The representative., 1899-11-09
STARTLING THEORY OF 1.-THE SAGE
OF NININGER."

OF NININGER."
Suggestion That the Graves OF
Shakespeare and Bacon BE Open
ed In the Belief That They May
Reveal the Secret, If There Really
BE One, as to the Authorship OF
the Plays Attributed to the Bard
of Avon-'.The Cipher in the Plays
and on the Tombstone" Made to
Declare That Bacon Wrote the
Dramas of Greene and MarlOwe
as Well as Those of Shakespeare.
Open the grave Of Shakespeare at STRAIT
ford On-Avon.
Search in the tomb of Francis Bacon
In the Church of St. Michael at st. AL
bans!
There may the secret of 300 years
give new history to the world.
This Is the admonition of Ignatius Don
nelly in his latest book, 1.-The Cipher in
the Plays and on the Tombstone" to be
issued in a few days by the Verulam Pub
fishing Company of Minneapolis.
The Great Cryptogram" served as the
foreword to the raveling Of tangled
mystery
Has 1.-The Cipher in the Plays and on
the Tombstone" forever settled the Shak-
spearian myth?
Has it proved beyond question that a
cipher exists?
Has Ignatius Donnelly read Alright the
riddle?
Has he made the Sphinx speak, that all
who listen may learn?
Bacon" says Donnelly, simply post
ponai the revelation Of his great secret
until such time as the age would give it
fair treatment and an impartial hearing.
Is not that age here now? Will anything
be gained by deferring it few years, or
century or two longer?
In this greatest and strongest book that
has yet been written on the Shakespeare
Bacon controversy Ignatus Donnelly
most emphatically urges that this search
be made.
Our reasoning may be fallacious,'"
says he, land there may be nothing in
Shakespeare's grave but dust and ashes;
but at least it will cost little of time or
means to make the Investigate ~
For well-nigh three centuries the age
OF fable has outranked the age Of rea-
son, and the fear instilled by the warning
on the uncouth tombstone
Good Frend for Jesus SAKE forbeare
TO diGG TIE Dust Enclo-Ased HERE.
Blese be TIE Man spares TIE Stones
And curst be He moves my Bones
which made hallowed the grave of the
drink-loving play actor among the rustics
OF an unlettered town, was supplanted by
the spell Of mysticism that held the
learning of later day at bay.
Beneath the seventeen feet Of mother
earth that hides from human view the
dust of William Shakespeare, or inclosed
within the solid masonry marking the
site of heather temple in the ancient city
Of the Romans, where Bacon sleeps
there, perchance, may be found the open
sesame.
MY name be buried where my body
is said Francis Bacon. And he adds:
For my name and memory 1 leave it
to mems charitable speeches and to for
eign nations and the next age"
In 1.-The Tempest" Prospero, the won.
der-working sage, exclaims:
But this rough magic
here abjure: and. when have required
Some heavenly music (which even now I dol
TO work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for. I'll break my staff
Bury it certain fathoms in the EARTH
'Tll drown my book
: In his forthcoming book Mr. Donnelly
rays that while he was in England he
made repeated visits to ST. Michaers
church. He took with him a pocket COM
pass and he found that while the mag
netic needle within the churchyard-but
some distance from the church-pointed
correctly to the north, inside the church
1t was DETECTED to the west and pointed
directly to Lord Bacon's monument. This
caprice Of the needle led Mr.. Donnelly to
conclude that there might be beneath the
church large amount Of metal-possibly
an iron chest. He firmly believes that
Bacon has left behind him an explana-
ton which some day will be found and
which will make clear the authorship Of
the plays and Of other writings that are
now obscure and uncertain in their mean
ing. He says:
''The cipher being real, 1t follows. it
seems to me, as a matter Of course that
a deposit exists somewhere in the world
In which are hidden the original manu-
scripts of the plays and the other works
of Bacon, with the internal cipher mar
1ative in each fairly written out and a
vast mass of other matters throwing
light upon the inner history of the reigns
of King Henry VIII, King Edward
Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth and King
James t.
He thinks that this has been hinted by
the scholar Of ST. Albans. In Bacon's
Natural History" there Is this para
graph:
II remember Livy doth relate that there
were found at time two coffins of lead
in a tomb, whereof the one contained the
body Of King Numa, 1t being some four
hundred years after his death, and the
other his books Of sacred rites and ccre-
monies, and the discipline Of the pontiffs,
and that in the coffin that had the body
there was nothing at all to be seen but
a little light cinders around the sides, but
in the coffin that had the books they were
found as fresh as II they had been but
newly written, being written on parch-
ment and covered over with watch can
dies of wax three or four fold
This in the face Of the fact that Ba-
cons library, one Of the greatest of his
age, has disappeared from the face of
the earth.
Ignatius Donnelly has spent thirty
years of his busy life in the study of the
Bacon cipher. The mighty so-called
works of Shakespeare are an A B c to
him. The writings that none deny are
Francis Bacon's are like unto a text
book to his mind. He has searched the
of the world for facts He has pa
tiently borne the mockery Of the skeptics
But still he has worked on. The hidden.
the unseen. the musty details Of a semi
civilized age are - fresh to him as the
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