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Show ' TREflJON IN mJM i;r rrrn rn-r- n JAPANS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE STORY OF THE ARREST OF AN OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH SELLING SECRETS TO A FOREIGN POWER. t 1 t 1 t wilnlttlHAWAW A t 1 SHIMOSE DID TERRIBLE DAMAGE A A z2 Two cups grated carrot, two cups grated potato, two cups chopped suet, two cups flour, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup islains, one eup cur nuts, oue lemon (grate rind and add Juice), one teaspoonful cream tartar, Steam three hours, gpice and salt hale half an hour. CbOMlfttt Sottffl Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter; add five tablespoonfuls of flour; do not brown, but stir constantly until mooth; add gradually half a cupful of milk and stir until thickened; pour this over the yolks of three eggs and two tablespooufuls of sugar, which have been beaten together; put two squares of chocolate In a pan over hot water; when melted add It to the mixture; stand aside until cool; shortly before the souffle Is to he served beat the Whites of eggs until stiff; mix them carefully Into a cold mixture; turn into a battered mold; the mold should be full; cover the only three-fourth-s mold; stand it In a pan of boiilng water and boll half an hour; aerre with agar and cream. Two Cherse Sand wli-tie- . circular cracker, of the variety known as water thin. Is crisped In the A. oven. It is then spread with rich cream cheese, rather thickly, and topped with a layer of ruby This Is made of stemmed red currants floating In a dpllclous thin Jelly. The other cheese sandwich consists of two oblongs, three by one and one-hal-f inches, of brown bread, out very thin and freed from crust. The filling Is prepared by rubbing some cream cheese very soft and blending It with minced watercress and two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise dressing. The brown bread sandwich Is served on t crisp lettuce leaf. It is a tasty and iellclous sandwich for summer lunch-son- s and for picnics. Nothing can fill Its place. bor-le-du- A Short Cat to Marmalad. To slice oranges and lemons in the process of making marmalade, there Is nothing better than an ordinary car. penters plane, an instrument which Is found In almost all households In the larger' or smaller form. The older as they to not discolor the fruit as the more inodren all iron plane would do. To se, 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 eeds as they appear. This will give allces equal to those made with the very expensive marmalade .mneh ne. 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 Short cut will never use the ordinary kitchen knife again, for the ease apd rapidity with which the fruit is sliced la marvelous. Boston Cooking School. (wooden planes are preferable, , ' IttlNTS FOR THE.) HousekeeperJ Dishcloths are quickly made fresh ad sweet by boiling In clean water With a good lump of aoda added. Always put the sugar used In a tart la the centre of the fruit, not at the lop, as this makes the paste sodden. When peeling onions, begin at the root end and peel upward, and the onions will scarcely affect your eyea at AIL r la boiling meat for making soup the meat should be put Into cold water, ta order to extract all the goodness from the meat Sonp will be as good the second dny If heated to boiling point. It should flever bs left In a saucepan, but turned into a dish and put aside to ooL Do not cover the soup np. as that may cause It to turn sour. A tablespoon of black pepper pat la tbs flrst water In which gray and buff Coens are washed will keep the colors Af black or colored cambrics or muslins from running. A little gum arable Imparta a gloss to ordinary starch. If moths are in a carpet, turn It over ad Iron on the wrong side with a good hot flatiron. Then sprinkle the floor underneath liberally with turpentine, pouring It into the cracka 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 ai follows: Pour into an Apen dish t dessertspoonful of to A quart of cold water. Dip tho brush into this, moving up find own, but taking care not to wet the back of the brash. In this way the bristles will be clean and white In Ices than one mlnnte and without any Then dip the brush Into gabbing. ttar water, shake and place la a Sack I drain. in-flaon- la FIGHT. III Methods Adopted by Mystery of St. Petersburg Slueths Would Hayo Mads Sherlock Holmes Qrees t jgOAC well department o known In the Russian capU q tal disappeared suddenly some weeks ago, and nobody knew what had become of him, says the Bt Petersburg correspondent of the London Telegraph. His wife falling 111 at the same time, quite a cloud of mystery hung over the family, all the more dense because of the absurd rumors that were circulating. One report had It that he had committed suicide while In a fit of depresalon. Others affirmed that be had failed to account for large sums of money entrusted to him, aud had been arrested for embezzlement. According to a third story, be bad speculated wildly on the exchange, had lost enormous sums, and, being unable to meet lila liabilities, bad fled the country. Ills friends shook their heads, and remarked that It was not in him to commit such follies. The rumors were absurd. But most absurd of all was the statement that he had sold plans describing the despatch of war material and provisions to the Far Hast, aud was a traitor to his country. Any. thing was possible, they affirmed, rather than that. To what Government could he have betrayed the secret of his own country? Of course, to the English, people answered. The English sovereign circulates In all continental countries, English spies are everywhere, the secret service fund of the British Foreign Office is Inexhaustible. Besides, the person whom he frequented most . But that being a doubtful point, people remarked that proofs were for everybody knew that the English had bribed the official, made him a traitor, and ruined him and his family. But what use could the British have for. the commlssnrlat plans? Skeptics queried. A makeshift answer was quickly found, which would satisfy the average Russian man, and the matter was Judged. All over thq capital the report spread that Englnud bad bought the plans In the possession of the official, and that he had confessed bis crime. In time, however, It leaked out that M. X. had sold his plans to Japan shortly before the war broke out, and. It was added, this act of treason enabled Russia foe to seize the with its stores and provisions. The traitor had already been tried, condemned and banged in the terrible prison of Schlusselburg. But the official papers have published no account of the arrest, trial, condemnation or execution, lienee nothing Is known for certain, except that M. X. has been spirited away by the authorities on a charge of treason to his country. The latest version of how he was arrested and proved guilty Is very interesting In Itself. It also throws a side, light upon the ways of the secret police, and who are now organized afer the French model, and act with far greater circumspection and skill than, say. ten years ago. This Is 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 wa now Impossible to obtain any. One or two Indications there were strong enough, perhaps, to awaken misgivings, 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 he spoke, at home or abroad, was also watched, but no facta of Importance were elicited. Whatever he might have done in the past, he was not selling his countrys secrets 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 had 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 Irospekt, which Is commonly frequented by German merchants and by foreigners. Beer Is the chief, but not the only, beverage there; the principal German newspapers are taken In, and the vernacular of most of the guests la the Teuton tongue. X. and his friend or acquaintance were at a table in a little room, at the far end of the restaurant, chatting, drinking and smoking, and there was no one there bat themselves. Indeed, the whole place was nearly empty just then, because the theatres would not be over for two full hours yet. Hence the pair were surprised to see a , stranger walk Into their room and sit down at a table near their own. It was bis right to do so, as the apartment was not engaged, but The stranger w.is a frank-looklnman, 'who seemed to have had his fair share of champague at dinner. He was a Russian to the backbone; for after having listened to the conversation of bis nelgLbor for a few minutes he corrected a slip of theirs here and got in an additional there. At last he moved his 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, and at last be Induced the man to rise up and accomoany him to the bar, which was In another room. g official of the Carrt Pnddiii. IN THE CHEMULPK0 commlsaa-rla- Yekat-erinosla- well-dresse- re-ma- there to drink each others health In Russian vodka. The foreigner was very unwilling, pleading that he never drank vodka nor strong Spirits, but finally, not to seem nngraclons, he humored the hospitable Russian, and leaving X. went to the bar. There In Russian they drank and chatted fashion, said the naw acquaintance-wh- ile time sped. While this diversion was taking place X. was not long alone. A man dressed like an official, hurriedly entered the room, and puffing and panting as though he had been running for his life, asked: "Is your name X.?" Yes, my name Is X. was the ungracious reply; "what business Is that of yours?" "No offense, I assure yon, sir, but I have been sent to find you about a very urgent affair. The police haTe for months been looking out for a dangerous man named Y., and they have at last arrested him. Ten minutes ago, not more. But he denies that be la Y., and. what Is more, he gives your name as his and your address. He also has your card, so that the whole thing is embarrassing. They know, of course, that lie is lying, but for formalitys sake they must have proof and they would feel mnoh obliged if you would kindly come just for a moment to say that you are M. X. Thats why I have come. You will be back here In ten minutes. X. obviously did not like the sugges-gestioand he urged various considerations against carrying' It out But the messenger was very eloquent, sua-siv- e nnd pressing, so that at last the two took a droshky and set out telling the waiter that X. would he back in 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 said: I am X., and If anybody else But he wns Interrupted by a voice: "In the name of the law I arrest you, XM for having committed one of the blackest crimes that any subject to His Majesty can be guilty of. You have sold secret plans to Russias enemy. You have forfeited your life thereby, and as all the proofs are in our possession you had better use the little time left you In this Ufa in preparing for the next. The world must have grown blajft In the eyes of the wretched mau on hearing his doom. He must have looked the very picture of despair, because even those hardened officials appeared to pity him, and oue of them said, sympathetically: "It Is sill possible to avoid deatb. If you wait until tbe proofs are read to you It will be too late. But sit down here and write a humble petition to His Majesty for lie will surely pardon you. mercy, But mind and make a clean breast of It. Your only hope is in tbe Czar. X. dropped heavily Into a chair, me chanicoiy V'ok a pea in liia hand, wrote a full confession of his guilt, aud basing signed the paper sealed h!s doom. No further proof of Ms guilt was needed. n, The Cheapness of Lift The loss of the Federal Army of the Cumberland In the battles of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, as given by Cist, was 6823 killed &fd 30811 wounded. So much for war In the sacndclal sixties. In the year 1880, which la the flrst year of systematic accident tabulation, 6823 men, women and children were crushed, torn, mangled or burned to death on the lines of American railroads, and 23,608 others were Injured in the same disasters. So much for peace, public Indifference and the railroad accident fifteen years ago. Having thus made sure our footing In the later eighties, let ns come in one broad step to the present; this while we have the war table before ns. Our historian. Cist, asserts that, all things considered, the two days fight- lng at Chlckamanga stands nnsur-oasse- d as the hardest fought and blood-lebattle of the Civil War. Tbe Fed-erkilled In this battle numbered 1687, end th roster of the wounded falls but few names short of 10,000. st al Frnlt-oad-K- at Find. There is Just one little, tiny. Infinitesimal error in tbe assumption that our primordial ancestors lived entirely without uncooked fruits and nuts, trifling miscalculation which vitiates tbe conclusion that what met our wants when we dangled head downward from a tree limb will meet our want now that we have turned tother end np. The error Is this: They didnt. No animal lives exclusively on vegetable or animal food. Whats a chicken, carnivorous or graminivorous? Graminivorous, of course. It lives upon corn and oats and wheat, the seed of plants. grass blades, the lettuce that you expect to eat and all such. Yes, well. You keep them on that diet and see how many eggs yon get Ar.d then yon give them beef scraps with their grain and notice the difference. Everybodys Maxaxine, Ior Bln of th Key, When a door key Is hung up ontslde a In Sweden It Is sign that the Lundy la not at homo. rrrEarnrua tQK i,i:i HERE has been much de-ha- te as to on the r I1 o whether thequestion O projectiles A which caused so Many casualties among the crew of the Russian cruiser Varlag off Chemnlpho, at the outbreak of tbe war were shrapnel or Mgh explosive shells. The Russians are divided in opinion. The French and Italian officers aboard tbe cruisers Pascal and Elba are of the opinion that little If any shrapnel was used. The British officers who were aboard tbe Talbot think that most of the havoc was due to shrapnel. Dr. Wada, chief surgeon of the Japanese Navy, has given a correspondent the following details In regard to shimose, the secret explosive used by the Japanese. Dr. Wada had twenty-fon- r of the worst cases after they had been aboard the Pascal for four days and where most of the fragments had already been extracted. He extracted some more fragments, all of which he said 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 tbe greatest point. It was shaped like an arrow. The next two pieces were about tha size of hazel nuts. 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 walls of tbe s shell were not more than of an Inch nnd that It was fired from nothing smaller than a gun. The Inference Is that nothing but the best 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 niado 6llppery 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 wounds caused by sneh a shell were no worse than those resulting from shells or shrapnel. If a man was lucky enopeh not to be killed he had a very good ehanre of getting off unhurt or with very Blight wounds, but they were meant to kill. The doctor continued: Two sailors stood on the bridge with Capt. Pudineff, Count NIrod and petty officer. One of the new shells strnek the petty officer. The new sheila are provided with fuses and take effect not only on contact with water, bnt with parts of the rigging living men. even clothing In fact, wherever the restanre is sufficient to alter the speed ever so little. The shell referred to exploded nnd Mew the petty officer to atoms. There uas absolutely nothing found of him afterward. Count NIrod. who was standing next to him, was also blown to pieces, only one arm being found afterward. Tbe two sailors stood a little way off. The explosion tore all the flesh from the lower parts of their legs, which had to he amputated afterward. Capt. Rndlneff was still s little further off and escaped with slleht wounds In the head. In old shells the fragments are meant to kill or wound. The explosive Is there merely to bnrst the shell and give additional Impetus to the fragments. In the new shell the explosive Itself Is meant to kill. The function of the shells Is slmniy 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 Is not Tery large. Referring o tbe numerous eases of suppuration of wounds caused by pieces of clothing entering with the fragments of a shell. Dr. Wada suggested that the Government should make a new rule In the navy that whenever a fight Is , expected every man shall hare bis body well washsd and hta clothing disinfected. He t S(0)r three-eighth- six-inc- LABORER TO MILLIONAIRE Cava or. Well Iflfh Hnlwi IN A DAY C nftpproarluilla, of XUchsst Mao. As a profession mining offers more chances for sadden wealth than any other, and this la exemplified in the ease of a Mexican miner, Fedro who owes a mine at Parrel, in the State of Chllcbuahna. He is about fifty years old, and comes from the peon, or lowest laboring class, tbe ability of whose members to write their own names is remarkable. For years this man was a mine laborer, working for fifty cents (Mexican silver) a day; Illiterate, unthinking and In common with the rest of his kind, he had no ambition beyond the making of enough money to keep body and soul together. He was known to be hard working, bnt he had no more thrift or foresight than the other peons, and In consequence his taking up of a small piece of property three years ago with the intention of sinking a shaft was a standing Joke in the neighborhood. He borrowed enough money to work his property in a small way. but being what he was, his credit did not hold for very long, and It was on the last day before the mortgage would have been foreclosed that he made a strike that gave him a position that la unique. The vein of gold and silver ore that he found turned him in a day from a peon to a millionaire many times over, and the results have been spectacular and Interesting. The wealth of his mine, with its present development, fabulous, the average ore taken out assaying In the neighborhood of $12,-00- 0 a ton. although one shipment of three carloads wrs made some time ago that brought him a profit of ?0T).. 000 a car, this ore being so rich that the native silver could be cut from It with a pocket knife. After tbe discovery there was naturally a change In Alvardos methods of living, nnd he started the building of an enormous nnd gorgeuos house, which, true to his blood, he placed In the centre of the poorest part of the town, where it Is surrounded by the mud aud thatched huts of his old friends. Until It Is finished he will continue to live in . mud shack, where he has no less than five pianos, although of course neither he nor his wife has the slightest Idea, of what to do with them. Alvardo is not Inclined to keep his good fortune to himself, nnd has a pension list among those he worked beside In his laboring days that amounts to more than S20.000 a month wule dur:s nig cusing the Christmas fe.'- -t tom to load a wagon with silver dollars, which he personally distributes through the poorer parts, of the town. He is Intensely patriotic, and a year ago made a proposition to the Mexleon to pay the national debt, nnd undoubtedly would have tried to do so had not Finance Minister LImantour felt tlmt It was for the best Interests of the country to decline the offer. Alvardo Is very proud of his position, nnd so ealon3 of his Interests that L' has surrounded his property with a high wall, within which he will permit none but his own people to enter. Leslies Weekly. Al-ard- o, 1 The smallest oak trees are to bs found In China. They are one and one-hainches high and will take root in thimbles. lf The language of the Republic of Haiti is French while the language of the Republic of Santo Domingo, oa the Island of HalU, it Spanish. Dr. Carl Schmidt, of Heidelberg; Germany, has succeeded, after seven years of hard work. In pieeelng together two thousand small fragments of papyrus and translating the com tents from the Coptic. Stunted dogs are very much admired by Parisian ladles. Tbe demand foi them Is met by at least forty profe sional "dog dwarfert, who bring ug the pups On an alcoholic diet which has tbe effect of checking their growth. Tbe Bank of England notes are mad from new white linen cuttings never from anything that lias been worn So carefully Is the paper prepared that even the number of tlips Into th pulp made by each workman Is regie tered ou a dial by machinery. The Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia is the fifth husband of Ills wife, Taitu, who was once a great beauty. Her first husband was one of King Them Cores generals, her second she dh vorced, her third was killed by Klnj John, her fourth was "removed, and In 1SS3 she married Menelik. Soldiers are despised In China. They belong chiefly to the coolie classes Tne German officers engaged soms time ago by the Chinese government found that their most important task was to overcome the soldiers owi feelings that they were a lower ordei of beings than other Chinamen. The Chinese department of the Brlb ish Museum Library contains a single work which occupies 5020 volume This wonderful production of the Chk nese press Is one of only a small number of copies now In existence. It Is an encyclopedia of the literature ol China, covering a period of twenty-eigh- t centuries, from 1100 B. 0. ts 1700 A. D. Gov-ernme- Female Flilihevk Gnnrded Her Mate, Complaints are made of the shooting nnd attempted shooting of fishbawks In the town of Bristol, and people near whose homes the hanks nest are very much Incensed because of the killing of one fishhnwk recently, on the land of Dr. II. M. Howe at Ferry II111, and the wounding of another of the birds on the shore, near the residency of Edward Anthony. Mr. Anthony noticed the wounded bird near his home the last of the week with a wound In Its throat and the breast feathers covered with blood. It was alone for a couple of days, Its mate not having arrived. As soon as the female bird c.me from the South, It caught fish and fed the wounded bird until the wound Improved. The Mrd shot at and wounded, which Is nea over Its hurt. Mr. Anthony claims Is the same hawk wounded In the wing by a rifle ball thirty years He recognizes the stiffness In ago. the wing that was wounded, year after year. Frovidence Journal. It Is not generally known that ths vanilla bean Is the costliest bean os earth. It grows wild and Is gathered by the natives In Fapantla and Mt cantla, Mexico. When brought from the forests these beans are sold at th rate of $12 per 1000, but when dried and cured they cost about $12 pel pound. They are mainly used, by drum gists, and last year over DO.OOO.OOtl were Imported Into the United States. The warrant nnder which John Bum yan was apprehended nnd placed Is Jail at Bedford for six months durlnj the reign of Charles II. was sold at auction In London for $1525. Th warfant. which Is signed by thirteen justices of the peace, six baronet and seven esquires, charged the tkikei with contempt of law, by preaching nnd teaching otherwise than according to the liturgie or practice of ths Church of England. Taking Ptarmigan by Pitfall. Is a way of taking ptarmlngan, which seems so simpl that it Is hardly credible that any birds can be so captured. Yet reliable witnesses have spoken of It ts sum cessful. A place on the mountain side Is chosen where ptarmlngan resort and the snow lies sufficiently deep. WTtll an old wine bottle, bel- - neck foremosL holes are made In the snow and ths bottom of each hole Is filled with grain. The ptarmiDgans lean over ts peck it out and And themselves overbalanced and caught head down to e the snow, unwilling prisoners, bn: tp use their wlugs in getting out again. In Siberia wild geese are regularly taken 1 pitfalls like these, bnt dug to the earth instead of being poked to the snow. The pits are dug oa gram fcj places where the geese assembly and are shaped like flower pot, round and gradually narrowing to tbe bom tom. Balts o grain prove irresistible and the geese tumble headlong In and then, being unable tr extend tbeis wings, find tnat they cannot got Ml again. Chicago News. In Scotland there na-abl- Sharks ta Europe. Superstitious people. If any such remain. will probably hold that It Is at a portent of the war that sharks have again appeared in the Baltic Sea. after an absence of nearly 130 years. Sharks are still 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 these fish are once more to be seen, and that they follow the boats to atIs the rule of our men tack the nets as Happily It they are being hauled In the army and navy alwaya to go In, ' It la also said that some of the Into battle in the newest and cleanest fishermen Kw Petal. hare had narrow escapes of uniform. This la not for sanitary con- their The discoverer of s new potato to lives. There are sboala of siderations, bnt It works the right way sharks In the North Sea and along the England Is selling tbe seed at $500 an the same. New York Sun, ' coasts of Germany and Norway they pound, or $30,000 a bushel That alare to be found In considerable num- most ranks with tbe Lawson Pink, Kothlag Lott It bests a ginseng garden, which Is They take tremendous precautions ber!. worth $50,000 an acre each year. But at the mint no that no specie shall be 8 hap U th Moan ? What the Irish potato will snrely have to an said lost Englishman, with a remAccording to the teachings of ad- go, as It Is becoming too diseased tan iniscence of an article he had been human consumption. We shall havs reading on the subject Every scrap vanced modern astronomy. It is a misof refuse is burned In ordec that not take to suppose that the abape of the to turn to Uruguay. The French sdetw the slightesa vestige of metal shall be moon la similar to that of the earth. tists, yon know, have found on tho wasted. The working clothes of the It Is believed nowadays that the moon banks of the River Mercedes what they men are burned, too, when they are Is A perfect ellipse. Its figure being style the "Solanum commersonll, won? out and they even burn the nearly exactly longer than potato that Is Immnne from all dim carta which are nsed In carrying the it Is broad. This elliptical theory of eases. Its yield is. enormous, and Ito our satellites shape is founded on tbe quality Is superior to tbe finest Irials bullion to the mint fact that a certain side potatoes. Let em corns lnl Well, said the American In the corner, contemplating bis cigar. I guess (end, rather) of the moon Is always Uf m Reality. ws go one better than that in our Im- presented to our view. This is caused Life Is a reality usefuL usabH mortal country. We burn the refuse by the moon revolving once on her noble reality. Happy, too, when ones in axis and the clothes and the carta. Yea, exactly the same period of ths grim Idol Self has been dethroned sir, we do all that and what it more, time that she revolves around tbe forever. For It Is a truth which w when a man dies w io I as worked there earth. He. elongated shape was prob- all hare tr Larn oftentimes through we have him cremated. Then they ably caused by the attraction of tbe many a bitter lesson that we cat talked about the weather. London earth when both planets were young never be happy unless ws ceast trying aud soft Fan. to make turselvea so. dan-gero- d: one-thir- well-know- d n , i |