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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Historic Island for Sale.

Raasay island, in the Inner Heb
rides, which lies between the main.
land of Scotland and the Isle of Skye.
has failed to find IA purchaser at tho
upset price of $225,000 placed upon it.
Its name is the Scandinavian for the
place of the roe deer" and the shoot.
ings, with the mansion house and
grounds at the southern end. consti-
tute the chief value OF the island.
Near the northern end are the ruins
OF Brochel castle, the residence of its
ancient lairds, the MacLeods. In
celtic lore Raasay has a place and in
England literature it is mentioned in
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the
Western Islands of Scotland"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
TREATMENT INDUCED a CHILL.
Remedy Given In Hospital Tent Must
Have Been Pleasant.

The captain tells story which runs
something like this: In camp one
morning the first sergeant reported
that Private b had chill. rs it
a serious one?" asked the captain.
We'll, sir. don't know just how seri-
GUS it is. but it's a big one. for it
seems to be all over him, and he
weighs 200 pounds. On seeing him
the captain found him looking rather
blue. and instructed the first sergeant
to send him to the surgeon in charge
of corporal.
Soon after breakfast the captain
saw the corporal and asked him how
the man was getting on. "Oh. he's
all right now" was the reply, Il took
him up to the hospital tent, and when
I saw what kind OF medicine the doc
or gave him / had chill too."-Army
and Navy Life.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
The Mules under.tood.

A story is told of Senator Knuts
Nelson, who spent some of his early
years in a logging camp. He there
discovered the necessity of certain
emphatic language in order to make
mules move. 'All varieties" OF
tongues were in demand in that camp:
Scandinavian, German, Italian-but
none of the words used seemed to
have the explosive force to adjust
the tempo of the mule to the desired
pace. Along came a strapping Irish
man, who used some popular exple-
tives, usually indicated in print by
blank. blank, or 49, The mules
moved! There's language all
mules understand" said the Irishman
-"and it's not me mother tongue.
ayther. Joe Mitchell Chapple, in
National Magazine.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
THOUGHT CHILD WOULD DIE.
--Cuticura Remedies Cured at Cost
of Seventy-Five Cents.

"My little boy, when only an infant
of three months, caught the Cuban
Itch Sores broke out from his head
to the bottom of his feet. He would
itch and claw himself and cry all the
time. He could not sleep day or night,
and light dress is all he could wear.
called one of our best doctors to
treat him, but he seemed to get worse.
He suffered so terribly that my hus-
band said he believed he would have
to die. l had almost given up hope
when lady friend told me to try the
Cuticura Remedies. l used the Cuti-
cura Soap and applied the Cuticura
Ointment and he at once fell into a
sleep, and he slept with ease for the
first time since two months. After
three applications the sores began to
dry up, and in just two weeks from the
day / commenced to use the Cuticura
Remedies my baby was entirely well.
The treatment only cost me 75c. and
would have gladly paid 500 if l could
not have got it cheaper. / feel safe in
saying that the Cuticura Remedies
saved his life He is now boy of five
years. Mrs. Zana Miller. Union City,
r. F. d. No. /, Branch Co., Mich, May
II, 1906"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
DOCTORS FOOD TALK
Selection of Food One Of the Most I'm.
portant Acts in Life.

A Mass. doctor says: Our health
and physical and mental happiness
are so largely under our personal con-
troll that the proper selection of food
should be, and is one of the most i'm
portant acts in life.
ON this subject, l may say that I
know of no food equal in digestibility,
and more powerful in point of nutri-
ment, than the modern Grape.Nuts,
four heaping teaspoons of which is suf.
ficient for the cereal part of a meal,
and experience demonstrates that the
user Is perfectly nourished from one
meal to another.
Il am convinced that the extensive
and general use of high class foods of
this character would increase the term
of human life, add to the sum total of
happiness and very considerably inn
prove society in general. l am free to
mention the food. for 1 personally
know of its value"
Grape-Nuts food can be used by
babes in arms, or adults. 1t is ready
cooked, can be served instantly.
either cold with cream, or with hot
water or hot milk poured over All
sorts of puddings and fancy dishes can
be made with Grape-Nuts. The food
Is concentrated and very economical.
for four heaping teaspoons are sum-
cient for the cereal part of a meal
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road to
Wellville." in pkgs. There's . Rec.
lon~
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Good for Evil.

One Sunday a teacher was trying
to illustrate to her small scholars the
Lesson. Return good for evil" To
make it practical she said:
Suppose, children, one of your
schoolmates should strike you. and
the next day you should bring him
an apple-that would be one way Of
returning good for evil"
To her dismay one OF the little
girls spoke up quickly:
"Then he would strike you again
to get another applet"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Satisfied.

A seedy-looking loafer, having or
dered and eaten large and sumptu-
GUS dinner, explained to the waiter
that he had no money.
The waiter Immediately told the
restaurant proprietor, who sent for q
policeman.
The proprietor. going up to the I'M
welcome guest. explained that he had
sent for policeman.
Thank goodness. you didn't send
for stomach pump" the seedy ono
replied. with huge conference.-the
Illustrated Bits.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
knottx Point to Decide.

rs goat q Sheep" is a geological
question that the commissioners of
this county have been called upon to
decide officially. There has long been
state law providing that the county
shall reimburse farmers for sheep
killed by dogs. A. r. Harvard. Of
Mifiln township, has filed claim for
$50 for Angora goats so destroyed
Columbus correspondence. Pittsbur J
Dispatch.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Rations for Troops In Alaska.

On the recommendation of the COM
missary general of the army, the field
rations of the troops serving in Alaska
will be 16 ounces of bacon. or, when
desired, 1G ounces of salt pork or %
ounces of salt beef; "a ounces of
fresh vegetables. instead OF 16 ounces
three and two-fifths ounces of des-
sicated vegetables, instead of two and
two-fifths ounces. and S-25 ounce of
candles, instead Of 6-25 ounce
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Napoleon,s Famous War Horse,

Marengo, the famous war charger OF
Napoleon. is said to have been the
greatest horse known to modern his
tory. The emperor rode Marengo for
the last time in the battle of Mount
ST. Jean. where the horse received his
seventh wound. The steed died at the
age of 36 years.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

With smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods.
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use Starch that does not stick to the
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Defiance Starch-Never sticks to
the iron-no blotches-no blisters.
makes ironing easy and does not in
jure the goods.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Hot Shot for the Men.

Speaking at Cardiff, Wales. recent
ly, Miss Gawthorpe. suffragette
stated that a brides bushes are
caused by the knowledge of the kind
of man she 10 going to marry.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

That an article may be good as we'll
as cheap and give entire satisfaction,
is proven by the extraordinary sale of
Defiance Starch, each package con-
tanning one-third more Starch than
can be had of any other brand for the
same money.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Advanced,

Hiram" said Mrs. Kornkob to her
husband. who was reading the Weekly
Screech, they say that Jones man
who has taken the farm next to ours
is mighty intellectual"
Il guess he is" replied Farmer
Kornkob. He knows four different
almanacs by heart" = Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Temperature and Water.

At sea level water, boils at 2i2 de-
grees. F.; at a height of 10000 feet at
1913 degrees, F. When Darwin crossed
the Andes in 1885 he boiled potatoes
for three hours without making them
soft.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

When banana peel takes = fall out
of man and there isn't anything
broken but one of the commandments
he gets of lucky.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Mrs. windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens tho gums reduces In
nsmmaton. sllsys pain, wind collie Csc bottle.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
Country Of Little Moisture.

Twenty minutes of rain in year is
sometimes all that southern Egypt
gets. and there is no dew in that
country.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Many a sweetheart turns out to b
bitter disappointment as wife.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Scatter with one hand; gather with
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Be sure that the new trees you set
this spring have no label wires left
about the trunks, as they will cut
off the circulation of the tree and per-
haps kill it.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

The sore places on your horse
should be kept clean by washing every
day with carbolated water and then
dressed with little good tar oint-
ment.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

The lazy hen, it has been said,
bears the same relation to the hen
merry that the lazy man does in the
community. The only difference is
that the former does make good pot
pie. while the lazy man is good for
nothing.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Turpentine soaked rags fastened to
the horse manger will do much toward
curing the animal of cough or dis
temper, as he will have to inhale the
fumes of the turpentine while he
feeds.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

The plans for the national corn ex-
position at Chicago, October to g.,
are going forward There will be six
premiums for White Dent and six for
Yellow Dent. There will also be lib
eral prizes for the best ten ears ex-
hibited of the leading pure bred va
rieties in the United States: Boone
County White, Iowa Silver Mine, I'M.
proved Leaning, Pride of Illinois,
Champion White Pearl. and many
others to be named later. There will
also be special prizes for the women
who may exhibit any variety OF either
the yellow or white classes of corn
and special prizes for the best ten
ears of the yellow white. and red
Flint. These latter are designed t.
encourage the Improvement and
growth of corn in the sections where
the Dent corn is not extensively
grown. There will be prizes for boys
and girls, prizes for the different
localities state prizes. and number
of other special prizes. If you grow
any exceptionally fine corn this ysar
by all means exhibit 1t.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04

Oats cut in the milk and cured as
hay makes the finest kind of hay. One
farmer says that last season his hay
crop being short he cut three acres
of oats for hay and found that the
stock ate it more greedily than any
other hay, and that it proved excep-
tionally good for his mich cows.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07

with him as usual. and that whoever
killed him also robbed him."
The bonds are missing, Akerman?'
asked Boyd turning briefly to the de-
tective.
There's not sign of them, Mr..
Boyd
Have you any idea of their value,
Mr.. Caxton?"
About one hundred thousand dol
lars, 1 should say"
WAS Debbs alone in his private Of
flee just before leaving it,"
Yes, sir"
Did you hear him speak to any per
son as he went into the CORRIDOR" ask
ed Boyd, putting question after ques-
ton with rapidity that almost stag
geTed mis- hearers.
Il did not"
4 wish to learn. if possible, whether
he encountered any man who mounted
these stairs with him."
4 think ] can settle that for you, Mr..
Boyd said a gentleman who. in COM
pany with Jimmie Coleman, at that
moment came through the corridor. I
am Mr.. Cushman, of the insurance
agency occupying yOnder office"
Make your statement, please" Boyd
replied crisply.
Il was talking with a friend at the
street door yOnder," said Cushman;
and l saw Debbs when he came out
of his office and went upstairs. He
was bareheaded and entirely alone.
cannot say that he had any package of
bonds with him, however. If he did,
l think he must have had them under
his coat"
quite likely" remarked Boyd. Did
you see any person follow him up
stairs2"
None did So" declared Cushman
quickly "Of that / am positive, for
1 stood facing the stairs and elevator
from the time Debbs went uD till the
alarm was sounded that told US of his
violent death. The interval was only
two or three minutes"
Yet in two or three minutes this
crime must have been committed" said
Boyd decisively. Did you hear any
sounds of a struggle, or of violent
blows?'
None whatever. This distance may
have presented il. however. Yet can
swear that no person followed Debbs
uD these stairs, and that no person
came down, either. from the time he
went up till we found him dead where
you see him.
"Ahar' cried Boyd triumphantly. "A
thousand thanks Mr.. Cushman Your
valuable testimony establishes one pos
tive fact The miscreant who killed
been coming down the stairs, and as
suaited Dbks Oh mis- way up"
But that appears equally improb-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07
MAGAZINE SECTION.
BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER.

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me-
For a minute" said EIiph' Hewitt,
turning the book so that the aIlegOri-
cal frontispiece faced Mrs. Smithers.
Mrs. VandergOuld was like one
stunned. and then her husband grasped
my hand and cried out 'SavedH and in
side of half an hour 1 was up i'm his
boUdoir trying on one of his seven dress
suits"
And how was the party?" asked
Mrs. Smithers.
at may say it was a success" said
"Eliph" Hewitt mOdestly. '-as any Oc-
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home. Containing as it does all the in
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Forms, il made my way easy and the
party Il SutteSS- Illt papers sdlu IL
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on Fifth avenue, and every member OF
the Four Hundred wanted a copy of
Jarbys Encyclopaedia. Of knowledge
and Compendium Of Literature. Science
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tiOnal refinement. If you would care TO
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IF you don't mind" said Mrs. Smith
ers, politely.
Now this" said Eliph' Hewitt. ais
the allegOrical frontispiece in three
COlOTS''-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07

Il did not, sir. There was nobody
else on the stairs"
Call one of Debbs' clerks out here
at oncew cried Boyd, who was
springing his questions and commands
with the rapidity of Calling gun.
Il am Mr. Debbs' bookkeeper," said
an elderly man, leaving the throng in
the lower corridor and mounting few
stairs. My name is CaxtOn. 1 know
that Mr.. Debbs left his office only six
or seven minutes ago"
Did you see him leaye?"
mo, sir. but I heard him. He was
in his private office and 1 heard him
go out and close the door. That is the
door there. sir, opposite the foot of
these stairs"
From his elevated position on the
stairs. Boyd glanced sharply over the
heads of the crowd in the corridor, and
saw that the door mentioned was clos
Cd, also the plain glass transOm above
IT, For the bare fraction of q second
he stood like a man suddenly trans
fixed, with eyes aglow and his clean
cut, fOrcefui features tenSely drawn
Yet when he reverted to Caxton and
resumed his hurried inquiries, during
all of which Alderman and the sergeant
Of police, as well as the gaping crowd
above and below, stood aWed and mo-
tionless. no sign or token in the face
or voice Of Felix Boyd indicated that
he had advanced the breadth of a hair
in his investigation of the tragic uvs-
terry.
Meantime the physician was engaged
in a more careful examination of the
dead mans wounds.
DO you know what Debbs was do
ing just before he left his Officer" de-
manded Boyd, still addressing Caxton.
yes. sir. I do" said the bookkeeDer.
He returned from the Stock Exchange
about half an hour ago. Then. as usual
ne at once went into his private office
to tabulate and tie up the package of
bonds. which we deposit each afternoon
in the safe of the Thcrndyke Trust
company, upstairs, where Mr.. Debbs
rents a private drawer-their vaults are
superior to ours. Mr.. Debbs always at
tended to this business Immediately AZ
ter returning from the Exchange. in
order to lock up the bonds before the
trust company closed for the day.
why didn't he send a clerk upstairs
with the bonds?" Boyd quickly de-
manded. Was it habitual with him To
act as his own errand bOy?''
mot exactly that" Caxton fastened
to explain. But he carried the only
key of the drawer upstairs, so he al
ways went up with the package. I've
been into his private office, sir. and
his hat IS lying on the desk where he
left it. The bonds are gone, however.
and I'm sure that he took them out
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07
The Lay Figure

It occurred between three and four
o'clock in the afternoon.
As the roar of the maIestrom ceases
at the still of the flooded tide. so that
Of the great Stock Exchange had died
in silence. and a hundred and one
brokers had FASTENED from the Uttered
floor and sped away to their respective
offices TO balance the work Of a busy
day.
AIr. Thomas Debbs, head of Debbs
& Co., bond brokers. was no exception
10 the above. A 1.-THE little man ap-
preaching seventy. punctiiious in bus
mess, eccentric by nature, a man of
numerous harmless whims and invar-
fable habits, he had tripped away to
the first floor of an office building in
Broadway. nearly within a stones
tArOw of Wall street. For upward Of
twenty years he had done the same
almost daily. at the same hour, under
the same impulses, and with the same
nervous. jerl1y haste.
It was close upon four O'Clock, how
ever. when Mr.. Felix Boyd. with his
arm locked through that Of Jimmie
Coleman. the central office man, saun-
tered from Wall street into busy
Broadway. They scarce had turned
the corner when Coleman abruptly ex-
claimed:
Look yonder, Felix! Why that
crowd
Boyd's listless gray eyes took on a
sharper CLEAN.
Something wrong" he rejOined
tersely. Get a move on. Jimmie. One
Of my clients has his office in that
building-firm of Debbs & Co. bond
brokers. Let's learn what's up"
The street and sidewalk fronting the
building were thronged with a jostling
crowd Of excited men and boys. the
majority of whom were prevented from
entering by two stalwart policemen on
the steps OF the broad vestibule that
gave ingress to the main corridor. As
they elbowed their way through the
crowd. however. both Coleman and
Felix Boyd were recognized by the Of
ficers. Boyd mounted the steps in ad
vance of his companion.
What's wrong here. DOnald?" said
one of the officers.
Murder, sir. Mr.. Debbs, of the
firm"
How long ago." interrupted Boyd.
Scarce five minutes, sir.
Who's here2'
Detective Alderman and Sergeant
Kane, of Station"
stop bit, Jimmiei See what you
can learn from those men. I'll look
further"
The several men referred To were
grouped just within the corridor, where
they stood excitedly discussing the
shocking affair, and, upon receiving
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07
On the Trail of Big Finger"

Coleman's nod of compliance, Boyd
FASTENED into the building.
At the left of the corridor were the
quarters of Debbs q Co, consisting of
several connected rooms, three of
which opened into the corridor, the in
terror one of all being the private Of
flee of Mr.. Thomas Debbs. On the OPP
posite side of the corridor were the Of
fees of Cushman & Brooks, insurance
agents, with those Of a cOtton-b broker
farther to the rear.
Some forty feet from the street door
was the elevator well. enclosed with an
iron grating, through which the car
could be plainly seen as it rose and
fell. while occupants of the car could
easily view the corridor and main
stairway, a banking institution of
yOnd the elevator we'll. around which it
wound to the several floors above. Be
yOnd the foot of the stairs, however
which rose at a right angle from the
corridor, were several offices nearer
the rear of the building and an exit
into a back street.
Above the quarters of Debbs & Co.
were located the rooms and deposit
vaults of the Thorndyke Trust COM
pany, with a banking institution of
high Tepute; while directly opposite on
the second floor were the rooms of
Curley & HiXon, custom tailOrs, re-
Gently brought into general notice by
their extensive advertising.
Fastening TO the stairs mentioned
Boyd quickly made his way through
the group gathered there, consisting
chiefly of clerks from the near offices
all of whom stood gazing with awed
eyes and blanched checks up the broad
stairway
Some twelve feet up the stairs at a
point where they turned sharply
around the elevator well, lay the dead
body of Thomas Debbs, with his skull
crushed
kneeling beside the body, OF which he
was making a hurried examination.
Detective Akerman and sergeant Of
police were standing nearby, while on
the stairs above were several men
from the second-floor offices, peering
down at the shocking picture. 1t was
one to curdle the blood and sicken
the stoutest heart. In no observers
face was there left a vestige of color
Shrinking eyes and gray lips evinced
the mute horror of one and all.
Yet one figure there stood out in
vivid contrast with all the rest. Its
red lips wore a persistent smile Its
CLASSY eyes had a fixed and vacant
stare. Its waxy cheeks were tinged
with a rudy hue. It's fashion, plate at
tire, its attitude of uneoncern. its alb
solute immobility, seemed indeed to
mock the lifeless heap of clay on the
stone stairs some two feet below.