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The Washington herald., 1913-02-10
BITS OF BASEBALL,

John Cancel thinks he got stuns
when he took Bumpus Jones OFF the
hands OF the Jersey City club. John
ought not to feel SO bad about 1t, for
few years back he gave Renninge,
for Moeller. OF Jersey City. Moelle1
helped Rochester win three flags and
then was sold to Washington for a big
piece OF change.
The Giants will oppose the new rule
regarding the % per cent division of the
worlds series profits when the National
and American Leagues hold their spring
meetings on February II.
Manager Billy Cymer. of the Bisons,
has signed Jack Kroh, a semi-pro. for a
try-out on the Buffalo Club the comins
season. Jack Kroh is a brother of Floyd
kroh. late of the Red Sox. White Sox
and elsewhere.
The old New London baseball mark.
made famous by Tom Tucker, Tom Kim
ney, Pete Woodruff, Charley Armbuster
and others. subsequently to fall into
disuse and decay. has been purchased by
Morton F. Plant for the home of the
New London club, in the Eastern AS
sociation.
The st. Thomas club, of the Canadian
League. is negotiating with George Stone,
premier batsman of the American
League. in other years. as manager for
next season. Stone is the player who
recently advertised in the baseball week
lies for 'Job.''
A year ago Mike Mowry, Of the Cardi-
mails, was a hold-out and didn't report un-
til after the team returned from spring
practice. Now, however. with Mowry's
pal and roommate. Miller Higgins, as
manager, Mike has signed up without a
murmur.
George Schlei. Bunny Pearce and Billy
Ludwig, all old National League catch
crs, are slated for their releases by
Louisville.
The Newark club has signed Gus Getz,
the star third baseman of the New York
State League. Getz was drafted by
Brooklyn last fall, but turned back to
the Elmira club.
1t has already been unearthed that
Walsh, who was catching Thorpe in the
Eastern Catolina League, Is the fellow
who has been so prominent in baseball
and football at Villa Nova.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-10
Largest Morning Circulation.

Apprentice allowance claimed.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-10
CITY BOWLING TOURNEY.
Pin knights Start Ball Rolling on
Palace Alleys To.niRht.

All is in readiness for the seventh an
nual tournament of the Washington
Bowling Association, which starts to-
night on the Palace alleys. The sched-
ule for tonight follows:
Teams at 8 o. m
The Washington herald., 1913-02-10

William Dawson tried to rescue cat
from dog in Portsmouth, n. H, the
other day and was nearly torn to pieces
by the claws OF the eat and was half
eaten by the dog.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-10

George Schlei. Bunny Pearce and Billy
Ludwig. all old National League catch
crs, are slated for their releases by
Louisville
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-07
BABY MYSTERY IS YET
UXS0LVED By Police
POST MORTEN EXAMINATION
SHOWS THAT INFANT WAS
SNOTIERED.

A post mortcm examination OF the
boay of the infant which was found
iu au alley I'm the east part Oh the
city Tuesday wa made yesterday.
Dr Nau-aW. VINO made the eNaml-
nation. reported To the coroner's jury
that the child had been smothered
to death after living about 30 min
utcs.
The caroncv's jury returned YER
dict fo Tine ,fret that the child was
Killed by unknown persons. The po-
nre and ,h riffs force have made a
lil.e,n- search to Hnd the parents Of
the child but to no avail and there
are mo- clues Il hand.
The authorities will continue their
Investigation. The child will be bur
led today hy the county.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-07
MET DEATH HE PRAYED FOR
Iaycd In Bed far - Years In One
Position.

WELLINGTON. Mo, Aug. 6. -
Thomas +. Lockhart, after spending
q years in bed virtually in one po-
sition. today met the death he for
years had prayed for
Lockharts joints were ossified so
that the only movements Of the body
he could make were "A Struggling Of
the right shoulder and he middle
Joints Of two fingers on the right
hand. with this shoulder and finger
movement Lockhart has written an
autcbiographical book which brought
him funds sufficient to purchase tho
home here In which he died and 20
pay for a nurse to care for him con-
stantly
He had published several other
writings. mostly Of a biographical ma,
ture and emphasizing precepts Of pa
tienCc
Lockhart took to his bed Christ
mas night 1856. He never left it.
He was 80 years old.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-07

WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.-Thoso
who claim to tr on the inside of the
workings uf the Washington ball
team. say that they would not be
surprised II Walter johnson. the
pitcher who has been baking base
ball history of late years. would re-
ceive a salary of $4,000 year when
he signs up for next season. John
son has been irawing $1,000 annually
for the past three seasons and IL
now looks as IL the great HEAVIER were
slated for raise I'm salary for the
next three years. Clark Griffith IL
said TO De considering slipping John
son "a three years contract with the
$4,000 year clause prominently
imbeddod In IT,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-07
FEDERAL ARMY TAKES FIELD
1000 Trops Are Marching to Meet
Forces of Castro.

CARACAS. Venezuela. Aug C.
An army Of 1000 men. comprising
three hrigades divided into seven
regiments Of infantry and one of ar
tillery. left Caracas today 10 operate
against the rebel followers Of ex-
President Cipriano Castro. The brig
ade commanders are General Emilio
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-07

Fernandez General David Gimon and
General Torrellas Urquilo. General
Felix Gaiavis has been appointed as
chief of staff \ medical corps with
sisters of charity acting as nurses
the governments fight
ing forces
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-07

Mrs. Harry Payne whitney. the
New York society leader who shares
her husbands grief over the break =
down on his race horse. Whiskbroom
H.. called one Of the greatest run.
Ming horses in history. This season
Nhlskhroom has won the Suburban
Metropolitan and Brooklyn handicap.
lie was picked as favorite i'm the
Saratoga handicap. I'm which race his
breakdown viii prevent him com
peting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

II ONDON, February 22.-(Special)
Only a few doors from Will
- liam Waldorf Astor in aristo-
cratic Carlton House Terrace, Lon
don, lives a rich English baronet
who probably is the best laughed
at man In the world at pres
ent. He is Sir Edwin Burning Law
renee, a former member of parliament,
whose years total rs, and he is the butt
of jokesmiths and satirists the word
over because of the queer beliefs he
holds about the authorship OF the
works attributed to Shakespeare, and
a 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
written to settle the eternal question
one way or the other. Nothing of the
kind; its only object is to make you
more intimately familiar with the
quaint and entertaining personality of
Sir Edwin burning Lawrence, Bart.
who, among other things. is the fiercest
Baconite going. His favorite designa-
tion of Shakespeare is "the drunken,
illiterate clown of Stratford- on Avon,'
and for nearly % years or ever since
lgnatius Donnellys famous book
started him off on the subject, he has
been spending most of his time and
money in endeavoring to prove that
Bacon was the author, not only of the
plays and sonnets attributed to Shake
speare, but of everything else of inn
portance that was produced in the
Elizabethan age, including the Eng
lish translation of the Bible, Spencer 5
"Faerie Queenc," Sir Philip Sidney S
Arcadia and even Don Quixote,' y
which Sid Edwin says Cervantes. mere
ly translated into Spanish. Sir Edwin
also believes 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 declared when seen at his big
town house the other day that he was
not vet ready to ."announce" his latest
proof of the astonishing productive
ness of the busy Bacon.
IL would not surprise one in the least
to learn that the baronet has spent
$1,o00,000 in trying to solve the Bacon
Shakespeare mystery. The books that
he bought to aid him in his researches
Including his Shakespeare First
Folio, which he got from the late Hefd
Asburnham for SIS, 15,000--represent an
expenditure of s25000O and have been
collected from the four corners of Eu-
rope. He says that once, when he
wanted a certain rare yolume-which
finally turned up in Italy-he sent out
over 5000 advertisements for 1t. which
is a fair specimen Of his regardless
ness of expense in the pursuit of his
hobby. A copy of his book, Bacon l.
Shakespeare" which appeared in 1910
and the publication Of which in that
year, Sir Edwin believes was foreseen
by Bacon, has been placed in every
library of Importance in the world
including those in Japan, and the bar
onet has distributed over 100000 copies
of his latest pamphlet, The Shake
speare Myth in this country. and now
threatens to distribute similar num-
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Der In the United States. All this must
have cost him thousands of dollars
more, but when 1 asked him point
blank how much he had spent in the
kope of convincing the world that Lord
Bacon was the greatest literary syndi-
cate 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. In his pamphlet, 1.-The Shakes
peare Myth" Sir Edwin declares, that
for reasons which it is unnecessary to
discuss" Bacon selected the number SO,
as the key to his mystery" and then
turning to the First Folio (Which, it ap-
pears, contains three pages numbered 53),
the baronet proceeds to show that on
the first page thus numbered we find the
phrase 'hang-hog,' and the observa-
ton ''hang-hog is latten for Bacon 1
warrant you" and on the second page SO
the statement, II have a CANNON of
Bacon" On the third page SO there is
nothing of the kind, but that does not
feaZe Sir Edwin. He remarks quietly that
we must look for the invisible page
SO, which he explains is page SO count
ing from the end and here is a prize
indeed For on this page SO we find three
lines. beginning respectively with the
words "Pompey." i'm and got" the
initials of which form the word Pig
which, Sir Edwin says, is what we are
looking for. A few pages further on we
find three more lines which, reading up
ward this time. form the word SOW
which the baronet observes, is just as
much Bacon as 'hang-hog'' and which.
he declares. makes the thing even more
certain than it was before. There is
more. too, for on one of these pages g5S
U forget whether it is a visible or an
invisible one), the baronet finds the word
wild-boar,'' and it seems that a wild
boar was Bacon's crest. That obviously
settles Shakespeare.
OF course it all sounds grotesquely
ridiculous and humorsts have little diff
ficulty in making great game of Sir Ed
win and his pigs and sows and gammons
of Bacon. One of them succeeded, the
other day, in proving from the programme
of Peter Pan" that not j. M. Barrie,
but DurningLawrence himself was the
author of that and all the other Barrie
plays, not to mention those of Ibsen,
Hauptmann, Pinero. Gorky. D'Annunzio
and George Bernard Shaw
This really ingenious and funny parody
hit off perhaps the weirdest of all the
baronets nations, i. e. his conviction that
Bacon foresaw that he. Sir Edwin, would
publish the key to the great mystery in
the year 1910. At this conclusion the
baronet arrives by the simple process of
counting the letters in the rhymed 'Ad-
dress 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 PSI letters. Masonic
number, he says, often repeated through
the Folio. MY book, Bacon is Shakes
peare, he says, was published in 1910
j.. E., 2Sl years after 1928 So, OF course.
it's plain as "A B C" that Bacon fore
saw Durning-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 a magis-
trate, owns one of the finest mansions in
Carlton House Terrace and the writer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Fortune to Discredit Shakespeare

version of the Bible, "The Faerie
Queene," and all the other works of
the golden age of literature, because
it was then degrading" to be known
as a writer, and that he concealed his
identity as tho writer of Shakespeare
because Queen Elizabeth was so mad
about Richard H." of which she said,
according to Sir Edwin, "Seest thou not
that 1 am Richard the Second?"
l expected the baronet to hedge when
aked how he got the famous "53"
which he declares Bacon used as
clue, but his answer came pat.
Bacon was Master Mason he
said, "and the secret of his authorship
was confided originally to nine MEM
bers of the order, afterward increased
to 33, who have handed 1t down. Bacon
originally used the number 33, which
signified his Mason's degree, as his
"key number" and can show you doZ-
ems of clues on pages 33 of his works,
but this soon struck him as too appa-
rent and for this reason he altered ii
to SO. He also used the Masonic
double A--the light and the dark A.
as well as the Masonic two pillars and
the shibboleth as hidden evidence of
his authorship, not to mention a queer
use of the left hand and several other
clues which / could point out to you
if there were time. but now let us take
look at the books
He began with the first folio and
showed, amongst other queer things,
that where the letters "P. /. G." ap-
peared on page SO. the printing was
done arbitrarily, the lines being di-
vided in an unusual way as to bring
the words 'Pompey," i'm and got
directly under each other, and went on
to direct attention to so many other
at least exceedingly curious coinci-
dences that no one could be expected
to remember half of them.
"AH accident" he chortled. as he
turned up 'clue" after "clue." ''All
accident. S-s-s-s.'
The baronet declares, by the bye,
that the so-called portrait of Shake
speare, commonly known as the Droesh-
out portrait, is not picture of man
at all, but "a ridiculous putty-faced
mask, fixed upon stuffed dummy
clothed in a trick coat He insists
that the arms, as shown, are not right
and left ones, but two left arms (an-
other tip from Lord Bacon that this
dummy" was not the author of the
plays). and he quotes Gainsborougn,
the painter. who, in 1868. wrote;
Damn the original picture of him.
for | think stupider face l never be-
held. 1T is impossible that such a mind
and ray of heaven could shine with
such face and pair of eyes
Everything he publishes is received
with derision. and punch" has no more
favorite target. / asked the baronet
If he minded ridicule. Not bit" he
said. He was sitting at his desk, now.
all smiles after his demonstration"
You see i have the laugh on these
poor ignorant wretches. because ! hap
pen to be right"
Il believe this work is laid on me-
the baronet said, a few minutes later,
as | was getting ready to go. "Once
before a thing was laid upon me, and
I carried 1t through. | can't tell you
the details, but it prevented war be-
tween England and Russia"
Copyright 1919 BY Curtis Brown.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

wrote. Ignatius Donnellys book, which
first interested Sir Edwin in the Bacon
Shakespeare question, the baronet de-
scribed as ''the cleverest ever written"
One book in his collection which he
shows with particular pride is the copy
of Spencers ..Faerie Queene," which be-
longed to Charles III, and another tiny
copy of the original edition of Bacon $
essays, published in 1897.
another little book just like this went
down with G. d. Widener, the American
collector, in the Titanic F" he said as
he showed it. 'He paid two thousand
guineas $4,000 for it. There were only
400 copies printed. Widener got one,
got another And then he gave his little
"S-s-s-s-n
Most of the folk who ridicule Sir Edwin
and his theories believe the barOnet to
be a bit 'balmy on the crumpet." as
they say over here. The writer called
on him expecting to find him an out-and
out fanatic and left wee bit impressed.
Sir Edwin does not succeed in convincing
one that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, TO
say nothing of being, as the baronet be
lieves, the inventor of shorthand, and
the author of the whole of the Elizabeth
an literature. but when he has put be-
fore one the most striking of the queer
discoveries that he has made in his %
wears OIL ulSBlnS kdIlu iOt just Tue lullilS
ones that get quoted in the newspapers,
he leaves one with an uneasy conviction
that, as he himself says, 1t hardly can
be 'all accident" This much is certain,
that If Sir Edwin Is a fool about Bacon,
he deserves to be called, as was King
James of Scotland, "the wisest fool in
Christendom'' for he is absolutely stepped
in the lore of the period in which he Is
so vitally Interested
y, ,r,fr 4. alx
bouquet he will throw at himself, and
he will refer you to some statement in
the Encyclopedia Brittanica," (second
edition. to some date in the time of
Queen Elizabeth, or the exact page on
which Florio, or Ben Jonson or Mar
lowe used a certain phrase as airily
as you or / would quote line from
Omar or a joke by Gelett Burgess.
Let us take Sir Edwin seriously. just
for a minute, and see how he supports
his queer conclusions. His pigs and
.'sows" and "hang-hogs' are the least
of the curious evidence" upon which
he has hit to prove that Bacon wrote
the works in which they appear Sir
Edwin believes that Bacon wrote these
works because. he asserts. there was
no one else capable of writing them
Sir Philip Sidney, Marlowe, Ben JON
son and the rest being. according to
him. no more capable of writing the
works attributed to them than was
the drunken, illiterate clown of STRAIT
ford -on- Avon" of writing the immor-
tai plays that bear his name on then
title pages. The bard" as one might
expect, is Sir Edwin's bette noir. Ac-
cording to the baronet, shakespeare
could not read nor even write his owr
name, and Sir Edwin, who was law
yer before he went into parliament
asserts that all six of Shakespeare s
supposed signatures were written vy
law clerks, so that not scrap of his
writing exists today.
Sir Edwin declares that Bacon con-
cealed his authorship Of the Englist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
BY HAYDEN CHURCH


waited for him on settle" in his hall
which once belonged to Queen Arelaide
the wife OF George the Fourth, and which
bears the royal arms. His near neighbors
include, besides William Waldorf Astor
whom he frequently entertains and by
whom he is entertained In return, that re-
nowned sportsman Lord Lonsdale, Lord
Cowdray, formerly Sir Westman Pear
son, who today disputes the oil supremacy
of John l.. Rockefeller, and Lord Mount
Stephen, the famous capitalist and phian-
thropist who is a Canadian by adoption.
while on the other side of the street lives
the Right Hon Arthur j. Balfour, for
mer prime minister With all of these
the fiery advocate of Bacon is on terms
of intimacy, and he is likewise a mem
ber of five Of the best clubs in London,
including the distinguished Athenaeum
and the famous Reform.
Speaking of w. w. Astor. Sir Edwin
remarked that the former used his Carl
ton House errace residence, but little
explaining "he nearly always sleeps on
the embanhmel.t." AS the Thames En-
bankment, where he evidently has resi-
Dental quarters, too, in or 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.
l found Sir Edwin stocky old gem
tleman with a bushy white beard, twink
ling 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, as a sign of satIsfac-
tian, a little Kissing sound-the kind of
thing that fascinates one after it has
been repeated a few times and some
times makes him forget what the person
who uses it is saying in the absorption
of waiting for it.
Sir Edwin received me in his library.
a huge room whose windows command
fine view of the historic Mall in ST.
James park, on which, by miracle, the
sun happened to be shining Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars seems, on the
whole, low estimate to put on the rare
works in many languages, which line
its shelves from floor to ceiling. Sir
Edwin processes, at any rate. not to- know
how many there are of them, the one
thing certain being that they all bear in
some way or another on 1.-The mystery Of
Bacon of whom the baronet speaks with
exactly the same reverence with which
religious folk speak of God.
He talks of his books as a loving paren.
does of his babes, and handles them as
tenderly. Some of them are the only
copies OF the particular work in England.
and students who go to the British mu-
scum with its 4.00O,O0G books. in the hope
of consulting them, have to be referred
to Sir Edwin by the museum authorities.
The American authoress of '.rhe Bi-lit-
eral Cypher of Francis Bacon. was one
such, and though the baronet did not
scruple to refer to Mrs. Gallup as that
internal woman and that mad, stupid
IDIOT for, as he said purposely mislead-
ing those who would have followed in
her footsteps, he expressed his admira
ton for and agreement with all she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

% decidedly chic suit for tout and T @ i @ %
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

THE FIRST TAILORED SUITS OF THE SPRING SEASON
the Ha-Where Striking Examples of
Fabrics and Ready to Wear Models May Be Found-The
Birmingham Woman's Spring Wardrobe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

mixture, with the popular Russian blouse
suggested, the peplum, however, extend
ing only to the hips and the belt con-
fined in front with a rose ornament. The
sleeves are three-quarter length.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

T oNDON, February 22.-(Special)
Only few doors from Will
- liam Waldorf Astor in aristo-