CHAF r,VAC
Dr. Orville Owen, of Detroit, Is Digging in
River Wye in England, Declaring That a Ci
pher, Which He Discovered, Will Enable
Him to Find Manuscripts Proving That Bacon
Wrote the Plays Credited to ShaKespeare
He Says Bacon Murdered ShaKespeare and
That He Expects to Find the Latters Head
He Gives No Reason for the Murder.
ENGLAND'S antiquarians ana soaae
spearlas students ar following ta
in dally paper with th most
diligent car th accounts of th di
mnrlK which ar being mad la ts
m'-id of th River Wye. near Chepstow.
r rr. Orvl.l W. Owen, or Liro:.
a Shakespearian schoisr or
wnrM-wllo reput. Tba Frltls:i puD.io
1 also becoming greatly Interested In
lr. Owen's work.
When th search was first bno a
w week, ago England x:reele.l Dr.
twn with equal parts of contemptuous
et.ence and open ridicule. Now. kow-
ever. all that la changed, and the dally
paper record in proitrese i me
l-n enthusiast's explorations with rW
ousneas and at length, whi: th Illus
trated weeklies derot pairea upon
paxes to pictures of th ices of opera
tions. Dr. Owen Is searching for manu
scripts which h believe were niaaeu
by Francis Paeon, the noted author and
Lord Chancellor. II claims to ce
e-nl.le.1 la his operations by a cipher.
This Is worked out from bir jm.ip
Sidney's -Arcadia." It la said to be
e.ear and moai explicit.
Sbakropares 1 1 rati In Box.
Th latest assertion, which th doc
tor has atade. regarding the cipher. Is
tuat Bacon reveals In th cipher that
.e killed Shakespeare and burled ma
head in th box which Is now being
reclaimed from the river bottom.
Why should Bacon hav committed
this murder la npt mad clear umrs
P.akespar knew more ox iiacon
fjrs. literary and otherwise, than was
good for hlra In th troublesome age in
which be lived, and that Paeon in mur-
rtering the poet art actor wen uyuu
tne tneory that "dead men tell no
tales." . .
Dr. Owen Is firmly of tills opinion ana
also that itacon. iranui
iter mtuht be discovered ana iraceu w
Mrm-lf. and that the poet s nean w
Price Collier Spends Several Months In
vestigating Oriental Attributes and Dissects
Japanese as Being Altogether Inferior to Oc
cidental Peoples Japan's Logical Direction
of Development Is Toward Korea and Man
churia, He Finds, and Is Certain They Do Not
Covet Our Possessions Not Yet, at Least.
THE spectr of tt Biami-erea ytu
low peril 1 hard to lay. In spit
of th declarations of President
.. tha tirotrstation cf statesmen, and
the arrumenta of tnfluenttul newspapers.
It Is seen rtalklng on tn norizou u
. -nv, of our or land force U
ocnteraflated or made. Th yellow press
1Ts a yellow tins; to to iimm i
r..imn rtRn and cannon; th
thousands of troop hurried to th Rio
Orande. wer convinced almost t a
nun that thT tottrlnf otr m
forces of Dlax.
v- iTir. Collier, who displayed pow
er of acute observation and uoh an
uncommon decre of common sense. In
.Irawins conclusions when h wrote,
i .,!.ia ru! th ETKlfsh" two or thre
virs trv attempts in a new book. "Th
m tha Est lately from th press
f Charles ftcTlbnera fS.tns, to lay this
irr-ost or at all events to e wnai su
.;j.n e ther ta In It.
Mr. Collier. In fathering material lor
vi. K.kb in.it several months In Ja
pan. Corta an! Manchuria. In Ms slow
j.Mirtiey throus-h the orieni. wcicn cwn
with llomlay and led throush tntca. in
his chapter on "Japan" and "Thlnas
Jspanese," h Brst gtrr sora vivid im
pression of the JupaneJe . people i
their way of I If and then analyses
t-. i Tr-mf hort anJ m'ist fair from
thm. Ill Idet and concluslcms differ
In msny ways from thos ilrawn by any
earlier writer or talker.
Tni-litantatTv ha dlscUes an vent
wMch wouUl hav rtvea a shock to every
ctttxea la th United state, n iney
had known tt at th tun tt happened.
Suspicion In Hospitality.
Tv-hM Ha American f.eet was wel
comed w!th loud acclaims of friendliness
at Tokchama." ay t. -J th rest ot
,v . t..imi ahia and men wr mob-
l.laecl near Nacaa&kl and kept there, men
mo deprived of leav. U.l th Anvencan
r.eet soiled sway."
r- foiTt.r ifoea not rive this ira-
.r aa arklan of th hostility Of Ja-
raa toward oa but merely lo Illustrate
th character of th Japan: lo aow
tiat -avan their hospitality is rjsjta
beneath Its outward graclousnesa"
xr- r-nttt.r manifests a belief that
America ha nothing to fear from Japan
at present that not only la japan m
wiaittae. for a bic war. but that the
direction of her logical development -U
tmnl Cms and Manchuria, ano iaa
of this sh Is fully awar herself.
-Cora,- say ha. -a a muitaxy ana
mvelal necaasltv to Japan, aa any
.. -- u& wha travala frens TOkt tO
ShlsnoBoaekL and ther takes steamer
across to lnan. the southern port of
I'area: trave's tt-e lengrth of Cures, from
jrusaa to me ia:ti Mttr, aoa tmu
throuch Soutbera Muvcbarla to Bukdea
aid oa to K.naroin.--yuer
ni"I jn-i to coco U tha
rr. l. sine, by a xamlnatloa of Shak-
peare s remains, wrote th epitaph on
th actor's tomb, warning, under pain
pf direful consequences, all ma to r
fraln from touching or disturbing the
remains of th poet, a warning which
has served Its purpose to th present
momcot
Oaken Vox Is Found.
Pr. Owen- cipher directed him In his
search for a box 40 fet Ions; and ten
fwt wld under water near a ford In
this river. After tedious exploration In
th mud a box 41 feet Ion and IS feet
wld In th middle, with tapering ends,
has bn discovered near th ancient
ford. This box Is composed of oak
logs, on foot squ.ir. carefully Joined
and mad watertight. It Is dlvldd Into
four compartments, which ar filled
with heavy stones.
Tha top of what tr. Owen thinks Is
th each has been reached by the rods,
but ther Is a considerable layer of
c:y to be removed befor th logs or
planking tormina" th cover can b re
moved. When th blx U finally opened Dr.
Owen believes that he will mak dis
coveries which will prov that Baoon
wrote not only the Sbakeapear plays,
but also Spenser's "Faery Queen." Bur
ton's -Anatomy of Melancholy" and th
works of Marlowe. Greene, Pell and
Sir Philip Sidney. Dr. Owen Is on of
thos who believes that Bacon was a
son of Queen Elizabeth.
The Amorlcan says Bacon mad a se
cret of his writings, fearing; that If th
authorship became known his enemies
would brand him as a wizard, on ac
count of his marvelous mentality, and
kill him and destroy hla manuscripts.
Th cipher. Dr. Owen says, tells how
Baron, preparing th each, worked
with a bolst from a barge, using a
horn to work th hoist that lifted th
mud or lowered th cement.
Then Baron carefully brought men
b th line of development. If th be
th outlines for Japanese energy and
emlrTatlon, w In America hav nothing
to fear either from coolt emigration or
from military aggression. Only thos
who do not know th situation; who
hav not seen th feverish activity of
bridge and railway-building; th push
ing of Japanese settlers Into and
through Corea and up Into Manchuria;
th government refusal of passports to
Japanese wishing to go West: and th
coaxing of Japanese famllle and labor
era Into Manchuria, talk of war as Im
minent." "Ther is no mors doubt that both
Germany and Japan look with envy
upon th rich and thinly populated
countrte of South America." be pro
ceeded, "and that Japan has entered
Manchuria to stay, than that Germany
and Japan ar over-populated. Th thin
mantl of th Prince of Peace conceal
far.g and claw only until th opportu
nity for profit, or th par. its of hunger.
Induce us to throw It off. It would
seem that our bureaus of agriculture,
our schools of technology are useless
without Annapolis and West Point.
Th splendid gift of Mr. Carnegie for
the advancement of peace doe honor
to every Christian and to every Amer
ican, but that traveled and Intelligent
gentleman would b th last to sdvo
cat th sending of emissaries for
peace, with th baiters of ells armament
and dafencolessness around their
necks."
Tlx-lr Vlosr of Womankind.
trta conclusion regarding the Japan
a people Is that they cannot Uv a
companions of our race, that their
Ideals ar entirely lncompatlbl with
ours. Th on thing that he ssys
chiefly ceovlnoed him of this In compar
ability was their entirely different view
of th relationship to women. Ha
sets forth his conclusion boldly In
tnea words: "Our Western coast Is
right and not till victory over our
forces on sea and land brings them
will th Japan be permitted to col
onls In any part of America, until her
civilisation la purged and changed In
this r aspect-"
"If th American woman could are
U whole Japan attitude ot this
question, both at home and abroad."
says be. In dlsousslng. what Is accord
ing to our standard, th exceedingly
low Idea of woman, "she would con
sider th admission of th Japanese In
any numbers ln this country, to b
educated sta by side with our children.
In th publlo schools, as an lnaoUrabl
suggestion. And sh would consider
that to permit freedom of social inter
course between Japanese men and the
young women ot America an Insulting
usf estlau."
mi- Collier avers that much of th
admiration tor Japan tha enthusiasm
witA TtH ail was walooroed Into th
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from OlouceatersMr toef.elp him In th
masonry, telling; them they wer work
ing In th BJvr Usk. (To this day ther
Is much talk of treasure In tha Usk.)
Finally, th chests containing tha orig
inal manuscript, conveyed by a fisher
boat, arrived from th old gray castle
close at hand. They ar coated thickly
with tar and pitch and wrapped around
with -camlet." As they are set there
a layer of Bacon's wondrous Iron oe
mont Is laid round each. The boxes
look Ilk a honeycomb In cells of ce
ment no water can reach them.
Then, to mak assurance doubly sure.
A
of mod am world powers is un
warranted. H does not bellev that
Japan naa by any means as yet proved
her ability to rank with th great na
tions, but that her social structure is
at present held together by a belief In
the divine authority ot the Mikado and
that, she Is still in a regime of feudal
Ism. Arguing that she was marvel
lously successful In war. the author
asks If that la so unexpected in a na
tion that is based on those feudal
principles. Besides be believes their
Russian victory overrated. He defines
tt is "inconclusive," saying:
Russia Not Badly Drubbed.
"Nearly (.000,000 Russians were se
curely entrenched and more wer oo ru
ing lnto Northern Manchuria, when
peace terms were concluded at Ports
mouth. Between March SI, 1904, and
March 11. 1907, the national debt ot
Japan Increased from 1280,000,000 to
the Enormous amount of f 1.135,000,000;
and Russia declined even to negotiate
unless any consideration of an Indem
nity was waived; and Russia paid
nothing, ceded no territory ot her own,
what she relinquished belonged to
China, and lost nothing but prestige,
for which she seemed to care nothing.
This war cost the Japanese Sl.000,000,
000: 85.000 killed and over 600,000 cas
ualties. A drawn battle with th
Japanese did not seem to Russia then,
and from what one bears la Russia to
day, does not seem to them now. as a
matter of much consequence. Had U
not been for th condition of her do
mestic political affairs, she would not
havi.' consented even to appear at
Portsmouth, for she knew, aa the chan
cellories ot all Europe knew, that
Japan was st her last gasp financial
ly." It was easy enough. Mr. Collier be
lieves, for a people with the past war
like history of the Japanese, to recog
nise an army and display an adapta
bility for military prowess. "The di
rection of true modern progress," says
he. "would be the conversion of this
clan system.' which despised commerce
and Industry, which taught Ita youth
that trade Is the only gam where the
winner is disgraced,' into commercial
and industrial efficiency."
That would be the line of "hardest
rcslantace." a avera. "Just as every-
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th masoned stones are set above them,
covering the whole 40 feet by 10 feet.
They, too, are plastered with pitching,
and then on the top of It all he lays
more rubble and stones, and. perhaps,
the scattered piece of cement which he
has not used, so that a triangular
shaped mound forms the roof to his
hiding-place. n
"The pressure of the stone house,
says the clpner. "serves to show you the
right spot 40 feet from shore, hid In
the mud of the river In line of the Ro
man ford."
And this Is what Doctor Owen says
he has found, despite the contention of
1I..RF A
body agrees to praise the Japanese aa
a soldier, so everybody agrees to ques
tion the honesty of th Japanese as a
trader."
Mr. Collier goes on to pile example
on example of the low standards and
actual dishonesty of the Japanese mer
chant and business man Ue finds
selfishness and a lack of foresight,
and he does not find any progress to
boast of In industry. Neither on this
point of adjusting themselves to mod
ern idess of trade honesty and trade
development, nor on the other points,
such as that of a high and fixed ethical
standard, which the writer considers
essential, has Japan proved herself
capable of holding an eminent position
among nations. Indeed, he does not
believe that as yet the nation has been
thoroughly tested even: that they have
yet confronted, much less surmonted
the real difficulties that prove a na
tion's efficiency and define her stand
ing among th nations of th world. He
writes: ,
' Have Not Tet Been Tested.
"It is not worth gambling, with your
soul aa stake, to win the whole world
of Japan, because to the Westerner,
b he right or wrong In bis apprecia
tion, th whol world of Japan Is not
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worth having, at th prlc of their
present slavery. We must wait until
luxury oomea and wealth; the cry of
their women for liberty and something
approaching an equality Of opportunity;
strikes and Uro qrganlxatlon of labor;
the escape of the members of the Im
perial Diet from the sway of a puppet
king endowed with ghostly powers; the
awakening of the nation to the pleas
ures and opportunities of life as we
know them; we must wait till then."
"They have not been tasted 'as yet
with thevreal temptations of power;
with the strain and stress of represen
tative government; with the poisonous
vapors of prosperity; with the demands
end expectations of the superficially
educated; with the unpatriotic- lawless
ness of millions of aliens; with masses
of people under no religious restraint..
No devil has tajten mem up into me
high mountain of civilization and
shown them the kingdoms of the world
and tempted them; and until that time
comes, the Japanese must be consid
ered as still in the making and outside
of any but a hypothetical judgment."
Nor have the Japanese, in Mr. Col
lier's view, showed the slightest ca
pacity for originality or Independent
development.
"They took their religion, their Con
. K a
fucian code of ethics, tneir art, ther
alphabet even, all that they have. In
deed, from India, China and Corea.
They adopted them, but they have not
Improved them. They have no porce
lain, no- painting, no carving, no lit
erature, no ethical code, no religion
which are improvements upon what
they imitated. Their past is a copy
of the East, their present is a copy of
the West. They have imitated our
mHls, machines, arms and Instruments,
but no Japanese even would claim that
they have invented anything of their
own, or Improved upon tne Western
models. It Is evident that a man who
can only imitate must always remain
behind."
The supreme test of a nation's ca
pacity, of what may be called a na
tion's strength of character. Mr. Col
lier holds to be the governing of other
nations. apan has in a measure felt
this test in Korea and Manchuria, and
she has not, says Mr. Collier, proved
herself In It. He says:
"Japan has not gained the respect,
the oonfldenoe or the quiet oontrol of
Formosa, Korea, or lower Manchuria.
In all th months I was in India, I
never saw a white mon Ill-use a
brown one; I did not visit Formosa, but
the Japanese are burning villages and
shooting down the natives there 'as
I write. I did travel through the
whole length of the Japanese sphere of
influence in Manchuria, and never a day
passed that I did not see rough and
often violent treatment of Koreans and
Manchus by Japanese soldiers, police,
and the lower class of labor employed
there. .
"It Is fair to say that the late Prince
Ito and the present Consul-Oeneral of
Korea, and all the many Japanese of
ficials whom I met, were heartily Jn
accord, and sincerely in earnest. In
their endeavors to do away with these
rough and bullying methods, but hhey
have not succeeded in preventing
tbem." "
Mr. Collier's observations of Jap
anese Hef. his descriptions of the
houses of the Japanese noblemen, of
the Japanese crowds, of Japanese man
ners, and of various ceremonies and
customs, such as the "Cherry Dance."
are ourlously vivid and Intensely inter
esting. Tet all that he sees tends only
to strengthen his conviction that the
members of this yellow race cannot be
held by us as "brothers: that our Ideals
are endangered by contact with them.
Their morals, meir
customs, are f a distinctly
archaeologists that the doctor is only
excavating a structure used as a foun
dation for a Roman bridge.
In reply to this sarcastic skepticism
Dr. Owen Is going patiently forward
with his work. Insisting that every
thing tallies with his cipher forecast
and in direot reply to the aoraeologioal
critics he maintains that Bacon, who
was a mental marvel, recognized the
adaptability of the disused bridge struc
ture as a splendid place for the burial,
of his highly-prised manuscript
Duke Foots the BUI.
Dr. Owen Is working on the property
of the Duke of Beauford. who thor
oughly believes in the revelations of
the Bacon cryptograph which the au
thor left In order to establish after his
death that he was the author of the
Shakespearean plays and ae other
works above mentioned. So thoroughly
In syntpathy Is the Duke with Dr.
Owen's work that he Is paying all the
expenses.
Dr. Owen is by no means the first
scholar to Question the authorship of
Shakespeare's plays or to discover a ci
pher pointing to Sir Francis Bacon as
the author. But In his claim that Ba
con burled proof of the same In the
River Wye he Is quite original, and the
result. If any, of his discoveries, will
attract wide world attention.
lower' form of civilization than ours,
is his verdict He finds their nature
codl. selfish and deceitful. "It Is as
tonishing."he declares, "that England
and America do not see that Japan IB
Materialism proving Its esclency. The
Japanese are smiling atheists and ag
nostics, and yet at one time America
and Europe were hailing with admlra
tlon their sanity, happiness, morality
and ability. At any rate, that attitude
means goodby Christianity, and Exeter
Hall must.be very frivolous or very
Ignorant if they preach a renewal of
the' alliance in 1915.
These people would make Darwin.
Spencer, Wallace and Haeckel point in
triumph. Not one of the sanctions or
authorities of Christendom has con
tributed to their success or to their
present civilization. St Is purely ma
terial, touched up with ghostly awe of
ancestordom. If they and their gods,
their women " slavery, their historical
and commercial untrustworthiness,
their Oriental secretlveness and cruel
ty, their imitative militarism, their
tyrannical anl unrepresentative gov
ernment of themselves and their con
quered aliens can be received on equal
terms by England and America, then
Christ is a mere ethical luxury, and no
more necessary to uor civilization than
the 'private god' of my Hindu friend in
Udalpur."
'
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