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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

Iae P.-i'r met their Waterloo al Por.
Angeles yesterday in the game with the
Diysnpies of that place for the Exaninar
trophy py score OF IS TO e. The losers
protested tie game on the ground fhat
me angeles team put In pitcher that be-
ioagsd 10 the United States shin u,nsa,.,,
club and also that four OF the players are
ever age The grounds were very had
and the home players claim the umpire
was not on the square. They will be home
this afternoon. when a fGl account OF the
game viii be received.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

Rochester y Y. Aux f7.~nan Mcleod.
tha California wrestler. Won hts match
vf,A ia A sharton. q Beifa=l IN thss cry
tonight. Mcleod was 50 throw Ath@rton
three ilnles withn ore aour, acsslai wreSt-
r-r sisne us xalnsa the hrs, fan n half
a. hastr ara TIE secan1 81 zen minutes.
A4hsrtsn was n5 after the fret fA4 ard
ave 40 AZ the end q TIE scccg-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

and there Is no doubt that II gives sxcei-
lent results. The advocates OF the old
graphite method maintain that their plan
has the special virtue % preserving the
chain. the thick coating OF graphite pre-
venting the friction between the chain and
the sprocket from having Its fall effect n
abrasion. This is contention. however,
that Is not very reasonable. and should
not influence any one 70 take up the Use
OF graphite il he has got along Well with
out 10.
Opera 'Galatsa'' every night Madison
park.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

- F3fao q i1ae sas rn1eh snrreaaeS AZ
Dp4ss are . thing az the pass. wsth H-.E.
tt1s<et q return uatn ire f1rzas5sao q
@~~ central n~xHrsxart7-- E.oxses q
single nils RuA othe~ wsns us-tt~x
psAafs. favr dwellings ard hop rssks hzrs
.@10 - a%aYv e fhe state - Wzsnfrxss-,
- % leave Htsss II aay prose - fhe ro-n-
s.snses. 70 say nothing 81 the great Gre q
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

According TO Official returns from the
treasury department at Washington Cry.
there were iSfH horses exported from
7u5, 0s2.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18
Richard Osborn

VIII be a candidate for The Office OF
Judge Of the Superior Court OF the
state Of washington Tor King eoun-
~, subject 20 the decision OF the
Republican county convention.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

Success g always certain 20 follow the
use 81 Or Sanders Electric Belt, as K
Ills the system witA the warning. invig-
Grating electric current for hours af
tine. Electricity IS strengthening - the
rerxts. ard when 81 can bs appiie8 81
easily By Or. Sanders method e enables
the patient 20 get the fall benefit Of the
lfe-slvins power without interfering wits
the regular habits % living. II is possible
TO make the electric current strong or MD
"A a moment Hhsie re belg II On she body.
thus removing al the fncouver ieuceA In
claental 10 ths use q a battery and other
electric appliances.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18
4 Renarkahls - ID Ilysentery.

= Remarkable CuFc 81 Dysentery.
Dan Ps.erssa. 81. Tssautville. Is, entered
!. 80 as~euFs fr eiSatesa veas ard tried
49, q TIE les. doctors IN New Orleans
= AL q sosen or more patent r1edsesneS,
ss'v aG.a UEf followed untii BE neEaa
'hsaaaegl;n's telse, NhQ}era and
. ..-assissa aemeiy which elected ; reEzns-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18
Dr.. Sanden'S Electric Belt

= warranted under a forfeie % $500 -
give an electric current whles can be felt
as soon a applied 20 the body. This cur
rent 4. kept up continually for hours. ST.
IMP the body completely wifh vital force
and energy. II is = gusek and positive
cure for All nervous 8fflicfions. kidney ard
similar troubles. nheana tisus. Lame Back.
Weak Memory. sciatsca, NaFicocels ara
al wea knesses in men or women. Nd
ether remedy cures 20 quickly. 50 surely.
u Is the acfne 81 electrical applicatIon
warranted for one year.
Every town on she Pacific coast has one
ar more people whs have been cured b.
rsr. Sanaen's Electric Belt II yon are
weak Or aging 81 fs she only safa remedy
90 use Fua information And asuses %
hundreds cured can ~ found ta DR. San-
ssr's Book. '.Tllree Glasses 81 Men" whlea
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sANDEN ELECTRIC co,
Cor. "a and Washington SITS. Portland. Or.
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Boston. Aug. f7.--T-sc Boston and Brook
I'm tsSauss had a hor game today. TIE
honors being about even. although the
home team naraxed 10 w.u BY ore
run. due almost entirely 10 perfect ael4inS
ard timely baating
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

your own unoffending wheel. when II
Comes 70 5lsrnolnting. you are In a guam
darv and unless some one relieves You
of your charge you and the TWO bicycles
are likely to be mixed up n a heap on
the ground He Is a lucky man VINO comes
or Of his first experience OF this kind
with neither machine damaged and has
sLtr xvhofs --Eew York Tribune.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-18

-ee gsss o. sy~arhsfe 81 tAe cnaln e graz
uagIy going cat q fashion aas1nG EaanY
.svrssrsrrsesa rszars Their netsGa - fnat
s. shlck a lubricant IS au- - cEHE fns
Hmxs And Sex So and hosa 1lss as1 grains
az ssa4 Taew greger - Oh Eae cas.n tnsr-
ozGaay aetar cleaning 81. AG4 faen cry 81
- tnAt 70 uart 81 tha exrs@se1 ss2ffAAse
shaH - 1T al rfelss. Ta.s Eae 1e2 -1.ks1
(. easier - Axs- lie c1A.E. - sS34 cE-sE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Il, was a multiplier to produce a cipher
number. That is to say, page "a, the first
page of the scene, was multiplied by 10 and
gave us the cipher number $40: page IS,
the second page, was multiplied by IL, and
gave us the cipher number 500; and rs, the
last page Of the scene, was multiplied by
H. and gave us S36. Each of these num-
bers, 74O, 800 and 1886, is used to tell sepa-
rate part Of the narrative. He proved this
in a curious way-the S36th word from the
of page "A, leaving out the brack-
eted words and counting the hyphenated
words as one word each, is the word
found" the S36th word, counting the
same way, from the beginning of the next
page, Is. is the word ''out." giving the
compound phrase, found out"
But If you again begin at the beginning
of page "A and count in the bracketed
words, and count all the hyphenated
words the same as II they were not n.y.
phenated the 900th word is the same word
found and If you again begin at the
top Of page Is. and count in the same way.
the 9O0th word is the same word "out."
In other words as the difference between
S36 and 800 is GA. the maker of the play has
inserted precisely "a bracketed and n.y.
phenated words, not a word more nor less.
between the top of page "A and the word
found" and again he has inserted pre-
cisely GA bracketed and hyphenated words
between the first word Of page Is and the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

My letter asking for a day in the home
Of this author of the most iconoc.astic bit
Of writing ever penned had been drifting
about some time. l had directed it to
N:ninger and, as Mr.. Donnelly explained
in his reply. Nininger has no postoffice It
is one of those pitiful relies of expected
greatness often found in the West. In
1867 there was scarcely farm under
cultivation in Minnesota but everybody
speculated in land and everybody thought
himself a prospective millionaire. Money
was per cent a month in st. Paul. 1t
was a boom time, and the boom had
big. big B. Ignatius Donnely. then only
26 years old and recently from Ph1adel-
phia. saw a golden vision and founded
Nininger City on the bluffs of the Mlssis-
sippi twenty-five mites south of ST. Pau.
Mills. stores and houses sprang up ike
magic on the forty-acre tract laid out.
Nininger City was gu ckly a fact.
But IN August, 1857, the Ohio trust COM
pany failed, and the wave OF financial dis
order which swept over the country car
ried along among the great mass OF de-
br:s the City of Nininger. Mr. Donne.-y
prospective million or so went W tn IT. To-
day there remains Of Nininger, fou3o'
few weather-bea.en houses, the gaunt
ruins of a stone store bui ding or two, and
the .arge and we kept h-u<e o. Mr.. DON
nel.v. who turned his town site and is
additions into a productive farm. Iaese
tales are common enough, ana oIteh sdo
enough.
I accepted Mr.. Donnelly's invitation, bu,
biz predictions were not verineo. One "
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

badly managed. But it at least stirred the
literary world to it's foundations, and If
Mr.. Donnelly is laboring under delusion,
as has been often claimed it is one that is
respectable by reason of it's very magni-
tude. The labor represented in the two VOL
umes OF The Great Cryptogram' is stu
pendous.
But have labored under no delusion,"
he said to me, with confident smile. II
have myself been absolutely astounded at
my discoveries since perfecting the cipher.
l am now in position not only to prove
the reality of the cipher in the plays, but
also that the inscription placed over
Shakespeare's grave at the time of his
death contains statement in Francis Ba-
cons biliteral cipher that he wrote the
plays
MI Donnelly at that time proposed soon
to issue book in support of this-a vol
ume OF only 200 pages-but he is still at
work making more conclusive argument
of fact before he again faces the critics
Il have reduced the cipher to absolute
perfection" was his confidential DECLARE
ton.
Here is my Baconian library" said Mr..
Donnelly, throwing open the doors of an
adjoining apartment Of the same size as
the library. Here are Mr.. Donnelly's
prizes. There are upwards of 1000 vol
umes In the room, and one great case is
SIEOlI OVcI Wildly 10 volumes roIerrlnE to
scientific works. Opposite is choice
assortment of history, romance and novel,
The parlor takes up the entire section of
the house across the broad hall, a high,
| light, handsomely furnished apartment
the walls covered with rare engravings
and pictures, including excellent oil por-
| traits of Mr.. and Mrs. Donnelly of life
size. In the place of honor on the center
| table is an edition de luxe of THE Great
! Cryptogram,' which was Mrs. Donnelly's
chiefest treasure
There is an engraving I consider one
of the greatest of sarcasms.' said Mr.
! Donnelly, chuckling, as he pointed to an
old print showing Shakespeare reading
his plays to group, and Francis Bacon
| far in the background, the only one Of
them all to have his hat on.
| Bacon's face is seen at almost every turn.
| The collection of prints is a rare and val
liable one, and Mr.. Donnelly has many
mementoes of his visit to Bacons home.
| In this room, also, is preserved a scrap
book containing letters from many prom
inent men, mainly received while Mr.. Don
| nelly was in congress, to which he was
| first elected in 1863 He served three terms
and during his first term occupied the
same double desk with James A. Garfield.
The two were the youngest members Of
the house.
eff man thinks clearly he writes clear.
ly,'' said Mr.. Donnelly, as he turned over
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

folio" interrupted Mrs. Donnel.y. Let
me bring it,
From an adjoining room Mrs. Donnelly
brought Photographic copy of the great
folio of 1923, procured by Mr.. Donnelly in
1882, after he had spent two years of
steady toll, he says, in developing the
idea and trying to prove the cipher. He
turned to the big volume, his face BEAM
ing with interest and eagerness, and open
ed it at King Henry w." explaining that
the folios of 1923, 1852 and 1860 were exact
duplicates, even to the peculiar bracketed
and italicised words, the same number of
words to- a comma and the uncertain and
mysterious paging.
The book gives evidence of some of the
tremendous amount of study which Mr.
Donnelly accomplished before his book OF
thousand pages was ready, and study
which has been going on ever since. The
folio of 1923 has two columns to the page,
with wide margins. These have been so
filled in with figures and mysterious
marks by Mr. Donnelly, some in red ink,
some in black, some in violet and others
with pencil, that they resemble some Chi
nese puzzle in mathematics with a dash
of geometry, a pinch of arithmetic, two
or three weights and measures, and a lit
tie general miscellaneous information
thrown in.
81 got an idea of the CIPHER said Mr..
Donnelly, between explanations of how he
obtained his root numbers, and with math-
emat:cal precision tracing this word and
that, II got an idea of it. and like fool,
1 announced it. The world said the whole
thing was a pack of lies, and it forced me
| into publishing the cipher before had per-
| fected it, The critics jumped on the book,
and the English of course, were only too
| glad to pick it to pieces. 1t was issued in
| 1885, you know. Before this for two years,
| excepting two months, I worked over 1t
| every night until II O'Clock"
| The book spoke up Mrs. Donnelly
| with spirit, was generally reviewed by
wholly incompetent persons, who had new
err studied Shakespeare, and who really
didn't comprehend what they were
writing about.
1.-The intellectual criticism Of the book
was in England said Mr.. Donnel.y.
| "They abused it, to be sure, but 1T was
| done inte,ligently. Here in America 1t
wasn't. My object in The Great Cryptic
| gram was simply to prove that there was
| a cipher, and what 1 published did DEM
onstrate this. 1t was a question of arth-
metic, nothing else When I was in Eng
land the Pail Mall Gazette proposed that
l submit the question to a learned body OF
Shakespearean scholars. No, l said
this is a question of arithmetic. 1 an
willing, perfectly, to submit it to com
mittee of mathematicians.' But l never
| heard from the Gazette again.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

tender, or he is an honest and sincere
champion of the people and true man.
On one point, however, all must agree,
He is brilliant and brainy And. to an
outsider, it seems that today he would be
one of the foremost men of the nation
but for his implaeable disposition, and a
little screw somewhere loose which makes
him take the bit between >his teeth at in
opportune times. Referring to his troub-
lous history and the attacks upon him.
he said to me, with shrug and a merry
lsmile:
my shoulders are broad and little
rounded. / let them run off like OIL
This is the secret which enabled this
man of 60 to lead me into his library with
| the step of boy. The library is large
| room on the south side of the house, fin
| ished in sold oak even to the ceiling. 1t
IS lined with shelves and overlooking with
volumes. Over the fireplace is arranged
an interesting collection of Ind an relics.
The fireplace is not in use and the room
| is heated by a polished sheet iron stove N
! which lamb might be burned on a spit.
| In one corner is broad desk, Uttered with
papers, books and manuscripts, and over
| this Mr.. Donneily regularly labors from ten
| to fourteen hours day. He does a prodig-
| jous amount of work for his years-for a
| nan of any age He writes everything
himself in the same unvarying small,
perfect hand.
Here I met Mrs. Donnelly, a charming
hostess who was the helping and admiring
partner Of all her husbands efforts. 1t was
she who often recalled some little thing
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Among Mr.. Donnelly's famous works
are Atlantis "Ragnarok," Caesars
Column" and ''Dr. Huguet," issued In tho
order named. These books are as widely
apart as daylight and darkness and show
the remarkable versatility Of the man. He
took to writing books, he says. because
he was driven to it. He had been forced
out Of public Office, was in debt, and he
took up his pen for relief mentally and
financially. Mr. Donnelly's first work. is
sued in 1882, was a unique and interesting
argument to prove that Platos story was
truth. and he was the first to link the
story told by the Egyptian priests to
Scion with the tale of the deluge in Gene
sis. In "RaEnarok,' which grew very
rapidly in his mind. he told me. Mr.. DON
nelly advanced the theory that the Drift
Age was the result Of a contact between
the earth and comet; that man, highly
civilized, occupied the earth at that time:
that the survivors were sheltered by
caves, and that the legends of all races of
the world bear reference to this catas-
trophe.
II don't think anybody ever answered
the objections made in the book to the
glacial theory as received" he says.
1t was a bold speculation which he set
forth to maintain by an array Of scientific
ffacts and while he says he can scarcely
tell which he considers his best effort, his
talk shows that "Ragnarok" Is very close
to his heart.
my most original book is 'Ragnarok, .
he said, "for I was the first of all men to
conceive this idea of the earth's forma-
| ton. 1t was an entirely new conception
| and, II true, will modify the whole system
| of astronomy
| Students of Shakespeare, to go back a
| bit, may be interested in some detail Of the
cryptogram as learned from Mr. Donnelly
himself.
Those who have read 1.-The Great Cryp.
| togram'' will remember that the cipher
narrative worked out in 1t, from the text OF
| the second part of Henry w." was all
derived from the root numbers sos, sos, 513
| SIG and 523. At the request of his publish
| ers, Mr.. Donnelly held back the secret OF
| how these numbers were derived, and he
| was greatly abused for so doing. 1t was
| claimed that they had no origin; that they
| had simply been used by him because by
| accident they fitted into certain peculiari
J ties of the text. Hence Mr.. Donnelly was
| obliged, some months after the publication
J of his book. to give the origin of these
numbers. He said that the first scene o.
the first act of second Henry "" begar
on page "A Of the great folio OF 1923 9TH,
first collected edition Of the Shakespeare
plays published seven years after Shake
speare's death) and terminated on page Is
On the first column of page "A there wer'
ten words in brackets and twelve words il
italic type-but one of the ten words il
brackets is post horse,' a double word
hence if this Is counted as one word W.
have ten words If as two words, we hav
eleven words, and the italics give VI
twelve words. And he gave reason to be
lieve that each of these numbers, 10. II ant
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
IGNATIUS DONNELLY.

knew that there was a cipher in the
plays depending on the paging Of the first
folio, and the curious bracketing and hy-
phenation of the text, and who put forth
a new folio edition, repeating precisely all
these pecuiiarities.
Mr.. Donnelly called my attention to
the curious fact that one Of these
editions was printed in larger type
than that of 1892, SO that all the
words on column two of page 70 Of the
Histories, a very crowded column, could
not be gotten into the corresponding col
umn. and had to be run over to the top
Of the next page. where there was plenty
Of room. II there had been no instructions
to the printer he would have carried this
difference forward to the next column and
so on to the end of tho play: but instead
Of doing so he carefully adjusted the text
so that column one of page so ends with
precisely the same word which ends the
same column on page 80 Of the first folio.
There was, Of course. no stereotyping or
photographing in that day; and the three
editions were not printed at the same time
or from the same type. for this is proved
by an examination which shows that the
type in each case Is different. AS the
edition Of 1854 was printed 104 years after
Bacon was born: flfty-three years after
the plays were written and thirty-eight
years after Bacon died. it is not probable
Continued On Fourt4 ~ Page.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

"A snort man, Enthusiastically fat: his full
half-horid face smooth shaven; brisk and
energetic in every movement. walked
quickly through the corridor Of tho Hotel
Ryan in st. Paul. Mimi. one evening last
spring.
That's Ignatius Donnslly," said some
one and a score of eyes followed the re-
treating figure.
mot the discoverer of the cryptogram?"
''The same Donnely."
There was renewed interest. One or two
arose from their comfortable chairs to get
a better look at the round, square-shoul-
dered. determined figure, clothed in plain
black broadcloth. He stepped with the
briskness of youth. His face showed few
lines Of age. His small keen eyes twink
led cheerily as he nodded to an acquaint-
anca
''You don't mean to tell me-" remarked
an Eastern man. as he removed a cigar
from his lips with his eyes still following
the short. energetic man in black. that
that is the man who has been so much
talked about as a politician-the man who
helped to found the Peoples party and
who Is the author of the famous preamble
70 the Omaha PLATFORM"
That's the same Ignatius," answered a
st. Paul jobber. Hes the apostle of free
silver, author, politician, orator, and
brainy fellow generally. Looks like a
priest, doesn't her.
Looks like an overgrown cherub,' COM
mented travelling man.
''Well, I'll be blanked!" said the Eastern
man. as he carefully replaced his cigar be-
tween his lips. mo one would ever pick
him out for genius. Just think of the
audacity Of little cuss like that saying
that Bacon wrote Shakespeare"
BY this time Ignatius Donnelly, with his
springy step. cherubic face and pudgy
form, was gone. But he was still the SUBJ
ject of the group about the radiator.
Where was he now? In Minneapolis. What
doing? Publishing a weekly called the
Representative devoted to free silver and
the Peoples party. Still studying the
cryptogram? Yes, and promising new and
surprising facts some Of these days. Sc
the talk went on and on.
1t was the first time 1 had seen Ignatius
Donnelly in two years-or was 1t three
No difference as to that. 1t all came back
to me as If only a day or two before; and
later that night, I unearthed from a pack.
age of letters number written with viole
ink in a small, clear hand. One of then
resulted in visit to Ignatius Donnely a.
his country home in Nininger, where
first realized something of the tremendou:
labor this man had put upon the cryptic
gram, and had glimpse of home lif,
which will always remain among pleas
ATTEST memories One Of the letters 81
finely and clearly written, reads in part: