The Newtown bee., 1893-12-29
One Day Last Week

we saw car of gunpowder standing right in front Of the depot at Hawleyville and we thought what ii a thunder shower should hap pen to come up and lightning should happen to strike that car and il should happen to strike ii right in the middle so that it burnt both ways at the same time, it would very likely tear the depot all to pieces before the car could be shunted in on the siding and then we'd have a brand new one built, and in that caSe'we should undoubtedly have a big meet
 ing at Hawleyvflie Of all the prominent rail road men connected with the Consolidated
 the N. Y. & N. E., the Berkshire division, the D. X N., the Bethel branch and the s., l.. S N. railroads, and we would adjourn to the banks with champagne sauce, a la pOllywog, and af- ter dinner we'd have toasts and speech mak- ing and Mir Clark would sit on MT McLeodS knee and they'd sing old college songs and drink Mrs Wins1ow's soothing syrup, and tell
 how they used to go to school in the same lit tie red school house, and roast chestnuts oveI the same fire, and would remind each other how much better it is for "brethren to dwell together in peace and unity and mutual tears ot repentance would roll down and make a record on MT McLeOds immaculate shirt front and then they'd smoke the pipe Of peace and fill it up mot only seven times, but seventy times seVen," and let y-gones be by zones and agree to join hands in building a fine, large union depot and vie with each Oth- CT ln each stfiVlng to pay more than ms snare and the new depot would have both & ladies' real fire in it, and they'd have toilet rooms, and light, pleasant freight otfices and cana ry bird and a parrot hung in the ladies' wait | ing room, and the whole thing would be GOV l cred with fresh paint all over the outside and 1 they'd do everything to make it real home- | like and pleasant, and while they were in this | frame Ot mind and full Of smoke and syrup
 and good thoughts, Baker would step across
 ana suggest a more friendly interchange ot | freight rates, so that furniture could be trans | ferred from one road to the other without
 breaking the ten commandments,a and perhaps l suggest a comparison and revision Of paSsen- ger timetables and connections. This latter, 1 however, would work untold injury to Baker, as now everybody expects long wait at Haw- | leyVille and they go prepared to pass away the time buying furniture. We thought what a wonderful change for the better all this would make, but come to look around there wasn't thunder cloud in sight. We had in our vest pocket a box of these patent sweed safety matches, but never having had occa. | sion before to fire of a car of gunpowder we didn't know just how to do it, not even with a
 safety match, and felt little afraid, al
 to hunt with and occasionally fire off Sharp's
 buffalo gun, which, we take it, amounts to
 about the same thing so far as general near | by results are concerned, but we have grown
 timid since then and we let the opportunity
 and the car pass, so, dear friends, you will
 have to put up with the old depot while lon
 ger. It makes no difference to us personally
 just because others do and because we like tC
 go with the popular crowd. We can sell just
 as much furniture with the old depot in from
 of us with its one dingy waiting room bnt l
 you don't like it you must step across and XII
 time, while waiting tor trains, in our waiting and reading room, where you will find tho
 daily papers, illustrated weeklies, magazines writing materials, etc etc., all of which you are invited to make free use of or II you don |, care to read you can sit in nice, comforta
 ble easy chair in our front window and "set the wheels go round."