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Show 8HAXE8F2AU ENIGMA. Rritntisto of many nation have toiled for yrarn to nnrarth relirn of put fivili. znliotiM in almost every rountrv. In re upon- Kgvpt ha vi?!rid up the foAlim of monmrchs deaA 4hmi voara; Azte-r mini have beckoned from Peru: the ear tain of aahea ban been lifted from Pom peii; mammoth that lived in tropic Hi-bria Hi-bria ayed inre have emerged from their tniiibi of ice; men of the fc-tone the cave dweller, and our own cliff dwellers, have each contributed their history. Yet all of these combined are an an incident compared to the Mentation Menta-tion which would have followed the di-coverv di-coverv that Bacon wrote Shakespeare. rr. Owen, the Detroit phyicinn who has evolved o many tnvsterinu mew atfe from the words of Shakespeare, has met with disappointment, and at, IcaM temporary failure in his explorations explora-tions in the bed of the River Wye at Chepstow. He confidently expected to find buried there the positive and complete com-plete vindication of his Baconian theory, the-ory, together with the head of Shake-1 speare himself. However, the end i: not yet. for. aa the ( '.lira go Tribune 1 aays: " When a Baconian dies thev have to put his optimism in a found-line's found-line's home It never gives up the ghost. ' ' It is in keeping with tradition that not an Knglishman, but the native of some land across the seas should make this exploration: and whatever our persona per-sona belief as to which really was the author, one cannot but wish, if history is to be corrected, the honor may come to an American. Meanwhile, as Owen plana to try again in a nearby spot, scores of the leading literary men of Kn gland and Europe are raising a scholarlv memorial to William Shakespeare Shake-speare in his native town. H. H. Wind eor in the July T'opular Mechanics Magazine. |