A BIG DEAL IN MARBLE.
TIE QUARRIES AT RUTLAND, VER~
MONT, PASS INTO THE CONTROL
OF TWO COMPANIES,
IOSTON, Jan, 3 —A sensation will
be caused in the marble trade when it
is learned that a big deal was consum-
mated to-day by which the control of
the most extensive deposit in this coun
try 1s contined to two great rival cor.
porations,
‘The deposit Is at West Ratland, Vt.,
and was divided: into several quarries,
whose product included the standard
**Rutiand white marble’’ and the *“*Rut-
land statuary marble,” the two best
grades quarried in this country. These
various interests have been consolidated
in two companies, the Vermont Marble
Company and the Sheldon Marble
Company of Rutland, Vt. The prop-
erty purchased by the latter company
Includes about two hundred acres of
and,
The undeveloped derosit is consid-
ered practically inexhaustible, and
probably the most complete plant io
the country. There are flve quarries
and flve mills and several finishing
shops, The annual capacity of the
mills on present working basis is about
4,000,000 superficial (one inch) feet of
sawed marble, yielding about $500,-
000, Boston capitalists are largely in-
terested in this deal.
THE WEALTH OF THE VANDERBILTS,
I'WO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR
MILLIONS,
NEW York Jan. 3.—The combined
wealth of tie Vanderbilt family ac-
cording to an article which will appear
in to-morrow’s World, is $274,000.000,
and the estimated income from It per
annum is $13,864,000. No other single
family in the world is so rich. If kept
intact the total fortune will at the end
of 25 years almost reach $1,000,000.000,
and this result will be attained by the
simple arithmetical progression of
compound interest.
A careful calculation of the wealth
of individual members of the Vander-
bilt family makes the following ex-
hibit; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $100,000,-
000; William K. Vanderbilt, $83,000,-
000; Frederick W, Vanderbilt, $16,000, -
000; Geo. W, Vanderbilt, $15,000,000;
Mrs. Elliott F. Shephard, $12,000,000;
Mrs, Wm, D. Sloane, $12,000,000; Mrs,
Mrs, W. Seward Webb, $12,000,000,
Total, $274,000.000,
general belief. She has an annuity of
$200,000. When Wm. H. Vanderbilt
dled he left a fortune, in round num.
bers, of $200.000,000. It is remark-
able how it has been increased in the
death,
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—James Machen and Nathan Gil.
christ, aged 9 and 14 years respectively,
were drowned on the 30th ult. while
skating at Toledo, Ohlo. Policeman
Henry Fehle died in St. Lous on the
evening of the 28th ult., from hydro-
phobla. He was bitten in the leg by a
dog last September. An explosion
Puyallup, Washington Territory, on
the 28th ult, blew a cabin to pieces and
killed James Blagg,
— Amos J. Stillwell, a merchant, of
Hannibal, Missouri, was murdered by
burglars at 2 o'clock on the 30th ult,
The weapon was an axe, which, with
Stillwell's pocket-book and $35, was
found in an alley in the rear of the
house. John Burns, manager of a res
taurant in Pottstown, Penna. , bas been
named Sweeney. Sweeney became
obstreperous and refused to go out,
when Barns hit him on the head with
a club,
—Burglars broke the plate-glass
window of Isaac Aaron, a Grand
street pawnbroker, in New York, on
Charles F. Merle, San Francisco
with $10,000 of the firm's money, The
warrant for the pardon of Benjamin
F. Hopkins, the Cincinnati bask em-
bezzier, was signed by the President
on the 29th uit.
ville, Penna., on the evening of the
28th ult., carried the safe, weighing
over a thousand pounds, to the rear
yard, and blew it open with dynamite,
securing over $6(0. Four persons and
two dogs were in the house at the time
the burglars were at work.
--A daring robbery was committed
on the 31st ult., in the money order
departmant of the Post-office at India-
napolis. A. R. Johnson, cheif of the
department, was left alone, his assist.
ants having gone to dinner, A stranger
appeared at the window and said that
a gentleman in his buggy desired
Johnson to come out and see him.
Johnson was persuaded to go out, but
found the man wanted to tee another
Johnson. When he returned he found
that the stranger had entered the office
and filled his pockets with greenbacks,
The thieves secured about $2500,
~In Craighhead county, Arkansas,
the wile of William West, a rougn
character, left him and went to live
with her motber, Mrs, Dairey. West
went to see his wife, who refused to
gee him, but ber mother went out on
the poich with the young child of the
couples. West abused Mrs, Dairey as
baving caused the trouble between him
On the morning of the 30th, ult, near
Ripley, Ohlo. Mrs. Turner and her
little daughter, also a daughter of
George C, Lloyd, three Brooks brothers,
and a man whose name 8 unknown,
all colored, attempted to eross {he river
from Kentuckey to Ohio in a small flat
bottomed boat. At some distance
from shore the waves from two passing
steamers capsized their little craft, and
all seven were drowned.
- A passenger train on the Chieago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
struek a broken rail near Tama, lowa,
on the morning of the 31st ult, and
the engine was wrecked, The engi-
neer, Nichols, and fireman, Francis,
were killed, A boiler in Dush’s saw
mill, near Millbrook, Michigan, ex-
ploded on the 31st ult, killing WW, W.
Dush, proprietor, and John Carr, the
night watchman, and fatally injuring
Dert Smiley. Patrick Redding, a fire.
mun, was killed at a colliery; near
Shenandoah, Penna., on the 31st ult,,
by a premature discharge of dualin,
Col. J. M. Jones, a wealthy ranchman,
in Cheyenne county, Kansas, was
gored to death on the 30th ult, by a
bull. He was engaged in work about
the stable when the animal suddenly
attacked him in the rear.
~ William I’rice, a prominent and
wealthy farmer who lives near Athens,
Tennessee, was shot and fatally
wonnded by some unknown person on
the night of the 20th ult, A policeman
named Seal was murdered by a negro
while on duty in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginla, on the evening of the Jlst ult,
The murderer escaped.
—James Gilmore, of Boston, Indiana,
has recently been annoyed by persons
stealing and riding his horses at night.
On the evening of the 20th ult., he
awoke and saw some one at the stable
door. He shot, and, going to the stable,
| found his own 14-year-old son mortally
wounded.
— During a Christmas celebration in
the Lutheran Church, at Soughtstown,
in Camberland county, Penna., on the
evening of the 290th
| heard and the floor began to sink, The
| people rushed to the doors and windows,
| mapy women and children were tram
i pled upon, and & number of persons
| were injured, two— Newton Goodheart
{and Cbarles
| Many were severely cut
glass in jumping from
An examination of tre building subse-
quently showed that the sills were
broken and the floor had sunk ten
| feet.
~ A shght fize in Zeller’s Hotel, in
St. Louis, early on the morning of the
| 1st, caused a panic wwiong the guests,
i during which three women jumped
{from a third story window, These
were Mary Wesland, who, besides
| being badly burped about the head
and body, had : n arm broken and in-
i baled flames: died at the hos.
{ pital; Mary Dav: on, aged 30, nad an
| arm broken in tw. places, and received
scalp wounds; lLi/ze Durbam, 32
| years, a widow wiiu three children,
| also received scalp wounds, and had an
ram broken, A {re in St,
| early on the morning of the 1st, des-
| troyed the immense six-story brick
| bullding of the Richardson Drug Com-
| pany, at the corher of Fourth street
i and Clark avenue, with a three-story
| brick warehouse in the rear belonging
to the same firm, The fire extended
to and also destroyed Woess's masque-
rade goods store, a row of three-story
| brick boarding houses and the livery
i stable of Scott & Lynch, The loas of
| the Richardson Company is estimated
| at $750,000 on stock and $150,000 on
| bulldings, The stock was insured for
: $650,000; the building for $100,000.
| the drug house, is missing, and sup-
{ posed to have perished,
New York on the ist one man was
killed and two men and a8 boy woun-
{ded by pistol shots fired to celebrate
{the arrival of the new year. The
shooting is supposed to have been ae-
jcidental In each case. During a
{drunken brawl In New York on the
evening of the 1st Michael Crow, aged
23 years, was stabbed to death by a
{ party of five men with whom he was
quarreling, His brother -~ in - law,
were arrested, Louis Schmidt, an
inmate of the Soldiers’ Home 1m Mil-
| waukee, Wisconsin, stabbed and
{ killed W. F. Ruder, a fellow veteran,
on the lst. They quarrelled about
their war records,
met on the 1st in Harrisburg, and or.
ganized. John C., Grady was elected
President of the Senate, and Henry K,
Boyer, Speaker of the House, The
Governor's message was received and
read.
—The San Francisco Chronicle, in
| its annual review, states that the past
year was the most prosperous in the
history of California. It is estimated
that the present population is 1,400,
000, many of the counties Laving
doubled and even trebled durlug the
past year. The value of the mineral
products In 1888 is placed at $20,000,-
000; manufactured products, $170,000,
000; orchard products, $24,000,000;
cereal erops, $65,000,000,
~ Louis A. Horner, a salzaman, in
the employ of Heary Homer & Co.,
wholesale groczrs, in Chicago, depar-
ted a few days ago, leaving a deficit of
$15,000 in his accounts. On the 1st,
he was arrested in Montreal, and will
probable be extradited on a charge of
forgery. ¥. H. McCann, cashier of
thé bank of the J, B, Watkins Bafik-
ing Company, In Lake Charles, Louis-
inna, who fled from that place as an
embezzier of a large amount of the
oy Lu Daven
port asa clerk, and on the 20th ult, he
is said to have forged a check for $3505,
obtained the mohey and disappeared,
—The six-year-old son of John Ut
ter; while playing soldier at his home,
near Little Sandusky, Ohio, on the
1st, jeeized a loaded shot gun from a
corner and, lifting it to a chair, threat.
ened to shoot his 18-year-old brother,
A moment later the gun was dis-
charged, the load lodging in the older
boy's breast, causing, it is feared, a
fatal wound. Several ‘stray shots
struck the mother in the face, and it is
thought she will lese her sight.
-John Prettyman, an employe of
the Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany in Quincy, Illinois, fell off a
train on the evening of the 30th uit,
the wheels cutting off his right leg.
He was three miles from West Quincy
Station, and binding up the stump he
crawled the entire distance on his
hands and one knee, dragging his
crushed and bleeding limb after him,
He arrived at the station at © o'clock
on the evening of the 31st ult.
—Charles De Ia Graza and Jesus
Barbo bad a quarrel about a woman in
Anaqua, Texas, and on the 1st, when
they met, began to shoot at each other,
Both men were killed, falling within
six feet of each other.
-The pultic debt statement, issued
on the 2d, shows a reduction ef §14,-
427,605. Total cash in the Treasury,
$0615,501,078,
—Two young men named Erb and
Shoecker, employed at James Miller's
dynamite factory, near Sumneytown,
Montgomery county, Fenna., were
blown to pieces on the 1st by the ex-
plosion of a Lialf bucket of dynamite,
It is supposed that in mixing the stuff
the proper proportions were not used,
“None of the pieces of flesh picked
up were of sufficient size to show to
which body they belonged.”
— Lester Woods, 22 years old, was
murdered near Paris, Illinois, on the
1st. The Sunday school of the district
had a social gathering at the school.
house, and, during the exercises, ascul.
| fle took place and Woods was stabbed
in the neck, the main artery being sev-
i ered. Woods fell in his mother’s arms
The murderer escaped during the ex-
citement and was not recognized.
| warrant was issued on the
| young man named Awburger,
—Al a dinner partly given by Charles
| Wilson, living near Cre:ton, Iowa,
{on New Year's Day, his family and
nine guests were poisoned by partaking
of meat salted in a vessel made of
zinc. All are in a serious condition,
~San Jose de Costa Rica was shaken
on the night of December 20th and
morning of December 30th by a series
of severe earthquakes, It is believed
the shocks originated in the voleano
of Poaz, eight leagues from the town.
aud principal buildings in
i suffered considerable damage. The
| inhabitants encamped in the squares
i and parks. No farther shocks having
| occurred the alarm is subsiding.
- Near Fentress, Mississippi, on the
{evening of the 2d, Frank and James
| Coleman quarrelled with Chas, and
| Wm. Delay about the possession of the
{ farm, A fight ensued, in which Frank
| Coleman and Chas. Delay were
| killed, and the other two severly woun-
ded, Two sisters of the Delays, who
appeared on the scene, received slight
{ wounds, * All were prominent cilizons
{ of Choctaw county.”
| ~The Board of Health of Springfield,
| Massachusetts, has posted up placards
| announcing the existence of a number
the city
i Christmas vacation for the large gram.
i mer schools in the centre of the city
| has been extended.
| =A quantity of dynamite was ex-
| ploded on the tracks of the Philadelphia
‘and Heading Railroad
| Plane, Penpa., on the evening of the
{2d. Four dwellings were partly
{ wrecked, and the rails torn up for some
| distance. The dynamite is supposed to
| have been placed on the track by train
| wreckers, No person was Injured,
—————
SENATE.
Congress reassembled on the 21. In
Tarif bil was resumed. On motion
tof Mr. Alliston, the chain schedule
| was gone back to, and amended so ss
| to reduce the rates on chains Jess than
i of an inch in diameter to 21 cents
per pound--the present rate. The
Senate then proceeded to the consid.
offered by Mr, Vest, adjourned,
Inthe U. 8S. Senate on the 34, the
consideration of the Tariff bill was re.
sumed. After three and half pages
had been gone through, the Senate ad.
journed,
HOUSE,
In the House on the 24, Mr,
Springer introduced a joint resolution
for the admission of the States of Ari-
zona and Idaho, which was referred.
The Fortifications Appropriation bill
was reported and placed on the calen-
dar, A bill was passed providing that
in case of omission of the sender to
place the lawful postage on a special
delivery letter, such postage shall be
collected on delivery. The River and
Harber bill was considered in Commit:
tee on the Whole, The clause appro-
priating $200,000 for the improvement
of the harbor of Philadelphia, and
providing that no part of the money
shall be expended until the title to
certain islands in the harbor shall be
acquired by the Umted States, was
’
River and Har lof August last,
Pending action on an amendment of-
fered by Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan,
the point of *‘no quorum’ was rawsed,
the committees rose and the
God Is Great,
When waitiog, and watching, and weary,
And dismayed at abrupt fave,
Aud chided unkindly, and the world looks
dreary;
Remember that God is great,
When all your efforts, and striving, and
trying,
Beem useless, and oftentimes too late,
And the days are short, the years fast fly-
ing;
temember that God 1s great.
When friends you need pass by without
heeding,
And refuse the word for which you walt
And the world from under your feet seems
receding;
Remember that God is great,
A ————————————
LADY B.’S BUTLER.
Miss M. Is a pretty heiress, whose
name for obvious reasons we must sup-
press; Mr. R.is a young diplomatist
who fancies he has every chance of be-
coming an ambassador before the last
of his ehort-cropped locks has deserted
him, Mr, R, has heard of Miss M, as
being the owner of a wonderfully
beautiful diamond necklace, and as
possessing more personal
interesting paupers.
Miss M., on the other hand, had
been informed that Mr, R. was a very
decent sort of a fellow, with the small-
est amount possible of Foreign Office
swagger,
each other with mutual
the opposide sides of
decorated dinner-table,
came up to Mr. R.’s expectations, but
thetr owner surpassed them.
ay
i
but evidently amusing-—not a painted,
him, got up for admiration, and Inca-
pable of conversation.
| Not being accustomed to admire
without some sort of return, he left
| left hand neighbor and devoted his at-
{tention to Miss M. They had grown
i quite friendly over 5 o'clock tea, and
| now exchanged telegraphic signs across
{the table about any small episodes
{ that arose during the dinuer,
{thought he was getting on, and be-
icame so engrossed that he neglected
his favorite entree and had scarcely
| time to do justice to the saddle of mut-
| ton.
But when the regulation
{ had made its round he noticed a sud-
| den change in the girl opposite to him,
| She turned as white as her
kerchief, and leaned back in her chair,
| eyes and parted lips, For the rest of
seemed incapable of rallying; but she
shook her head when he made a sign
that he was ready to assist her out of
the room, and kept ber seat until the
ladies rose and filed slowly through the
| door. He would bave given much to
follow them at once, because his curi-
osity was vividly roused,
| He was sure there was some mys-
as if she had received a shock—seen a
friend. Assoon as he could get away
| he looked round the drawing room, and
other ladies, and turning
{ preoccupation; he made his way to
| her; and standing before ber, 80 as to
! shield her from observation, asked in
| a low voice if he could do anything for
{ her.
She looked up In surprise.
| I don’t want anything.’
| at dinner,
| ‘Did any one notice it?’ eagerly.
| ‘Not a soul except myself. Of
| course, I don't wish to force your eon-
| idence, but if I can be of any service
| £0 FOU?
‘Noone can do me any good,’ hur
riedly. ‘Only I wish to heaven I had
never come!’
He looked at her with genuine com-
passion, for he saw that she was shiv.
ering from head to foot,
“Shall I feteh Lady BP
‘Not for the world. I would tell
you, oniy you would think me so fool-
ish,’ looking round to be sure that no
one could overhear.
‘I promise you 1 won't,’ earnestly,
as he took a chair and sat down just mn
front of her, so that she should not
have to raise her voice. ‘Pray, tell
me.’
‘It was only a dream,” with the
ghost of a smile. ‘Last night I thought
1 was being murdered for the sake of
this necklace,’ playing nervously with
the diamonds round her white throat,
‘and I woke up struggling with a man
~a man with a long chun and reddish
bair, I telt I should know him any.
where, and I saw him to-day at din.
ner,” with a shndder, ‘handing the
liqueurs,’
‘Why that was Bird, the butler,
You couldn't be afraid of him?’
‘1 am,’ looking up at him with ter-
ror in her preity eyes. ‘I am sure he
will try and murder me to-night. I
can’t go to bed. 1 should never close
luck-<so that I must sit up, I'H keep
my door ajar, which won't be policed,
as there 1s a light In the passaje, and
my ears are so sharp that I would defy
any one to pass it withont my knowing
it. Will that content you?’
‘You are very kind, but he might
walt till your letters are finished,’
‘That will make no difference. 1
promise to sit up till my hot water's
brought, WHI that satisfy you?’
‘Oh, but that’s too much,’
‘Not at all, If you tell me in the
morning that you've had a good night.’
with a pleasant smile, ‘I shall fell
amply rewarded; besides I can do with
less sleep than most people, and I'm
sure to take it out before luncheon.’
Miss M. exposulated, but he would
not listen, being quite excited at the
idea of rendering a service to such a
pretty girl; and when the guests sep-
arated for the night, and he whispered
I haven't forgotten,” she gave him so
charming a look of gratitude that his
heart fluttered like a schoolboy.’
Two o'clock A. M. with a decaying
fire and without the solace of a pipe.
He had written two or three letters
just to save his consclence, but the ef
fort had been 80 great that he wouldu’t
| have begun another to save his life, In
order to reassure Miss M., who might
be on the lookout, he left the smoking-
room on the pretext of a headache,
and established himself in his room
about midnight. Smoking and sleep
ing wera both out of the question, and
lis whole existence.
|
|
i
told amidst tobacco smoke,
| rections, and then silence.
{ pently ridiculous,
cooled down, his compassion had
waned like the moon; bul infinitely
bored and intensely sleepy he
bound by his promise toa girl, And
{all on account of a dream! He asked
his usually
destended in an unconscious yawn, if
anybody had ever heard of a man being
| victimized by somebody else's dream,
{ fool to give in to It. No, not quite
that, with a throb of compunction, or
| the girl would have worried herself into
| fits; but he ought to have reasoned
| with her, or suggested that she might
have a dog in ber room.
{a mouse had squeaked, and would
have howled the house down at sight
{of a burgiar., A pity he badn't
and he rather wished to win it
Another yawn, till he thought he bad
} thought be might tickle it with the
poker. He got up cautiously, und was
stretching out his hand for the poker,
when he heard a sound in the passage.
| system was deranged, for he had never
believed that there was the smallest
reason for his watching. But the
| mistakable thrill through his veins,
| He got to the door nomselessly, thanks
to his slippers, and without opening it
| any farther, peered through the crack.
i fle could scarcely believe his eyes
when he saw Bird, the butler, carrying
| a pair of tiny high heeled boots In his
band.
the dream after ali?
| door and placed his hand on the
| handle,
| Then with one stride he was by hus
| side.
in a stern whisper, staring the butler
straight in the face.
shaking fingers, but he mado a great
effort after composure, and tried to
steady his volce as he said: ‘I had for-
gotten Lo send up, these boots before,
gir, and 1 was afraid the young lady
might want them the first thing in the
morning.’
*If she did it wouldn't be your busi-
ness to bring them, You must be mad
or drunk, and I shall report you to
your master to-morrow.’
The man’s under-lip shook and his
eyes shifted uneasily. ‘I meant no
harm,’ he sald, sullenly, as he stooped
to pick up the boots.
But Mr. R. stopped him on a sud-
denly impulse, ‘Leave them here, and
go off at once,’
Bird seemed inclined to remonstrate,
and even stretched out his hand again
as if to take the boots, but Mr. R.
signed him to go with a significant
frown.
The butler slunk down Lhe passage,
giving a backward look before he
thought of the girl's white throat and
the erimson gash.
If it bad not been for a dream that
girl would bave been brutally murd.
ared in her bed, :
» £4 * # » +
Mr. R. thought 1t right to tell the
circumstances of the case to lord and
Lady B. Miss M. agreed with him,
but said she would go home before he
spoke Lo avoid a fuss, As soon as she
had left the house the slory was told,
and Lady B, nearly went into hyster.
ics. Loré B. said there was not sufll-
cieut evidence to support a charge of
murder, but he declined to have his
enterprising butler any longer in the
bouse, He therefore dismissed him at
once on another pretext, and Mr,
George Bird 18 now on the lookout for
another place, where he may cut a
throat when he feels inclined, with no
troublesome third partly to interfere,
A nice thought for those who are
about to engage a butler.
This story is true, only a few trifiling
details having besn altered, and the
proper names suppressed, Mr, Dird is
the only person concerned in IL who
would be able to bring an ection for
Ihe] agaiost me, but for his own sake
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Reading Aloud.
Edward Everett said that be consid.
Ing a good education. it is, for it
includes more than appears on the sur-
face. let no one take heart of grace
from a statement hike Everett's, and
relapse into complacent ignorance of
slovenliness.
What is reading? Is {1 tn
off words at
0
rely calling
from it
on, which
wanagement of the
expression of Lhe senti-
Heading,
ithe roost
i lie J1fer-
and un-
can Le easily
sight? Y
BIgHLY i
al
proper
the
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Ire {
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ence belween a cuilivated
cultivated
an
told —
tivated read.
¢: in fact,
a good sing-
the tivated reader
ter about
upder-
poelry or
reader
er Besides,
stand the allusion, to history,
the author's argument; if Le could not
identify himself with the character, he
would bave small chance of making
impression on the minds of his
hearers.
Accordingly, before you attempt to
you know bow to
read, If you do not, only a living
instructor can really teach you—but it
will be of use,
Oune 18, study a selection beforehand,
as you would a piece of
music. Grasp the mweaning-—ves, and
the shades and sul-divisions of mean-
you days or weeks, before you attempt
others,
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~~
#3 there
Then study every sentence as carefully
the book. Say every word aloud as
you would If you were lalking—that is,
expressing sour own feelings—under
the clicumstances represented. Let
your tones indicale your supposed
emotions, whether ordinary, gay. hu-
morous, pathetic, religious, impassioned
or tragic. Make your hearers feel in-
structed or touched, make them langh
or cry, as the subject demands,
— a ——
Mrs. Grant's Palatial Home.
All t rough the autumn thers has
army of workmen in the
and
It is a big house, with
room enough for Mrs. Sartoris and her
children, who will probably spend much
of her time there in the future. The
sons, too, will be there with their fami-
lies from time to time, as Mrs, Grant
means the house to be the home and
center of the entire family, The Hirst
guest in the new house will be the
wife of President-elect Harrison, who
is an old friend of Mrs, Grant and even
before her husband was nominated,
promised to come to the new house for
a Jong visit as soon as it was done,
Originally the intention was sunply 8
reunion of two quiet, elderly friends,
but as matters now stand Mrs, Grant
will probably throw open her doors and
invite the great world to meet the new
first lady of the land. Mrs. Levi PDP.