The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
which was the especial province Of St.

Anthony.
II show in my new book, on page a2s
that the word Shake appears in everyon,
OF Shakespeare's plays, and in every cas-.
We find. not far away, the word 'speare,
Spur, or 'Sphear,' or 'Sper' or. some othel
word, giving. with the word Shake the
name OF the reputed author. Very OTTER
these combinations are found in the same
act and scene. sometimes on the same page
THE CIPHER ON THE TOMBSTONE.
please explain something about the
cipher on the tombstone
There was placed over Shakespeare
grave, at the time of his death, an in
scription, which traditions says was writ
ten by himself The gravestone did not
contain Shakespeare's name, that appears
on the monument on the side of the church
near the grave. The original gravestone
about so years ago, was worn out by the
feet of visitors, but before being worn out
two eminent commentators and editors OF
Shakespeare's plays, had preserved copies
of it. 1t appears in this form:
Good Friend for Jesus SAKE forbeare
To diGG TIE Dust Enclo-Ased H Ere
Blese be TIE Man spares T-Es Stones
And curst be He moves my Bones
'One of the newspaper editors who has
reviewed my book used the following Ian
guage:
Would the most ignorant stone cutter that
ever lived, at any stage of the development
OF the language make such arrangement
or capitals and punctuation marks, see
here. If left to his devices?
Was there not some direction for i'm
portant purpose in thiso For this the
wonderful arrangement of capitals and punctua-
ton marks are necessary, else they must
main puzzle.
an extraordinary piece of work. Why
should the word Jesus be carved in small
letters and the word sake in capitals?
Why should the word 'Enclo-A sed' be
spelled in that way, while in the plays, and
other contemporary writings it is spelled as
we have 1t today? Why should dash be
inserted in the middle of the word, and
after the dash why should there be capital
letter? Why should H Ere be carved
with capital H, a capital E, a period,
capital r, small and another period?
Who ever heard of a period being inserted
in the middle of a word? Bacon in his
DE Augmentis' put forth cipher which he
says he invented when a youth in Paris
lie says that thought can be communicated
by any combination of two different forms
OF letters, or two different sounds or by
Hastings of two colored lights. This is the
principle OF the Morse telegraph alphabet
which consists Of dots and dashes. He
says that if you print in book sentences
with two different fonts of type, and then
place under the type of one font an A and
under the other B and divide the writing
into groups of five you can make an alpha
bet by which anything can be communi-
Gated.
TRACING CONNECTING LINKS.
II we apply this cipher to the inscrip-
ton on the tombstone and place B under
the capitals and an A under the smaller
letters we Will then have the first FIVE let
-ers OF the inscription, 'GoodF,' with a B
lnder the G and under F. which are capitals
We have BAAAB.' If we turn to Bacon's
6l-L1teral Alphabet. given upon page u.s.
u volume ., OF HOughton, Miffln & Co.'S
eoltlon OF Hacon's works, or to page 80 of
ny new book. The Cipher in the Plays and
IN the Tombstone we will find that this |
symbol 'BAAAB' is S. The next five let |
ers OF the inscription are rendf.' These |
ire all small letters. we put an A under |
ZACH. and we have 'AAAAA, which is Ba- |
ons symbol for the letter A. The next |
etters Of the inscription are 'orJes,' part of !
he words For Jesus SAKE II we place
gain an under each of the small letters.
md B under the capital ] we have
which is Bacon's symbol for e.
Thus We have the three cipher letters
E. beginning at the beginning of the
inscription.
If we examine the second line sof the
inscription we find the letters TO diGG TIE
his dash between the capital r and r is
ne starting pointer the point of sub division
the cipher. To the left hand of the dash
7e find the letters diGG T. and we find
hat this 'AABBB' is Bacon's symbol for
l. We now have got SA on the first line
nd we take this H from the second line
insert it between the and A and it gives
s 'SHA. The next letter comes again !
rom the second line. If we start again
here the H left off we have the letters
70 at the beginning Of the second line
'lace B under the T and an A under the
:; this brings us to The beginning of the
econd line. and We must go elsewhere to
ct the other three letters to make up the
We which constitute the symbol. AS we
re advancing from the right toward the
1T the To is reversed. and becomes ABB
We go then to the first line, and we take
le three first letters which are Goo of
icod Friend Place an A under the small
9tters and under the G. and. still NOV
lg from right to left, we have AAB, MAX
lg the symbol 'ABAAB which is Bacons
gn for K. This gives US SHAK We re-
I'm to the first line and begin where we
1T eff when we got the letter A. We have
len, 'orJes.' This becomes AABAA. which
Bacon's symbol fer E, and so we have
lie words in regular order SHAKE
AS this has come out Of the dash be-
Neen T and on the second line let us go
little farther along that second line and
e find another dash In the middle Of the
ord 'Enclo- Ased.' If we start from the
ash and move towards the right we have
lie letters 'Ased H Put B under the
apitals A and H, and an A under the rest.
nd we have BAAAB,' which is Bacon's
'mbol for S. Now we go to the end of the
ne, and we have a small d, a capital H. a
apital E, a period, a capital and a small
and a period d HE. RE- Place an A un-
sr the small letters and B under the
'pitals and We have 'ABBBA,' and this in
aconS alphabet is P-the second letter of |
lie word 'Spare'
I'VE found, in the word Shake the first
Id second lines inter-locking. We advance
gain on the first line. and we take that
7mbol orJes,' which is Bacon's symbol
II E, and which we used to get the in
hake;' but the symbol is cunningly con-
ructed so that it is AABAA' read from
ther end. and this gives us the E. the
ira letter or Speare. We return to the
econd line and start from the period in
lie middle CT HE. Re- and Re becomes BA
Y placing a under the capital r and an +
under the small E. Again we 60 to the
40 OF the first line, and we have are all