The Newtown bee., 1907-02-01

the Weyerhaeuser syndicate he has timber land that is growing more val uable every year as the price of lum- Der advances. In one deal with the Northern Pacific R. R. MT Weyerhaeu- ser is said to have made twenty mill lion dollars. 1t is d question whether this gobble of Western timber lands will not get setback from the att1- tude of President Roosevelt and whether the people will not come into their rights in the end. One man ought not to own land enough for six states in the country where liberty is supposed to abide. It is too much of monopoly.
 Cape For more than two hundred Cod years there has been talk of Canal. a canal across Cape Cod and now the project seems to have pos sibility of successful completion. A company financed by August Belmont & Go. are preparing to build canal l from Sandwich to Buzzards Bay, dis tance of eight miles. It is claimed that the canal will cost ten million dollars and that it will take three years tobuild it. The advantage of such canal is that it will bring Bos ton and New York 70 miles nearer te ! i,o derful way the coast traffic of our cit les. Towns like New Haven, Bridge port, South Norwalk and New London
 would have water way for sending and receiving freight and the peril of the water traffic would be largely talk [en away Cape Cod has been consid- cred by the mariners to be one Of the most dangerous places on the coast from Maine to Cape Hatteras; 23 per cent of the losses on the coast have taken place there. In the last 20 years there have been 15O wrecks on Cape Cod with loss of life and proper | ty for which there was no return. If the canal is built, coal and lumber
 from the Great Lakes can come into
 Boston from Buffalo and points west
 without breaking bulk and that will
 be great saving to the consumer In
 the end. Also 1t will make it possible
 to send pleasure boats from the Con-
 necticut coast cities to Boston, mak-
 ing safe and very pleasant trip. Our
 modern machinery for dredging and
 building will make the cost much less
 than formerly to build the canal.
 The Broom The majesty and do-
 Must 0o. minion, of the broom is threatened. As you go along the streets of New York you will see a small engine on wheels and pipe go- ing into the window of the house. It
 is the vacuum cleaner and now house cleaning is robbed of it's terrors for
 carpets are no longer to be taken up and beaten for the vacuum air pro.
 cess takes out all the dirt and cleans
 the carpet better than broom or the
 hanging on the clothes line by the head of the house. Soon there will be small vacuum cleaners like a carpet . sweeper and the terrors of houseclean- ing for the head of the house will be B over. Emancipation from beating carpets and driving tacks will cause many man to take off his hat and shout "Hurrah!" to the advance o1 3 science in housekeeping. Let the 5 good work go on. Use the broom tc ] bang the tramp on the head.
 :. A New Over in France they are ex, Potato. perimenttng with new
 potato which promises to furnish 2 large addition to the food supply o1
 the world. The new potato originated in Uruguay and under it's new envir , onments has developed several form.
 which it is hoped may become fixed
 From the new specimen there ha.
 sprung yellow variety, white va riety and a red variety and they al
 possess certain distinctive shapes an( qualities. In the plan of raising DO
 tatoes for the new alcohol to be useo
 in mechanics it is proposed to bring " over certain varieties that are growl o in Europe. With the new discoverie ' in potatoes it may be both food ant
 drink for us before we get thrOugl
 wi tn it. Long life to the old potato
 and the new potato and even tn
 small potato.
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