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TILE CIPHER OF ROGER
BACON,
U.S.A. SECRET SERVICE ThỶ TO PUZZLE IT OUT.
There is a saying in the American Secret Service that no cipher can be in- reated to escape for long an intelligent pursuit after the key. The cipher of Roger Bacon, however. England's farmenis thirteenth-century. monk. has passed through nearly eight hundred years, of searchers' hands and the clue is only now beginning to be detected. But, then. Bacon must himself have spent years upon his cipher, and purposely entangled it into six ciphers within ciphers, so that it is a marvel that human ingenuity han heen able to End any of, the six keye necessary to unlock à single door of Bacon'a concealed wisdom.
Professor William R. Newbold, of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been spending two years tracing all man- ner of clues through the Bacon cipher. is still. puzzled by most of the text. The manuscript which was brought to Ame rica by Wilfrid M. de Voynich from the Duke of Parma archives in Italy, seems to the unaccustomed eye to contain about 20,000 or 30,000 words. But each word is part of a shorthand system, and when the tangle is unravelled the total num- ber of words will probably be nearly a million
MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS.
Professor Newbold has arhibited one word of seven characters to show Bacoɑ's system. The Gist character is like the Jetter O. Is in one-half the size of a capital 0 but it in twelve sections which. can be detected only under a strong magnifying glass.
Each
of the seven characters 28 a similar shorthand symbol. When the even" characters have been separated into their individual parts, the result is 172 Roman letters..
The professor's first clue was a sentence at the end of the manuscript reading * Michiton Oladabas Multos de teer cert portas," He believed this sentence of part! Latin and part gibberish was placed by Bacon is the manuscript as a guide. Professor Newbold cut out the mearing- less letters and got a Latin sentence mad. ing, Mihi dabas muitos portas," mean-
Thou hast given me any gates This Was an indication of the way to nake the final disentanglement, after the symbols in the manuscript had been re- duced to Latin. Then a chaos of words at the end of the manuscript finally yielded the signature R. Baconi" by 2 process of separating combined letters. Neither of these sentences had been writ- ten in shorthand, as the rest of the manu- script had.
"KNOWN TO ANCIENT GREEKS,
Then
He thereafter began an examination of all old shorthand systems. He finally discovered a system that had been used by the ancient Greeks. This fitted per- fectly into the Bacon symbols and made it certain that Bacon` had borrowed his shorthand from Greek sources. began the work of translation within translation, and the professor is still at it. He has been offered the services of three cipher experts employed by the American Government, but it seems they must first qualify in medieval Latin, cabalisin alchemy, astrology, and a few other subjects not usually familiar to secret service ciphermen of modern times
Only A small
of the manuscript part has yet been read by Professor Newbold. The longest stretch is a series of sentences at the end of the manuscript, giving the keys to the six codes.
This monk Bacon certainly had a mighty poor publicity agent for a man with a moderi mind.-Daily Express.
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The following account of conditions at” Yasnaya Polyana and the manzer of life | of the Tolstoy family is from a correspon- dent who has recently reached England from Soviet Russia, after spending "8 years with Tolstoy's daughter, the Countess Tatiana.
Yasnaya Polyian has greatly changed "since it came into the hands of the Soviet Government, and Countess Tatiana and her only daughter, Tania, suffer
many Hardships.
Countess Sosa Talatoy. Count Leo's widow, who died (from inflammation of the lungs) in October, 1019, was a very pathetic and lovable figure, sad for a long while before her death had drended that her daughter and grand-daughter would starve. This was very evident from her diary, which was found after her death. This fear of starvation was not fanciful, and the Countess Tatiana, to obtain food, is obliged to sell clothes. haws and other things which she and her daughter make themselves.
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At Yaxuaya Polyana there are 70 work- ers, guardians, librarians, carpenters stewards. commissars, many of whom live in the private house. Countess Tatiana Tolstoy is one of these workers; the in engaged to show her father's private room to strangers
Thursday and Sunday things in Russia, the work had to be stop- are busy days, excursionists coming in pod as it was impossible to purchase the large numbers to are Tolstoy's home and string. to visit his grave. Countess Tatiana was
Countess Basha, one of Tolstoy's daugh- offered money for showing her father's tere, has been seat to prison by the Bol- room, but she refused it.
with
indigna tion. The visitors include many of the has tried to get her released and has in- shevists for three years, Countess Tatiana foreign delegates who come to Russia, bat terviewed Trotsky and Lenin, but to no Mr. H. G. Wells did not pay us a visit. purpose. The pessants scht & deputation! I wish he had; he evidently studied very to Trotsky to ask for Sasha's release, little the character and feeling of the hut they also failed. The peasants are Russian peasants or he would not have said they were contented.
ave very angry. They have a great respect and admiration for the Countess Saaba, Various commissars come on business who was most kind to the people."
Sho and make themselves quite at home-for has been deprived of her estate near the most part they are cours, uneducated Yasnaya and robbed of erything else men. The house at Yaenaya Polyana is abs had. Her slotbes are in rags and sadly in need of repair, the commissara her health is very bad, but she has the direus and discuss what should be done, spirit and pluck of her father and re- but there it ends Nothing has been refuses to despair. paired, and when I left the top balcony
done.
ment of falling down. The mariage plays, the push, clever musician, ment of the whole estate is carried on personality. Before her arrest she was the piano well, and has a charming in the same way; much talk and nothing engaged as one of the head commissars at Laat winter the Countess Tatiana start- bat which the undertook as it enabled Yaennya Polyara, a work she hated, ed a school for the peasant children in her to be near her sister Tatiana. Yasaaya Polyana house. Sho taught them in the hall, and one of her tasks Moscow in great difficulties. They have Count Sergius and his wife live in
Countess Tatiana read to them some of food, and last winter they were buroing was to show them how to make string sold nearly everything-old china, silver, shoes. Whilst they were at work the linen, beautiful old tapestries- for her father's short stories. But, like all chairs and tabice for fuel as they could
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