The Newtown bee., 1907-02-01

bue "eyeEudcuScI SyuOlCdbe ue udo 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. It is question whether this gobble of Western timber lands will not get a setback from the atti- tude of President Roosevelt and whether the people will not come into their rights in the end. One man | ought not to own le1d enough for six states in the country where liberty is supposed to abide. It is too much of monopoly.
 Cape For mere than two hundred
 Cod years there has been talk of
 Canal. 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 from Sandwich to Buzzards Bay, dis tance of eight miles. It is claimed that the canal will cost ten million years to build it. The advantage of such canal is that 1t will bring Bos ton and New York TO miles nearer to each other and will increase in won derful way the coast traffic of our cit ies. Towns like New Haven, Bridge port, South Norwalk and New London would have a 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; B 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 enc. Also it 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 do. minion of the broom is threatened. As you go along the streets of New York you will see 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 8 carpet sweeper and the terrors of houseclean- ing for the head of the house will be over. Emancipation from beating carpets and driving tacks will cause fo folx off hi hot shout sHutahl" to the advance of science in housekeeping. Let the good work go on. Use the broom to bang the tramp on the head.
 A New Over in France they are ex.
 Potato. perimenting with a new potato which promises to furnish large addition to the food supply of the world. The new potato originated in Uruguay and under it's new envir- onments has developed several forms which it is hoped may become fixed. From the new specimen there has sprung yellow variety, a white va riety and red variety and they all possess certain distinctive shapes and qualities. In the plan of raising po- tatoes for the new alcohol to be used in mechanics it is proposed to bring over certain varieties that are grown in Europe. With the new discoveries in potatoes it may be both food and drink for us before we get through with it. Long life to the old potato, and the new potato and even the small potato.