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Show unrrTTrrr mq TREflJON IN RHJJIfl ? JAPANS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE STORY OF THE ARREST CHARGED WITH SELLING SECRETS TO A FOREIGN POWER. OF AN OFFICIAL SHIM0SE IN DID TERRIBLE DAMAGE THE CHEMULPK0 FIGHT. A Mystery of St. Petergbnrg t I i Methods Adopted by Sluetha Would Have Made Sherlock llolmet Oreca ' Carrat Paildlag. Two capo grated carrot, two clips grated potato, two cupa chopped suet two cupa flour, one cup augar, one cup molasses, one cup talilna, one eup currants, one lemon (grate rind and add (nice), one teaapoonful cream tartar, Steam three hour pice and aalt hale half an hour. Cfcoaalata laid. Holt two tableaitoonfula of butter; add Are tableapoonfula of flour; do aot brown, but atlr constantly until amooth; add gradually half a cupful of milk and atlr until thickened; pour thla orer the yolka of three egga and two tableapoonfula of augar, which hare been beaten together; put two equarea of chocolate in a pan orer hot water; when melted add It to the mixture; atand aside until cool; shortly before the souffle la to be served beat the whites of egga until stiff; mix them carefully Into a cold mixture; turn Into a buttered mold; the mold should be s only full; cover the mold; atand It In a pan of boiling water and boll half an hour; serve with sugar and cream. three-fourth- w Two Chon Saoilwlrhea. A circular cracker, of the variety known aa water thin, la crisped In the oven. It la then spread with rich cream cheeae, rather thickly, and topped with a Inyer of ruby This la made of stemmed red currants floating In a delicious thin Jelly. The ether cheeae sandwich consists of two oblongs, three by one and one-hal- f Inches, of brown bread, cut very thin and freed from crnat The filling Is prepared by rubbing some cream cheese very soft and blending It with minced watercress and two of mayonnaise dressing. The brown bread sandwich Is served on a crisp lettuce leaf. It Is a tasty and delicious sandwich for summer luncheons and for picnics. Kotlilng can fill Its place, bar-ie-du- c. table-spoonf- A ul Short Cot to VanaoloAo. To slice oranges and lemons in the process of making marmalade, there Is nothing better than an ordinary car. praters plane, an Instrument which Is found in almost all households In the larger' or smaller form. The older wooden planes are preferable, as they do not discolor the fruit aa the more 1 tnodren all Iron plane would do. To Use, Invert the plane over the pan In which the marmalade Is to be made. Take the whole fruit and move It back and forth over the knife, removing the seeds as they appear. This will give slices equal to those made with the cry expensive marmalade machine, though with slightly more trouble, but much more quickly and easily than With an ordinary knife. The plane blade should be sharp and properly adjusted before commencing the slicing. An individual once trying this abort cut will never use the ordinary kitchen knife again, for the ease and rapidity with which the fruit Is sliced la marvelous. Boston Cooking School. Mints for. thej Housekeeper! Dishcloths are quickly made fresh and sweet by boiling In clean water rlth a good lump of soda added.. Always put the sugar used In a tort la the centre of the fruit, not at the top, as this makes the paste sodden. When peeling onions, begin at the root end and peel upward, and the onions will scarcely affect your eyes at alL la boiling meat for making soup the meat should be put Into cold water, la order to extract all the goodness from the meat Soup will be as good the second day K heated to boiling point It should ever bo left In a saucepan, but turned into a dish and put aside to eooL Do not cover the soup up, as that auy cause It to turn sour. A tablespoon of black pepper put la the first water In which gray and buff teens are washed will keep the colors Mack or colored cambrics or mus-ta- s from running. A little gum suable Imparts a gloss to ordinary starch. If moths are In a carpet turn It over and Iron on the wrong side with a good hot flatiron. Then sprinkle the floor underneath liberally with turpentine, pouring It Into the cracks If there are any. Rub the turpentine In and then you can turn back your carpet Repeat this treatment two or three days. A good recipe which will keep the bristles of hair brushes stiff after washing h at follows: Tour Into an of Ppen dish a dessertspoonful to a quart of cold water. Dip - tt in-flaon- la the brush Into this, moving up and awn, but taking care not to wet the back of the brush. In this way the bristles will be clean and white In less than one minute and without any flubbing. Then dip the brush Into tfesr water, shake and place la a tuck to drain. 4 official of the commits-J- J well department known In the Russian capi tal disappeared suddenly some weeks ago, and nobody knew what had become of him, aye the 8t Petersburg correspondent of the Loudon Telegraph. Ilia wife falling 111 at the aame time, quite a cloud of mystery hung over the family, all the more denes became of tho absurd rumors that were circulating. One report had It that he bad committed suicide while in a fit of depression. Others afllrined that be had failed to account for large sums of money entruated to him, end bad been arrested for embeulemeut According to a third story, he had speculated wildly on the exchange, had lost enormous suras, and, being unable to meet hla liabilities, had fled the country, llie friends ebook their heads, and remarked that It was not In him to commit such follies. The rumore were absurd. But most absurd of all waa the statement that he had sold plans describing the despatch of war material and provisions to the Far Fast, and waa a traitor to hla country. Any. thing was possible, they a (firmed, rather than that. To what Government could he have betrayed the secret of hla own country T Of course, to the English, people answered. The English sovereign circulates in all continental countries, English splea are everywhere, the secret service fund of the British Foreign Olfico la inexhaustible. Besides, the person whom he frequented most . But that being a doubtful point, people remarked that proofs were superfluous, for everybody knew that the English bad bribed the official, made him a traitor, and rained him and hla family. But what use could the British have for the commissariat plana skeptics queried. A makeshift answer was quickly found, which would satisfy the average Russian man, and the matter waa Judged. All over the capital the report spread that England had bought the plana In the possession of the official, and that he had confessed hla crime. In time, however, it leaked out that 1L X. had sold hla pious to Japan shortly before the war broke out, and. It was added, this act of treason enabled Ruaslaa foe to seise the with its stores and provisions. The traitor had already been tried, condemned and hanged in the terrible prison of Schlusselburg. But the offlclal papers have published no account of the arrest, trial, condemnation or execution. Hence nothing la known for certain, except that M. X. has been spirited away by the authorities on a charge of treason to hie coun-try. The latest version of how he was arrested and proved guilty Is very interesting In Itself. It also throws a aide light upon the ways of the secret police. and who are now organised after the French modri, and act with far greater circumspection and skill than, say, ten years ago. This la the story, for the exact truth of which I cannot vouch. The authorities suspected X. of having had dealings with the Japanese, but they lacked proofs of the fact, and It waa now Impossible to obtain any. One or two Indications there were strong enough, perhaps, to awaken mlsglrlngs, but not sufficient to hang a dog. The matter was placed in the hands of the secret police, who are all disciples of Sherlock Holmes. X. was shadowed day and night; every person to whom be spoke, at home or abroad, waa also watched, but no facta of Importance were elicited. Whatever he might have done In the past, he was not selling hla conntrj's secret at present; but then, there was no one to betray them to, since the Japanese embassy had gone. A certain foreigner, against whom the police bad nothing to nrge, was among the acquaintances whom X. met from time to time. One evening the two were seated together In a restaurant on the Nevsky rrospekt, which la commonly frequented by German merchants end by foreigners. Beer Is the chief, but not the only, beverage there; the principal German newspapers are taken In, and the vernacular of moat of tho guests la the Teuton tongue: X. and hla Mend or ac quaintance were at a table in n little room, at tho far end of tho restaurant, chatting, drinking and smoking, and there waa no one there but themselves. Indeed, the whole place was nearly empty Just then, because the theatres would not be over for two full hours yet lienee the pair were surprised to see a stranger walk Into their room and alt down at a table near their own. It was bis right to do so, as the apartment waa not engaged, but The stranger w.ts a well-- d rested, man, who seemed to have had bis fair share of ebampngue at dinner, lie was a Russian to the backbone; for after having listened to the conversation of hla neighbors for a few minutes he corrected a slip of theirs here and got lu an additional remark there. At last he moved hla chair and sat by them. Curiously enough, he seemed specially taken with the foreigner, to whom he spoke much of Russian hospitality, Invited him to dinner, nr.d at list he induced the man to rise v.p and accompany him to the bar, which waa lu another room. ( rlat Yekat-erinoala- frnnk-looklii- g y, there to drink each other's health In Russian vodka. The foreigner was very unwilling, pleading that he never drank vodka nor strong spirits, but finally, not to aeem ungracious, he humored the hospitable Russian, and leaving X. went to the bar. Thera they drank and chatted In Russian fashion," said the new acquaintance while time sped. While this diversion waa taking place X. was not long alone. A man dressed like an offlclal, hurriedly entered the room, and puffing and panting as though he bad been running for hie life, aaked: Is your name X.T Yea, my name Is X." was the ungracious reply; what business la that of yours" "No offense, I assure you, sir, but I have been sent to find you about a very urgent affair. The police have for months been looking out for a geroue man named Y., and they have at last arrested him. Ten minutes ago, not more. But he denies that he la Y., and, what la more, he gives your name as his and your address. He also boa your card, so that the whole thing la embarrassing. They know, of course, that he la lying, but for formalitys sake they must have proof and they would feel much obliged If yon would kindly come Just for a moment to say that you are M. X. That's why I have come. You will bo back hero In ten minutes." X. obviously did not like the euggee-gestloend he urged various considerations against carrying It out But the messenger was very eloquent, sna-slv- e and pressing, so that at last the two took a drosliky and act out, telling the waiter that X. would be back lu a quarter of an hour. At the Police Department they found a number of high officials awaiting them. The apartment they entered was a sort of council chamber; the visages of the officials were solemn, the whole atmosphere depressing. X. entered, saluted the company, and raid: "I am XM and If anybody else But he was Interrupted by a voice: "In the name of the law I arrest you, X., for having committed one of the blackest crimes that any subject to Hla Majesty can be guilty of. You havo sold secret plana to Russias enemy. You have forfeited your life thereby, and ae all the proofs are in our possession you had better use the little time left you In thla Ufa In preparing for the next" The world must have grown blajc In the eyes of the wretched man on hearing hla doom. He must have looked the very picture of despair, because even those hardened officials appeared to pity him, and one of them said, sympathetically: It to still possible to avoid death. If you wait until the proofs are read to you it wifi be too late. But alt down here and write a humble petition to Uto Majesty for mercy, lie will surely pardon you. But mind and make a dean breast of It Your only hope Is In the Czar." X. dropped heavily Into a chair, mechanically took a pen In his hand, wrote a full confession of hla guilt and having signed the paper sealed his doom. X further proof of hla guilt was needed. n, n Cheapness ef Life. The lose of the Federal Army of the Cumberland In the battles of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, as given by Cist, was 6823 killed ay d 3083 wounded. So much for war In the sacriJclal sixties. In the year 1SS9, which to the first year of systematic accident tabulation, 6S23 men, women and children were crushed, torn, mangled or burned to death on the Ilnea of American railroads, and 23.008 others were So Injured in the same disasters. much for peace, public Indifference and the railroad accident fifteen yean ago. Having thua made cure our footing In the later eighties, let us come In one broad step to the present; this while we have the war table befon ns. Our historian. Cist, asserts that, all things considered, the two days' light--' Ing at Chlckamauga stands unsur-oasse- d aa the hardest fought and bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The Federal killed In this battle numbered 1087, and the roster of the wonnded falls but a few name abort of 10,000. fnlt-ul-X-it find Thera to just one little, tiny, lnflntt-eslma- ! error In the assumption that oar lived entirely primordial ancestor without uncooked fruits and nuta, a trifling miscalculation which vitiates the condnilon that what met our wants when we dangled head downward from a tree limb will meet our wants now that we have turned tother end np. The error to this: They didn't No animal liras exclusively on vegetable or animal food. Wbat'a a chicken, carnivorous or graminivorous! Graminivorous, of course. It lives upon corn and oats and wheat the seeds of plants, grass blades, the lettuce that you expect to eat and all stuh. Yes. well. You keep them on that diet and see how many eggs you get And then you give them beef scraps with their grain and notice the difference. Everybody' Mazazine. riTTTTTTnTO atOK HERE to bate S r1V I1 o I ha been much de-- j on the question ae the projectiles whether A k which caused so nfany casualties among the crew of the Russian cruiser Vartog off Chemulpho, at the outbreak of the war were shrapnel or high explosive shells. The Russians are divided In opinion. The French and Italian officers aboard the cruisers Pascal and Elba are of tho opinion that little If any ahrapnel was used. Tho British officers who were aboard the Talbot think that most of tba havoc waa due to shrapnel. Dr. Wada, chief surgeon of the Japanese Navy, has given a correspondent the following details In regard to shlmoie, the secret explosive need by the Japanese. Dr. Wada had twenty-fou- r of the worst cases after they had been aboard the rascal for four days and where most of the fragments had already been extracted. lie extracted some more fragments, all of which he aid were "undoubtedly parts of high explosive shells." The doctor showed a parcel containing fragments extracted from one man. The largest piece was two Inches long and half an Inch wide at the greatest point It was shaped like an arrow. The next two pieces were about the lie of baxel nuta. The other fragments, numbering 120, ranged In size from a pin head to a full grown pea. An examination of the largest piece showed that the outer walla of the s shell were not more than of an Inch and that It waa fired from h nothing smaller than a gun. The Inference to that nothing but the beat of steel can be used to stand the pressure on the bore of the gun. Nothing but a high explosive could smash a strong steel shell Into such minute fragments. Dr. Wada In operating on twelve sailors did not find a larger fragment than the one described. There were no Indications of shrapnel. He described how on decks made slippery with blood he saw small bits of flesh and bone scattered everywhere. He stumbled over an arm here and a leg there. .He saw men with their abdomens carried away and the flesh torn off their bodies. Nothing bnt a high explosive shell, he said, could have caused such effects. The wonnds caused by anch a shell were no worse than those resulting from shells or shrapneL If a man waa lucky enough not to be killed he had a very good chance of getting off unhurt or with very alight wounds, bnt they were meant to kill. The doctor continued: Two sailors stood on the bridge with Capt. Pudineff, Count Nlrod and a petty officer. One of the new shells track the petty officer. The new holla are provided with fuses and take effect not only on contact with water, lnt with parts of the rigging, living men. even clothing In fact, wherever the resistance to snffldrnt to alter the speed ever so little. The shell referred to exploded and blew the petty officer to atoms. There was absolutely nothing fonnd of him afterward. Connt Nlrod, who was standing next to him, was also blown to pieces, only one arm being fonnd afterward. The two sailors stood a little way off. The explorlon tore alt the flesh from the lower parts of their lege, which had to he amputated afterward. Capt. Rndlneff waa still a little farther off aud escaped with light wonnds In the head. "In old sheila the fragments are meant to kill or wonnd. The explosive to there merely to bnnt the shell and give additional Impetus to the fragment!. In the new shell the explosive Itself la meant to kill. The function of the shells to almniy to convey the explosive to the desired spot." Dr. Wada said he oid not know the limits In which the new shell kills or wounds seriously. Bnt the Instance described above proves that It to not very large. Referring o the numerous eases of suppuration of wounds canned by pieces of clothing entering with the fragments of a shell. Dr. Wads suggested that the Government should make a new rale In the navy that whenever a fight to expected every man shall hare his body Fell washed end Me clothing disinfected. He three-eighth- six-inc- con-tinne- d: "Happily It to the rale of our men la tho army and navy alwaya to go Into battle In the newest and cleanest uniform. This to not for sanitary considerations, bnt It works the right way an tho aame. New York Sun. XaiMig Lost, "They take tremendous precautions at the mint so that no specie shall be loet" said an Englishman, with a reminiscence of an article he had been reading on the subject "Every scrap of refuse to burned In orde. that not the allghtesa vestige of metal shall be wasted. The working clothes of the men are burned, too, when thpy are worn out and they even burn the carts which arc used In carrying the bullion to the mint "Well," said the American In the cor: ner, contemplating hla cigar. "I guess we go one lietter than that In our Immortal country. We burn the refuse ud the clothes aiul tho carta. Yea. Ir. we do all that, and what to more, III! f ttia Uoftr Kpy, when a man dlea w to . aa worked there When a door key la knng up ontolde we have him crenatcd." Then they n b"re in Sweden it Is a sign that talked about the weather. London to the family not at homo. Fun. LABORER TO MILLIONAIRE IN Cueer, A DAY Well Xlgk C upprwrhikU, Moxloo'a KlckMt Mas. of Ae a profession mining offers more chances for sudden wealth than any other, and this to exemplified In the case of a Mexican miner, I'edro At vardo, who owes a mine at Parrel, In the State of Chllchuahua. He to about fifty years old, and comes from the peon, or lowest laboring class, the ability of whose members to write their own names to remarkable. For years this man waa a mine laborer, The smallest oak trees are to be working for fifty cents (Mexican silver) found In China. They are one and a day; illiterate, unthinking and In com. one-baInches end will take rool high mon with the rest of hie kind, he had no ambition beyond the making of In thimbles. enough money to keep body and soul The language of tho Republic of together. Haiti to French while the language of He was known to be hard working, tho Republic of Santo Domingo, on bnt be bad no more thrift or foresight the Island of Haiti, to Spanish. than the other peona, and In consequence hie taking up of a small piece Dr. Carl Schmidt, of Heidelberg of property three yean ago with the has succeeded, after aeven Intention of sinking a shaft waa a Germany, hard work. In plecelng toof yean standing joke In the neighborhood. He gether two thousand small fragments borrowed enough money to work his of papyrus and translating tho com property in a small way, but being tents from the Coptic. what he was, hie credit did not hold for very long, and It was on the last Stunted dogs are very much admired day before the mortgage would have by Parisian ladles. The demand ft x been foreclosed that be made a strike them to met by at least forty profeo that gave him a position that to sional "dog dwarferl, who bring U unique. tho pups on an alcoholic diet which The vein of gold and allver ore that has the effect of checking their growth. he found turned him lu a day from a peon to a millionaire many times over, The Bank of England notea are madi and the results have been spectacular from new white linen cuttings neves and Interesting. The wealth of hie from that has been worn anything mine, with Its present development. Is So carefully to tiie paper prepared fabnlous, the average ore taken out that even the number of dipt Into th assaying In the neighborhood of $12.-00- 0 pulp made by each workman to regia a ton, although one shipment of tered on a dial by machinery. three carloads wrs made some time ago that brought him a profit of $000,-00- 0 The Emperor Menellk of Abyssinia a car, this ore being so rich that la the fifth husband of bit wife, the native allver could be cut from it who waa once a great beauty. Taitn, Her with a pocket knife. first husband was one of King Then After the discovery there was natu- dore's generals, her second she dl rally a change In Alvardo'a methods vorced, her third was killed by King of living, and he started the building John, her fourth was "removed," and of an enormous and gorgcuoa house, In 1SS3 she married Mendik. which, true to hla blood, be placed In the centre of the poorest part of the Soldiers are despised In China. They town, where It 1s surrounded by the belong chiefly to the coolie claaaea mud aud thatched huts of hli old Tne German officers engaged aomt friends. Until It to finished he will time ago by the Chinese government continue to live In u mud shack, where found that their most task he hss no less than five pianos, al- waa to overcome the important aoldlera ovi though of course neither he nor bis feelings that they were a lower ordes wife has the slightest Idea of what to of beings than other Chinamen. do with them. Alvardo to not Inclined to keep hla The Chinese department of the Brib good fortune to Mmself, and has a pen- Ifch Museum Library contains a single sion list among those he worked beside work which occupies 6020 volume In his laboring days that amounts to This wonderful production of the Chfc more than $23,000 a mouth. wuKe dur- nese press is one of only a small nun n nia cus- her of coplea now in existence. It to ing the Christmas les- -: tom to load a wagon with silver dollars, an encyclopedia of the literature of which he personally distributes through China, covering a period of twenty the poorer parts of the town. He to eight centuries, from 1100 B. CL te Intensely patriotic, and a year ago 1700 A. D. made a proposition to the Mexlcon Government to pay the national debt, It to not generally known that the and undoubtedly would have tried to vanilla bean to the costlleet bean oa do ao had not Finance Minister earth. It grows wild and to gathered IJmantour felt th--t It waa for the best by the natives In Papantia and MIo Interests of the country to decline the cantia, Mexico, When brought from offer. Alvardo 1a very proud of hla the forests these beans are sold at thi position, nnd so .colons of his Interests rate of $12 per 1000, but when dried that L has surrounded hla property and cured they cost about $12 pet with a high wall, within which be will pound. They are mainly used by drup permit none bnt bis own people to gists, and last year over 00.000.001 enter. Leslie's Weekly. were Imported Into the United States. lf Fentala FUhkawk Guarded Tin Kata. Complaints are made of the shooting and attempted shooting of fishbawka In the town of Bristol, and people near whose homes the hawks nest are very much incensed bersuse of the killing of one fishhnwk recently, on the land of Dr. II. M. Howe at Ferry III11, and the wounding of another of the blrda on the shore, near the residence of Edward Anthony. Mr. Anthony noticed the wounded bird near hla home the last of the week with a wound in Its throat and the brenat feathers covered with blood. It waa alone for a couple of days. Its mate not having arrived. Ae soon aa the female bird c.me from the South, It eaught fish and fed the wounded bird until the wound Improved. The bird shot at and wounded, which to nee orer Its hurt, Mr. Anthony claims to the same hawk wonnded In the wing by a rifle ball thirty years ago. He recognises the stiffness In the wing that waa wonnded, year after year. rrovldence Journal. The warrant under which John Bun yan waa apprehended and placed 1a Jail at Bedford for six months during the reign of Charles II. was sold at auction In London for $1525. Thi warfant, which to signed by thirteen Justices of the peace, six baronets and seven esquires, charged the tkikei with contempt of law, by preaching and teaching otherwise thnnt"accord. Ing to the llturgle or practice of the Church of England." Taking Flarmlgaa by Pitfalls. to a way of taklnf ptarmingan, which aeema ao simple that It to hardly credible that any birds can be so captured. Yet reliable witnesses have spoken of It ae eu cessfnL A place on the mountain aid to chosen where ptarmingan resort and the enow lies sufficiently deep. With an old wine bottle, held neck foremost holes are made in the enow and tho bottom of each hole to filled with grain. The ptarmlngane lean over to peck It out and find themselves overbalanced and caught head dowa In the enow, unwilling prisoners, but u able to uet their wings in rotting onl again. In Siberia wild geeae are regularly taken i pitfalls like these, but dug la the earth instead of being poked la the snow. The pita are dug on graai ay places where the geese assembly and are shaped like flower pots, round and gradually narrowing to tho bo tom. Balts o' grain prove irresistible and the geeae tumble headlong In and then, being unable to extend theta wings, find tnat they cannot get oat a galm Chicago New In Scotland there Sharks la Europa. Superstitions people. If any such remain, will probably hold that It to as a portent of the war that sharks have again appeared In the Baltic Sea. after an absence of nearly 130 years. Sharks are atlll to be met with In the Mediterranean, but In the northern seas we have long been rid of them. But now fishermen report that In the narrows of the Cattegat and the Belt theae fish are once more to be seen, and that they follow the boats to attack the nets aa they are being hauled In. It to also said that some of the Haw Fatal. fishermen have had narrow escapes of Tha discoverer of a new potato Is their lives: There are shoals of sharks In the North Sea and along the England to selling the seed at $500 a coasts of Germany and Norway they pound, or $30,000 a bushel. That ab art to bo found In considerable num- most ranks with the Lawson Pink, It beats a ginseng garden, which la bers. worth $50,000 an acre each year. But NThmt Ibipf la tha Koonf tho Irish potato will aurely havo to According to the teachings of ad- go, aa It to becoming too diseased foe vanced modern astronomy. It to a mis- human consumption. We shall havo take to suppose that the shape of tho to turn to Uruguay. The French acton, moon to similar to that of the earth. tlata, you know, have found on tha It to believed nowadays that the moon banks of the River Mercedes what they "Solanum commereonll," a to a perfect ellipse. Its figure being style the nearly exactly longer than potato that la Immune from all din It to broad. This elliptical theory of esses. Its yield Is. enormous, and Its our satellite's shape to founded on tba quality to superior to the finest Irish fact that a certain side potatoes Let 'em come lnl (end, rather) of tho moon to alwaya lift Reality. presented to our view. This to caused life to a reality a useful, nssM moon by the revolving once on her noble reality. Happy, too, when once axle In exactly the same period of the grim Idol Self has been dethroned time that she revolves around the forever. For It to a truth which we earth, lie.' elongnti-- shape waa prob- all hare tv Warn oftentimes through ably caused by the attraction of the many a bitter lesson tbat we caa earth when both plaueto were young never be happy unless we cease trying and soft. to make ourselves so. dan-Kere- ns one-thir- well-kuow- n d |