iff^VfrSiirs^^ 5"Hfi 11*4 A LAND OF PROMISE. DAKOTA MENTION. I waters of the White river the Bad Lands begin, which are strongly impregnated with alkali THE biggest real estate deal of the a strange formation of Mils, bare salts, absorbed from the soil surrounding, of vegetation, interspersed with deep and washed'down from the hillsides. Wells year in the west is the purchase of canyons and ravines, through which run sunk in the valley of Bad river flow at the 11,000,000 of acres of good farming small streams, the water strongly impregnated depth of from forty to eighty feet, though Condensed Happenings Throughout Conservative Statement of the with alkali Cattle feeding upon the the water is not very good for household lands by the United,States from the of he present a I is roar it Both North and South Dakota. .,. grass along the margin of these streams are purposes, being brackish and very hard. a attendants Sick. Head Sioux Indians. 4 Value of the Opened Sioux a iiitt'sn Constipatio a Pillstaht,seliP frequently stricken with a mysterious disease Alkali salts are also held in solution in all which causes death very soon after attack. water taken from wells in the' valley. 1*^? Reservation. Dissection Bhows the inner coating The principal tributaries to the Bad river Mark Stivers living four^miles of the stomach burned out by the action of are Willow creek, Lance creek. Plum creek, north of Oldham, had his right arm the alkali. Stock men are careful not to Frozen Man's creek and Grindstone creek. have ther cattle range through this region The first is about ten miles out from Coulson, cut off at the wrist by a mower sickle. Natur of the Soil, Trend of the unless there are some preventives at hand in at the mouth of Bad river, following the old I the shape of sale licks, salt having: been stage road leading into the £lack Hills. It L. Dickey, an Eden saloonkeeper, Wate Courses, Growths found a preventive of alkali poisoning bv has some timber along its banks, mostly Cottonwood. has been arrested for selling intoxicating of Timber. neutralizing the effect of the poison and The valley is not appreciable, have become so famous. They act When Baby was sick, we gave Castoria, liquors and bound over to the making the alkali salts distasteful. the bluffs overhanging the speedily and gently on the digestive* creek from its source to the mouth. organs, giving them tone and vigor t«* district cojirt. t. When she was a-Child, she cried for Castoria, MANY FERTILE STEETCHES. assimilate food. 9io griping or nausea*. Lance creek his some scattered groves along, Sold Everywhere. Taken as a whole the White river presents When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, its course, and some desirable locations for The Great Sioux reservation lies between John Nellerson, living near Winfred, these features to the settler. For a hundred farms, though there is not a very extensive 4 3 deg. 3 0 min. and 4 6 deg. 10 min., When she had Children,shegavethemCastoria. miles or more following the valley from the while harvesting, was overcome Office. 4 4 Murra S Ne Yorfc valley. It is distant from Pierre about forty bounded by the Missouri river on the east mouth, there are fertile stretches of bottom miles. Plum creek flows into Bad river about say Piso'g Cere for Consumption by heat and died before he was discovered and extending to the South Dakota line on land of perhaps a mile in extent, by half is THE BEST fifteen miles above its confluence with the by his family. for Keeping (ho voice.' tjhafc distance in width. These bottom lands, the west, and south embracing all west of Missouri, and has quite an extensive valley clear. 25 cents. BO far as tried, produce splendid crops of the Missouri river and south of the Cannon and some timber along its banks. The grass James Long, who awaits trial for corn and oats. Back of the valley are ranges along these streams is excellent, and affords Ball river, except the Black Hills territory, of hills more or less elevated, well To Exchange Fox Poultry splendid/ feed for"cattle and horsea The cattle an attempt to kill Dennis McCarthy, 5 JACOB S on ceded in 1876. In all there are nearly covered, however, with grass. Beyond running in this part of the territory are Any kind of Wood, Coal orStraw twenty-one million acres in this described in Lead City has been released from the forks of the river for perhaps a generallv iu good condition earlier than Heating orCook BtOT* territory. Of this great body of land the hundred miles, the same condition exist?, jail under a $500 bond.p 0:&?|:: at Wholesale prices. Writ* those fed in the pastures on the White river. what you have and kind oi Indians have by recent treaty consented to though the bluffs are here much more precipitous stove you want to Between the White and Bad river the and the valleys narrower. The cede to the government nearly one-half, or The first term of court for the new FOR LAMENESS AND SWELLINGS. J. F. FERRY, country back from the river on the north is Missouri receives the waters of several small according to the best computations, abou^ Box 437 Minneapolis. judicial subdivision of "Walworth and much broken, being a series of table lands, creeks, the principal of which are the Yellow nine million acres of land. The opening of Til he mica, Fulton Co., ni., June, '88. Medicine and Antelope. The Yellow Medicine furrowed by ravines and separated from Campbell counties will be held at I prescribe AndrallySSK Three or four year* ago vat taken with Lameneii this vast territory to settlement will undoubtedly done Big O as tha oat? each other by deep gulches. In the bends of empties into the river about twentyfive in hip -was in bed part of time tried leveral doctors Bangor on the 27th inst. specific forthe certain cars cause an extensive emigration, without benefit was cured by three or font the river may be found timber in small quantities. miles north of the terminus of the Chicago, of this disease. application of St. Jacobs Oil. WM. HABFER Milwaukee & St. Paul railway at Chamberlain. the home Beekers from all parts of the Ease Further from the mouth the timber G. H.INGRA.HAM.M. D_ M. Zahler got thirty days in the becomes heavier and in greater abundance. The valley here is nearly ten miles Amsterd&m, N. T. coming here to make a home and A a Palmyra, Mich., ttay 19, '88. penitentiary and $300 fine lor cutting In the Bad Lands the'prevailing kind is pine wide, and is quite heavily timbered in places. We have sold Big fee acquire a quarter-section of land. Have used St'. Jacobs Oil for lameness with best The Yeliow Medicine has an extensive valley, many gvenyears,best and it hat and cedar, with an occasional elm and Cottonwood. timber on a school section near results have handled it for twelve years always Under the terms of the treaty fey which the the «i saUs- .Water is found in the valley at a and the stream has never been known in stock. S. P. WHITHCABSH, Druggist. otion. Indians cede this laud, all settlers coming Grand Forks. depth varying from 50 to 150 feet, and is to run dry, as have many of the streams in D.U.DYCHB&CX)^ into the territory and filing upou this land, S in Little Chute, Wis. Kay 21,1888. this region during the" dry season. Luxuriant usually pure and wholesoma The water in Chicago, III. Suffered three years with swellings from impure The Eapid City Fair association 81.00. Sold by Draggi***. within three years of the proclamation which the White river is clear and pure, but crops of grass, from which thousands blood cured by external Me of St. Jacobs Oil Ho slightly impregnated with alkali below the of tons of hay mav be cut yearly, are found has decided to hold an agricultural declares this land open for settlement, must return in five years. ABN0LD VON HANSEL. ST. PAUL SCHOOL FURNITURE GO. all along the Missouri bottoma mouth of the South fork. Stock drink this pay for it at the rate of $1.2 5 per acre, and fair, horse trot and stock show on AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. water with impunity and with seeming Between Bad and Cheyenne rivers there no one will be allowed to file upon more ST.PAUL.HISH. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. Md. relish. the 18th, 19th and 20th of September. are two quite large creeks which empty their than 160 acres. The portion of the reservation waters into the Missouri, the first one, Shanty An old timer in the Black Hills, who has ANIMALS INTHE BODY. ceded lies to the south of the Cheyenne creek, being about fifteen miles roamed over the reservation tDoroughly, informed river and north ot the White riyer, and a School FurnitnieaaffSchool above the mouth of Bad river, Nearly the entire G. A. R., post at tbe writer that he had discovered Supplies. Correspondence narrow etrip of land, as shown by and the second, Porcupine creek, nearly traces of Bilver and lead ore in the hills on solicited Vermillion will attend the national the map, lying to the north of the twenty-five miles south of the Cheyenne from district officer*, the. White river, near the western boundary A Young Man Meets with a Misfortune, while tand those deairUwraa river. These creeks are distant from each Belle Fouc.be river in the territory encampment at Milwaukee if the centa-mile of the reservation, and from all indications 'agency. Ask for Cats*, other about fifteen miles, and are quite Hunting—The Leison it Beaches »to all ceded by the treaty of 1876. Within this in paying quantities. He announced bis intention logue D, rate is given them. At regular heavily timbered and afford excellent Careful Observers. of making a thorough search through territory are found a variety of soils, adapted All styles WEI DRHX%. water for stock. About ten miles rates none will go. this region as soon as it should be thrown for the various purposes, farming, grazing The son of lawyer Atkins, while hunting a above the Bad river the valley of the Missouri Hydraulic and Jetting, and' open. few weeks since, drank at a spring, and while and possibly mining, though as yet nothing has an average width of four miles, Material is on the ground for the Supplies and Wind Mills One peculiarity of the White river is that doing so, drew in a small lizard. The has ever been done in the way of developing gradually descending from the chain of bluffs manufactured by all the principal tributaries flow into the new Episcopal dormitory at Vermillion. animal grew wonderfully and caused the boy land1 to the river in three terraces or benches. the The purpose of this article river from the south side, thus making the Austin Mfg. Co., Chicago, much annoyance, but Dr. Wainwright This land, lying in close proximity to the Only a part of the building will be to show what may be found and most extensive bottoms on that side, which 111. Address yesterday succeeded in remoYing it.—Exchange. town of Pierre, has been looked upon with where most easily obtained. The land will remains still in the reservation. Ifcid river will be put up* this year and the remainder lonjring eyea Several equaw men, whose for particular* be most easily accessible from the points rises in the extreme western part of the reservation intermarriage into tbe tribes has given next. It seems terrible to think of an experience and Cat*'log, and flows in an easterly direction wh^re the railroads touch the Missouri river, them a squatter's right, have already erected like that above, and yet millions of minute through the middle of the land thrown open, Gen and from far-out sections along the Elkhorn claim shanties and prepared to file upon this Orlando Stultz, who resided near animals are drawn into every one ot our emptying into the Missouri river directly opposite eral Ag*t» land when placed on the market. Valley railroad in the Black Hills. The nearest bodies with each breath are taken in with Custer City,was struck by lightning Pierre. The sann general description for Dak approaches to the reservation by rail are •very drop of water. 5t applies to Bad river, which has been given Wells in the Missouri valley average about and instantly killed, Only a month "What do they live on?" at Chamberlain and Pierre in Dakota. andMiniL» ot the White river, though in some fifty feet in depth, and generally are filled "The human body," previous his wife died of consumtion important particulars it differs. Tbe with pure and wholesome water. Where ROGERS & O W A S PAUUMlNhV Ctossing the river ac Chamberlain one "What do they do?" most essential ., difference seems the underground current supplying the finds himself in the midst of a tine grove of and now there are four more "Cause pain, disease and death." Woven Wire Fencing BEST water connects with the Missouri us its cotton wood f-'*nber, extending in a narrow to be in the larger number of tributaries orphans in the world. "Can they be killed or avoided?" Rource of supply, the water is pure and free STEEL "They can. They are dangerous, but they from any taint of alkali salta Near what is The heavy drill used in making the can be rendered harmless. Three drops of now known as Fort Bennett, nearly opposite RopeSelvag* Perry Davis' Pain-Killer in a glass of water Fort Sully, are several large Yankton insane asylum artesian well will kill every germ that may be in the groves of timber, and a widening of was lost in the well, the rope break- glass. For fifty years this great remedy the valley to form what is cailed Sully has been the only absolutely certain bottoms. These lands are now occupied by ing and letting the drill down to the means by which these germs could Indians belonging to the Cheyenne Iiiver boitom,nearly 700 feet. agency, and as they are privileged to do HO be killed, or their presence in the body prevented. they will probably be the first claimants for Germs feed upon the mucous membranes The board of commissioners have these lands—in fact for all the desirable of the body and so cause pain. PainKiller farming land included in the valley of the kills the germs and in that manner appropriated the sum of $500 to .ir Missouri. They may be induced to relinquish kills the pain." wards making a display of Hughes their claims, vever, for a consideration The present season of the year is specially AHI siiesaiidVidths.^PteB tPtS.'^omySi^r'deVlei* and payment their improvements. In J" tWa line of goods. FRRI0IIT PilD. InformaSjaTSST county products at the South Dakota dangerous. The air, the water, even the the Missouri an Bad river valleys are found W E fruit we eat, is filled with germs. Shall we ™N „JJ£^H ^°. WIRE FraoE cot fair at Aberdeen next September. the most desirable farming lands, the Missouri permit .them to prey upon our lives and .North Market and Ontario Su_ CMcaMoTlU^ valley. Lowever, being better timbered, cause pain, and perhaps death? A young man named Sparring, who WNAMJB THISESTABLISHE.rib.1879. PAPER tuWyu better watered, and with a better soil. Sufficient Shall we sit calmly and allow this destruction timber may be had on any of has been running a fruit store in to go on when by keeping a supply of WOODWARD & CO.„ the larger streams of which I have written Pain-Killer on hand, and using it regularly, Aberdeen for some time, has abruptly for all the purposes of stabling, fence posts, we may avoid these Summer dangers and 48 CORN EXCHANGE, and, with careful and economical use. fuel gone away. He is greatly missed PDAIM preserve our heath and happiness? MINNEAPOLIS. for all those who may settle in the valley. The New York agent of the College of Electrical by several overly-confiding friends. 'll Bad river was formerly quite heavily Engineering says: "I have studied timbered, but the nearness to tne towns has The big fires in the Black Hills are medicine and traveled extensively. I have afforded the Indians a market, to supply I I mm mm I I BRANCH OFFICES seen the dangers and deaths that hot weather which tbey have stripped the river of its driving the mountain lions out and bad water bring, but I never found a I-XJ I I I W at and Members of tbe- timber for twenty miles above the mouth. among the settlers. One man is reported Chicago & Duluth Board of Trade' better medicine than Perry Davis* Pain-Killer." Beyond this there are still quite thickly wooded points in the bends of the river. as having lost several head Remember it is better to prevent Summer OPTIONrORDERS AND- of stock. What has been said of the conformation of HILWAUKEE CHAMBER OF C0HHERCK. diseases, but Pain-Killer will certainly cure the valleys of the White and Bad rivers may them even if neglect has caused them. 80LCITK9 Scarcely a train arrives in Yankton, be repeated in the case of the Cheyenne river, which now forms the north line of the *SrSenl for our TELEGRAPH CXPHEKV- JfiADFIELD'S says the Press and Dakotan, tract of land ceded to the government by the which does not bring some kind of Indiana The Cheyenne river has more timber rlFEMALE*REGULATOR than the Bad river, as there has been no building material for the many improvements market for the wood, unless hauled great now being made in that distances to the towns on the opposite side of the Missouri river or sold to the steamboats city. which operate on the Big Muddy, and these did not offer much of an William Overton, of Vermillion, received The only way to successfully master Shortbandi inducement The valley of the is to place yourself under a first-class instrttetotV Cheyenne river presents to the home severe injuries while hiving a CURTISS COLLEGE ~-Ca seeker an opportunity to acqnire title to a swarm of bees. In trying to dislodge quarter section of fine bottom land and have employs none but the best teachers. It stand* the privileges of grazing for hie cattle on the them from a tree he got caught at the head of all schools of business in the Northwest. hills Surrounding the valley on the south, aB MENSTRUATION It has the best of everything and does tba and they settled on his head and these hills are too much broken to find a best work. Send for special circular of Shorthand Department. Address purchaser for many years to come, but neck..... though not adapted to farming are covered OR MONTHLY SICKNESS with fine nutritious grasses. The water in Mrs. Therese M. Hills, aged 56, lFTMUE- OURVH6 CHAHGfc 0? VAffc the Cheyenne river, coming from the same died at her home in Sioux Falls. general source as does the Bad river, is much the wine, though not as strongly alkaline. Mrs. Hills went to Sioux Falls in the BRADBELD REGULATOR CO. ATLAJKABA. The wells sunk in the valley are from 2 5 to •SOLD MVALLUBIUa&T^ early days, was prominent in church MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. 60 feet deep, and afford an abundance of excellent water for all purposes. and temperance work, and she leaves a large circle of friends. The principal tributary of the Chevenne E O A river from the Bouth gives its name' to a A, A—Valley of the Afissouri river. I E, E—Uplands between the rivers. region which is supposed to be the best Reports from the northern part of B. B—Valley of the White river. Grazing lands of the Moreau—Northwest adapted for cultivation of any in the valley Clay county, where the drought has C, C—Valley of the Bad river. Park. of the Cheyenne river. Cherry creek flows D. D—Valley of the Cheyenne. into the Cheyenne river about sixty miles been most severe, state that with a from tbe mouth Here tne valley attains few exceptions oats are hardly worth fringe along the stream in either direction. which contribute their quota to swell the its greatest width, being about eight miles Going westward the traveler soon emerges river in seasons of heavy rains until it becomes from bluff to bluff. Quite a large number of harvesting and wheat will yield but from the belt of cottonwoods, and, after in reality a "bad river." A large tract Indians have small farms heflj and from three to eight bushels per acre. crossing a narrow btrio of bottom land, ascends of bottomland lies just at the mouth of the may choose to take* their claim! the bluffs which are everywhere a Bad river, extending along the Missouri up where they are already" locate^ A postoffice has been established feature of the land lying along the" Missouri stream for nearly ten miles. The soil of but may be induced for a small sum of river. The soil Here, and, in fact, in all this bottom is a sand-mixed gumbo, which money to relinquish them. Proceeding up the at Goodwell^ Roberts county, bluffs along the Missouri river in this region, has been found here to grow excellent corn stream one finds the land becoming more to be supplied from the Sisseton is what is known aB gumbo, and a stickier, where there has been rain enough. Oatn broken and uneven. The valleys are smaller, nastier, more disagreeable substance on a also yield well upon this soil. The first tributary the soil seems less fertile and the wooded agency also a postoffice at Davidson, wet day never found place in the composition of the Bad river is Willow creek, portions scarcer. At and a few miles below Shobau county, Mont., has been of old Earth Where there is a sufficient whicn empties into the river about five miles the crossing of the old Fort Pierre and Black amount of sand mingled v. itk this discontinued. from its confluence with the Missouri. The Hills stage road the valley is very narrow, gumbo, it produces fine crops of corn, oats bluffs along the Bad river are very precipitous but has quite a heavy growth of timber. The and wheat, with favorable conditions in addition. and in nearly all cases devoid of vegetation opportunities for farming are limited, but A large force of graders are at Six miles south from the crossing on except near the smaller streams stock raising may be carried on here successfully, work on the motor line from Madison tue Missouri is the mouth of the White river, which empty into the river. At these places there being an abundance of grass which forms the south boundary of the land the valley widenB and embraces a tract of und water with natural shelter for cattle. to Morena Beach, on the beautiful ceded The character of the soil here is different land of from one to four sections. In many Lajce Madison. Contracts have In the land which on tbe map forms the from that in the vicinity of the Missouri places the bluffs overhang the river on either upright part to the "L" shaped portion which river, being more sandy loam and less side, then stretch away forming an arc of been made for the ties, iron and is left unshaded, is found perhaps the most susceptible to drouths, which have been the a circle, the radii resting on the diversified and well watered portion of the rolling stock, and the line will be rule there for several yeara The valley of river. These bends in the contour of laud to be sold Here are found numerous the White river for about ten miles from the the chain of bluffs usually enclose a nice in operation as soon as possible. small streams and many little valleys, which mouth is quite wide, and so far as cultivated level-lying tract of land, well adapted for are unexcelled for the growing of wheat and it has been found very fertile, even under farming or grazing purposes. Many cattle Pierre Free Press: The day is coming oats. The grass iu this portion of the reservation such careless, hap-hazard cultivation as an anches are found along the river, and it is is the same as that found on the when every township in South Indian or squaw man gives the land. highly probable that these will continue to Bad and White rivers, being an alkali bunch occupy the fertile lands along the streams, Dakota will have running streams This valley of the White perhaps offers as grass, which cures on the ground and affords the proprietors beiug in nearly all cases good opportunities for farming as any part flowing through every quarter section. •feed for cattle all throughtihe winter months. white men who have married Indian women, of the reservation, being far enough south The Rattlesnake creek, one of the principal and will now seek to take their lands under I will then become the garden to lie within the corn-producing belt and streams in this strip, lying to the west of the the provisions of the recent act, wherebv having a warm, rich soil, with open subsoil, spot of the west. It will be the Eden Cheyenne river reservation as defined by the these valleys and hills are to be thrown open retaining moisture well. last treaty, has a considerable amount of of the world. for settlement. *, Scattered along from the mouth of the timber, and affords an abundance of water river to its source are gropes of timber. The upper sources of the Bad river are in for stock. But little alkali is found in the A new postoffice has been established Cottonwood is the principal variety, though the very heart of what has been mentioned soil here, and consequently there is but a in this article as Bad Lands. Here, as on the on Lame Johnny, eight miles there are occasional groves of elm, and in slight trace in the water. Tbe uplands of the deeper gulches and ravines clumps of White river, the land is totally unfitted for this region are better adapted for grazing south of Fairburn, in Custer county. cedar. Within about fifty miles of the confluence anything practical except as a vast storebouse than for farming, being much broken and Melvin is the name given to the office, of fossils and prehistoric remains, in with the Missouri the valley widens subdivided by irregular ranges of Lttla The to about five or six miles, forrainsr a great which the scientist and cabinet collector character of the Boil here is more like clay and a getleman by the name of meadow of nearly two thousand acres. This may delve at his own sweet wiiL than that found nearer the Missouri river. Perkins, who is the proprietor of a The soil along the Bad river above is the largest piece of land lying in one body Some considerable building stone is found to be found on the river. This produces the mouth is an unadulterated gumbo, in this trace, scattered along the small cheese factory at that point, has most excellent grass, is well watered by two with occasional patches of sand stream?, cropping out in irregular strata. been appointed'postmaster. email creek?, which in wet seasons flow into and gravel. The Indians have been cultivating Tbe stone is a soft sandstone, easily worked the White river. Just above this, in ascending small tracts of land in the valley with when first taken from the ground, but hardens The saloon at St. Lawrence was in. the river, one finds the character of a moderate degree of success. With plentv when exposed to the action of the atmosphere. the country changing, the land becoming of rain the soil here will produce good crops, vadedby a minister and several members more Droken andhilly, the hills more abrupt, but is very susceptible to drouth. The water of the woman's Christian Temperance In conclusion, let it be, understood that while the streams flowing into the White are in Bad river is strongly tinctured with alkali, this territory now to be opened is not a paradise, union, reinforced by a chorus more numeroua Continuing up the river as are all the.streams in this vicinity. During KING OF COHDIMEMTS. A TABLE LUXURY. BEST FOR MEDICAL USES. where industry, economy and shrewdness for nearly a hundred miles above the forks the summer season and winter, when of singers one day, and for an hour are not necessary for succesa There is where the Little White river joins with the there are light rains, the water *is at a very Satisfaction guaranteed. Take no other. Sold only in Tins. no more certainty of a full return front seed the resort was in the hands of prohibitionists. river from the south, tne country low stage, and often in very dry seasons the sown in this region than in any other, is found to .l-e adapted solely bed becomes a series of pools havine no The Journal says "the but it is equally sure. The home **-Never buy loose mustardc as it fs generally worthless.-** to errazins purposes, being much broken by water connection except by underground sight and sounds were so unusual seeker who comes here must decide to undergo abrupt hills covered with a short but very drainage JBTJLISTO and forego. There will attach to this The thereabouts that a large number ot Northwestern Conservatory of Music, Minneapolis. MlnnH. nutritious grass, called by the stockmen HYPHENATED STEEAMS. new region all the discomforts which are Chas. who have grazed their herds upon it alkali Morse, director. A first class school of music, fiestteaebem. spectators wereonharidt take in The streams tributary to the Bad river are tbe usual accompaniments of every first settlement, Theory. languages, elocution. All O I Free advant of great va) grass or bunch grass, indiscriminately. Cattle band and orchestral instruments. V_ /_l_V_-/JELi FIVE TO not running streams, except in the time of SNE but the man who comes here and is the scene, and it must be confessed 'EEX~PQI IijmJ»g.. grazing upon this grass fattens very rapidly, FOR TWENTY LESSONS. Send fo* Catalogue? Instruction: heavy rains, when they become quite turbulent industrious, economical and painstaking day, evening and by mail. being made ready for market in August that a small awakening took place water courses. In ordinary times, however, will be able to build a home and surround or September. Large numbers are yearly JOSEPH H. HUNTER among the frequenters of the establishment.*^?. they are nearly all of them unconnected himself with the comforts of life. ATTORNEY. WASHINGTON shipped from this region. Near the head chains of waterholes, the waters in D. WILX. GET YOC3R, W. J. HOVEX, PENSION without DELAY^ •-,