to the contrary, DR.. o. W. Owen, of
Detroit, Mich, is prepared to show you, with
an infinite pity for your blind credulity that
he has made this amazing discovery all out
of his own head, and that all who do not at
once agree with him should be ranked with
cretins and other congenital imbeciles.
'tAnd who pray is DR.. O. W. Owens, of De-
froif fioI, onfh Ink in
open-eyed wonder, and with flush of holy
indignation mantling your more or less
classic brow. Patience, patience, good sir,
and as conscientious recorder of public
events, shall try to put the case before you.
OF course, you know. that three sentences
are sufficient to tell alive know about the.
life and character of the man William
Shakespeare, and this little does not indi-
cate that, genius apart, he had the educa--
tional opportunities necessary for the pro-
duction of such works, and SO, like myself,
you may have thought that Shakespeare's
education has been. naisrepresented by his
biographers, or the suspicion may have.
flashed through yol1E mind that man So,
poorly equipped with. knowledge of the
schools could not have produced such mas
terpieces of poetic genius and scholarly
acumen. As the works of Bacon and Shakes
peare are Numerically opposite, the one
being purely analytic in his methods and the
other synthetic, despite all the cryptograms
and ciphers, you never thought of associat-
ing them as one person. But here is DR..
Owen, ready to prove to the satisfaction of
mankind in general and himself in particular,
that he has discovered the cipher which
shows beyond all possibility of bubble that
Bacon discovered the. circulation of blood;
that he was the author Of all the authors
named that he was himself the son of Eliza
beth, 1.-The Virgin Queen" who was secretly
married in the Tower to Robert Dudley, Earl
of Leicester; that the Queen made Dudley
kill Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall that she
was herself strangled to death by Essex, and
that Shakespeare was killed at Stratford by
Bacon. who had done to death all his other
'smasks" himself. All this, and very much
more of the same kind. DR.. Owen, of Detroit,
Mich, has discovered through his cipher,
and he is out to change history, upset liter
AZURE, break idols, and make money; the
latter purpose he boldly avows.
DR.. Owen, after infinite labor and BRAIN
racking study, has found the cipher, and he
has published two books to prove it. The
first volume gives Bacon's letter to the trans
lator, weak and garrulous rigmarole it is,
which DR.. Owen has patched out from Shake
speare, Bacon himself, Marlowe, Burton,
and others. There is also very unnecessary
dedication to the King, supposed to be James
the First. There is a third part to the book
called Description Of the Queen, General
Curse and Sir Francis Bacon's Life.'' The
second volume is devoted to a description of
the Spanish Armada, but why description
of well-known historical event should be
concealed in cipher, the more or less
learned decipherer from Detroit, Mich, does
not attempt to explain.
In the midst OF all the wonder excited by
these discoveries, not the least wonder is
that DR.. Owen stops where he does in the
role of iconoclast. There were Ben Jonson,
Beaumont and Fletcher, Raleigh, Massinger,
Sir Philip Sydney, Ford and Drummond, all
contemporaries of Bacon, who no doubt de-
pended on his inspiration for their works.
Why should Ben Jonson, for a time the sec
rotary of Bacon, be permitted to stand
untouched, when Harvey is proven to have
been an imposter and Spenser fraud?
They have formed Publishing company in
Detroit, Michigan, for the purpose of getting
out DR.. Ovens decipherings, for this is
money making venture, and the better to
arouse interest and win to his side an ignor-
ant if not skeptical public, the more or less
learned discoverer has taken to lecturing on
the subject. z
DR.. Owen, in his stupendous work Of
propaganda, recently lectured in New York
city, the place being parlor in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
DIS. o. W. Owen is about forty years of age,
and am told is a college bred man, though
it would never be suspected from his speech
or his attempts at writing Like lingual
poEgamist he persists in uniting plural SUBJ
jects with singular verbs, and he shows great
grammatical independence in using the
nominative and objective cases in way that
defles the two most familiar rules of syntax.
The doctor is above middle height, and slen-
der, with dark hair, and brown, restless eyes.
His self-consciousness is painful to behold.
In the little audience at the Fifth Avenue
hotel there were g. number Of the best
scholars in the city, men accustomed to
logical methods Of procedure and with the
student habit of thought arrangement and
literary form. Dr.. gwen did not prepare his
lecture. With an sair Of superiority that
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