Show A queer will molloy was alio sor of u large fortuso in her own right tho same having boea left to her by her father two lucia anil judith who hd incurred the old gen clemaus tl emaus aiple burc by running oil and marrying two and 0 o they were not remembered in liis will onu of had n son ferentz t anil the other n daughter lucia when it happened to ih to die they found 1 will under her pillow ali seh wa in alio strictest sense a conundrum it read plainly enough so far con arned including a aim to thu c and a shili n each to the in liw to buy mourning rings but it came to alio bulk of thu fortune hero u want it and all the residue of my property whether real or por ional I 1 ire bequeath anil to G N W M U YH D 0 VJ W D M I 1 II 11 T I 1 D Z X Z wa all and of course it ans simply nonsense a it stood hut whilo they were examining it a note dropped out in which aliey were told to ailt up alio carpet in a certain corner of a certain room alicy did so and foual another note loll 1011 ng them to consult a certain page of i certain book alicy did aliat alo ami found there a third note saying key behind wainscot tarco inched toward clipboard from bresing room window it was the work of a few moments only to remove a loose board at alic point indicated dica ted and they came upon a few half eaten scraps of paper and nothing more the mice had swallowed tho key there could be no doubt eliat the whimsical collection of letters was a good and sul cipher if flioy could only pet a clew to it tho par ants of nephew felt it could be enado to spell hi name and thu parents of the niece were equally confident eliat it meant her As a re milt etch party brought in an expert and strange to tell each expert solved alio mystery to suit the party that had employed him and cacci was able to prove alio llio correctness of his rending the one retained in the antei i bt of the nephew begun by explaining that a person like miss molloy presumably ignorant of cryptography as n science would bo almost certain to adopt tho device of making one do duly for now you know lo 10 continued the english letter is c so that ten to one alie commonest letter in tho cipher will that letter is d it comes no fewer tanu live times in tins tivo so ten to one d stands for e well it d acan i H in i i 11 ari llin albi cf ly and so on taking ibo letters following put ing c for d and n for w ho went on to shiow and assuming that y might stand for p b for A and 0 for u it was aisy to spell then hu that tho cipher and tho Stcl dl both ended in a letter between a pair of lillerd rz idl ho argued would mean ami x would mean and with so much determined it be clear eliat alic tulion of letter for letter and nuver mixing them would give my dear nephew only tharo was a j in ferentz should ciaro been 1 1 I to represent an e but the who had drawn up all 0 abo will but this perplexing clauc that ass mss molloy biad inai tod up n having the boys name spelled i i and thus bhoj must stand for i and there was special of alio experts process then camo the other expert his process was quite as convincing and even more simpri and vet the out Lomo was entirely wah eliat in alio llio firtl casc when old women kiako ciphers he explained as his rival had done before him alicy commonly change the letters by counting forward or backward so lie biad counted one forward then two three conr and finally five and there he found a starting point according to tant rule ij would be p would bo n x making d follow s would bo c next came u which would be i then n would be s and so on the true letter being always the fifth letter from alie cipher forward and the expert smiled as tho cipher was thus foundton plainly letter for letter auca isair algita ti Birn nil mece there could bu no more cavil over this than over the other one the cipher meant two distinct dio and ti lings equally and at tho same limo both demonstrable by pro cossia obvious and equally what wa to lo 10 ilono U must RO to tho court 1 that was tho only 0 o do it never got there tho nephew and niece met fell in love and got aimed mimed and thus after nil may it not be believed the will of aliss molloy was finally carried out exactly as a s she had planned and desired frait lecul curiosities there are forty three registered bowlind clubs for ladies in and eight in brooklyn four of the latter having connection with young peoples church societies while tharo aro aay number of public places in 2 cw york a private alley is reserved for lady patrons writes a correspondent from alio metropolis somo of tho older clubs for indies have a very comfortably comfort ablo natty uniform of navy bauo jannol very much like tho lawn tennis costumes save that tho skirts anre in the shape of very roomy panta loona the bottoms of which reach lo 10 the shoo tops n sensible dross indeed V graphic there is said to bo a haunted bouso n silver street san francisco occupied by a man named roberts hr says the doors are opened by unseen bands the lights arc suddenly axtin in ono of the room frames move on their hannings hangings hang ings thero is loud knocking on the walls and tho piano plays shall wo gather at tho river in the still hours of the chicago i j i i A young man Tc wait ng impatiently for n letter hi 3 an invitation toa aetonu bor wedding |