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Hopeless.

MFRS E. II. HARTMAN is to present
AvA medal each year to the railroad
that makes the best record in accident
prevention
AT dinner in New York Mrs. Harri-
man, replying to newspaper sheer about
her excellent idea-a sheer about a wom-
ans interference in the male sphere OF
airoading-said:
Let me tell you a fable, fable in
anecdote form.
Two men sat at a table In club. The
first man. frowning at the other, asked:
"'Why on earth do you let your vile
go around saying that she made man
of you? You never hear my wife saying
that.
No. the other frowned back. nm
I've often heard her say she tried her
hardest.
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"Faere Queene' Sir Philip Sidney's Ar
cadia' and even Don QuiXote." which
Sir Edwin says Cervantes merely trans
lated into Spanish. Sir Edwin also be-
lieves that Bacon. when he had a few
days to spare, wrote the famous essays
hitherto attributed to Mont But. no,
the list of works already given is quite
enough to go on with, and Sir Edwin de-
clared when seen at his big town house
the other day that he was not yet quite
ready to announce his latest proof of
the astonishing productiveness of the busy
Bacon.
1t would not surprise one in the least
TO learn that the baronet has spent mil
lion dollars in trying to solve the Bacon
Shakespeare mystery. The books that he
bought to aid him in his researches-in-
Guiding his Shakespeare First Folio, which
he got from the late Lord Ashburnham
for Sl5,00-represent an expenditure of
$4,000. and have been collected from the
four corners of Europe. He says that
once. when he wanted a certain rare
volume-which finally turned up in Italy
he sent out over 5000 advertisements for
II, which is fair specimen of his re-
gardlessneSS of expense in the pursuit of
his hobby. \ copy of his book Bacon
is Shakespeare, which appeared in 1910.
and the publication of which in that year
Sir Edwin believes was foreseen by Ba-
con, has been placed in every library of
Importance in the world including those
in Japan, ard the baronet has distributed
over 10000 copies of his latest pamphlet,
The Shakespeare Myth in this coun-
try. and now threatens to distribute
similar number in the United States. Ali
this must have cost him thousands of dol
lars more, but when the writer asked
him point-blank how much he has spent in
the hope of convincing the world that
Lord Bacon was the greatest literary syn
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dictate on record he replied that he didn't
know and didn't care
The fashion in which he endeavors to
prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare is
amazing. his pamphlet, The
Shakespeare Myth" Sir Edwin declares
that for reasons which it is unnecessary
to discuss" Bacon selected the number
fifty-three the key To his mystery,
and then turning to the first folio (Which,
it appears. contains three pages number
ed fifty-threei. the baronet proceeds to
show that on the first page thus numbered
we find the phrase 'hang-hog, and the
observation ''hang-hog is latten for Ba-
con ! warrant you and on the second
page fifty-three the statement, Il have d
CANNON of Bacon On the third page
fifty-three there is nothing of the kind.
but that does not feaZe Sir Edwin. He
remarks quietly that we must look for the
invisible page ffty-three,' which, he
explains. is page fifty-three counting
from the end, and here is prize indeed.
For on this page fifty-three We find three
lines beginning respectively win tne
words 'Pompey" in and got the ini-
tails of which form the word Pig which,
Sir Edwin says, is what we are looking
for A few pages farther on we find three
more lines which. reading upward this
time, from the word SOW, winch the
baronet observes, is just as much Bacon
as ''hang-hoG and which, he declares,
makes the thing even more certain that 1t
was before. There is more, too, for on
one of these pages fifty-three the baronet
finds the word wild boar" and it seems
that a wild boar was Bacon's crest. Ihat
obviously settles Shakespeare.
X =
OF course it all sounds grotesqueiy
ridiculous and humorists have little diff
Guilty in making great game of Sir Edwin
and his pigs and sows and sammons or
Bacon. One of them succeeded, the other
day, in proving from the program of
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American Atheneum tends to strengthen
the consideration which must be given it.
In the early part of December of last
year the initial meeting of the organiza-
ton was held. Invitations had been sent
to 300 people who were known to be in
terested in Spanish American literature
and history. Half of that number attend
ed. Addresses were made by Senior Juan
Riano, minister from SPAIN John Barrett,
director general of the Pan-American
Union: DR.. Charles Warren Currier and
Nine. Blanche Baralt, who came to Wash
ington from Cuba to address the new
ganiZatiOn. Senior RianO spoke in Spanish
and outlined just what such an organiza
ton as the Atheneum could mean to the
United States. TO such country as this,
he pointed out already in such close re-
lationship with Spanish-speaking coun-
tries. much good should result. He spoke
of Spain educational agency and
pointed to one of it's monuments, Califor-
mia.
One month later. January 4. the first
annual meeting was held. at which the
officers were duly elected. Then, but
few evenings ago on the 10Th of January.
the first literary meeting was held in
the auditorium of the National Museum,
at which several addresses along lit
erary line were delivered and which
formed the real launching of the Athe
neum
Just what the scope of this oiganiza-
ton will eventually be depends, of course,
upon its success here. If the unilagging
enthusiasm and work of those who stand
for the initial inception of this move
ment means success. the future of this
new body is more than assured Already
a seal has been chosen. This represents
Minerva goddess of wisdom, standing on
a plateau facing a Roman temple. In
her right hand is the spear, but in the
left she holds the ends of ribbon which
encircles two globes, representing North
and South America. On the ribbon is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23
What New SerumS Do.

JEROME $. MOVABLE, the Duluth CAPT.
J talist was talking about the new
Friedman consumption serum and the
American bankers one-million-dollar OF
fer to its inventor if it would really cure
1T is a safe Offer said the capitalist;
whenever / hear of these new serums
am reminded of DIR. Squills
I've invented new serum. wonder
full new serumr cried DR. Squills to his
wife.
oh good said Mrs. Squills. And
what will your new serum do. dear
DO? said Dr. Suuills. Why, ii Will
get nineteen articles about me in the lead
ing magazines; il will put my photograph
and a column story i'm / 100 newspapers
and it will elevate my prices 1000 per
cent
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ginner? Or. through personal relations
with our sister America" have you be-
come fluent enough to dig among the
literature and history of those romance
infested countries? Or, again, are you
"A Latin American mastering the difficult
ties of the English language? If any of
these apply to you, or If YOU can be
classed with those generally interested
in all movements which have a pro-
gressive trend, then you will agree with
several prominent Neutrality-suspicious. who
claim that this is the biggest thing which
has been accomplished since the forma-
ton of the Pan-American Union.
The Spanish American Atheneum is an
organization with a serious object. So
cia relations between this country and
Latin America will be furthered, as we'll
as the social relations which exist to-
day among the diplomatic and socially
elect of the capital. But the real object
of the organization. that object as set
down in the constitution of the society
as, being the principal purpose of its
,ahors." is to study the literature and
history of Spain and Spanish America,
to spread the knowledge thereol, anu
to promote a literary intercourse among
the Spanish-speaking people
Bv the wording of that same object
no home circle literary society is in
ferred nor is the work OF the CLUB 10
consist merely of the preparation Oh
interesting addresses Whlch are III REALTY
only rehashes of items in the encyclo-
media faint idea of the significance
of the object is contained in the remarks
of Dr. Charles Warren Currier, the orlsl-
nator of the organization. who IS hlmseir
q we'll known scholar on Spanish Amerl-
In lncen-
tive that caused him to formulate the
idea which has today materlallzed INTO
reality. he said:
I'm 1892 ! was appointed member OF
a subcommittee to further the historical
exhibit at Madrid. | went to Spain.
and returned home with many pleasant
memories of that country and things
Spanish Ny interest had been aroused:
Some time later | was asked to deliver
a course of lectures on Spanish Ameri-
can literature 1t is humiliating to con-
fess TO the lowly paths | was forced to
tread but great oaks from little acorns
grow. [ referred to the article on
Spain i'm an encyclopedia. / found an
insignificant paragraph or two on the
Spanish literature of the new world.
This was my introduction to the subject.
must admit that | was surprised 10
find that so little was known In our
country and elsewhere on the writings
Of the half of this great continent
That was several Years ago. and today
DR. Currier need have no humiliation in
that connection, for he is recognized as
being among the best versed scholars on
the subject of Spanish American litera-
ture and history. But the difficulties
which he encountered give a faint idea of
the magnitude of the proposition as a
whole and are ample evidence that the
newly organized society will not rank
among minor clubs, but has right to
claim the serious attention of all those
even slightly interested in the country
south of us.
Everything connected with the Spanish
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Ain Interruption.

THE late James B. Hammond had a
singularly generous nature-as was
evidenced among other things, by his
distribution of $1,000 bright new Llncol'
pennies from his motor car among thu
children of New York.
Mr. Hammond hated meanness. Once
at a club, he heard a man meanly asking
a doctor for free advice on all sorts OF
medical topics.
And now DOCTOR this individual
finally said, suppose a man got Frost
bitten-how would you treat him?
oh broke in Mr.. Hammond impa-
tiently, rub him with man who s-had
a sunstroke!'
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into Parliament. asserts that all SIX OF
Shakespeare supposed signatures were
written by law clerks. so that not scrap
Of his writing exists today.
Sir Edwin declares that Bacon conceal
ed his authorship of the English version
Of the Bible The Faerie Queen and
all the other works of the golden age of
literature because it was then deSrad-
ing to be known as writer and that ne
concealed his identity as the writer oil
Shakespeare because Queen Elizabeth
was so mad about Richard II, OF
which she said, according to Sir Edwin
"Seest thou not that | am Richard the
Second?"
The writer expected the baronet to
hedge when asked how he got the IA
nous 3d., which he declares Bacon
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was used TO form tent or a pyramid.
and i'm many of which the two Masonic;
pillars and the shibboleth also were to
be found. ''All accident chuckled Sir
Edwin. "S-s-s-s"
Everything he publishes is received
with derision and Punch has no more
favorite target. The writer asked the
baronet if he minded rldicule. Not
hit" he said. He was sitting at his desk.
now. all smiles after his demonstration.
"You see have the laugh on these poor
ignorant wretches, because ! happen tn
be right
Il believe this work is laid on me,
the baronet said. a few minutes later.
Once before a thing was laid upon me,
and | carried it through. | can't tell you
the details, but it prevented war between
England and Russia"
Copyright 1918. by Curtis Brown
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where the letters 'P |. G. appeared on
page 53. the printing was done arbitrarily
the lines being divided in an unusual way
so as to bring the words "Pompey. In
and got" directly under ca ei other, and
went on to direct attention to SO many
other at least exceedingly curious GOMEZ
dences that no one could be expected 10
remember half of them
"AH accident" he chortled. as he
turned I'D clue after clue "All acct
dent S-s-s-s!
The baronet declares, by the bye, that
the so-called portrait of Shakespeare
commonly known as the Droeshout por-
trait, is not a picture of man at all,
but "a ridiculous putty-faced mask, hSed
upon a stuffed dummy clothed in trick
coat" He insists that the arms as
shown, are not right and left ones out
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The Hard Row.

A PROPOS of a very rich woman's mar
1 \ riage to a man much younger than
herself Mayor Thompson said at DIM
ner i'm Chattanooga:
Rich old women who marry handsome
boys have a hard row to hoe. L know
such an old woman. She said. tenderly,
one day TO her youthful spouse:
What would you do. darling, If j
should die and leave you?
THE young man, yawning behind his
gold-tipped cigarette. said, languidly;
"'Die and leave me how nlseh2"
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used as a clue, but his answer came pat
bacon was a master Mason" he said,
land the secret of his authorship was
confided originally to nine members of the
order afterward increasted to thirty
three, who have handed it down. Bacon
originally used the number thirty three,
which signified his masonic degree, as
his key number and | can show You
dozens of clues on pages thirty-three OF
his works, but this soon struck him as
too apparent and for this reason he al
tered it to fifty-three He also used the
Masonic double A-the light y and the
dark A-as well as the Masonic two pill
lars and the shibboleth as hidden evil
dence of his authorship, not to mention
oueer use of the left hand and several
other clues which l could point out to you
if there were time, but now let us take
a look at the bOoks!"
He began with the first folio. and
showed, among- other queer things that
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NOT SHAKESPEARE, AFTER ALL!

two left arms. (another tip from Lord
Bacon that this dummy was not the
author Of the plays), and he quotes Gains
borough, the painter, who, in 116S, wrote
that he did not like the picture.
Then the baronet put the first folio
aside and proceeded to take down, one
by one, the great works of the Eliza
bethan age first pointing out that in
each of them the Masonic light and dark
A. appeared on the title page, ana to-
omen them at page No. 53 He showed
The Faere Queene' and Florios Sec
ond Frutes" published in 1871, and no
end of other works of which most of us
never even heard and on every page 53
If there was not a bacon or pig or
some speech which could be interpreted
without too much straining, to suggest
a hidden authorship, there Was picture
in which a boar or some other beast of
the porcine tribe figured, and in which.
oftener than not, the light AGpd dark A
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DITCH English Baronet,
IN Who Is Near Neighbor
of William Waldorf Astor in
London, Has Got Rid of Close
on Million Dollars Already
in Attempting to Demon
strate That Francis Bacon
Was the Greatest Literary
Syndicate Ever-His Collec-
ton of "Baconia" Alone Has
Cost Him Over $25o,ooo, and
He Has Spent Thousands
More in Distributing His
Own Writings on the Subject
Threatens Now to Scatter
a Few Hundred Thousand
of His Latest Pamphlet in
the United States-Quaint
Personality of Sir Edwin
Durning-Lawrence. Who Says
Shakespeare Was a Drunken,
Illiterate Clown" and Believes
That the Publication of His
First Book on the Bacon
Shakespeare Question Was
Foreseen by Lord Bacon
Has Devoted Twenty five
Years to Study of the Sub
lect and Doesn't Mind Being
the Butt of Humorists the
World Over.
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Peter Pan" that not J. NJ. Barrie, but
Burning Lawrence himself was the
thor of that and all the other Barrie
plays, not to mention those of Ibsen.
Hauptmann, Pinero Gorky. ID Annunzio
and George Bernard Shaw.
This really ingenious and funny parody
hit off perhaps the weirdest of all the
harOnet'S notions. that Is. his cOnYictiOn
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A NJ ORGANIZATION With a
4 = Serious Object r. a |
Object Is to Study the Litera-
ture and History of Spain
and Spanish America and to
Spread the knowledge There
OTTO Promote a Literary
Intercourse Among the Span
ish-Speaking Society = How
the Atheneum Was Original
ed in the Capital, and the
Plans for It's Future.
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SIR EDWIN DURNING-LAWRENC
Whose belief that Francis Bacon was
the greatest literary syndicate ever
has cost him close million dol
lars.
that Bacon foresaw that he, Sir Edwin.
would publish the key to the great myS-
terry in the year 1910. At this conclusion
the baronet arrives by the simple process
of counting the letters in the rhymed
Address to the Reader, which faces
the title page of the first folio of the
plays. and being signed b. L.. is usually
ascribed to Ben Jonson. Sir Edwin finds
that this verse contains 2S1 letters, a
Masonic number. he says. often repeated
through the folio. My book, Bacon Is
Shakespeare. he says was published
in 1910 that is, 2S7 years after 1913 SO.
of course. it's as plain as "A, B, c" that
Bacon foresaw burning Lawrence.
Sir Edwin, who, besides being an eX-
NJ. p. has the dignity of j. p, or in
other words is entitled to sit as d magis-
trate, owns one of the finest mansions in
Carlton House Terrace and the writer
waited for him in his hall on a settle
which once belonged to Queen Adelaide.
the wife of George ", and which bears
the royal arms. His near neighbors in
cludS besides William Waldorf Aston,
whom he frequently entertains and by
whom he is entertained in return, that
renowned sportsman. Lord Lonsdale,
Lord Cowdray, formerly Sir Weetman
fedrSOT VINO To-Day disputes the Oil
supremacy of John D. Rockefeller and
Lord Mount Stephen, the famous capt.
talist and philanthropist, who is Cana
dian by adoption, while on the other side
of the street lives the Right Hon. Arthur
j. Balfour, former prime minister. With
all of these the fiery advocate of Bacon is
on terms of Intimacy and he is likewise
member of five of the best. clubs in
London. including the distinguished
Athenaeum and the famous Reform.
Speaking of w. W. Aston, Sir Edwin
remarked that the former used his big
Carlton House Terrace residence but little.
explaining 'he nearly always sleeps on
the Embankment." AS the Thames en-
bankment, where Mr. Astor'S estate Of
fees are situated, and where he evidently
has residential quarters. too, is was
until recently. when the police put stop
to it, the nightly foregathering place of
all sorts of tramps and other kinds of
"down-and- outs," Sir Edwin's remark
that the American millionaire slept
there may have been a jest
The writer found Sir Edwin stocky
old gentleman with bushy white beard,
twinkling eyes and a benevolent manner.
He wore what is known as a norfolk
jacket, and from his waistband A fat
bunch of keys swung majestically. He
reminds one not a little of Mr.. Ponderevo
in Wells "Tono Bungay," having the
same odd trick of emitting, sign-of
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ish scholar, as vice president. Hon. Luis
Munoz Ribera, delegate to the United
States from Porto Rico. is second vice
president. and Mrs. Charles F. Hum
phrey third vice president: Julian Mo-
reno Lacalle of the Pan American Union.
secretary general: Antonio NJ. Opisso of
the Carnegie Peace Endowment, assistant
secretary; J. Selwyn TAFT. treasurer, and
Ira B. Dalrymple, assistant treasurer. The
members of the executive committee, of
which Vice President Currier is chair
man. are Hannis Taylor. former United
States minister to Spain; Charles Bur
dett Hart. former United States min
lister to Colombia; Gen. James a. Drain,
wiser to the State Department. Capt. =.
c. Marsh. L. S. n; Walter Scott
Penfield, counselor of the legation of
Panama: James II. Blount. former
Judge of first instance in the Philippines
Frazier d. Head, Charles Lyon Chandler,
Moreno Lacalle of the Pan-American
Union.
The honorary vice presidents are Man
uel Calero, ambassador of Mexico: Joa-
quin Calvo, minister of Costa Rica: 1g-
nacio Calderon, minister of Bolivia: Fed
erico Mejia. minister of Salvador; p. Eze-
quiel Roias, minister of Venezuela; Juan
Riano Gayanges. minister of Spain; DR..
Salvador Castrillo minister Of Nicaragua
Antonio Martin Rivero, minister of Cuba
Romulo S. Naon. minister Of Argentine
Republic: DIR. Carlo Ma. de Pena, min
lister of Uruguay: Eduardo SuareZ Mu-
itca. minister of Chile: Joaquin Mendez.
minister of Guatemala: Dr. Francisco j.
Peynado, minister of the Dominican Re
nuhlic. Federico Alfonso PeZet, minister
of Peru: Julio Betancourt, minister OF
Colombia; DIR. Alberto Membreno. min
lister of Honduras; Ramon NJ. Naldes
minister of Panama; John Barrett, di-
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My a few doors
from William Wal
dorf Astor in aris-
tocratic Carlton
House Terrace,
London, lives a
rich English baro-
net. who probably
Is the most laugh
ed-at man in the
world at the pres
ent. He is Sir Ed
win burning Law
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renee a former member of parliament,
whose wears total seventy-siX, and he is
the butt OF jokesmiths and satirists the
world over because of the queer beliefs
he holds about the authorship OF the
works attributed 10 Shakespeare and
lot OF other things.
Like most folk, you probably don't
care two straws whether Shakespeare or
Bacon or Artemus Ward wrote the
Shakespeare plays, but pray don't stop
reading in the fear that this article is
the million and oneth that has been writ
ten to settle the eternal question one way
or the other. Nothing of the kind; its
only object is to make You more init
mately familiar with the quaint and en-
pertaining personality of Sir Edwin Durn-
ingLawrence, Bart who, with other
things, is the fiercest Baconte going.
His favorite designation of Shakes
peare is the drunken, illiterate clown of
Stratford-on-Avon." and for nearly TWEEN
ty-five years. or ever since Ignatius Don
nelly's famous book started him off on
OF his time and money in endeavoring to
prove that Bacon was the author not
only of the plays and sonnets attributed
to Shakespeare. but of everything else
of Importance that was produced I'm the
Elizabethan age, including the English
translation OF the Bible. Sponsors
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which has chosen the National Capital
for its headquarters. has dreams of be-
coming International in scope.
Are YOU an American who speaks Span
ish with the hating hesitancy of the be-
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.7-Hd n N

SpecIaI tnTft elNNItIltF OF TUT NtaI-
LONDON, February l.. 1872.
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TPLOMATlC w ash
ington has a new
toy, one which
gives promise of
being of perma-
nent and increaS-
ing value. 1t is
the Spanish Amer
&c a n Atheneum.
That is the official
name of the or
sanitation which,
although formed
20 charter members,
q
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only this year. has $50 charter MEMBERS
vice presidents from seventeen OF the
Latin American legations, and numbers
among it's honorary members one OF the
crowned heads of Europe The club,