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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
MORE DOING.
OIL Finds Some Buyers. but the Top Price
Not Sustained.

OH FInus Sone buyers, but the Top Price
Not Sustained.
There was considerable trading in oil yester-
day. about $1,000 barrels changing hands at
76sl and 1873. There were moro sellers than
usual. ana this caused the market to weaken off
toward the close, which was at 75s bid and rs
asked.
A broker remarked: "You have noticed that
oil is slowly but steadily crawling up. Traders
and producers continue to put their trust In
prospects of still higher prices, and hold on to
the stuff unless compelled to SELL 1t looks to
me as II Mr.. Craigs prediction of so cent oil in
the near future is not far out of the way"
Refined advanced at New York and declined
at Antwerp. Average runs So, 2l3; average
shipments. SL4 4l4; average charters. 3l,yi
McGrew, Wilson q Co.. EisDer building,
quote: Puts. 75c; calls, 7T0771zc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
MARKETS BY WIRE.
Wheat Weak at the Opening, but Braces Up
Later On-The Weather Rather Bull
ish-Corn and Oats Feature
leSs-ProvfsioDs lower.

less-Provisions Lower.
CHICAGO = The wheat market had very
weak opening to-day at about Nc decline since
the close OF the session yesterday. The first
trading in May was at 931zc. with some sales at
931sc. There was an almost instantaneous re-
action to $3.50. ana after surglng backward and
forward few minutes between 93Ac and 1890.
it made slight advance, reaching 9315G93ssc.
The fluctuations of the next two hours were
confined between 93zsc as the highest price and
$500 as the lowest, with the news, the
attitude of the local spectators and the
course of the market favoring the upper
range of the fluctuations. The public and
some of the private:cables reported weaker
market abroad, but Others OF the foreign dis
patches interpreted the English market as firm.
The weather prevailing here in the winter
wheat section is not considered reassuring for
the next harvest, and Is very similar to the
weather which produced the poor crop OF last
season. 1t has been very dry all winter. and
apart from the damage the wheat plant is liza BILE
to from frost it will require a wet, mild spring
to give it any chance of producing an average
crop. The stock in store here and in the North
west dispels all fear of immediate starvation.
and encourages the crowd in the meantime to
sell with light heart upon every slight rally.
The advance in prices eliminated at 81 4G94ssc
for May.
The corn deal was not enlivened by any re-
markable operations. The opening quotation
for May was at 5l@5l1sc, sic being the lowest
point touched during the session. 1t advanced
TO 5l1sc.4 Partridge covered his shorts in corn
as he was doing In wheat. and some others of
the shorts were pursuing similar course.
The local crowd showed very little interest in
the oats market. There was no outside de-
mand. The trade was very light and the mar
ket quiet at a narrow range of prices.
The opening OF the speculative market in
hog products was fairly steady. and it was not
until after the call that the break in prices oc-
CURED, which made the feature of the days
operations. Germany, it was reported, would
not remove the embargo upon the American
hog products, which was the first ruuor to af-
feet the market. Later the packers appeared
to sell with one accord. Lard and ribs shared
in the weakness of pork. making with the latter
article their best prices at the opening and the
lowest within half an hour of the close,
The leading futures ranged as follows. as cor
rected by John NJ. Oakley & Co., 45 Sixth street,
members Chicago Board of Trade:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
Drygoods Market.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-There was a fair de-
mand for drygoods at first hands, but no new
developments. Conservatism prevails, and
only steady business is looked for during the
remainder of this and the coming month.
Current wants seem to be sufficient to keep the
market in good shape. The market tone con-
tinues steady to firm, with Improving tenden-
cIes. Prices were without change. Woolens
were in moderate demand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
GOING SOUTH FOR A pREAcl.E.. :.

Rev. Mr.. Fuller Has Call From the
Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Rev. A. w. Fuller. President of the Cur
tbs Memorial Seminary, at Staunton, Va,
has been called to the Ebeuezer Baptist
Church. Mr.. Puller has consented to fill
the pulpit of the church for the present, and
may finally accept the call. His relations
to the seminary are such that he can't leave
it until his successor is appointed.
Mr.. Puller is graduate of Bucknell
University, and is an intelligent and elo-
uuent colored man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS.
Dealers in Cincinnati Have Nothing to Com
plain of Now.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsP ATcH:
CINCINNATI Jan. 23-Eogers, Brown & Co.
say: Furnace agents and dealers are not dis
posed to complain of the volume of business
current the past week The aggregate of or
ders is quite double that of the corresponding
period a wear ago, when furnaces were refusing
to recognize the decline which had set in.
Prices throughout the entire list range from
s3 to 81 per ton less than in January, 1880.
There has been little stifening in value. The
very cheapest lots that were being forced about
the first Of the month have been absorbed and
current make is greatly reduced
There are some heavy >tocks reported here
and ;here, but they in strong hands. and
not offered at current prices. Southern coke
furnaces have no iron unsold. The diminutlon
in consumption that was generally expected is
hardly noticeable thus far
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
PAYING OFF ITS DEBT.
A Sharpsburg Congregation About to Bufid
n Fine Schoolhouse.

Fine Schoolhouse.
Father Schroale, rector OF St. Mary's con-
gregation at Sharpsburg, will tomorrow
make public the annual statemen. of the
congregation. The debt. now not more than
$40, 900, is lower than it has ever been in
the existence of the congregation, but be-
fore it can all be paid off it will go up to
about $40, 900 in the next year.
A new schoolhouse, not to be rivaled by
any in the diocese, will be. built, and it is
expected that the work Will be commenced
next summer. No definite action has yet
been taken, but it is said that the building
will be 100 by IS feet and four stories high.
The fourth floor is to be used for entertain
ments and the others will be for school
rooms.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

Sales at first call were II shares of Electric at
s. 465 at ~. and ITO Luster at l9H. Sales at
second call were 800 Electric at IA 100 at ~,
l35 at ~, 10 at ~, Airbrake at lUO. 10 Pleas
ant Valley at 21a. and 10 Switch at 10H. At
third call 100 Philadelphia Gas went at ll19, 5
at II and ass Electric at n. Between the calls
800 Electric sold at II.
The total sales of stocks at New York yes
terday were 166.545 shares including: AtchisoD.
l.9l0; Lackawanna, 1500; Louisville & Nash
vllle $3.50; Missouri Pacific 47S6; Northern
Pacific. preferred. 5000: Richmond & West
Point q, 5,S9S;ssSt. Paul, 1880; Union Pacific,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
MANY MISSIONARIES TO AFRICA,
Sent There and Sustained by Catholic
Religious Societies.

A special collection is to be taken up in
all the Catholic churches in this diocese to-
morrow for the mission in Africa. The
different religious orders in the church
from all over the world are sending priests
has to be endured is almost indescribable.
The most that have been sent by the
church have been from the Benedctines and
the Order of the Holy Ghost. The latter
order, though not yet 80 years old, has al
ready over 60 churches and mission stations
in this far off and uncivilizsd country and
more than 200 priests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
OIL Markets.

BRADFORD. Jan. 23.-National Transit Cef-
tifcaIes opened at TIC; closed at 7551e; high
est TIC; lowest 751sc; clearances. 73i.0o0 bar
rels.
OIL CITY. Jan. 23.-National Transit Ger
tifcates opened at TIC; highest. TIC; lowest,
757sc; closed, 76c. Sales, 2O6 00O barrels; clear
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
New York Coffee Market.

NEW YORK. Jan. 23-Coffee-Options opened
steady, points down to 10 up. closed steady
10 down to 10 up: sales 1900 bags. including
January. 1700@17.05c: February, 1655@l66Oc;
March. l62U@l6.25c: April. 15.90c; May, 1850
tember. A.6Oc; December, l3S5c Spot Rio
firm and in fair demand; fair cargoes, l9c; No.
Z, I71ac.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
'Ex-dividend.
Boston Stocks.
Mining Quotations.

NEW YORK. Jan. 23.-Amador. 100: Aspen.
600: Eureka Consolidated. 275; Hale and Nor
cross, 160; Homestake, S25; Horn Silver. 2S5;
Mexican. 200; Ontario $500; Ophir, 2S5; Stand
ard, l35; Union Consolidated, $50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

ances, 7lSOOO barrels; charters. g2.063 barrels;
shipments, so.S55 barrels; runs, 95. IA barrels.
New YORK, Jan. %. = Petroleum opened
steady. and after slight advance gave way
under few selling orders from the West ana
declined steadily the rest of the day, cioslng
weak. PENNSYLVANIA oil spot: Opening
TIC: highest 77ssc; lowest, 7sc; closing 77sc.
February option: Opening. TIC; highest, I.lc;
lowest 76l4c; closing. 764c. Lima oil: sales
none. Total sales l25,000 barrels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

FRANK G. CARPENTER has taken photo
graphs of Senators backs, and for THE
DISPATCH tomorrow bases a charming
lester upon them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

CABLE LETTERS covering Europe and
Great Britain are exclusive features of the
Sunday issue of THE DISPATCH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
Metal Market

NEW HoRK-Pig iron quiet Copper dull and
heavy; lake. January, Sl4 50. Lead unsettled,
domestic, s. 35 Tin quiet and easier; straits
500 IA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
CEMETERIES OUTSIDE THE CITY
Being Rapidly Purchased by All of the
Catholic Congrepations

Rev. Father Leander Schue.r, rector Of
st. Mary's congregation, Allegheny, has
just purchased 171S acres of land in Ross
township, for new cemetery, at cost Of
$1,000. The one on Nunnery Hill, which
has been used for 35 years. will shortly be
abandoned, and as soon as the weather will
permit, the new one will be fenced in, and
early in the spring it will be blessed.
The Carmellite Fathers, in charge of the
Holy Trinity Church, will also purchase
tract OF land, some distance from the city,
for cemetery purposes, and soon all the old
congregations will have selected sites for
cemeteries outside the city limits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
Price of Bar Silver.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l -
NEW YORK. Jan. 2s-Bar silrer-London
z71Sd; New York, 81 03H.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.

Condition of Markets at East Liberty Stock
Yards.
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
FRIDAY. Jan. g.
Cattle-ReceIpts. 800 head; shipments. 20
head. Nothing doing. all through consign-
ments. Two cars cattle shipped TO New York
to-day.
HogsAReceipts, 1900 head; shipments, $500
head. Market active: Philadelphias s. 700
5 So; mixed and heavy Workers. sS 6993 20: light
Workers. So 45@l3 so: pigs, 81 1908 %: g cars
of hogs shipped TO New York to-day. 400
Sheep-Receipts. LOO bead: shipments, l,9uO
head. Market slow at unchanged prices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

FANNIE b. WARDS South American let
ter for THE DISPATCH tomorrow treats
of Earthquakes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
NO NEW FEATURES.

The ST. LOuis Market Remains in About the
Usual Condition.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM THE DTsPATcHI
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 33.-Rogers, Brown &
Meacham say: The past week has developed
no new features in our local market. Pur-
chases for current requirements continue on a
modest scale at very low prices. Now that the
strlke is over it remains to be seen how many
furnaces will resume making iron and selling
o. b. St LOUIS:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
WHOLESALE = HOUSE,
JOSEPH HORNE & CO.

Embroidery and White Goods Department..
direct importation-from the best -Inanufac-
turers of st. Gall. in Swiss and Cambria Edg-
lngs, Flouncings Skirt Widths and Allovera,
Hemstitched Edgings and Flouncings. Buyers
will tind these goods attractive both in price
and novelties of design. Full lines Of New
L1ces and White Goods UPHOLSTERY DE-
PARTMENT-Best makes Window Shades in
dado and plain spring fixtures, Lace Cur
tains, Portiepes Chenille Curtains, Poles and
Brass Trimmings; Floor, Table and Stair Oil
Cloths in best makes lowest prices for quality.
WASH DRESS FABRICS
The largest variety from which to select
Toll Du Nords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck-
ers, Imperial Suitings. Heather & Renfrew
Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams-
Wholesale Exclusively.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

The North Dakota struggle Continues.
BISMARCK. N. D., Jan. 23-The 14th
ballot for Senator resulted: Hansbrough,
81; Pierce, 10; Mccormack (Dem.), %;
Miller, 12. Adjourned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
A Few "Briticisrns."

Eugene Field in the Chicago News
The use of the adverb directly" fo- the con-
junction ''as soon as" is distinctly a Criticism,
but it is not slang. On the contrary knocked
mp" for 'weary"or stirred OUT and ''seedy" for
falling these are fair examples Of the British
slang-not of the thieves slang, but of the slang
that obtains in polite circles throughout the
United Kingdom Certain English words
which the British use are much more
desirable than the corresponding words
used generally in this country. For
example, the word lift" is better than
the word elevator" for the reason that
"lift'' is English and elevator" is Latin. On
the other hand our British cousins rarely ''be-
gin" they commence" They seldom ''end. |"
they ..fnish''-that is, they say they do. but
they don't, for 10 say that a thing is finished in
equivalent TO saying that 1t Is finally elaborated
and polished TO the degree Of which the
creator is possible Very little in human life
ia finished A poet once wrote an elegy,
and he ended il, say, within two years
after he began il, but he required the con-
siderable space of thirty years 70 finish IT, Our
Bible is a notable specimen of pure and bean
tiful English. The translators thereof CONF
pretended the far-reaching meaning of that
misused word .'finish." With reverential pro-
priety they put that word into the mouth Of
the Goldman. and we are told that. lifted upon
the tree On Calvary, Christ cried out, III h
finished" and bowed his bead and gave mp the
ghost. Thus ending a life actually finished in
every reEpoct-in It's manly endeavor. it,
strength, iss purity, in tsndsrnsss. il swsst-
nsss, it, charity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

From Puck.
HE is a nice. rehgious-minded man, and
can't see why you object to him." said Ethel.
We'll. II he'd kicked an IS silk hat Of yours
down the middle aisle. while passing the con-
tribution box. you wouldn't like him any better
than I do" rstorted papa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
FOR MIDDLE-AGED MATRONS.

Reslfern's Designs for n Pretty House Gown
and an Appropriate Street Costume.
Redfern has produced large assortment of
designs for all manner of gowns suitable for
those who have passed the meridian of life.
and moreover calculated to conceal defects and
to enhance the matured charms of their wear
ers. of such is the pretty house gown here
given.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

From HarIers Bazaar
Uncle sawback (entering lamb store Thar,
I've brung this instrument back
Dealer--'sWhat's the matter with it?'
Uncle sawback-.sYoa aid il was pianner
lamp, but Sairy Ann can't git blams nots oat
Of it nohow."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
A Paper Horseshoe.

From the Philadelphia Record
The latest horseshoe is Of paper. II is elastic
and durable. Ii is the invention OF German
A number Of thin sheets Of parchment paper
saturated with oil and turpentine are glned TO-
getber and the mass subjected 20 a strong Nv
araulic pressur- The holes for the nails are
then bored, after which the shoes are trimmed
ready FOR the market IL IL said that the shoe
wears IN such way that The surface is always
rough. Tins adapting it particularly 10 smooth
pavements
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
More Truth Than Poetry

More Truth Than Poetry
From Texas siftinex
Poet-''Did you read the two poems I lsft hsrs
last week."
Editor-sT did"
''weii-er-what-er-d you think Of them?"
The drstoae vas dreadful simple. aad ~
other one was simply drosesuls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

or "Ihere was riding the trail met jack
rabbit sitting in q cactus" or Bout the lime
OF the San Diego land boom woman from
Monterey" &c. You can try 10 piece out for
yourself what sort Of stories they were.
RUDYlRp KIPIISo,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
AREQUIPA IN PERU.
A City Beautifully Located and
With Many Attractions.
CALLED A PLACE OF REST.

But IL is Continually Shaken Up by Earth
quakesLThe Great shocks Twenty Odd
Years Ago-scenes Described by an Eye
witaes.-Relie- Dug From the Debris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
AT THE cI.AcKAMAs.

That was day to be remembered and it had
only begun when we drew rein at a tiny farm
house On the banks of the Clackamas and
sought horse feed and lodging ere we fastened
to the river that broke over . weir not quar-
ter OF mile away. Imagine 4 stream seventy
yards broad divided by pehbly island, run
ning over seductive rifles" and swiriing into
to smoke his pipe after meals. Get such n
stream amid fields Of breast-high crops sur
rounded by hills of pines, throw in where you
please quiet water. long fenced meadows and u
hundred-foot bluff just to keep the scenery
frpn growing too monotonous, and you will get
some faint notion of the Clachamas. The weir
had been erected to pen the chencox salmon
from going further up stream We could see
them, twenty or thirty pounds. by the score in
the deep pools or flying madly against the weir
and foolishly skinning their noses. They were
not our prey, for they would not rise ct q fay
and We knew it. All the same whom one made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

Ihave heard the story of that terrible time
from the lips Of several who lost home and
loved ones by it, The first shock
WAS felt about O'Clock pm in q
slight tremor Of the ground, which In
creased in violence at intervals Of fifteen or
twenty seconds until presently the buildings
began to topple. Ths instant terremote V
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24
AT THE FARMERS PRESIDE.

Al ihE rAhMEh flhESlDE.
Very solemnly and thankfully we put up our
rods-it was glory enough for all time-and re-
turned weeping in each others arms, weeping
tears of pure joy, to that simple, bare-legged
family in the packing case house by the water
side. The old farmer recollected days and
nights of fierce warfare with the Indians sway
back in the fifties," when every ripple of the
Columbia river and her tributaries hid covert
danger. God had lowered him with queer,
crooked gift OF expression and fierce anxiety
for the welfare of his two little sous-tanned
and reserved children who attended school
daily and spoke good English in strange
tongue. His wife was an austere woman who
had once been kindly and, perhaps, handsome
Very many years of toll had taken the elasticity
out Of step and voice. She looked for nothing
better than everlasting work--the chatting de-
tail of housework--and then a grave some
where up the hill among the blsckberries and the
pines But in her grim way she sympathized
with her eldest daughter, small and silent
maiden of eighteen, who had thoughts very
far from the meals she tended and the pans
she secured. We stumbled into the household
at crisis, and there was a deal Of downright
humanity in that same. A bad, wicked
dressmaker had promised the maiden q
dress in time for a tomorrow's railway journey.
and though the barefooted Georgy, who stood
in very wholesome awe OF his sister, had
secured the woods ON a pony in search that
dress never arrived. So, with sorrow in her
heart and hundred Sister Ammo glances up
the road, she waited upon the strangers and
doubt not cursed them for the wants that stood
between her and her need for tears. II was q
genuine little tragedy. The mother, in heavy,
passionless voice, rebnked her impotence, vet
sat up far into the night bowed over heap Of
sewing for the daughters benefit These things
beheld in the long, marigold-scsnted twilight
and Whispering night, loafing round the little
house with California, who unfolded himself
like . lotus to the moon. or in the little boarded
bunk that was our bed room, svapping tales
with Portland and the old man. Most OF the
yarns began in this way: "Red Larry was .
bull puncher back Of Lone county, Montana"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

spare-room closet and sat down to think. At
last l seemed to see a way out of part Of my
trouble. locked myself into nv room after
breakfast next day, when all my other work was
done, and getting out my water-color box, 1
sat down 70 renovate those Clothes. l took out
the cake of Indian ink and with my finest
brush began to make that scarlet stripe black.
1t was the most amending piece of work.
began to think tine clothes were not worth it:
but had begun, must finish. worked three
DAYS over them carefully blackening even the
wide seams inside, lest a thread of the scarlet
might show, and really no one would have
known them for the same clothes. Then
thought about that white stripe. 1t would soil
so soon, and Fred must wear them every day.
Could go over all that labor? Bat did! and
there had handsome dark suit. soft gray,
with hair line plaid of black. But, oh how
mean and untrue felt about it,
told Fred the next day that 1 was going into
town to tho dentists. That was true on the
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

Bits of News From Various section

Bits of News From Various Sections.
William C. Crush, brakeman, saved
a woman's life at Philadelphia, but re-
ceived fatal injuries from train.
Suits amounting to $4,000 have
been brought against the Union Mer-
camille Company of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. James G.. Blaine, Jr., complain
ed at New York police headquarters
that private detectives were persecu-
ting her.
Israel Boschinsky, aged four years,
who received fracture of the skull
from blows administered by the MUIR
derer of his mother, Mrs. Frieda Bos-
chinsky, died in New York.
The reports from the artesian well at
Huron, North Dakota, show that it is
the most wonderful well known took
list. The water spouts up to distance
of about 100 feet, and the amount THAI
flows from the WELLS estimated at from
5000 to 10,0 900 gallons minute.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
1r PATS 10 ADVERTISE.

A fews days ago THE World in
serted an advertisement to the effect
that Sophia Clark had lost her pension
papers and check for $l04.73. A boy
who found the papers read the adver-
tisement in THE WORLD and returned
them to the proper owner. Yesterday
Mrs. Clark was enabled to draw her
money which she very much needed.
The recovery of her papers also en-
abled her, through Justice Bartlett, to
forward her pension application for
the quarter now due.