The Newtown bee., 1893-02-24
we Never

BULLY realized what a corner and tremen- T dous monopoly we have ot the furniture business at Hawleyville, until we just re ceived the following letter from manutac- turing concern in the far West:
 Dear Sir--We have written to you several times urging you to put in a small line ot our specialties Have received no reply. We sell to only one concern in place. Ii we do not now hear rom you promptly we will give the entire sale of our goods to some other prominent furniture house in your town"
 Goodness gracious, wasn't we scared, and didn't our hair stand on end when we read it. But come to look around, the "other promi- nent furniture houses didn't show up worth 8 cent We followed out in our minds eye all the main thoroughtares, cross streets and boulevards in our town, north, east, south and
 od %e no 1ot eS nd tbem ann Wav a@ nor oas th
 great frog ponds and across the roaring Ousa-
 tonic C'Berkshire" in the new version); east
 to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom
 peraug and Nonnewaug, even beyond the
 shores ot quassapaug; nothing there, abso;
 nanGht there but bnllheads and suckers West
 cen to Danbury; beautiful and grand historic
 old Danbury., the place where Washington crossing of the Brandywine, drove the He's
 sians back from the heights and pointed out
 we are not mistaken). Here, thank goodness, the spell was broken; lots of furniture houses
 and more bulheads o and Ms spe-no. mo-. no, t, we ed to say it because one of those tel lows over there said something mean about us the other day, just because our furniture
 wagon is delivering so many goods through their streets, but you can see that we haven't laid it up against him. You can always know when we modify our speech that we are not angry, for when we feel hurt or get real angry
 we call things by their right names). Good
 leyville. Won't someone please hold us in What a temptation to fall from our princi
 RBafS aa Danbary Waerbury sn and Kew Haven prices. Human nature is weak and
 the devil places tempting morsels and special stumbling blocks in everybOdy's way. Now we might be able to resist the temptation to
 break into the Hawleyville national bank, or run for mayor or alderman, tor it takes a brave man and a hardened criminal to do those things, but won't some one please come right away quick and start another furniture store the tempter, or must we, now that our eyes
 are opened, continue to suffer and pose as a
 martyr to our principles? We came to this wild region, thinking that we could buy and sell and commune with nature in rural sim plicity and peace, far from the tenn mptatiOns
 turmoil and strife of the bustling city and now
 must these barren and rock-ribbed hills and valleys be the direct cause of undermining
 our principles? We get occasionally, howev- er letters calculated to send the blood cours-
 ing backward through our. veins Sent, no
 doubt, as special dispensations" to hold us
 in check The following is copy Of one just received:
 | "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am goen tor To Be mario and Want too Bed sutes and a bed Stid and Ketchin chars
 And Tabel can git full oak Suites Complete polished At winsted for ten Dollars hear you are selling cheap if i Can do Better will Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas -- Bristol Con
 do You pay The freit bil And Tickets Frequent missives ot this kind will doubt less disabuse us of the idea that we are sell ing too cheap, but in the meantime we shall strive, oh how hard we shall strive, to keep down this tendency to take advantage of the tremendous corner and monopoly we have at Hawleyville.
 Without any joking we have a stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come and see.
 And we now supply you with carpets well as furniture.
 We do all kinds of npholstering, making over hair mattresses etc.